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Domain Name Wire
Tracking the growth of .Brand top level domain names
It’s slow, but marching upward. A lot of things are playing out slowly with new top level domain names, including the adoption of so-called “.brand” domain names. These are domains such as .google and .mlb that are owned by brands. ...
Discussion
Tracking the growth of .Brand top level domain names
It’s slow, but marching upward. A lot of things are playing out slowly with new top level domain names, including the adoption of so-called “.brand” domain names. These are domains such as .google and .mlb that are owned by brands. ...
Discussion
March 20, 2017, 2:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
The languages of new top level domains (Part 8)
Joseph Peterson continues his deep dive into the languages of new top level domains. Almost all new domain endings (nTLDs) are meaningful terms – from English suffixes like .WORLD and .ROCKS to the Spanish .UNO or German .JETZT. ...
Discussion
The languages of new top level domains (Part 8)
Joseph Peterson continues his deep dive into the languages of new top level domains. Almost all new domain endings (nTLDs) are meaningful terms – from English suffixes like .WORLD and .ROCKS to the Spanish .UNO or German .JETZT. ...
Discussion
March 20, 2017, 1:41 pm
Sully's Blog
The first rule of Sock Club…
It’s overused, but I couldn’t resist the title. Sock Club founders, Noah and Dane, began Sock Club because they wanted to share their love of socks with the world. They started small, curating awesome socks from other labels, and so...
Discussion
The first rule of Sock Club…
It’s overused, but I couldn’t resist the title. Sock Club founders, Noah and Dane, began Sock Club because they wanted to share their love of socks with the world. They started small, curating awesome socks from other labels, and so...
Discussion
March 20, 2017, 12:47 pm
The Domains
Popular Topic at ICANN 58 “Two-Character Domain Names in the New gTLD Namespace”
Centr.org published their report on ICANN 58 for the most part it was a lot of technical things that our readers might not be highly interested in. The one topic that might be of interest centered around the release of LL domain names that correlate ...
Discussion
Popular Topic at ICANN 58 “Two-Character Domain Names in the New gTLD Namespace”
Centr.org published their report on ICANN 58 for the most part it was a lot of technical things that our readers might not be highly interested in. The one topic that might be of interest centered around the release of LL domain names that correlate ...
Discussion
March 20, 2017, 7:40 am
DomainSherpa
eBay Find: From $550 Acquisition to $10,000 Sale – With David Kelly
Usually only worthless domain names are found when searching on eBay. (At least that's my experience.)But David Kelly uses a secret tip to filter and find diamonds in the rough.He shares that tip, as well as how he negotiated and purchased TopOf...
Discussion
eBay Find: From $550 Acquisition to $10,000 Sale – With David Kelly
Usually only worthless domain names are found when searching on eBay. (At least that's my experience.)But David Kelly uses a secret tip to filter and find diamonds in the rough.He shares that tip, as well as how he negotiated and purchased TopOf...
Discussion
March 20, 2017, 7:01 am
The Domains
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Acquires WWE.XYZ From The Registry With 4 More .XYZ Domains
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) registered WWE.xyz yesterday along with WorldWrestlingEntertainment.xyz. According to DomainTools.com, it’s the first time those two domain name have been registered. In the case of WWE.xyz since it was...
Discussion
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Acquires WWE.XYZ From The Registry With 4 More .XYZ Domains
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) registered WWE.xyz yesterday along with WorldWrestlingEntertainment.xyz. According to DomainTools.com, it’s the first time those two domain name have been registered. In the case of WWE.xyz since it was...
Discussion
March 18, 2017, 4:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
35,000 domains at MarkMonitor need to be updated soon
Registrant name will need to be updated after Serlin departs. About 35,000 domain names at MarkMonitor use the company’s version of Whois Proxy. They are all registered in the name of Matt Serlin, DNStination Inc. Names registered in this name ...
Discussion
35,000 domains at MarkMonitor need to be updated soon
Registrant name will need to be updated after Serlin departs. About 35,000 domain names at MarkMonitor use the company’s version of Whois Proxy. They are all registered in the name of Matt Serlin, DNStination Inc. Names registered in this name ...
Discussion
March 17, 2017, 7:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Should Zions Bank have been hit with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking?
Panelist questions Zions Bank’s decision to file a UDRP. I want to give World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby some credit. He recently decided a case involving Zions Bank. He found in favor of a person in Pakistan wh...
Discussion
Should Zions Bank have been hit with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking?
Panelist questions Zions Bank’s decision to file a UDRP. I want to give World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby some credit. He recently decided a case involving Zions Bank. He found in favor of a person in Pakistan wh...
Discussion
March 17, 2017, 5:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
What does BBB stand for? A Bad Bad Bad UDRP decision.
I don’t follow the panelists logic in this UDRP. If I told you about the domain name BBB.cc, what would come to mind? If you’re in the U.S., it would undoubtedly be the Better Business Bureau. If you were a domain trader or in China, it w...
Discussion
What does BBB stand for? A Bad Bad Bad UDRP decision.
I don’t follow the panelists logic in this UDRP. If I told you about the domain name BBB.cc, what would come to mind? If you’re in the U.S., it would undoubtedly be the Better Business Bureau. If you were a domain trader or in China, it w...
Discussion
March 17, 2017, 2:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
WIPO touts record UDRP filings in 2016
UDRP filings at WIPO crossed the 3,000 threshold for the first time last year. 3,036 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases were filed with WIPO in 2016, a record. This record is only as it pertains to disputes filed with WIPO and...
Discussion
WIPO touts record UDRP filings in 2016
UDRP filings at WIPO crossed the 3,000 threshold for the first time last year. 3,036 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases were filed with WIPO in 2016, a record. This record is only as it pertains to disputes filed with WIPO and...
Discussion
March 17, 2017, 2:05 pm
