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Zynga Claims Trademark Rights To “With Friends”
According to Techcrunch, Zynga who recently launched runningwithfriends.com, and also owns and operates Words With Friends®, Chess With Friends®, Scramble With Friends®, Hanging With Friends™, Matching With Friends™, Gem...
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Zynga Claims Trademark Rights To “With Friends”
According to Techcrunch, Zynga who recently launched runningwithfriends.com, and also owns and operates Words With Friends®, Chess With Friends®, Scramble With Friends®, Hanging With Friends™, Matching With Friends™, Gem...
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May 18, 2013, 8:42 am
The Domains
ANA: “ICANN Fails to Address Key Concerns About New gTLD’s”
On a post on its blog, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) rips ICANN for failing to “address Key COncerns About New gTLD’s “”ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in late April announced th...
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ANA: “ICANN Fails to Address Key Concerns About New gTLD’s”
On a post on its blog, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) rips ICANN for failing to “address Key COncerns About New gTLD’s “”ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in late April announced th...
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May 17, 2013, 2:41 pm
The Domains
40 New gTLD’s Apps Pass IE: .Chrome; .BBC; .AmericanExpress; .BMW; .Ads
ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD’s that passed Initial Evaluation today. 190 UNO Dot Latin LLC 211 SENER Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. 351 BBC British Broadcasting Corporation 352 LOTTE Lotte Holdings Co., L...
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40 New gTLD’s Apps Pass IE: .Chrome; .BBC; .AmericanExpress; .BMW; .Ads
ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD’s that passed Initial Evaluation today. 190 UNO Dot Latin LLC 211 SENER Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. 351 BBC British Broadcasting Corporation 352 LOTTE Lotte Holdings Co., L...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 12:27 pm
The Domains
ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions
If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to g...
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ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions
If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to g...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 10:36 am
The Domains
Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of IE
In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. So we know that all the non-winning applications in strings wi...
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Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of IE
In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. So we know that all the non-winning applications in strings wi...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 10:03 am
The Domains
ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing TLD in 2014
According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD’ to be less than 10% of existing TLD”s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 in revenue coming in from registries and registrars from incumbent TLD’s&...
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ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing TLD in 2014
According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD’ to be less than 10% of existing TLD”s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 in revenue coming in from registries and registrars from incumbent TLD’s&...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 9:50 am
The Domains
Donuts Agrees To Private Auctions For 63 New gTLD’s: Will Anyone Come To Play?
According to a Press Release just out Donuts Inc., has committed to participate in the first online applicant auction for 63 of the 307 total gTLDs for which it has applied. The announcement is made in advance of next week’s commitment date for...
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Donuts Agrees To Private Auctions For 63 New gTLD’s: Will Anyone Come To Play?
According to a Press Release just out Donuts Inc., has committed to participate in the first online applicant auction for 63 of the 307 total gTLDs for which it has applied. The announcement is made in advance of next week’s commitment date for...
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May 17, 2013, 8:57 am
The Domains
WIthdrawn Applications Are Reflected On The ICANN Website The Same Day
Earlier today Straat Investments let us know they had withdrawn their application for .Book today, we now know that once a site is withdrawn with ICANN it is reflected on the ICANN site the same day. Straat’s withdrawn application for .book is ...
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WIthdrawn Applications Are Reflected On The ICANN Website The Same Day
Earlier today Straat Investments let us know they had withdrawn their application for .Book today, we now know that once a site is withdrawn with ICANN it is reflected on the ICANN site the same day. Straat’s withdrawn application for .book is ...
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May 16, 2013, 4:35 pm
The Domains
Straat Withdraws Application For .Book In Favor Of Deal With Another Applicant
NU DOTCO LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of STRAAT Investments, has withdrawn its application for the .Book gTLD with had a prioritization number of 357. The withdrawal is not yet reflected on ICANN’s site. .Book is one of 13 new gTLD applicatio...
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Straat Withdraws Application For .Book In Favor Of Deal With Another Applicant
NU DOTCO LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of STRAAT Investments, has withdrawn its application for the .Book gTLD with had a prioritization number of 357. The withdrawal is not yet reflected on ICANN’s site. .Book is one of 13 new gTLD applicatio...
Discussion
May 16, 2013, 10:39 am
The Domains
Fiji Moves It Offical Tourism Site To Fiji.Travel
Tourism Fiji, the official travel and tourism agency of the government of Fiji, has registered the name Fiji.travel and has now launched www.Fiji.travel as its official tourism website. According to the Registry other country governments have made th...
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Fiji Moves It Offical Tourism Site To Fiji.Travel
Tourism Fiji, the official travel and tourism agency of the government of Fiji, has registered the name Fiji.travel and has now launched www.Fiji.travel as its official tourism website. According to the Registry other country governments have made th...
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May 15, 2013, 4:19 pm
