The Dot-Nxt conference organizers have just announced that it is postponing is conference, that was schedule for June 20th-22nd in London until the 3rd or 4th. The conference was suppose to be held the week prior to the ICANN Conference in Prague. The delay was blamed on ICANN and delay on the TAS system and the date for the "Big Reveal" which still has not been set by ICANN. In an email … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2012
ICM Launches A Directory For Developed .XXX Sites: XXX.XXX
ICM has just launched a directory for developed .XXX sites under XXX.XXX The site features 145 sites each getting a small banner with a click through to each site. The directory is also accepting additional sites for listing. If you own a developed .XXX site you can submit it to the registry through a form located on the 1st page of the xxx.xxx site … [Read more...]
Generic IDN Gets Hit With A UDRP: Cabañas.com
With over 44,000,000 reference in Google the term cabañas.com seems pretty generic. Yet A URDP has been filed over the IDN by Marco Rafael Sanfilippo. I found that the complainant owns the domain name cabanias.com and the ownership of that domain could be the basis for the complaint. Domain name: cabanias.com Registrant Contact: Marco Rafael Sanfilippo If you check out Mr. … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $942K in Domain Names
Afternic.com just released it weekly report, selling $942,375 in domain names. Sales where lead by Summon.com which went for a very reasonable (IMHO) $17K Also like Adopted.com which sold for $15,500 On the other hand Instantly.net for almost $17K seems less of a bargain. Here are the reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
ICANN: After The TAS Mess Only 2 Request for Refunds
A few weeks ago during the TAS outage, ICANN issued a statement saying that anyone who applied for a new gTLD or paid to enter the TAS system could pull their application or authorization and get a full refund of any money paid. Today in a Twitter chat, I asked ICANN how many people requested a refund under this program. The answer I got was: "As of last night we had received two new … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells $2.2 Million In Domains
Sedo has just published it weekly report of sales and in all, 877 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.2 million. 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .com: kindred.com at 50,000 USD · Top ccTLD: interest.me at 80,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: amara.org at 25,000 … [Read more...]
Judge Dismisses Facebook Vs Faceporn Case
Back in October 2010 we told you about a lawsuit for trademark infringement that Facebook filed against the site Faceporn.com Yesterday a federal court affirmed a lower courts order throwing the case out for "lack of personal jurisdiction" against the owner of Faceporn.com The owner of Faceporn is Thomas Pedersen of Bergen, Norway. According to federal law for a nonresident defendant to … [Read more...]