Progressive Insurance has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .insurance. The formal name of the applicant was "Progressive Casualty Insurance Company". The application which had a prioritization number of 1847 was to operate the TLD on a closed basis. Closed generics have been getting a lot of push back and ICANN recently closed a comment period for the topic of whether companies … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Latin American Telecom Files Objection Against Google On .Tube
Latin American Telecom, LLC has filed a Legal Rights objection against Google's new gTLD application for .Tube Latin American Telecom is also an applicant for .Tube The third applicant for .Tube is Donuts. Of course Google owns and operates the largest Tube site in the world, YouTube.com Here is some information on this company from Esquire.com, attorney Ari Goldberger's … [Read more...]
Here Is Verisign’s Objection To .Cam & Why They Think Its Too Close To .Com
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. As of today the objections are still not showing up on the on the site of the provider where the objection was filed but TheDomains.com got some detailed … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed On GVP.com
A UDRP has just been filed on the domain name GVP.com Instead of attempted grab which might lead to a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking it looks like it might be a attempted recovery of a stolen domain name. The domain was owned by Global Village Publishing until late December 2012. Since then the domain whois has changed a few times all to persons in China and the domain name … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Many .PW Domain Names Did You Register?
We haven't done a quick poll in a while and thought we would see how many of you were playing in the new .PW space. We have none gone through Sunrise, Landrush and now General Availability earlier today. The question is if you registered any .Pw domains through either Sunrise, Landrush or GA how many did you register? If you didn't register any then you can choose that answer According … [Read more...]
After Sunrise & Landrush .PW ccTLD Is Now Open For Live Registrations
The .PW registry which is billing itself as the The Professional Web, announced this morning that after the completion of the Sunrise and Land Rush Period .PW domain names are now in General Availability meaning that they are being registered on a first come first serve basis. Over 100 ICANN accredited registrars are taking live registration for a .PW domain name. As far as cost goes I see … [Read more...]
Bloggers.com Goes Up For Sale
The domain name and site Bloggers.com went up for sale according to a press release out today ""Established in 2003, Bloggers.com is the leading social network site for Bloggers and largest directory of blogs. " "The site has pumped through some great numbers, It it added half million new Bloggers and 5 Million new pages indexed by Google in one and half year, and also achieved Google page … [Read more...]