A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Trademark holders of generic terms applying to the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) where trademarks on many of which were causing some of those 500,000 "warnings" to go out to people trying to register a new gTLD domain name. Today we bring you the world famous trademarks for the term "Texas" and "Venture" ""1. TEXAS Jurisdiction: United States of … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2014
So Far Only Three Major 4 Year Colleges Have Registered a .Education Domain
The new gTLD .Education opens up for live registrations on April 2nd but of course had a Sunrise period early for trademark holders and its in the final day of the Early Access Program. Going through the zone file I only found only three what you would consider major, 4 year brick and mortar universities that applied for a .Education domain; Arizona State University registered … [Read more...]
.Berlin Dirk Krischenowski Blasts ICANN Over TMCH Which Has “Largely Failed”
Internetworld.de, interviewed Dirk Krischenowski of .Berlin who blasted ICANN and the performance of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) The article was published in German and we used Google translate. Dirk chatted with the German publication about the recently completed Sunrise period for .Berlin, which is now in available to be registered. In the Sunrise Period trademark owner could … [Read more...]
The .CLUB LAND RUSH Starts Tomorrow April 1st: Join The Landrush.CLUB
According to a press release this morning by .CLUB, "like the United States Land Rush of 1889 that changed the landscape of America and the lives of million of people, a new land grab is ensuing all over the Internet as new domain extensions come to market and .CLUB Domains, LLC announces its Land Rush Period starting tomorrow, April 1, 2014. "Its Land Rush signals the 30-day priority period … [Read more...]
Microsoft and the Bing Entity Engine
Frederic Lardinois wrote a piece on Tech Crunch tonight about Microsoft and their plan for their entity engine. The entity engine is Microsoft's answer to the Google Knowledge Graph. These products are not the most desirable from a web developer standpoint. Google and Bing would both like to give people using their search engine a direct answer, keep them on their site and lessen the need to click … [Read more...]
After 10 Days Frank Schilling Registrar, Uniregistry Has 108 New gTLD Registrations
Frank Schillings Registrar Uniregistry launched 10 days ago and we reviewed it in a detailed post. To date Uniregistry, has only managed to get 108 domain registration for new gTLD's which gives it a market share of the new gTLD registrar market of 0.03% according to ntldstats.com Uniregistry is currently ranked as the 74th registrar in terms of numbers of new gTLD registrations … [Read more...]
Oil.Center 11,000 GBP Bid on Sedo
Oil.Center was registered by a gentleman in Kuala Lumpur on 3/16/14 and is now on Sedo auctions with a day and a half left at 11,000 GBP. There is only one bid which looks like the owner received the bid and pushed it to auction on 3/24/14. If its a legit bid, its kind of a ballsy move to send to auction, I personally would want to get that deal closed asap. I think if you have a legitimate … [Read more...]