A one member UDRP panel has found that the word "club" is generic The disputed domain names were clubsail.com; clubyachting.com and clubyachting.org however in the case of clubsail.com the domain holder agreed to transfer the domain leaving only the other two domains at issue Here are the relevant facts and finding: The Complainant operates a marine leisure business based in Tenerife. She … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Amazon Not Only Owns The New gTLD .Buy; They Just Acquired .Pay Too
Amazon which won an ICANN last resort new gTLD auction for .Buy for $4.6 Million has now acquired the .Pay. .Pay which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction next week, has been settled. The other applicant for .Pay, DOTPAY SA has just withdrawn its application, leaving Amazon as the winner of the .Pay domain name extension. Now that Amazon owns both .Buy and .Pay it would … [Read more...]
Amazon Beats Google & Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Book
Amazon now owns the new gTLD .Book winning a private auction beating Google among others. The final remaining other applicant for .Book, R.R. Bowker LLC, withdrew their application last night leaving Amazon the Winner of the Private Auction. Other applicants include Minds + Machines (which announced yesterday the walked away with over $8 million for losing .Book as well as .cloud, .dog , … [Read more...]
Bandzoogle Partnering With Rightside to Offer .ROCKS and .BAND Domains and Websites for Musicians and Bands
Rightside and Bandzoogle announced a partnership where Bandzoogle will offer .Rocks and .Band new gtlds to musicians and bands that use their services. From the release: Bandzoogle is offering Rightside's Top Level Domains (TLDs) to its customers, beginning with .ROCKS, a new web extension that launched earlier this year, and .BAND, which will open for pre-registration later this month. … [Read more...]
ICANN Last Resort New gTLD Auctions Scheduled for November
A bunch of private auctions held in October headed off many of the the ICANN Last Resort Auctions scheduled for November. However as far as we know the following New gTLD auctions that will be held by ICANN in November are: .APARTMENTS DERApartments, LLC June Maple, LLC (Donuts) .DOT Dish DBS Corporation Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google) .EARTH Interlink Co., … [Read more...]
ICANN Changes Last Resort Auction Rules To Allow Early Bidding
ICANN and Power Auctions made some changes in the Last Resort Auction rules starting with auction scheduled for November all seeming to quicking up the auction process. Here are the red line changes to the ICANN Last Resort Auction and here are some of the highlights: " The first Round of an Auction will start on the Commencement Date and last 30 minutes, the recess after the first … [Read more...]
PR Is out & Its Official: Radix, Tucows and Namecheap Win .Online Auction
A Press Release out today confirms what we told you last week that the team of Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the new gTLD auction for .Online: "Domain industry veterans form a "global supply chain supergroup," secure the first viable alternative to .com A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed … [Read more...]