Despite a slew of press releases touting how Holiday.com at $30 Million was the sure bet steal of a lifetime, the domain name apparently failed to sell at the much hyped auction at the World Travel Market. According to travelmole.com, the domain name Holiday.com, which had a goal of selling for $30 Million, only was able to get a high bid of £4.7 million, which just under the £5 million … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
.XXX Registry Announces .Porn & .Adult Domain Matching Program Starts On April 15th
ICM registry which operates the .XXX registry, announced today that the Sunrise period for .PORN and .ADULT will be made available for a thirty day (30) period to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), as required under ICANN’s Rights Protection Mechanism starting March 1, 2015 After Sunrise has closed, the next phase of the .PORN and .ADULT launch will be a … [Read more...]
.Com Domain Name Registrations Top 115 Million For The 1st Time
According to Verisign's zone file the number of .Com domain name registrations have topped 115 million, an all time high. As we have written the new gTLD program does not seem to be effecting the number of .Com registrations. Back just 7 weeks ago on September 19, we posted that the number of .com registrations had crossed the 114.6 million domain mark. Today in crossing the 115 million … [Read more...]
Looks Like The Team Of Radix, Tucows & NameCheap Has Won .Online
The new gTLD .online looks like it was won by the previously announced partnership with Tucows and Namecheap.com Last year Radix announced that the three applicants for .online have partnered up to run the .online registry. At that time, both Tucows and Namecheap withdrew their applications for .Online with ICANN. Today the ICANN site has updated and the remaining applicants for .online, … [Read more...]
Amazon Wins New gTLD .Hot As Donuts & Secondgen.com Withdraw Their Apps
Amazon has won the rights to the new gTLD .Hot as the other two applicants, Donuts and SecondGen.com withdrew their applications from ICANN's site. The new gTLD was probably settled by private auction. It will be interesting to see what Amazon's Plan for .Hot is. Amazon's application for .Hot does not really lay out a vision for the extension. … [Read more...]
Law Enforcement Cracks Down on the Dark Web, Seizes 400 .onion domains
We have had news stories before about international law enforcement agencies banding together to take down websites that deal in illicit goods or counterfeit merchandise. Yesterday the U.S, Canada and European agencies made another round of takedowns, the difference this time is that they hit the "Dark Web" websites using stuff like the onion router or TOR. USA Today covered the story: Police … [Read more...]
German Court Says Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable For the Infringement of their Customers
Court rules registrars are responsible for fighting piracy In a case that involved the music of Robin Thicke and his album Blurred Lines, a German court has ruled that a domain registrar can be held liable when it comes to copyright infringement. The domain registrar in this case is Key-Systems who appealed the initial ruling and lost their appeal at The Higher Regional Court of … [Read more...]