Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled "What's Really New in the New gTLD Space" which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing .Com Vs. New gTLD debate that has been raging on CircleId in the past couple of weeks. Like all stats you can interpret them many ways. I think the most … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
After Winning 10 Uniform Rapid Suspensions in Dec. Nissan Loses Its 1st on Nissan.technology
Nissan Motors has just lost it first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding after winning ten URS in just December. Richard W. Hill, as Examiner declined to suspend the domain even though the domain holder failed to respond. The opinion is completely devoid of any reason of why the complaint was dismissed, or how it varied from the other 10 URS Complaints that won Nissan on new gTLD … [Read more...]
PIR (.Org Registry) Offers New IDN Domains In Three Strings
According to a press release Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain registry, today announced the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organisation” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari, one in Cyrillic, and one in simplified Chinese. Previously only available to qualified … [Read more...]
.Club Passes .Berlin & Moves Into 2nd Place As The Most Registered New Domain Extension
.Club has just passed .Berlin and is now the second most registered new domain extension. According to ntldstats.com, .Club now has 156,821 domain names registered passing .Berlin which has 155,123 domain names registered. .Berlin offered free domain names for approximately 2 days and about 75,000 of the 155,000 domain names were registered for free. The .Club team have literally been … [Read more...]
Page Howe Opens Office In Los Angeles To Promote Adoption Of .La Domain Extension
According to a Press Release out today, my fellow Sherpa Page Howe, a "veteran domain name investor and educator, has been tapped to lead the effort to educate and encourage adoption of the .LA domain extension in and around Los Angeles and Southern California. " "Domain names are the real estate of the Internet, and the .LA domain namespace is the exact location for online marketing in Los … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed on 14 Year Old Domain: Domain Holder Objects To 2014 Trademark Filing
This is a pretty interesting UDRP. Basically you have the Complainant which has been operating under the the domain name directorschoicetourandtravel.com since 2006 filed for a federal trademark on the term DIRECTOR’S CHOICE around July 15th of this year with the USPTO, which is says its been using "since at least as early as April 1997 used in connection with Complainant’s Services, namely, … [Read more...]
Hottest Phrase Of The Moment: IcantBreathe.com Sells
The domain name IcantBreathe.com which matches one of the hot phrases in life and on social media, just sold earlier this month The domain name was listed for sale on CATCHYDOMAINS.COM The buyer has a page up and the domain already has an Alexa.com ranking of 11M. I spoke to the new owner of the domain who told me he has already received several offers on the domain. Of course the … [Read more...]