The .Club registry got some love from the South Florida Business Journal today. "The Fort Lauderdale-based domain .club is leading a pack of newly established alternatives to the familiar .com, .net and .org. Users have registered more than 96,000 .club websites, outranking all but two of 361 new “top-level” domains launched this year to create more URL choices, according to domain-tracking … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
.Investments Launches Today Here Are The Domains Already Registered
The new gTLD .investments goes into general availability today meaning it can be registered on a first come first serve basis. The registration price is high at a whopping $129.99 registration price at Godaddy.com Here are the more interesting domain names registered in Sunrise for trademark holders and in the Early Access Program for a higher one time fee. Either way these domain names … [Read more...]
Nominations Are Open For 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS
According to an email we received the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARD Nominations for 2014 are now open Nominations will remain open until Friday, August 22nd at 6 P.M. EDT. "Only those persons or companies that receive 3 nominations from 3 different individuals will be included on the ballot." "The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS have become the most sought-after and prestigious Domain Industry awards … [Read more...]
.London Gets Over 600 Trademark New gTLD Registrations Here Are The Most Interesting
.London just updated its Zone file today and is reporting over 600 new gTLD registrations which all seem to be domain names registered in Sunrise for trademark holders. Some interesting no shows include a lot of US tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Twitter just to name a few. BuyDomains.London was not applied for buy Name Media but by a British company. Luxury.London went to the … [Read more...]
BBC Experiment Demonstrates The Risks of The Internet of Things
The BBC set up a smart home and showed how as more things become connected, hackers can gain access and cause problems. The video that accompanies the article is very good, you will need to view the site as the video was not embeddable. I firmly believe the more I read over the last year that all the benefits of the Internet of Things will be outshadowed by all the potential problems. I firmly … [Read more...]
17 Year Old TVS.com Saved in UDRP Against $4 Billion Company That’s Going Into Domain Hall Of Shame
TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited of Madurai of India represented by DePenning & DePenning, just lost its attempt to grab the 17 year old domain name TVS.com The domain owner P.A. Gordon was represented by ESQwire.com which won its second UDRP of the day, Congrats to Ari and Jason. The panel had a very good discussion of latches and while the decision did not rest on latches the delay in … [Read more...]
The Winklevoss Twins Look to Spider Woman to bring their Bitcoin ETF to Market
The Winklevoss Twins of Facebook fame are still working on bringing out the first ever Bitcoin ETF. They have hired the lady known as Spider Woman, Kathleen Moriarty. Moriarty worked on the very first ETF back in 1993 and has a treasure trove of experience. The Economic Times wrote: Kathleen Moriarty is the lawyer attempting to shepherd the Winklevoss brothers' plan to roll out the first ETF … [Read more...]