The 2016 NamesCon Conference $399 Early Bird ticket offer expires at the end of the day tomorrow Saturday October 31. So you should take advantage of this treat because the regular price to attend the conference is $999. Namescon will be held at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 10-13 which is just 10 weeks away! Show organizers are promising that this 3rd annual edition of … [Read more...]
1St Day New gTLD Totals: .Live 3,470; .Studio 2,032; .SRL 223
Two new gTLD's launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names before (GA); here are the totals for … [Read more...]
Another UDRP FAIL! As Panel Refuses to Transfer a Domain Used for Phishing
Another interesting UDRP where a domain name was found to be used for Phishing and fraud but the panel refuses to transfer it because the trademark wasn't identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which Complainant had rights. Yes its a head scratcher. Bridgewater Associates, LP ("Complainant"), brought a UDRP on the new gTLD bwater.site The sole panelist David E. … [Read more...]
IBM is Buying Weather.com
According to USAToday.com, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has agreed to acquire the Weather Company's data and digital properties which would include Weather.com Financial terms weren't disclosed. But the deal is valued at more than $2 billion It doesn't include Weather's primary TV asset, the Weather Channel. "In 2008, the Weather Co. was bought by an investor group -- led … [Read more...]
CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains up 1.6%
CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was … [Read more...]
Expired Domain Drop Catcher BackorderZone.com + 42 Domain Registrars Are for Sale
Backorderzone.com is for sale. Backorderzone.com competes with Namejet.com, Snapnames.com, Pheenix.com and DropCatch.com. Last week Namejet lowered the price of a backorder on a pending delete domain, the only type of domain names BackOrderZone.com catches, to $39. Included in the sale is the BackorderZone.com website, the drop catching software and 42 ICANN Accredited Registrars in good … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed on Gorgonzola.xyz By Owner of Gorgonzola.com
The "Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola" just filed a UDRP on the domain name Gorgonzola.xyz Gorgonzola of course is a cheese, and Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola translates to "Consortium for the Protection of the Gorgonzola Cheese" yes seriously and they own the domain name Gorgonzola.com. Its pretty amazing how much you learn writing a blog: "Following … [Read more...]