RightoftheDot.com (ROTD) will be conducting a Premium Online Domain Auction in cooperation with the leading Chinese Domain auction company 4.CN and in association with DomainFest.asia which will be held in Macau China, September 4th through 7th, 2015. ROTD has officially opened up submissions for the auction which will run from September 2 through September 10th catered to the Chinese and … [Read more...]
Donuts Becomes 1st new gTLD Registry to Join The Internet Commerce Association (ICA)
Donuts has become the 1st new gTLD registry to join the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) as a Silver member. The ICA is a non-profit advocating for the rights and interests of domain name owners and related service providers. Although Donuts is also a member of the DNA (As is a company I'm a Director of, RightoftheDot.com) the DNA and the ICA have different mission statements. The ICA … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling On New gTLD’s and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead
Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: ""IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable alternative TLD’s will marginalize the totality of .com’s mindshare in future. Speaking as the owner of a large portfolio of valuable dot com names, I once felt comfortable explaining that people should … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed on The 25 Year Old Domain Name Cambridge.com By University of Cambridge
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge has filed a UDRP on the domain name Cambridge.com. The domain is owned by Kirkland Holdings LLC of Brookline MA since March 2012. The prior owner of the domain name is "MHL" also of Brookline who got the domain around September 2009. The domain has an original creation date of September 21, 1992 making it just about 25 … [Read more...]
BMW Files UDRP on The Domain Hack B.MW
BMW has filed a UDRP seeking control of the domain name hack B.MW with the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO. .MW is the country code (ccTLD) for Malawi. According to the whois record for the .MW registry the domain name B.MW has a creation date of 07-06-2004 but was updated in On March 10, 2015, with the domain possibly changing hands. The domain name B.MW is resolving to … [Read more...]
API.Info Lost in UDRP
Colegio Oficial de Agentes de La Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Barcelona of Barcelona, Spain, just won control of the domain name API.info Most of us in the tech space know API to stand for Application Program Interface, which "is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications." and is typically used to integrate data from one site or a database into a website. The … [Read more...]
Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don’t See Anybody Abandoning .Com for .Brand or Another TLD.”
In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst - Topeka Capital Markets): "In your .brand customer base that you are working with, what's your sense of how they are thinking about it from the perspective of -- are they going to move from .com to .xyz or whatever? Or are they more thinking that this will be an … [Read more...]