According to smh.com.au, folowing the led of New Zealand and the Britain, Australia's regulatory body for domain names, .au Domain Administration (auDA), recently announced its 2015 Names Policy Panel proposal that individuals and entities should be allowed to register domain names directly under .au, for example www.abc.au in addition to .com.au Under the proposal, domains ending with com.au, … [Read more...]
2014 Final UDRP Stats From WIPO & NAF: 0.003% of All Domains Subject to A UDRP/URS
This week the WIPO published it stats for the cases it determine under Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") in 2014. Back in September the other major organization that hears UDRP and the only one to decide cases filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System ("URS") the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) announced their stats for 2014. So now that we have the stats for … [Read more...]
WIPO Publishes 2014 UDRP Figures & 2015 YTD: 14% of WIPO’s 2015 Cases Are New gTLD’s
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released it annual report yesterday for 2014 and Year to Date numbers through September 2015 for cases it decided under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") Cases filed ins 2014 were up only 2% from 2013, with 2,634 cases being lodged by trademarks owners claiming abuse of their mark. Country-code top-level domains … [Read more...]
Verisign: There are 296 Million Domains Up 5.9% Year to Year: Only 2% Are New gTLD’s
Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, as of June 30th 2015: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2 2015, equates to a growth rate of 0.8% over Q1 2015 Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9%, year over year. The .com and .net … [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...]
ilove.La Launches VipDomains.La
According to a press release we received today, iLove.LA announced today that its new site, VipDomains.LA According to the press release, the best available .LA domain names are now searchable on VipDomains.LA "Great names available including Yoga.LA, Selfies.LA, HealthInsurance.LA, HipHop.LA and Couture.LA Featured Names also include over 100 first and last names, dominant business … [Read more...]
LogicBoxes Helps .MN Registry Grow by 350%
LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for ccTLD & New gTLD Registries, Domain Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the milestone achievement of completing 10 successful years of partnership with Datacom LLC, the .MN Registry. .MN is the ccTLD for the country of Mongolia LogicBoxes met Datacom’s requirement for a long-term partner that would help them … [Read more...]