Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the "Domain King" has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. Rick not only is commonly known as the Domain King inside the domain community, but has a federally registered trademark on the term "Domain King" in the United States since 2003 (which … [Read more...]
Google Launches Unfiltered.News
Google's parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a "new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a site which analyzes news feeds from around the world, and tells you which news stories are most missed by the media where you live. From there, you can see how these stories are being covered … [Read more...]
Google Moves Its Domain Name Registrar To Domains.Google
Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April's Fool's day when Google temporarily put up "com.google". This is for real and in a post Google says: Introducing domains.google — a new URL for Google Domains "We’re so excited about new domain name endings, we decided to use one ourselves! Starting today, you can find us at domains.google" "Like it? Get a … [Read more...]
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop On The Chinese Domain Market?
According to a story which appeared in globaltimes.cn, "the Chinese government is stepping up efforts to strengthen management of the Internet with the recent drafting of an "unprecedented" regulation on Internet domain names." According to a draft regulation on Internet domain names issued by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Internet domain names with access to China … [Read more...]
Google + 5 Registries Release Domain Test: “Developers Can Test Compatibility with new gTLD’s”
Google registry released a new tool "Domain Test" which is a "tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). " Domain Test was "developed by Google and launched in a partnership between Google Registry and Ausregistry, CentralNic, Donuts, RightSide, and Uniregistry. Domain Test is an open source project available under the Apache … [Read more...]
WIPO UDRP Filings up 4.6% in 2015
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) "cybersquatting claims" by just 4.6% last year In 2015, 2,754 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) claims were filed, a 4.6% increase on the number in 2014. New gTLDs accounted for 10.5% of the number UDRP's filed. The New gTLDs .xyz, .club and .email were among the most common new suffixes to be the … [Read more...]
Watch Out for DomainVerification.Net emails; Charging For ICANN Whois Verification
I got an email today which looks like one of those ICANN required verification emails that registrars have to send out to domain holders. ICANN requires registrars to send a notice to verify whois information and "when a registrant does not respond for over 15 calendar days to a registrar's inquiries regarding the accuracy of contact details or Whois data associated with the registration, the … [Read more...]