Afilias announced the first phase of the introduction the new gTLD .LGBT which is dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: will be launching early next year The first phase is the “sunrise” period, which is limited to eligible trademark holders and is open from January 5, 2015 through February 4, 2015. During sunrise, domains will be … [Read more...]
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring Closing Bell At Nasdaq Tomorrow
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) is gong to be Ringing The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell tomorrow. Rightside Groupwill visit the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. The Company will host its first Investor & Analyst Day event from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm ET featuring presentations by key members of Rightside’s management team. In honor of the occasion, Taryn Naidu, Chief Executive Officer, will … [Read more...]
Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC
Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 5 out of 6 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has won .News, .School, .Golf, .Football. and now .Casino Donuts application for .Casino is here but doesn't have much information as to what … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four
Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others, Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .News is a top 10 new gTLD extension as it goes with almost every word sort of like a .Club As always we don't know what the string sold for. In … [Read more...]
Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complainant was Aponix Solutions LLC of New York, which was represented by in-house counsel Rajkumar Bakhru, could have just bought the domain name which was … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Pockets Another $4.4 Million & Has $45 Million In Cash
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce that "following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third domain application that at present cannot be named due to the rules governing the private auction process. The cash to the Group is net of auction … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry
Donuts has won the new gTLD string .School beating out Minds + Machines, Jay Westerdal's Fegistry and Frank Schilling's Uniregistry. The new gTLD .School was scheduled to go to ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. .School is an interesting one because there is a lot of vertical competition in the new gTLD space. Donuts already launched .education which has over 13,000 domain name … [Read more...]