Constantinos Roussos Of DotMusic Limited has responded to our post about the 1st WIPO decision denying the Legal Rights Objections filed against an applicant for .Music It should be noted as of time of publication of the 25 objections filed with WIPO all 25 have been denied. 0-25 Here is Mr. Roussos statement: ""We are certainly very disappointed with this decision. " "There are … [Read more...]
WIPO Rejects Objection Of DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos To Googles App For .Music
A WIPO panel has rejected the Legal Rights Objection filed by DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos against Google's application for the new gTLD .Music This was the first decision handed down on objections to the .Music gTLD for which DotMusic filed objections to all other 7 applicants. DotMusic Limited Legal Rights Objections to the applications of .tunes and .song has already been … [Read more...]
Where Will Registrants For New gTLD’s Come From?
Last week Andrew from DomainNameWire asked in a blog post "Whats The Market Size For A Top Level Domain". The post basically asked where are the new gTLD's going to get their registrants from, so I thought I would join the conversation. Here is where I see registrations for new gTLD's coming from: Domainers Yes I know existing domainers think all new gTLD's are crap and will all wind up … [Read more...]
Donuts Commits 68 New gTLD’s To Private Auction
According to a press release we just received Donuts, has committed 68 of its applied for new gTLD's to a private auction that will be held on August 13th. Of course for any auction to take place all applicants for that particular string will have to agree to holding the private auction on the same terms and conditions as Donuts has. It should be noted that for the previous private auction … [Read more...]
Three More Legal Rights Objections Thrown Out By WIPO: .Food, .Cam, .Vip
Its looking like filing an Legal Rights Objection with WIPO was a huge waste of time and money as three more decisions are out today all in favor of the new gTLD applicants. Objectors are now 0-23 and if you were hitting like that they would send you back to the minor league. In today decisions AC Webconnecting Holding B.V. objection to Dot Agency Limited application for .Cam was given the … [Read more...]
Name.com Enters The new gTLD Watch Game With TheNewDots.com
Name.com just sent out an email letting all their customers know that they have entered the new gTLD watch game using the domain name TheNewDots.com "In the next few months, a whole bunch of new domain extensions, or new TLDs, will be released. Along with existing TLDs like .COM and .NET, you'll have new TLDs like .NINJA, .APP, .SHOP, and hundreds more. We like to call 'em The New … [Read more...]
L’Oréal Drops 8th New gTLD Application
L'Oréal has withdrawn its 8th new gTLD application for the closed brand application for .Matrix L'Oréal applied for 14 new gTLD's. one IDN 8 brand applications and five generic's to be operated on a closed basis .Hair; .Beauty; .Skin; Salon and .Makeup The only .Brand application not still not withdrawn with ICANN by L'Oréal is for .Lancome The application for .Matrix has a prioritization … [Read more...]