Domaininvesting.com, posted today that Uniregistry declared victory getting the new gTLD .Game in as a private auction beating out Google (Charleston Road Registry, Inc.), Amazon, Dot Game Limited, Beijing Gamease Age Digital Technology Co., Ltd. However the contention set also included the new gTLD .Games whose application was not withdrawn meaning it seems that in the private auction the … [Read more...]
.Sucks Registry Goes On Offense & Threatens To Sue ICANN For Defamation/Breach of Contract
In a sternly worded letter sent to ICANN today by the attorney's representing Vox Populi the operator of the .Sucks registry put ICANN on notice that they believe ICANN has defamed the registry and its own rules and regulation and made it clear a lawsuit maybe forthcoming The letter was written by R. David Hosp a principal in the law firm of the New York firm of Fish & Richardson … [Read more...]
Those Involved With .Sucks Took Care Of Themselves
Since Domainincite.com has been putting out a few stories about the new gTLD .sucks leading up the hearing in Washington on Wednesday here, here and here, that the Internet Commerce Association's own Phil Corwin will be testifying in front of, I thought I would point out some domain names that are not going to be available to be registered in the .sucks extension. It's not clear if the domain … [Read more...]
AdWeek “Should Your Shop Purchase a .Agency Domain ?”
AdWeek.com published an article on whether advertising agencies should step up and register a .agency domain. In the article there were a few people quoted, Mason Cole from Donuts who runs .agency, David Mitnick, an intellectual property lawyer and founder of domain name and brand monitoring services company DomainSkate, and Mark Ervin, chief brand officer at Big Communications, based out of … [Read more...]
Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30%
Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the … [Read more...]
What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing
As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible registrations, a lot of trademark infringing registrations and some domain I wish I would have registered. On the horrible side I found the soon … [Read more...]
New gTLD 1st Day Domain Names Totals: .Video 3,271 & .Sale 2,160
Rightside launched two new gTLD domain name extensions into general availability (GA) yesterday .Video and .Sale Including all domain name registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those that paid a higher fee during the Early Access Period (EAP) to register domains before GA .Video wound up with 3,271 domain name registered and .Sale has 2,160 registered domain names. .Video … [Read more...]