So as the new gTLD are rolling out and we see the pricing that many are carrying some of them with an annual renewal fees that reminds us of the .TV days I wanted to share a couple of personal decisions we made regarding our own portfolio. As most of you know the .TV registry had premium renewal prices on most of all their good premium domain names until a few years ago when they accepted a … [Read more...]
After The Meeting On Internet Governance NETmundial Publishes Draft “Outcome Document”
The Global Multistakeholder two day meeting on the Future of Internet Governance Netmundial just concluded in Sao Paulo, Brazil . They report that 1,480 people attended the the meeting from 97 nations. "During the two-day event, the participants from 97 countries had the opportunity to contribute to the revision of the document through the discussion sessions. The sessions still consider the … [Read more...]
MyArt.com Lost in UDRP On 2nd Try
The On-line ADR Center of the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) UDRP provider, has just handed over the domain name MyArt.com to the My-Art Company which was just formed on September 10th, 2010 The domain was subject to a previous UDRP which the complainant lost back in 2011, you can read that decision here. In the first case the panel ruled in favor of the then domain name holder based on the … [Read more...]
Luxury Brands Get Their .Luxury Domains: Bugatti; Cartier; Prada; Chopard; Dior & More
I just reviewed the zone file for .Luxury, which appears to have gotten over 400 sunrise registrations by trademark holders and many of the top luxury brands in the world got their .luxury domain name. Many luxury jewelry brands including watch manufacturers, participated along with fashion designers, auto makers, and Champagne producers including Chanel, Prada, Cartier, Chopard, Dior, … [Read more...]
Verisign There are 271 Million Domains In The World .Com/.Net Up 5% in 2013
VeriSign, Inc. VRSN just issued the 2013 fourth quarter Domain Name Industry Brief reporting that five million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2013, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 271 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2013. The increase of five million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of … [Read more...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: “People Just Are Not Educated On How To Use The Internet”
According to FoxNews.com, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pegged problems with people being able to signup on Healthcare.gov, by saying people just "are not educated on how to use the Internet." "We have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up and they didn't get through," Reid said during a press conference, before describing the difficulties people have with the Internet in … [Read more...]
35 Senators Demand Answers On NTIA Plan Of Giving Up Oversight of ICANN
35 U.S. Senators (all Republicans) led by John Thune (R-S.D.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), asking a lot of questions (I counted 13) on the recent announcement that NTIA intends to relinquish oversight responsibility over the Internet Assigned Numbers … [Read more...]