Katy Bachman at AdWeek did a piece on ICANN and their statement that brands are at risk of domain abuse. They are warning brands to protect their intellectual property by using the Trademark Clearing House. The article mentions that many brands are not rushing to pay the $150/year per domain fee to register each brand. From the article: Try to follow this. Icann, the international … [Read more...]
New gTLD’s Aftermarket: Sedo Is Ready & Has New gTLD’s For Sale; Afternic Does Not
I did a check to see if the major aftermarket houses were ready and listing new gTLD's for sale. The short and simply answer: Sedo.com is. Afternic.com is not. Sedo has a drop down search feautre to search for domains name by extension. Sedo has the 7 new gTLD;s already included in their drop down menu and in fact there are already hundreds of new gTLD domain names for sale in the … [Read more...]
New gTLD Committe Tells ICANN To Consider Appeal Mechanism In String Confusion Cases
The New gTLD Program Committee of ICANN (NGPC) pased a resolution, directing the ICANN President and CEO, to initiate a public comment period on the framework principles of a potential review mechanism to address the perceived inconsistent String Confusion Objection Expert Determinations. The effect of this proposal, and the issue that is likely to be before the NGPC after the close of the … [Read more...]
Guru Passes 20,000 Registrations: Now Has More Than .Travel & .Aero
The new gTLD .Guru added over 6,000 registration yesterday giving the extension almost 21,000 registered domain names. .Guru yesterday also passed .Travel and .Aero two Top Level Domains (TLD's) that have been around for many years. .Travel launched back on October 2005 .Aero launched back on December 1, 2008 However unlike .Guru both .travel and .aero are restrcted meaning not … [Read more...]
Verisign Is Not Being Transparent on Their Policy With Regards to Short .TV Domains
Back in December Mike wrote about how GM.tv and 13.tv were being held back and reserved by Verisign. At the time Verisign said they were holding these back for promotional purposes. In the past Verisign did this with a few other short .tv domains like … [Read more...]
German Court Says Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website
A ruling came out of Germany that could make registrars have to do a lot more work to earn their pay. Loek Essers wrote an article today on PC Advisor covering the case of Universal Music vs Key-Systems. A domain name registrar can be held liable for the copyright infringements of a website it registered if it is obvious the domain is used for infringements and the registrar does nothing to … [Read more...]
Did Someone Let Cm.com Drop and Who Owns it?
The rare two letter domain name Cm.com appears to have dropped back 2013. The last record for the domain according to DomainTools.com is from May 2013: Record Date: 2013-05-01 Registrar: DOMAIN.COM, LLC Server: whois.domain.com Created: 1997-05-20 Updated: 2013-04-28 Expires: 2020-05-21 Can't get information on local domain CM.COM"" According to Screenshots.com the domain was in … [Read more...]