In a letter sent to ICANN, the Chair, ICANN Business Constituency (BC) told ICANN what we at TheDomains.com said over a year ago, that allowing new gTLD's of plural and singular of the same term is a bad idea. "As we move towards the launch of the first new gTLDs this year, the Business Constituency is extremely concerned about ICANN’s intention to delegate both singular and plural versions of … [Read more...]
Losing Private New gTLD Auctions For .Lawyer & .Website Net Top Level Domain Holdings $4.8 Million
Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) said by losing the private auctions for .website and .lawyer, which concluded on Oct. 23, it will add £2.97m ($4.81m) to its cash reserves. The 14 previous new gTLD private auctions held by ApplicantAuction.com, totaled $18.9 in winning bids or around $1.33 million per string. This week ApplicantAuction.com declined to furnish a total amount raised in … [Read more...]
Disturbing; 12 Year Old Canary.com Lost in UDRP
Complainant Canary LLC just was awarded the domain name canary.com by a one member National Arbitration Forum Panel Canary is in the dictionary and is a type of bird. The decision was published in Chinese and translated into English by Google. The decision in pretty disturbing because the panel incorrectly states as matter of law that the fact the domain was parked is equivalent to … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports: 125.9 Million .Com/.Net Domains Registered Up 5% From Last Year
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2013 reporting revenue of $244 million up 9% from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported net income of $81 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.53 for the third quarter of 2013, compared to net income of $78 million and diluted EPS of $0.47 in the same quarter in 2012. The … [Read more...]
1and1.com New gTLD’s Pre-Reservations Pass 3.5 Million & Top 30 New gTLD List Is Revealed
1and1.com new gTLD pre-registrations just topped the 3.5 million mark and for the first time the domain name registrar is showing the top 30 new gTLD's with the most pre-registrations. 1and1.com had only been showing the top 20 new gTLD based on pre-registration volume. Here is the … [Read more...]
Snapnames/Dotster Domain Auction Ends In Two Hours
The Dotster domain name auction ends on Snapnames.com in just about two hours at 3:15PM EST and as of publication out of the 155 domain names up for auction only 14 have bids. Out of the 14 domain names with bids, only 4 have more than 1 bidder, and 5 of the top 6 with the highest bids the reserve price has not been reached. If you like any of the domains on the list there seems to be a good … [Read more...]
Funny: Company Sends Out PR Announcing It Renewed Its Domain For 5 Years As a “Bold Move”
I saw this press release today and thought it was pretty funny: "Hmeet.com has renewed its domain name to 2018 as a bold move to let members know that the organization is here to stay to continue to provide the services on which thousands of them rely. " "“Hmeet.com wants the world to know that we will continue our business and all people with a sexually transmitted disease are welcome to … [Read more...]