Innovative Auctions today announced the successful completion of the second Applicant Auction. Winners in the auction will pay a total of $9,651,000 after resolving contention for eight new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The winners for the eight contention sets included in this week’s auction were: .guide: Donuts, Inc .construction: Donuts, Inc .storage: Extra Space Storage … [Read more...]
Looks Like 1st New gTLD Private Auction For This Week Is Over As Donuts Loses & TLDH Wins .Casa
It appears that the 1st of this weeks private auctions being held by Applicant Auction is completed as Donuts has withdrawn its application for .Casa on the ICANN website. Donuts application for .Casa has a prioritization number of 1,622 and has not yet passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) meaning that Donuts will get 70% refund of their $185,000 application fee. The only other applicant … [Read more...]
WIPO Denies Another Legal Rights Objection To .Music: Community Trademarks Of Objector “Not Bona Fide”
A WIPO panel has rejected another Legal Rights Objection to the new gTLD .Music . This objection was to Famous Fours application to operate the .Music registry and was filed by another applicant for .Music, DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos. The panel basically found that the community trademarks of the Objector were not bona fide: The Objector filed for registration of its .MUSIC and … [Read more...]
13 Year Old Domain Togu.com Saved IN UDRP Panel Cites Delay In Bringing Case
TOGU Gebruder Obermaier oHG of Prien-Bachham, Germany, just lost a UDRP on the domain name Togu.com. The domain owner Port Media Domains was represented by Esquire.com Its not clear to me why the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) as the domain name is 13 years old, and was registered prior to the Complainants trademark registration. The panel did not address the … [Read more...]
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Files UDRP’s Against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings On 4 Domains
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc makers of the widely popular Grand Theft Auto games, filed a UDRP's today against Mike Mann's Domain Asset Holdings, LLC on four domain names with WIPO. All four domain names are listed for sale at Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com. Here are the domains, registration date and the Buy It Now (BIN) price listed for each of the domain names on … [Read more...]
NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown Risk” In Collision Report To Move Forward
In a comment filed with ICANN on the Name Collision Report of Interisle, the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) signed by Tim Switzer, laid out a pretty compelling argument for why ICANN should not delay the roll out 279 new gTLD's that fell within the "unknown risk category in the Interisle report. "With such a long history of productive discussions, it is dismaying to see a great deal of … [Read more...]
ICDR Rejects Verisign’s String Confusion Objection To .Cam As Being Too Confusing to .Com
One of the more interesting objections filed at the International Centre for Dispute resolution (ICDR) based on String Confusion was Verisign's objection to the new gTLD .Cam being too confusing to .Com. Today a panel has ruled that .Cam is not confusing to .Com, finding "the visual similarity of the two strings does not allow a conclusion that confusion would result". "The test is not to … [Read more...]