National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) is an organization whose members include Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors of the 50 U.S. states and territories send a letter to ICANN in late July that was just published today, that the new gTLD's .INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP.should only be allowed to be registered by 'entities that are appropriately registered and in good- standing … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.1 Million In Domains Led By Xylem.com For $47K and BXE.com For $40K
Afternic.com just published its domain sales for the week of 8/5/13 – 8/11/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,106,700. All sales were led by Xylem.com which sold for $47,100 and BXE.com which sold for $40,000 Xylem.com has a wikipedia.org entry, which says Xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular … [Read more...]
.XYZ One Of The 1st New gTLD’s To Launch Opens Up Pre-Registration
The registry for the new gTLD .XYZ has just opened up preregistrations. While preregistrations for new gTLD's is nothing new the fact that this is being done at the registry level is different. Many registrars and auction houses opened up preregistrations over the last couple of years but in this case it is the registry itself taking the preregistrations. As always there is no cost to … [Read more...]
CentralNic Formally Announces September IPO
Today CentralNic, formally announced its plans for a September IPO on the AIM Market (“AIM”) of the London Stock Exchange. "CentralNic is a registry service provider which supports top level domains (“TLDs” such as .la) and second level domains (“SLDs” such as .uk.com), distributing and powering domain names that end with those TLDs and SLDs, such as www.artweek.la and … [Read more...]
Sedo’s 2Q Domain Report: 9,589 Transactions; 53% of Sales $500 Or Under; 95% $5k Or Under
Sedo, issued its domain market study for the second quarter of 2013 today. Sedo reported that domain name sales below $500, accounted for 53% of sales. Domains priced between $501 and $2,500 accounted for 35% of sales and only 7% were in the $2,501-$5,000 price range. So basically 95% of all sales where $5,000 or under. During the quarter, Sedo powered 9,589 transactions with a mean … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers Launch Of Pop.co Brought To You By The Founders of .Co
TechCrunch.com, just covered the launch of Juan Calle latest venture Pop.co "Basically, Pop.co is a bundle of online services" "You just pick the .co address that you’re interested in (assuming it’s available, and if it’s not, Pop.co will suggest alternatives), then the company automatically claims it for you, and you can either use Pop.co’s simple web page editor to create the page with … [Read more...]
USPTO: You Will Have To Contract WIth ICANN Before Applying For a Trademark For A New gTLD
Under the USPTO proposed examination guide, entitled “Applications for Marks Comprised of gTLDs for Domain Name Registration or Registry Services,” you will have to have a contract with ICANN to operate a new gTLD registry before you apply for a trademark for the gTLD: "The applicant must show that: (i) it has entered into a currently valid agreement with ICANN (a “Registry Agreement”) … [Read more...]