ICANN released the Name Collision Study it commission, which suggests the the applications for the new gTLD's .Corp and .Home be indefinitely delayed and that 20% of all new gTLD applied for strings be delayed for at least 3-6 months as additional studies are conducted. "ICANN commissioned and today releases the results of a study that considers the likelihood and impact of name space … [Read more...]
Lawsuits Don’t Scare Cybersquatters As Faceboko.com Sells On SnapNames For $1,516
Despite Facebook bringing federal lawsuits against Cybersquatters, they do not seem scared off as the domain name Faceboko.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for over $1,500. The domain name not surprisingly has has a traffic ranking from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast. The current parked page has some 40 links and all 40 links go to a Facebook related term (screenshot above) Facebook has … [Read more...]
Donuts Appoints Jeff DeCillia Chief Financial Officer
Donuts Inc., the largest applicant for ICANN's new gTLD program announced that Jeff deCillia has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. deCillia, who brings more than 20 years of financial leadership and public markets experience, will be based in the company’s Bellevue, Wash. office and will report directly to Donuts CEO and co-founder Paul Stahura. Kevin Wilson, … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Reports $366K in Domain Sales In July
Namejet.com has released its top sales for July 2013 for domains selling for $2,000 or more. All domains sales were led by Meifa.com which sold for $25,655 and MUI.com which was right behind at $24,999 In all only 69 domain names sold for $2k or more. Here is the list interesting to see two single letter domains sold for $2,000. I had none of these selling with bids as high as … [Read more...]
ThePrive.com Files UDRP On The Generic Prive.com
The Fortrend Group LlC which owns the domain name ThePrive.com is seeking to upgrade its domain name by filing a UDRP on the generic domain Prive.com Prive is a french word that mean private in English. Armani has a line of clothing name Prive There is a hair salon in Miami name Prive There is a sexy nightclub in South Beach name Prive. According to their website, like … [Read more...]
The T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference Moves To The Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach Starting In 2014
The orgainzer of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference announced this morning that beginning in "2014 and beyond, we will have outgrown the current venue as you will see in October. So we decided to move T.R.A.F.F.I.C. a little south in 2014 to the WORLD FAMOUS Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach". "So with the Fountainbleu in the East and The Bellagio in the West, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is setting the stage for … [Read more...]
Washington Post on New gTLD’s: Com Was The Training Wheels For The Internet: Move aside .com
In a three page Article the Washington Post on the day it was purchased, chats about domain names and the new gTLD's asking whether .com's go by the way of horse and buggy, well actually "the party line" (which many of the readers never heard of) “It’s funny, thinking about dot-com,” says Ben Zimmer. Zimmer is a linguist — he’s the executive producer of vocabulary.com — and he thinks a lot … [Read more...]