104 new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The highlights for this week include the one of the most beautiful cities in the world .Sydney and some applications filed by Google's Charleston Road Registry Inc which had been passed over in some previous weeks IE results including .Gmail; .Wow; .FYI; .Shop; .Fun .Fly and .RSVP Other interesting new gTLD applications passing this … [Read more...]
Jetgo of Australia Files UDRP Against Frank Schilling’s NameAdministration On JetGo.com
Frank Schilling has gotten hit with its 35th UDRP as Jetgo of Australia has filed on the domain name JetGo.com JetGo of Australia's official site is jetgoaustralia.com.au JetGo appears to be a small charter service for Jets showing as their Fleet a Embraer 135 Regional Jet. The .com.au domain was registered in May 2011. The company also owns the domain name jetgoaustralia.com which was … [Read more...]
Tucows Follows Uniregistry & Withdraws Two gTLD Applications .Media & .Marketing Leaving Donuts The Only Applicant
Three more new gTLD applications were withdrawn with ICANN today and two are very interesting. Tucows, Inc. withdrew two of its new gTLD applications one for .Media, just one week after another applicant Uniregistry dropped their application for .Media. and .Marketing just a little over a month after Uniregistry dropped their application for .Marketing. Tucows application for .Media had … [Read more...]
Verisign: Ends 2Q With 124.3 Million .Com/.Net; Domain Revenue up 12% & $2 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), treported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013 after the market closed. As of the quater ending June 30 there were 124.3 million .com/.net domain names an increase of 4.9% VeriSign, Inc., and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $239 million for the second quarter of 2013, up 12 percent from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign … [Read more...]
4 More Legal Rights Objections Denied At WIPO: 17 Objections, 17 Thrown out: .Song; .YellowPages; .Cam
Earlier today we wrote about two Legal Right Objections (LRO) that were denied at WIPO one for .GMBH and the 5th objection filed be Defender against an applicant for .Home Since then three more decisions came out all against the objectors on the strings .Song; .YellowPages and .Cam The objection to .Song was brought by DotMusic Limited of Lemesos, Cyprus, which is owned by Mr. Constantine … [Read more...]
MP3.com Hits The Market With A 7 Figure Price & Supposedly Has A Bid
The domain name MP3.com appears to be on the market with an asking price into the seven figures according to a post hypebot.com. written by a Michael Robertson, founder of the original MP3.com. Here is what he had to say in this post which is pretty interesting: "I recently got a call from the owner of this iconic domain name asking if I was interested in buying the MP3.com domain name. … [Read more...]
WIPO Rejects 13th & 14th Legal Rights Objections To New gTLD’s on .GMBH & Another The 5th On .Home
WIPO today released two more Legal Rights Objections (LRO) decisions today and for the 13th and 14th time ruled against the Objector. Objectors are now 0-14 at WIPO on Legal Rights Objections A WIPO panel ruled against Defender Security Company for the new gTLD .home for the 5th time. Defender filed 9 LRO to the other applicants for .Home. In the other WIPO decision today TLDDOT GmbH, … [Read more...]