Since the city of New York let everyone know yesterday, that their application for .NYC passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE), which actually occurred on May 24th, 75 media outlets from the BBC to PC Magazine, to Time Magazine, Cnet, to FastCompany.com to Mashable.com, to the WashingtonPost.com, have covered the story with more being added hourly. We have been telling you for quite a while … [Read more...]
123-Reg UK Largest Registrar Becomes Premier SME Partner of Google AdWords In UK
According to a press release we received this morning, 123-reg, the UK’s largest accredited domain registrar, has today announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Google to become a Premier SME Partner (PSP) of Google’s AdWordsTM advertising programme in the UK. "As a PSP, 123-reg will gain access to Google’s training and support, to provide an end-to-end AdWords account … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.1M In Domains Led By imf.com For $27K
Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 6/22/13 – 6/30/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,131,989. The highest sale was imf.com which sold for $27,000, followed by ufun.com for $24,500. Here is the full list of reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
Trademark holder Since 1997 Loses UDRP To Domain “Registered on August 23, 2013”
In a decision sure to drive the trademark groups crazy, a one member UDRP panel reject the trademark holders claim to the domain name Segis.com The panel held for the domain holder, despite the complainant having bang on trademark registrations going back as far as 2007. The panel says the Respondent is a college graduate in Republic of Korea and that the disputed domain name was created on … [Read more...]
LaunchRock Switches From .Com to .Co
LauchRock.co which bills itself as "A Platform For New Startups" has switched its main URL from LaunchRock.com to LaunchRock.co effective July 1, 2013. In a email sent to users, LaunchRock.com announced the change: """ From: LaunchRock <hello@launchrock.com> Date: 2013/7/1 Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: Keep your LaunchRock account from being retired Hello … [Read more...]
4 more New gTLD Apps Withdrawn Including Dish Networks Application For .Movie
Four more New gTLD applications have been withdrawn today on ICANN website. All four were either brand or closed generic applications. Dish Network dropped its closed application for the new gTLD .Movie Dish was to operate .movie "gTLD as a restricted, exclusively-controlled TLD and as such, will not be commercially offered for registration by the general public." Afterdot LLC … [Read more...]
Decision Is Published: Nintendo Loses UDRP on 10 Year Old Wiiu.com
The UDRP decision on the domain name Wiiu.com has been published by WIPO. It appears the three member panel was very close to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) had the domain not been owned under privacy. The domain holder was represented by Steven Rinehart of Salt Lake City After all Nintendo didn't file its trademark for Wii until two years after the domain name was registered … [Read more...]