According to the .Co Registry, effective immediately, the .CO Registry has listed approximately 1,100, two-character premium .CO domain names for sale on GoDaddy. The two-character domain names are available through GoDaddy’s Aftermarket and will be available soon on the GoDaddy domain availability check, making these premium digital assets widely available to GoDaddy’s customer base of SMBs … [Read more...]
ICANN: Trademark Clearing House Update
ICANN during its Webinar today gave some updated data on the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Today 636 trademark holders have filed marks with the TMCH. A total of 3,027 trademark records have been filed of which 1,380 have been verified. There are another 1,132 in the process of being verified. 503 have been determined by the TMCH to have been submitted incorrectly and 12 have been … [Read more...]
1st New gTLD’s Could Be Delegated As Soon As Aug 28th w/ Sunrise Ending Oct 27th
As part of its Webinar today ICANN laid out a "best case scenario" for when the first new gTLD's might roll out. According to a time line laid out by ICANN the first new gTLD could be delegated to the root by as early as August 28, 2013 in which event the Sunrise notice for trademark and other rights holders for the new gTLD could start the following day August 29th. Based on that time line … [Read more...]
ICANN New gTLD Contention Auctions To Start In October
During a Webinar today, ICANN announced it is intending to hold the first round of the ICANN Last Resort auction starting in October for those Contention sets which DO NOT include community applications. Auctions are also not expected for strings that have outstanding objections in the first group of strings. Under the ICANN Guidebook, Last resort auctions are to be held in groups at set … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers Twitch.Tv Which Gets 35 Million Viewers a Month
TechCrunch.com covered the "E-sports streaming startup Twitch.TV this morning. The site according to TechCrunch "has already seen massive growth in its audience since launching to the public just about two years ago and gets "more than 35 million unique viewers a month, up from 20 million last September." In addition to its 35 million unique viewers, the startup also has more than 600,000 … [Read more...]
indura.com Acquired In a NameJet Auction Saved in UDRP
Jakri ApS of Vildbjerg, Denmark just lost a UDRP decision on the domain name indura.com which was owned by Sanela Jankovic of Copenhagen who represented himself in the proceeding. The domain was acquired through a NameJet.com auction in just February of this year. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel" The Complainant is part of the Indura group of companies, … [Read more...]
Gucci Wins UDRP on 165 Domain Names
Gucci this morning Won a UDRP seeking 165 domain names which all contain the famous trademark. The complaint was filed by the formal name of the company that owns the trademark to the Gucci brand, Guccio Gucci S.p.A. Many of these domains make no sense and its hard to believe that they would even get enough traffic to cover registration fees. Domain names like guccihomeequity.com or … [Read more...]