Nokia Corporation has put one of its domain names up for sale on SnapNames.com. The domain name Plum.com is the Moniker Premium Spring Auction that just started a few days ago with a reserve range of $100,000-$250,000. Its been along discussed topic in the domain community to what extent end users are involved in insider domain auctions and at least in this case, they are a seller. It … [Read more...]
MiTek USA, Inc Withdraws All 4 Of Its New gTLD Applications Making it 43 Withdrawn Apps
MiTek USA, Inc. has withdrawn all four of its new gTLD applications. The withdrawn is now reflected in ICANN's website. The four new gTLD's applications were for .MII, .Connectors, .MITEK and .SAPPHIRE. .Mii faced rejection as being too close to .Mil, the domain name extension for the US military. MiTek was the only applicant for any of the 4 withdrawn new gTLD's The four withdrawn … [Read more...]
Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses 21 Facebook Domains In One UDRP
Mike Mann's Domain Asset Holdings of Potomac, Maryland just lost a UDRP to Facebook, Inc on 21 domain names which it didn't even respond to The domain at issue … [Read more...]
Google Acquires YT.Be To Use As YouTube Shorterner
According to Thenextweb.com, Google has acquired the domain name YT.be, which it started forwarding to its goo.gl URL shortening service today. "Presumably, Google will use the domain name for shortened links to YouTube videos. " "Today, the company uses another .be domain name to do that, namely youtu.be, as you can tell from this totally randomly selected tweet: I have it on good … [Read more...]
CADNA Wants ACPA Amended To Increase Penalties & Cover PPC Providers & Parking Companies
The Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) issued a paper last night calling for lawmaker to increase the penalties for Cybersquatters and to expand the parties that are held responsible for cybersquatting, not only the domain holder, but basically everyone in the monetization food chain, which would including parking and PPC companies presumable the upstream providers including Google by … [Read more...]
The GAC Puts The Brakes on Hundreds of New gTLD Applications Including Closed Generics
The GAC issued Its Advice from the ICANN meeting in Beijing and its a long one. The very long list effecting hundreds of applications which is going to push back the program for some time and may shut the door on all closed generic applications unless the company can show issuing the close generic to one company is in the "public good". We long ago said at TheDomains.com that closed … [Read more...]
-New gTLD Trademark Clearing House By The Numbers: 323 TM Holders, 450 TM: $15K To Be An AgentAdd it to my favorites
There are some interesting numbers coming out of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Session at the ICANN meeting today To date there are 71 active trademark agents in TMCH To dare there are 323 trademark holders that have successfully created an account with the Trademark Clearinghouse. "There are about 140 trademark accounts that are in the pipeline, meaning they are -- either they … [Read more...]