This is a guest Post by Bill Sweetman who is General Manager of YummyNames, a service from Tucows.com, a top 5 domain name registrar, that allows marketers, entrepreneurs, and startups to buy premium domain names for their business. Bill is also a member of the ICA Board: ""The domain investing industry, as wonderful and exciting as it is, is pretty small compared to other industries … [Read more...]
66 More Objections To New gTLD: .Shop, .Search, .Book, .Music, .Cloud ++
66 More Community Objection to New gTLD applications have hit the official site of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Objectors include Ralph Lauren which objected to .polo; TD Ameritrade which objected to .MutualFunds, .IRA, .Broker and .Retirement; American Association of Independent Music which objected to .Band, .Song, .Tunes and .Music; the Universal Postal Union which objected to … [Read more...]
39 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evaluation As ICANN Gets Through The IDN’s
39 more new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and more importantly ICANN has now gotten through all the IDN applications, meaning that next week non-IDN domain names for the first time will pass initial Evaluation. All applications through the priority number of 108 have now gone through IE (but not all have passed yet) meaning next week we will see the first non-IDN new gTLD … [Read more...]
Afternic Opens Up Its Escrow Service To All Domain Transactions
Afternic Escrow Service has just opened up its service for sales that take place out outside of Afternic.com For transactions taking place outside the Platform the fee is 3% of the transaction with a $60 minimum. "" Afternic Escrow Service is available for any domain transaction, and it’s free for any domain purchased through the Afternic platform.* Our experienced escrow managers … [Read more...]
Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics Files UDRP On Beats.co Against Innovation HQ
Beats Electronics, Inc. best know for the Dr. Dre Beats Headphone products known as Beats By Dre just filed a UDRP on the domain name Beats.com The company official website is beatsbydre.com The domain name, Beats.co is owned by Innovation HQ, Inc. and goes to a parked page with music related links but noting directly related to headphones of Dr. Dre's products. Interestingly the domain … [Read more...]
26 More Community/Limited Public Interest Objections on New gTLD Filed With ICC
There are now a total of 54 community & and limited public interest objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) , which is 26 more objections filed since last reported. While most of the 1st 28 objections were filed by the Independent Objector appointed by ICANN, this group which includes objections to .lotto, .basketball, .game, .gold, .insure and .insurance to name a … [Read more...]
Ticket-Network.com UDRP Rejected A Week After TicketNetworks.com Lost In UDRP
Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just lost a UDRP on the domain name ticket-network.com a week after another UDRP panel ordered the domain name TicketNetworks.com transferred to the same company Here the domain holder didn't even respond. The difference in the TicketNetworks.com case the domain was registered in 2010 well after the Trademark. Here the domain was … [Read more...]