NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, or ‘the Group’), the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, has acquired the right to operate the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .trust from Deutsche Post, for an undisclosed …
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Pharmaceutical companies filing a lot of UDRP complaints
I was going through UDRP complaint fillings and noticed that a lot of pharmaceutical companies are quite active in filing complaints lately. There was always a company that was going stronger at one time or …
Read More »Swiss domain names .ch to be registered via a registrar (and not the SWITCH registry)
The public consultation on the new Ordinance on Internet Domains (OID) runs from 12th February 2014 to 17th April 2014. The Ordinance stipulates, among other things, that end customers will no longer be able to …
Read More »Afternic adds support for first 14 New TLDs
This week Afternic added support for the first 14 New TLDs, including .GURU, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GALLERY, .HOLDINGS, .BIKE, and .SINGLES. Afternic customers can now buy and sell domains with these extensions on the one of …
Read More »Go Daddy just registered 2 trademark New gTLD domain names in my account
Go Daddy just registered 2 trademark domain names in my name it found in my account shopping cart. I repeat: I didn’t buy these 2 domains. Go Daddy bought them and charged my credit card …
Read More »Sedo sells 793 domains worth $1.7 million: nxt.org 10,000 Euro, Lottery.gr 9,800 Euro (Feb 3 to Feb 9)
In the past week (Feb 3 to Feb 9), 793 (728 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 million ($1.1 last week). Only 264 (260 last week) domains from …
Read More »30.5% of TLDs are business websites – 27.8% a holding page – 0.9% pornography
EURid, the .eu registry, made a report called “Website usage trends among top-level domains 2014″. 37.8% of .eu websites are used for business purposes, compared with an average of 30.5% of websites under gTLDs like …
Read More »IAB.com sold for $75,000 (to Google and Yahoo) and donated to the Interactive Advertising Bureau
The domain name IAB.com was donated to the Interactive Advertising Bureau that was using iab.net as it’s official website up until now. Leading digital advertising and technology companies BrightRoll, Collective, Google, MediaMath, Rubicon Project, sovrn …
Read More »Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: Radiant.org $23,000, Spiritual.guru $2,107 (2-3-14 to 2-9-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 2-3-14 to 2-9-14 were $1.965.670. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …
Read More »Afternic alienating international sellers with new payment policy
I got an email today from Afternic about some changes in payment policies. Afternic domain sales earnings can be paid via international wire, check, Paypal or direct deposit. Afternic’s domain sales minimum payout for international …
Read More »Apple is going after misspellings of Apple.com with UDRP
Apple is going after misspellings of its official website Apple.com using UDRP complaints. Apple, Inc filed 2 UDRP complaints for the domain names appke.com (k is next l in qwerty keyboards) and applw.com (w is …
Read More »Deals.xyz auction ends at $8,100 at Namejet but no one has to pay – #bullshit
An auction for the domain Deals.xyz that has been running for god knows how many months ended today and it ended at $8,100. Conveniently no one has to pay for the domain because these were …
Read More »Sunrise registration results for .technology, .construction,etc(Johnson&Johnson buys 81 .technology domains)
I checked out the zone files from 7 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and went into general availability yesterday (Early Access Program (EAP)) and here are the results. I must say that zone files only …
Read More ».Build Registry Using Questionable Swiss Trademark Registration To Grab “Build” Domains In Sunrise
Plan Bee, LLC, the .build registry, is using a valid, but probably based on fake evidence or no evidence at all, trademark from Switzerland to register domain names in the New gTLD sunrise phase. Plan …
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