IBM filed a URS complaint at the National Arbitration Forum on the 6th of February for 2 domain names: ibm.ventures ibm.guru This was the first URS complaint filled for any New gTLD domain name. Through …
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ICM Registry Raises Prices On Premium Reserved .XXX Domain Names
ICM Registry, the .xxx registry, has revised prices on 238 .xxx domain names at its reserved/premium domain name list. Most of the domains (229) got a large increase in price and only 8 domains were …
Read More »And the big winner of the first New gTLDs is: ‘Guru.com’
Guru.com, a freelance marketplace, is the big winner from the first New gTLDs roll out in the past couple of weeks that included the .guru New gTLD. Up until now .guru is by far the …
Read More »European Commission on Internet Governance: more transparent, accountable and inclusive governance proposed
European Commission Commission to pursue role as honest broker in future global negotiations on Internet Governance The European Commission has published its waited for Communication on Internet Governance. In the wake of large-scale Internet surveillance …
Read More »Sedo and .CLUB Winter Sports Auction on February 19: Skate.club, Skiing.club, IceHockey.club
Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, and .CLUB Domains have partnered to offer a Winter Sports Auction of never before released .CLUB domain names. Taking place February 19-26, this auction will include …
Read More »Registrars are required to investigate reports of abuse under the 2013 RAA
I am having an argument with Go Daddy about this so called blog DigiInno (.com) that steals all the posts from domaining.com. I know that this domain is not hosted with Go Daddy but they …
Read More »First Ever UDRP Complaint Filed For a New gTLD Domain Name: Canyon.Bike
The first ever UDRP complaint for a New gTLD domain name was filed today, February 11th, at WIPO. The UDRP complaint with WIPO Case Number D2014-0206 was filed by Canyon Bicycles GmbH, a German bicycle …
Read More »ICANN opens comment period on review mechanism for String Confusion objections for .CAR/.CARS and .CAM/.COM
ICANN opened a comment period today, 11 February 2014, and until 11 March 2014 to solicit community input regarding a proposed review mechanism to address perceived inconsistent Expert Determinations in the String Confusion Objection process …
Read More »New gTLD domain sold for $12,500 – 12 domains sold for $3,000 each (+ 32 domains sold for $1,000+)
Last week 7 new gTLD domain names sold for $12,539,99 a piece in the first few hours and then something remarkable happened. The domain name cree.lighting was registered for $12,500 at Name.com. What was remarkable …
Read More »Bicycle Company Upgrades From AspireVeloTech.com To AVT.bike
AspireVeloTech, known as the world’s largest dealer of Chris King bicycle components, bought one of the very first top level domains (TLD’s) that became available on February 5th. The company bought AVT.bike when general availability …
Read More »Donuts 14 New gTLDs surpass 50000 domain name registrations – .GURU has more than 50%
The number of domain name registrations from the 14 first Donuts New gTLDs surpassed 50000 yesterday. The zone file domain name total is actually 49980 but zone files don’t include domain names without nameservers so …
Read More »ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé Visits Beijing China to Meet With Chinese Internet Industry Leaders
ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé has arrived in Beijing for several days of meetings with leaders of China’s Internet and telecommunications community. Chehadé will confer with several Chinese government agencies and representatives …
Read More »Roland Garros (Fédération Française de Tennis) going after many domains in UDRP
Fédération Française de Tennis that runs the Roland Garros Grand Slam tennis tournament is going after a lot of domain names lately using the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). The official Roland Garros website is …
Read More »Malls.com Domain Name Sold For $320,000 USD at Sedo by Michael Berkens
Sedo.com, announced today in their domain name sales feed that the domain name Malls.com was sold for $320,000. The domain name was sold by Michael Berkens‘s company Worldwide Media, Inc.. The domain name Malls.com was originally …
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