Domain Name News

Barack Obama’s “Organizing For Action” filed for a trademark at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The trademark for the mark “ORGANIZING FOR ACTION” was filed on 7th of February 2013 and relates to 5 …

General Motors LLC withdrew it’s application for the .GMC new gTLD string. This makes it the 2st new gTLD with assigned prioritization number and the 15th string in total to withdraw. The string received a Prioritization …

The Domain Pulse Conference started today in Davos, Switzerland. Domain Pulse claims to be the the most important event in the German-speaking world when it comes to current topics, tendencies and trends associated with domains. …

The Community TLD Applicant Group (CTAG), an informal group composed of 33 community TLD applicants representing 40 community TLD applications (see list of members below) send a letter to ICANN asking ICANN for a clearer …

The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) send a letter of support for the .bio gTLD to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The membership based organization, created in 1972, has …

Yesterday, 14 February 2013, ICANN selected the members of the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG). On 13 December 2012, Fadi Chehadé, ICANN‘s President and CEO, announced the creation of an Expert Working …

Sedo announced the brokered sale of the domain name Partners.com for $125,000 USD. The domain was first registered in 1993. The seller is Domain Capital that bought the domain name in 2006 for $130,000 in …

The UDRP complaint for the domain name Kanal.com was denied at the National Arbitration Forum. Respondent from France denied having targeted Complainant or its mark when he registered the domain name. Complainant did not even …

Federation Francaise de Tennis (FFT) filed a UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Federation Francaise de Tennis organizes tennis competitions in France, most notably the French Open or as it is most …

Sedo just sold Johaug.com for 8,000 EUR, GoPoker.com for 7,800 USD and XForex.it for 10,020 EUR. Here are a few details on each of these sales. Johaug.com 8,000 EUR Johaug is Norwegian last name. The …

Google filed a UDRP complaint at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). The complaint was filed for 21 domain names, all relating to Google Maps: googelmap.com googelmaps.com google-map.com google-maps.com googlemaps.net googlemapsl.com googlemeps.com goooglemaps.com map-google.com mapgoogel.com mapgoole.com …

Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names and other Internet services, today, February 13, 2013, reported its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. The company achieved an …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. So far 51 domain names have been removed from this list and have been sold or a sale is …

ICANN will launch a new “Meeting Strategy Working Group” since ICANN has committed to identifying meeting locations two years in advance. After consideration that adoption of a prior Consolidated Meetings Strategy proposal was not timely, …