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 …
Read More ».London Launches April 29 – 200,000 London businesses likely to claim new .london web address
More than 200,000 small businesses in London say they are likely to register a new .london internet address when the domain names go on sale at the end of April. A YouGov survey of small …
Read More »Tucows 2013 Q4 Report: Hover grows 20%+ year-over-year
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names and other Internet services, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. All figures are in U.S. dollars. “In the …
Read More ».CLUB is Platinum Sponsor of DOMAINfest Hollywood; Launches Landrush at DOMAINfest Conference
DomainSponsor®, the online monetization business of Oversee.net® and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINFest® series of conferences, announced that .CLUB will be the Platinum Sponsor for DOMAINFest Hollywood, which will be held from March 31 …
Read More »ICANN signs Nominet to act as Emergency Back-End Registry Operator (EBERO) for new gTLDs
ICANN announced that Nominet recently signed an agreement to act as Emergency Back-End Registry Operator (EBERO) for new gTLDs. EBERO service providers offer an additional layer of protection to the Domain Name System (DNS). Should …
Read More »Brand owners unaware that the first New gTLDs have recently launched
Reed Smith, an international law firm, wrote an article on the upcoming explosion in the number of global top-level domains (“gTLDs”). They believe that the vast majority of the public, and even the majority of …
Read More »10,000 .photography domains registered in the first few hours of general availability
The real (no EAP) general availability started yesterday for 7 new gTLDs offered by Donuts: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography .photography is leading the 7 New gTLDs with 10475 domain name registrations including …
Read More »What .com domains get to benefit from the New gTLD traffic leakage? (poll)
Part 1 Let’s say a New gTLD domain name (Domainname.Newgtld) is registered, developed and becomes pretty popular. Which .com domain name(s) get to benefit from the traffic leakage? It helps if you have a certain …
Read More ».Vegas Domain Names Available Summer 2014
Owning a .Vegas digital address will soon be a reality for anyone in the world with the recent finalization of the contract between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Dot Vegas, …
Read More »Domains ibm.ventures and ibm.guru suspended in just 6 days after the URS complaint by IBM
The domain namess ibm.ventures and ibm.guru were suspended yesterday after the URS complaint by IBM. That is just 6 days after the URS complaint by IBM at the National Arbitration Forum on the 6th of …
Read More »10 more New gTLDs were delegated: .PRODUCTIONS, .VISION, .FOUNDATION, etc.
ICANN announced that on February 11th, 10 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 144 new gTLD strings. The 10 new gTLDs are: .CARDS, .FOUNDATION, .REVIEWS, .FUTBOL, .VISION, .CONDOS, .VILLAS, .PARTS, .PRODUCTIONS, .MAISON. …
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