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Sedo Gets Deal With Donuts for Sunrise and Premium Domains
November 19, 2013 @ 9:42 AMSedo gets a tasty customer for new top level domain name services. Sedo has nabbed a big client with Donuts signing on to use its services to resolve sunrise contention as well as sell some of its premium domain names. Donuts will use Sedo’s auction technology for cases in which more than one company submits…
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Trademark Holder of "Ovation Hair" Registered in 2012 Wins UDRP On Ovation.com Registered in 2008
November 19, 2013 @ 2:03 AMThe owner of a trademark on Ovation Hair, DC Labs Inc. was awarded the generic domain name Ovation.com by a one member panel although the term Ovation is a generic term and the trademark OVATION HAIR was not granted by the USPTO until 4 years after the domain name Ovation.com was acquired by the domain holder…
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13 Year Old Calibers.com Saved in UDRP But Panel Fails to Find RDNH Despite No Bad Faith, Legitimate Use & Generic Term
November 19, 2013 @ 12:23 AMCalibers National Shooters Sports Center, LC lost its claim to grab the domain name calibers.com, however the panel refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) despite the fact that they found the domain holder had legitimate interests in the disputed domain name and did not register and use the disputed domain name in bad faith…
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Namejet.com Pulls All 16 New gTLD Domain Names On Collision List Out of Auction
November 18, 2013 @ 10:20 PMAfter ICANN released the collision list today for all new gTLD strings, Namejet.com informed TheDomains.com that it has pulled all auction for new gTLD domain names that were on the collision list. NameJet.com in conjunction with the .XYZ and .College registry has been first out of the block to sell new gTLD domain names by auction certain new gTLD domain names off on its platform…
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TLDH Launches Priority Registration Service for New TLDs, Starting at €29.95
November 18, 2013 @ 1:43 PMService makes it easy to get first in line for some new TLDs, although premium pricing does apply. Top Level Domain Holdings has released a system for pre-registering new top level domain names, called Priority Registration. The service is enabled through the company’s Online Priority Enhanced Names database (“OPEN”) at the company’s own domain name…
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TLDH Reveals New gTLD Launch Strategy
November 18, 2013 @ 1:00 PMTop Level Domain Holdings will announce its go-to-market strategy — including .tv-style premium names pricing and its launch as a registrar — at an event at ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires this evening. The company, which is involved in 60 new gTLD applications as applicant and 75 as a back-end provider, is also revealing a…
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.wow Has More Collisions Than Any Other New gTLD
November 18, 2013 @ 12:19 PMAmazon, Google or Demand Media are going to have to block over 200,000 strings in .wow, which all three have applied for, due to the risk of name collisions. That’s tens of thousands of names greater than any other applied-for gTLD string. Here’s the top 20 gTLDs, ranked by the number of collisions: The average…
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.gay Objector Strikes Out
November 18, 2013 @ 12:18 PMILGA loses three community objections against .gay and one against .LGBT International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) has lost three community objections it brought against applicants for the .gay top level domain name. The objections were filed against Top Level Design, Top Level Domain Holdings, and United TLD (Demand Media). ILGA is…
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What The Yahoo! Auction Tells US About Getting PR for Domain Name Auctions
November 18, 2013 @ 9:10 AMIf you want press about a domain auction, you need a unique angle. Last week Sedo announced its latest online auction, and the press ate it up. The auction was covered by L.A. Times, Investors’ Business Daily, TechCrunch, CNET, MarketWatch, CNBC, Engadget, and on and on. Compare this to the typical auction Sedo and its…
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ICANN Blocks Almost 10 Million New gTLD Domains
November 18, 2013 @ 9:08 AMICANN has asked new gTLD registry operators to block a total of 9.8 million domain names, due to the perceived risk of damage from name collisions. To put it another way, Verisign has managed to take close to 10 million domain names off the market. ICANN today delivered second-level domain block-lists for 1,327 new gTLDs…
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