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Tucows Takes Over As Cheapies Loses Accreditation
November 8, 2013 @ 4:01 AMICANN has terminated the registrar Cheapies.com and is to transfer its registrations to Tucows. Cheapies had fewer than 12,000 gTLD domains under management judging by the last available registry reports. The registrar was terminated two weeks ago, having previously having its accreditation suspended for 90 days, for various violations of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement mainly…
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GoDaddy Begins Accepting Pre-registrations for New TLDs for Up to $1,200 Each
November 7, 2013 @ 11:04 PMPre-registrations now accepted for fees of up to $1,200 per domain. Overnight GoDaddy started accepting paid pre-registrations for four new top level domain names: .uno, .menu, .build, .luxury. While many registrars have offered some sort of pre-reservation or pre-registration service that did not require any firm commitment by the customer, GoDaddy is the first major…
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Domain Parking Clawback Dings Demand Media Earnings, Plus First Look at Rightside Numbers
November 7, 2013 @ 5:44 PMCompany hit with parking clawback from a previous quarter. Ask any domain parking company about their top frustrations, and clawbacks will be high on the list. Basically, their upstream ad partner will clawback previously paid revenue based on traffic quality. This often happens after the parking customer has paid its partner. These clawbacks can apparently…
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ICANN: No New gTLDs Last Resort Auctions Until Early March 2014
November 7, 2013 @ 3:36 PMIn a webinar held by ICANN today on its Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings in contention, ICANN stated that no new gTLD ICANN last resort auction will be held in 2013 and most likely not until March 2014. Moreover the ICANN schedule is 10-20 auctions per month, with no applicant being able to participate in more than 5 auctions per month. So a company like Donuts which has over 100 applications in contention, based on the current time frame could be looking at a couple of years to settle all of its strings in contention from March 2014 which is 4 months away and based on the assumption that there will be no further delays and everything will run on projected time…
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Demand Reports: Media Business Negatively Impacted By Declines in Search Referral Traffic & Advertising Demand
November 7, 2013 @ 1:42 PMDemand Media, Inc. (DMD), reported its earnings after the market closed today. Demand’s earnings were in line with estimates, but revenue was above estimates. However it seems like Demand is fighting a losing battle on the eHow front as changes in Google search algorithm is negatively effecting that part of the business…
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Independent Objector Loses Case for .health
November 7, 2013 @ 12:25 PMAfilias successfully defends limited public interest objection against .health. There were a couple firsts in the new top level domain name program today, all involving one objection. An objection against .health was the first limited public interest objection to be decided, and also the first objection filed by the independent objector to meet its fate…
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Owner of CarCovers.com Claims They Bought The Domain for Over $310,000 in 2012
November 7, 2013 @ 10:42 AMAccording to a press release out today the owners of CarCovers.com claim they paid an amount for the domain name in 2012 which would have placed it the top 10 most expensive domain names in 2012. According to DnJournal.com for 2012 the 11th most expensive domain reported that year was 60.com which was $310,000…
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Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Queensland, Australia, Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH)
November 7, 2013 @ 9:19 AMCairns Airport Pty Ltd of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, represented by McCullough Robertson Lawyers, Australia has been found GUILTY of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on two domain names owned by two different owners: cairnsairportparking.com.au (first domain name) and airportparkingcairns.net.au (second domain name)…
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KK.com Sells for $2.4 Million Dollars in a Deal Brokered By Moniker.com/Snapnames
November 7, 2013 @ 8:30 AMThe domain name KK.com just sold for $2.4 Million Dollars. brokered by Moniker.com /Snapnames.com. The news was posted on the company’s Facebook pages…
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The Curious Case of .pets
November 7, 2013 @ 7:36 AMICDR posted two different panelist documents for the same exact top level domain string confusion objection. I’ve had a lot to gripe about the online systems for International Centre for Dispute Resolution when it comes to string confusion objections. One of those gripes was that the decision in Afilias vs. Donuts over .pets suddenly disappeared…
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