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.vip and .now Clear Objections
August 23, 2013 @ 1:34 AMThe latest batch of Legal Rights Objection results has seen two proposed new gTLDs — .vip and .now — emerge unscathed from the objections phase of the new gTLD program. There are six applications for .vip and one of the applicants, I-Registry, had filed LROs against its competitors. Starbucks (HK), a cable company rather than […]
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DomainNameSales.com Announces New Hybrid Domain Name Brokering Approach
August 22, 2013 @ 1:26 PMYou can handle your fresh leads and they’ll take your stale ones. A common complaint about domain name marketplaces is that your parked domain names are generated all of their leads. Why should you pay the marketplace when someone first expresses interest by clicking a link on your parked domain name? Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com announced […]
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Right Before Start of Regular Season, The NFL Gains Control of Almost 1k Bang On Domain Names
August 22, 2013 @ 11:26 AMWith the regular NFL season looking to kick off in just a couple of weeks the NFL gained control of just under 1,000 bang on domain names yesterday. The domain names were all transferred to the NFL’s brand protection company MarkMonitor.com…
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Napa Wine Association Letter to ICANN Makes It Clear They Should Have Applied for .napa/.wine Instead of Just Whining
August 22, 2013 @ 9:39 AMAfter reading the letter sent by Bruce Cakebread telling ICANN how the 500 members of the Napa Valley Vintners need protection from the new proposed gTLD’s of .Wine and .Vin, I walked away thinking that the wine producers of Napa simply missed their chance to apply for .Napa and/or .Wine and now just want to whine about it…
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String Confusions Gone Wild: Amazon IDN is Found Similar to Different Word in English
August 22, 2013 @ 6:36 AM“Online Shopping” in Japanese is too similar to .shop in English, panelist rules. Some new top level domain name string confusions objection decisions have been baffling. A difference in opinion on .cam vs. .com. Plurals vs. Singulars. But now string confusions have officially gone off the deep end. A panelist has found that Amazon.com’s application […]
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Apparently .sport and .sports are Also Confusingly Similar
August 22, 2013 @ 6:26 AMPanelist sides with SportAccord in objection against .sports. International Centre for Dispute Resolution has posted an updated list of string confusion objections, and there’s more trouble. SportAccord, an applicant for the .sport domain, has successfully objected to Donuts’ application for .Sports. SportAccord argued that “a significant degree of confusion would occur between any TLD string […]
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New Unrestricted Domain Extension .College Approved by ICANN
August 22, 2013 @ 6:21 AMOn Friday, August 16, 2013, the new domain extension .College had its initial evaluation approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. .College is an easily adaptable, unrestricted domain extension for academic institutions, education-related services, corporations and students who are seeking an online presence. As the first extension of its kind, .College opens the door to new opportunities and innovation online.
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Comscore: Yahoo Beats Google for 1st Time in Years Becoming Most Visited Websites
August 22, 2013 @ 6:17 AMAccording to comScore, for the first time in several years, Yahoo (YHOO), web properties were the most visited in the country in July. With 196.6 million visitors who Yahoo properties compared to 192.3 million who visited Google for the first time since May 2011…
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Looks Like a New Parking Company Just Launched & They are Spamming The Hell Out of Me: AceAds.com
August 22, 2013 @ 6:04 AMThere appears to be a new parking company in town and they are spamming the hell out of me. The emails started coming in a late yesterday and I’m already up to over 30 and counting. As I own around 75,000 domains I could have a really long way to go…
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California Wineries are a Bit Drunk Over .wine Top Level Domains
August 22, 2013 @ 5:39 AMTwo groups representing the same wineries take opposite views on .wine and .vin top level domains. When you’re around a cellar full of wine, it’s understandable that your judgment might get a bit cloudy. Does that explain the apparent contradiction between two different California wine groups and their view of geographic second level domains in […]
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