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Donuts, Uniregistry and Famous Four Respond to Icann’s New gTLD Security Bombshell
August 6, 2013 @ 11:43 AMFollowing the shock news this morning that ICANN wants to delay hundreds of new gTLD applications due to potential security risks, we pinged a few of the biggest applicants for their initial reactions. Donuts, Uniregistry and Famous Four Media, which combined are responsible for over a fifth of all applications, have all responded so far, […]
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After Sweeping It Under The Rug, Name Collisions Come Back to Haunt New TLD Program
August 6, 2013 @ 10:57 AMName collisions derail new top level domain name timeline. Everyone in the executive suite at Verisign must have been smiling this morning. That’s because ICANN dropped a bombshell, delaying a big portion of new top level domain names due to “name collisions”. It not only delays much of the program (as some have argued is […]
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New gTLDs are The New Y2k: .corp and .home are Doomed and Everything Else is Delayed
August 6, 2013 @ 3:34 AMThe proposed gTLDs .home and .corp create risks to the internet comparable to the Millennium Bug, which terrorized a burgeoning internet at the turn of the century, and should be rejected. Meanwhile, every other gTLD that has been applied for in the current round could be delayed by months in order to mitigate the risks […]
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Dotless Domains “Dangerous”, Security Study Says
August 6, 2013 @ 12:48 AMAn independent security study has given ICANN a couple dozen very good reasons to continue outlaw “dotless” domain names, but stopped short of recommending an outright ban. The study, conducted by boutique security outfit Carve Systems and published by ICANN this morning, confirms that dotless domains — as it sounds, a single TLD label with […]
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Uniregistry Not Happy About Donuts
August 5, 2013 @ 3:08 PMUniregistry would never have withdrawn its applications for .media and .marketing if it had known that Tucows would later take money from Donuts to also withdraw, according to CEO Frank Schilling. Schilling told DI tonight that Uniregistry had pulled out of both new gTLD contention sets after having made a deal with Tucows, the details […]
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Donuts Says Tucows Deal “Just Another Type of Private Auction”
August 5, 2013 @ 12:22 PMDonuts has confirmed that it paid Tucows for the rights to the .media and .marketing new gTLDs, but says it was actually “just another type of private auction”. The existence of a deal for the two strings emerged in a tongue-in-cheek Tucows video on Friday. I blogged over the weekend that it was the first […]
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SM.net UDRP Claims Domain Couldn’t Be Related to Porn
August 5, 2013 @ 10:07 AMA rather curious argument in a UDRP for SM.net. Spanish education publishing company Fundación Santa María-Ediciones SM has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of SM.net. Although the company’s trademarks include the term “SM”, it only makes up part of its marks. Thus, the panel ruled that the domain name was not confusingly […]
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Now.com Owner Starbucks (HK) Limited Loses Dispute Over .now
August 5, 2013 @ 9:48 AMCompany that owns now.com loses the first of many objections it filed over the .now top level domain. IPTV company Starbucks (HK) Limited has lost its legal rights objection against One.com A/S’ application for the .now top level domain name. Starbucks, which is not affiliated with the coffee chain, owns the second level domain name […]
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Walmart, Sony, Cbs, Microsoft, Google, Disney Still Allowing Trademark Drop Domains to Be Grabbed By Others
August 5, 2013 @ 8:59 AMAs we have chatted about before, some of the biggest companies in the world which are quick to file a UDRP with filing fees at $1,500 a pop are allowing dropping domains to be registered by third parties rather than spending $10 to register the domains themselves…
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Veterinarians.com Sold As Felix Upgrades Its Domain LocalVets.com
August 5, 2013 @ 6:52 AMIt appears the domain name Veterinarians.com has been sold to Felix, a leading local advertising company, which announced today that is has launched Veterinarians.com as “the directory of choice for connecting consumers with veterinary hospitals to schedule an appointment”…
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