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The First 7-Figure Sale Reported This Year is in the Books - $2.1 Million Domain Goes to Chinese Buyer
July 9, 2013 @ 2:50 AMSeven-figure domain sales have been few and far between in recent years. Only two were reported all of last year and none had been reported this year – until this post. We have learned that an unnamed Chinese company, working through a New York based representative, has purchased the domain 114.com for a whopping $2.1 million in cash (plus an $18,690 escrow fee) in a private transaction. The deal went through Escrow.com and a party to the sale gave Escrow.com permission to confirm the price that was reported to us.
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World Congress Plans 2nd Annual gTLD Summit
July 8, 2013 @ 9:16 AMNew TLD event to focus on legal aspects of new top level domain names. Conference organizer World Congress is planning its 2nd Annual Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Names Summit for this September. The one day event will take place September 25 at the Affinia in New York City. It is targeted to intellectual property professionals […]
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United Press International Sues After Losing UDRP
July 8, 2013 @ 8:06 AMCompany that lost UDRP in May files cybersquatting lawsuit. United Press International, commonly known simply as UPI, has filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) for the domain names UPIPhoto.com and UPIPhoto.org. The company lost a UDRP for upiphoto.com in May. A World Intellectual Property Organization ruled that the registrant of the domain, which goes […]
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Tesco Goes After Domain Hack Tes.co – and There’s More to Come.
July 8, 2013 @ 6:37 AMHere’s an example of a type of complaint we’ll see more often going forward. Traditionally, UDRP panels don’t consider the top level domain as part of what makes a domain name similar to a mark in which the complainant has rights. We can expect this to change as new top level domain names come online. […]
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.la Gets Godaddy’s Marketing Power to Help Brand Domain for Los Angeles
July 8, 2013 @ 6:22 AM.LA to get another push as the domain for Los Angeles. GoDaddy announced this morning that it has teamed up with DOT LA Marketing Company and CentralNic to help push the ccTLD .la as a domain name for Los Angeles. The domain name registrar is offering annual .la domain name registrations for $39.99 and will […]
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Africa to Get Own Domain Name By Year-end
July 8, 2013 @ 5:47 AMA long-standing project to establish a continental top-level domain (TLD) for Africa was expected to culminate in the launch of .africa by the end of this year. The impending launch of the ‘created for Africans by Africans’ domain initiative marked the continent’s strides in growth and development, said Werksmans Attorneys director and intellectual property practice member Donvay Wegierski.
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2013 RAA is Illegal, Says EU Privacy Watchdog
July 8, 2013 @ 4:13 AMEuropean privacy regulators have slammed the new 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement, saying it would be illegal for registrars based in the EU to comply with it. The Article 29 Working Party, which comprises privacy regulators from the 27 European Union nations, had harsh words for the part of the contract that requires registrars to store […]
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Geo gTLD Bidders Propose New Constituency
July 8, 2013 @ 1:09 AMApplicants for geographic gTLDs voted unanimously to form a new ICANN constituency last week. According to minutes of a meeting hosted by .london applicant London & Partners in London last Thursday, 20 applicants voted in favor of a constituency and nobody voted for the alternatives. Not every geo was in attendance, however. Twenty votes represents […]
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Demand Media Withdraws .bar Application
July 8, 2013 @ 12:57 AMDemand Media has withdrawn is application for the .bar new gTLD. It’s the first of the company’s applications, filed via its United TLD subsidiary, to be withdrawn. It was in a contention set with only one other applicant, a Mexican venture by the catchy name of Punto 2012 Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable, which has […]
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Google’s .app Draws Fire From The Association for Competitive Technology
July 6, 2013 @ 6:29 AMGoogle’s new gTLD application to operate the .APP new gTLD come under fire yesterday by the The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT)…
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