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Today’s New gTLD Withdrawals: .play and .design
June 4, 2013 @ 4:37 PMTwo new gTLD applications have been withdrawn today: Directi’s .play and Starting Dot’s .design. They’re the second application to be withdrawn by Directi after .movie, which it pulled last month for undisclosed reasons, and the first of Starting Dot’s five bids to die. Starting Dot said that it has bowed out of the .design fight […]
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New gTLD Program Posts 100 New Initial Evaluation Results: 81 Applications Get a Pass (Total is 514)
June 4, 2013 @ 10:45 AMThe next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applications is now 514 (was 433 last week). …
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Name Administration Wins Another UDRP Case
June 4, 2013 @ 6:14 AMNo one has ultimately prevailed after filing a UDRP against Name Administration. Before you filed a UDRP, you’d think you’d google the domain name’s owner to learn more. Yet time after time I see people file long shot UDRP complaints against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Today’s winner is the company that filed against Klipz.com. Since […]
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Wholesale Prices in 2019: .info at $14.42 and .biz at $15.25 While .com Remains at $7.85
June 4, 2013 @ 3:47 AMICANN posted for public comment the proposed renewal agreements of the .INFO and .BIZ Registries. The new contracts will have a 6 year duration spanning up to 2019. Afilias Limited, the .info registry, and Neustar, the .biz registry, as per …
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ICANN Posts for Public Comment The Proposed Renewal Agreements of The .info and .biz Registries
June 4, 2013 @ 1:12 AMICANN posted today for public comment the proposed agreements for renewal of the Registry Agreement for .INFO and for .BIZ. This proposals are a result of discussions between ICANN/Afilias Limited and ICANN/Neustar, Inc. respectively. After review of the public comments received, the …
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Telepathy Fends Off Valio’s Attack On Lgg.com
June 3, 2013 @ 10:50 PMCompany tries to make claim to LGG.com 15 years after it’s registered. Telepathy, the domain name company run by domain investor Nat Cohen, has successfully defended his domain name LGG.com in a UDRP. The complaint was brought by Valio Ltd, a Finnish dairy company and was filed with Czech Arbitration Court. If you’re not familiar […]
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Huge registrar shake-up coming to .biz and .info
June 3, 2013 @ 10:05 PMAfilias and Neustar will be soon able to sell .biz and .info domains direct, and may have to shut down registrars that refuse to sign up to the new 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement. Those are two of the biggest changes proposed to the companies’ ICANN contracts, drafts of which were published this morning six months […]
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CrowdFunding.com Sells for “About” $170,000
June 3, 2013 @ 3:25 PMAccording to AllThingsD.com the domain name CrowdFunding.com has been sold for “about” $170,000. The buyer of the domain name is GoFundMe.com which bought the domain but doesn’t plan on changing the name of its site. According to the article on AllThingsD.com, GoFundMe.com has raised $75 million dollars for personal fundraising campaigns…
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Marchex co-founder John Keister resigns from board
June 3, 2013 @ 6:47 AMKeister has held a number of executive positions with the company. John Keister, a founder of Marchex, resigned his board position today. Keister was executive vice chairman since May 2010 and was a member of Marchex’ board of directors since its inception in January 2003. He also served in a number of executive positions for […]
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Uncontested .catalonia Drops Out of gTLD Race
June 3, 2013 @ 6:19 AMThe regional Government of Catalonia has withdrawn its application for .catalonia. This is a bit of a weird one. The application was designated officially “geographic”, but also presented as a single-registrant “dot-brand”, exclusively for the government’s use in promoting tourism. It wasn’t contested, had no objections and was not covered by Governmental Advisory Committee advice. […]
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