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6 New gTLDs Applications Withdrawn for .online (Namecheap), .mail (Afilias), .movie, .tld, .inc (Total at 63)
May 14, 2013 @ 10:03 PMThis past week 6 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 6 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 63. Following the .ONLINE new gTLD alliance …
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Icann Tax Return: Ends With $440 Million in Cash & Securities
May 14, 2013 @ 9:36 AMICANN has published it’s Federal tax return form 990 for the tax year ending on June 30, 2012 all 68 pages of it. According to the filing, ICANN ended its fiscal year with $466 Million in Assets and $388 Million in Liabilities therefore showing a net asset balance of over $83 Million up $3 Million from the year before….
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United Press UDRP for UPIphoto.com Denied Based On Laches
May 14, 2013 @ 7:01 AMUnited Press International, Inc. attempt to grab the domain name upiphoto.com from the United Photographers Internationals of Greece was just denied by a one member UDRP panel to which the domain holder didn’t even respond. It seems the panel on its own found the domain name which has been used by the domain holder to sell photos since 2008 was barred by the doctrine of Laches.
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Marchex & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP Challenge On WebAnywhere.com
May 14, 2013 @ 5:09 AMMarchex Sales, LLC (“Respondent”), represented by John Berryhill just beat back a UDRP on the domain name WebAnywhere.com that was brought by Webanywhere Ltd of the UK. At the end of the day this was a slam dunk case decided by a three member panel with the only remaining question is why the panel didn’t find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking.
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Now We Know Why Levi’s Registered Stadium Names As It Inks Deal With 49ers’ Stadium
May 14, 2013 @ 3:21 AMCompany registered domains for new stadium in April. Back in March Domain Name Wire’s crystal ball picked up on Levi Strauss’ plans to buy naming rights to a stadium. But which stadium? Domain Name Wire’s crystal ball couldn’t figure that out, but reader Page Howe did. Howe suggested that the San Francisco company would buy […]
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.lu (Luxembourg) Domain Names Subject to a 1 Year Freeze Upon Complaint
May 14, 2013 @ 2:20 AMAccording to Lexology.com, starting on June 11, 2013, the .Lu registry will “freeze” a .lu domain name, preventing it from being transferred, sold or traded to another party for an initial period of 1 year upon receipt of a dispute from a party claiming to have rights to the domain. Lu is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Luxembourg.
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According to Estibot.com Traffic Auction List is Valued at $1,850,000
May 14, 2013 @ 12:25 AMToday the organizers of TRAFFIC released the list of domain names to be auctioned off during the TRAFFIC Vegas conference which is being held from May 28th-June 1 at the Bellagio Hotel. The auction will be held on May 30th from 2PM-4PM Local time, in Las Vegas.
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Sedo’s Q1 2013 Report: Parked Domains Up 8%, Parking Revenue Down 14.1%, Domains at Sedo Up 11.4%
May 13, 2013 @ 11:08 PMSedo Holding AG published its first quarter 2013 report today that reveals that overall revenue is up by 7.3% but parking revenue is down 14.1%. The number of domains tradable on the platform rose to 16.6 million as of March …
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Radix Withdraws New gTLD Application for .movie
May 13, 2013 @ 3:15 PMRadix which had applied for 31 new gTLD’s has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Movie. Radix application for .Movie had a prioritization number of 592.
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Angry Birds Maker Files Its First UDRP
May 13, 2013 @ 6:13 AMCompany goes after site selling Angry Birds merchandise. Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the wildly popular Angry Birds franchise, has filed its first ever domain dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The company is targeting the owner of AngryBirdSite.com and AngryBirdsmart.com. As of right now, AngryBirdSite.com resolves to a web site […]
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