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Sedo.com Sells Over $1.92mm in Domains Led By Breathalyzer.com for $115k
April 16, 2013 @ 5:01 AMSedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending April 15th, 2013. In all over $1.92MM domains were sold. The top seller was breathalyzer.com at $115,000 followed by irondoors.com for $52,800.
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Why One Californian Bought a Domain Name to Stave Off Boston Conspiracy ...
April 16, 2013 @ 1:24 AMIt took no time at all for conspiracy theorists to elbow in on the Boston Massacre bombings, “false flag” obsessives crashing both a televised press conference by political leaders and law enforcement and a briefing by a surgeon at Mass General. But earlier today, reporters noticed that a domain that…
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1&1 Ditches .mail, Keeps .gmx (For Now)
April 15, 2013 @ 11:55 PMOne of seven applicants for .mail top level domain withdraws its application. 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH has withdrawn its application for the top level domain .mail in the wake of receiving two formal objections against its application. It’s not clear if the objections were part of the company’s rationale for dropping its application. There […]
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Final List of 263 New gTLD Objections Published By ICANN
April 15, 2013 @ 11:51 PMICANN published the final list of 263 objections that have passed the Dispute Resolution Service Providers’ (DRSPs) administrative review: 67 String Confusion Objections 69 Existing Legal Rights Objections 23 Limited Public Interest Objections 104 Community Objections Below please find a …
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1&1 Owner of Mail.com Withdraws Application for New gTLD .mail
April 15, 2013 @ 11:29 PM1&1 Mail & Media GmbH, whose parent company is United Internet AG, just withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD .Mail. I think this is a very meaningful withdrawal because of the fact that as the applicant owns Mail.com and stands to be the biggest benfificaly of having the .Mail new gTLD and the most at risk for loss of business to a .Mail new gTLD.
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Google Domain Hijacked in Kenya
April 15, 2013 @ 7:04 PMGoogle’s Kenyan web site was reportedly inaccessible yesterday due to a hijacking of the company’s local domain name. Google.co.ke briefly redirected users to a site bearing the slogan “hacked” on a black background, according to the Daily Nation. A change of DNS was blamed. Google Kenya reportedly said: Google services in Kenya were not hacked. […]
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Nigeria: FG Crashes Cost of Domain Name From N7.5 Million to N15,000
April 15, 2013 @ 4:29 PMNigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), regulator of Nigeria’s internet space this morning crashed the cost of .ng, Nigeria’s premium domain names from N7.5 million to N15,000 only in order to increase the use of indigenous registered websites.
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After 5 Wins, a UDRP Panelist Denies Claim of Tm for Novartis AG
April 15, 2013 @ 9:33 AMThe global drug company Novartis AG just lost a UDRP on the domain name QuickDailies.com based off a trademark for the term “Dailies”. Apparently the company beliefs its own any domain name that has the word “dailies” in it and as silly as it sounds several UDRP panels have transferred domains names to Novartis AG based on the same claim and the same trademark.
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Update: Now Over 70 Domains Related to Boston Explosion Including “Relief” Domains
April 15, 2013 @ 6:20 AMThere are now at least 70 domain names that have been recently registered relating to the explosions at the Boston Marathon today and most troubling many that look like charitable domains that can be be used to raise money for the victims.
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4 New gTLDs Applications Withdrawn for .mii, .mitek, .sapphire and .connectors (Total at 43)
April 15, 2013 @ 6:11 AMThis past week 4 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 4 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 43. MiTek USA, Inc. from the US withdrew …
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