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United States Postal Services Just Wasted Your Money Objecting to .mail Top Level Domain
March 26, 2013 @ 10:41 PMUSPS should stick to delivering mail. This morning World Intellectual Property Organization posted that the United States Postal Service has objected to the seven applications to run a .mail top level domain. Really, USPS? First of all, the type of objection filed (legal rights objection) is designed as a vehicle for trademark holders. Last time […]
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ICANN: About 274 New gTLD Objections Filed
March 26, 2013 @ 10:16 PMThere have been roughly 274 formal objections against new gTLD applications, ICANN said last night. During a webinar with applicants, new gTLD program manager Christine Willet broke down the numbers. There have been: 67 String Confusion Objections — these are of the “your TLD looks like my TLD” variety. 71 Legal Rights Objections […]
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Tucows, Directi and Namecheap to Combine .online gTLD Bids
March 26, 2013 @ 9:26 PMThree applicants for the .online gTLD appear to have settled their differences in what I believe is the first public example of new gTLD contention set consolidation. Tucows, Directi and Namecheap said today that that they plan to “work together to manage the .online registry.” From the press release: applicants for the same TLDs have […]
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“Tube” Domainer Objects to Google’s .tube gTLD Bid
March 26, 2013 @ 9:01 PMRemember the “mystery gTLD applicant” that had promised to campaign against Google’s closed generic gTLD applications? It turns out the company behind the campaign is actually Latin American Telecom, one of the three applicants for .tube, and that part of its strategy is a Legal Rights Objection. According to a copy of the LRO kindly […]
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Q&A: Deloitte Partner Overseeing New Domain Name Clearinghouse
March 26, 2013 @ 7:10 PMICANN tapped Deloitte to oversee the Trademark Clearinghouse, which has been created to allow intellectual property owners to register their marks in order to prevent misuse by other parties. It opened for business Tuesday. Reuters spoke to the Deloitte partner in charge of the effort, Belgium-based Jan Corstens.
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Demand Media Paid $18 Million for Name.com
March 26, 2013 @ 12:58 PMOn December 31, 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of the net assets of Name.com, a retail registrar company based in Denver, Colorado. The purchase consideration of $18,000 comprised an initial cash payment of $16,200 and the remaining $1,800 is subject to a hold back to satisfy post-closing indemnification obligations as well as a working capital adjustment and any remaining portion of such hold back amount that is not subject to then pending claims will be paid to the selling shareholders prior to or on the 18-month anniversary of the closing of the transaction.
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Accuweather Vs Weather Channel for .weather Domain Name
March 26, 2013 @ 10:30 AMThe USA’s two largest private commercial weather companies — The Weather Channel and AccuWeather, along with a few others — are duking it over the use of this new so-called generic top-level domain, dot-weather.
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.CO Domain Tops 1.5 Million Domains
March 25, 2013 @ 11:16 PM.Co now has over 1.5 million domains registered. The .co domain namespace has hit a new milestone: 1.5 million domain names. The .co domain name ticker rolled over a big digit overnight: This is a pretty huge number of domain names within 3 years of launch, especially with .co’s premium pricing. Interesting times are ahead […]
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Company Objects to Chinese IDNs Over Contractual and Patent Rights
March 25, 2013 @ 5:49 AMGroup that partnered with Chinese government for IDNs claims that new TLDs will infringe contractual and intellectual property rights. A legal rights objection is supposed to be filed based on trademarks, but a Singapore company has filed two objections based on alleged contractual terms and patent rights. i-DNS.net says it has filed objections against Chinese […]
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Candy.com Hurt By Google Penalty
March 25, 2013 @ 5:07 AMCompany hit with penalty last year; Google continues to deny requests to lift penalty. Candy.com has a sweet (and expensive) domain name, one that helped it get instant credibility in the candy industry. But apparently the site is lacking good search rankings due to a manual Google penalty — and that has led the company […]
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