Be Interviewed on DomainSherpa
-
Lance Armstrong Foundation’s Interesting Plans for The .livestrong Domain
June 25, 2012 @ 1:49 AMAn opportunity wasted and a couple hundred grand down the drain. I posted this tweet on the eve of the new top level domain reveal day: Offering a .livestrong domain seems like a good idea to me. Think of the millions of Lance Armstrong Foundation fans supporting the cause and wearing their yellow wristbands.
-
What Domains Major League Baseball and NBC Bought Last Week
June 25, 2012 @ 12:13 AMMLB, NBC, and 14 other end users recently purchased. I just got back from vacation in San Francisco. Since I only have one whitelisted IP address to hit Go Daddy’s servers for whois request (and that would be at my office), I’m a bit late on last week’s end user list. Notable on this week’s…
-
Company Sues Over Stolen Domains After Losing UDRP
June 24, 2012 @ 3:01 AMAustin Rare Coins asks court to hand over allegedly stolen domain names. An Austin company has filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit in an effort to get control over eight domain names it says were stolen from its possession. Austin Rare Coins, Inc. first turned to National Arbitration Forum with a UDRP filing to try…
-
Did a Digital Archery Company Put The Final Nail in The Coffin of Doomed Scheme?
June 23, 2012 @ 12:01 PMCompany claims it reported issue to ICANN earlier this week. So ICANN has “suspended” digital archery, a way to divide up new top level domain applicants into batches. This was the right move, albeit a couple weeks late. Now 20% of applications have shot an arrow, and many more applicants have invested significant resources into…
-
What Do Donuts Have to Do With Domain Names?
June 22, 2012 @ 8:52 PMDonuts, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup, will likely be the registry service for quite a few of the new gTLDs. Of the 1,930 applications for gTLDs received by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 307 (15.9%) came from one of the 307 wholly owned Donuts subsidiaries. Of those, just under half (151) appear to be uncontested by other applicants.
-
ICANN replaces CEO, head of massive domain-name change
June 22, 2012 @ 1:45 PMThe organization in charge of doling out Internet domain names and addresses picks Fadi Chehade as its new CEO — and replaces the head of a mammoth domain-name expansion.
-
New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé Doesn’t Have His Own Name As Domain Name
June 22, 2012 @ 12:45 AMFadiChehade.com registered today, but not by new ICANN CEO. ICANN announced this morning that software executive Fadi Chehadé would be its new CEO come October. Naturally, the first thing I did was look up his presence on the web. Here’s his LinkedIn profile. Here’s his domain name, FadiChehade.com. Did you click on his domain name?
-
Religious Groups Bid for New Web Domain Names
June 21, 2012 @ 6:51 AMFor the first time in its history, the international nonprofit that doles out generic Internet domain names such as “.com” and “.edu” will allow more specific Web address extensions like “.church.”
-
Online Land Grab: Groups Taking New Domain Names
June 21, 2012 @ 6:50 AMICANN called the expansion “a new era of online innovation” that will bring “new businesses, new marketing tools, new jobs, and new ways to link communities and share information.” At a time when answers to life’s questions seem just a mouse click away, the online land grab could become a lucrative investment for savvy spiritual leaders, said Heidi Campbell, an associate professor at Texas A&M University. “Religious groups clearly see the importance and potential profitability – in ideological or financial terms – to defining the Internet or web space in this way,” said Campbell, an expert on how religious groups interact online. The domain name .BIBLE would open vast tracts of Internet real estate for churches and companies that want to associate themselves with Scripture.
-
Verisign Working to Fix Hebrew IDN Error
June 21, 2012 @ 12:52 AMCompany wants to fix error in one of its new top level domain applications. Verisign has responded to Domain Name Wire’s inquiry regarding an error in its application for a Hebrew internationalized domain name (IDN) for a transliteration of .com: Verisign is aware of the administrative error that resulted in the inclusion of a variant…
If you enjoyed this article, subscribe for updates (it's free)
