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.shop Pricing Sunrise Renewals at $1,000
June 13, 2016 @ 2:54 AMIf you’ve spent over $40 million on a gTLD, you need to make your money back somehow, right? It’s emerged that GMO Registry, which paid ICANN a record $41.5 million for .shop back in January, plans to charge $1,000 renewal fees, wholesale, on domains registered during its upcoming sunrise period. Trademark owners will seemingly have…
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UDRP Filed Against Bostonian.com
June 10, 2016 @ 12:12 PMA UDRP has been filed against Bostonian.com. The complainant in this case is C & J Clark America Inc., which I believe owns the Bostonian shoe brand. The UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization, and it is WIPO Case D2016-1159. Bostonian.com is an old domain name having been created in 1995…
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Report: Tao.com Sold "For Over $1m"
June 10, 2016 @ 6:24 AMAccording to the DN.com newsletter that was sent to subscribers earlier this week, TAO.com was sold “for over $1M.” The exact purchase price for this domain name was not reported. Here’s what DN.com reported in its newsletter: “An interesting find-out, I assume everyone knows the sale of strawberry.com, which is brokered by the famous domainer Andy Booth. Andy is also a certified user at DN.com. If you don’t know the sale yet, see here. Anyways, the buyer of this domain name seems to be Fashion One TV. However, if you dig deeper, you will find out that Fashion One TV…
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BitTorrent Acquires The Domain Bt.co: Had a BIN Price of $75,000
June 10, 2016 @ 5:29 AMBitTorrent.com has acquired the domain name BT.co. The domain name was listed for sale for $75,000 on Sedo and was owned by the .co Registry, .CO Internet S.A.S. which is owned by Neustar (NSR). The domain just cleared escrow at Afternic, yesterday so it is unclear whether Sedo or Afternic sold the domain and it’s…
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.club to Release More Names Through Registrars
June 9, 2016 @ 8:32 AM12,000 more domains will be available at registrars. .Club is getting ready to release more premium names through the registrar channel, making it easier for customers to register the domain names. 12,000 premium domains will be released through the channel on June 16, with suggested retail prices starting at $100. The release includes a number…
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NTIA Gives Green Light to IANA Transition
June 9, 2016 @ 8:18 AMNTIA approves transition, but congress might be a roadblock. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today gave its approval of a community-led proposal to eliminate the U.S. government role in overseeing the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions. The NTIA determined that the proposal meets all of its requirements, including not handing oversight over…
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NTIA Gives Nod to IANA Transition
June 9, 2016 @ 7:39 AMThe US National Telecommunications and Information Administration has formally thrown its weight behind the community-led proposal that would remove the US government, itself in effect, from DNS root oversight. Assistant secretary Larry Strickling held a press conference this afternoon to confirm the hardly surprising development, but dodged questions about a Republican move to scupper the…
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Cruz-Duffy Bill Would Put Brakes On IANA Transition
June 9, 2016 @ 12:40 AMAmerica’s continuing unique oversight role in the DNS root management system, fuck yeah! That’s basically the takeaway from a new bit of proposed US legislation, put forward by Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Sean Duffy in both houses of Congress yesterday. The two Republican Congressmen have proposed the inappropriately named Protecting Internet Freedom Act, which…
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Ted Cruz and Duffy Present Bill to Nix IANA Transition
June 8, 2016 @ 2:39 PMBill should probably be called “Protecting U.S. Control of the Internet”. Senators Ted Cruz and Sean Duffy introduced the Protecting Internet Freedom Act in Congress today. The act would forbid the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from allowing the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions contract to expire. The internet community is currently working…
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SportsAuthority.com With Over 100 Million Visitors a Year Hits The Auction Block
June 8, 2016 @ 12:26 PMHilco Streambank is auctioning off the intellectual property assets of The Sports Authority, Inc.., including its brands, trademarks, patents and web and customer assets and the domain names owned by the company (the “Assets”). On the domain front Sports Authority owns 628 Domain Names including SportsAuthority.com which got more than 111 Million visits in 2014…
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