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Donuts Wins .doctor
May 9, 2016 @ 9:24 AMDonuts has emerged the victor of the .doctor gTLD contention set. Competing applicants Radix and The Medical Registry both withdrew their applications last week. The string wasn’t due to head to its ICANN last-resort auction until May 25, indicating that the contention set was settled privately. .doctor has been the subject of some controversy. ICANN’s…
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African Brands Wiped Off The Map As ICANN Flips The Kill Switch On 10 gTLDs
May 9, 2016 @ 6:24 AMTen dot-brand gTLDs may never see the light of day, after ICANN sent termination notices to the applicants. The move means that the number of African-owned dot-brand gTLDs to go live in the current round will be precisely zero. The 10 affected gTLDs are .naspers, .supersport, .mzansimagic, .mnet, .kyknet, .africamagic, .multichoice, .dstv and .gotv, which…
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Google Finally Acquires The Domain AndroidTV.com
May 9, 2016 @ 5:32 AMGoogle has finally acquired the domain name AndroidTV.com Google lost a UDRP on the domain name back in March 2014 after the panel said the dispute was outside the types of disputes the UDRP was set up for. You can read our summary of the UDRP here. In April 2014 Google announced that they…
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ICANN Sends Termination Notices to 10 New TLD Owners
May 8, 2016 @ 10:10 AMICANN plans to cancel their top level domain agreements. ICANN has sent termination notices to ten contracted new top level domain name applicants, informing them that it plans to cancel their top level domain agreements. The ten applicants applied for .brand top level domain names but have been slow to proceed to delegation. ICANN warned…
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WhatsApp Claims Victory in UDRP Dispute
May 6, 2016 @ 1:13 PMnstant messaging company WhatsApp has recovered two domain names that falsely claimed to be offering the latest version of the company’s app. The domains, ogwhatsapp.org and whatsapp-plus.org, were registered on November 22, 2014 and April 1 that same year, five years after WhatsApp registered the trademark for its device.
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Home of Former Overnight Shipping Service Airborne Express, Airborne.com Sold By Dhl
May 6, 2016 @ 7:33 AMThe domain name Airborne.com has been sold to a Airborne International B.V.. of The Hague, The Netherlands. Airborne.com was the home of Airborne Express which was an express delivery company and cargo airline, headquartered in Seattle. Airborne Express was acquired by DHL in 2003 and the brand was retired. DHL is owned by Deutsche Post AG. The…
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John Berryhill Gets Another RDNH Win
May 6, 2016 @ 6:05 AMCompany that owns TRTL.co.uk tried to get TRTL.com through UDRP. Coolside Limited, a company that sells a travel pillow, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization against the owner of TRTL.com. It uses the domain name TRTL.co.uk to sell its reimagined…
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GoDaddy Grows Domain Revs 10% in Q1
May 5, 2016 @ 10:49 AMGoDaddy reported its first quarter numbers last night, which including an almost 10% increase in revenue from domain names. The market-leading registrar reported a net loss of $18.3 million, smaller than the $43.4 million a year ago, on total revenue of $433.7 million, up 15.3%. It broke out its revenue from domain names as $218.9…
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WordPress Gets More Aggressive With Cybersquatting Complaints
May 5, 2016 @ 7:52 AMWordPress Foundation files cybersquatting complaints…and wins. WordPress Foundation appears to be more aggressively going after people that use WordPress in their domain names. The group has won six cybersquatting complaints in the past month. In all cases, it seems that WordPress was going after operating websites using the WordPress name in their second level domain…
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A Third of Mayoral Candidates Using .london Domains
May 5, 2016 @ 2:51 AMLondoners are going to the polls today to select a new mayor so, as a Londoner, I thought I’d check out how many of the candidates are supporting the local domain name. Turns out four of the 12 candidates have registered .london domains for their campaign sites. The four are favorite Sadiq Khan (Labour), Sian…
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