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Amazon Wants To Turn Its New Domain Extensions Into Closed Generic TLDs
April 22, 2016 @ 3:25 AMAmazon Registry Services, Inc., the Registry Operator of .MOI TLD, has filed to ICANN a proposed amendment to the .MOI Registry Agreement.
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.gov Domain Registrations May Increase From $125 to $400 a Year
April 21, 2016 @ 8:39 AMAccording to Targetednews.com, the cost of a .Gov domain registration and renewal are proposed to increase from $125 a year to $400 a year. .Gov is a domain name extension that is only available to be registered by governmental entities in the United States, including Federal, state, local and tribal governments.. The increase is a…
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GoDaddy Updates Investor App, Domain Search and Hijack Protection
April 21, 2016 @ 5:22 AMDomain registrar releases more languages and currencies for app, search upgrades for Asia and domain theft protection. GoDaddy announced a bunch of updates yesterday, several of which I think will be interesting to domain name investors. Mike McLaughlin, SVP of Domains, provided details to Domain Name Wire. Updated Investor App The popular Domain Investor bidding…
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What China Giveth, China Can Taketh Away
April 20, 2016 @ 8:05 AMMarketplaces cashed in on the Chinese gold rush, but the gravy train has slowed considerably. Domain name marketplaces were buoyed last year by the market for short domain names. Marketplaces were winners during the frenzied run-up in prices, playing middle man for a cut of the action. 57% of DomainNameSales.com’s dollar volume of sales last…
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Booking.com Goes to Court to Try to Get Trademarks
April 20, 2016 @ 4:34 AMBooking.generic. Travel site Booking.com has run into a wall trying to get trademarks related to its namesake, and it’s going to court to overturn U.S. Patent and Trademark office decisions. The USPTO argues that Booking.com is merely descriptive of the travel services that the site offers, so it can’t be trademarked. Booking.com filed suit (pdf)…
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Quick.com Domain Name Sells for $300k, Blaze.com for $253k
April 19, 2016 @ 1:49 PMHeritage Auctions sells over $900,000 in domain names including two big ones. Heritage Auctions just completed its latest live domain name auction, selling 16 domains for $910,363 including buyers’ premiums. (All prices in this post include buyer’s premium.) Two of the domain names sold for six figures. Quick.com sold for $299,999 and Blaze.com sold for…
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.hotel Fight Gets Nasty With "Criminal" Hacking Claims
April 19, 2016 @ 7:25 AMA group of would-be .hotel gTLD registries have called on ICANN to reject the winning applicant’s bid or be complicit in “criminal acts”. The group, which includes Travel Reservations, Famous Four Media, Radix, Minds + Machines, Donuts and Fegistry is threatening to file a second Independent Review Process complaint unless ICANN complies with its demands…
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ICANN Mulls Moving Puerto Rico Meeting to Las Vegas Due to Zika Virus
April 19, 2016 @ 6:05 AMMeeting will be moved up a week if it is moved to Vegas. ICANN is considering moving this fall’s meeting in Puerto Rico due to concerns about the Zika virus. At the top of the list: Las Vegas. Nicholas Tomasso, VP of Meetings for ICANN, explained on a Community Leaders call last week that a…
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Is Staples Getting Into The Cloud Business? Domains Suggest So.
April 19, 2016 @ 5:23 AMCompany registers domain names for cloud and document management services. Office supply company Staples (NASDAQ:SPLS) registered a handful of domain names yesterday that suggest the company will begin offering cloud storage services. My guess is this will be through some sort of white-labeling agreement. Here are the domain names the company registered: staplesclouddocumentmanagement.com staplescloudrecordmanagement.com staplescloudrecordsmanagement.com…
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Aussies Get to Drop The .com
April 19, 2016 @ 3:51 AMAustralia’s ccTLD manager has confirmed that local registrants will be able to register .au domains at the second level, eschewing the usual .com. auDA said yesterday that its board has approved a plan that will let people register names such as example.au, rather than example.com.au or example.org.au. The country follows the example of New Zealand…
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