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$32 Million .org Contract Up for Bids

Public Interest Registry asks for proposals to run its backend registry. Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs the .Org top level domain name, just put out a request for proposal for its backend registry provider. Afilias currently runs the registry operations for .org, and has since .org was transitioned from Verisign to Public Interest…
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Greenberg & Lieberman Scores RDNH Finding

Stevan Lieberman of Greenberg & Lieberman scored a reverse domain name hijacking decision in the ChinaReady.com UDRP case. The case was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the decision was published online this morning. The owner of ChinaReady.com is Warren Weitzman of Caramba LLC. In the response to the UDRP, Greenberg & Lieberman listed 16 contentions to the UDRP. Three of those contentions include the following summarized points: China ready is a descriptive term The domain name owner has been using the domain name for PPC advertising, which is a legitimate business model Dictionary terms and common phrases can…

Domain Name Investor Gets RDNH Win

China ready, but not ready for a UDRP. Domain name investor Warren Weitzman has successfully defended his domain name ChinaReady.com, and the panel found complainant China Ready and Accredited Pty Ltd to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking by bringing the case. The complainant uses the lengthy domain name chinareadyandaccredited.com. It claimed first use…
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.com Tops 125 Million Domain Registrations

According to Verisign (VRSN) the registry for .Com, the number of .Com registration crossed the 125 million mark in the Domain Name Base. The active zone file is just over 124 Million domain names. The active zone file does not include domain names that are not configured for use, and those in client or server…
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.club Responds to Markmonitor: Why Brands are Missing The Boat

In its quarterly report, MarkMonitor analyzed the state of the .CLUB brand space and noted that many registrations of brand names were not held by the brands themselves. This is indicative of the missed opportunity faced by brands that did not participate in our Sunrise period or register their names cost-effectively during General Availability. As MarkMonitor states: “Some NgTLDs are appealing for both Retail and Business – We found .club to be the most squatted of all NgTLDs in this focus, with over 50% of the sampling found to be registered to someone other than the company or brand-owner. Dot ��’ Read More

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.cloud Hits General Availability On Tuesday

Affordably-priced domain name presents an opportunity for domain name investors. One of the most-anticipated new top level domain names arrives on registrars’ shelves tomorrow. Aruba IT won a hotly-contested auction for the top level domain name in 2014, beating the likes of cloud giants Amazon and Google. I interviewed Eric Sansonny, General Manager at Aruba,…
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Rightside Moves Into China Too

Rightside has become the latest gTLD registry to open up in China. The company said today it has created a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise, basically a local subsidiary, in the country. This is the same beachhead in China taken by Minds + Machines and Famous Four Media recently. Draconian Chinese government regulations on domain registries and…

First Registrar "Breached" UDRP Lock Rule

ICANN has charged a registrar with failing to abide by “cyberflight” rules for the first time. Visesh Infotecnics did not lock down e-campaigner.com within two days of it being hit by a UDRP a couple of weeks ago, ICANN said in a compliance notice (pdf) on Thursday. Visesh is based in India and does business…

.club Passes 9 Year Old .mobi in Numbers of Domain Registrations

.Club has just passed .mobi in terms of domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com .club has 691,522 domain registrations while .mobi is at 691,342 .Mobi become available to be registered in 2006. .Club was 1st available for general availability on May 7th 2014 making it less than 2 years old. According to registrarstats.com, .club becomes…
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LeBoeuf Corporation Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On LeBoeuf.com

LeBoeuf Corporation (“Complainant”), represented by Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld of KRONENBERGER ROSENFELD, LLP, California, USA, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain Leboeuf.com “”The three member panel of the Honorable Karl V. Fink (Ret.) (Chair), David J. Steele Esq., and The Hon Neil Anthony Brown QC found that the domain…
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