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Instagram Paid Chinese Cyberquatter $100,000 for Instagram.com, Facebook Lawsuit Reveals
January 20, 2016 @ 5:29 AMFacebook has sued a Chinese cybersquatter for trying to renege on a five-year-old deal that saw it buy the domain instagram.com for $100,000. The lawsuit, filed in California last week, claims that a family of known cybersquatters, based in Guangdong, is trying to have the purchase invalidated by a Chinese court. The company, which acquired…
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.security Names Priced at $3,000, .theatre at $750
January 20, 2016 @ 2:27 AMXYZ.com may be best known for its budget .xyz gTLD, but its portfolio is increasingly leaning toward the super-premium end of the industry price range. The company entered Early Access Period with its .security, .protection and .theatre gTLDs today, and they ain’t cheap. .security and .protection are expected to carry retail prices of $3,000 a…
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.boston Was a "Distraction", Says gTLD Seller
January 20, 2016 @ 1:20 AMThe Boston Globe newspaper decided to offload the gTLD after its new owners decided it was a “distraction”. That’s according to a report yesterday in the newspaper itself. Last week, it was announced that Minds + Machines, which already runs a handful of geo-gTLDs, is acquiring the .boston contract for an undisclosed sum. Today, the…
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Does .tickets Have The Ultimate Anti-cybersquatting System?
January 19, 2016 @ 8:56 AMI’ve never seen anything like this before. .tickets gTLD registry Accent Media has launched an anti-cybersquatting measure that lets the world know who is trying to register what domain name a whole month before the domain is allowed to go live. The service, at domains.watch, is currently only being used by .tickets, but it seems…
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Donuts Launches .wine & .vin Domains (With 1,300 Sunrise Registrations)
January 19, 2016 @ 7:20 AMDonuts Inc. today announced that the .WINE and .VIN gTLDs will be available for general registration tomorrow January 20. The announcement follows an active two month Sunrise period during which more than 1,300 brand owners and trademark holders have already…
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ICANN Plans to Track gTLD Marketplace Health
January 19, 2016 @ 6:29 AMHow are top level domain names doing? We might soon have a way to track them. ICANN has formed a working group to create metrics designed to assess the overall health of the marketplace for gTLDs. Preliminary documents indicate that the scope may include all gTLDs rather than just the ones commonly referred to as…
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.EU Registry Desperate for EUR 300 Domain Complaints?
January 19, 2016 @ 5:45 AMThe fee for a basic .eu Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) procedure will continue to be discounted, following an agreement between the .eu registry EURid and the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC), the institution appointed to rule on Alternative Dispute Resolution proceedings…
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Uniregistry Beats Donuts to .shopping, But .shop Still in Play
January 18, 2016 @ 11:19 AMUniregistry has emerged as the successful registry-to-be of .shopping from the convoluted .shop/.shopping new gTLD contention set. Donuts, the only competing applicant for the string, withdrew its application late last week. As we previously reported, the .shop/.shopping contention sets were joined at the hip due to a bizarre string similarity challenge, making the scheduled auction…
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Google Self-driving Car: The X?
January 18, 2016 @ 9:03 AMGoogle’s .car domain name registrations are more interesting than Apple’s. Everyone got in a tizzy a couple weeks ago about Apple registering .car domain names. This was stupid because Apple registers its brands in just about every new domain name that comes out. Google does the same — it registered Adsense.car, Alphabet.car and Google.car, among…
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Afilias $10 Million Court Win Slashed By Judge
January 18, 2016 @ 7:32 AMA US judge has dramatically reduced a $10 million ruling Afilias won against Architelos in a trade secrets case. Architelos, which a jury decided had misappropriated trade secrets from Afilias in order to build its patented NameSentry domain security service, may even be thrown a lifeline enabling it to continue business. A little over a…
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