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Did XYZ.com Pay Netsol $3M to Bloat .xyz?
August 25, 2015 @ 11:52 AMEvidence of a possibly dodgy deal between XYZ.com and Network Solutions has emerged. Court documents filed last week by Verisign suggest that the .xyz registry may have purchased $3 million in advertising in exchange for $3 million of .xyz domain names. Verisign, which is suing .xyz and CEO Daniel Negari over its allegedly “false” advertising,…
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Ralph Lauren Launching New PoloTech Shirt, Domains Registered in The 90's
August 25, 2015 @ 11:25 AMRalph Lauren is launching a new PoloTech “smart shirt” that is connected to an app, but interestingly enough, many of the relating terms as domain names are anything but “new” with the majority being registered in the 1990’s!
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Ashley Madison .sucks Domain Mysteriously Vanishes
August 25, 2015 @ 9:38 AMThe domain ashleymadison.sucks, which hosted a tool to search a database of millions of stolen Ashley Madison users’ data, has been deleted. According to Uniregistry CEO Frank Schilling, the domain was deleted by its registrant within the five-day grace period permitted under ICANN rules. The site looked like this shortly after it launched at the…
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Yes, You are Dangerous, Arbitrator Tells "Cybersquatter" OpenTLD
August 25, 2015 @ 8:44 AMFree domains provider OpenTLD has been dealt a crushing blow in its fight against the suspension of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement. ICANN is now free to suspend OpenTLD’s RAA, due to the company’s “pattern of cybersquatting”, following a decision by an independent arbitrator. The arbitrator ruled yesterday that OpenTLD’s suspension should go ahead, because “OpenTLD’s…
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Afilias Wins $10M Judgment in Architelos "Trade Secrets" Case
August 25, 2015 @ 7:12 AMAfilias has won a $10 million verdict against domain security startup Architelos, over claims its flagship NameSentry abuse monitoring service was created using stolen trade secrets. A jury in Virginia today handed Afilias $5 million for “misappropriation of trade secrets”, $2.5 million for “conversion” and another $2.5 million for “civil conspiracy”. The jury found (pdf)…
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The Owner of .co Site Sues .com Owner for Cybersquatting
August 25, 2015 @ 6:08 AMA lawsuit was filed against Domain Investor Chad Folkening yesterday in the United States District Court, Northern District of California for cybersquatting and Unfair Competition by Eden Technology Services, Inc. (Eden), on the domain name EdenTech.com, alleging ging that Mr. Folkening registration of EdenTech.com is confusingly similar to Plaintiff’s EdenTech.co. Personally I have not seen a…
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Amazon Wins: .shop and .通販 Not Confusingly Similar After All
August 25, 2015 @ 5:32 AMDuh. Are the top level domain names .shop and .通販 likely to confuse a reasonable internet user? Certainly not visually. Nor aurally. They also don’t mean the same thing. According to fluent Japanese speakers, 通販 used to be the term for catalog/mail order shopping, and later encompassed online shopping. Yet panelist Robert Nau found them…
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.club's Approach to Expired Domain Names
August 25, 2015 @ 5:14 AMAn example of how one new top level domain registry is releasing its expired domain names. Last week, .Club domain names that were registered at the beginning of general availability over a year ago started dropping. The company reported a 75% day one renewal rate. It hasn’t published rates post day one, but that’s certainly…
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Panel Throws Out Ludicrous .shop Confusion Ruling
August 25, 2015 @ 1:26 AMThe new gTLD strings .shop and .通販 are not too confusingly similar-looking to coexist on the internet. While that may be blindingly obvious to anyone who is not already blind, it’s taken the ICANN process three years to arrive at this conclusion. An August 18 ruling by a three-person International Centre for Dispute Resolution appeals…
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Questionable Investment: RetailMeNot Spends $4.3 Million for New Domain Names
August 24, 2015 @ 10:10 AMCompany has common investor with new top level domain company Donuts. Struggling Austin internet company RetailMeNot spent $4.3 million to acquire second level domain names under a new top level domain name, an SEC filing revealed. The news was first reported by OnlineDomain. While the SEC filing doesn’t disclose the top level domain or registry,…
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