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Blackberry Limited Registers Android Domain Names
July 8, 2015 @ 3:41 AMBlackBerry Limited has registered the domain name AndroidSecured.com adding to recent rumors that they may have a device called BlackBerry Venice that will have an Android operating system.
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There are Now Over 1,000 Top-level Domains
July 8, 2015 @ 3:29 AMThe number of top-level domains on the internet has topped 1,000 for the first time. The delegation of seven new gTLDs today — .studio, .live, .jprs, .game, .bcn, .barcelona and .airtel — took the total number of TLDs in the DNS root zone to 1,002. The DI database breaks the count down like this: 693…
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Verisign Gets Domain Name Stockpiling Patent
July 7, 2015 @ 11:07 AMThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,075,886 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for detecting the stockpiling of domain names.” We’ll call it domaindar for short. The patent explains ways that a registry can determine what a domain name registrar is doing with domain names after they expire. Are they…
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Afilias Wants to Buy Your Failed gTLD
July 7, 2015 @ 9:55 AMAfilias is on an overt campaign to snap up struggling new gTLDs at bargain basement prices. “In the neighborhood of a dozen” gTLD operators responded seriously to Afilias’ booth at last month’s ICANN meeting in Buenos Aries, (pictured), Afilias chief marketing officer Roland LaPlante told DI in an interview today. The company could potentially buy…
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Netnames Files Complaint With European Competition Commission On Vox Populi's .sucks Pricing
July 7, 2015 @ 6:51 AMNetNames.com has filed a complaint to European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS pricing strategy that had Brand owners charged $1,999 each year (wholesale) for a .SUCKS domain name compared to others that are charged just $10 According to NetNames.com which is a brand protection company representing many trademark holders, Vox Populi created an uneven…
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Andee Hill Joins Donuts As Liaison to Domain Name Investors
July 7, 2015 @ 6:22 AMHill will work with domain name investors. Donuts has hired Andee Hill as Director of Business Development, the company announced today. She will handle relationships with domain name investors and report directly to co-founder and EVP for Business Development Dan Schindler. Hill most recently was founder of EscrowHill, an escrow service for domain names. Prior…
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This Company Thinks Domain Name Investing Violates U.S. Law
July 7, 2015 @ 5:42 AMCompany’s response in WorkBetter.com lawsuit suggests that new businesses should be able to get old domain names. Last week I wrote about a cybersquatting lawsuit filed against the owner of WorkBetter.com. A new company has sprung up using the descriptive name Work Better, and it wants the 16-year-old .com domain name. Office Space Solutions asked…
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Carlsberg Snaps Up 150 .beer Domains, Including The Most British Domain I've Ever Seen
July 7, 2015 @ 5:28 AMBrewing giant Carlsberg has joined Minds + Machines’ pioneer program for the .beer gTLD, buying 150 brand and generic .beer domains. M+M said today that football.beer, which is arguably a more British domain than gov.uk, is among Carlsberg’s new portfolio. The registry said in a press release: “football.beer will help support the company’s far-reaching commitment…
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WHOIS Privacy Supporters to Top 20,000
July 7, 2015 @ 3:11 AMOver 20,000 people have put their names to statements slamming proposals that would ban some commercial web sites from using Whois privacy on their domains. ICANN’s public comment period on a working group’s Whois privacy reform proposals closes today after two months, with roughly 11,000 individual comments — the vast majority against changes that would…
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Startup Sues A Domain Name Owner To Grab A 16-Year-Old URL
July 3, 2015 @ 10:48 PMJason Kneen is a programmer and happens to own about a hundred domain names picked up over a sixteen year period. One of those, workbetter.com, he purchased in 1999 and it has been available on his site for years. In late April 2014 a company, OfficeLinks, approached him about buying the domain for use as a URL for their co-working space. Then they sued.
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