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Another Reputation Disaster: .XYZ Takes Back Tens of NNN.xyz Domain Names
June 5, 2017 @ 7:41 AMThis is getting ridiculous from all aspects. I can’t even keep up with all the ridiculousness. Just after .XYZ launched this ridiculous promotion offering 1.111 billion numeric .xyz domain names at under a buck, a few people found tens of NNN.xyz domains available to register and of course went ahead and registered them. Isn’t this…
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About That $3,800 Emoji Domain Sale...
June 5, 2017 @ 7:08 AMThe debate over the age of the emoji domain name ☮.com may have been settled. It probably is as old as it was claimed to be. You may recall that last week I blogged about the €3,400 ($3,816) sale of the domain to an end user. It wasn’t a big sale or a big story,…
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ICANN Finds No Conflict of Interest in .sport Decision
June 5, 2017 @ 5:51 AMICANN has rejected claims that the .sport gTLD contention set was settled by an arbitrator who had undisclosed conflicts of interest with the winning applicant. Its Board Governance Committee last week decided that Community Objection arbitrator Guido Tawil had no duty to disclose his law firm’s ties to major sports broadcasters when he effectively eliminated…
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Paris Domain Name Event NDDCamp Returns for Third Year
June 5, 2017 @ 5:37 AMEvent is free for the domain name industry. NDDCamp, a one-day domain name event, will return to Paris on June 26, 2017. It will take place at Campus Cluster Paris Innovation, 59 Rue Nationale, 75013 in Paris. Now in its third year, the event targets domain name investors and other people involved in the domain…
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.music and .gay Community Priority Evaluation Probe Could End This Month
June 5, 2017 @ 4:26 AMAn ICANN-commissioned investigation into the fairness of its Community Priority Evaluation process for new gTLDs could wind up before the end of June. In an update Friday, ICANN also finally revealed who is actually conducting the probe, which has been slammed by affected applicants for being secretive. A tentative timeline sketched out in the update…
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New gTLD .africa Closes It's Sunrise Period With Over 930 Domain Registrations
June 5, 2017 @ 4:05 AMThe long awaited and much contested new domain extension .Africa just closed its Sunrise period on June 2nd and according to the zone file there are over 930 domain name registrations. It appears a Sunrise domain name cost somewhere around $200 depending on the registrar. The Sunrise period is opened to those trademark holders registered…
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Telepathy Sues After Getting RDNH Win
June 3, 2017 @ 5:29 PMCompany files federal lawsuit following reverse domain name hijacking. UDRP panels cannot levy a financial penalty on companies that file reverse domain name hijacking cases. But U.S. courts can. Telepathy Inc., a domain name investment company led by Nat Cohen, has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) against Corporacion Empresarial Altra S.L. after the latter was…
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Registry-based .io Backorder Service to Shut Down
June 2, 2017 @ 8:23 AMChange comes as backend registry services are transitioned. Afilias is taking over backend registry services for Internet Computer Bureau (ICB Registry) and its three ccTLDs .AC, .IO, and .SH. This transition will take place on June 10. As a result of the transition, there will no longer be a registry-run backorder service for .IO…
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I Can't Believe It's Not RDNH (Again)
June 2, 2017 @ 5:39 AMPanelist twists and turns to let SOTI Inc. off the hook for RDNH. Here’s another case in which I have to say, “I can’t believe it’s not reverse domain name hijacking!” SOTI Inc., which uses the domain name Soti.net, filed a UDRP against Strategic Outsource Technologies, Inc., which owns the domain name Soti.com. The latter…
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Brandit Acquires Igloo Domain Brokerage
June 1, 2017 @ 9:46 AMIgloo will be part of European brand management company. Domain name brokerage Igloo has agreed to be acquired by BrandIT, the company announced today. BrandIT is a European corporate domain name management company that offers domain portfolio services, online brand protection/enforcement and other services for companies to manage their domain names. Igloo has completed $140…
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