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Uniregistry to Grandfather Existing Domains Before Big Price Increases
April 4, 2017 @ 1:51 AMUniregistry has backtracked on its plan to hike renewal fees on thousands of domain name registrations. CEO Frank Schilling described the U-turn, which followed a ferocious backlash from domain investors, as “the right thing to do”. The company had announced price increases across 16 of its 27 gTLDs that in one case exceeded 3,000% but…
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Uniregistry Implements Price Protections for Existing Registrants; Premium Domain Names to Decrease in Price
April 3, 2017 @ 3:41 PM“Creating a legacy tier of prices for inaugural registrants in our niche, premium top-level domains is technically more difficult,” said Frank Schilling, Managing Director of Uniregistry, “but it’s the right thing to do for those pioneering individuals and companies who have staked their claims in the new Internet real estate.”
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Judge Orders Verisign to Transfer Costarica.com Domain Name
April 3, 2017 @ 1:43 PMValuable CostaRica.com domain name will be transferred to prior registrant. A United States District Judge has ordered Verisign to transfer the domain name CostaRica.com to its previous owners, who allege the domain name was stolen. The plaintiffs in the case said the domain name was stolen from their Melbourne IT account in the middle of…
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Judge Orders Verisign to Transfer CostaRica.com Domain Name
April 3, 2017 @ 1:43 PMValuable CostaRica.com domain name will be transferred to prior registrant. A United States District Judge has ordered Verisign to transfer the domain name CostaRica.com to its previous owners, who allege the domain name was stolen. The plaintiffs in the case said the domain name was stolen from their Melbourne IT account in the middle of…
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Bloomberg Loses URS On The New gTLD Domain Name Bloomberg.site
April 3, 2017 @ 8:49 AMBloomberg just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Site which is owned by someone in China. The URS was not answered by the domain holder. The Examiner Terry F. Peppard found that Bloomberg holds a valid national registration for the trademark and service mark BLOOMBERG, on file with the…
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URS is Fast and Cheap, But...
March 31, 2017 @ 5:39 AMYou might not win if the respondent puts up a fight. On the face of it, it seems that the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system was tailor made for cases like this: virgin-atlantic.cloud. But that doesn’t mean you can just phone it in. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has ruled against Virgin Enterprises in its…
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Sedo to Pitch Domain Names to Financial Investors
March 31, 2017 @ 5:18 AMCompany heads to Dubai to tell financial investors about domain names. If there’s one company in the domain name space that makes an effort to pitch domain names to various industries and people outside the domain business, it’s Sedo. The company attends lots of vertical conferences throughout the year to talk about domain names…
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Premium Renewals Create Headaches for Domain Buyers
March 30, 2017 @ 1:23 PMFiguring out if a domain has a premium renewal price can be confusing. There’s a bit of a quarrel going on right now between two domain name brokers over the sale of a domain with a premium renewal. One person bought a .TV domain name through the other, only to find out later that it…
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20 Years After Registering Imec.com, Company Hit With UDRP
March 29, 2017 @ 1:46 PMPanel declines to find reverse domain name hijacking despite highly questionable UDRP. Imagine registering a four letter .com domain name for your business in 1996. You use it off and on during that period, and then twenty years later you receive a complaint that alleges you’re cybersquatting. That’s what happened to IMEC Hosting for its…
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Report: Amazon to Shut Quidsi (Diapers.com, Soap.com ...etc)
March 29, 2017 @ 10:52 AMAccording to a news report just published in the Financial Times (FT), Amazon is shutting down Quidsi and its website brands. As you may recall, Quidsi operates websites on fantastic exact match .com domain names such as Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, YoYo.com, Casa.com, and others. Amazon acquired Quidsi several years ago. Here’s a brief excerpt from the FT article: “Amazon said on Wednesday that it was shutting down Quidsi, the company behind Diapers.com and Soap.com…
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