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UDRP Battle Between Dating Sites Cheekylovers.com & Cheekydevil.com Results in Punt
September 23, 2016 @ 5:57 AMTogether Networks Holdings Limited which owns the domain name CheekyLovers.com and a trademark on the term CheekyLovers lost a UDRP to grab the domain CheekyDevil.com Complainant is an online dating business and operates a number of websites, including one linked to the domain name, , which was registered on June 13, 2011. Complainant filed an…
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Silicon NYC Kickoff Features .nyc Domain Names
September 23, 2016 @ 5:35 AM[Editor’s note: Silicon NYC hosted its launch event last week and .NYC was a big focus. SayHello was on hand to give free .nyc domain names to attendees. Art Malkov filed this report.] Silicon NYC hosted its kickoff party last week hosted by Ebay New York in the company’s incubator space. The event featured speakers…
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Reality Star Heidi Powell Wants to Drop Cybersquatting Case, But Lawyer Says ‘Not So Fast’
September 22, 2016 @ 11:29 PMWeight loss reality star Heidi Powell filed a cybersquatting lawsuit in July to get the domain name HeidiPowell.com from a grandma with the same name. The grandma responded and filed counterclaims for reverse domain name hijacking, asking for $100,000+.
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North Korea Accidentally Reveals It Only Has 28 Websites
September 22, 2016 @ 12:28 PMOn Monday afternoon, a security engineer named Matt Bryant stumbled upon a part of the Internet that is usually hidden from most of the world: a list of websites available to people with Internet access in North Korea. The total number of sites was just 28.
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CIRA Becomes First New gTLD Back-end Since 2012
September 22, 2016 @ 10:00 AMCIRA, the Canadian ccTLD manager, has become the first new registry back-end provider to enter the gTLD market since the 2012 application round closed. The company today announced that it has signed Dot Kiwi, operator of .kiwi, as its first client. .kiwi will become the first non-.ca TLD that CIRA runs the back-end for, according…
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GoDaddy Moves From Super Bowl to Presidential Debates [Video]
September 22, 2016 @ 7:52 AMCompany to run ads during pre- and post- debate coverage. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) didn’t advertise during the Super Bowl this year, but it’s going to spend a lot of money on TV ads coinciding with upcoming U.S. Presidential debates. The company has a new election-themed commercial that will run before and after the first two…
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GoDaddy Moves From Super Bowl to Presidential Debates [Video]
September 22, 2016 @ 7:52 AMCompany to run ads during pre- and post- debate coverage. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) didn’t advertise during the Super Bowl this year, but it’s going to spend a lot of money on TV ads coinciding with upcoming U.S. Presidential debates. The company has a new election-themed commercial that will run before and after the first two…
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Domain Appraisal Scam is Now The Job Resume Scam
September 22, 2016 @ 6:38 AMThis scam will sound familiar to domain name owners. Dan Primack of Fortune has an interesting story about executives falling for a scam that’s very similar in operation to the domain name appraisal scam. If you aren’t familiar with it, the domain name appraisal scam gets domain owners to pay for a domain name appraisal…
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.kiwi Turns to New Cira Platform for Registry Services
September 22, 2016 @ 6:01 AM.Kiwi will be run on .CA manager’s platform. Competition in the backend registry services business is heating up, and .CA manager CIRA has entered the game with .Kiwi as a client. .Kiwi will switch its backend to CIRA’s Fury Registry Platform, the companies announced today. There are about 10,000 domain names in the .kiwi zone…
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.games and .shopping Hit Registrars This Week
September 22, 2016 @ 5:44 AMRightside and Donuts released new domain names this week. Two new top level domain names launched this week with one entering general availability and the other hitting early access. Rightside’s (NASDAQ:NAME) .Games entered general availability with a number of video game companies on board. It’s priced affordably; expect to pay $15-$20 per year at registrars…
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