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Tata Ponders "Buy a School" Strategy to Release .tata From Limbo
August 30, 2016 @ 1:17 AMTata Group is reportedly considering buying a school for the Moroccan province of Tata in order to unlock the .tata gTLD. The huge Indian conglomerate has been prevented from acquiring its own dot-brand because it matches the name of the tiny region, which is as protected geographic string under ICANN rules. Without the express permission…
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.hotel Losers Gang Up to Threaten ICANN With Legal Bills
August 30, 2016 @ 12:26 AMThe six losing applicants for the .hotel new gTLD are collectively threatening ICANN with a second Independent Review Process action. Together, they this week filed a Request for Reconsideration with ICANN, challenging its decision earlier this month to allow the Afilias-owned Hotel Top Level Domain Sarl application to go ahead to contracting. HTLD won a…
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Rightside Closes Down 12.92% On Heavy Volume
August 29, 2016 @ 2:52 PMRightside (Nasdaq: NAME) closed down $1.41 or 12.92% on Monday. The volume was substantially higher than the average daily volume of 52,197 coming in at 865,348. The shares traded as low as $8.79. This was the biggest volume day since June 24 and one of the biggest volume days all year. DomainNameWire.com reported on August…
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Rats! Lawsuit Over Stolen Rat.com Domain Name Gets Caught in Trap
August 29, 2016 @ 11:31 AMCourt determines it can’t issue default judgment in John Doe suit. A lawsuit filed to recover the allegedly stolen domain name Rat.com has hit a snag in Fairfax County court. Jon Beutler registered rat.com in 1995. He alleges that the domain name was stolen from his GoDaddy account last year and transferred to another registrar…
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Rightside (Nasdaq:name) Shares Down Big in Heavy Volume
August 29, 2016 @ 10:17 AMHeavy trading and steep losses for Rightside today. Shares of Rightside, the company that owns domain name registrar eNom, are down big with heavier-than-usual volume today. At 2:10 EDT shares are trading at $9.51, down $1.40 on the day (13%). Shares briefly traded below $9.00. Volume is over 650,000 shares, while the average volume (3…
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Another UDRP Loss By a Gleissner Company
August 29, 2016 @ 9:28 AMCompany loses UDRP for Flammea.com. CKL Holdings N.V has lost another UDRP. The company, which is tied to Michael Gleissner, unsuccessfully tried to get the domain name Flammea.com from a guy whose last name is Flammea. It put forth as evidence a DomainIQ page that showed a purported change of ownership in 2010, after the…
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Conference Attendees Will Be Able to Ask That Man "Why are You Dropping 70,000 .cc Domains ?"
August 28, 2016 @ 3:54 PMOne of the hot stories last week was that a Chinese investor known as “Booksir” was dropping 70,000 .cc domains that he paid 120 CNY per .cc for. This works out to approximately $1.25 in domain spend. He announced this on WeChat. Booksir’s real name is Liangji Zhuang and he has a lot more on…
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Are .mail, .home and .corp Safe to Launch? Applicants Think So
August 28, 2016 @ 2:31 AMICANN should lift the freeze on new gTLDs .mail, .home and .corp, despite fears they could cause widespread disruption, according to applicants. Fifteen applicants for the strings wrote to ICANN last week to ask for a risk mitigation plan that would allow them to be delegated. The three would-be gTLDs were put on hold indefinitely…
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Two Domain Name Conferences On Tap for September
August 26, 2016 @ 9:09 AMTHE Domain Conference and DomainFest Asia take place next month. We’re just a few days away from September, and that means we’re just a few weeks away from two domain name conferences. First up is THE Domain Conference, organized by the Neu family. The event takes place September 10-14 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66…
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Spurned Applicant Crowd-funding to Fight ICANN for .gay gTLD
August 25, 2016 @ 11:11 PMThe community-driven applicant for .gay is attempting to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars via crowd-funding to challenge a series of adverse decisions that look set to lock it out of running the gTLD. Alongside the fundraising, dotgay LLC has launched an extraordinary broadside at its frustrators, accusing ICANN of “discrimination” and rival applicants of…
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