10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats (Part 2) 5 more tips to protect your domain names. [In the first part of this article, Bill Sweetman gave five tips for protecting your domain names from bogus legal threats. Here are five more. 6. Insist that all complaints be put in writing This is really a follow-on to point #5 from my first post. If
Domain Name Wire - Monday, June 10, 2013 - 10:36
XYZ.com wins .college top level domain auction Donuts withdraws application after XYZ.com wins private domain auction. Domain name investor Daniel Negari, through his company XYZ.com, has won the private top level domain name auction for .college. Negari tells Domain Name Wire “I look forward to truly innovating the namespace with one of the best gTLD’s out there.R...
Domain Name Wire - Saturday, June 8, 2013 - 8:49
Donuts wins .photography auction Donuts won the private auction for the .photography top level domain name. Of the six new top level domain name auctions Donuts participated in this past week, the company walked away with at least one top bid. Domain Name Wire has confirmed that Donuts won the auction for .photography. It was in contention with Top
Domain Name Wire - Friday, June 7, 2013 - 22:28
6 new TLD auctions bring in average of $1.5 million each How much do new TLD applicants think their strings are worth? We now have a rough idea on a half dozen. The first six private top level domain name auctions held by Innovative Auctions have closed, bringing in a total of $9.01 million in winning bids. The six domain names no longer in contention are
Domain Name Wire - Friday, June 7, 2013 - 10:29
ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the organization. Atallah has been named president of the Generic Domains Division. This new group will focus on generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and web services for...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 23:35
ICANN Board rules on non-safeguard GAC advice Resolution doesn’t resolve much; uncertainty remains. The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has approved a resolution ruling on a number of items of advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee with regards to new top level domain names. The resolution is specifically limited to non-safeguard advice. You can see ...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 23:25
27 investors chip $7 million into .Club as it wins private TLD auction .Club applicant eliminates competition and raises $7 million to launch top level domain. .Club Domains, LLC has raised a combined $7 million from 27 individual investors and has eliminated its competition for the .club top level domain through a private auction. The new top level domain applicant recently filed its SEC Form D to rais...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 16:56
10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats Limit the chances of receiving bogus legal threats with these helpful tips. [Editor's note: Bill Sweetman participated in a legal panel about domain names at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. He gave ten tips to help domain owners protect their domains from bogus legal threats. I asked him if he would turn his talk into an article
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 15:45
Heads up, .GMBH applicants: this trademark application is slipping through the cracks .GMBH applicant’s trademark application approved for publishing. I’ve written numerous times about companies trying to trademark top level domain name strings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although the USPTO won’t grant trademarks on top level domains, some applicants have been able to sneak their appli...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 15:20
33 end user domain sales Miami’s airport and a Boston sports network among end user domain name buyers. Afternic released a double report of domain sales this week covering the past two weeks. Here are 33 end user domain name sales from the list. Environmental company Summerhill Group bought Summerhill.com for $12,500. Clearwater Seafoods in Nova Scoti...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 11:8
Top Domain Name Wire stories of May 2013 Ron Paul, GoDaddy, and a video game domain name took top billing last month. May was a busy month at Domain Name Wire thanks in part to a former politician losing a battle to claim his name on the web. Here are the top five stories: 1. Breaking: Ron Paul found guilty of reverse domain
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 9:43
Microsoft buys ToDoApp.com and 16 other domain name sales Microsoft and Magazines.com among end user buyers at Sedo last week. Is Microsoft about to release an organization app a la Evernote and Google’s Keep? It bought ToDoApp.com last week on Sedo. Here are details on that sale and many other end user sales. Financing First Limited in the United Kingdom bought DentalFinance.co.uk fo...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 13:41
A subtle (yet big) change in GoDaddy’s ads Verisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This is nothing new. GoDaddy frequently advertises on baseball broadcasts. But something about the ad looked different. Take a look. Can’t see the difference? Here’s a close-up....
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 11:29
Scammy survey site beats Tumblr in domain dispute Lawyers don’t provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed with World Intellectual Property Organization, Tumblr argued the domain name was reg...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 10:5
Irony alert: Trademark company loses cybersquatting claim on TrademarkDirect.com.au “UK’s Leading Trade Mark Service” loses cybersquatting complaint. Oh, it’s delicious. Trade Mark Direct Ltd of London has lost a cybersquatting complaint filed under the .au Dispute Resolution Policy for the domain name TrademarkDirect.com.au. The irony of the Trade Mark Direct’s utter failure to provide...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 9:47
GoDaddy releases major update to Domain Manager Upgrades to Domain Manager make it easier to complete common tasks. GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has released a new Domain Manager for managing domain names held at the registrar. Compared to other registrars, GoDaddy’s system has always been a bit bloated. The new interface is a step in the right d...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 20:43
Why do people waste money filing this sort of UDRP against Name Administration? No one has ultimately prevailed after filing a UDRP against Name Administration. Before you filed a UDRP, you’d think you’d google the domain name’s owner to learn more. Yet time after time I see people file long shot UDRP complaints against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Today’s winner is the co...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 17:14
If you’re going to TRAFFIC in October, you should buy a ticket now Discounted tickets available through tomorrow. The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is expensive, and everyone has their opinion about whether it’s worth it or not. But there’s one thing that’s not debatable: if you know you’re going to go, buy your ticket early. Until tomorrow afternoon you can get a ticket to the O...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 11:55
Can this one simple step save you in a UDRP? A disclaimer on a domain offer page could help you defend against a UDRP. There was a panel on domain name law and the UDRP during last week’s TRAFFIC conference. Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja provided some tips on how to mitigate the risk of losing a domain in a UDRP. One suggestion was to
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 10:1
Telepathy fends off Valio’s attack on LGG.com Company tries to make claim to LGG.com 15 years after it’s registered. Telepathy, the domain name company run by domain investor Nat Cohen, has successfully defended his domain name LGG.com in a UDRP. The complaint was brought by Valio Ltd, a Finnish dairy company and was filed with Czech Arbitration Court. If you’re not ...
