Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just offered Rightside (NAME) $5 Million dollars cash to buy four of their new gTLD extensions; .Army, .Vet, .Dentist, Dance. The four extensions were uncontested, meaning Rightside did not have to buy them in an auction and got them for the $185,000 application fee per string. The four extensions according to ntldstats.com have a total of less than … [Read more...]
Namejet Increasing Minimum Price on Pending Delete Domains To $69 from $39 Today
I just got an email from Namejet.com that effective sometime today their "promotional pricing" of $39 minimum on backorders on Pending Delete domain names is ending. The new minimum backorder for Pending Delete domains will now be $69. "This is being done as part of a broader initiative to increase our drop-catch efficacy and to improve the overall customer experience on NameJet by better … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Files UDRP To Protect His “Domain King” Mark & There’s More To Come
Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the "Domain King" has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. Rick not only is commonly known as the Domain King inside the domain community, but has a federally registered trademark on the term "Domain King" in the United States since 2003 (which … [Read more...]
Google Launches Unfiltered.News
Google's parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a "new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a site which analyzes news feeds from around the world, and tells you which news stories are most missed by the media where you live. From there, you can see how these stories are being covered … [Read more...]
Google Moves Its Domain Name Registrar To Domains.Google
Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April's Fool's day when Google temporarily put up "com.google". This is for real and in a post Google says: Introducing domains.google — a new URL for Google Domains "We’re so excited about new domain name endings, we decided to use one ourselves! Starting today, you can find us at domains.google" "Like it? Get a … [Read more...]
Three Letter Domain, EHF.com Lost in UDRP
A three member UDRP panel just handed over the three letter domain name EHF.com to the European Handball Federation The panel of Flip Jan Claude Petillion, John Swinson and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was parked, listed for sale for $150,000, owned by someone who is in the business of domaining and was registered 5 years after the trademark of the Complainant was filed. It … [Read more...]
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop On The Chinese Domain Market?
According to a story which appeared in globaltimes.cn, "the Chinese government is stepping up efforts to strengthen management of the Internet with the recent drafting of an "unprecedented" regulation on Internet domain names." According to a draft regulation on Internet domain names issued by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Internet domain names with access to China … [Read more...]