RightoftheDot.com (ROTD) themed auction of domain names that were in the Namescon auction but went unsold, start to close out tomorrow afternoon, Monday March 14th All the auctions are public, meaning you didn't/don't have ot pre-order the domains to bid on them. You can join the auction on any given domain, anytime before an auction ends. As you can see below, the while some of the … [Read more...]
March 2017 ICANN Meeting Set For Copenhagen, Denmark
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced they will be holding its 2017 March conference from March 11-16, 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark The ICANN conference will be hosted by the The Danish Business Authority in conjunction with the Danish Internet Forum and the convention bureau. If you're planning on going you better bring some warm clothes. Apparently … [Read more...]
Infographic on New gTLD’s Left To Be Launched
Yesterday we published a list of the new gTLD's that are left to be launched in the current new gTLD round. Yesterday the European Domain Centre ApS published an infographic with all the new gTLD's that were or will be launched in 2016 or later. We definitely missed a few extensions in our post and well let's face it, infographics are way cooler than just words. So thanks to Christopher … [Read more...]
ButtonMakers.com Registered in 2007 Lost in UDRP To Co. That Registered TM in 2014
The domain name ButtonMakers.com which was registered by the domain holder in 2007 was just lost in a UDRP to Rockstar Industries, LLP which registered a trademark in 2014. The one member panel of Dr. Katalin Szamosi found the Complainant had established common law trademark rights to the term "Button Makers" as early as September 2004, despite that it's pretty generic as far as I'm … [Read more...]
.Club Rings Up $90K in Premium Domain Sales In February
.Club sold $90,000 in premium domain name sales in February 2016. According to a blog post on it's site, .Club, without any auctions being held during the short month, 17 different registrars and Sedo contributed to a "very respectable Premium Name Sales total of $89,236.65. This brings the total cumulative premium name sales for .CLUB to $3,629,874.44." "During the month of February 2016 … [Read more...]
How Many New gTLD’s Are Left To Be Launched?
A reader to thedomains.com asked as a comment on another post, as to how many new gTLD's are there still to come Good question The answer is quite a few. We have excluded .Brand gTLD's which can basically launch once the .Brand decides to move it along There are two new gTLD's that are scheduled for an ICANN auction in May unless settled privately prior. .DOCTOR .MOBILE The … [Read more...]
Chinese Domain Registrar Moves from 72e.Net To 72.Win
According to a press release out today, Foshan DiYong Network Co. Ltd, a domain name registrar in China has decided to change their domain name, from 72e.net to the new gTLD 72.win. .Win is owned and operated by Famous Four Media, and Richard Downs, VP of Sales at Famous Four Media had this to say in the PR: “We are over the moon with the growth of the .WIN domain extension. “We are … [Read more...]