Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder's case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day. ""Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainant’s] authorization, Respondent is likely intending to … [Read more...]
Looks like 86 Sunrise Domains For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers
The new gTLD's .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86 domain name registrations in .law and 30 for .abogado. However interestingly there seems … [Read more...]
.Wang Adds 90K+ Domains in 1 Day: 160K in 3 Days: Becomes 3rd Largest New gTLD
The new gTLD .Wang gained some 90,000 new domain registrations in the last day or so and over 160,000 new domain registrations since October 17th which is an increase of 50% According to Registered.Today .Wang gained more than 90,000 new domain registrations yesterday. According to ntldstats.com, the number of .Wang domain registration has grown from 285,000 on October 17th to … [Read more...]
MyRescue.Dog Awards A Total of $100,000 to 16 Local Dog Shelters
Petfinder Foundation announced the winners of the MyRescue.dog fundraising campaign, a month-long effort to celebrate rescue dogs and raise funds for the shelters and rescue organizations that save them. The campaign began on National Dog Day August 26 and ran through Sept. 26 www.MyRescue.dog a site built on a new domain extension of the new gTLD domain name registry Donuts. The “top dog,” … [Read more...]
There Are Now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars
During remarks made at the 54th ICANN Meeting being held in Dublin, Akram Atallah, the President of the Global Domain Domains Division of ICANN stated that there are now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars in the world. ICANN has accredited 579 domain name registrars just since the last ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires 53, which was held June 21-25, 2015. ICANN has also dropped the … [Read more...]
2014 Final UDRP Stats From WIPO & NAF: 0.003% of All Domains Subject to A UDRP/URS
This week the WIPO published it stats for the cases it determine under Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") in 2014. Back in September the other major organization that hears UDRP and the only one to decide cases filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System ("URS") the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) announced their stats for 2014. So now that we have the stats for … [Read more...]
Twitter is interested in the second round of new gtld applications
TrademarksandBrandsOnline.com published an article that Twitter plans to participate in the second round of new gtld expansion. Stephen Coates is trademark counsel for the social media giant, he told the website that he doesn't know exactly which extensions they would apply for, but that he would imagine .Twitter being high on the list. Interestingly Coates said the jury was still out on … [Read more...]