According to a Press Release by Manwin Licensing International, they filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit for antitrust violations against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and ICM Registry (ICM). In the PR Manwin says that the amended complaint drops two related state law claims against ICM and ICANN. "While Manwin believes that it would have prevailed on … [Read more...]
ICM Releases All Failed Sunrise Application Back Into The Pool Of Avaliable Domains
According to an email I just received from UnitedDomains.com a Registrar, ICM yesterday: "Yesterday all failed Sunrise applications were released to the public for registration. A"pplicants who did not have successful Sunrise applications can attempt to register active and blocked domain names." "Members of the Sponsored Community who did not qualify for the Sunrise period also have a … [Read more...]
Update On Manwin Vs ICM on .XXX: Motions To Dismiss Off The Calendar: Settlement Talks Underway?
In the ongoing lawsuit that Manwin filed against ICM Registry and ICANN over the .XXX TLD, the parties today entered into a joint stipulation that allows Manwin to file an amended complaint by January 17th and gives ICM 60 days to file a response to the complaint. You may remember that ICM filed motions to dismiss the case filed by Manwin, the operator of adult sites such as YouPorn.com in … [Read more...]
One .XXX Registration May Lead Hawaii To Pass New Law On The “Fraudulent Use of Domain Names
According to a report in hawaiinewsnow.com, one domain name registration, universityofhawaii.xxx, has the University of Hawaii asking legislators to toughen laws to make it easier to go after website operators who "fraudulent use domain names. In a story a couple of days ago the University of Hawaii (UH) is none to happy that someone registered universityofhawaii.xxx and put up some porn on … [Read more...]
Compete.com Says XXX.com Traffic Doubled Since The .XXX Launch
With hundreds of new right of the dot, gTLD extensions being applied for, I though I would take a look at the most recent extension, .XXX and see what effect it was having on the traffic of XXX.com According to Compete.com traffic on XXX.com has doubled since the launch of the .XXX extension in December. According to Compete XXX.com had around 100K visitors a month, each month for 2011 up … [Read more...]
ICM Responds To Manwin’s .XXX Suit With Motions To Dismiss
ICM filed its repose to the lawsuit filed by Manwin Licensing International, S.a.r.l. (“Manwin”) and Digital Playground, Inc. (“DP”), which was recently acquired by Manwin, asking the Court to throw out the case. Manwin operates various adult websites including YouPorn.com ICM asks the court to hold a hearing on its Motion to Dismiss on April 2nd. We have read through the 31 page memo in … [Read more...]
Afilias: .XXX Breaks 200K Domains Under Management: A Look Inside The Numbers
According to Afilias the company that provides the back-end operations for the .XXX registry, .XXX broke 200,000 domain names under management today. According to the report I received, .XXX now has 200,295 domain names in the system. According to Registrarstats.com there are only 110K domain in the root. I reached out to Stuart Lawley CEO of ICM registry which operates the .XXX registry … [Read more...]