Posts written by Mathya Say

A recent amendment has been approved by the Russian Cabinet and stipulates that “registration of trademarks cannot be refused on the grounds that an identical domain name already exists”.

However, it does not avoid cybersquatting, the widespread practice of registering domains around well-known brands in order to sell or exploit them at profit. At this day, the common way to solve .ru domain disputes is to file a case at arbitration courts. According to Baker & McKenzie, dispute resolution costs can fluctuate between $5000 to $50,000 (source: Moscow Times). (more…)

The registry recently announced the different phases of .me registrations (read our previous article “.me and you? be ready for Montenegro domain names!“). The schedule appears to be similar to .asia launch. However, a Montegrin Sunrise will be first set up and restricted to Montegrin entities. Thus Trademark holders may be preceded by local companies and residents. (more…)

Last registration phase for .asia domains is going alive within the next hours. Registrations will be based on a first-come-first-served system. During the ealier stages,

- 30,000 .asia applications during Sunrise period and Pioneers
- 300,000 domain applications submitted during Landrush
- 45,000 domains will go to auction

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The US airline company chooses .com instead .mobi to enhance its mobile web services. With 1.6 million visits on www.aa.com each day, the company opted to exploit the popularity of its website and the easiness of typing and memorizing its domain name. Indeed, aa.com is much more customer-friendly than the registered domain americanairlines.mobi! Moreover, .mobi does not allow registration of one and two letter domains. Dot-mobi domains must be at least three characters in length. (more…)

According to Clek Media Inc., the domain name fund.com has been buyed by Fund.com Inc., an online financial information publisher formely named Meade Technologies Inc. This all-cash transaction was valued at $9,999,950. Previous sale record was business.com, sold for $7.5 million.

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Have you ever tried to read a reversed text? In fact, this skill would be useful to feel friendly with reversed domain names! Backwording describes backward domain names (e.g : example.com -> elpmaxe.com). This term has been used by Logistik Labs within the framework of the upcoming launch of their reversed domain platform.

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Launching TLDs is very trendy… and costly! NIC-Costa Rica recently announced the opening of second-level domain names (example.cr). Until now, registration was opened for third-level domain names (example.co.cr, example.ac.cr, etc.).

A 90-day priority registration period will be set, and restricted to holders of third-level domain names. If several applications have been submitted for a same domain name, that domain name will be attributed on the first-come, first-served basis.

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DotAsia has updated the list of .asia domain applications (view application list). The new list includes .asia domains submitted during SR2b, SR2c and SR3 phases. Amid the 30,000 .asia applications, short domains (between 1 and 3 characters) and numeric domains (1.asia, 10.asia, etc.) have been hugely requested.

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St. Valentine’s day is approaching. Haven’t got any gift idea? Maybe you should declare your love or communicate your wishes by acquiring a .me domain name. Why not listento.me? read.me? creditcardfor.me? crazyof.me? kiss.me? (this is a suggestion from a colleague…)

However, the registry has not determined a date for registration launch yet. Regarding the NIC.ME rules, dot me will not be submitted to restrictions and domains will contain between 2 to 63 characters. According to the registry evaluation, Go Daddy will act as agent for domain exploitation. (more…)

As the Webby Awards honor websites, interactive advertising, online video and mobile, the Domainer’s Choice Awards reward domain services, industry actors and much more. Domainer’s Choice Awards occurred within the DOMAINfest GLOBAL’s 08 conference, which took place January 21-23 at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, California. That event aims at improving domain industry cooperation and collective thinking.

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