Blog The Brand » auction http://blog.legitiname.com Online Brand News and More Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en The .me event calendar http://blog.legitiname.com/2008/04/01/the-me-event-calendar/ http://blog.legitiname.com/2008/04/01/the-me-event-calendar/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:23:35 +0000 Mathya Say http://blog.legitiname.com/2008/04/01/the-me-event-calendar/ 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.

.me schedule

Date Phase Description
May 1-May 6 Montenegrin Sunrise only Montenegrin entities are eligible to registration
an auction will be set up if they are several applications for a domain
May 6-May 20 General Sunrise registration will be probably opened to intellectual property holders
May 20-June 6 Quiet Period 5-day or 7-day Sunrise auctions for domains that received several applications during Montegrin Sunrise and General Sunrise
June 6-June 26 Landrush registration opened to local and foreign companies and individuals
June 26-July 15 Quiet Period 5-day or 7-day Landrush auctions for domains that received several applications
July 17 Open Registration domains allocated on first-come, first-served basis
September 2008 (forecast) “Premium Names” auctions auctions for highly desired domains. These premium names are generic words and phrases commonly used.

source : NIC.ME

Similar Posts:]]> http://blog.legitiname.com/2008/04/01/the-me-event-calendar/feed/ .asia: updated application and auction lists http://blog.legitiname.com/2008/02/11/asia-updated-application-and-auction-lists/ http://blog.legitiname.com/2008/02/11/asia-updated-application-and-auction-lists/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:53:30 +0000 Mathya Say http://blog.legitiname.com/2008/02/11/asia-updated-application-and-auction-lists/ 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.

Meanwhile, the Pioneer Domains Program has been occurring. This period has been subdivided into 5 categories: initially Community Pioneers, Global Brand Pioneers and Partner Pioneers, then Celebrity Pioneers and Social Pioneers.

For applicants with intellectual property rights, the follow-up of .asia applications is consequently much more complicated, but necessary in order to react rapidly in case of infringing domain names. The .asia registry has adopted a dispute resolution policy, which allows complainants to submit their case to WIPO.

“Fortunately”, an auction process is set in case of several applications for a same domain name (view auction list). A few bids already exceeded thousands of dollars (see table below). Thus auctions appear as a way to solve conflicts, whether or not you own rights. The current auctions related to priority registration period will give a foretaste of the Landrush phase, starting 20th February 2008 and opened to any entity located in Asia.

Top 10 .asia auctions

ace.asia USD $20,501
tyco.asia USD $7,600
spotlight.asia USD $5,700
edge.asia USD $5,400
parliament.asia USD $5,200
dove.asia USD $5,100
lifesavers.asia USD $5,100
camel.asia USD $5,100
cheers.asia USD $4,100
reach.asia USD $4,100

source: DotAsia (2008.02.10)

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A lot of domain areas have been covered during this conference, such as:

  • basics of portfolio management (renewal, drop, etc.) for industry newcomers,
  • domain traffic analysis (origin, nature, trends) for better decision making (keep, drop, sell),
  • negotiation (how to create a win win situation),
  • legal issues (trademark infringement, reverse domain hijacking which describes false cybersquatting accusations in order to recover a domain name),
  • financial matters: tax issues, business plan,
  • industry trends: upcoming TLDs (.tel, .post, etc.), domain branding, advertising services and domain trading.

According to Verisign’s last industry report, there are over 146 millions domain names registered throughout the world. This represents a six percent growth over the third quarter 2007. The growth of this industry is expected to be higher in the next months.

Domainer’s Choice Awards winners:

Best Domain Auctions SnapNames, Moniker
Best Domain Financial Services Escrow.com
Best Domain Marketplace Sedo.com
Best Domain Publication DN Journal
Best Domainer Tools DomainTools.com
Best Domainers Blog ElliotsBlog.com
Best Hosting Company GoDaddy
Best Industry Spokesperson Frank Schilling
Best Registrar Award Moniker
Domain Ambassador Award Castello Brothers
Domainers Rising Star Castello Brothers
Industry Achievement Award Kevin Ham
Industry Customer Service Eben Smith Sedo
Industry Trade Association Internet Commerce Association
Parking Company Award TrafficZ

source : domainnews.com

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Domain auctions on eBay concern by far .com domain names (93%). Domains for sale are frequently related to porn industry (bestdamnpornstars.com) and often exploit events (US primaries and caucuses 2008, ClintonObamaIn2008.com).

Moreover, a lot of domain names are infringing rights: celebrities are targeted (angelinajolie.name, britneyspearstears.com) and trademarks are cybersquatted (yahoo.is, WiiiTV.com, googlevideosonline.com), including ironically eBay brands (paypal4less.com, ebayandyahoo.info, ebaybuyitsellit.com).

Results for ‘Domain names’ category on ebay.com (10/01/08):

.com 3220
.net 65
.org 17
other 160
total 3462

Domain bids start from $0.01 (opete.com) up to million dollars and some domain names are sold by package. Below a few examples of bids:

voter2008.com, uspresidentialprimaries.com $1,125,000.00
GoogleNetBox.com $1,500,000.00
reallybig.com, reallybig.net $2,000,000.00
BusinessWorld.com $20,999,000.00
erotik.com / .de / .info $2,500,000.00
pizza.us $50,000.00

Thus the leading auction platform seems to attract not only good counterfeiters, but also cybersquatters…

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