Trademark fight over new TLDs continues to brew. I’ve written numerous times about new TLD applicants filing trademark applications for TLDs in an attempt to get a leg up on getting approval for their TLD application and fighting off competitors. In general, you can’t trademark a top ...

Both purchases were big when you add it all up. e.biz was the highest selling one letter .biz domain name at $66,001, right? And at $350,000, Overstock.com paid a lot more for o.co than o.biz, right? Don’t jump to that conclusion. Overstock was awarded o.biz, which it currently uses as a ...

Forbes published an article yesterday about how video games can teach better leadership, and the article prominently features Tucows CEO Elliot Noss. The article starts off: Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, has spent the past five years training to become a better leade...

Internet retailer snaps up one character .co domains for big bucks. On the eve of the .co general availability launch comes news that Overstock.com purchased the o.co domain name for a whopping $350,000. This must be the sale that Michael Berkens alluded to. From the press release: Many visionar...

Company gives more details about its world tour program. Following up to our story a couple weeks ago, Sedo has launched its SedoPro World Tour web site. It includes specific dates for the first three events: Boston, USA (Kick Off Event) When: August 31st to September 1st Seoul, Korea When: 10th S...

Web hosting conference kicks off in Austin, Texas. The annual HostingCon conference kicked off in Austin this morning, with organizers expecting 1,500 or more attendees. I count over 115 vendors who will be showing their wares on Tuesday and Wednesday. A number of exhibitors are domain name compa...

ICANN Ombudsman tries to get name taken out of public record in air travel dispute. Earlier this year DNW wrote about ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie and a complaint he filed against Air Canada. A Canadian Transportation Panel found that Fowlie “engaged in abusive and offensive behaviour”...

Good keyword domains still available in .co. Now that the .co landrush has ended, I have compiled a list of 265 .co domain names that weren’t picked up in the period. That means they will be available on July 20. But many of these keyword domains will be in demand, meaning you need to pre-r...

.Co registrar creates innovative way to increase odds of getting your .co domain on July 20. I’ve written about how various registrars are handling pre-registrations for .co domain names, which will become generally available July 20. None of the registrars has been explicit about how they&#...

Education site worried about effect of corresponding .org domain name. This morning I came across a story about an education web site at NewsBowl.com that is worried that a marijuana site is at NewsBowl.org. The owner is worried that students will type .org after NewsBowl instead of .com and find ...

.Co landrush proves significant interest in securing .co domains. The .Co landrush application period has closed, and the domain name registry has received 27,905 applications during the period. That brings the total applications received to date (including sunrise) to 39,000. 2,523 domain names r...

Domain Name Wire locates a long lost video of Sarah Palin talking about domainers. Well folks, the domain industry doesn’t get media attention like this every day. Check out this video of Sarah Palin talking with Larry King about the domain name industry. Hear about her love of Bob Parsons...

More domain name issues for ChatRoulette. ChatRoulette.com has become somewhat of a hot button topic in domainer circles thanks to the CamRoulette.com saga. So it’s interesting to see a new set of features from ChatRoulette with domain implications. First, the company launched ChannelRoulett...

Tucker Carlson’s publication The Daily Caller buys domain name KeithOlbermann.com. From one political pundit to another: I own you! Tucker Carlson has acquired the domain name KeithOlbermann.com. Actually, it’s Carlson’s The Daily Caller that acquired the domain name, and now sh...

Yahoo to transition to Bing search results very soon. It’s time to stop talking about Yahoo search rankings and the traffic the search engine delivers to your site. Starting as early as next month, no one will care how well you’ve tricked Yahoo into ranking your site well. Today Yahoo!...

First .music, now .berlin wants extra credit for being early to the new TLD game. I wrote previously about how one applicant for the .music top level domain name requested favored status since he had been working on the concept for so long. Now another group is asking for similar status. dotBERLIN...

Company files information with SEC regarding legal setback. Shortly after receiving an adverse decision in appeals court last week regarding an anti-trust lawsuit, VeriSign filed an 8-K with the SEC explaining the opinion. The disclosure summarizes changes to the court’s original order, and ...

First diapers.com, now soap.com. It’s been a couple months since I first became aware that the company that owns Diapers.com was getting ready to launch a new store at Soap.com. Today the store went live. Soap.com is an online store for toiletries and other household products. Think of it...

.Jobs debate “ends” Thursday. I wrote last month about a move to open up the .jobs domain name. Currently only companies can register .jobs domains, and only with their company name (e.g. ATT.jobs). The group behind this sponsored TLD wants to open it up, with the idea of creating a t...

VaultPress secures WordPress in a vault. Backing up a WordPress blog has never been particularly easy or efficient. Earlier this year I wrote about the first truly “easy” backup tool. It works fine and costs me only 10 cents a month in hosting. But now Automattic, the company behind...

Your guide to enjoying Austin during HostingCon. Visiting Austin next week for HostingCon? Want to get away and experience Austin? Here are some things to do while you’re in town. 1. Bats – no visit to Austin is complete without watching North America’s largest urban bat populat...

FreeMarket.com leads domain name sales for the week. Hey, it’s a free market out there. That means the price of a domain name is dictated by how much someone is willing to sell it for and how much someone is willing to pay. A prime example: FreeMarket.com, which Sedo just brokered for $93,0...

Web site builder gaining new users — and new developed sites — every minute. Last month I wrote about DevHub‘s latest web site builder release and noted that the company was adding a social element to building web sites. The social functionality just went live this week, and so ...

A generic, a typo, or neither. The owner of Casino.com has failed to convince a World Intellectual Property Forum panel that it should get the domain name Caisinos.com. The case was filed by Mansion (Gibraltar) Limited of Gibraltar, which claimed that Caisinos.com is merely a typo of its Casino.com...

Political group trying to retroactively create and protect brand. One of the many “Tea Party” political groups, Tea Party Patriots, is running into some problems doing retroactive brand management. Tea Party Patriots, Inc. has filed three UDRP domain dispute cases, and only won one of ...