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Hilton’s next hotel brand will be Motto
Company registers domain names for Motto hotel brand.
In 2015 I scooped that Hilton (NYSE: HLT) was getting ready to launch a new hotel brand called Tru because of domain names it had registered. The company is now getting ready to launch a hotel brand called Motto.
Yesterday, Hilton registered these domain names:
HiltonMotto.com
hiltonmottohotels.com
mottobyhilton.com
mottochicago.com
mottodallas.com
mottohilton.com
mottohotelchicago.com
mottohoteldallas.com
mottohotelnewyork.com
mottohotelorlando.com
mottohotels.com
mottohotelsanfrancisco.com
mottonewyork.com
mottoorlando.com
mottosanfrancisco.com
While the domain names tip the company’s hand, a keen observer of trademark filings would have picked up on this earlier. In April, Hilton filed an intent-to-use trademark application for Motto for “Rental of temporary accommodation; reservations of temporary accommodations; hotel, motel, bar, café and restaurant services.”
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Supreme Court ruling leads to domain name bonanza
Punters register domain names for sports betting.
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that effectively allows states to legalize sports betting. This is a huge economic opportunity, and some people see value in registering sports betting domain names.
According to .com domain name registry Verisign, these were the top ten “trending” keywords in .com registrations last month:
1. sports
2. bet
3. apple
4. bets
5. escort
6. gambling
7. betting
8. adverts
9. bookie
10. opportunity
At least six of the domains are directly related to sports betting.
Verisign calculates the trending keywords based on which terms had the highest percentage increase in registrations from one month to the next.
I haven’t noticed an uptick in domain sales related to sports betting yet, but I expect this will happen as more states legalize sports betting.
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.LLC and .INC domain names are on their way
With .Inc acquisition, we’ll finally see two of the better corporate identifier domains this year.
It’s been a long wait, but two of the best “corporate identifier” top level domain names are coming to the market.
Afilias’ .LLC domain name is in the trademark sunrise period until July 5. A landrush will run from July 9-20, followed by general availability on July 23. Regular retail pricing is in the $30 range.
Another company, Intercap Holdings Inc, has acquired rights to run the .INC top level domain name. It plans to run a sunrise in October, a 7-day early access period in November and also enter general availability in November. .INC domain names will come with a hefty $2,000 suggested retail price.
Neither domain has registrant restrictions, but the price of .INC domains will limit the buyer pool.
A couple of lesser-known corporate identifier domain names have already come to market. .GMBH has about 20,000 names in the zone file and .LTDA has fewer than 1,000.
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DVT.com case shows the right way to park a three letter domain name
Parked page ads help show rights or legitimate interests in the domain.
Three letter domain names are extremely valuable. That’s one of the reasons you see so many cybersquatting complaints under UDRP against these domains. When quoted with a “high” price to acquire the domain, the complainant decides to try its luck with an inexpensive UDRP filing.
That was the case with DVT.com. A South African company called Dynamic Visual Technologies (Pty) Ltd filed a UDRP against the domain owner, who acquired it as an investment last year.
The complainant’s use of the acronym predates the registrant’s ownership of the domain, but the case fell apart (in part) because the complainant didn’t show that the domain owner lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain.
It helped that the domain owner parked the domain and it is showing ads related to deep vein thrombosis. It would have been troublesome for the domain owner if the ads on the page were related to the products and services that the complainant sells.
If you park an acronym domain, it’s best to lock the keywords to relate to a “generic” meaning of the acronym.
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The Amazon FBA business model – DNW Podcast #189
How to create a business on Amazon.
Ecommerce is a huge business opportunity, but owning a business with physical inventory can be overwhelming. Our guests this week run ecommerce businesses in which Amazon handles the hard stuff for them, including fulfillment of the product. Noah and Adam Weitzman of the AMZ Answers Podcast run what’s called ‘Fulfillment by Amazon’ businesses, or FBA. You’ve probably seen some of these listed for sale on Flippa before. Noah and Adam will explain what FBA is, how to get started, and if it’s the panacea that it sounds like.
Also: Tiered Access, reverse domain name hijacking and more.
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Notable NameJet sales from May
Here are some of the more interesting sales at NameJet from the past month.
NameJet sold 94 domain names for $2,000 or more in May for a total of $416,000. Here are ten sales that stuck out to me, plus the full list below.
BitcoinSecurity.com $6,900 – I think you could hand reg a domain with bitcoin, coin, or crypto in it, get it into an expired domain auction and see it sell for a lot these days. (This particular domain was registered in 2011.)
Criminology.com $15,100 – This domain sold on Sedo for $24,000 in 2011.
Builds.com $6,100 – This is an interesting one. In general, the plural makes it much less valuable than the singular. But could someone turn this into a brand? Or maybe use it for “software builds”?
StudyGuides.com $3,054 – I like this domain, especially at this price. Lots of opportunity here.
ThatsAwesome.com $2,600 – Is it?
MovingSucks.com $2,000 – Yes it does.
Domain NamePayment Amount yig.com16100 pate.com16000 criminology.com15100 zoma.com11200 raincloud.com11102 brevard.com10988 psyweb.com9999 kuikui.com9311 compas.com9255 aditi.com7978 bitcoinsecurity.com6900 intellisys.com6389 grafica.com6301 builds.com6100 flowering.com5999 cancunrealestate.com5988 96315.com5809 58852.com5699 18823.com5599 myvehicle.com5560 equipo.com5305 rohe.com5099 myrussia.com5019 suitors.com5001 netguard.com5000 18812.com4799 bourbon.net4701 98817.com4599 18813.com4599 98823.com4599 18821.com4599 98829.com4599 18825.com4599 98831.com4599 96629.com4599 76689.com4599 18826.com4599 98832.com4599 18827.com4599 identy.com4095 dotnetblogengine.net4010 zamu.com4000 lightstick.com3945 perpendicular.com3877 cslib.org3832 h52.com3600 gum.net3499 yuwen123.com3487 cordlessdrills.com3188 aicomputer.com3109 optimiser.com3105 studyguides.com3054 mbgroup.com3033 pennie.com3002 h0.net3000 marsh.net2907 jdhome.com2900 koros.com2800 cantos.com2702 zspc.com2700 thatsawesome.com2600 lalinea.com2600 cotton.net2599 commercialsearch.com2599 ikinci.com2578 aracnet.com2520 awaw.com2510 tm2.com2502 wallstreetnews.com2500 babydevelopment.com2500 688866.com2500 17003.com2400 pcgroup.com2400 namesys.com2400 minecrypto.com2399 wealthwatch.com2366 vaku.com2322 hellofood.com2322 textbook.net2215 indiasports.com2202 awtar.com2200 icep.com2200 8chain.com2200 robocare.com2149 ladao.com2111 66949.com2109 58002.com2100 63787.com2100 dttd.com2100 purefaces.com2003 expressmoney.com2001 78112.com2000 movingsucks.com2000 casabranca.com2000© DomainNameWire.com 2018. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact copyright (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.
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Top Domain Name Stories from May
A whole lot of GDPR.
Here’s a look at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by pageviews:
1. Google has already GDPR’d its Whois records – Google Registry began limiting the data in Whois records well before the May 25 deadline.
2. ICANN files legal action against Tucows registrar over GDPR – And it didn’t get the answer it wanted.
3. GoDaddy will continue publishing most domain owner data – In news welcomed by many people in the domain name ecosystem, GoDaddy decided to keep most Whois information public for people outside the EU.
4. Here’s why it’s going to be hard to sell your .App domain names – .App came out with a roar in May. But selling domains is going to be difficult because of a lack of public Whois (see story #1) and because you have to install an SSL certificate in order for a .app domain to resolve. Some services have come to the rescue.
5. Sahar Sarid arrested on charges related to Mugshots.com A domain investor connected to Mugshots.com got his own mugshot.
If you missed any podcasts, take some time this weekend to listen:
#187 – Drew Wash develops businesses on premium domains – Listen
#186 – Building an Ecommerce business on your domain name – Listen
#185 – Jen Sale of Evergreen – Listen
#184 – Jean-Noël Frydman discusses his France.com saga – Listen
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Donuts acquires BudURL, rebrands as BL.INK
Acquisition will increase awareness and use of new top level domain names.
Domain name registry Donuts has acquired link management company BudURL and rebranded it as BL.INK.
Donuts quietly completed the acquisition of the Austin, TX company last year. Since then, it has been enhancing the system and developing a way for registrars to offer it to their customers as a value-added service.
Like many link shortening services, BL.INK enables customers to create shortened links based on their domain name or to use system domains. What makes BL.INK interesting is that it taps into Donuts’ inventory of over 240 top level domain names* to create contextually-relevant links.
For example, when I shorten this URL for a story about Wonder Woman 2 domain names, it gives me these link options:
With Twitter expanding its character count, the length of a “short” link is no longer a restricting factor. Donuts is betting that links will perform better when they are relevant to the page topic. The company commissioned a survey to understand which types of links people prefer to see, and most prefer short links with real words rather than character strings, the company says.
The acquisition makes sense for Donuts. BL.INK will certainly introduce more people to new top level domain options.
Donuts can also leverage its existing domain name registrar channel to sell the product. Registrars hungry for higher-margin products can offer a white label version of BL.INK to get additional subscription revenue and sell more domains, or they can get paid for referring customers directly to BL.INK.
BL.INK also has a number of enterprise clients that provide stable recurring revenue. Clients include Coca-Cola, Target and Airbnb.
A free plan (including the ability to connect a custom domain) is available. Paid plans with higher limits and more features start at $12 a month.
(* It’s worth noting that .INK is not one of Donuts’ 240 top level domains. .INK is owned by Top Level Design.)
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How to Transfer a Domain Name
These are the four steps for transferring a domain name under the newest transfer policy.
The domain name transfer process changed at the end of May. Here is the current process for transferring a domain name between domain registrars.
1. Unlock your domain.
Transfer lock must be turned off on your domain before you initiate a transfer. This can be done within your registrar account.
2. Obtain the authorization code from your registrar.
This code can also be called the EPP code or transfer code. It is domain-specific. Most registrars will display this code next to your domain or email it to you. For example, at GoDaddy you click “Transfer domain away from GoDaddy” to initiate a transfer and get the authorization code.
3. Order a transfer at the new domain registrar.
You will need to provide the new domain name registrar with the authorization code.
4. Receive email from the old domain name registrar.
The old domain name registrar will send you a notice that the domain is being transferred. If you do nothing, the domain will be transferred within five days. Some registrars give you an option to expedite the transfer by clicking a link in the email.
Note: The old transfer process required the new registrar to send an email to the current registrant of the domain and get their authorization before proceeding. The elimination of that step has caused the transfer process to break temporarily at some registrars.
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10 recent Sedo end user sales
An aviation company, gaming PC and skateboard company recently bought domain names.
This is another slightly dated Sedo end user sales list from May 14. I was able to capture Whois information before it was obscured because of GDPR. Many of these sites also already forward to another domain or are developed.
You can view previous lists like this here.
BroadwayTickets.nyc $25,000 – The Broadway League Inc., which owns Broadway.org, bought BroadwayTickets.nyc before it was auctioned on the Sedo .NYC auction.
Viagio.com $19,888 – HostelCulture International Limited runs a site that is like Hotels.com but for hostels. Viaggio (with two g’s) means travel in Italian, so I suspect with one g it means travel in another language.
Dynamind.com $15,000 – Mind Institute SE is a counseling and psychotherapy practice in Germany.
TiMedia.com and Ti-media.com $10,000 each – The Whois record has privacy but the domains point to AWS and a password-protected site.
ScienceDaily.de $8,999 – ScienceDaily LLC uses the domain name ScienceDaily.com but picked up the German equivalent.
FlyFreedom.com $5,000 – Freedom Aviation is an aviation maintenance, rental and services company.
WePC.com $3,500 – WePC helps people build gaming computers.
Hive.xyz $2,990 – The site is being developed as a search engine for learning/knowledge.
Longboards.net $2,150 – The domain is forwarding to LongboardTests.com, a site that compares “longboard” skateboards.
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Timing is everything: why .XXX dwarfs other adult top level domain names
Lots of competition has limited registration numbers for each new TLD.
Last month, Minds + Machines (MMX) announced that it was acquiring ICM Registry, the company behind four adult-themed top level domain names including .xxx. It’s interesting to take a look at the level of success ICM had for its four domains and to consider how some of the 2012 round of new top level domains would have performed if they didn’t have so much competition.
They likely would have performed quite well.
Consider .XXX, a sponsored top level domain name that ICM Registry introduced in 2011. It received 80,000 sunrise applications. The applications alone drove $13 million in revenue, not including auction revenue.
At the start of 2018, there were about 80,000 .xxx domains registered and another 80,000 that companies paid to block from registration.
Compare this to ICM Registry’s three domain names released as part of the new top level domain name program.
.Sex (8,000 in zone file)
.Adult (9,000 in zone file)
.Porn (11,000 in zone file)
You can make a good argument that none of these are as good as .XXX. Still, the results are worlds apart. It’s worth noting that .sex was released about a half year after the other two and has the fewest registrations so far.
Of course, .XXX is a unique domain. A lot of companies registered these domains defensively, and it’s expensive for companies to register all new top level domain names defensively. I recall friends who own small businesses asking me about .xxx back in 2011. None of them asked me about .sex, .porn and .adult when those domains launched.
Another domain to consider is .guru. Guru is a fine domain name, but it clearly would not have performed as well if it wasn’t among the first batch of new TLDs to be released. Until .app, .guru had more pre-orders than any other new TLD at GoDaddy. A lot of money flowed into .guru as new TLDs first came to the market. There are currently 65,000 .guru domains in the zone file.
It’s interesting to ponder how many registrations some of the new TLDs would have if they pre-dated the big increase in inventory of new domain extensions.
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.Com Leaderboard for domain name registrars
Little change at the top for domain name registrar rankings.
ICANN has published the latest official .com data from February.
In February, these were the top 10 registrars in terms of new .com registrations:
1. GoDaddy.com* 846,327 (974,020 in January)
2. Tucows** 206,361 (220,521)
3. Endurance+ 149,255 (175,515)
4. NameCheap Inc. 117,911 (134,155)
5. Web.com++ 103,383 (105,596)
6. Google Inc. 87,990 (96,020)
7. HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. 81,015 (143,353)
8. NameSilo 60,550 (60,280)
9. Xin Net Technology Corporation 52,388 (127,808)
10. 1&1 51,647
Here’s the current leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of February 2018. There were approximately 135.8 million total .com domains registered as of the end of February:
1. GoDaddy* 47,490,250 (47,161,126 in December)
2. Tucows** 13,014,976 (13,123,965)
3. Endurance+ 7,844,339 (7,927,353)
4. Web.com++ 6,705,866 (6,684,867)
5. HiChina 4,999,217 (5,129,880)
6. NameCheap 4,085,262 (3,960,861)
7. 1&1 3,766,579 (3,770,121)
8. GMO 2,111,351 (2,171,151)
9. Xin Net Technology Corporation 1,778,658 (1,753,431)
10. Google 1,534,162 (1,466,445)
Many domain companies have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below and let me know if I’ve missed any large registrars.
* Includes GoDaddy and Wild West Domains
** Includes Tucows and Enom
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain and Bigrock. There are other Endurance registrars, but these are the biggest.
++ Includes Network Solutions and Register.com
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Austin company with $57 million in funding uses .CASH domain
Another big company has chosen an alternative to .com.
Dosh, an Austin company with significant backing, uses the domain name Dosh.Cash.
I was reading a story this weekend about Dosh, an Austin startup that recently raised $44 million. It has raised $57 million in total, according to Crunchbase.The company lets you link your credit cards and get cash back when you make purchases at certain companies. The idea is nothing new, but the company seems to be executing well; investors include PayPal and millions of users have registered this year.
How does this relate to domain names? Well, the company uses the domain name Dosh.cash.
Dosh is an app-only play, and if you go to Dosh.cash you will be urged to download the app.
This is a case of the top level domain name nicely complementing the purpose of the business.
Another Austin company with healthy backing–$33 million in total–uses the domain name Data.world.
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Tucows is launching TieredAccess.com for gated Whois
Domain name registrar moves forward with plans for gated access to Whois records.
With public Whois a thing of the past at many domain name registrars, Tucows is getting ready to launch a system that will allow some parties to get access to Whois records.
The company has set up the domain name TieredAccess.com. According to a message the company recently sent to resellers, the site will be updated in “the coming weeks” to allow parties to submit an application for access to Whois data.
It plans to limit this to “only those with legitimate purposes” and mentions law enforcement, intellectual property, and commercial litigation interests as examples.
Separately, the company is working through a few kinks in its reseller platforms as they relate to GDPR. For example, at Enom you could “push” transfer a domain name between resellers rather than going through the traditional domain transfer process. This involved transferring data between resellers, so that system has been disabled until it comes up with a revised solution.
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John Pollard: How to grow the usage of domain names – DNW Podcast #188
Donuts is investing in businesses that can help grow the importance of domains and the DNS.
How can we increase the importance and usage of domain names? As EVP of Registry at Donuts, John Pollard is tasked with finding new and innovative ways to grow the market. On today’s show, learn about investments the company is making in order to execute on this goal. Regardless of which TLDS are your favorite, this is a case of a company pursuing ideas that could help all businesses and domain name investors.
Also: Court shoots down ICANN over GDPR, SSL on your landing pages, CentralNic’s earnings, and Google robocalls.
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In-Store music company tries reverse domain name hijacking
Umix, LLC filed cybersquatting complaint that was an abuse of the UDRP.
A store that provides in-store music to businesses has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Umix.com.
Florida company UMix, LLC filed a complaint against Memeplex LTD of the United Kingdom. Memeplex offers a music-mixing app called Umix.
Umix, LLC was highly selective in its short complaint filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization. For example, it included a screenshot from the Wayback Machine that showed non-use of the domain, while ignoring many other captures that showed use of the domain. It also mentioned that it filed a complaint with Apple in an effort to get Umix removed from its App Store, but didn’t mention that the complaint was denied.
In finding reverse domain name hijacking, panelist John Swinson wrote:
The Complaint in this case is thoroughly deficient, and consists of less than half of one page in submissions in support of the Complainant’s case. In the Panel’s view, the Complainant made no real attempt to discharge its onus of proving the three elements of the Policy.
Further, the Complainant intentionally omitted key information in relation to the Complainant’s Apple complaint against the Respondent. The Complainant did not disclose the fact that the Respondent had responded to that complaint, and Apple had closed the complaint following the Respondent’s response. The Panel considers the Complainant filed the Complaint in an attempt to acquire the Disputed Domain Name in the wake of its unsuccessful attempt to prevent the Respondent from offering its UMIX Software via the Apple App Store. The Complainant also selectively chose to provide a historical screenshot of the website at the Disputed Domain Name which showed a parking page, and did not disclose the fact that there had been active websites associated with the Disputed Domain Name at other times since it was acquired by the Respondent in 2011. In fact, the Complainant stated that the Respondent had “squatted” on the Disputed Domain Name “for years”. This is clearly untrue, and the Complainant must have known this.
Further, despite having only recently acquired a registration for the Trade Mark, the Complainant provided no evidence of common law or unregistered trade mark rights, or of its reputation at any given time. The Complainant must have known that this would be necessary to show bad faith registration, and it is unclear whether the Complainant was aware of the 2011 date that the Respondent acquired the Disputed Domain Name.
It appears that Umix, LLC represented itself. Panelists sometimes cut a misguided, self-represented complainant some slack. But this case was too egregious.
After dealing with both an attempt to remove its app from the app store and an attempt to wrongfully take its domain name, I wouldn’t be surprised if Memeplex takes proactive action to put a stop to this.
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Company wants to trademark “.Coin” for top level domain names
Company files three applications for what will likely be popular new TLD choice in next round.
Here we go again.
A company has filed several trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in an effort to trademark the term “.coin” as a top level domain name.
.coin TLD, led by Meir Bank, filed three applications on May 16. Two are for .coin and one is for .coin TLD. Two have descriptions of “Brand development and evaluation services in the field of domain names” and the other for “Domain registry operator services”.
They also are filed as 1A applications, not intent-to-use. The applications attach this page as a specimen.
If ICANN were to hold a new top level domain name application round today, I have no doubt that .coin would attract many applicants.
But the USPTO does not issue trademarks for top level domains, and in the last round, ICANN dismissed these attempts at new TLD frontrunning.
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CentralNic reports 2017 earnings, merger with KeyDrive still in the works
Company reports revenue increase in 2017 and hopes to merge with KeyDrive in Q3.
Domain name company CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) published its 2017 annual report (pdf) today.
Topline revenue increased from £22.1m in 2016 to £24.3m in 2017. Profit after tax was basically flat at £1.0, but the company’s Adjusted EBITA measure grew from £5.5m to £6.6m.
CentralNic divides its business into three groups:
Retail – domain name registrars such as Instra and Internet.bs
Wholesale – registry services, such as managing the back end for .xyz
Enterprise – mostly premium domain name sales, but also corporate domain management and dot-brands
Revenue grew in the retail and wholesale divisions but slipped in enterprise. CentralNic has been on a premium domain hamster wheel that the company admits is running out of energy.
On the wholesale side, revenue growth came mostly from .xyz and Radix’s top level domains.
The company renegotiated its contract to run .xyz. It extended the contract until 2032 and structured it as a flat-fee agreement, with some increases possible based on volume.
CentralNic completed its acquisition of Slovakia’s .sk country code by buying SK-NIC on December 5, 2017. This contributed £0.3m of revenue for the 26 final days of the year. That business has nice margins; the adjusted EBITA margin was 79% for that period.
The company said merger discussions with KeyDrive are continuing and it hopes to complete the combination in Q3 of this year.
It also said it plans to offer online security and brand protection services to its corporate clients.
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German court denies injunction against Tucows’ registrar EPAG over GDPR
Court agrees with Tucows that some Whois data is redundant.
A German Court in Bonn has denied (pdf) ICANN’s request for an injunction against Tucows’ domain name registrar EPAG.
ICANN filed the injunction request last Friday, the day the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. EPAG had notified ICANN that it no longer planned to collect data on administrative and technical contacts for Whois to comply with GDPR. ICANN has made it clear that registrars must continue to collect this data, even if they don’t have to publish it.
The stated goal of the injunction request was to force EPAG to continue collecting the data. But ICANN (and probably Tucows) also wanted to get clarity from courts about how GDPR impacts Whois.
In denying the injunction, the court agreed with Tucows’ position that the administrative and technical contacts can be duplicates of the registrant contact information, so it’s not really needed. There has not been a requirement that registrants provide different data for each contact type. In practice, it’s usually the same (with the exception of some hosts and registrars being named the technical contact).
ICANN says the German court ruling doesn’t provide it the clarity about GDPR and Whois is was hoping to obtain.
While ICANN appreciates the prompt attention the Court paid to this matter, the Court’s ruling today did not provide the clarity that ICANN was seeking when it initiated the injunction proceedings,” said John Jeffrey, ICANN’s General Counsel and Secretary. “ICANN is continuing to pursue the ongoing discussions with the European Commission, and WP29, to gain further clarification of the GDPR as it relates to the integrity of WHOIS services.
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11 recent end user domain name sales
A software company, chatbot customer service tech company and padlock maker bought domain names.
DNW readers tell me they get a lot of value out of the end user domain sales lists. Unfortunately, these are going to be much harder to create with obscured Whois records. It can still be done, but I’ll have to rely more on use of domain names than on Whois information.
Because of travel and covering other topics over the past couple of weeks, I’m a bit behind on end user reports. I was able to capture some Whois info before it went dark, though, so I will release some of the recent sales that have taken place.
This list includes sales from Sedo’s 5-21 list. You can see previous lists like this here.
Wiise.com $18,000 – Business management software company Wiise.
MyDM.com €8,000 – dm-drogeriemarkt GmbH + Co.KG which uses the domain name DM.de.
Pendula.com $7,500 – Pendula is a customer support company with a focus on chatbots.
CryptoAwards.com $4,900 – FinExpo, a producer of financial conferences.
LesCourtiers.com $4,488 – Courtier means broker in French. The site is pitching financial products.
KaspSecurity.com €3,900 – Kasp makes physical padlocks.
PartnerHQ.com $3,000 – Partner HQ hasn’t launched yet but says it will be “Collaboration technology that enables event hosts to reach the highest levels of partner engagement and co-promotion.”
iCareAdvisors.com $3,000 – iCare Advisors creates optometric practices.
LibraryPictures.com $2,880 – Creative Artists Agency, a talent agency representing athletes, actors and other talent.
AngelChen.com $2,495 – Angel Chen is clothing designer who uses the domain name AngelChenStudio.com.
Zingsoft.com $2,000 – ZingChart offers Javascript Charts.
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