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Reviewing 4-letter domains sold in April
Some of these four letter domains could have value in China.
Here are some 4-letter domains sold in April as reported by Namebio. I’ll try to look at them from a Chinese perspective, which hopefully will help you when researching Chinese buyers for your domains.
MDRP.com sold for $4,000. MDRP.cn is for sale at 5,888 yuan or about $883. The .com is more than 4X the price of the .cn. MDRP can be an acronym for Mo Deng Ru Pin (摩登乳品=modern milk products) and many more Pinyin phrases.
CSSM.com sold for $1,800. CSSM.com.cn is an online magazine organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and CSSM is the acronym for “China Soft Science Magazine”. In this case, the domain matches the name of the magazine. CSSM can also be an acronym for Chang Su Shang Mao (畅速商贸=smooth and fast trades) and many more Pinyin phrases.
NLLW.com sold for $1,050. When you see a Chinese site filled with contents, do not immediately assume you have found an end user who should upgrade to your domain. The contents may not be genuine. In the case of NLLW.com.cn, it appears to be an education-related site but the message at the bottom of the page indicates the contents are taken from other online sources and the domain is actually for sale.
GMTS.com sold for $1,055. GMTS.cn appears to be a developed site but I could not see any contents. The HTML source of the page gives mixed signals: the page description is about sports games but most of the content is about electronic parts. So, I would not assume that this is a genuine end user.
GMTS .com.cn is a simple site titled “Lottery Industry Supervision Bureau”. However, it has only a menu filled with links to games and betting sites built on .co domains such as A668 .co, M668 .co, and C668 .co. The “668” here rhymes with Lu Lu Fa (路路发=make a fortune in every path you take), so it is quite appropriate for betting sites. Again, I would not assume this is a genuine end user.
MYPX.com sold for $3,605. MYPX.cn is a developed site by Xin Fang Xiang (新方向) to provide training for women interested in developing a career in child care. The domain and the company name do not seem to match, so I would not assume MYPX.com is a natural upgrade for the MYPX.cn owner. MYPX can also be an acronym for Mei Yu Pi Xie (美誉皮鞋=reputable shoes) and many more Pinyin phrases.
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New site shows available one-word domain names
There aren’t many available, it turns out.
OneWord.Domains shows available one word domain names.
A new website helps people find available one-word domain names—and proves just how rare they are in popular top level domains.
Steven Tey, a data science student at the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute, launched OneWord.Domains to show available one-word domains in a handful of popular extensions.
The site currently shows domains in .ai, .app, .co, .com and .io.
While the site certainly identifies some great domains, there is a big problem: many of the domains have registry premiums.
For example, Million.co is an excellent domain and is available for registration. But it has a registry premium on it and will set you back a few thousand dollars to add it to your portfolio.
You can register .io and .ai domains that are on the site at regular rates, but you’ll notice a dearth of good names.
In many ways, rather than helping you find good domains to register, the site is another reminder of how difficult it is to find great domains to register. Maybe a two-word domains site would be more helpful.
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End user domain name sales up to $180,000
A remote work tool creator, a pet products company, and a manufacturer bought domain names.
The top public sale at Sedo this past week was ElectricCar.com for $180,000. The buyer is unknown but has set up a holding page built on Wix.
Here’s a look at some of the domains end users bought at Sedo this past week. You can review previous end user sales lists here.
ElectricCar.com $180,000 – The buyer is using GoDaddy Whois privacy but has set up a Wix landing page that states, “Our new website is coming soon.” It will be interesting to see who is behind this site.
DailyBot.com £5,000 – Forwards to Dailybot.co. DailyBot is a platform for remote workforces enabling them to provide status reports, check-ins, etc. without calls or meetings.
MyFreshFarm.com $4,880 – New England Pet Products purchased this domain. It is a pet specialty food manufacturer.
Agilice.com $4,000 – The domain forwards to Agilice.cl. It appears to be an invoicing and financial record keeping product from a company called iConstruye. The company has offices in Chile and Colombia.
Zutritt.com €3,500 – Anyon Holding GmbH, a German investment firm focused on investing in technology entrepreneurs digitizing the real estate industry.
Server.hk $3,000 – A Hong Kong technology company specializing in internet servers and hosting services.
VPNRatings .com £2,500 – A website that rates different VPN service providers.
CoilStar.com $2,180 – Von Roll Schweiz AG, a manufacturing company that produces a wide variety of machinery parts and products used in manufacturing. I suspect this is a new brand name for one of its products.
AXF.in £2,000 – Axcess Financial Services, Inc., a financial services firm in Ohio.
OslerHC.org €2,000 – William Osler Health System bought this domain. This is a hospital network in Ontario, Canada that serves the city of Brampton and the western Toronto district of Etobicoke. WilliamOslerHS.ca is its current website.
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Jason Calacanis talks about the importance of great domains
Great domains inspire people.
Jason Calacanis on This Week in Startups.
Investor and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has given lots of great soundbites about domain names over the year. Earlier this month, he elaborated on the power of a great domain during his This Week in Startups episode 1053.
A listener asked about trademarks and domain names. He responded:
When people see a great domain name like robinhood.com or calm.com, this inspires people because it’s hard to get those domain names. It’s hard to have the one-word domain name and it makes you look like you have a serious brand. Inside.com…and a great brand should evoke something in people.
Calm.com, Inside, these, one of them makes you feel calm because it’s calm.com and one of them means, “Hey we’re going to go into this topic.”
Inside.com/transportation. Inside.com/AI, Inside.com/SanFrancisco. You inherently know what this research is going to be about and inside.com is like a research company. So if you want to get inside of AI, just go to inside.com/AI.
So I think it’s great when you have the domain name you kind of have the trademark. So whoever owns calm.com, they basically own calm even if somebody else had it…or there’s inside the NBA and Inside Baseball …these two things existed before I owned the Inside.com trademark so I can’t use Inside the NBA, right, I think TNT would be quite upset. Or I think Inside Baseball is actually a long-running show if I’m not correct…so I can do Inside.com/baseball or Inside.com/NBA and then make it clear this is Inside’s newsletter about the NBA but I would not use the branding Inside the NBA and I would not refer to it as such because I don’t want to infringe on anybody else’s the trademark.
That shows you the power of a great domain name is that whoever gets the .com, they kind of get the best branding in the entire space. So it’s really worth trying to get that .com eventually.
You could start without it, you could start with inside .net or insidenewsletter .com, but if somebody were to create right now insideartificialintelligencethepodcast, I’m going to beat them with Inside AI when we do the Inside AI podcast. Eventually we’re just going to outrank them. So that’s one of the things that gets baked into owning the domain name.
If somebody wanted to try to create, you know, a meditation app and say BeCalmer .com, all that’s going to do is half the people who hear becalmer.com are going to Calm.com. And they’re going to assume Calm.com is it. So you start newslettersthattakeyouinsideatopic .com, all that’s going to do is drive more traffic to me. So that’s why you don’t want to create a derivative name that’s already known in the world.
Calacanis said he believes it’s OK to start with a prefix or suffix to the brand if you can get the brand in .com, e.g., Get- or Try. One of his investments is Lately, which uses the domain TryLately.com.
He noted that one of the reasons he invested in Calm.com was because of the domain name.
“It showed me he had some amazing ability to negotiate with the owner of the domain name and to get something as an asset was super important,” he said.
You can watch the episode below, which will start at this question.
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GoDaddy gets two more patents
Patents cover domain availability lookups and DNS templates.
GoDaddy has added two new patents to its collection. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted two patents to the company today.
Patent #10,659,424 (pdf) – Determining status of domain name registration. The idea behind this patent is to determine if a domain name is available for registration by using the least amount of computing/connection resources as possible.
Inventors: Christopher Ambler, Moninder Jheeta, Charles Beadnall
Patent #10659423 (pdf) – System and method for modifying a domain name system template. This patent describes a way to set up DNS templates that can be applied to domain names. Some of these could be pre-set by the registrar, such as a way to connect a domain to a photo-sharing website or other third-party service. Users could also create their own templates that can be applied to multiple domains. (I use one such template to send email to Mailbox Park and web traffic to a Uniregistry lander.)
Inventors: Rich Merdinger, Nitin Gupta, Rahul Mahajan, John Roling, Karen Munoz, Steven Wiesenthal
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Verisign patent suggests a new model for expired domains
Patent contemplates selling pools of access to each registrar.
Someone looking in from the outside would consider the current model for drop catching expired domain names to be inefficient.
Each registrar has a connection to the registry, which it uses to try to snap up domains the moment they expire. Drop catching services increase their connections to the registrar by getting more registrar accreditations. This is an expensive process: each registrar has to be accredited by ICANN and sign a registrar agreement with Verisign.
In the case of DropCatch.com, the company has registered over 1,000 limited liability companies, gotten each one accredited through ICANN, and then signed agreements with Verisign.
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has another idea: why not just let each registrar buy more pools of access to process transactions?
It’s sure to be a controversial idea given the company’s tenuous relationship with domain name registrars. But it could actually be a win-win for drop catchers and Verisign.
Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted patent number 10,659,426 (pdf) to Verisign for System and method for domain name system using a pool management service. The patent describes a system of offering additional pools of access to registrars. These could be an alternative way to get more firepower for drop catching.
It’s an interesting concept. Verisign has filed other patents related to expired domains, including selling backorders.
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This domain dispute might be better in the courts
The Complainant has a right to be upset but will have difficulty showing trademark rights.
This website tries to pass itself off as associated with an urgent care facility in Leominster, LA. It inserts a campaign to collect health insurance leads.
UMass Memorial HealthAlliance has lost a UDRP for UrgentCareLeominster .com at World Intellectual Property Organization.
The hospital chain has a right to be upset about how the current owner of the domain is using it. The domain owner has created a copy of a former website used by the Complainant (seemingly on the same domain), only inserting a lead gen campaign for health insurance. It includes a picture of the Complainant’s facility and even its UMass Memorial HealthAlliance Hospital logo (with a typo).
The healthcare company lost the dispute because it didn’t show that it has common law trademarks in Urgent Care Leominster. Leominster is a city in Louisiana. I suspect the panelist, who invited the Complainant to refile with more information about the common law mark, would have accepted even nominal evidence.
Still, it seems like it would be a challenge to show common law rights in a very descriptive term. Should companies be able to have trademark rights in “Urgent Care (city name)”? That’s kind of like having trademark rights in “(city name) Hospital”.
I suspect the Complainant chose UDRP for this dispute because it is fast and affordable. It might want to file a lawsuit instead. It clearly has a case against a domain owner who is up to no good, even if it doesn’t exactly fit under UDRP.
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Wine spat: Brewery and vineyard tries reverse hijacking SpringGate.com
Pennslyvania brewery files bad case with WIPO.
A Pennslyvania brewery and winery has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over SpringGate.com.
Schoffstall Farm, LLC, which does business as Spring Gate Vineyard, Winery and Brewery, attempted to get the domain name in a cybersquatting dispute at the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The company has traded as Spring Gate since 2014. But the domain’s owner, Ashantiplc Limited, registered the domain name in 2006. Therefore, it could not have registered the domain name in bad faith to target the non-existent brand.
Before filing the UDRP, the Complainant sent a demand letter to Ashanti. Domain attorney John Berryhill responded to the demand letter and noted that his client registered the domain before Schoffstall Farm had any trademark rights in the term. He also requested that the Schoffstall Farm include his response in any UDRP filing.
But the Complainant didn’t include this response. Instead, it argued in the UDRP that the domain was acquired in 2018. While it’s not clear why it chose this date, this is when the registrar Fabulous (where the domain is registered) changed its accredited name to Sea Wasp.
The Complainant also argued “retroactive bad faith”.
In finding reverse domain name hijacking, the panel wrote:
The Complainant is professionally represented in this matter and, in the opinion of the Panel, knew or ought to have known that it had no reasonable chance of prevailing in this proceeding for the reasons set out above. The Complainant produced no material evidence that the Respondent acquired the disputed domain name in 2018 and gave no reasonable explanation for its assertion to that effect. The Panel is particularly perturbed by the Complainant’s failure to exhibit the Respondent’s email dated November 28, 2019, stating that it had acquired the disputed domain name in 2006, having exhibited its own letter of the previous date and having been expressly requested by the Respondent to include its reply. The Panel is also of the view that the Complainant’s purported reliance on the Octogen line of cases implies its clear awareness that its case was fundamentally flawed.
Tucker Arensberg, P.C. represented the Complainant in the reverse domain name hijacking. John Berryhill represented the Respondent.
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Adrian Kinderis – DNW Podcast #286
From running a registrar to .au to .film.
My guest this week is Adrian Kinderis. Adrian has been in the domain business for a couple of decades and started by founding a domain registrar. This snowballed into operating the .au domain. On today’s show, Adrian recounts his history in the business and discusses his new top level domain .film. He is candid about the struggles of getting studios to adopt the domain, but also explains how it’s a good business. There are some valuable takeaways as ICANN inches toward its next round of top level domain expansion.
Also: Website demand soars, ICANN’s tax return, NameJet warning, Future loves new domains
Sponsor: DAN.com
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DomainAgents: Domain inquiries up 20%
There has been a surge in domain purchase inquiries as people move business online.
Domain name offer service DomainAgents reports that domain purchase inquiries are up significantly.
Over the past two months, offers on domains through DomainAgents are up 20% compared to the same time last year.
The surge in demand comes as companies shift their business online due to the pandemic.
DomainAgents cautions that it’s too early to tell if this trend will continue:
…budgets will certainly continue to face pressure as people and businesses continue to adapt. How domain name values move over the next year is difficult to predict, but right now the market seems strong.
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Doxing crosses the free speech line in UDRP case
Panelist rules that domain used for gripe site isn’t protected speech.
UDRP panelists walk a fine line when considering cases involving gripe sites. Is it cybersquatting to register a domain related to a company if the goal is to complain about the company, or is it just exercising free speech?
Panelists tend to give deference to freedom of speech considerations when both parties are in the United States. But a recent case at the World Intellectual Property Organization involving a car dealer shows that the line can be crossed.
The case for TedBritt .net involved a car dealer in Virginia and a man in Maine who claimed that the dealership had been cheating customers.
Panelist W. Scott Blackmer noted that, while the Respondent was free to complain about the car dealer using a website, his approach violated the UDRP.
His decision notes that the Respondent appears to have copied much of the Complainant’s website:
The entire point seems to be to mislead Internet users so they will visit the website and then remain long enough to be exposed to the disparaging content.
Blackmer also pointed out that the Respondent published personal information about the Complainant’s family members and encouraged people to “e-mail them, call them, Face Book them, or visit them at their homes.” He cited doxing as evidence of bad faith:
…the Respondent employed similar tactics here in researching and revealing personal information on the website associated with the Domain Name, including personal information about family members, apparently because of dissatisfaction about a business transaction. This is a dangerous and indefensible practice; in some instances it can be actionable (as was evidently the case in Symetra Life Insurance v. Emerson, supra) or result in criminal prosecution (see, e.g., Wikipedia, “Doxing”). Doxing can be added to the illustrations of bad faith.
Hyland Law PLLC represented the Complainant.
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Website Boom: Wix quantifies massive demand for websites due to Covid
People are creating websites in droves.
Website building platform Wix (Nasdaq: WIX) reported first quarter earnings today. It had a solid first quarter, but things got really interesting in April. As domain name companies can attest, there has been a boon in people registering domains and creating websites due to the Covid pandemic.
In April 2020 compared to April 2019:
- 63% more people signed up for a Wix account
- Net paying subscribers added during the month jumped 207% compared to the April 2019 growth rate
- Collections (cash receipts) soared 76%
- Online store subscriptions grew 580% compared to the year-ago growth
- Online store transactions grew 110%
Earlier this year, Wix said it was too early to determine the impact Covid would have on its business. Now it has lifted its guidance going forward, citing the change in consumer behavior “creating a vast tailwind for our business.”
For Q1, both revenue and collections were up 24% compared to the same quarter of 2019. Wix’s base of paying customers increased by 162,000 to 4.7 million during the quarter and 6.9 million people registered for accounts.
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A cool feature of ExpiredDomains.net
Kassey Lee explains a neat feature of ExpiredDomains.net for finding domain deals.
I collect China-related domains. Recently I discovered a function provided by ExpiredDomains.net that is very useful if you have a shopping list of domains.
During my daily research, I often come across domains I want to buy if their prices are low. These domains are marked in my database so that I can easily produce my shopping list of domains. However, checking the domains for their availability or price one by one is time-consuming.
The bulk domain search function of ExpiredDomains.net is my time-saving tool, and it is very easy to use.
I produce a list of domains from my database, and then just paste them into the bulk search box of ExpiredDomains.net. For example, checking the 398 domains on my shopping list today gave the following result.
* GoDaddy Buy Now Domains (About 3 Domains)
* GoDaddy Make Offer Domains (About 3 Domains)
* GoDaddy TDNAM (About 6 Domains)
* Uniregistry Offer and Buy Now Domains (About 3 Domains)
* Uniregistry Make Offer Domains (About 16 Domains)
* Sedo Bargain Domains (About 1 Domains)
* Sedo Make Offer .com Domains (About 16 Domains)
* Epik Marketplace Domains (About 2 Domains)
Domains: 398, Listed: 123, Not Listed: 275
Now, I can open the links and find out if I can purchase any of my desired domains. If any domain has expired, the result will show it too. This enables you to prepare and bid at the auction or catch the domain when it drops.
Thanks to this great function, I was able to acquire a domain for low 3 figures and made an offer on another domain recently.
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.Cloud releases lots of reserved inventory, drops premium renewals
No more premium renewals as more names go through the channel.
.Cloud has released/repriced over 100,000 names that are searchable at a new site.
I normally don’t write about individual top level domain names releasing or repricing their premium inventory. But I’ve sold two .cloud domains for about $1,000 each, so there’s actually some movement in the secondary market for these domains.
With this in mind, it might be worth reviewing .cloud’s new premium website.
.Cloud has released and/or repriced over 100,000 .cloud domains and made them available through the channel. Most of these domains were previously reserved and not available at registrars.
Additionally, .cloud has removed premium renewals. All domains now renew at standard prices, making it more feasible to invest in premium .cloud names.
The lowest tier starts at about $200 retail.
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Nordic healthcare company files dead-on-arrival cybersquatting claim
Company goes after domain registered nine years before it started using its brand name.
Timik Group, a healthcare company in Sweden and Norway, has lost a cybersquatting claim it filed against the domain Timik.com.
The case was dead one arrival: Timik began using the name in 2017 but the registrant of the domain has owned it since 2008. Thus, it was impossible to show that the Respondent registered the domain name to target the Complainant’s non-existent trademark.
The domain owner, who lives in South Korea, asked for the case to be decided in Korean. Panelist Andrew J. Park is proficient in both English (what the case was filed in) and Korean. So he decided he’d accept the complaint in English and the response in Korean. I’m not sure how that helps the domain registrant who probably wouldn’t understand the complaint, nor the Complainant who would have to consider making a supplemental filing in response to a Korean-language response.
In the end, the domain owner didn’t respond to the Complainant’s contentions.
Still, Park noted that the domain wasn’t registered in bad faith.
He didn’t consider if this was a case of reverse domain name hijacking. It appears to be a classic “Plan B” reverse domain name hijacking. Timik Group offered to buy the domain for $4,000. When the owner asked for $85,000, it filed the UDRP.
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End user domain sales including a three letter .com
A new online events platform, a touch display manufacturer, and a surgical mask seller bought domain names.
Sedo’s top public sale for the past week was a three-letter domain bought by an end user through SedoMLS.
Here’s a look at some of the domains end users bought at Sedo this past week. You can review previous end user sales lists here.
TXO.com $27,500 – Even with the X, I think this was a great buy for TXO Systems LTD, a new and used telecom network asset management company. It currently uses TXO-Systems.com for its website. This sale was through SedoMLS.
DP.co.uk £10,250 -Dedicated Programmes, a UK-based IT services provider.
EmailAcademy.com $10,000 – MillionVerifier, an email services company that provides email verification and deliverability support.
MeinungsFreiheit.de €9,520 – Dr. Axel Pajunk bought this domain, which means “freedom of speech” in German, for a new website allowing people to express opinions. He appears to be a lawyer.
Zevio.com $7,990 – Zevio appears to be a new online events platform.
TTMJ.com $7,000 – This 4-letter .com was bought by Hangzhou Midaizi Network Co., Ltd. an Information Technology Services company located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
CleverTechnologies.com $6,495 – CleverTouch produces interactive displays and software.
Bleux.com $4,900 – The domain is used for as Shopify store called BluexBox that sells surgical face masks.
LendExpress.com $4,158 – This morning the domain forwarded to a WP Engine domain for personal loans. Moments later I got a 404. I suspect this is in development.
AMI.eu €3,250 – Forwards to AMInterior.be, a Dutch office furniture company that also specializes in office renovations.
DentalImplants.co $3,000 – This domain was bought by Freeline Creative Ltd., a digital creative agency in the UK who presumably purchased this domain for a client.
Terrains.com $2,060 – Terrains will be a digital platform for remote work for distributed teams. Nice price for the buyer.
Industec.com $2,200 – Khoza Technology in California. It will be interesting to see if it’s for a client or the company’s own use.
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ICANN posts its latest tax return. Let the gawking begin!
ICANN’s latest tax return discloses that it paid 197 employees and contractors at least $100,000.
ICANN has posted its latest tax return (pdf), which covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. It’s that time of year when you get to see how much your favorite ICANN staffers get paid.
The compensation data is for the calendar year 2018, so it’s a bit dated.
The highest-paid employee was CEO Goran Marby, whose total comp was $865,570. This includes retirement benefits and nontaxable benefits. (You can see the breakdown of actual cash compensation for employees starting on page 53 of the return).
Former President of GDD Akram Atallah had total comp of $686,263 through November of 2018 when he left to join Donuts.
General Counsel John Jeffrey was next highest at $648,985.
I count 15 people with $400,000 or more of total comp and benefits and 8 with $500,000 or more.
The non-profit paid 197 contractors and employees at least $100,000 during 2018.
ICANN paid the law firm Jones Day was $7.6 million. That’s up from $5.4 million the prior year.
Post link: ICANN posts its latest tax return. Let the gawking begin!
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Warning: check domains you won at NameJet
They might not resolve.
This week I transferred the domain names I’ve won at NameJet from Network Solutions to GoDaddy. I unlocked the 11 domains and requested the authorization codes. After receiving the codes, I verified in Whois that the domains were unlocked.
I was surprised to find 5 of the 11 domains in clientHold status.
ICANN’s website explains clientHold:
This status code tells your domain’s registry to not activate your domain in the DNS and as a consequence, it will not resolve. It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal disputes, non-payment, or when your domain is subject to deletion.
It makes sense that domains you acquire at NameJet would have been in clientHold at some point as they worked through the expiry process. But the hold should have been removed when I bought these domains.
Unfortunately, someone or some system dropped the ball. That means that these domains have never resolved to the domain sales pages they were supposed to.
Just as frustrating was the response I got when I contacted Network Solutions chat support. When I re-read the transcript, I see that I got uncharacteristically testy. But there’s nothing more frustrating than telling a support representative what’s wrong with your domains and having them tell you you’re wrong.
01:05:48 PM [Andrew Allemann] Five of the domains in my account are showing clienthold so they aren’t resolving
01:05:52 PM [Jessica R] That is a lock the protects the domains from being stolen or transferred out with out your premission.
01:06:20 PM [Andrew Allemann] Um, I don’t believe that’s what it is. It is a lock that keeps them from resolving, so five of my domains at NetSol aren’t resolving.
01:07:04 PM [Jessica R] I am sorry that is not correct that lock has nothing to do with the Name sever change.
I did as much as I could to convince this person that there was a problem. She tried to tell me it was the nameservers I was pointing the domains to; I showed her that wasn’t the issue. I provided the link to ICANN’s website. I explained that these domains were all unlocked within Network Solutions’ account manager and the clientTransferProhibited was removed.
Finally, the representative said they had to create a ticket for the engineering team and I should hear back within two days. Two days! Can you imagine if your website wasn’t resolving and you were told to hang tight for two days? I won’t pretend that another two days of the sales landers not being there is a big issue, but imagine if you were a small business and experienced this issue.
Be sure to check the domains you buy at NameJet to verify that clientHold is removed.
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Donuts is removing restrictions on .Place domains
Everyone will be allowed to register .place domains (again).
Domain name company Donuts is making .place a generic domain again.
In 2018, the company partnered with Geo.Network to use .place domains in its geofencing platform.
Donuts said at the time, “The TLD .PLACE will now be used exclusively for end users (people, businesses and other organizations) who wish to create, name and assign specific rules and permissions for their geofences.”
The company restricted .place registrations to people using them with the geofencing platform.
It doesn’t seem to have taken off; there are only about 3,500 registered .place domains.
On June 1, Donuts will remove the restrictions. People will be able to use .place domains just like other domains.
Donuts will continue its partnership with Geo.Network. .Place domains can be registered for geofencing applications or for regular websites.
Retail prices should be about $10 for the domains. It should compete well with other generic extensions like .site and .online.
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.Org registry sale officially terminated
Public Interest Registry notifies ICANN that the deal is dead.
Even though all parties had already said this publicly, Public Interest Registry (PIR) made it official today: the transaction for Ethos Capital to acquire Public Interest Registry has been terminated.
The registry for .org domains sent a letter (pdf) to ICANN today informing it of the termination.
The letter states, “While we reserve all of our legal rights, we will not be pursuing an ICANN Request for Reconsideration or taking any other action to try to revive the Transaction.”
I’m not sure what legal rights it would pursue, but this might be an effort to head off any talk of transferring the .org registry to another party. In a message linking to the letter, PIR CEO Jon Nevett noted:
…because a sale to Ethos was not “consummated” after the ICANN rejection, the door is closed on ICANN transferring .ORG to any other registry operator. Such a transfer by ICANN is a contractual impossibility under our registry agreement.
I believe he is correct. The contract between PIR and ICANN states:
…any consummated change of control shall not be voidable by ICANN; provided, however, that, if ICANN reasonably determines to withhold its consent to such transaction, ICANN may terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 4.3(g)…
This seems to say that ICANN can terminate the agreement if it withholds consent and PIR still goes through with the change of control. It could be written more clearly, though.
Nevertheless, there have been some calls in the community to strip Internet Society and PIR of the .org contract.
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