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  • Troubling: Federal Court Gives Sharetv.com to Sharetv.org Despite .com Registered 3 Years Earlier & 7 Years Before Trademark

    November 13, 2013 @ 8:59 AM

    In a troubling development for all domain investors, The United States District Court for the Eastern District Of Virginia has awarded the domain name Sharetv.com to the owner of ShareTv.org under a lawsuit brought under the Lanham Act and Virginia’s Unfair Competition Act. (Case No. 1:13-cv-00506, Dkt No. 1)…

  • Sedo Auctioning Off 100 of Yahoo's Domain Names Including Av.com

    November 13, 2013 @ 8:15 AM

    AV.com, Sled.com, and other Yahoo domain names go on the auction block. Sedo is holding an auction this month in which it is selling over 100 of Yahoo’s domain names. The auction runs November 11-21. Currently there are just 29 domains listed on the auction page, but an email I received from Sedo says there…

  • Brands May Lead The New gTLD's But They May Also Lead The Confusion

    November 13, 2013 @ 5:33 AM

    Many expect the Brand applicants are to lead the new gTLD charge by bringing consumer awareness to the new gTLD program. To the extent consumers start seeing advertising on domain names using new gTLD’s , consumers may become much more aware of new gTLD domain names…

  • Demand Media Scores Another $1.3 Million From Withdrawing New TLD Applications

    November 12, 2013 @ 1:09 PM

    New TLD applicant gets $1.3 million from the withdraw of a couple new TLD applications. Demand Media realized $1.3 million in gains in the third quarter of this year due to the withdrawal of its interest in new top level domain name applications, according to the company’s latest 10-Q filing with the SEC. In gained…

  • One Del Monte Calls The Other a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker

    November 12, 2013 @ 10:34 AM

    You’ve heard of reverse domain name hijacking, but can you RDNH a top level domain name? Del Monte International GmbH has filed its opposition to Del Monte Corporation’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit related to the .delmonte top level domain name. If you’re confused already, let me bring you up to speed. Del Monte used…

  • 7 Year Old Domain Jwines.com Saved in UDRP Filed By Holder of Jwine.com

    November 12, 2013 @ 9:05 AM

    J Vineyards & Winery, L.P. which owns the domain jwine.com, lost a UDRP on the domain name jwines.com which was registered on December 17, 2005. The domain holder acquired the domain name from its previous owner on August 1, 2011…

  • Sedo Reports Continuing Decline in Domain Parking

    November 12, 2013 @ 8:15 AM

    Sedo cites domain parking woes for revenue drop. Sedo Holding has issued its preliminary results for the first nine months of the year. This is likely to be one of the last public reports from the company before it gets rolled up into United Internet. The company’s affiliate marketing division saw revenue growth, but the…

  • Coffee Bean Direct Loses Second Case Against CoffeeDirect.com (And No Response!)

    November 12, 2013 @ 7:45 AM

    Online coffee seller fails to snag CoffeeDirect.com through a UDRP for a second time. Coffee Bean Direct LLC, an online coffee seller, has lost its second UDRP against the domain name CoffeeDirect.com. In both cases the owner of CoffeeDirect.com didn’t bother to respond but still won the case. If you look at the facts, this…

  • Over Half The World's Biggest Brands Will Be Blocked in New gTLDs

    November 12, 2013 @ 6:54 AM

    More than half of the world’s most-famous brand names already stand to benefit from blocks in new gTLDs, due to the name collisions policy introduced by ICANN recently. That’s the preliminary conclusion of a quick analysis of the 37 block-lists already published. Using Interbrand’s list of the top 100 most valuable brands, we find that…

  • Over 87,000 New gTLD Domains Now Blocked

    November 12, 2013 @ 4:53 AM

    The total number of domain names to be blocked due to the risk of name collisions has topped 87,000 with the latest batch of block-lists from ICANN, published yesterday. According to our database, 87,670 domain names, representing 75,208 unique second-level strings, are to be blocked in the 37 new gTLDs that have published collisions lists…

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