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Amazon.com, Hp, Ford Among Those Lobbying Washington About Domain Names
July 30, 2013 @ 10:42 AMBig companies join domain heavyweights in lobbying U.S. government about domain name issues. It’s been a couple years since I’ve done a round up of how much domain name companies are spending on lobbying in Washington. I just ran an updated analysis and made two key observations. First, major domain name companies including VeriSign and […]
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Three More Legal Rights Objections Thrown Out By Wipo: .food, .cam, .vip
July 30, 2013 @ 10:02 AMIts looking like filing an Legal Rights Objection with WIPO was a huge waste of time and money as three more decisions are out today all in favor of the new gTLD applicants. Objectors are now 0-23 and if you were hitting like that they would send you back to the minor league…
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Food Network Loses Food Fight for .food Top Level Domain Name
July 30, 2013 @ 9:32 AMScripps wanted to claim universal rights to the term “food” on the web. The company behind the Food Network and Food.com, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., has lost an objection against a rival applicant for the top level domain name .food. In the objection against Dot Food, LLC, Scripps tried to argue that it basically owns […]
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Name.com Enters The New gTLD Watch Game With TheNewDots.com
July 30, 2013 @ 9:10 AMName.com just sent out an email letting all their customers know that they have entered the new gTLD watch game using the domain name TheNewDots.com…
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Guardian.co.uk Moves Today to TheGuardian.com
July 30, 2013 @ 8:56 AMThe Guardian a widely read publication out of the UK which broke the news about Edward Snowden has officially moved its site from the domain name Guardian.co.uk to TheGuardian.com as of today and published it first article under its new domain…
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Yahoo Gets Patent for Prioritizing Cybersquatting Cases
July 30, 2013 @ 7:52 AMPatent covers discovering and prioritizing cybersquatting issues. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,499,032 (pdf) to Yahoo for a “System and method for compiling a set of domain names to recover”. The invention, which I wrote about when the application was published in 2010, allows a trademark owner to generate a […]
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3 Ways to Track New TLD Applications
July 30, 2013 @ 6:28 AMThree resources for tracking and reviewing new top level domain applications. As of right now there are 1,824 active new top level domain name applications covering 1,353 different strings. If tracking and reviewing them is important to your business, you have a few different options. 1. ICANN’s Current Application Status ICANN obviously has an interface […]
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Namecheap Wins $1.3 Million Cybersquatting Judgement
July 29, 2013 @ 3:30 PMA Federal District Court has awarded NameCheap.com $1.3 Million Dollars in a cybersquatting suit. The judgement (Judgment) was entered back in January 2013 but it does not appear to have been reported on before….
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Afilias Wants Registrar Ownership Ban Lifted On .mobi and .pro
July 29, 2013 @ 2:28 PMAfilias has applied to ICANN to have its ban on owning registrars in two of its own gTLDs, .mobi and .pro, lifted. With requests to ICANN a few days ago (here and here), the company said it wants to be able to own more than 15% of an ICANN-accredited registrar that sells both TLDs, which […]
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16 Year Old Model Esther Heesch Awarded Estherheesch.com in a UDRP Based On Her Fame
July 29, 2013 @ 1:14 PMA one member UDRP panel awarded the domain name EstherHeesch.com to what the panel found to be a “a rising star in the fashion and modeling agencies…an international supermodel represented by the prestigious agency, Next Model Management”…
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