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Paypal Files UDRP Complaint for 13 Year Old Domain Mypaypal.com at WIPO
April 14, 2013 @ 1:32 AMPaypal, Inc. filed a UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complaint was filed for the domain name, MyPaypal.com. The domain was registered in January 2000 and the current owner is from New York. The domain displays the …
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Bidding On Md.org Tops $500,000 at Namejet
April 12, 2013 @ 5:16 AMTwo letter .org domain goes sky high. [Update: ‘winters’ one the auction for $555,650] Two bidders are determined not to walk away from a NameJet auction for MD.org without their prize. Bidding for the domain, which will end within a few minutes of either bidder giving up, topped $500,000 at 12:31 PM PDT.
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Pirate Bay .gl (Greenland) Domains Get Suspended
April 12, 2013 @ 5:07 AMPirate Bay is expecting that their Swedish domain name is going to be seized, so this week The Pirate Bay switched to two Greenland .gl domains (thepiratebay.gl and piratebay.gl), but the telecoms company in charge of the .GL TLD blocked …
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Delay Not Certain As New gTLD Contracts Reopened
April 12, 2013 @ 4:27 AMThe launch window for new gTLDs may have just got pushed back another month or two, following the announcement of a new 42-day comment period on registry and registrar contracts. But ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade said he’s looking at ways to streamline the process to offset the delays. During the public forum in Beijing yesterday, […]
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Demand Media Passes a New TLD Initial Evaluation
April 12, 2013 @ 3:48 AMCompany passes initial evaluation despite rule about UDRP losses. Demand Media’s new top level domain company, United TLD Holdco, has passed the initial evaluation stage on one of its TLD applications. The company passed the initial evaluation for Fish.com .fishing today. Demand Media was the biggest question mark amongst big-name TLD applicants with regards to […]
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First New gTLD to Fail Evaluation Revealed
April 12, 2013 @ 3:32 AMWith 132 new gTLD applications in receipt of their Initial Evaluation results, the first to fail has been revealed. The failed application was for العلیان., an Arabic dot-brand filed by Olayan Investments Company, a 65-year-old privately held Saudi conglomerate. It failed IE on financial grounds, according to its published results (pdf). To pass the financial […]
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38 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evalutions: 1st Non-IDN’s Passed is .Play: .Church & .Mormon Pass Too
April 12, 2013 @ 2:28 AM39 more New gTLD applications have passed ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) and for the record the first non-IDN new gTLD extension to pass IE, is Amazon’s application for .Play.
Other applications passing today are for the generic .Party, .Energy, .Food
Some of the new religion new gTLD’s passed today as well as both .Mormon.and .Church passed IE. -
Twitter Wins Domain Twitter.org in UDRP in Shady Circumstances
April 12, 2013 @ 1:33 AMTwitter, Inc. won the domain name Twitter.org at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. The owner was accueil des solutions inc of Vancouver, Canada, did not reply to the Complainant’s contentions. The Center appointed Richard Tan as the sole panelist in this matter …
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After Losing Udrp, Company Pays NameMedia $34,910 for TribalWars.com
April 12, 2013 @ 1:13 AMI bet legal fees were included in this sales price. The top sale on this week’s Afternic domain sales report is TribalWars.com at $34,910, and it’s an interesting one. The buyer, Innogames, has an MMORPG called TribalWars. In 2011 Innogames filed a UDRP against NameMedia (technically against BuyDomains) for the domain. It lost. Now, two […]
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Ticket Broker Loses French Open Domains
April 12, 2013 @ 12:32 AMFrench Tennis organization awarded 13 domain names used by ticket broker. A UDRP panel has ordered ticket broker Ticketfinders International LLC to transfer 13 domain names to Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT). FFT is the governing body for tennis within France. It also holds trademarks for the French Open, which is also called the Roland […]
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