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  • MLB Buys Athletics.com Domain Name

    May 16, 2012 @ 10:53 PM

    Major League Baseball makes another big domain acquisition. Just a couple days ago I was revisiting a post I wrote in 2010 about Major League Baseball’s domain names. The only change to the list since I posted was MLB picking up Angels.com. But this week MLB picked up another one. Jamie Zoch of dotWeekly discovered […]

  • 2011 UDRP Filings Up at WIPO, Down at NAF - And Still Infinitesimal

    May 16, 2012 @ 2:38 PM

    The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently issued a detailed press release regarding Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases for which it provided arbitration services in 2011 and, once again, the number of WIPO filings was up. According to WIPO: “In 2011, trademark holders filed a record 2,764 cybersquatting cases covering 4,781 domain names with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO Center) under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), an increase of 2.5% and 9.4% over the previous highest levels in 2010 and 2009, respectively.”

  • BankAds to Acquire CreditCards.net

    May 16, 2012 @ 12:44 PM

    BankAds, a leading provider of advertising solutions for the banking and credit card industries, announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement to acquire CreditCards.net from Acme Media LLC, a leading online publishing company based out of New York. Sean Sullivan, Co-Founder of BankAds, said the following regarding the acquisition.

  • Intuit Buys Apps.net for 24,100 Eur Among 25 End User Domain Sales

    May 16, 2012 @ 12:17 AM

    Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases.

  • UK Insurer First to Lose .xxx Dispute

    May 15, 2012 @ 11:07 PM

    Request for .xxx domain name denied. United Kingdom insurance company BGL Group Limited, better known as CompareTheMarket.com, is the first complainant to lose a UDRP for a .xxx domain name. The company filed the complaint against UK resident Jon Watkins, who registered the domain back in December when .xxx became generally available. But as I’ve […]

  • Zimbabwe.com Seller Takes Huge Loss

    May 15, 2012 @ 10:10 AM

    Zimbabwe.com sells for a fraction of what it sold for in 2007. We always hear stories about people who bought domains and flipped them for many times their purchase price. But the opposite also happens. Take the case of Zimbabwe.com, which just sold for $42,500 at Sedo. The last time this domain (reported) sold was […]

  • Here’s What Law Enforcement Wants You to Do Before Registering a Domain…

    May 15, 2012 @ 4:27 AM

    Registering a domain name might become a lot more time intensive in the future. Negotiations between ICANN and registrars to amend the registrar accreditation agreement are ongoing, and law enforcement agencies are asking for some pretty big changes to how domains are registered today. Law enforcement proposals relate to verifying whois information and tracking more […]

  • Bari Meyerson Latest to Change Jobs Within Domain Industry

    May 15, 2012 @ 4:05 AM

    Meyerson lands at eNom. Once people discover the domain industry and all it has to offer, it’s hard to move to any other industry. The latest move comes courtesy of Bari Meyerson. Meyerson left her long-time post at Moniker as it was being sold to Key Drive. Today eNom announced that it has hired Meyerson […]

  • StocktonGolf.com Lost in a UDRP Based Off a Common Law Trademark to Golfer ...

    May 15, 2012 @ 12:06 AM

    A one member UDRP panel has just awarded a pretty generic domain name StocktonGolf.com to  StocktonEnterprises, Inc. a company owned and operated by  professional golfer, Dave Stockton, a 10-time PGA Tour winner and a 14-time Champions Tour winner.

  • TAS Problems Doom Digital Archery

    May 14, 2012 @ 11:42 PM

    IPC questions ICANN’s ability to execute digital archery. Digital archery is doomed. The clever way ICANN plans to “batch” applications for new top level domains will either be killed, or it will be subject to accusations and lawsuits. Shortly after the bug in ICANN’s new TLD application system was revealed I wrote about how this […]

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