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.taipei Not Blocked After All
August 26, 2013 @ 11:45 PMTaipei City Government’s application for the .taipei new gTLD is still live, despite indications to the contrary from ICANN last week. On Friday, we reported that there was some confusion about the status of the bid, which was flagged by ICANN as “Eligible for Extended Evaluation” in one place and “Ineligible for Further Review” in […]
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Chanel, Inc. Files Suit Against Cybersquatters Over 68 Domain Names
August 26, 2013 @ 7:25 PMChanel, Inc has become the latest brand holder to skip the UDRP process and head right for federal court. Chanel filed a federal suit in the Florida Southern District Court seeking $100,000 under the ACPA seeking statutory damages of $100,00 per domain and attorney fees as well as counterfeiting, false designation of origin, cybersquatting, and common law unfair competition…
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Dish DBS and .hotel Applicant File “Appeals” to New TLD Objection Decisions
August 26, 2013 @ 1:25 PMTwo companies appeal to ICANN’s board for reconsideration of new TLD objections. The first of what are likely many “appeals” of new top level domain name objections have been filed with ICANN’s board in the form of Requests for Reconsideration. Both Dish DBS and Hotel Top Level Domain S.a.r.l. filed Requests for Reconsideration with the […]
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ICANN Corrects Friday’s New gTLD Initial Evaluation Posting: Taipei is Eligible for Extended Evaluation
August 26, 2013 @ 11:14 AMOn Friday in releasing its Initial Evaluation results ICANN mistakenly showed that the new gTLD application for the Geographic area of .Taipei failed IE and was not eligible for Extended Evaluation. However today ICANN has correct what was an error on their part and is showing the application for the new gTLD application .Taipei is in fact eligible for extended evaluation…
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Planet.eco Loses Objection Against Tldh for .eco Top Level Domain Name
August 26, 2013 @ 9:48 AMTLDH gets a victory in fight over .eco. The latest salvo in the fight for the .eco top level domain name has been successfully defended by Top Level Domain Holdings. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel denied planet.ECO, LLC’s Legal Rights Objection against TLDH for .eco. planet.ECO has a U.S. trademark for .eco, which was […]
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NAU Strikes Again: Google Wins .tours Objection Against Donuts
August 26, 2013 @ 8:49 AM.Tours and .Tour top level domain strings found too similar, will be placed in contention set. Another day, another inconsistent string confusion objection for new top level domain names. This time Google has won an objection (pdf) against Donuts’ application for .tours. Google applied for .tour, and now .tour and .tours will be placed in […]
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Four Domain Name Sessions Pitched for SXSW 2014
August 26, 2013 @ 7:39 AMFour domain name sessions have been proposed for SXSW Interactive 2014. Voting ends September 6. Voting for which panels will make the cut at next year’s SXSW Interactive conference is underway. I identified four submissions this year that are related to the domain name industry. Voting ends September 6. The Discussion’s Over – New Domains […]
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Pew Research: in US 70% Have a Broadband Connection at Home; 20% Don’t Have Broadband Nor Smartphone
August 26, 2013 @ 7:14 AMPew Research Center’s Internet &American Life Project released its report entitled “Home Broadband 2013″ and found that in the United States 20% of U.S. adults are still without broadband or smartphones for internet access. And 3% of people in the country still using dial-up connections. According to the report 70% of American’s have Broadband access at home up from 66% in 2012…
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Fairwinds Tells Fortune 500 Clients to Pay Attention to Domain Hacks: Only 3 Out of 500 Own Them
August 26, 2013 @ 6:22 AMBrand Protection company Fairwinds in a blog post today, told it big brands clients, the Fortune 500 companies they represent to pay attention to and try to acquire domain hacks…
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Google Buys AfricaConnected.com Domain Name From Mike Mann
August 26, 2013 @ 5:45 AMSearch giant acquires domain name from domain investor. Google has acquired the domain name AfricaConnected.com, likely for its efforts to bring internet access to more people in Africa. It looks like Google acquired the domain name with the help of Mark Monitor through its NameAdvisers group. Until July 11, Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings was […]
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