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Adidas/Reebok Files Federal Lawsuit Over 372 Domain Names Under Acpa
August 20, 2013 @ 10:43 AMSports equipment maker Adidas which owns Reebok filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of 372 domain names including .com’s, .net’s .org’s .info’s .biz and even co.uk and .Eu domain names in the Florida Southern District Court…
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Tucows.com Shares Hit 52 Week High
August 20, 2013 @ 10:04 AMShares of Tucows.com (TCX) hit a 52 week high in trading today. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.31 which is a 52 week high. As of publication Tucows.com is trading at $2.26 up $.10 on the day and has a trading range today of $2.10 to $2.31…
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Registrar Rapped for Failing to Transfer UDRP Domain
August 20, 2013 @ 8:55 AMThe domain name registrar Gal Comm has been warned by ICANN that it risks losing its accreditation for failing to transfer a cybersquatted name to Home Depot. The compliance notice (pdf) concerns the domain name homedpeot.com, which was lost in a UDRP filed in early March and decided on April 21. According to ICANN, Gal […]
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ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector Against The Same String Into 1 Proceeding
August 20, 2013 @ 7:57 AMLast nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings were not similar confusing, shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anyone in the domain space…
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Partnership Leads to Acquisition By GoDaddy
August 20, 2013 @ 6:32 AMAfter integrating Locu into web site building product, GoDaddy buys the whole company. I took yesterday afternoon off to spend with my daughter before school starts again on Wednesday. As we hung out I scanned my tweet stream and saw something about GoDaddy and Locu. No biggie, I thought. I’ve already written about their partnership. […]
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Name It. Make It. Own It.: Is This GoDaddy’s New Slogan?
August 20, 2013 @ 6:16 AMCompany files two intent-to-use trademark applications. Domain name registrar GoDaddy has filed two intent-to-use trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, possibly tipping off slogans it plans to use in the future. Application 86,038,967 is for “Name It. Make It. Own It.” This seems to jive with the company’s mission to help people […]
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TLDH Walked Away From Auction With 2 Strings Plus Cash
August 20, 2013 @ 5:40 AMNew top level domain applicant settles contention sets and walks away with more cash than it spent. Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) was initially opposed to the private auction model to settle top level domain name contention sets. That changed, and last week it probably felt validated by its decision. The company participated in four […]
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String Confusion in Disarray As Demand’s .cam Loses Against Verisign’s .com
August 20, 2013 @ 1:29 AMDemand Media is demanding an ICANN review of its objections policy, after its applied-for new gTLD .cam was beaten in a String Confusion Objection by .com registry Verisign. A International Centre for Dispute Resolution panelist has ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist, meaning Demand’s bid for .cam must be […]
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GoDaddy Acquires Merchant “Finder” Startup Locu for $70 Million
August 19, 2013 @ 10:32 AMGoDaddy, the Scottsdale, Ariz., domain seller and small business online platform, said it had acquired San Francisco startup Locu. While the company did not disclose the terms of the deal, sources close to the situation said it paid $70 million in cash and stock for the company. There are also earnouts for the close to two dozen employees of Locu going to GoDaddy.
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Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection to New gTLD .academy
August 19, 2013 @ 9:04 AMAcademy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD .Academy finding that “the common generic use of the term “academy”, as well as the lack of clear evidence showing widespread public recognition of the Objector’s ACADEMY marks, standing alone, weigh heavily in the Applicant’s favor. In this case, the Panel finds that such considerations must result in rejection of the Objector’s Objection.”…
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