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.academy, .blue and .bio New TLD Objections Denied
August 19, 2013 @ 8:59 AMWIPO denies three more challenges to new top level domain names. World Intellectual Property Organization panels have denied three more top level domain name Legal Rights Objections. All of the objections were filed against strings that are not in contention sets. .Academy – Academy Sports + Outdoors filed this objection against Donuts. A number of […]
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Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .bio
August 19, 2013 @ 8:58 AMBiotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio.
Here are the relevance findings by the one member WIPO panel:
A fundamental issue in this proceeding is the appropriate recognition of the word “bio” by different sectors of the public, founded on differences in the basic meaning of the word, and on differences in uses in different parts of the world.
From the Objector’s perspective, the word “bio” has become recognized as a powerful brand, signifying the services of its industry association and related activities. From the Respondent’s perspective, the word “bio” itself is not perceived as a trade-mark, but as a word in common currency (in France and Germany in particular) which denotes organic characteristics in food or farming, and a variety of other meanings… -
Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection to Block The New gTLD .blue
August 19, 2013 @ 8:51 AMBlue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue…
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Marchex Releases Partial List of Q2 Domain Sales
August 19, 2013 @ 8:17 AMBMW among companies that bought domain names from Marchex last quarter. Marchex, which is spinning off its domain name business Archeo sometime later this year or early next year, today released a partial list of the domain names it sold last quarter. Along with its second quarter earnings release earlier this month, the company reported […]
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Land Rover Found Guilty of RDNH in Scathing Cybersquatting Decision
August 19, 2013 @ 5:55 AMPanelist rips apart Land Rover. Land Rover has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP case it brought against a Montana dealer of old school Land Rovers that uses the domain MountainRovers.com. This is despite the car dealer not responding to the UDRP. Even more noteworthy is the scathing critique panelist […]
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Domain Capital Lends $150,000 to SearchCore
August 19, 2013 @ 5:41 AMDomain name and website investment firm borrows $150k from domain name financing company. SearchCore, Inc. has borrowed $150,000 from Domain Capital, a regulatory filing with the SEC discloses. The company put seven domains names up as collateral for the deal: manufacturedhome.com, manufacturedhomes.com, manufacturedhouse.com, manufacturedhomes.net, modularhomes.com, traveltrailer.com, and toyhaulers.com. SearchCore has paid a combined $417,000 to […]
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Domainer Marc Ostrofsky's New Book: Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play
August 18, 2013 @ 7:46 AMDomain name inverstor and author, Marc Ostrofsky new book Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play is coming out on September 10th…
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A Month After First 4 TLD Contracts Signed, Still Only 4 Signed
August 16, 2013 @ 3:53 PMThere’s been a delay (surprise!) after the first four TLD contracts were signed. ICANN took advantage of its public meeting in Durban, South Africa last month for a public signing of the first four top level domain name contracts. It’s been a full month since then, and no one else has signed a contract yet. […]
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ICANN Passes 92 New gTLDs
August 16, 2013 @ 9:36 AMNinety-two new gTLD applications received passing Initial Evaluation scores this week, as ICANN approaches the end of the long-running process. With two weeks left on the official timetable, only 236 applications remain in IE. Another 1,574 have passed. With no failures this week, the number heading to Extended Evaluation remains at 14. These are this […]
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ICANN Officially Kills Google’s Plan for Dotless Search Top Level Domain Name
August 16, 2013 @ 6:09 AMBoard resolution quashes dotless domains again, at least for now. ICANN’s New gTLD Program Committee has passed a resolution confirming a prohibition on so-called dotless domain names, effectively killing Google’s plans for a dotless .search top level domain name. A dotless top level domain name would resolve without a dot. For example, while something.example will […]
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