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Royal Baby Domain Name Registrations Spike
July 24, 2013 @ 7:29 AMGoDaddy reports increase in domain registrations related to baby. I have to admit, I don’t really get this royal baby nonsense. But it’s still the top news story today, even on the U.S. version of CNN.com. Punters* are lining up to cash in on the name of Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s baby. GoDaddy reports […]
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Frank Schiling’s Name Administration & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP On Spielwarenmesse.com (Toyfair in German)
July 24, 2013 @ 6:50 AMSpielwarenmesse eG of Nürnberg, Germany, has lost its bid to grab the domain name spielwarenmesse.com which is ToyFair in German in a UDRP away from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration which was represented as always by John Berryhill…
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Aptus Tech Nailed for Trying to Hijack Domain Name From Frank Schilling
July 24, 2013 @ 6:31 AMPanel determines that Aptus Tech engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Last month I asked why people didn’t do a bit of research before filing a UDRP against Frank Schilling. The specific case that prompted my article was Klipz.com, which had just been filed. The decision is in, and it’s clear that, not only did […]
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Yahoo! Wins 33 Domains in 1 UDRP
July 24, 2013 @ 5:57 AMYahoo! was awarded 33 domain names today in a single UDRP. The decision issued by one of the newer UDRP providers, the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and included many typos of Yahoo products including Rocket Mail, a company Yahoo acquired fro $92 million; Ymail and Flickr as well as a few non-typo domain names including LoveYahoo.com; YahooPhoto.com and YahooArticle.com:..
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WowWe Loses UDRP Bid On 14 Year Old Domain WowWe.com
July 24, 2013 @ 5:49 AMWowWe, Inc. of The Woodlands, Texas, just lost a UDRP decision on the domain name wowwe.com…
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Microsoft and Others Join London gTLD Strategy Conference Line
July 24, 2013 @ 2:01 AMMomentum Event Group has updated its agenda for the forthcoming Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress, with additional speakers from Microsoft and the new Domain Name Association joining the line-up. Dave Coplin, “chief envisioning officer” of Microsoft UK, has been tapped to deliver a keynote entitled “What Lies Ahead. Looking Forward to the Future of […]
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New Jersey Loses Again: UDRP Panel Says They Don’t Even Have Rights to GardenStateParkway.com & Njturk
July 23, 2013 @ 1:35 PMThe New Jersey Turnpike Authority just lost a UDRP on the domain names GardenStateParkway.com and NYturnpike.com because the panelist found the Authority did not have “common law rights” to the terms Garden State Parkway or and NJ Turnpike and for some reason the state didn’t apply for a trademark on either roadway until 2001 and 2011 respectively…
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Back to The Future: UDRP Filed On Gongshow.com
July 23, 2013 @ 12:18 PMLong before American Idol, and America’s Got Talent, there was The Gong Show.
The last time original episode on of the Gong show appeared on Network Television it was 1989, well before the Internet, and well before the 1st domain name was registered.
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Go Daddy Joins The New gTLD Pre-Reg Game, Kinda
July 23, 2013 @ 3:37 AMGo Daddy has become the latest domain name registrar to start accepting expressions of interest from prospective new gTLD registrants. A “watch list” service launched yesterday allows customers to indicate gTLDs that they are interested in using in future and receive alerts when they launch. Unlike other registrars, Go Daddy does not appear to be […]
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Senators Slate NTIA, to Demand Answers On New gTLD Security
July 23, 2013 @ 2:56 AMDid Verisign get to the US Congress? That’s the intriguing question emerging from a new Senate appropriations bill. In notes attached to the bill, the Senate Appropriations Committee delivers a brief but scathing assessment of the National Telecommunication and Information Administration’s performance on ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee. It says it believes the NTIA has “not […]
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