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Should a Startup Spend BC Funding On a Domain Name? (Forbes)
May 1, 2013 @ 5:24 AMDomain bench, engraved with country domain names such as .uk, .us, .nz, etc.; 'Domain' created by Langlands and Bell, and installed on Cathedral Lawn. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is part one of a two-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “Build Your Startup on Premium Real Estate: […]
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Sex-settlement: Manwin and ICM Registry come to Terms
May 1, 2013 @ 1:00 AMDeal settles antitrust lawsuit and countersuit between adult site operator and .xxx domain registry. .XXX domain name registry ICM Registry and adult site operator Manwin have settled their legal battle, the companies announced today. As part of the deal, ICM will offer significantly discounted .xxx domain registrations in May and will offer similar promotions in […]
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Law Firm Sues Company for Sending Deceptive Trademark Renewal Notices
May 1, 2013 @ 12:45 AMLaw firm sues to stop company that it alleges sends misleading trademark notices. Domain name owners often receive official looking notices by snail mail warning them that their domains are about to expire and asking them to renew. Often times these notices look like invoices and ask recipients to pay very high prices to keep […]
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Slow Learners: The Snugg is About to Lose Its 2nd UDRP
April 30, 2013 @ 10:51 PMCompany files case against Roy Messer’s Snug.com. Some people just don’t get it. Consider Charon International Trading Limited, makers of The Snugg iPad cases. The company owns TheSnugg.com, and desperately wants a shorter domain. So in February it filed a UDRP against the owner of Snugg.com. The UDRP was dead on arrival since the company […]
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YouPorn Spanks ICM As .xxx Prices Slashed
April 30, 2013 @ 9:30 PMYouPorn owner Manwin Licensing scored a PR coup in its lawsuit against ICM Registry today, when the .xxx registry agreed to steep financial concessions in order to settle the case.
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ICANN Issues New gTLD Dispute RFPs
April 30, 2013 @ 6:31 PMICANN has issued two requests for proposals for providers to administer dispute resolution services for the new gTLD program. It’s looking for outfits to manage the Registry Restrictions Dispute Resolution Procedure (RRDRP) and Trademark Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (Trademark PDDRP). The former is for people who think a Community gTLD registry is mishandling its registration […]
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Donuts Not Pursuing New gTLD Joint Ventures
April 30, 2013 @ 2:08 PMFollowing the news that Uniregistry and Top Level Domain Holdings are to work together on the .country new gTLD, larger portfolio applicant Donuts has said it’s not interested in similar arrangements. While not entirely ruling out joint ventures along the lines of the .country tie-up, company VP of communications Mason Cole told DI that Donuts’ […]
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.love Dies As Applicants Pull Five More New gTLD Bids
April 30, 2013 @ 1:34 PMJewelry maker Richemont is the latest new gTLD applicant to withdraw one of its bids, yanking its application for .love. The proposed gTLD was one of 14 single-registrant namespaces applied for by the company, and also the most heavily contested, with six other applicants competing. Google, Donuts, TLDH and Uniregistry are also bidding. The string […]
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Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds+Machines) Announces Joint Venture With Uniregistry to Operate .country gTLD
April 30, 2013 @ 1:16 AMThe Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) are pleased to announce that it has signed a term sheet with Uniregistry to operate the .country top-level domain for which both companies had applied. Under the contemplated arrangement, both …
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Verisign Gets Patent for Triggering Web Crawling Based On Registry Data
April 30, 2013 @ 1:14 AM.Com registry awarded patent for using registry data to trigger web crawling. With Verisign analyzing how to profit from its patent portfolio, competitors should pay close attention to the company’s new patents. Today Verisign was awarded U.S. Patent 8,433,700 (pdf) for “Method and system for triggering web crawling based on registry data”. The patent describes […]
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