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Religions Vie for Names Such as .church and .bible
August 31, 2012 @ 9:03 AMCenturies-old theological disputes have broken out in cyberspace as religions aim to influence the future presentation of faith on the Internet. The forum for the rivalry is not the pulpit or church bulletin, but the website of ICANN, the corporation that oversees the Internet address system and now wants to expand it beyond the usual .com, .org or .net domains.
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Macth.com Owner Sues Match.com and CitizenHawk After Losing UDRP
August 31, 2012 @ 9:00 AMThe owner of Macth.com has sued online dating company Match.com and domain name recovery firm CitizenHawk after losing a UDRP for her domain name. In a complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida (pdf), Liz Eddy is asking for declaratory relief and financial penalties. She says Macth.com is a generic typo.
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Oops! Copyright Cops Return Seized RojaDirecta Domain Names – 19 Months Later
August 30, 2012 @ 7:38 AMOne of Spain’s most popular websites, whose American domains were seized in January 2011 as part of a crackdown on internet piracy, is getting its domains returned 19 months later, as the U.S. government voluntarily dropped its claim Wednesday.
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"Notorious Cybersquatter" Loses UDRP Decision
August 30, 2012 @ 7:14 AMIn a precedent-setting decision, a one-person UDRP panel labels Enom’s Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc./Whois Agent with the attention-getting stigma.
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Melbourne IT Holding New gTLD Trademarks Summit
August 29, 2012 @ 11:35 AMGoogle, Microsoft, Donuts, and the Association of National Advertisers are among those expected to take part in the discussion. The meeting follows on from Melbourne IT’s recent anti-cybersquatting proposal, which calls for stronger protections for brands that are frequent targets of trademark infringement.
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Domain Name MSG.ME Sells for 25,000.00 USD – ME Domains Take the Stage
August 29, 2012 @ 9:11 AMThere have been some fantastic sales this year for Dot ME domain names including Meet.me that sold for $450,000 and Memories.me that sold to Disney for an undisclosed amount.
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Rising Star AG Forgets to Renew RisingStar.com, Files UDRP 2 Years Later (and loses)
August 29, 2012 @ 9:09 AMInvestment company Rising Star AG, which owns RisingStar.ch, bought the domain name RisingStar.com for $5,000 in 2006. It forgot to renew the domain name in 2010 and it went to auction on SnapNames, where it sold for $3,300. (Rising Star claims it sold for $1,000, but it apparently doesn’t know how to search on Google.)
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Royal Bank of Scotland Files 34 UDRPs
August 28, 2012 @ 8:06 AMRoyal Bank of Scotland and its National Westminster Bank Plc have decided to go bulk in cracking down on cybersquatters. The company just filed 34 UDRP cases covering 35 domain names in one fell swoop.
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Dotless Domains: Why Domain Names Need Punctuation
August 28, 2012 @ 6:44 AMICANN wants to know whether it should formally ban “dotless” domain names in the gTLDs for which it oversees policy. While the Applicant Guidebook essentially prohibits registries using their new gTLDs without dots, there’s not yet a hard ban in the template Registry Agreement.
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New Domain Name Dispute Study: 7 Panellists Decide Nearly Half of All Cases
August 28, 2012 @ 6:43 AMDNattorney.com’s new study of domain name dispute decisions again shows that procedural reform of ICANN’s UDRP is urgently needed. Decision making is apparently being concentrated amongst a handful of select American panelists who decide a vastly disproportionate number of international cases, thereby potentially affecting outcomes and creating an appearance of injustice.
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