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Trademark Holders Deserve Better Protection in Internet Domain Expansion
December 16, 2011 @ 1:37 AMPlans to expand the Internet’s generic Top Level Domain space have stirred opposition from trademark owners who will have to defend their brands, possibly at great expense, across hundreds of new domains.
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Manwin Reminds Affiliates Not to Register Its Trademarks in .xxx
December 16, 2011 @ 12:51 AMManwin isn’t going to protect its trademarks in .xxx by paying anything to ICM Registry, so it’s asking its affiliates not to register them, either.
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ICM Opens Can of Worms With .XXX Domain Seizures
December 15, 2011 @ 8:18 PMICM took down 70 to 80 domains including washingtonpost.xxx, cnbc.xxx and verizonwireless.xxx because it decided that the domains infringed trademarks and were therefore abusive.
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India Court Upholds Order Canceling The Registration of The Domain Internet.in
December 15, 2011 @ 3:10 AMThe High Court Of Delhi At New Delhi has just upheld an arbitrators determination that the domain name Internet.in should be taken away from the domain holder, its registration cancelled and ordered the domain to be held at the registry level, based on an Indian trademark for the term “Internet”.
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Ahead of The Bell: House Panel On Domain Names
December 14, 2011 @ 8:58 PMIt’s the House of Representative’s turn to review concerns about a plan to expand the number of Internet address suffixes.
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Texas Tech Buys Up Dot-xxx Domain Names
December 14, 2011 @ 5:09 PMTexas Tech University officials have joined the trend of universities buy up dot-xxx website domains relating to university brands.
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San Diego Institutions Acquire Domain Names With Adult-content Suffix
December 14, 2011 @ 1:22 PMCiting trademark protection concerns, companies, including SeaWorld, are reacting after a Florida company began offering .xxx domain names to the public last week.
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Paychecks, .xxx, and Domain Name Woes Highlight House Hearing
December 14, 2011 @ 10:10 AMICANN’s plans to roll out a slew of new top-level domain names next year, including the .xxx domain, were the subject of House subcommittee hearing Wednesday.
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City Buys Triple-x Domain Name to Protect Windsor's Online Reputation
December 14, 2011 @ 1:37 AMTo avoid any indecent Internet exposure, some of the city’s biggest institutions are snapping up corresponding domain names ending in “.xxx” to make sure they are never bought by or associated with adult entertainment websites.
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Domain Name Registry Expansion Runs Into Pushback On Hill
December 14, 2011 @ 12:21 AMExpansion of the top-level domain name registry (.com, .gov) by 300, 500 or 1,000 or more names ran into major pushback on the Hill in the second hearing in as many weeks on ICANN’s planned January launch of the three-month application window for new names to the left of the do.
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