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7s.com Survives a UDRP Challenge But Dissenting Opinion is an Eye Opener
February 23, 2011 @ 8:59 AMA UDRP decision released today held in favor of the domain holder on the domain name 7S.com, despite that the fact that the domain holder did not even respond to the UDRP. The complainant, a German company, holds trademarks on the term “7S”. A majority of the three member panel held in favor of the domain holder based substantially by the fact that he domain name was registered 2 years prior to the trademark.
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7s.com Owner Can Keep Domain Name Despite Andrew Christie's Opinion
February 23, 2011 @ 8:46 AMActivist UDRP panelist at it again in 7s.com case. If you ever need to point a finger at UDRP panelists that are trying to pervert the entire system, one of those should be Andrew Christie. I awarded Christie a "Domain Dunce" award in 2009 for his attempts to change the plain language and thousands of cases of precedent of UDRP. He …
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Can Domain Name Seizures Sink Rogue Web Sites?
February 23, 2011 @ 8:38 AMIn the early 1800s, a debate festered in our young democracy over the appropriate response to pirates operating from Africa’s Barbary Coast and attacking American ships, destroying or capturing them and impressing our sailors into lengthy terms of slavery. Their release was only obtained after a hefty ransom was paid by the U.S. government. After many years of paying the demanded ransoms, at the direction of President Jefferson, America’s fledgling Navy and a Marine expeditionary force executed a bold raid on Tripoli that eventually ended the pirate threat. Today, the debate has turned to cyberspace, where activities of ostensible rogue web sites, many attacking U.S. commercial interests or preying on our citizens in a variety of endeavors, including copyright infringement, illegal gambling, and pornography, to name a few. This article discusses several significant legal issues and responses involving the activities of rogue web sites.
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Sex.com Now The World's Most Expensive Domain Name, According to Guinness
February 22, 2011 @ 12:12 PMApparently, sex not only sells but also sets records. Guinness World Records, now officially recognizes Sex.com as the “most expensive internet address domain name.” In November 2010, Sex.com was auctioned off for a sizzling $13 million, making it the world’s priciest domain name, TechCrunch reports.
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Libyan Protests Driven By '.ly' Websites
February 22, 2011 @ 9:42 AMURL-shortening websites registered in Libya have proved to be the biggest tool for Libyan protesters to spread videos and images across the world from the isolated country.
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New Rules Proposed for Expired Domain Names
February 21, 2011 @ 1:59 PMRecommendations would make existing best practices of major domain name registrars a requirement. The Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process Working Group has made 14 recommendations for the handling of expired domain names. The recommendations are part of the group’s proposed final report and may be used as …
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New Zealand Post Takes Court Action Against Yellow Pages
February 21, 2011 @ 12:02 PMWellington, Feb 22 NZPA – NZ Post subsidiary Localist is taking legal action against Yellow Pages Group, which it alleges is trying to divert internet traffic away from Localist’s new Auckland information and directory service website.
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Network Solutions Certified Offers: Do People Use Them Often?
February 21, 2011 @ 10:06 AMI’ve had a few people ask me about the Network Solutions Certified Offers program. This programs allows domain buyers to use the services of NetSol to
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Domain Name Meeting Moved As Gtld Decisions Loom
February 21, 2011 @ 6:00 AMPolitical instability in the Middle East has persuaded ICANN to move its scheduled June meeting away from Jordan.
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Libya Turns Off The Internet and The Massacres Begin
February 20, 2011 @ 12:28 PMFirst, Libya blocked news sites and Facebook. Then, beginning Friday night, according to Arbor Networks, a network security and Internet monitoring company, announced that Libya had cut itself off from the Internet. Hours later the Libyan dictator’s solders started slaughtering protesters. As of Sunday afternoon, U.S. Eastern time the death toll was above 200 in the city of Benghazi alone.
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