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Faux Coke Porn Site Symbolizes Cybersquatting Concerns
Coca-Cola Co. (KO) (KO) had to win a complaint at a United Nations agency last year to get control of an adult website called pornforacoke.com. Online name theft is called cybersquatting — and companies with recognizable brand names say it is about to get much worse. The organization that manages the Internet’s addresses is moving ahead [...]
Pope Benedict in .XXX pro-Islam cybersquat drama
A Turkish cybersquatter has registered at least a dozen variants of Pope Benedict’s name as .xxx internet domains and is using them to promote Islam. Cybersquatted sites including PopeBenedict.xxx currently proclaim “Everyone will find Islam” alongside pictures of the Quran and Kaaba. Unsurprisingly, the sites also state that “This Web Site is For Sale”. PopeBenedict.xxx [...]
Happy 25th Birthday .CA
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the dot-CA domain name for Canada. On Monday May 14th, twenty five years ago, the management of the dot-CA country code domain name was officially delegated by Jon Postel, operator of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA); to Canadian Internet pioneer and Webnames.ca co-founder John Demco. The most recognizable symbol [...]
Google Wins Big in Domains Dispute
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has just won a big battle to recover a whooping 763 domain names, in a dispute that it had filed against domain infringement. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has recently won a victory over what it had dubbed as the largest infringement it has ever encountered. Someone had registered a number of domains over [...]
US grabs more domain names, $1.4 million from online counterfeit operations
By Layer 8 Created May 11 2012 – 12:31pm The Department of Justice today said it snatched up more than $1.5 million from the distribution of counterfeit sports apparel and jerseys being sold online. According to court documents, investigation by federal law enforcement agents revealed that subjects whose domain names had been seized in a November [...]
Excellent Video with Domain Sherpa Interviewing Mike Mann
An excellent interview performed by DomainSherpa.com. A must see…
NIRA budgets N11 million for infrastructure upgrade
The Nigerian Internet Registration Association said it would spend N11 million on infrastructure upgrade as part of measures to achieve its target of registering 250, 000 .ng domain names by 2013. Ope Odusan, chief operating Officer of NIRA, who said this during NIRA’s Annual General Meeting in Lagos, during the week, said such equipment upgrade [...]
Apple Looks to Gain Control of iPhone5.com Domain
While there has been much debate about whether Apple will refer to the next-generation iPhone as “iPhone 5″, “iPhone 6″, simply “iPhone”, or something else entirely, Fusible notesthat Apple has filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) seeking to gain control of the iPhone5.com domain. WIPO authorities are currently assessing compliance of Apple’s claim with the [...]
Do you own mobile advertising domain names?
Below is a great article about the future of mobile phone advertising which covers phones, pads, and pocket smart devices. According to Google, this is the game changer for them going into late 2012 and 2013. Take the time to read the article and hold onto your mobile advertising domain names. Mobile Marketer The news [...]
