Category: Domaining News
UDRP Decisions
Tweet Johnson & Johnson Chad Wright tucks.com Complaint denied Hitcents.com Bob Blackard omniprise.com Complaint denie FACI Industries BuyDomains.com, Inventory Management faci.com Transfer Yash Raj Films Private Limited 江苏诚展网络科技有限公司/ JiangSu ChengZhan Network Technology Co., Ltd. yrf.com Complaint denied You can see that some complaints were denied but in the case of a 4ltr domain they lost. [...]
Feds Tie Themselves In Legal Knots Arguing For Domain Forfeiture In Rojadirecta Case
Tweetfrom the that-makes-no-sense dept If you don’t recall, among the various domains that ICE and the DOJ seized last year were two domains — rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org — held by a Spanish company, Puerto 80. After extended negotiations to try to get the government to return the domain names, Puerto 80 finally sued the government to get them back. [...]
Domain Fakes: Retail roundup: Burberry fakes, J.C. Penney, Fresh & Easy meals
Tweet By Shan LiMay 19, 2012, 6:00 a.m. – Luxury retailer Burberry won $180 million in two separate counterfeiting suits against networks of websites selling fake goods. Both suits, filed in federal court in Manhattan, accused knockoff artists of hawking items bearing the Burberry name and signature plaid on sites such as “BurberryOutlet8.com” and “Burberrys-Vision.com.” The [...]
Domain.com Sponsors University of Portland’s $100K Business Plan Challenge for 2nd Year
TweetTop domain registrar and web hosting company supports young entrepreneurs. Vancouver, WA (PRWEB) May 01, 2012 Leading domain registrar and web hosting provider Domain.com for the second year in a row sponsored the $100k Challenge, an annual business plan competition organized by the University of Portland’s Center for Entrepreneurship. Domain.com provided free domain names and [...]
Adobe to launch $2,600 software suite — for $50 a month
Tweet Published April 23, 2012 Associated Press A screenshot shows Adobe Illustrator CS6, one part of the new version of Adobe’s Creative Suite that sells for as much as $2,600. (Adobe) NEW YORK – Adobe is launching the latest version of its software package for designers and Web developers. Adobe Systems is set to announce CS6 [...]
Deloitte confirms TLD domain name application for .deloitte
TweetDeloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited has confirmed that it has applied to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to use the top level domain (TLD) of .deloitte. The move will give the audit, tax, consulting and corporate finances firm a personalised online presence and comes ahead of the ICANN deadline. Heather Hancock, managing [...]
ICANN To Announce New Domain Applicants April 30
TweetThe organization that manages internet domain names says it will release the names of applicants for new dot-something domains on April 30. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has only released a few details about who’s applied so far for the new generic top-level domain names, which will greatly expand the current 22 offerings that [...]
WIPO Prepares for Launch of New gTLDs while Cybersquatting Cases Continued to Rise WIPO Prepares for Launch of New gTLDs while Cybersquatting Cases Continued to Rise WIPO Prepares for Launch of New gTLDs while Cybersquatting Cases Continued to Rise
Tweet06-Mar-2012 | Source : AG-IP News | Visits : 441 GENEVA – In 2011, trademark holders filed a record 2,764 cybersquatting cases covering 4,781 domain names with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO Center) under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), an increase of 2.5% and 9.4% over the [...]
Firms fined for ‘typosquatting’ domain names
TweetTwo companies which used “typosquatting” to mislead customers have been fined £100,000 each. A typosquatted site is one which poses as a well-known website and takes advantage of customers who miss-type the web address. These companies register domain names that are similar to a brand (in this case ‘Wikapedia’ and ‘Twtter’) and then target users who accidentally [...]
Google Now The Largest Public DNS Provider
Tweet Google has become the largest public DNS service in the world. The company launched Google Public DNS in December 2009 and on Tuesday said its service is handling more than 70 billion requests a day. Google software engineer Jeremy K. Chen likens DNS to a phone book for the Internet, a comparison that presumes a familiarity with [...]
