Monthly Archives: September 2012

Fri 7th September 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Public Storage Loses For A 2nd A UDRP On publicstoragephoenix.com - Public Storage has won 47 domain names in 9 UDRP on domain names which include the term Public Storage with some geographical designation. But for the second time a three member panel denied public storage claim against Deer Valley Mini Storage of Scottsdale, Arizona  on the domain name publicstoragephoenix.com. In a previous UDRP ruling the only one Public Storage had ever lost up to that point, a panel held in favor of the same domain holder on the same domain name, publicstoragephoenix.com as ... read more ...
 
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Public Storage refiles UDRP, row declines to hear it - Company upset that decision was different from similar case it filed. Generally speaking, the only reason a UDRP panel will re-hear a case is if the complainant brings forth new evidence that could not have been discovered prior to the initial case. But that didn’t stop Public Storage from filing a new case against the owner of publicstoragephoenix.com. Here’s the background: In October 2011 Public Storage lost a case against the owners of publicstorage-phoenix.com ... read more ...
 
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Libya loses anticybersquatting lawsuit - Libya and its embassy lose a domain name lawsuit that started well before Gaddafi’s overthrow. A federal district court yesterday handed down a ruling in a very interesting cybersquatting case, and much of the interest lies in who the plaintiff was: Libya. Back in 2006 The Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Embassy of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya filed suit against Ahmad Miski for cybersquatting. (After the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s government, ... read more ...
Thu 6th September 2012
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UDRP Panel Rejects Claim On ElAbogado.com (The Lawyer.com) - In a UDRP decision released today a one member panel rejected the trademark holder of the “brands 1-800-NY-ABOGADO 1-800-ELABOGADO” to the domain name  ElAbogado.com, which translates to “The Lawyer” in English. Here are the relevant facts and findings: “The complainant registered marks based on previous use made of them that according to these records dating back to 1996 in the case of the brand 1-800-ELABOGADO and 2000 in the case of the brand 1-800 -NY-LAWYER.” The trademark holders ... read more ...
 
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Google Gains Control Of 43 Domain Names In 2 Separate UDRP Decisions - In two separate UDRP decisions handed down today, Google won control of 43 domain names. In the 1st decision Google won control over 25 domain names: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Announces The 7 Criteria On Whether Changes To New gTLD Applications Will Be Approved - ICANN announced overnight, how will evaluate the requested changes in new gTLD’s applications. ICANN will consider the 7 criteria below and inform the applicant whether the changes are approved or denied. As usually all seems to be left to the evaluators to decide. None of the 7 factors were given any more or less weight than the others, nor did ICANN say how many of factors had to go in the applicant who wishes to change their application for ICANN to allow it. Decision Criteria Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: 4 New gTLD Applications Withdrawn, 3 By Google - According to ICANN’s site, four applications for new gTLD’s have been withdrawn by the applicants so far, including three by Google. The strings Google has withdrawn its new gTLD application for are: .And .Are .Est All of Google applications were submitted by Charleston Road Registry Inc. The fourth withdrawn application belongs to KSB Aktiengesellschaft who applied for .KSB     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Is this a world’s misfortune web site name? - Quite possibly. So you create a sort of “eLance for legal cases” and you need to come up with a name. You end up with… Shpoonkle.com? Oh c’mon. You can’t be serious. Shpoonkle.com has been out for a while, but I just heard about it today. The site lets you post details of the legal work you need done and lawyers will bid for your work. It’s a lot like eLance.com. But the name…it’s so painful. Company founder Robert Niznik told VentureBeat last year ... read more ...
 
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How to change your new tip turn domain application - A one page word doc is all it takes. Domain Name Wire was first to report back in June that ICANN was working on a plan to allow new top level domain applicants to modify their applications. Now the guidelines and process are complete. Applicants must fill out a short, one page form explaining the change and the reason for the request. They also must attached a redlined document of the changes they’re making. The request will be considered against seven factors, ... read more ...
 
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Clint Eastwood proves that as prolonged as there’s news, there will be domain registrations - Dozens of domain names registered about…a chair. Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican National Convention last Thursday gave 24 hour news networks and election watchers something to talk about for the next few days. And it once again showed that when there’s news, there will be domain name registrations. On the evening of Eastwood’s speech, in which he pretended Barack Obama was sitting in an empty chair next to him on stage, a California man jumped on ... read more ...
 
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The many critical .tv domain turns 10 - This one .tv domain name has bolstered the entire .tv namespace. The one .tv domain name that has done the most to build the .TV domain name brand turned ten last month. And it doesn’t even resolve to a web site. MLB.TV, Major League Baseball’s live game streaming service, launched at about this time in 2002. Since then it has delivered 1.5 billion live video streams. This season it is running at a clip of 1.1 million live video streams per day. But MLB.TV is ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2012
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TeachBook.com Buys TeachQuest.com For $1,950, As It Settles Its Lawsuit With Facebook.com - Back in August of 2010 we posted about Facebook.com suing the site, TeachBook.com alleging trademark infringement. Today comes word from ChicagoBusiness.com that TeachBook.com has changed their domain name to TeachQuest.com. “Teachbook, the Northbrook-based site sued by Facebook Inc. for using the word “book” in its name, has changed its name to “TeachQuest” as part of a settlement with the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social-networking giant.” “We are pleased to announce that Facebook and ... read more ...
 
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Top 50 Most Pre-Registered New gTLD’s Domain Names From UnitedDomains.com - UnitedDomains.com an ICANN accredited registrar has taken almost 850,000 “pre-registrations” of new gTLD’s domain names. The registrar has been publishing a top 10 list of the new gTLD’s by number of “pre-registrations” now has a top 50 list. The numbers are in real time so they are valid as of time of publication. As we always point out there is no charge to pre-register a new gTLD at UnitedDomains.com Here you go: 1.WEB 116,924 2.SHOP 71,264 3.SITE 53,944 4.HOTEL 26,599 5.MUSIC 21,994 6.NYC ... read more ...
 
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4 new TLD applications withdrawn - Google and one .brand applicant withdraw applications. Kudos to Michele Neylon for spotting an option on ICANN’s web site to see which new top level domain name applications have been withdrawn. Thus far four applications have been withdrawn, including three by Google. The three by Google should not come as a huge surprise. ICANN Senior VP Kurt Pritz previously announced that three application had been withdrawn, and you can thank Kevin Murphy for that. Murphy earlier ... read more ...
 
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AOL bought a new code for $3,300 and AFL-CIO PAC buys a debate domain name - End user sales report includes some big names. This week’s end user domain name sales report includes a purchase by AOL that’s likely for a new site and the Workers Voices PAC picking up a domain name for the upcoming campaign. Afternic The Hangout, a restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama, bought TheGulf.com for $4,479. The owner of EdHelper.com bought EduHelper.com for $$21,288 and ExHelper.com (a typo) for $1,245. The EdHelper.com sale must have been through Afternic’s ... read more ...
 
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Top Domain Name Wire stories of August - ccTLDs, domain parking, and more make the top five list. If August is over, why is it still 100 degrees in Austin? Sigh… Here are the top 5 news stories from Domain Name Wire last month. Oops, I entrusted my domain name to a tiny island nation! – think about political and technical risks before setting up your web site on a country code domain name. Wow: Craigslist loses Craigslists.com domain dispute – so this guy creates a list, and his name is supposedly ... read more ...
Tue 4th September 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $1.08MM in Domains Led By Elysium.com At $30K - Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,075,466 for the week ending September 2nd, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by Elysium.com for $30,000 followed by VideoConverter.com for $20,000. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions For The Week “Total Over $1 Million” - Sedo.com just reported its weekly transaction list. 699 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1 million.  (no exact number was furnished) 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: indotogel.com at 33,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: runway.ca at 19,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: shp.net at 10,000 EUR Here are the reportable sales my favorites were inspirational.com ... read more ...
 
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Fed Court Rules No In Rem Jurisdiction In Washington D.C. For ACPA - A Federal Court ruled that an in rem action under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) cannot be brought in Washington D.C. based off of ICANN having an office in DC since ICANN is not a “domain name authority” as contemplated by ACPA’s in rem jurisdiction provisions. The plaintiff bought suit in the DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, claiming that the court had jurisdiction because ICANN maintains an office in Washington, D.C., and is a “domain name authority” ... read more ...
 
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Confirmed: 9 Gambling Domains Previously By US Government Were Sold To A Private Business & Put On Sale - Over the weekend we published a story how 9 gambling related domain names that were seized by the US Government’s Homeland Security division, had been placed up for sale by a private company in Las Vegas. The domain names included TruePoker.com, DoylesRoom.com and Bookmaker.com. The domains are now offered for sale by US Poker Marketing Affiliate, LLC the administrative whois contact Gzeshlaw.com. I spoke to David Gzesh via email over the weekend who informed me that his company did in fact by ... read more ...
 
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Spotted: Four minute .com permit image in Texas - At least two .com license plates exist in Austin. I recently got a DNW.COM license plate thanks to Texas now allowing dots on license plates. This past weekend I was leaving a parking lot when I spied this: Yep, that’s a four character .com license plate. In a way, a four character .com is rarer than a three character — when it comes to license plates in The Lone Star State. DNW.COM is technically a six character license plate because the dot isn’t counted. ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Auctions sells 31,481 domains in August - TeachingJobs.com heads list of domain name sales. The monthly Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report is out, and the headline number is 31,481 domain names sold during August. That’s lower than July’s 33,373 domains. The top sale for August was TeachingJobs.com at a strong $89,250. The domain name appears to have been previously developed or used as a lead gen site. Here are the top ten reported sales for the month: teachingjobs.com $89,250 curio.com $60,000 ced.com $60,000 ffun.com $25,000 eduhelper.com $21,288 myeyes.com $19,777 mrcglobal.com $15,000 southernrecycling.com $13,100 officerentals.com $12,500 livecasinotv.com $12,000 Go ... read more ...
 
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Formula 1 group woos cybersquatter, afterwards files complaint - After lavishing gifts on cybersquatter, Formula 1 team has a change of heart. With Formula 1 coming to Austin in just two months, I was interested to see this UDRP brought by a Formula 1 team. Force India Formula One Team Limited, which is strangely located in the United Kingdom, filed a dispute against the registrant of saharaforceindia.com and saharaforceindiaf1.com. The registrant of these domain names registered the domains the same day the Formula 1 team announced ... read more ...
 
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Penn State belatedly registers domains for “Faces of Penn State” campaign - Penn State registers domain name for sensitive PR campaign…after news of the campaign already hit the press. If you’re a PR firm releasing a very sensitive campaign for a client, you better make sure to register the appropriate domain names ahead of time Over the weekend Pennsylvania State University kicked off its “Faces of Penn State” campaign, designed to move the university forward after the sex abuse scandal. And it looks like Penn State did register ... read more ...
Sun 2nd September 2012
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9 Seized Gambling Domains Are Put Up For Sale Including Bookmaker.com TruePoker.com & DoylesRoom.com - Nine domain names that were previously seized by the US Government’s Homeland Security Department have been put up for sale or license. The nine domains include a great generic domain name, Bookmaker.com, and a couple of formerly large poker sites, TruePoker.com and DoylesRoom.com. It’s not clear who is selling the domains, the US government or the former owners. The domain names are all now registered to a “US Poker Marketing Affiliate, LLC” of Las Vegas which has an email contact of ... read more ...