Monthly Archives: July 2013

Tue 30th July 2013
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Food Network loses food quarrel for .food tip turn domain name - Scripps wanted to claim universal rights to the term “food” on the web. The company behind the Food Network and Food.com, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., has lost an objection against a rival applicant for the top level domain name .food. In the objection against Dot Food, LLC, Scripps tried to argue that it basically owns the word “food”, and that consumers visiting a second level domain name under .food would assume that it was associated with the company. Respondent’s ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com, HP, Ford among those lobbying Washington about domain names - Big companies join domain heavyweights in lobbying U.S. government about domain name issues. It’s been a couple years since I’ve done a round up of how much domain name companies are spending on lobbying in Washington. I just ran an updated analysis and made two key observations. First, major domain name companies including VeriSign and Go Daddy are spending less on lobbying than they used to. Second, a lot of non-domain name companies are lobbying about domain ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo gets obvious for prioritizing cybersquatting cases - Patent covers discovering and prioritizing cybersquatting issues. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,499,032 (pdf) to Yahoo for a “System and method for compiling a set of domain names to recover”. The invention, which I wrote about when the application was published in 2010, allows a trademark owner to generate a list of potentially infringing domain names. This list is run against network data to prioritize which domain names get ... read more ...
Mon 29th July 2013
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NameCheap Wins $1.3 Million CyberSquatting Judgement - A Federal District Court has awarded NameCheap.com $1.3 Million Dollars  in a cybersquatting suit. The judgement (Judgment) was entered back in January 2013 but it does not appear to have been reported on before. The United States District Court for the Central District of California awarded NameCheap.com $50,000 for each of the 26 infringing domains for a total of $1.3 Million. The Court also awarded NameCheap.com the domain names which appear below. Earlier we reported on a  National Arbitration ... read more ...
 
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Google Talks Geotargeting And Generic ccTLDs - Google’s latest Webmaster Help video deals with ccTLDs and geotargeting – specifically Google’s view of a developer grabbing a ccTLD that is generally associated with a country they’re not actually in. Here’s the exact question: As memorable .COM domains become more expensive, more developers are choosing alternate new domains like .IO and .IM – which Google geotargets to small areas. Do you discourage this activity? “I want you to go in with your eyes open,” Google’s ... read more ...
 
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16 Year Old Model Esther Heesch Awarded EstherHeesch.com In A UDRP Based On Her Fame - A one member UDRP panel awarded the domain name EstherHeesch.com to what the panel found to be a  “a rising star in the fashion and modeling agencies…an international supermodel represented by the prestigious agency, Next Model Management.” “Through years of continuous use in commerce in the United States and abroad, the name “Esther Heesch” has acquired the sufficient secondary meaning under applicable intellectual property law so that common law trademark rights exists in the name ... read more ...
 
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L’Oréal Drops 8th New gTLD Application - L’Oréal has withdrawn its 8th new gTLD application for the closed brand application for .Matrix L’Oréal applied for 14 new gTLD’s. one IDN 8 brand applications and five generic’s to be operated on a closed basis .Hair; .Beauty; .Skin; Salon and .Makeup The only .Brand application not still not withdrawn with ICANN by L’Oréal is for .Lancome The application for .Matrix has a prioritization number of 1,498 This marks the 105th new gTLD application to be withdrawn from ICANN.     Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Buckingham Palace Doesn’t Want The Domain Of The Royal Baby GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com - After taking a beating in the media for registering the matching .com domain name of the Royal Baby GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com it seems the Royal’s don’t want the domain even for free. In a message sent from Buckingham Palace to Luc  Biggs of  of key-domains.com they politely declined to take the domain name for free. The wording of the response is pretty much to the effect that the Royal’s gave to ibtimes.co.uk, where A spokesman for Kensington Palace said: “Prince George’s online presence ... read more ...
 
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.PW Becomes First TLD To Adopt Uniform Rapid Suspension - The .pw Registry just announced it is the first TLD to adopt ICANN’s latest rights protection mechanism, the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS). The URS is in the Applicant Gudebook for new gTLD’s. “The URS seeks to provide trademark holders with faster protection against infringement than the existing Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). “ “While the UDRP, a more expensive and long process, awards ownership of a domain to the winner of a dispute, the URS ensures faster ... read more ...
 
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.PW Becomes First TLD To Adopt Uniform Rapid Suspension - The .pw Registry just announced it is the first TLD to adopt ICANN’s latest rights protection mechanism, the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS). The URS is in the Applicant Gudebook for new gTLD’s. “The URS seeks to provide trademark holders with faster protection against infringement than the existing Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). “ “While the UDRP, a more expensive and long process, awards ownership of a domain to the winner of a dispute, the URS ensures faster protection ... read more ...
 
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How To Blow $50K In Domain Registrations - Virtual Planet of Mill Valley, CA is dropping 103 domain names all registered at NetworkSolutions.com for 13 years. The normal registration renewal prices of NSI is $35 a year. That comes to a total of almost $50,000 for these domains. The kicker maybe that the domain holder does not even seem to be the owner of virtualplanet.com a domain that has been registered since 1995. virtualplanetalaska.com virtualplanetargentina.com virtualplanetarizona.com virtualplanetatlanta.com virtualplanetaustralia.com virtualplanetaustria.com virtualplanetbelgium.com virtualplanetboston.com virtualplanetbrazil.com virtualplanetbulgaria.com virtualplanetcanada.com virtualplanetchicago.com virtualplanetchile.com virtualplanetchina.com virtualplanetcolorado.com virtualplanetcostarica.com virtualplanetcuba.com virtualplanetczechrepublic.com virtualplanetdubai.com virtualplanetegypt.com virtualplanetengland.com virtualplaneteritrea.com virtualplanetestonia.com virtualplanetflorida.com virtualplanetfrance.com virtualplanetgermany.com virtualplanetgreece.com virtualplanethawaii.com virtualplanetholland.com virtualplanethongkong.com virtualplanethungary.com virtualplanetillinois.com virtualplanetindia.com virtualplanetindonesia.com virtualplanetireland.com virtualplanetisrael.com virtualplanetitaly.com virtualplanetjamaica.com virtualplanetjapan.com virtualplanetjordan.com virtualplanetkenya.com virtualplanetla.com virtualplanetlasvegas.com virtualplanetlatvia.com virtualplanetlebanon.com virtualplanetlithuania.com virtualplanetlondon.com virtualplanetlosangeles.com virtualplanetmalaysia.com virtualplanetmassachusetts.com virtualplanetmexico.com virtualplanetmichigan.com virtualplanetminnesota.com virtualplanetmontana.com virtualplanetmorocco.com virtualplanetnetherlands.com virtualplanetnevada.com virtualplanetnewhampshire.com virtualplanetnewjersey.com virtualplanetnewmexico.com virtualplanetneworleans.com virtualplanetnewyork.com virtualplanetnewyorkcity.com virtualplanetnewzealand.com virtualplanetnigeria.com virtualplanetnyc.com virtualplanetoregon.com virtualplanetorlando.com virtualplanetparis.com virtualplanetpennsylvania.com virtualplanetphillippines.com virtualplanetpoland.com virtualplanetportugal.com virtualplanetpuertorico.com virtualplanetromania.com virtualplanetrome.com virtualplanetrussia.com virtualplanetsaudiarabia.com virtualplanetscotland.com virtualplanetshanghai.com virtualplanetsingapore.com virtualplanetsouthafrica.com virtualplanetsouthkorea.com virtualplanetspain.com virtualplanetswitzerland.com virtualplanettaiwan.com virtualplanettanzania.com virtualplanettexas.com virtualplanetthailand.com virtualplanetturkey.com virtualplanetuk.com virtualplanetunitedarabemirates.com virtualplanetunitedstates.com virtualplanetus.com virtualplanetusa.com virtualplanetutah.com virtualplanetvenezuela.com virtualplanetvermont.com virtualplanetvirginia.com virtualplanetwales.com virtualplanetwashington.com virtualplanetwashingtondc.com virtualplanetwyoming.com Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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TLD Racing battles through tough round of QRTS at Kingaroy - Story Tools var addthis_config = { services_compact: 'favorites, email, facebook, twitter, buzz', services_exclude: 'print' } Tweet TOUGH WEEKEND: TLD Racing rider Sebastian Scott. Bev Lacey TEAM TLD Racing was happy with its outing despite a tough weekend in the Queensland Road Teams Series at Kingaroy. TLD started the weekend in promising fashion as they rode a smart race during the 120km first stage which traversed a narrow and windy course. ... read more ...
 
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Charleston Road Registry: Google bietet neue TLDs zum Verkauf an -   Die ICANN ist aktuell in der Prüfungs- und Vergabephase für neue Top-Level-Domains und gibt im Wochenrhythmus die Anträge frei oder eben nicht. Google hat sich für eine ganze Reihe von TLDs beworben und hatte angekündigt diese großteils zu öffnen – und nun dürfte es bald soweit sein. Aktuell ist das Unternehmen auf der Suche nach Partnern die Domains mit den neuen TLDS verkaufen möchten. Google hatte zur Stellung der Anträge das Tochterunternehmen Charleston Road Registry gegründet ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net launches TrafficMatch to representation domain trade to advertisers - TrafficMatch promotes domain name traffic to advertisers. Oversee.net, the parent company of DomainSponsor, somewhat quietly launched TrafficMatch last month. TrafficMatch pitches the company’s 300 million monthly visitors direct to advertisers – and a big part of that 300 million is domain name traffic. Here’s how the TrafficMatch website explains it: TrafficMatch is a leading provider of high value online traffic. With nearly 300 million visitors passing ... read more ...
 
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Matt Cutts releases new video about regulating ccTLDs for general purposes - Cutts explains when Google decides to make a ccTLD global. Google’s SEO/Webspam leader Matt Cutts has released a new video about using a country code top level domain name for a website not targeted to that country. His message is the same that Google has been giving for many years, but he added some more color about how the company decides what should become generic. Google makes some domains globally targeted because they’ve been widely adopted for global use ... read more ...
 
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Gmail vs. Snail Mail: Google wins plea by USPS - USPS’ challenge to Google over .mail top level domain is denied. Last week, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist delivered some bad news to the The United States Postal Service: its challenge to Amazon.com’s application to run the .mail top level domain was denied. Now the group’s challenge to Google’s bid to run .mail has also been returned to sender. The USPS suggested that it has some sort of rights to the term “mail”, in part because ... read more ...
 
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How right-to-left domain names work in practice - Depending on your language, new TLDs might be about new opportunities to the left of the dot. When ICANN unveiled the list of top level domain name applications at a media event in London last summer, some in the community were upset that Arabic IDNs were presented left to right instead of right to left. Some scripts, including Arabic and Hebrew, are read from right to left. This really hit home for me a couple weeks ago when I was writing about the registry agreement ... read more ...
 
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JustFab.com sues Fab.com for infringing the trademark - Two fashion startups argue over which one is the most fabulous. This legal battle is absolutely fabulous! Just Fabulous, the company behind online fashion site JustFab.com, has sued white-hot e-commerce site Fab.com. Just Fabulous claims that Fab.com is infringing its Just Fab marks. The two sites are heavyweights. JustFab.com has raised over $100 million. Fab.com has raised over $300 million. Fab.com started as a social networking site, but later changed directions ... read more ...
 
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Law organisation claims general authorised domain name is cybersquatting - Law firm with the generic name “Outside Legal Counsel” sues Dan Rubin over OutsideLegalCounsel.com domain name. [Update: the case was resolved.] A law firm called Outside Legal Counsel Plc has sued JustDropped.com and its owner Dan Rubin, claiming he is cybersquatting on OutsideLegalCounsel.com. At first I thought the attorneys for the case made a mistake, as it appeared someone acting as outside general counsel (a common name for an outside law firm working on ... read more ...
Sun 28th July 2013
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What’s in a domain name? - Protecting IP on the web is about to get even trickier, but luckily a new system is available to helpThis year the internet will undergo one of its biggest changes to date, when hundreds of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) appear in the online space. Soon, we will move beyond the small world of .com and .co.uk to domains including brand specific extensions such as .google, geographic extensions like .london and foreign script extensions.The domain name world is a complex space ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling formulation a domain name conference? - Schilling files trademark application related to domain conferences. Is Frank Schilling planning to hold domain name conferences in the future? The thought has at least crossed his mind – if not gone further. George Kirikos spotted that Schilling filed an intent-to-use trademark application (pdf) for iNEX back in April. Here’s the class of goods listed on the application: Educational services, namely, arranging and organizing conferences in the field of internet ... read more ...
Sat 27th July 2013
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Orbitz Loses UDRP on Orbotz.com Parked For Last Five Years - Orbitz Worldwide, LLC which was represented by CitizenHawk, Inc., just lost a UDRP on the domain name Obotz.com a domain which has been parked for the last five years. How could a UDRP panel reject the claim of Orbitz you ask well the domain holder registered the domain back in 2001 “with the intention of developing a series of stories about robots called “Orbotz” on a planet in outer space.” “Respondent claims to have legitimate rights and interests in the Disputed Domain Name based on ... read more ...
 
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GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com Is Getting 7,500 Daily Visitors: Owner: “I’ll Probably End adult Donating it to a Royal Family” - According to the owner of the domain name GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com, the domain is getting around 7,500 Unique visitors a day. Moreover in a comment to TheDomains.com on a post we wrote about Royal Baby names being registered just minutes after the Royal Baby’s name was announced,  the Owner of the domain name, Luc-Andre Biggs of  of key-domains.com said: “I’ll probably end up donating it to the Royal Family on my next trip to London”. I’m not exactly sure of why you have to wait to donate ... read more ...
 
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15 Year Old MusicZoo.com Saved IN URDP Challege From TheMusicZoo.com - The Music Zoo Corporation whose website is TheMusicZoo.com just lost a UDRP on the domain name MusicZoo.com which was registered way back in December 8, 1998. The Complainant, had a trademark for both  MUSIC ZOO and THE MUSIC ZOO however the trademark for the MUSIC ZOO wasn’t filed until October 7, 2010, registered November 8, 2011 and for the THE MUSIC ZOO which was filed October 7, 2010, registered November 8, 2011. Its another case that cries out for a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ... read more ...
 
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Verisign files initial UDRP given 2007 - .Com registry wants a .com. Verisign, the company that runs the .com registry, has filed a UDRP against a .com domain name. [Update: the registrant handed the domain name over and the case was terminated.] It’s the first UDRP the company has filed since it went after verisigngateway.com in 2007. The filing targets PoweredByVerisign.com, which was registered at GoDaddy last year by someone in Switzerland. Verisign uses the domain DomainsPoweredByVerisign.com to ... read more ...