Monthly Archives: July 2013

Thu 25th July 2013
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Verisign announces another .net cost hike - 25 days after prices went up, Verisign announces another price increase. The wholesale registry fee for .net domain names just increased from $5.11 to $5.62 on July 1. Today, Verisign announced another price hike that will increase the price to $6.18. The increase will go into effect on February 1, 2014 following a six month waiting period. Verisign has the contractual right to increase the fees for .net domain name registrations by up to 10% each year during the ... read more ...
 
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.Song and .YellowPages new TLD objections denied - Two more objections fail, bringing total to 18. World Intellectual Property Organization panelists have denied two more Legal Rights Objections to new top level domain name applications. The latest failed objections are for .song and .yellowpages. Of the 18 determined cases so far, the objectors have lost in each of them. That has a lot to do with panelists and applicants sniffing out “trademark frontrunning” in which an entity applied for (and gained, in some ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media successfully defends .CAM TLD opposite objection - Company defends one objection for .cam, still faces a string confusion objection. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD Holdco Ltd has defended itself against a legal rights objection over its .cam top level domain name application. AC Webconnecting Holding B.V., a competing applicant for the string, based its objection on community trademark registrations for “.cam” as a word as well as a .cam logo. It also said it is the controlling shareholder of a company that ... read more ...
 
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Sports training association fouls out in D1.com domain name grab - Company fails to take D1.com domain name from rightful owner. D1 Sports Holdings, LLC has lost a UDRP complaint it filed against the domain name D1.com. As you can imagine, D1.com was registered a long time ago. It was registered in 1995 and belongs to New Dimension One Spas, Inc, which acquired the assets of Dimension One Spas earlier this year. Get it? Dimension One, or D1? Apparently D1 Sports Holdings, which claims it started using the D1 mark in 2003, didn’t ... read more ...
 
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Trademark frontrunner TLDDOT GmbH loses .GMBH objection - Company that trademarked .GMBH loses legal rights objection to competing applicant. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the .gmbh domain name that has tried to “frontrun” the new TLD process with trademarks, has lost a legal rights objection against competing applicant InterNetWire Web-Development GmbH. TLDDOT’s objection was quite amazing, really. The company basically told the panel that it had filed trademarks and starting marketing .gmbh early on, so it should ... read more ...
Wed 24th July 2013
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WOW: PNC Bank Loses UDRP On 9 PTCBank Domains Going To Parked Pages With A Similar Logo To The Bank - The UDRP rulings get nutter and more inconsistent by the day and today a one member panel denied PNC Financial Services Group, Inc which owns and operates PNC Bank on 9 domains all containing the term PTCbank even though the domains were parked and the domain owner used a logo on the parked domains that a copy of Complainant’s “PowerLink” logo and has the same colors as those used in Complainant’s design. The panel found “PNC is the dominant component of the trademark” “PTC is the dominant ... read more ...
 
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Judge Says Godaddy Is Not Entitled To Safe Harbor Protection On Parked Pages Program - In a 29 page ruling a California Federal Court denied Godaddy’s motion to have the case filed by the ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES, (the Oscars) which was filed in 2010, thrown out, denying Godaddy.com the Safe Harbor that domain name registrars typically enjoy. DomainNameWire.com reported last week that Godaddy was testing out some new parked landing pages, but this ruling might explain why Godaddy made the change removing pay per click traditional parked page advertising. Of course ... read more ...
 
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Matthieu Crédou (Afnic) : « Nous assisterons au premier grand procès entre l … - Extension des noms de domaine, protection des marques, confidentialité des données… Matthieu Crédou, responsable commercial au sein de la direction marketing et innovation du registre français Afnic, revient sur les thématiques clés abordées lors de la 47e réunion publique de l’ICANN, régulateur technique de l’Internet. Le rassemblement ICANN 47 s’est tenu à Durban, en Afrique du Sud, du 14 au 18 juillet 2013. Silicon.fr – Dans quel climat s’est déroulée la 47e réunion de ... read more ...
 
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Royal Baby Is Named & Domains Registered In Seconds: GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com; PrinceGeorgeAlexanderLouis.com - Cnn.com just reported that the Royal baby has been names George Alexander Louis and within seconds the domain names GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com and PrinceGeorgeAlexanderLouis.com were registered. The domain name GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com was registered by Luc-Andre Biggs of  of key-domains.com at Moniker and the domain name is already parked at Internet Traffic.com The domain name PrinceGeorgeAlexanderLouis.com was registered by Jonathan Moore of the UK at Godaddy and is going to a godaddy Placeholder.  ... read more ...
 
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Google Announces ChromeCast Without Owning ChromeCast.com But Did Just Register Chromecast.Tv - Google announced a new product today called Chrome Cast which is described as something like Apple TV which allows users to stream videos from a phone or tablet to their TV using Chrome. Google doesn’t own the domain name ChromeCast.com that honor goes to a media design and IT consulting company out of  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada which registered the domain name back when it was formed in 2002. For those that of the opinion that a company like Google doesn’t need a domain to match every product, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Pre-Earnings: Expecting Modest Growth - Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN), the provider of registry services for all .com and .net domain names, will report its Q2 2013 results on July 25, 2013. We expect continued growth for the company to be driven by increase in .com/.net domain names. However, we forecast the future growth rate of .com/.net domain name base to be lower than the overall Internet domain name growth rate due to competition from country code domain names and other factors. While the introduction of new generic top-level ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schiling’s Name Administration & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP On Spielwarenmesse.com (ToyFair in German) - Spielwarenmesse eG of Nürnberg, Germany,  has lost its bid to grab the domain name spielwarenmesse.com which is ToyFair in German in a UDRP away from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration which was represented as always by John Berryhill. Here are the relevant fact and findings by the three member panel: The Complainant, Spielwarenmesse eG, is a German cooperative which has been organising a trade fair for the toy industry on an annual basis since 1950. On March 31, 2006, the Complainant filed ... read more ...
 
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LoveYahoo.com? Yahoo! Wins 33 Domains In 1 UDRP - Yahoo! was awarded 33 domain names today in a single UDRP The decision issued by one of the newer UDRP providers, the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and included many typos of Yahoo products including Rocket Mail, a company Yahoo acquired fro $92 million;  Ymail and Flickr as well as a few non-typo domain names including LoveYahoo.com; YahooPhoto.com and YahooArticle.com: Here are all the domains won in the UDRP:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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WowWe Loses UDRP Bid on 14 Year Old Domain WowWe.com - WowWe, Inc. of The Woodlands, Texas, just lost a UDRP decision on the domain name wowwe.com Here are the relevant findings form the one member panel: “Complainant WowWe, Inc. owns U.S. Trademark Registration No. 4057342 for the mark WOWWE, as used in connection with the “provisioning of video conference services, electronic mail services, and video messaging services”. The registration issued on November 15, 2011, based on an application that was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark ... read more ...
 
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Tinka Announces the Approval of Its Environmental Impact Assessment for Its … - VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - July 23, 2013) - Tinka Resources Limited (the "Company"), (TSX VENTURE:TK)(PINKSHEETS:TKRFF)(FRANKFURT:TLD), announces that it has received from the General Bureau of Environmental Affairs ("DGAAM") of the Ministry of Energy and Mines ("MINEM") of Peru, the Directoral Resolution N° 263-2013-MEM/AAM dated July 19th, 2013, approving the Company's Environmental Impact Assessment ("EIA") for the proposed drill program on its Ayawilca zinc project ... read more ...
 
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When ccTLDs Can Make a Difference in the Overall SEO Campaign - Tweet Buffer In a recent column I examined the merits of two techniques for international SEO. Here we look more carefully at some elements of one of them, country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Enterprise companies like Google or Amazon utilize ccTLDs and have one specific website for each different country; for example, companyname.fr for France or .co.uk for United Kingdom. There are other enterprise companies that don't use different domains ... read more ...
 
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WordPress.com Adds .CO As Only The 5th TLD For Custom Domain Name … - Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced today on the company blog, that it has added .CO domain names as a custom domain name option for fully hosted WordPress.com sites. .CO becomes only the 5th TLD  joining .com, .org, .net and .me as one of only five custom domain options available through WordPress.com. There are currently over 33 million websites and blogs in over 120 languages around the world powered by WordPress.com, including the sites of many of the most well-recognized ... read more ...
 
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What domains L’Oreal and others bought during Sedo final week - L’Oreal is one of end user domain buyers at Sedo. Sedo had some solid end user domain name sales last week. Here’s the list. L’Oreal bought Beaute.fr and beauté.fr for 17,650 EUR each. Yotta Ltd, which sells technology and services to the infrastructure and highways market, bought Yotta.co.uk for 3,600 GBP. Hmmm…did Biz Stone’s new company Jelly buy Jelly.co for 4,900 EUR. Genetipetz, which sells stuffed animals that combine more than one animal, bought ... read more ...
 
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Royal baby domain name registrations spike - GoDaddy reports increase in domain registrations related to baby. I have to admit, I don’t really get this royal baby nonsense. But it’s still the top news story today, even on the U.S. version of CNN.com. Punters* are lining up to cash in on the name of Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s baby. GoDaddy reports that, as of yesterday evening, it had seen a spike of 2x-4x (in the previous 24 hours) in domain names registered that included possible names of ... read more ...
 
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Aptus Tech nailed for perplexing to steal domain name from Frank Schilling - Panel determines that Aptus Tech engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Last month I asked why people didn’t do a bit of research before filing a UDRP against Frank Schilling. The specific case that prompted my article was Klipz.com, which had just been filed. The decision is in, and it’s clear that, not only did the complainant not research who owned the domain, but he didn’t research much about UDRP, either. A three person National Arbitration Forum panel ... read more ...
 
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Misguided UDRP complainant #3,267 - Guy starts company in 2011, files UDRP against domain registered in 1999. Sigh. Another day, another completely baseless UDRP. This one comes courtesy of WowWe, Inc., which was represented by the law firm Lewis Barnes. WowWe began using its mark in 2011. The owner of WowWe.com registered the domain name in 1999. Yet, amazingly, WowWe argued that the disputed domain name was registered for the purpose of selling the domain name registration to it for valuable consideration ... read more ...
Tue 23rd July 2013
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2Q-2013 Domain Sales Data Shows Improving Market – New Developments at … - The capital infusion comes from another source - Jonathan Wechsler, owner of Boom Entertainment and a Scottsdale, Arizona based businessman with interests in healthcare, night ... read more ...
 
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New Jersey Loses Again: UDRP Panel Says They Don’t Even Have Rights to GardenStateParkway.com & NjTurk - The New Jersey Turnpike Authority just lost a UDRP on the domain names GardenStateParkway.com and NYturnpike.com because the panelist found the Authority did not have “common law rights” to the terms Garden State Parkway or  and NJ Turnpike and for some reason the state didn’t apply for a trademark on either roadway until 2001 and 2011 respectively Yikes As an ex-New Yorker I can say few things in life give NYC people as much pleasure as seeing New Jersey lose,and before you  feel to bad ... read more ...
 
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Jessy Nelson Re-signs with TLD Lucas Oil Honda Through 2015 - After a stellar rookie campaign in 2012, Jessy Nelson has been sidelined for the entire Lucas Oil Pro Motocross season so far with an elbow injury. While his immediate future is still unclear - the team says he will be back this summer at a still TBD National - his longer term situation is no longer in doubt. The Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oil/Honda re-signed the 19-year-old rider through 2015 "and potentially beyond." Nelson was called up by the team to turn pro just before Hangtown last year, and ... read more ...
 
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Greg’s Garage Show #11 – “The TLD, M90 and Q3 Show!” - July 23, 2013 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – Greg takes us all over the United States for some fun. To Alabama and Dunlop’s motorcycle only proving grounds for the launch of the all-new Sportmax Q3. It’s out to California for part 2 of our visit to Troy Lee Designs, this time, we take you into the paint shop. And Greg takes Suzuki’s M90 cruiser for a spin. Those stories, plus the latest in news, World Wide Video and Chain, Belt and Shaft drive discussed in Motorcycle Slang. ABOUT: Greg’s ... read more ...