Monthly Archives: July 2013

Tue 23rd July 2013
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Short & Sweet D1 Sports Loses UDRP on D1Sports.com Since TM Came 3 Years After Domain - D1 Sports Holdings, LLC just lost a UDRP on D1sports.com Simply stated the trademark holder didn’t get their TM until 2004, the domain name was registered in 2001. As it should have been, game over. Here is the relevant facts and finding from the one member panel: Complainant owns trademark registrations for DI, the earliest being registration number 2,877,559, whose registration certificate recites a first use date of March 1, 2003, filing date of August 18, 2003, and a registration date of August ... read more ...
 
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Back To The Future: UDRP Filed On GongShow.com - Long before American Idol, and America’s Got Talent, there was The Gong Show. The last time original episode on of the Gong show appeared on Network Television it was 1989,  well before the Internet, and well before the 1st domain name was registered. Today an UDRP was filed on the domain name  GongShow.com. The domain name GongShow.com has an  original registration date of October 7th 1999. The domain is currently under privacy at domain.com but was owned as recently as 2012 by a Brian Gong ... read more ...
 
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DWI.Org Sells For $14K On Namejet After One Bidder Bids Against Himself From $6K Up - The domain name DWI.org sold today on NameJet.com for $14,000 after one bidder bid against himself from $6K up. I don’t think you really can’t call it an auction if your the only one bidding but that seems to be the case with this domain name. The bidder Id of Anubhavit was the high bidder at $6K, $8K, $9K, $10K, $11K, $12K, $13K and his final and winning bid of $14,000 The reserve price must have been set at $14K resulting in what became a one person auction and a winning bid at $14,000 Congrats ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.12M Led By VideoShop.com For $35K - Sedo just reported that 765 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, last week totaling $1.12m. This amounts to $39m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: videoshop.com at 35,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: beaute.fr at 17,650 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: kh.org at 14,500 USD Here are the reportable sales:   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Balancing Opportunity And Risk With The New TLDs - A Beginner’s Guide to the Internet’s New World, Slightly Right of the DotIn 2013, we are witnessing a resetting of the Internet clock, making it possible to purchase a tract of virtual real estate to the right of the dot, as in .chevy, .samsung or .dell. We saw early signs of it this past February, in some of the Superbowl advertising. Remember how Booking.com ended its spot with a saucily intoned, “Booking dot yeah”? This was one of the first widely publicized hints of the new world that’s ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Legal Rights Objections: What’s Past Is Prologue - As of today, panelists at the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center have decided 12 trademark-based legal rights objections to a proposed top-level domain under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' new gTLD initiative. They rejected every one, almost categorically so.With 53 legal rights objections remaining to be decided, the only surprise the future might hold is the faint prospect that a WIPO panelist might actually rule in favor of a trademark ... read more ...
 
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New generic top-level domains are coming — consider protecting your mark … - In early July 2013, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) passed one of the last checkpoints on the path to introducing new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) by promulgating a registry agreement that will be entered into by successful gTLD applicants prior to delegation of the new domain space. This means that ICANN could delegate the first of the approved gTLDs (of which there are over 1000!) very soon, consistent with its earlier estimation that the first of the ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By LightArt.com For $32K - Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/15/13 – 7/21/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,037,702. The highest sale was LightArt.com which sold for $32,000, followed by shrs.com for $18,500. Full information on the transactions can be found here. Below is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Chrysler’s .Ram might just offend a billion people - The internet is changing. Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit entity that runs the web’s naming system, approved four new top-level domain names (TLDs) (the bit after the final dot, such as .com): онлайн and сайт (Russia for “online” and “site”), شبكة (Arabic for “web”) and 游戏 (Chinese for “game”). So far, uncontroversial. But among the 1,410 TLDs for which nearly 2,000 companies applied are generic names ... read more ...
 
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Riding the new gTLD-go-round: revisiting the past?– embracing the future - Closing in on nearly three decades of trademark practice, I am struck by just how far technology has advanced the practice since that bemusing day years ago when a potential client expressed surprise that I was able to file applications with the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) from the West Coast. Today, we can file applications in the US and abroad in just a few clicks—including in 80 or so jurisdictions via the Madrid Protocol. Standing on the cusp of another major technological ... read more ...
 
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WordPress.com Adds .CO As Only The 5th TLD For Custom Domain Name Option For Fully Hosted WP Sites - 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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Sedo and CentralNIC Partner to Add Thirty Domain Extensions to the SedoMLS … - Reduce Network Provisioning From Days to Minutes * Automated network resource provisioning, asset management, peering and control * IP addresses, DNS zones, DNSSEC signatures, DHCP pools, VLANs * 80% faster than manual and legacy provisioning. Faster time to new services* Most accurate and dynamic provisioning from single control plane * Reduce network complexity errors that crash networks* Customers include GoDaddy, ILand, and iNetU* Flexible pricing plans for small and large deployments * Demo ... read more ...
 
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People Are Trying To Cash In By Registering Domains Of The Royal Baby: PrinceOfCambridge.Com; PrinceJimmy.com - The story of the day yesterday and again today is  the birth of the  Royal Baby who although doesn’t have a name yet, does have a title, the Prince of Cambridge. The domain name PrinceofCambridge.com was registered under privacy at UK registrar Easy Space just last week on the July 16th and goes to a registrar placeholder. Bookies in the UK have been busy taking bets on the name of the Royal Baby. According to the bookies the most likely name of the royal baby are George, James,  Alexander, ... read more ...
 
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On Its 3rd Birthday, .CO Plans to Launch New Domains - Kira M. Newman Jul 23, 2013 Tweet Our partner .CO Internet made a few announcements on its third birthday this week, including a plan to launch new top-level domains in 2014.“From a strategic standpoint, we think it’s important for us to broaden our product offering,” wrote CEO Juan Diego Calle in a blog post. “.CO will certainly continue to be our flagship brand, but we recognize that there are niche markets out there where other domain extensions may be equally, if not more, ... read more ...
 
 
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What domain names a U.S. Treasury and 27 others bought final week - A division of the U.S. Department of Treasury was among last week’s domain name buyers. Afternic sold another $1 million+ worth of domain names last week. Here’s a run down of some of the end user domain sales. Forester Media Inc., which published a number of journals related to highly technical fields, bought BusinessEnergy.net for $1,488. eCommerce platform Upclick bought ClickSolve.com for $1,095. UK printing company Solopress bought Soloweb.com for $3,000. Smart ... read more ...
 
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It’s not unequivocally Walmart: Walmart goes after union’s satire site - Retailer files complaint to take over domain names used for parody site. Walmart has filed a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) case with World Intellectual Property Organization against domain names registered by United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. The dispute seeks to take down the web site ReallyWalmart.org and the associated domain names ReallyWalmart.com/.net/.info. ReallyWalmart.org is a self-described parody site set up ... read more ...
 
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Sorting contribution from novella in a Trademark Clearinghouse - [Editors note: The Trademark Clearinghouse is a unique way for brand owners to protect themselves with the introduction of top level domain names. Jan Corstens, a partner at Deloitte (which operates the Trademark Clearinghouse), explains some of the common misconceptions about the service in this guest post.] With upcoming drastic changes to the Internet, including new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as .nyc and .boston to .book and .lol – it is crucial that ... read more ...
 
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Domain sales watch: CompUSA and CircuitCity domains, and Moniker auction - These domain name sales and auctions are worth watching. With all of the news surrounding last week’s ICANN meeting in Durban, I’m a bit behind on a couple domain auctions and sales that are noteworthy. First, Hilco Streambank is offering the domain names CompUSA.com and CircuitCity.com. Both of the domain names are from defunct technology retailers. Systemax bought the assets of both of these companies last decade. It kept CircuitCity.com as a separate online ... read more ...
 
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SedoMLS gets some-more domain extensions with .eu and CentralNic deals - Sedo adds three ccTLDs to distribution network. SedoMLS, the domain listing distribution system for Sedo, has signed up new registries that will enable it to sell more types of domain names. Last week Sedo announced a partnership with EURid, the .eu registry, added the .eu domain extension to the SedoMLS Premium network. [Sedo was able to do this because EURid, the .eu registry, made its transfer system automatic.] Today the company announced a deal with CentralNic ... read more ...
 
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True Religion seeks improved domain name by WIPO action - Company files complaint for domain name TrueReligion.com Publicly traded True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, has a really long domain name: TrueReligionBrandJeans.com. Without doubt, a lot of fans of the brand type in TrueReligion.com when trying to find its website. So the company has filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization to try to get the domain name TrueReligion.com. TrueReligion.com was registered back in 1998. It’s ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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Dispuut rond .KOSHER toont problematiek nieuwe TLD’s nogmaals aan - Wie mag bepalen wat Kosher is?Zoals beloofd minder artikels, maar nu het vakantie is hebben we tijd eens dieper op een onderwerp in te gaan. Vandaag de nieuwe TLD's, want dat is een heel belangrijke verandering voor het internet.Waarom nieuwe top level domains?Zoals je wellicht weet komt er binnenkort een stortvloed aan mogelijkheden om je domeinnaam te registreren. Even een woordje uitleg: een domeinnaam zoals www.netties.be of www.microsoft.com bestaat uit het Top Level Domain (.be of .com) en ... read more ...
 
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Fox Sports 1 Network Launches Next Month; Files UDRP Seeking 22 Domains Including Foxsports1.Com/.Tv - Fox Sports is launching a new sports network called Fox Sports 1 next month and today Fox filed a UDRP seeking control over 22 domain names, including FoxSports1.com and FoxSports1.Tv as well as FoxSportsone.com and FoxSportsone.tv. The UDRP was filed with the National Arbitration Forum and was assigned case number 1509782. Fox  has huge plans for Fox Sports 1 so the move is not unexpected as it is believed to be the first real competition to ESPN. In case Fox Sports 1 grows into numerious channels, ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: SnapNames.com Is Back Up - UPDATED; Earlier today we reported (as other reported to us) that SnapNames.com was down. Now the site is back up Around 6pm we got this message from a representative of the company: “”There was a small deployment earlier today that effected a few users and could have caused the issue in a very short time frame. There should not be any further issues and the site is not down.”” Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Over $53,000 In Bids As Moniker Premium Summer Auction Closes Thursday - The Moniker Premium Summer domain name Auction closes at 3:15pm EST on Thursday on SnapNames,  and as time of publication there are over $53,000 in bids. In all 165 domain names are at auction (none are owned by our company MostWantedDomains.com) and as of publication 31 have bids. The domain with the highest bid which has met reserve is MZW.com which has a bid of $5,000 The domain with the most bids is CITA.com which has a high bid of $3,100 The domain with the highest bid but that has not reached ... read more ...