Monthly Archives: August 2013

Thu 15th August 2013
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Looks Like 1st New gTLD Private Auction For This Week Is Over As Donuts Loses & TLDH Wins .Casa - It appears that the 1st of this weeks private auctions being held by Applicant Auction is completed as Donuts has withdrawn its application for .Casa on the ICANN website. Donuts application for .Casa has a prioritization number of 1,622 and has not yet passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE)  meaning that Donuts will get 70% refund of their $185,000 application fee. The only other applicant for .Casa is Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) which had a prioritization number of 171 which appears ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Denies Another Legal Rights Objection To .Music: Community Trademarks Of Objector “Not Bona Fide” - A WIPO panel has rejected another Legal Rights Objection to the new gTLD .Music . This objection was to Famous Fours application to operate the .Music registry and was filed by another applicant for .Music, DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos. The panel basically found that the community trademarks of the Objector were not bona fide: The Objector filed for registration of its .MUSIC and DOTMUSIC figurative Marks in the European Union on March 5, 2009. Respondent has brought to the Panel’s attention ... read more ...
 
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13 Year Old Domain Togu.com Saved IN UDRP Panel Cites Delay In Bringing Case - TOGU Gebruder Obermaier oHG of Prien-Bachham, Germany, just lost a UDRP on the domain name Togu.com. The domain owner Port Media Domains was represented by Esquire.com Its not clear to me why the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) as the domain name is 13 years old, and was registered prior to the Complainants trademark registration. The panel did not address the issue of RDNH but did not specifically adopt the legal doctrine of Laches it did say: ” it is well to remember that ... read more ...
 
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Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Files UDRP’s Against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings On 4 Domains - Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc makers of the widely popular Grand Theft Auto games, filed a UDRP’s today against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings, LLC on four domain names with WIPO. All four domain names are listed for sale at Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com. Here are the domains, registration date and the Buy It Now (BIN) price listed for each of the domain names on DomainMarket.com: Grandtheftautovideos.com registration date  August 9, 2012 for sale for $350.00 GTAextreme.com  Registration ... read more ...
 
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NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown … - In a comment filed with ICANN on the Name Collision Report of Interisle,  the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) signed by Tim Switzer, laid out a pretty compelling argument for why ICANN should not delay the roll out 279 new gTLD’s that fell within the “unknown risk category in the Interisle report. “With such a long history of productive discussions, it is dismaying to see a great deal of uncertainty about the New gTLD program being introduced at such a late point in the process.” While ... read more ...
 
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NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown Risk” In Collision Report To Move Forward - In a comment filed with ICANN on the Name Collision Report of Interisle,  the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) signed by Tim Switzer, laid out a pretty compelling argument for why ICANN should not delay the roll out 279 new gTLD’s that fell within the “unknown risk category in the Interisle report. “With such a long history of productive discussions, it is dismaying to see a great deal of uncertainty about the New gTLD program being introduced at such a late point in the process.” While agreeing ... read more ...
 
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ICDR Rejects Verisign’s String Confusion Objection To .Cam As Being Too Confusing to .Com - One of the more interesting objections filed at the International Centre for Dispute resolution (ICDR) based on String Confusion was Verisign’s objection to the new gTLD .Cam being too confusing to .Com. Today a panel has ruled that .Cam is not confusing to .Com, finding “the visual similarity of the two strings does not allow a conclusion that confusion would result”. “The test is not to decide whether the proposed domain name bears similarities to existing domain name but rather to determine ... read more ...
 
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DigiCert Internal Name Tool Helps Administrators Prepare MS Exchange … - VIDEO: The Backstreet Boys Perform on AMERICA'S GOT TALENT    Photo Flash: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis More at WE'RE THE MILLERS London Premiere    Preview the 3.1 Phillip Lim x Target Collection    New BWW Series - Hip Hop Through History: Part I - RUN D.M.C.'S King of Rock Tom Skerritt Completes A TIME TO KILL Broadway Cast    VOCE AT PACE Features Opera Star, Jamie Barton, 11/3    BWW Interviews: 'Ten Minutes' with CINDERELLA Dance Captain Kirstin Tucker ... read more ...
 
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DigiCert Internal Name Tool Helps Administrators Prepare MS Exchange … - LEHI, UT--(Marketwired - August 15, 2013) -  DigiCert, Inc., a leading global authentication and encryption provider, helps network administrators prepare their security environments for ICANN's pending release of new gTLDs with the DigiCert® Internal Name Tool for Microsoft Exchange (Internal Name Tool). The free SAAS application provides a step-by-step guide to help administrators reconfigure their MS Exchange 2013 and earlier version Exchange servers to ... read more ...
 
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United States: Clashes, Collisions, Delays And Decisions: ICANN, NTIA … - Last week, ICANN (the organization that oversees the domain name system of the Internet) was busy with nothing less than the security and stability of the Internet. At ICANN's recent meeting in Durban, those of us attending heard a drumbeat of studies, presentations and concerns regarding "name collisions": the conflicts that will arise when new gTLDs go live and conflict with existing top-level extensions in private networks. For years, standard practice has been to use "internal domains" in private ... read more ...
 
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The Time To Prepare For ICANN’s gTLD Rollout Is Now - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...
 
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8 new TLD auctions net $9.65 million - Second round of private new TLD auctions closes. Innovative Auctions has completed its second round of Applicant Auctions to settle new top level domain name contention sets. 8 contention sets were resolved in this round for a total of $9,651,000. Here are the winners: .guide: Donuts, Inc (beat TLDH) .construction: Donuts, Inc (beat Dot Construction, LLC) .storage: Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR) (beat Donuts) .desi: Desi Networks LLC (beat Afilias) .expert: Donuts, ... read more ...
 
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22 finish user domain name sales - It’s a little late, but here are 22 end user domain name sales from Afternic. End user sales reports are back! I was out of town last week. That, combined with a change by GoDaddy’s whois format to comply with the new RAA set me back a bit. It’s resolve nowd, so here we go. This report is Afternic’s report from last week, so sales are two weeks prior to now. There were a lot of companies “upgrading” from .org or .net to .com, and quite a few ccTLD owners ... read more ...
 
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Donuts beats the third conform code in tip turn domain disputes - Coach, Inc. lost its objection to Donuts’ .coach application. New TLD applicant Donuts has now successfully defended itself against three fashion brands in Legal Rights Objections over top level domain applications. After beating The Limited and Express, the company can add Coach to its list. Coach, Inc., a $15 billion (market cap) company known for its purses, is the only other applicant for .coach. By filing a Legal Rights Objection, it hoped to win the string ... read more ...
 
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Beat.la gets about 100k pageviews in dual weeks - Just a couple weeks after buying the domain, the Phoenix Suns’ Beat.la website has received a lot of traffic. Is Beat.la the most trafficked .la domain name that takes advantage of the “Los Angeles” meaning? On July 31 I noticed that the Phoenix Suns basketball team bought the beat.la domain name for $5,300 at Sedo. The team is using it promote a rivalry with the L.A. Lakers. The next week the L.A. Times picked up on the story citing Domain Name Wire. That resulted ... read more ...
 
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Del Monte sues after .DelMonte TLD conflict decision - After losing top level domain objection, Del Monte International GmbH files suit. Is this the first lawsuit over a top level domain name Legal Rights Objection? Del Monte International GmbH has sued Del Monte Corporation in U.S. District Court in California in a trademark infringement case (case 2:13-cv-05912-RSWL-MAN). Although the actual complaint hasn’t been posted to the court’s website yet, the dispute is clearly related to the plaintiff’s application for ... read more ...
 
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AYI.com sole for (what was) $100,000 in stock - Snap Interactive bought the domain name in January in an all-stock transaction. Snap Interactive Inc., which owns dating social network Are You Interested, acquired the domain name AYI.com in January for 100,000 shares of common stock. At the time, the 100,000 shares of Snap Interactive (OBB:STVI) had a fair value of $100,000. The stock is down 15% today after the company announced earnings yesterday, so shares are only worth 76 cents. If the seller of the domain ... read more ...
 
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Grand Theft Auto creator files censure opposite GTA.tv - Take-Two Interactive asks World Intellectual Property Forum to order transfer of GTA.tv. Is this a case of grand theft or a legitimate intellectual property claim? Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc, maker of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series, has filed a dispute against the owner of GTA.tv claiming the domain is cybersquatted. The current registrant, iCity Corp, registered the domain name in 2010. Neither Archive.org nor Screenshots.com have captured ... read more ...
Wed 14th August 2013
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Troubling: Domain Awarded By UDRP With No Trademark Based On $1K Bank Account, Flyers & 61 Customers - In what I consider a very troubling and horrible decision, A one member UDRP panel has awarded a domain names welldonebbqs.com and welldonebbqcleaning.com to a Complainant who didn’t have a registered trademark, on the basis doing a whopping $11,000 in gross revenue, having $1,000 in a bank account and distributing 2,000 flyers. I have comments that follow this really bad decision. “Complainant is a young man who, whilst still at University, enrolled in the Province of Ontario’s Summer Company ... read more ...
 
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CircleId Post Rips The Domain Name IDNX Pricing Index - Alex Tajirian, CEO of DomainMart in a post on CircleID.com just ripped into the IDNX domain name index backed by Thies Lindenthal and Sedo. “The index is intended to be a benchmark for domain owners and investors. “ “But it’s out of line with other studies and the common sense of how a market operates. A much better barometer to follow is average prices for groups of domain names with similar characteristics.” “Using a single index would have dire consequences. ” “Other problems with ... read more ...
 
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Rocket Internet Incubator & Accelerator Company Raised $500 Million Since 2012 - In a press release just out today Rocket Internet announced “that it has raised a total of USD $500 million from partners Investment AB Kinnevik and Access Industries since May 2012, representing the largest investment ever made in an internet incubator and accelerator company. ” “The funds will be used to further expand Rocket Internet´s world-wide network of successful internet start-ups”. “Rocket Internet is the world’s leading internet incubator, bringing together the four elements ... read more ...
 
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Protecting brands in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) - New generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will be introduced in the near future with the initial evaluation of applications anticipated to be completed by August 2013. For brand owners, there will be new ways to protect their trade marks from conflicting domain names within these new gTLDs. Failure to take appropriate measures may result in loss of brand protection in these new domains or the need for dispute resolution activities to regain control of the brand. What is a gTLD? The Internet Corporation ... read more ...
 
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Internet & technology law alert – the Trademark Clearinghouse: safeguard your … - The imminent launch of the new gTLD (generic top level domain) program will greatly expand current availability of domain names, offering brands and businesses more choices for promoting themselves online. In the coming years, an unlimited number of new second level domains will become available, often on a first-come, first-served basis. The first batch of new gTLDs will include nearly 1,400 new top-level domains including .computer, .insurance, .nyc, .sucks, and others. This program raises significant ... read more ...
 
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Panels Rule No Confusion Exists Between Singular and Plural New gTLD Strings - If early International Centre for Dispute Resolution decisions are anything to go by, as far as dispute resolution panellists are concerned, singular and plural versions of the same string do not risk causing user confusion. Tasked with handling string confusion objections under the new gTLD program, the ICDR has just rejected an objection by Google against Donuts' application for .CARS. Google has applied for .CAR. Amongst Google's arguments in support of their objection: Scores of past ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded Ceat Mahal Of India Files UDRP Against BuyDomains.com On Ceat.org - Ceat Mahal a tire manufacturer located in India, filed a UDRP against BuyDomains.com on the domain name Ceat.org Buydomains.com appears to have picked up the domain name on a drop in late 2012. The Tire manufacturer appears to be a public company and owned the domain name Ceat.com The domain name Ceat.org is going to a generic parked page and of course has a “for sale” on the top. Ceat Mahal says they have been in business since 1958 which makes them old as I am. We will keep our eye on it.       Google+Michael ... read more ...