Monthly Archives: August 2013

Mon 26th August 2013
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planet.ECO loses conflict opposite TLDH for .eco tip turn domain name - TLDH gets a victory in fight over .eco. The latest salvo in the fight for the .eco top level domain name has been successfully defended by Top Level Domain Holdings. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel denied planet.ECO, LLC’s Legal Rights Objection against TLDH for .eco. planet.ECO has a U.S. trademark for .eco, which was granted because the applicant shielded the fact that it was to be used for a top level domain name. Panelist Luca Barbero determined ... read more ...
 
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Nau strikes again: Google wins .tours conflict opposite Donuts - .Tours and .Tour top level domain strings found too similar, will be placed in contention set. Another day, another inconsistent string confusion objection for new top level domain names. This time Google has won an objection (pdf) against Donuts’ application for .tours. Google applied for .tour, and now .tour and .tours will be placed in a contention set as a result of the ruling. Once you see the panelist’s name for this decision, you won’t be surprised by ... read more ...
 
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Five domain name sessions pitched for SXSW 2014 - Four Five domain name sessions have been proposed for SXSW Interactive 2014. Voting ends September 6. Voting for which panels will make the cut at next year’s SXSW Interactive conference is underway. I identified four five submissions this year that are related to the domain name industry. Voting ends September 6. The Discussion’s Over – New Domains Are Here – Vote Sedo’s Jeremiah Johnston hopes to return to SXSW for a third straight year to discuss new ... read more ...
 
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Google buys AfricaConnected.com domain name from Mike Mann - Search giant acquires domain name from domain investor. Google has acquired the domain name AfricaConnected.com, likely for its efforts to bring internet access to more people in Africa. It looks like Google acquired the domain name with the help of Mark Monitor through its NameAdvisers group. Until July 11, Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings was listed in whois as the owner. Mann runs DomainMarket.com. The whois then switched to NameAdvisers before changing over ... read more ...
Sun 25th August 2013
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Brand Protection Fails: This Weeks Trademark Infringing Domains That Brands Let Drop & Get Registered By Others - Welcome to another installment in our continuing series of  trademark infringing domain names that Brands allowed to let drop and wind up in third parties hands. Once again these are the same type of domains that we see Brands pending $1,500 a pop to file a UDRP on, plus attorneys fees. However the Brands have seemly no interest is getting these domains off the drop for as low as $10.. As always these are not even typo’s domain names  but pretty bang on domain names which cover products services ... read more ...
Sat 24th August 2013
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Omani regulator urges businesses to use ccTLD to prevent cyber threats - The information comprised in this section is not, nor is it held out to be, a solicitation of any person to take any form of investment decision. The content of the AMEinfo.com Web site does not constitute advice or a recommendation by Mediaquest FZ LLC and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision relating to investments or any other matter. You should consult your own independent financial adviser and obtain professional advice ... read more ...
 
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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Publishes Draft Trademark … - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is currently considering applications to add up to 1,400 new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) to the Internet landscape, with some gTLDs opening for domain-name registrations beginning as early as late 2013. In response, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has prepared an update to the policy and procedures related to the USPTO’s handling of trademark applications for marks comprised of gTLDs, and has set ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Spends Almost $1.5 Million On NON-STAFFERS To Attend Last Two ICANN Meetings; Including GAC Members - According to two reports published by ICANN.org its spent over almost $1.5 Million in transporting, housing, feeding and for Visa’s for 379 NON-ICANN staff to attend the last two ICANN meetings. ICANN of course pays for its own staff’s air travel, hotel and Per Diem fees to compensate for meals, even the cost of Visa’s to get people into the country, but ICANN  also paid those costs not for non-staffers as well. Included in the totals are funds ICANN expended to send members of the GAC to ... read more ...
 
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12 Year Old Dictionary Word, Domain Name, Parlance.com Saved In UDRP - Parlance Corporation lost a UDRP against  Dynamo.com on the domain name parlance.com Of course the domain name is also a dictionary word and the panel found  “the Complaint fails to establish either bad-faith registration or bad-faith use” so the panel should have found Reverse Domain Name Hijacking but didn’t even discuss the issue. Here are the relevant findings by the one member panel: The Complainant alleged that it owns A registered trademark PARLANCE and has used it since at least 1996 ... read more ...
 
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Do usually 4 new TLDs have a possibility of going live this year? - Barring a flurry of activity at ICANN or changes to the name collision mitigation plan, the launch of new TLDs won’t be a 2013 event. ICANN released updated contracting statistics for its new top level domain name program yesterday, and applicants will be sad to see that there are still just four signed registry agreements. Although a lot of applicants are going through the process, it has been slow going. For example, the applicant for the Arabic IDN that means ... read more ...
Fri 23rd August 2013
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Carr & Ferrell LLP Trademark Attorney to Present Seminar in Turkey – Virtual - The information and experience Demirci will share in the seminar will be helpful to IP attorneys and their clients. Menlo Park, CA (PRWEB) August 23, 2013 Aylin Demirci, an attorney with Carr Ferrell, LLP, specializing in trademark law, will be presenting a seminar tailored for trademark lawyers and agents in Turkey who have international clients with commercial activity or interest in the U.S. The seminar, titled U.S. Trademark Law, New gTLDs, Cases and what Turkish Firms Need to Know is ... read more ...
 
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85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 7 Go To Extended Evaluation; 1 Fails: Passing … - 85 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. In a record setting week where 7 applications were send to extended evaluation and one geographic new gTLD failed the application process and is not eligible for extended evaluation. The 7 New gTLD applications that are heading for extended evaluation are: <![CDATA[]]>Its interesting to note that one of the applications heading off for extended evaluation is that of .Express who actually filed and lost a Legal Rights Objection ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED 85 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE, 8 Go To Extended Evaluation; Passing .Rio; .NetFlix; .Ping; .Lamborghini .Tiffany - 85 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. In a record setting week where 7 applications were send to extended evaluation and one geographic new gTLD failed the application process and is not eligible for extended evaluation. The 7 New gTLD applications that are heading for extended evaluation are: <![CDATA[]]>UPDATE:  On Friday ICANN’s site incorrect listed  .TAIPEI which was applied for by the Taipei City Government as failed but in fact that was an error on ICANN’s ... read more ...
 
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Police Officer In Jail For Buying Domains Of Police Chief & Pointing Them To Porn - According to turnto10.com the site of an NBC affiliate station in Rhode Island, “A Richmond police officer faces charges after state police said he purchased domain names containing variations of the chief’s name which redirected Internet users to pornographic web sites.” The domain name involved according to one report were the elwoodjohnson.com and elwoodjohnsonjr.com. “Steven Gravier, 41, was arraigned Friday in Providence District Court and charged with using misleading domain names on ... read more ...
 
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Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s … - Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation  just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application of .OPR. PIR operates the .Org registry. The second objection was to Verisign’s new gTLD application for .Kom which is the more interesting decision in my opinion. Regtime has functioned as an ICANN-accredited registrar since 2007. Regtime was the original ... read more ...
 
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Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s .OPR & .Verisign’s .KOM - Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation  just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application of .OPR. PIR operates the .Org registry. The second objection was to Verisign’s new gTLD application for .Kom which is the more interesting decision in my opinion. Regtime has functioned as an ICANN-accredited registrar since 2007. Regtime was the original owner ... read more ...
 
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Vipspace Enterprises LLC Withdraws Application For new gTLD .VIP: Now 118 … - Vipspace Enterprises LLC of Munich Germany has become the latest company to withdraw its application for the new gTLD .VIP. The application had a prioritization number of 1,804 meaning that after next week’s Initial Evaluation release by ICANN the maximum refund would have only been 35% but now the applicant gets a 70% refund. Vipspace becomes the 1st applicant for the .VIP new gTLD to withdraw their application. There are still 5 more applicants for .VIP including Google, Donuts and Top Level ... read more ...
 
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Vipspace Enterprises LLC Withdraws Application For new gTLD .VIP: Now 118 Withdrawn New gTLD Apps - Vipspace Enterprises LLC of Munich Germany has become the latest company to withdraw its application for the new gTLD .VIP. The application had a prioritization number of 1,804 meaning that after next week’s Initial Evaluation release by ICANN the maximum refund would have only been 35% but now the applicant gets a 70% refund. Vipspace becomes the 1st applicant for the .VIP new gTLD to withdraw their application. There are still 5 more applicants for .VIP including Google, Donuts and Top Level ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy CEO named as probable inheritor to Steve Ballmer during Microsoft - Wall Street Journal says Irving might be a candidate for Microsoft’s top spot. With Steve Ballmer heading to the exit at Microsoft within the next year, speculation about his replacement is rampant. One name that has come up: Blake Irving, who took over the reigns at domain name registrar GoDaddy earlier this year. Wall Street Journal published a story naming five possible successors, including Irving. Apparently the list was conjured up after the reporter spoke ... read more ...
 
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Verisign and PIR get wins for IDN tip turn domain names - Company that offered pseudo-domains loses objections to IDN top level domains. Verisign and Public Interest Registry have successfully defended applications for internationalized domain names that are transliterations of existing top level domain names. Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd filed legal rights objections against Verisign’s application for .ком and PIR’s application for .орг. These are transliterations of .com and .org, respectively, in Cyrillic. The ... read more ...
 
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How String Confusion Objections Became a Clusterf@ck - There are a number of reasons for contradictory String Confusion Objections for top level domain names. The guy in the middle got the right panelist.Of the four types of objections that could be lodged against new top level domain name applications, it would seem that string confusion objections would be the most basic. Is one string confusingly similar to another? Yet, while most people (other than the losers) haven’t had issues with Legal Rights Objections, there ... read more ...
Thu 22nd August 2013
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Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com Grows To 14 Brokers & Raises Commission 25% To 12.5% - TheDomains.com just got this email from Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com announcing that they have grown to a brokerage teamof 14 people, (who speak 10 languages) and are available 7am – 7pm Central time. “You now have the ability to select our brokerage team to revive interest in your inquiries that have not been active for 30 days.” “By opting in you can still keep self-brokering your new leads or choose us to take care of it all. We are also testing new exciting features, which ... read more ...
 
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Right Before Start Of Regular Season, The NFL Gains Control Of Almost 1K Bang On Domain Names - With the regular NFL season looking to kick off in just a couple of weeks the NFL gained control of just under 1,000 bang on domain names yesterday. The domain names were all transferred to the NFL’s brand protection company MarkMonitor.com. The domain names had many different owners according to the whois records but many of the records appeared to have just made up information like the domain name sf49ersteamstore.com which had a registered owner listed as  Treasa Buskey of  Denver, Houston ... read more ...
 
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Napa Wine Association Letter to ICANN Makes It Clear They Should Have Applied For .Napa/.Wine Instead Of Just Whining - After reading the letter sent by Bruce Cakebread telling ICANN  how the 500 members of the Napa Valley Vintners need protection from the new proposed gTLD’s of .Wine and .Vin,   I walked away thinking that the wine producers of Napa simply missed their chance to apply for .Napa and/or .Wine and now just want to whine about it. In his letter representing the association Mr. Cakebread told ICANN in part: If the applications for .wine and .vin are allowed to move forward, our 5o0 winery members ... read more ...