Monthly Archives: September 2013

Thu 12th September 2013
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Infiniti Retail Limited of Mumbai Guilty Of RDNH On 17 Year Old Domain Croma.com - Infiniti Retail Limited of Mumbai, India, represented by Anand Anand, India was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. We don’t need to bore you with the details. The  domain name was registered on October 3, 1996 some 17 years ago, for use in connection with a business called Croma Web Services which operated from or around February 1997. This website subsequently became inactive around February 2011. On the Issue of RDNH: “The Panel finds as a fact that the Respondent registered ... read more ...
 
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Reflections on EUI’s New Community Priority Evaluation Guidelines for New … - The new Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) guidelines prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and published by ICANN are now past their feedback period. We, at Radix, believe that ICANN has received feedback from approximately 10 stakeholders, and I for one, am looking forward to those being published. In light of the fact that none of the comments that ICANN received have been made public yet, I decided to blog about my multiple concerns with the new guidelines. Sparing a thought ... read more ...
 
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Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle LLP Opens Los Angeles County Regional Office - LONG BEACH, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Tredway Lumsdaine Doyle LLP (TLD) announces the opening this month of a Los Angeles County regional location at Kilroy Business Center near Long Beach Airport. Conveniently located off the 405 freeway, the expansion allows the law firm to more readily serve its many clients throughout Los Angeles County, while also complementing its Orange County regional office near John Wayne Airport. The firm ... read more ...
 
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Google Webmaster Tools Now Provides Broader & More Diverse Link Data - Google announced today that the link data within Google Webmaster Tools is much broader, more diverse cross-section of links. What does that mean? Well, instead of showing you links in alphabetical order, exported in “lexicographical order” – Google is now showing you sample links “uniformly from the full spectrum of backlinks rather than alphabetically.” Google says this means you links will be more diverse, showing you links from different top-level domains (TLDs) as well as ... read more ...
 
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2.5 Million New Followers Of Twitter Accounts In Last 30 Days Can’t Be Wrong … - TheDomains.com has maintained a Twitter account for just about as long I we have been publishing the blog which is coming up to 6 years. In the last 30 days I have noticed a huge spike in new followers to @thedomains that have a huge amount of followers themselves. These are business oriented accounts, publications, money making guru’s and people from outside the domain name space. Obviously its a judgement call where  all these Twitter Whale accounts (yes I just made up that term) are coming ... read more ...
 
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2.5 Million New Followers Of Twitter Accounts In Last 30 Days Can’t Be Wrong; Domains Are Hot - TheDomains.com has maintained a Twitter account for just about as long I we have been publishing the blog which is coming up to 6 years. In the last 30 days I have noticed a huge spike in new followers to @thedomains that have a huge amount of followers themselves. These are business oriented accounts, publications, money making guru’s and people from outside the domain name space. Obviously its a judgement call where  all these Twitter Whale accounts (yes I just made up that term) are coming ... read more ...
 
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TM Holder Pay Thousands Of Dollars To Get ConsumentengidsOnline2013.com In UDRP - Trademark holders, god love them. I still have a hard time understanding how large companies think, operate and spent their money when it comes to domain name and brand protection. Today we have a company Consumentenbond of The Hague,  who has a trademark on the term Consumentengids that went out and spent thousands of dollars in filing and attorney fees  and won a UDRP on the domain name ConsumentengidsOnline2013.com. “By registering the disputed domain name and using it to garner revenue via ... read more ...
 
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Impact of new gTLD launch expands to U.S. Patent & Trademark Office - With the impending launch of up to 1,400 new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in the coming months, trademark owners are scrambling to decide how to protect their brands from online infringement, and, on the other hand, how to leverage their intellectual property assets in this new online space. Many major companies like Nike and McDonald’s Corporation have applied to operate new gTLDs based on their brand names (i.e., .NIKE and .MCDONALDS). Unlike registering a domain name, creating a new gTLD ... read more ...
 
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Valideus Asks ICANN To Clarify Details On Its Last Resort gTLD Auctions, All 16 … - Valideus which is private company “currently managing 5% of all new gTLD applications”, including Amazon’s sent a letter to ICANN asking for a lot of details on ICANN’s “Last Resort Auctions” which are scheduled to begin in mid-October. Included in the requests are many valid concerns about the amount of the deposits that will be required to participate in the auction, who will hold the funds, when the winning bidders funds are have to be paid to ICANN and even when there will be ... read more ...
 
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Know Your Net: CADNA and BBB Launch Public Awareness, Education Campaign – Virtual - Preparing for an Expanded Internet Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 12, 2013 Rep. Tom Marino, R-PA., Vice Chairman of the House subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, will address the kickoff event Wednesday, September 18, 2013, of a month-long education campaign about new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Sponsored by the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB), the education campaign is intended to raise public ... read more ...
 
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Know Your Net: CADNA and BBB Launch Public Awareness, Education Campaign - We’re honored to have Rep. Marino address the launch of our campaign on the importance of Internet safety in general but specifically because of the expansion in top-level domain names. Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 12, 2013 Rep. Tom Marino, R-PA., Vice Chairman of the House subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, will address the kickoff ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Sends Breach Notice To A Top 10 Domain Name Registrar, Register.com - ICANN sent a “Breach Notice” to Register.com yesterday giving the domain name registrar until October 2nd, to provide information to ICANN and cure the Breaches or face a possible Registrar termination. Register.com is owned by Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and is a top 10 domain name registrar in terms of domain name under management. Shares of Web.com traded down just about 4% in trading yesterday Here is the notice “”” Please be advised that as of 11 September 2013, Register.com, Inc. (“Register.com”) ... read more ...
 
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GAC Tells ICANN It Can Proceed Normal Evalution Process On .Wine and .Vin - The “GAC agreed in Durban to set a firm deadline for providing a potential safeguard advice regarding .wine and .vin. and in a letter to ICANN today, the Governmental Advisory Counsel, (GAC) advised the ICANN Board that the GAC has finalized its consideration of the strings .wine and .vin and “further advises that the applications should proceed through the normal evaluation process” The letter signed by Heather Dryden Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) goes on to say: “While ... read more ...
 
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Valideus Asks ICANN To Clarify Details On Its Last Resort gTLD Auctions, All 16 Points - Valideus which is private company “currently managing 5% of all new gTLD applications”, including Amazon’s sent a letter to ICANN asking for a lot of details on ICANN’s “Last Resort Auctions” which are scheduled to begin in mid-October. Included in the requests are many valid concerns about the amount of the deposits that will be required to participate in the auction, who will hold the funds, when the winning bidders funds are have to be paid to ICANN and even when there will be a contract ... read more ...
 
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Tinka resumes work at Ayawilca project in preparation for drilling - FRANKFURT:TLD) announces that the Company has resumed work at Ayawilca in anticipation of resumption of drilling. Crews have been remobilized constructing the first two drill platforms, access roads and containment ponds commencing this week. With the permit to continue exploration at Ayawilca, the Company plans to undertake a systematic drill program, stepping out with drill platforms to the south, east and north of the currently drilled area.The Yanacocha community is holding an official celebration ... read more ...
 
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Tinka resumes work at Ayawilca project in preparation for drilling - FRANKFURT:TLD) announces that the Company has resumed work at Ayawilca in anticipation of resumption of drilling. Crews have been remobilized constructing the first two drill platforms, access roads and containment ponds commencing this week. With the permit to continue exploration at Ayawilca, the Company plans to undertake a systematic drill program, stepping out with drill platforms to the south, east and north of the currently drilled area.The Yanacocha community is holding an official celebration ... read more ...
 
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String difficulty objections grub to a halt - No string confusion objection decisions have been published since August 28. Has the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) ceased publishing results from string confusion objections in the wake of contradictory decisions? It sure seems that way. The group had been on a roll publishing decisions. It published a number of August 26. Two days later it published even more decisions. Then on August 29 it published an updated decision list in which the only ... read more ...
 
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Architelos’ obvious focus for domain abuse monitoring complement published - Patent discloses system for monitoring and handling domain name abuse. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today published a patent application (pdf) for Architelos‘ NameSentry domain abuse protection system. The patent application is officially titled “Managing Domain Name Abuse” and was filed in March 2012. Architelos’ NameSentry is a system that helps domain registries and registrars detect and mitigate domain name abuse. As described in the patent – ... read more ...
 
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Epik files obvious covering domain leasing and practical currencies for domain names - Patent application describes a virtual currency that may offer tax benefits and ways to improve domain name leasing. Epik founder Rob Monster and SVP John Lawler have filed a patent application titled “System and Method for Domain Leasing, Acquisition and Development Incorporating a Virtual Currency Platform”. You may recall that Epik started a virtual currency called Epik Bucks. These could be used to buy domain names, purchase web design packages, and other ... read more ...
 
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Indian wiring tradesman Croma guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Croma went after a domain registered a decade before its existence. Infiniti Retail Ltd., a TaTa company that runs the Indian electronics chain Croma, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which operates at CromaRetail.com, filed a UDRP to get the domain name Croma.com. It didn’t start using the Croma brand until 2006, which is a full decade after the owner of Croma.com registered the domain name. Croma.com had been in use to promote ... read more ...
 
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Hilco Streambank offered DL.com, Row.com, and over 2,000 Foreclosure domain names - Bankruptcies behind a number of domain names hitting the market. Intellectual Property sales company Hilco Streambank is holding two more domain name sales that might interest domain investors. The company will hold an auction October 14-17 that includes a handful of high value domain names including the two letter DL.com and three letter Row.com domain names. DL.com was used by law firm Dewey LeBoeuf, which is now in bankruptcy. Row.com is registered to Talei LLC ... read more ...
 
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An overview of a Seattle domain name circuit - Last week I visited the many domain name companies that call Seattle home. Seattle is home to a large (and growing) number of domain name companies.Last month I took my annual family “escape the Texas heat” vacation to Seattle. I didn’t get the chance to visit any of the domain companies in the area while I was there, so last week I took a return trip to Seattle to rectify that. The collection of domain name companies in Seattle is large and growing. This is ... read more ...
Wed 11th September 2013
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Wine Trade Groups Want .Wine, .Vin Domains Crushed - Senior legal editor Amy E. Bivins reports on the efforts of wine industry trade associations to block applications with ICANN to add .wine and .vin top-level domains to the Internet. It's a multi-layered story with strong notes of market disruption, opportunism, international trademark law, threatened litigation, and GAC lobbying. Reads well now, should gain further complexity through 2014.Update: On Sept. 9, ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee sent a letter to ICANN advising that the .wine and ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Loses UDRP On Direct Match Domain Bongrille.com Used As A “Sucks” Site - Deskan S/A of Nassau, the Bahamas, which owns a trademark to the term Bon Grille In Brazil lost a UDRP seeking 3 domain names including the direct match domain bongrille.com. The other 2 domains sort in the UDRP were franquiabongrille.com and franquiabg.com The domain bongrille.com is basically a ‘sucks” type of site and the panel engaged in a very interesting discussion of free speech and the use of a domain containing a trademark and is worth a read. Here are the relevant findings and discussion ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Welcomes Wayne MacLaurin as Senior Vice President of … - Demand Media Welcomes Wayne MacLaurin as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD World-Class Registry Strengthens Technology Resources to Focus on New gTLDs KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Demand Media (NYS: DMD) , a leading media and domain services company, today is pleased to announce its recent hire of Wayne MacLaurin, who joins the company as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD, a Demand Media subsidiary. United TLD is investing in infrastructure to become a world-class ... read more ...