Tag Archives: Facebook

Thu 28th July 2011
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Facebook Files Massive Cybersquatting Lawsuit - Lawsuit goes after typosquatters who redirect to survey offers. As reported on Elliot’s Blog today, Facebook has filed a lawsuit against dozens of people for allegedly typosquatting on its domain names. One of the interesting aspects of this case is what the defendants are allegedly doing with the domain names. Instead of parking them with traditional pay-per-click providers, they are forwarding them to survey sites that mimic Facebook in some way. This type of ... read more ...
Wed 25th May 2011
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Mike Mann Ordered to Transfer 21 Domains to Facebook - Facebook awarded 21 trademark-infringing domain names. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ordered BuyDomains founder Mike Mann and his company Domain Asset Holdings to transfer 21 domain names to social networking site Facebook. The domain names all include Facebook plus an additional word, such as AboutFacebook.com, FacebookFest.com, and FacebookStuff.com. The case was delayed at first over some confusion apparently caused by Mann’s legal team. ... read more ...
Thu 21st April 2011
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[Updated] ICANN Sends Breach Notice to EuroDNS Over Facebook UDRP - ICANN threatens EuroDNS if it fails to transfer domain name to Facebook. ICANN has sent a Notice of Breach (pdf) to popular European domain name registrar EuroDNS for its failure to transfer a client domain name after an adverse UDRP decision. In September 2010 a EuroDNS client lost a UDRP for Facebok.com (with one ‘o’), which is certainly a common typo for the popular social network. As of today the domain name is still in the client’s hands. It forwards ... read more ...
Tue 22nd March 2011
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Go Daddy Wants Patents for Announcing Domain Registrations on Facebook - Domain name registrar files two patent applications for promoting newly registered domain names. The Go Daddy Group, parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed a pair of patent applications related to announcing a new domain registration on social networking sites such as Facebook. The patent applications are 12/561408 for “Social Website Domain Registration Announcement” and 12/561439 for “Social Website Domain Registration Search Engine Feed”. The ... read more ...
Wed 26th January 2011
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USPTO Grants Extension to Facebook in Fight with American Farm Bureau over FB - Facebook still embroiled in fight over ‘FB’ mark with non-profit that sold it FB.com domain name. So you bought a domain name from someone for $8 million plus and you still haven’t settled a trademark dispute with them? Makes no sense to me. But on Monday Facebook filed an extension request with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to settle a trademark dispute with American Farm Bureau (AFB). The request said the parties are still engaged in settlement talks. AFB ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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Facebook Bought FB.biz Domain Name, Too - Facebook snaps up FB.com; currently owns FB.com and .biz. Remember when .biz registry Neustar auctioned off two letter domain names at twodotbiz.biz? Facebook participated and picked up the domain name FB.com. The company registered the domain name under DNStination Inc., which is associated with domain registrar MarkMonitor. Facebook used the same group to acquire FB.com from American Farm Bureau, which still owns the .org domain. The domain name just recently ... read more ...
Thu 30th September 2010
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[UPDATED] FB.com Domain Name Sells…to Facebook? - FB.com domain name sells. Likely buyer: Facebook. American Farm Bureau has sold the domain name FB.com, as George Kirikos noted this morning on Twitter. The domain names whois record now points to a division of Mark Monitor, which manages domain names for Facebook. So did Facebook buy the domain name? I’ve contacted both American Farm Bureau and Facebook for details. A PR representative for American Farm Bureau told me he’s not sure how much the organization ... read more ...
Tue 11th May 2010
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Facebook Fights for Facebook.me Domain Name - Facebook files for arbitration to get Facebook.me domain name. Facebook has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name Facebook.me. The domain name is currently registered to a United Arab Emirates man. .Me is technically the country code domain name for Montenegro, but has been commercialized to be a personalized “me” domain name. This isn’t the first country code domain name the social networking behemoth has ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2009
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How to Promote Your Web Site with Facebook - Another way to promote your developed web sites. Big companies use fan pages on Facebook, and so should you. If you have a web site you actively promote, it makes sense to set up a fan page on the social network. The benefit should be fairly clear, but at the simplest level a fan page allows you to “push” your message out to fans whenever you’d like. Think of it as if all of your fans subscribe to your RSS feed and an email newsletter. Whenever you want to ... read more ...
Wed 1st July 2009
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Top Domain Name News Stories of Jun 2009 - A look back at the past month in domaining. Here are the top five news stories on Domain Name Wire in June, ranked by number of views. 1. VeriSign Gets Walloped in Court, .Com Domain Prices Could Fall – a court ruled that a case against VeriSign could go forward. If VeriSign ultimately loses, the cost of registering a .com domain name could drop. 2. Facebook URL Landrush This Friday Night – Facebook opened up vanity URLs. No more facebook.com/13343953212… 3. ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2009
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Facebook Usernames Set Dangerous Precedent - An entire industry was created out of what many claimed was a near criminal act of extortion, calling it cybersquatting, a term even Network Solutions referred to concerning individuals and companies that register domain names on speculation that someone who wasn’t savvy enough to register the character string when it was available would be interested in buying it later. Once Congress got ahold of the issue and legislated what the term means, the meaning changed. Now it’s called ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2008
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Facebook Wins Facebook.com.au Domain Name - Social networking behemoth wins domain name from Australian company. Facebook has won the Facebook.com.au domain name from Australian company Callverse Pty Ltd. The domain name currently advertises a “click to call service” that is “coming soon”. The decision was handed down by a three person panel at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The decision has not been posted online yet so details of the dispute are not available. Domain Name Wire ... read more ...
Wed 4th June 2008
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GoDaddy Looks to Social Networking for Growth - Domain registrar and web hosting company files patents for aggregating social network sites. The world’s biggest domain registrar, GoDaddy, may be looking to social networking to grow its business. The company filed three patents this year, published last month, that describe a web portal that aggregates a person’s social networks. For example, you may register your name as a domain name at GoDaddy, and GoDaddy’s product would generate a web portal that has ... read more ...