Tag Archives: howard neu

Mon 4th January 2016
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Stanley Pace sues for purported Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Pace sues after losing UDRP to dancewear company. Stanley Pace, a Texas resident who has faced his fair share of UDRP complaints, lost another one last month. A three member UDRP panel ordered the domain name Yumiko.com transferred to dancewear company Yumiko, LLC. He’s fighting back to halt the transfer and is asking for damages under the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act for reverse domain name hijacking. Pace filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas on December ... read more ...
Mon 13th October 2014
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Domain Name Wire Podcast #2: Tips to quarrel domain burglary and Howard Neu talks TRAFFIC - Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #2. It’s Monday, and that means it’s Podcast Day! This week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast includes the latest domain name industry news, plus 5 tips to make sure you don’t become a domain name theft victim. I also chat with Howard Neu, who co-founded the TRAFFIC conference with Rick Schwartz. Howard discusses the upcoming show (including why it’s scheduled on Halloween and what’s new this time) as well as the future of ... read more ...
Fri 25th May 2012
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TRAFFIC sets dates for Las Vegas show - It’s a year away, but dates are finalized. For a while there were too many domainer-targeted domain conferences. Then the pendulum swung the other way. TRAFFIC is adding an additional show in 2013, and today it announced the final dates. The show will begin Wednesday, May 29th in the evening. It will conclude with breakfast on Saturday, June 1 2013. The event was originally planned to start earlier in the week, but organizers received concerns about its proximity ... read more ...
Thu 23rd June 2011
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New Service Hopes to Make Seller-Financed Domain Transactions Easier - Service manages seller financed domain sales. A new service called Zenscrow hopes to bring more liquidity to the domain name market by making seller financed domain sales easier. Companies such as Escrow.com and Moniker already offer payment plan escrow services, but Zenscrow takes it a step further. There are two benefits I see to Zenscrow compared to typical payment plan services. First, Zenscrow provides a domain sale or lease agreement. Second, the company monitors ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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Michael Berkens and Howard Neu Team Up to Save Domain Name - Michael Berkens’ Worldwide Media, Inc., has successfully defended its CareFreeHomes.com domain name in a UDRP with the help of attorney Howard Neu. Complainant CareFree Homes II, L.P. doesn’t have a registered trademark for “CareFree Homes”, but it argued common law rights. The argument by the El Paso, Texas home builder was fairly weak. Summarizing the home builder’s failure to show any sort of common law mark, the panel wrote: The evidence offered by ... read more ...
Fri 15th October 2010
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Rick and Howard Pulling Out All a Stops for TRAFFIC Miami - Everything’s lined up for TRAFFIC Miami. It seems that it will deliver. I’ve been a vocal critic of some of the TRAFFIC shows in recent years. They seemed to have gone a bit stale and attendance had dwindled. That will not be the case with TRAFFIC Miami, which starts Sunday evening at the South Beach Loews. Perhaps Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu had something to prove. It doesn’t hurt that this is the only event they’re planning for this year (Rick Latona ... read more ...
Thu 21st January 2010
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5 Domain Industry Questions to Be Answered in Next 72 Hours - This week’s TRAFFIC event will answer some questions. Well, I’m off to Vegas. I’m excited to attend the updated T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference. But unlike Ron, I’m not stoked about having two conferences back-to-back. Perhaps it’s because I live in the middle of the country (not coming from the East coast) and have a small child. Nonetheless, business is business. OK, and a bit of fun. For the next 72 hours, it’s all about TRAFFIC. Here are five questions ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2009
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iPhone App Developer Loses .Me Domain Dispute - Project.me (the company) fails to capture project.me domain name. Here’s a follow up to a story back in September — iPhone App developer Project.me has lost its attempt to get the domain name Project.me through domain arbitration. After failing to acquire the domain name from its owner, the company filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization, arguing that the Project.me domain name infringed on its applied-for project.me trademark. The three ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2009
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Can Rick Latona Save TRAFFIC Conference? - Latona will add needed spark to domain conference franchise. TRAFFIC was the first big domain name industry conference. It was also the first to do many innovative things, such as offer a compelling live domain auction. But lately its star has faded. Attendance is down, and don’t just blame the economy. When I asked people before the last TRAFFIC if they were going, a common response was “It’s not relevant anymore”. They blamed lackluster programming ... read more ...
Tue 17th March 2009
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Howard Neu Saves Domain from Being Flushed Down Toilet - KohlerSucks.com saved at National Arbitration Forum. A $4,331 toilet from Kohler Kohler Co., which does everything from manufacture toilets to develop golf resorts, should read up on domain arbitration rules prior to filing its next request under UDRP. Domain attorney Howard M. Neu helped the owner of KohlerSucks.com defend the domain name against a frivolous complaint by the Kohler conglomerate. In a concise and perfectly clear decision, an arbitrator ruled: Complainant ... read more ...