HP employees threatened aspirant Splunk? -
Competitor says HP employees and consultant set up websites and social media accounts to disparage it…and then crossed the line with physical threats.
I’ve read a lot of bizarre domain name disputes, but two recent ones involving an HP employee take it to another level.
Big data company Splunk just won two UDRP domain name disputes against the domain names DontGetSplunked.com and SplunkFail.com. Splunk alleged that these were basically part of a grassroots campaign ... read more ...
Tag Archives: hp
Mon 16th June 2014
Wed 8th January 2014
UDRP Panel orders HP.nu to be eliminated to Hewlett-Packard -
HP gets two letter ccTLD in WIPO decision.
Hewlett-Packard has won the transfer of the domain name HP.nu in a UDRP decision at World Intellectual Property Organization.
.Nu is the ccTLD for the island state of Niue. The operators of .nu use the standard UDRP for handling domain name disputes.
The domain name owner tried to put up a defense that he registered a bunch of short .nu domain names and was not targeting HP with his registration. Nunames offered a promotion ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
Amazon.com, HP, Ford among those lobbying Washington about domain names -
Big companies join domain heavyweights in lobbying U.S. government about domain name issues.
It’s been a couple years since I’ve done a round up of how much domain name companies are spending on lobbying in Washington.
I just ran an updated analysis and made two key observations.
First, major domain name companies including VeriSign and Go Daddy are spending less on lobbying than they used to.
Second, a lot of non-domain name companies are lobbying about domain ... read more ...
Mon 13th May 2013
HP (sort of) protects domains for new TwoSmiles.com site -
Company buys 2Smiles.com domain, but leaves some other obvious ones unregistered.
Earlier this month HP launched Two Smiles, a service that combines custom greeting cards with gift cards.
In advance of the launch HP bought two key domain names for the venture: TwoSmiles.com, the actual web address for the service, and 2Smiles.com, a domain that likely receives visits from visitors who remember the site name as the digit 2 instead of ‘two’ written out.
Based on ... read more ...
Tue 21st September 2010
HP Puts Digital.com Domain Name on a Auction Block -
Digital.com goes up for sale.
Technology giant HP is offering the domain name Digital.com for sale, but it’s going to cost you.
The domain name has been listed in Moniker’s upcoming live domain name auction taking place in Prague October 6. Reserve price: somewhere between $1 million and $5 million.
HP got the domain name when it acquired Compaq.
Moniker will auction off 80 other domain names during its DOMAINfest conference live domain name auction.
Among ... read more ...