Tag Archives: name administration

Wed 19th June 2013
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RDNH alert: Duplicitous exchange doom Digilove domain dispute - Electronic dance website guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after engaging in “duplicitous dealings”. I have to admit, I don’t expect much business or legal sense from a company that uses the domain name digi10ve.com for a site it calls “Digilove”… Ryan P. Boggs of the site Digi10ve.com filed a seven-sentence UDRP pleading with WIPO to try to wrestle the domain name Digilove.com away from Frank Schilling. The case was filed with the help of attorney ... read more ...
Tue 4th June 2013
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Why do people rubbish income filing this arrange of UDRP opposite Name Administration? - No one has ultimately prevailed after filing a UDRP against Name Administration. Before you filed a UDRP, you’d think you’d google the domain name’s owner to learn more. Yet time after time I see people file long shot UDRP complaints against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Today’s winner is the company that filed against Klipz.com. Since the case was filed at National Arbitration Forum, we don’t yet know who the complainant is. There’s one registered ... read more ...
Fri 29th March 2013
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Company buys dual domains from Frank Schilling for $80,000 - SearchCore discloses purchases in SEC filing. Companies buy domains from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration all the time, but here’s an example that’s in an SEC filing. It also shows that Schilling is willing to sell domains on a payment plan. The buyer is SearchCore, which I wrote about earlier this year. The company has some high profile sales, including Makeup.com for $2 million, and some high profile purchases, such as Rodeo.com and Karate.com. It has ... read more ...
Thu 25th October 2012
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Locksmiths “pick” quarrel with Frank Schilling - …and they lose. IDN, Inc., the company that runs Locksmith Dealers of America (LSDA), picked a fight with the wrong guy. (Sorry, I couldn’t help it.) The company filed a UDRP against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration over the domain name LSDA.com. Apparently IDN, Inc. decided that 2012 was a good year to create a web site after many years in business. Hey, better late than never. But it wanted the short and simple domain LSDA.com. It offered up to $5,000 ... read more ...
Mon 23rd May 2011
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Owner of FLVS.net Sues Frank Schilling Over FLVS.com - Schilling’s company named in lawsuit over four letter domain name. Florida VirtualSchool, which runs an online education service at FLVS.net, has sued Frank Schilling’s Name Administration, Inc. over his FLVS.com domain name. The suit (pdf) also names K12, Inc. Florida VirtualSchool says K12, Inc. is a competitor and was receiving clicks from the FLVS.com domain name, which is parked. Florida VirtualSchool has registered trademarks for Florida VirtualSchool and ... read more ...
Wed 3rd November 2010
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Name Administration Settles Over ChilliBeans.com Domain Name - Frank Schilling settles disagreement over ChilliBeans.com. In 2008 Name Administration (Frank Schilling’s company) lost a UDRP for the generic domain name ChilliBeans.com. It was the company’s first loss in a UDRP case, and it then sued complainant Balglow Finance in order to retain the domain name. The two parties have settled the case. Name Administration provided the following statement to Domain Name Wire: Name Administration Inc. (“NAI”) and Balglow ... read more ...
Mon 21st June 2010
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Name Administration Reaches Settlement over Cheat Code Mark - Company settles trademark dispute. Frank Schilling’s company Name Administration has reached a settlement with the holder of a trademark for Cheat Code, according to documents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Late last year CheatCodes.com LLC started going after people who had “cheat code” in their domain names, thanks to somehow slipping the generic term “Cheat Code” past a USPTO examiner. It went after small webmasters, but also sent a demand ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2009
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Name Administration Challenges “Cheat Code” Trademark - Frank Schilling’s company files petition for cancellation after trademark owner threatens it. If you’ve ever filed for a trademark, you know that it can be a challenging process to get approval. Just ask hotels.com and mattress.com, which have failed in their attempts. But trademarks are inevitably improperly approved by the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office every day. Such is the case with “Cheat Code”, a generic term referring to codes in video ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2009
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HomeAway.com Evicted in Domain Dispute - Vacation rental directory loses domain name dispute. HomeAway.com, Inc. has lost its domain dispute for HomeAwayFromHome.com against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Name Administration was defended by domain attorney John Berryhill. Name Administration bought the domain name for $1,400 in an expired domain name auction in 2005. HomeAway.com acquired the Home Away From Home trademark from another company in 2007. The arbitration panel at National Arbitration ... read more ...
Sun 25th October 2009
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New York Magazine Buys Vulture.com Domain Name - Vulture.com now forwards to popular blog at New York Magazine. New York Magazine has acquired the domain name Vulture.com for its popular entertainment and culture blog Vulture. A review of historical whois records shows that Frank Schilling’s Name Administration sold the domain name to New York Magazine. Records indicate that the domain was transferred to New York Magazine around September 2. This is an interesting example of a domain purchase by a major media ... read more ...
Thu 2nd April 2009
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Name Administration Looks to Direct Advertisers - Name Administration to offer direct ad placement on its domain names. Perhaps in a bid to counter falling pay-per-click revenue, Frank Schilling’s company Name Administration is soliciting direct advertisers via a banner on some of its parked pages: The service will be called LinkBox. The description at Linkbox.com reads: Welcome to Linkbox.com. Direct advertising opportunities will be available soon with prices from less than $30 a month. If you would like to ... read more ...
Thu 18th December 2008
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Frank Schilling Tests New Domain Parking Templates - Schilling’s Name Administration tests new parking templates. Mike Cohen of WannaDevelop.com has made some interesting observations about Frank Schilling’s parked domains. It seems that Schilling is testing some new designs. Here’s what a typical Name Administration (owned by Schilling) domain that I come across looks like: You have a relevant graphical header, 5 keyword tabs along the top, a section of either direct ad links or related keywords, related keywords ... read more ...
Mon 1st December 2008
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Frank Schilling Changes Registrar Name - Registrar for Frank Schilling’s Name Administration empire changes name. I was always a bit confused about the name of Frank Schilling’s domain registrar, Domain Name Sales Corp. Schilling would lament on his blog about how many purchase inquiries he received, when he generally did not sell domains. Well, if I saw a domain name registered at “Domain Name Sales Corp”, I would think it was for sale. An astute reader noticed that the name of the registrar ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2008
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Frank Schilling Loses His First UDRP - Schilling’s company comes down on wrong end of ChilliBeans.com decision. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has lost its first UDRP decision, spoiling a perfect record of success (according to searches at National Arbitration Forum and WIPO). Schilling, teamed up with attorney John Berryhill as usual, failed to convince a three person WIPO panel that its use of the domain name ChilliBeans.com was generic. The complainant is a company selling sunglasses under ... read more ...
Fri 10th October 2008
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Schilling and Berryhill Win Another UDRP - Frank Schilling, with help of John Berryhill, successfully defend domain name. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has won an arbitration case brought by a trampoline company. Domain name attorney John Berryhill represented Schilling. NAOP, LLC, which apparently manufactures trampolines under the JUMPRO brand, filed for arbitration. I can find little information about the company, and jumpro.com is in use by a company unrelated to the trampoline manufacturer. The ... read more ...