Tag Archives: pinterest

Thu 18th July 2013
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Pinterest loses quarrel with Amazon.com over .Pin domain name - Social site loses objection for .pin top level domain name. Social networking site Pinterest has lost an objection it filed with World Intellectual Property Organization over Amazon.com’s bid to get the .pin top level domain name. One of Pinterest’s challenges was showing some sort of rights and secondary meaning in the term “pin”. Amazon.com pointed out that Pinterest has no registered marks for the word pin. It has 63 pending applications to trademark pin, ... read more ...
Mon 25th March 2013
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Pinterest files the initial UDRP - Company targets Pinterest.info, and I bet it will be filing a lot more domain disputes soon. [Update: the domain owner gave the domain to Pinterest.] Image-based social networking service Pinterest has filed its first domain name dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The case was filed against the domain Pinterest.info, which was registered in May 2011 by someone in Los Angeles. As of right now the domain resolves to a Go Daddy holding ... read more ...
 
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Pinterest objects to Amazon’s skeleton for .Pin domain name - Pinterest sticks a pin in Amazon’s .pin top level domain application. Pinterest has filed a legal rights objection against Amazon.com over its application to run the .pin top level domain. As with Amazon’s other top level domain applications, it plans to operate .pin as a closed registry and will not offer second level domain names to consumers and businesses. While you can understand what Amazon would do with other domain names it has applied for, such as .book ... read more ...
Wed 2nd May 2012
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Sex + prohibited amicable site = vital press - Sex.com relaunches as a Pinterest clone for adult photos. I’ve got to hand it to the company that bought Sex.com for $13 million: nice PR move. The site was just relaunched in beta as a “Pinterest for Sex”. That’s a nice way to get buzz. For news story research purposes I just checked out the site. I assure you it’s NSFW. I’ve got to believe the site is going to run into all sorts of copyright issues with this new format. The company put out a “press ... read more ...