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The Domains
If You Lie About Your Trademark, That Should Automatically Be Reverse Domain Hijacking
Eric Levy of New York just lost his attempt to grab the generic domain name yourneighborhood.com in a UDRP, based off a trademark for YOURNEIGHBORHOOD LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE, registered on December 10, 2013. The domain name YourNeighborhood.com was firs...
Discussion
If You Lie About Your Trademark, That Should Automatically Be Reverse Domain Hijacking
Eric Levy of New York just lost his attempt to grab the generic domain name yourneighborhood.com in a UDRP, based off a trademark for YOURNEIGHBORHOOD LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE, registered on December 10, 2013. The domain name YourNeighborhood.com was firs...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
YourNeighborhood.co owner tries to “pull a fast one” in UDRP
Trademark disclaims rights to “YourNeighborhood”. Eric Levy, who runs the neighborhood information site YourNeighborhood.co, has lost a UDRP against the domain name YourNeighborhood.com. He’s lucky the panelist didn’t bother t...
Discussion
YourNeighborhood.co owner tries to “pull a fast one” in UDRP
Trademark disclaims rights to “YourNeighborhood”. Eric Levy, who runs the neighborhood information site YourNeighborhood.co, has lost a UDRP against the domain name YourNeighborhood.com. He’s lucky the panelist didn’t bother t...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 3:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire Podcast #3: Tessa Holcomb on Igloo’s big domain name sales
Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #3. Every week, you read about domain name sales here on Domain Name Wire and on sites like DNJournal. These public sales just scratch the surface of total transactions taking place each week. Most sales, including ...
Discussion
Domain Name Wire Podcast #3: Tessa Holcomb on Igloo’s big domain name sales
Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #3. Every week, you read about domain name sales here on Domain Name Wire and on sites like DNJournal. These public sales just scratch the surface of total transactions taking place each week. Most sales, including ...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 2:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
2 character domains get green light under new TLDs
ICANN Board approves resolution paving way for two character second level domains. Last week’s ICANN meeting started with good news for new top level domain name applicants: governments said they weren’t concerned about two letter second ...
Discussion
2 character domains get green light under new TLDs
ICANN Board approves resolution paving way for two character second level domains. Last week’s ICANN meeting started with good news for new top level domain name applicants: governments said they weren’t concerned about two letter second ...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 2:19 pm
The Domains
132 .Healthcare Domain Registered in EAP 5: Cancer.Healthcare; Ebola.Healthcare
According to Registered.Today 132 domain names in the new gTLD .Healthcare were registered on day 5 of the Early Access Program. Under the EAP for an extra fee, domain names can be registered ahead of General Available (GA) and some of those domain n...
Discussion
132 .Healthcare Domain Registered in EAP 5: Cancer.Healthcare; Ebola.Healthcare
According to Registered.Today 132 domain names in the new gTLD .Healthcare were registered on day 5 of the Early Access Program. Under the EAP for an extra fee, domain names can be registered ahead of General Available (GA) and some of those domain n...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s new tlds: Military, .Realtor and sooome other domain
Rightside launches three military-themed domains, NAR launches .realtor, and a strange generic goes live. Here’s a run down of this week’s new top level domain name launches. On Wednesday, Rightside releases three military-themed domain n...
Discussion
This week’s new tlds: Military, .Realtor and sooome other domain
Rightside launches three military-themed domains, NAR launches .realtor, and a strange generic goes live. Here’s a run down of this week’s new top level domain name launches. On Wednesday, Rightside releases three military-themed domain n...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 1:42 pm
The Domains
High Court in the UK: ISP Must Block Sites Selling Counterfeit Goods
According to Theguardian.com, The High Court in the UK has ruled that Internet Service Providers (ISP) must try to block sites selling counterfeit goods at their own cost. “The case was brought by luxury brands in the Richemont/Cartier group, d...
Discussion
High Court in the UK: ISP Must Block Sites Selling Counterfeit Goods
According to Theguardian.com, The High Court in the UK has ruled that Internet Service Providers (ISP) must try to block sites selling counterfeit goods at their own cost. “The case was brought by luxury brands in the Richemont/Cartier group, d...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 1:17 pm
The Domains
Rightside Partners With CloudCannon.com
According to a press release out today Rightside (NAME) has partnered with CloudCannon.com which just received $500,000 in funding from “some leading New Zealand investors including Sam Morgan, Phil McCaw, Stephen Tindall and Simon Holdsworth&r...
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Rightside Partners With CloudCannon.com
According to a press release out today Rightside (NAME) has partnered with CloudCannon.com which just received $500,000 in funding from “some leading New Zealand investors including Sam Morgan, Phil McCaw, Stephen Tindall and Simon Holdsworth&r...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 1:11 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Monday 10/20
It’s a regular day in the domain world but big day for my portfolio which is way way overly weighted in Apple and Chipotle stock which announces earnings today. They are long term holds so it doesn’t really matter too much but I do ...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Monday 10/20
It’s a regular day in the domain world but big day for my portfolio which is way way overly weighted in Apple and Chipotle stock which announces earnings today. They are long term holds so it doesn’t really matter too much but I do ...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 11:45 am
The Domains
England Turning Up The Heat on Internet Trolls
England is getting tougher on Internet trolls it seems, the BBC is out along with a host of other publications, that the most serious offenders could now see their sentence quadrupled from 6 months in jail to 24 months in jail. I remember last year r...
Discussion
England Turning Up The Heat on Internet Trolls
England is getting tougher on Internet trolls it seems, the BBC is out along with a host of other publications, that the most serious offenders could now see their sentence quadrupled from 6 months in jail to 24 months in jail. I remember last year r...
Discussion
October 19, 2014, 11:20 pm
