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Nat Cohen sells LGG.com for $175k to company that filed UDRP against the domain name
Company pays up after playing dirty in domain name negotiation. This week’s DNJournal sales report includes a $175,000 sale of LGG.com. When reviewing the report, I instantly knew this domain name was familiar. Sure enough, I’ve written a...
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Nat Cohen sells LGG.com for $175k to company that filed UDRP against the domain name
Company pays up after playing dirty in domain name negotiation. This week’s DNJournal sales report includes a $175,000 sale of LGG.com. When reviewing the report, I instantly knew this domain name was familiar. Sure enough, I’ve written a...
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January 23, 2014, 3:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Cobb International guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Company filed UDRP case even though the domain names at issue were not registered in bad faith. South African firm Cobb International has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP decision at World Intellectual Property Organizatio...
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Cobb International guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Company filed UDRP case even though the domain names at issue were not registered in bad faith. South African firm Cobb International has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP decision at World Intellectual Property Organizatio...
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January 23, 2014, 2:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Web.com: WebLock program will be opt-in, not opt-out
Company will not charge customers for added security service unless they accept it. Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com, came under fire yesterday after informing some customers they would automatically be opted-in to a secu...
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Web.com: WebLock program will be opt-in, not opt-out
Company will not charge customers for added security service unless they accept it. Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com, came under fire yesterday after informing some customers they would automatically be opted-in to a secu...
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January 22, 2014, 9:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
UDRP panel refuses to give expired domain to previous owner
Domain owner that offered to sell domain name to respondent let it expire. A UDRP panel has refused to transfer the domain name iSound.com back to a previous owner who let the domain name expire. John Di Giacomo filed the case against Richard Weston ...
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UDRP panel refuses to give expired domain to previous owner
Domain owner that offered to sell domain name to respondent let it expire. A UDRP panel has refused to transfer the domain name iSound.com back to a previous owner who let the domain name expire. John Di Giacomo filed the case against Richard Weston ...
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January 22, 2014, 5:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy posts its first 2014 Super Bowl Commercial
No naked women. Just men this time. GoDaddy has published one of its Super Bowl Commercials that will air during the big game February 2. As promised, it’s a distinct departure from previous years in which the company featured scantily clad wom...
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GoDaddy posts its first 2014 Super Bowl Commercial
No naked women. Just men this time. GoDaddy has published one of its Super Bowl Commercials that will air during the big game February 2. As promised, it’s a distinct departure from previous years in which the company featured scantily clad wom...
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January 22, 2014, 4:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts has bad luck of the draw, loses .ski as well
Panelist from .sports decisions also rules against Donuts for .ski. Earlier today I wrote about how Donuts lost a community objection brought against its .sports top level domain name application. It also lost an objection brought against .ski. This ...
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Donuts has bad luck of the draw, loses .ski as well
Panelist from .sports decisions also rules against Donuts for .ski. Earlier today I wrote about how Donuts lost a community objection brought against its .sports top level domain name application. It also lost an objection brought against .ski. This ...
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January 22, 2014, 4:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
TKO: There will be no .sports top level domain in the first round
Objection panel rules that the the sport community would face material detriment for a .sports domain name. Well, at least this decision is consistent. Except it isn’t. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has upheld SportAccord’...
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TKO: There will be no .sports top level domain in the first round
Objection panel rules that the the sport community would face material detriment for a .sports domain name. Well, at least this decision is consistent. Except it isn’t. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has upheld SportAccord’...
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January 22, 2014, 3:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Network Solutions auto enrolls customer into $1,850 “WebLock” service
Email to customer informs him that his credit card will be billed unless he opts out. Domain name registrar Network Solutions, part of Web.com, is taking some heat today for notifying a customer that it is auto enrolling him into a program that will ...
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Network Solutions auto enrolls customer into $1,850 “WebLock” service
Email to customer informs him that his credit card will be billed unless he opts out. Domain name registrar Network Solutions, part of Web.com, is taking some heat today for notifying a customer that it is auto enrolling him into a program that will ...
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January 21, 2014, 11:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Big company’s website suspended thanks to 2013 RAA
Sports site suspended because someone didn’t click on a confirmation email. It’s not exactly Amazon.com, but a website belonging to a large company has been suspended thanks to a whois verification snafu. Fixtures365.com, a sports betting...
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Big company’s website suspended thanks to 2013 RAA
Sports site suspended because someone didn’t click on a confirmation email. It’s not exactly Amazon.com, but a website belonging to a large company has been suspended thanks to a whois verification snafu. Fixtures365.com, a sports betting...
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January 21, 2014, 9:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
A Recap: My week at NamesCon
A recap of what I did, saw, and heard during NamesCon last week. Last week was the inaugural NamesCon conference in Las Vegas. In case you weren’t one of the close to 600 people who experienced it in person, everything you’ve heard is spo...
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A Recap: My week at NamesCon
A recap of what I did, saw, and heard during NamesCon last week. Last week was the inaugural NamesCon conference in Las Vegas. In case you weren’t one of the close to 600 people who experienced it in person, everything you’ve heard is spo...
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January 21, 2014, 8:18 pm
