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Disturbing: 12 Year Old Hobbex.com Registered 4 Years Before Trademark Lost In UDRP
Hobbex AB of Borås, Sweden, just won a UDRP on the domain name Hobbex.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. The case is disturbing because the domain holder registered the domain four years before the trademark holder got their tradema...
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Disturbing: 12 Year Old Hobbex.com Registered 4 Years Before Trademark Lost In UDRP
Hobbex AB of Borås, Sweden, just won a UDRP on the domain name Hobbex.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. The case is disturbing because the domain holder registered the domain four years before the trademark holder got their tradema...
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March 20, 2014, 6:21 pm
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Another Banner Day For Domains As Total Adds is Almost 65,000; 35K From .Com
Domain name registrations continue to grow with a bunch of new gTLD going live and as people continue to register more of the orginal TLD’s .com, .net and .org Yesterday new domain registrations over all TLD’s (not counting ccTLD’s)...
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Another Banner Day For Domains As Total Adds is Almost 65,000; 35K From .Com
Domain name registrations continue to grow with a bunch of new gTLD going live and as people continue to register more of the orginal TLD’s .com, .net and .org Yesterday new domain registrations over all TLD’s (not counting ccTLD’s)...
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March 20, 2014, 1:59 pm
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Be Careful of Phishing Attack to Gain Google Credentials
Be careful using Google Docs and Google Drive as Symantec discovered a new phishing attack that is looking to get your Google log in credientials. Afterdawn.com covered the recent finding: Researchers over at security firm Symantec have come across ...
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Be Careful of Phishing Attack to Gain Google Credentials
Be careful using Google Docs and Google Drive as Symantec discovered a new phishing attack that is looking to get your Google log in credientials. Afterdawn.com covered the recent finding: Researchers over at security firm Symantec have come across ...
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March 20, 2014, 7:52 am
The Domains
Frank Schilling’s Reigstrar Is Live; The Good & The Bad
Frank Schilling just rolled out Version 1 of his long anticipated registrar under Uniregistry as it went live today. Uniregistrar.com was going to be the name of the registrar but its now or shortly will be forwarded to Uniregisty.com The registrar w...
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Frank Schilling’s Reigstrar Is Live; The Good & The Bad
Frank Schilling just rolled out Version 1 of his long anticipated registrar under Uniregistry as it went live today. Uniregistrar.com was going to be the name of the registrar but its now or shortly will be forwarded to Uniregisty.com The registrar w...
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March 19, 2014, 11:31 pm
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15 Year Old Quebec.com Owned By Anything.com Saved In UDRP
The government of Quebec just lost its bid to grab the domain name Quebec.com, but the domain owner failed to get a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling. If you’re in to extremely long proper names, the complainant in the UDRP is “M...
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15 Year Old Quebec.com Owned By Anything.com Saved In UDRP
The government of Quebec just lost its bid to grab the domain name Quebec.com, but the domain owner failed to get a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling. If you’re in to extremely long proper names, the complainant in the UDRP is “M...
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March 19, 2014, 11:17 pm
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ICANN Last Resort Contention Auctions Look Like a Go With 1st Planned For June 4th
ICANN just published a schedule of contention resolution Last Resort Auction and they start on June 4th with a goal of having 20 a month and resolving all of them in 1o months. This should push many applicants to go into a private auction where the f...
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ICANN Last Resort Contention Auctions Look Like a Go With 1st Planned For June 4th
ICANN just published a schedule of contention resolution Last Resort Auction and they start on June 4th with a goal of having 20 a month and resolving all of them in 1o months. This should push many applicants to go into a private auction where the f...
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March 19, 2014, 10:31 pm
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One of The Worlds Best Domain; Chat.com Is Sold By CBS Interactive
One of the great domain names in the world, Chat.com was just sold. The domain name was owned by CBS Interactive, Inc. which acquired the domain it when it purchased Cnet in June 2008. We reported last year that the company sold another killer ...
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One of The Worlds Best Domain; Chat.com Is Sold By CBS Interactive
One of the great domain names in the world, Chat.com was just sold. The domain name was owned by CBS Interactive, Inc. which acquired the domain it when it purchased Cnet in June 2008. We reported last year that the company sold another killer ...
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March 19, 2014, 6:50 pm
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Record Number of Companies Sponsor DomainFest2014
Domain Fest which is slated to begin on March 31, 2014 put out a press release a few moments ago that they have a record number of sponsors this year for the event. Along with the usual conference festivities and panels, they will be hosting a privat...
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Record Number of Companies Sponsor DomainFest2014
Domain Fest which is slated to begin on March 31, 2014 put out a press release a few moments ago that they have a record number of sponsors this year for the event. Along with the usual conference festivities and panels, they will be hosting a privat...
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March 19, 2014, 5:40 pm
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Strickling Refines Last Weeks Announcement On ICANN: No Government-Led Solution WIll Be Accepted
Lawrence E. Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator seem to back off hie statement that the US was ready to let ICANN go out of United States control. In another announcement he made today Sticklin...
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Strickling Refines Last Weeks Announcement On ICANN: No Government-Led Solution WIll Be Accepted
Lawrence E. Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator seem to back off hie statement that the US was ready to let ICANN go out of United States control. In another announcement he made today Sticklin...
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March 19, 2014, 4:45 pm
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Marchex, Endurance Added To NASDAQ Internet Index
NASDAQ (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced the addition and deletion of companies to the NASDAQ Internet Index® (Nasdaq:QNET), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, March 24, 2014. The Index is designed to track the performance of a set...
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Marchex, Endurance Added To NASDAQ Internet Index
NASDAQ (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced the addition and deletion of companies to the NASDAQ Internet Index® (Nasdaq:QNET), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, March 24, 2014. The Index is designed to track the performance of a set...
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March 19, 2014, 2:32 pm
