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And S&P Loses UDRP Becuase BoycottStandardandPoors.com Doesn’t Resolve
Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC just lost a UDRP on its big to grab the domain name, BoycottStandardandPoors.com Unlike the UDRP decision we just wrote about which seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name didn’t ...
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And S&P Loses UDRP Becuase BoycottStandardandPoors.com Doesn’t Resolve
Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC just lost a UDRP on its big to grab the domain name, BoycottStandardandPoors.com Unlike the UDRP decision we just wrote about which seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name didn’t ...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 4:27 pm

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13 Year Old WAFU.com Lost in UDRP As Domain Holder Fails To Respond & Domain Doesn’t Resolve
Wafu Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was just awarded the rights to the domain name WAFU.com a domain that was registered on March 8, 2000. The Complainant owns some trademarks in Cananda the one’s cited by the panel are dated June 23, 2008 a...
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13 Year Old WAFU.com Lost in UDRP As Domain Holder Fails To Respond & Domain Doesn’t Resolve
Wafu Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was just awarded the rights to the domain name WAFU.com a domain that was registered on March 8, 2000. The Complainant owns some trademarks in Cananda the one’s cited by the panel are dated June 23, 2008 a...
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December 5, 2013, 4:15 pm

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Here Are My First 3 New gTLD Registrations & How you Can Register Your New gTLD’s Now.
At ICANN I had a chance to get a personal tour of MindsandMachines.com new domain registrar site. Mindsandmachines.com which is part of Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) a publicly trasded company on the London Stock Exchange applied for 100 or so new...
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Here Are My First 3 New gTLD Registrations & How you Can Register Your New gTLD’s Now.
At ICANN I had a chance to get a personal tour of MindsandMachines.com new domain registrar site. Mindsandmachines.com which is part of Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) a publicly trasded company on the London Stock Exchange applied for 100 or so new...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 3:36 pm

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Breaking: 9th Circuit Says No Such Thing As Contributory Cybersquatting Under ACPA Ruling In Godaddy’s Favor
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that there is No Such Thing As Contributory Cybersquatting Under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). The case is PETROLIAM NASIONAL, Plaintiff-counter-claim-defendan...
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Breaking: 9th Circuit Says No Such Thing As Contributory Cybersquatting Under ACPA Ruling In Godaddy’s Favor
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that there is No Such Thing As Contributory Cybersquatting Under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). The case is PETROLIAM NASIONAL, Plaintiff-counter-claim-defendan...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 4:16 am

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SellMyApp.com Saved In UDRP AS Complainant Fails To Meet Any Of The 3 Elements Of A UDRP
Vassilios Pantazopoulos just lost his bid to grab 4 domains including SellMyApp.com with the three member UDRP panel finding the Complainant failed to meet any of the three elements required for a successful UDRP. The domain holder was represented ...
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SellMyApp.com Saved In UDRP AS Complainant Fails To Meet Any Of The 3 Elements Of A UDRP
Vassilios Pantazopoulos just lost his bid to grab 4 domains including SellMyApp.com with the three member UDRP panel finding the Complainant failed to meet any of the three elements required for a successful UDRP. The domain holder was represented ...
Discussion
December 4, 2013, 9:32 pm

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Marchex Announces ArcheoDomains.com Adds “Buy It Now” Feature To 30K Domains
ArcheoDomains.com announced that they added “Buy Now” functionality to the ArcheoDomains.com marketplace. More than 30,000 domains are now competitively priced under $10,000 and available for immediate purchase. Focused on our Geo-...
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Marchex Announces ArcheoDomains.com Adds “Buy It Now” Feature To 30K Domains
ArcheoDomains.com announced that they added “Buy Now” functionality to the ArcheoDomains.com marketplace. More than 30,000 domains are now competitively priced under $10,000 and available for immediate purchase. Focused on our Geo-...
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December 4, 2013, 6:35 pm

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Variety.com Publishes; Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media
Variety.com just published a cover story on Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and its less than flattering. The article entitled Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media starts out: “Take note, Twitter: Not every tech company has a happy ending...
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Variety.com Publishes; Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media
Variety.com just published a cover story on Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and its less than flattering. The article entitled Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media starts out: “Take note, Twitter: Not every tech company has a happy ending...
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December 4, 2013, 3:49 pm

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Oink.com With Trademark Sold For $57,500
TechCrunch.com is reporting that Virtual Piggy, a payments service aimed at minors is today rebranding as Oink after buying the domain, trademarks and social marks from Milk (not Google) for $57,500. Founder and CEO Jo Webber is quoted as saying &ldq...
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Oink.com With Trademark Sold For $57,500
TechCrunch.com is reporting that Virtual Piggy, a payments service aimed at minors is today rebranding as Oink after buying the domain, trademarks and social marks from Milk (not Google) for $57,500. Founder and CEO Jo Webber is quoted as saying &ldq...
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December 4, 2013, 3:37 pm

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How Premium New gTLD’s Might Help Sell Your .Com Domains
Many of the new gTLD registries are planning on the old .TV pricing model to sell their premium domain names. Two large applicants Donuts and Minds +Machines who between the two applied for 400 new gTLD strings, have both stated they indent to ...
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How Premium New gTLD’s Might Help Sell Your .Com Domains
Many of the new gTLD registries are planning on the old .TV pricing model to sell their premium domain names. Two large applicants Donuts and Minds +Machines who between the two applied for 400 new gTLD strings, have both stated they indent to ...
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December 4, 2013, 3:24 pm

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ALMC.com Saved In UDRP Decided By Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center Finding Domain Is Generic
The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center in a one member UDRP decision denied the attempt of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council to grab the generic domain name ALMC.com The domain holder was represented by David E. Weslow of Wiley Rein LL...
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ALMC.com Saved In UDRP Decided By Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center Finding Domain Is Generic
The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center in a one member UDRP decision denied the attempt of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council to grab the generic domain name ALMC.com The domain holder was represented by David E. Weslow of Wiley Rein LL...
Discussion
December 4, 2013, 3:52 am