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Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Queensland, Australia, Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH)
Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, represented by McCullough Robertson Lawyers, Australia has been found GUILTY of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name cairnsairportparking.com.au and airportparkingcairns.net.au &ldq...
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Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Queensland, Australia, Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH)
Cairns Airport Pty Ltd of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, represented by McCullough Robertson Lawyers, Australia has been found GUILTY of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name cairnsairportparking.com.au and airportparkingcairns.net.au &ldq...
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November 7, 2013, 5:19 pm

The Domains
KK.com Sells For $2.4 Million Dollars In A Deal Brokered By Moniker.com/SnapNames
The domain name KK.com just sold for $2.4 Million Dollars. The news was posted on the company’s Facebook pages “Congratulations to the Moniker & SnapNames Brokerage Team, and Brokers Kevin Kopas and John Mauriello for the sale of KK.c...
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KK.com Sells For $2.4 Million Dollars In A Deal Brokered By Moniker.com/SnapNames
The domain name KK.com just sold for $2.4 Million Dollars. The news was posted on the company’s Facebook pages “Congratulations to the Moniker & SnapNames Brokerage Team, and Brokers Kevin Kopas and John Mauriello for the sale of KK.c...
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November 7, 2013, 4:30 pm

The Domains
New gTLD Program Committe Denies 3 Reconsideration Request But Punts On .Amazon
The New gTLD Program Committee (NPGC) of ICANN denied several requests for reconsideration in its latest meeting of which the minutes published last night, while punting on reconsideration requests Amazon on .Amazon. The NGPC denied the request...
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New gTLD Program Committe Denies 3 Reconsideration Request But Punts On .Amazon
The New gTLD Program Committee (NPGC) of ICANN denied several requests for reconsideration in its latest meeting of which the minutes published last night, while punting on reconsideration requests Amazon on .Amazon. The NGPC denied the request...
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November 7, 2013, 2:32 pm

The Domains
Verisign Rolls Out 4 Part Series On Why Second Level Domain Blocking For New gTLD’s Isn’t Good Enough
Verisign just published the 1st of a new 4 part series on the potential collision issue arising from new gTLD’s this one authored by Burt Kaliski. Verisign message is “the introduction of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) at the...
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Verisign Rolls Out 4 Part Series On Why Second Level Domain Blocking For New gTLD’s Isn’t Good Enough
Verisign just published the 1st of a new 4 part series on the potential collision issue arising from new gTLD’s this one authored by Burt Kaliski. Verisign message is “the introduction of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) at the...
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November 6, 2013, 11:21 pm

The Domains
Web-Design.com Sells For $38,500; ClassicTrader.com Sells For $39,000
The domain name Web-Design.com just sold for $24,001 GBP, which equates to just over $38,500. The domain name was most recently owned by SANDERA LTD, The domain names ClassicTrader.com also sold today for 29,000 euro’s which is over $38,0...
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Web-Design.com Sells For $38,500; ClassicTrader.com Sells For $39,000
The domain name Web-Design.com just sold for $24,001 GBP, which equates to just over $38,500. The domain name was most recently owned by SANDERA LTD, The domain names ClassicTrader.com also sold today for 29,000 euro’s which is over $38,0...
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November 6, 2013, 4:52 pm

The Domains
Trademark Holder Lets Its Domain Drop & UDRP Says They Can’t Have It Back
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. lost its attempt to grab the domain name valiant-ent.tv which was registered on August 18, 2013. Its an interesting opinion and one of the first times I have ever read a UDRP decision where the panel re...
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Trademark Holder Lets Its Domain Drop & UDRP Says They Can’t Have It Back
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. lost its attempt to grab the domain name valiant-ent.tv which was registered on August 18, 2013. Its an interesting opinion and one of the first times I have ever read a UDRP decision where the panel re...
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November 6, 2013, 3:28 pm

The Domains
United Parcel Service Wins UDRP On The Domain Driveups.com
United Parcel Service of America Inc. just won a UDRP on the the Domain Name Driveups.com UPS asserted that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name and instead, in light of the fame of Complainant’s mark, is...
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United Parcel Service Wins UDRP On The Domain Driveups.com
United Parcel Service of America Inc. just won a UDRP on the the Domain Name Driveups.com UPS asserted that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name and instead, in light of the fame of Complainant’s mark, is...
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November 6, 2013, 3:14 pm

The Domains
Donuts 1st 7 New gTLD’s Will Not Have a Landrush Period But Go After Sunrise To GA On Jan 29
Donuts Inc., today announced that the “Sunrise” period for the first seven new gTLD names, the window during which trademark rights holders have exclusive access to registrations, will begin November 26, and close January 24, 2014. ...
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Donuts 1st 7 New gTLD’s Will Not Have a Landrush Period But Go After Sunrise To GA On Jan 29
Donuts Inc., today announced that the “Sunrise” period for the first seven new gTLD names, the window during which trademark rights holders have exclusive access to registrations, will begin November 26, and close January 24, 2014. ...
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November 6, 2013, 2:28 pm

The Domains
Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping Mall
Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying “At a high level the existing name space...
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Donuts: .Com Is Like A Department Store, We are Building An Entire Shopping Mall
Clickz.com, , just published an interview with Jon Nevett one of the founders of Donuts and Mason Cole their VP of Communications and I found a few very interesting quotes. Jon Nevett is quoted as saying “At a high level the existing name space...
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November 6, 2013, 1:57 pm

The Domains
.Cam Objection Fall Out: Demand Media Compains About Panels Reaching Different Conclusion on Same String
Another day and another applicant is complaining a new gTLD Dispute Resolution panels. Today its Demand Media, Inc, (DMD) complaining to Cherine Chalaby, Chair of ICANN New gTLD Program Committee over the International Center for Dispute R...
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.Cam Objection Fall Out: Demand Media Compains About Panels Reaching Different Conclusion on Same String
Another day and another applicant is complaining a new gTLD Dispute Resolution panels. Today its Demand Media, Inc, (DMD) complaining to Cherine Chalaby, Chair of ICANN New gTLD Program Committee over the International Center for Dispute R...
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November 6, 2013, 1:48 pm