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ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector Against the Same String Into 1 Proceeding
Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings were not similar confusing,...
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ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector Against the Same String Into 1 Proceeding
Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings were not similar confusing,...
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August 20, 2013, 11:57 am
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According To Alexa There Is No Traffic Leakage From Beat.La To BeatLa.com
For those that think that branding a site on any non-.com is going to automatically lead to traffic bleed over to the matching .com I present the case of Beat.La. The domain name was purchased just a couple of weeks ago by the Phoenix Suns on Sedo fo...
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According To Alexa There Is No Traffic Leakage From Beat.La To BeatLa.com
For those that think that branding a site on any non-.com is going to automatically lead to traffic bleed over to the matching .com I present the case of Beat.La. The domain name was purchased just a couple of weeks ago by the Phoenix Suns on Sedo fo...
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August 19, 2013, 7:55 pm
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Report: Godaddy Acquires Locu.com For $70 Million
GoDaddy, said it had acquired San Francisco startup Locu according to Allthingsd.com “While the company did not disclose the terms of the deal, sources close to the situation said it paid $70 million in cash and stock for the company.&r...
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Report: Godaddy Acquires Locu.com For $70 Million
GoDaddy, said it had acquired San Francisco startup Locu according to Allthingsd.com “While the company did not disclose the terms of the deal, sources close to the situation said it paid $70 million in cash and stock for the company.&r...
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August 19, 2013, 2:32 pm
The Domains
Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To new gTLD .Academy
Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD .Academy finding that “the common generic use of the term “academy”, as well a...
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Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To new gTLD .Academy
Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD .Academy finding that “the common generic use of the term “academy”, as well a...
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August 19, 2013, 1:04 pm
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Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Bio
Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Here are the relevance findings by the one member WIPO panel: A fundamental issue in this proceeding is the appro...
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Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Bio
Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Here are the relevance findings by the one member WIPO panel: A fundamental issue in this proceeding is the appro...
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August 19, 2013, 12:58 pm
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Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block the New gTLD .Blue
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by the three member WIPO panel: “”The Applicant has not denied that it was aware of...
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Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block the New gTLD .Blue
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by the three member WIPO panel: “”The Applicant has not denied that it was aware of...
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August 19, 2013, 12:51 pm
The Domains
Car Maker Land Rover Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
The car maker Jaguar/Land Rover Has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name MountainRovers.com. The domain name was owned and used by the domain holder since 1998. The domain name holder did not file a respo...
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Car Maker Land Rover Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
The car maker Jaguar/Land Rover Has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name MountainRovers.com. The domain name was owned and used by the domain holder since 1998. The domain name holder did not file a respo...
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August 19, 2013, 9:35 am
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So Now What Will Google Do With Its New gTLD Application For .Search
Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google’s application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media (neck and neck with Amazon’s .Amazon TLD) Google originally filed its applica...
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So Now What Will Google Do With Its New gTLD Application For .Search
Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google’s application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media (neck and neck with Amazon’s .Amazon TLD) Google originally filed its applica...
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August 18, 2013, 7:38 pm
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Domainer Marc Ostrofsky Author Of Get Rich Click, New Book: Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play
Domain name inverstor and author, Marc Ostrofsky new book Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play is coming out on September 10th. Marc a domain-name investor best known for selling the name Business.com for $7.5 m...
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Domainer Marc Ostrofsky Author Of Get Rich Click, New Book: Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play
Domain name inverstor and author, Marc Ostrofsky new book Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play is coming out on September 10th. Marc a domain-name investor best known for selling the name Business.com for $7.5 m...
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August 18, 2013, 11:46 am
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Vice.com Sold By Anything.com In 2010 Gets $70 Million Dollar Investment From 21st Century Fox
According to a report in the Financial Times, Century Fox has invested $70 million in media company Vice Media, giving Fox a 5 percent stake in the company and valuing Vice at $1.4 billion. Vice Media official site is Vice.com Vice Media bought the d...
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Vice.com Sold By Anything.com In 2010 Gets $70 Million Dollar Investment From 21st Century Fox
According to a report in the Financial Times, Century Fox has invested $70 million in media company Vice Media, giving Fox a 5 percent stake in the company and valuing Vice at $1.4 billion. Vice Media official site is Vice.com Vice Media bought the d...
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August 17, 2013, 1:15 pm
