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Domain Name Wire
Power Tools Company Loses IXO.com Complaint
Three letter domain name saved by National Arbitration Forum. Here’s a follow up to a domain name dispute I wrote about last month regarding a three letter domain name. A National Arbitration Forum panel has denied the complaint for IXO.com bro...
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Power Tools Company Loses IXO.com Complaint
Three letter domain name saved by National Arbitration Forum. Here’s a follow up to a domain name dispute I wrote about last month regarding a three letter domain name. A National Arbitration Forum panel has denied the complaint for IXO.com bro...
Discussion
July 20, 2011, 11:14 am
The Domains
A Havard Law School Professor Publishes A Study Of UDRP Decisions Involving “Fair Use” & Finds Cases Turn On Nationality
A professor from Harvard has just released a 48 page study he conducted on UDRP decision involving “Fair Use” of a trademarked term. You can download the study here (pdf) The study entitled, An Empirical Analysis of Fair Use Decisions und...
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A Havard Law School Professor Publishes A Study Of UDRP Decisions Involving “Fair Use” & Finds Cases Turn On Nationality
A professor from Harvard has just released a 48 page study he conducted on UDRP decision involving “Fair Use” of a trademarked term. You can download the study here (pdf) The study entitled, An Empirical Analysis of Fair Use Decisions und...
Discussion
July 20, 2011, 10:53 am
Domain Name Wire
National Football League Fights Over Super Bowl Web Site
NFL wants to take over Super Bowl web site. The National Football League’s lawyers may be busy trying to settle the lockout, but its lawyers have time to play games with domain names, too. The NFL just filed a domain name dispute with World Int...
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National Football League Fights Over Super Bowl Web Site
NFL wants to take over Super Bowl web site. The National Football League’s lawyers may be busy trying to settle the lockout, but its lawyers have time to play games with domain names, too. The NFL just filed a domain name dispute with World Int...
Discussion
July 20, 2011, 10:53 am
The Domains
CEO Of ICM Stuart Lawley Spends 6 Minutes+ Chatting On CNN
Stuart Lawley Spent 6 mintues on CNN this morning chatting about the .XXX extension and the new gTLD program It was quite a good interview for Stuart but not so much for Pauline Chiou who conducted the interview who kept confusing the new gTLD progra...
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CEO Of ICM Stuart Lawley Spends 6 Minutes+ Chatting On CNN
Stuart Lawley Spent 6 mintues on CNN this morning chatting about the .XXX extension and the new gTLD program It was quite a good interview for Stuart but not so much for Pauline Chiou who conducted the interview who kept confusing the new gTLD progra...
Discussion
July 20, 2011, 10:21 am
Domain Name Wire
Google Promotes Domain Names to Small Businesses
Google evangelizes web sites for small businesses. Remember all those getonline.com domain names Google registered last month? Now we know what they’re for, and it’s good news for domain name owners. Google is going state-to-state, city-t...
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Google Promotes Domain Names to Small Businesses
Google evangelizes web sites for small businesses. Remember all those getonline.com domain names Google registered last month? Now we know what they’re for, and it’s good news for domain name owners. Google is going state-to-state, city-t...
Discussion
July 20, 2011, 9:57 am
Elliot's Blog
On Third Anniversary, .ME Has Over Half a Million Registrations
In celebration of its third anniversary, the .ME Registry sent out a press release to share some insight about the number of .ME domain names registered, its rate of growth, and usage around the world. At the present time, there are over 530,000 .ME ...
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On Third Anniversary, .ME Has Over Half a Million Registrations
In celebration of its third anniversary, the .ME Registry sent out a press release to share some insight about the number of .ME domain names registered, its rate of growth, and usage around the world. At the present time, there are over 530,000 .ME ...
Discussion
July 20, 2011, 8:36 am
Domain Shane
Wednesday’s Daily Domain Drop and Auction Picks HUGE Day for Numerics
As I was looking through the auctions and drops today I noticed that over the next two days, 4.cn has a ton of numerics up for auction. If you like number domains then you’re going to have more choices in the next two days than you have i...
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Wednesday’s Daily Domain Drop and Auction Picks HUGE Day for Numerics
As I was looking through the auctions and drops today I noticed that over the next two days, 4.cn has a ton of numerics up for auction. If you like number domains then you’re going to have more choices in the next two days than you have i...
Discussion
July 20, 2011, 5:40 am
DomainSherpa
Unique Content and Category Killer Domain Names – with Michael Castello
If you are thinking about starting your own geo-domain property, you should take notes from one of the best in the industry, Michael Castello. In this interview, Castello walks us through how he purchased PalmSprings.com; how he and his brother run ...
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Unique Content and Category Killer Domain Names – with Michael Castello
If you are thinking about starting your own geo-domain property, you should take notes from one of the best in the industry, Michael Castello. In this interview, Castello walks us through how he purchased PalmSprings.com; how he and his brother run ...
Discussion
July 20, 2011, 12:00 am
Domain Name Wire
Those Zuccarini Domains on NameJet? They Sold for $302k in April.
Buyer in April auction turns to NameJet to sell domain names. So why are these John Zuccarini domain names suddenly showing up on NameJet? Whomever picked them up at auction in April is trying to make a quick flip. The auction on April 8 attracted th...
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Those Zuccarini Domains on NameJet? They Sold for $302k in April.
Buyer in April auction turns to NameJet to sell domain names. So why are these John Zuccarini domain names suddenly showing up on NameJet? Whomever picked them up at auction in April is trying to make a quick flip. The auction on April 8 attracted th...
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July 19, 2011, 9:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Up Next, Trademark Applications for .Auto, .Tax, and .Food
More trademarks filed for new top level domain names. ICANN won’t consider top level domain-specific trademarks when new TLD applications are evaluated. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office won’t even grant them. But that’s not stop...
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Up Next, Trademark Applications for .Auto, .Tax, and .Food
More trademarks filed for new top level domain names. ICANN won’t consider top level domain-specific trademarks when new TLD applications are evaluated. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office won’t even grant them. But that’s not stop...
Discussion
July 19, 2011, 9:29 pm
