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Three Letter Domain, Ehf.com Lost in UDRP
March 29, 2016 @ 9:09 AMA three member UDRP panel just handed over the three letter domain name EHF.com to the European Handball Federation The panel of Flip Jan Claude Petillion, John Swinson and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was parked, listed for sale for $150,000, owned by someone who is in the business of domaining…
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Approveme.me Tries to Get Approve.me in UDRP. It\'s Not Approved.
March 29, 2016 @ 8:56 AMCompany that uses a confusing .me domain name wants a better .me. The owner of ApproveMe.me has lost a cybersquatting complaint if filed against the owner of Approve.me. A single-member World Intellectual Property Organization panel found that Approve.me has legitimate rights and interests in the domain name and that it wasn’t registered in bad faith…
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Did The Other Shoe Just Drop On The Chinese Domain Market?
March 29, 2016 @ 8:46 AMAccording to a story which appeared in globaltimes.cn, “the Chinese government is stepping up efforts to strengthen management of the Internet with the recent drafting of an “unprecedented” regulation on Internet domain names.” According to a draft regulation on Internet domain names issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Internet domain names with…
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.tickets Opens Up 30k Premium Domains Through Registrars
March 29, 2016 @ 5:47 AMAccording to a press release from Accent Media the operator of the .Tickets new gTLD, “around 30,000 premium names, such as ‘vip.tickets’, ‘cheapflight.tickets’ and ‘club.tickets’ have been made available for the first time to innovators and thought leaders, for as little as $1,500.” The press release went on to claim that the domain names Broadway.tickets’…
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Google + 5 Registries Release Domain Test: \"Developers Can Test Compatibility With New gTLD\'s\"
March 23, 2016 @ 10:52 AMGoogle registry released a new tool “Domain Test” which is a “tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). ” Domain Test was “developed by Google and launched in a partnership between Google Registry and Ausregistry, CentralNic, Donuts, RightSide, and Uniregistry. Domain Test is an open source project…
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Verisign Confirms .cc Price Drop
March 22, 2016 @ 12:55 PMWholesale price for .cc will be $8.00 beginning in May. Verisign has confirmed to Domain Name Wire that it is reducing the cost of .cc domain names by about half. Effective May 1, 2016, Verisign is changing the standard pricing for .cc domain names for all registrars worldwide to $8.00 USD for each annual increment…
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Debate As Accuser Names "Sexual Harasser" in ICANN Newsletter
March 22, 2016 @ 10:26 AMThe woman who says she was sexually harassed at the ICANN meeting in Marrakech earlier this month has controversially named the alleged perpetrator on a public mailing list. She’s also publicly released documents exchanged between herself and the ICANN Ombudsman, with whom she has made a formal complaint. According to her complaint the man, a…
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UDRP Filed Against First Name Domain Meryl.com
March 22, 2016 @ 10:12 AMThis morning, I published an article about a working group that ICANN created to potentially reform the UDRP and URS processes. This afternoon, I noticed that a UDRP was filed against the Meryl.com domain name. The UDRP complainant is listed as NYLSTAR S.A., and the UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It is WIPO Case D2016-0561. Most people would probably associate the name Meryl with popular actress Meryl Streep, winner of three Academy Awards and other accolades. Although the first name “Meryl” has not been in the top 1,000 baby names for the last few decades, the US…
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ICANN Seeking Volunteers for UDRP Review Working Group
March 22, 2016 @ 7:25 AMICANN sent out a news alert yesterday calling for volunteers to participate on a new working group that will be created to “Review all Rights Protections Mechanisms in all generic top-level domains.” Among other things, this working group will be tasked with potentially overhauling the UDRP and URS procedures. This could have major ramifications for domain investors and domain name portfolio operators. A week ago, Phil Corwin from the Internet Commerce Association wrote an article on CircleID about the importance of this working group and the impact its findings and recommendations may have on domain owners and domain investors…
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Guy Whose Last Name is Michaels Loses Michaels.ca to Retailer
March 22, 2016 @ 6:50 AMCompany argued site at Michaels.ca infringed its marks. A Canadian appeals court has confirmed that crafts store chain Michaels (NASDAQ:MIK) should be awarded the domain name Michaels.ca. The loser: a guy whose last name is Michaels. David Michaels registered the domain name in 2001. In 2009 he started using the domain name to sell stuff…
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