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Domain Holder Loses UDRP On RentMyPartyBus.com Files Federal Lawsuit
October 23, 2015 @ 7:01 AMThe domain holder who lost a UDRP on the domain name RentMyPartyBus.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona. Plaintiff Aleksey Silenko is the Director of Business for Safeway Transit LLC, a Minnesota company who is the named registrant for the domain name rentmypartybus.com. It’s a pretty interesting case, since the “trademark holder”…
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California Car Dealers Head to Court Over Domain Names
October 23, 2015 @ 6:06 AMFord dealer claims rival is stealing its web traffic. Two neighboring car dealers in California are heading to court over cybersquatting claims. El Centro, California Ford dealer El Centro Motors alleges (pdf) that Rogers & Rogers, a Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge dealer on the same road less than a half mile away, is cybersquatting its brands and diverting…
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Delta Airlines Loses UDRP to Grab Domain Delta.tours
October 22, 2015 @ 1:43 PMDelta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder’s case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day. “”Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015,…
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Verisign Reports: 135.2m .com/.net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion in The Bank
October 22, 2015 @ 1:21 PMVeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third…
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Verisign Considers Early Access for "IDN .coms"
October 22, 2015 @ 1:08 PMPopular model for landrush phase of new TLDs might find its way to Verisign. Verisign is considering some sort of “Early Access” period when it launches IDN .com transliterations, company executives explained today on the company’s 3rd quarter conference call. In response to an analyst’s question, CEO James Bidzos said the rollouts will begin with…
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Three New ICANN Directors Started Today
October 22, 2015 @ 12:48 PMA former Dutch politician, a cable company VP and a Latin American ccTLD manager joined the ICANN board of directors today. The three new directors took their seats at the conclusion of the ICANN 54 public meeting in Dublin. Two were Nominating Committee appointees, the third was selected by the Address Supporting Organization to replace…
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Verisign: 9.2 Million New .com and .net Registrations Last Quarter
October 22, 2015 @ 12:43 PMVerisign drives new registrations, grows overall base in .com and .net. Verisign reported earnings this afternoon, and disclosed that it handled 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations in Q3. The number of new registrations per quarter is typically in the 8-9 million range. On its investor conference call today, Verisign executives said the growth…
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Why Did The ICANN GNSO Fail to Pick a New Leader?
October 22, 2015 @ 11:49 AMPolitical infighting between sections of the Generic Names Supporting Organization seems to be responsible for the GNSO Council’s failure to elect a new chair yesterday. Rumor has it that Contracted Parties House pick James Bladel, a VP at Go Daddy, only lost because of ructions in the Non-Contracted Parties House. I stress these are just…
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Media Options' Wi.com Domain Name Save in UDRP
October 22, 2015 @ 5:30 AMComplainant offered to buy the domain name for $400.00. Media Options has successfully defended a UDRP against its domain name WI.com, but the panel declined to find complainant Brian Fera of Germany guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Domain name brokerage Media Options originally brokered the domain name on behalf of Masterlock. The company found…
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Looks Like 86 Sunrise Domains for .law; 30 for .abogado But Not All Registrants are Lawyers
October 22, 2015 @ 5:06 AMThe new gTLD’s .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86…
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