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Complaint Denied in Tnp.com UDRP
July 3, 2017 @ 7:17 AMIn early April, I wrote about the TNP.com UDRP filing. As I suspected, the complaint was denied and the domain name owner will retain this valuable domain name. The domain owner was represented by attorney John Berryhill. In order to win a UDRP complaint, the complainant needs to prove that the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark…
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WordPress Promises Not to Increase Prices On .blog Domain Name Renewals
July 3, 2017 @ 6:50 AMWordPress and its company Knock Knock WHOIS There that owns the rights to the .blog domains announced an amendment to the .blog Registry-Registrar Agreement. Changes will be effective on July 15th, 2017. WordPress said that keeping things simple allows registrars and resellers to focus on their core business. The modifications they made are…
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WordPress Promises Not to Increase Prices On .blog Domain Name Renewals
July 3, 2017 @ 6:50 AMWordPress and its company Knock Knock WHOIS There that owns the rights to the .blog domains announced an amendment to the .blog Registry-Registrar Agreement. Changes will be effective on July 15th, 2017. WordPress said that keeping things simple allows registrars and resellers to focus on their core business. The modifications they made are…
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Gregg Ostrick Wins Another UDRP
July 3, 2017 @ 5:09 AMWIPO panel rules in favor of domain investor. Domain name investor Gregg Ostrick and his company GNO Inc have successfully defended another domain name in a UDRP. Swiss company Unilabs SA filed a UDRP against his domain name BioCheckup.com. While the company does have trademarks that include Biocheck Up in them, these are figurative marks…
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Queen.com UDRP: Queen.dk & Frands Jepsen are Reverse Domain Name Hijackers
June 30, 2017 @ 9:20 AMThe attempted theft of the domain name Queen.com from its lawful owner Rick Schwartz was spectacularly rejected by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) . Frands Jepsen, owner and managing director of Queen.dk, tried to steal the domain name Queen.com as a plan B after he didn’t like the price tag of the domain name…
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Kobe and Montreal Added to ICANN Calendar
June 28, 2017 @ 6:16 AMDust off your Japanese and French. ICANN has selected the location for two of its meetings taking place in 2019. ICANN 64 will take place in Kobe, Japan in March 2019 and ICANN 66 will be in Montreal in November 2019. The non-profit has not announced a location for ICANN 65 (a policy forum) to…
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.net Price Increases Approved
June 28, 2017 @ 4:44 AMVerisign has been given the right to continue to raise the wholesale price of .net domains. It now seems likely the price charged to registrars will top $15 by 2023. ICANN’s board of directors at the weekend approved the renewal of the .net Registry Agreement, which gives Verisign the right increase its prices by 10%…
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India to Have Sixteen ccTLDs
June 28, 2017 @ 2:46 AMWhile most countries are content to operate using a single ccTLD, India is to up its count to an unprecedented 16. It already has eight, but ICANN’s board of directors at the weekend approved the delegation of an additional eight. The new ccTLDs, which have yet to hit the root, are .ಭಾರತ, .ഭാരതം, .ভাৰত, .ଭାରତ,…
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ICANN Heading to Japan and Canada in 2019
June 28, 2017 @ 2:24 AMICANN has named two of the host cities for its 2019 public meetings. The community will descend upon Kobe, Japan in March 2019 for the first meeting of the year and will head to Montreal, Canada, for the annual general meeting in November. Both locations were approved by the ICANN board of directors at a…
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Uniregistry Sale Leads to BBC Telling Millions That Domainers Exist
June 28, 2017 @ 2:02 AMThe BBC dedicated five minutes of prime-time air to telling the British public that domainers exist, after a Uniregistry domain name sale led to interest from producers. The One Show appears on BBC One at 7pm five days a week. It’s the BBC’s flagship magazine program and appears to currently have about 3.5 million viewers…
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