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The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation Files 7 Separate UDRP
September 24, 2015 @ 5:43 AMThe Brooklyn Brewery Corporation has filed 7 separate UDRP’s this year the most recent one was filed yesterday. The company owns and operate its website under the domain name BrooklynBrewery.com The company has a Federally Registered Trademark for the term “Brooklyn Brewery” Mark BROOKLYN BREWERY Goods and Services IC 032. US 045 046 048. G…
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ICANN Lists The Ways The New gTLD Program Sucked
September 24, 2015 @ 5:07 AMICANN has published an analysis of the many ways in which the first round of the new gTLD program wasted everyone’s time and money. The 200-page “New gTLD Program Implementation Review” is essentially a long list of ways the program could have been better, along with dozens of recommendations for possible future changes. It’s for…
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US Gov: We Can't Support ICANN Accountability Plan
September 24, 2015 @ 1:26 AMThe US National Telecommunications and Information Administration has waded into the ICANN accountability debate, possibly muddying the waters in the process. In a blog post last night, NTIA head Larry Strickling said that community proposals for enhancing accountability were not yet detailed enough, and had not reached the desired level of consensus, for the NTIA…
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MySchool.com Lawsuit Moves Forward With Several Twists and Turns
September 22, 2015 @ 11:08 AMLawyers withdraw, defendant asks for attorneys fees based on comment on DNW. A lawsuit over the domain name MySchool.com is heating up, with the defendant’s lawyers citing a comment made on Domain Name Wire as grounds to recover attorneys fees. Joseph Carpenter, who runs the site MySchool411.com, filed a federal lawsuit to get the domain…
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Kaiser Registers "Killing" Domains
September 22, 2015 @ 8:09 AMWill these defensive domain name registrations actually deter detractors? A Mark Monitor client has registered a bunch of defensive domain names about how the company killed mom, dad and grandma. Although the registrations are protected with whois privacy, I can only assume the registrant is healthcare company and Mark Monitor client Kaiser Permanente. A number…
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M+M Lays Off Dozens in Focus On S&M, Promises Profit Next Year
September 22, 2015 @ 4:39 AMMinds + Machines has outlined its plan to refocus its business on sales and marketing, which has already resulted in a couple dozen job losses, as the latest stage of its profit runway. The new gTLD company also outlined plans to return about half of its cash reserves — mostly obtained by losing new gTLD…
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JC.com, KC.com and MW.com 2 Letter Domain Names All Sell
September 22, 2015 @ 4:38 AM2 letter .com domain name sales continue to be HOT and 3 more have changed ownership recently with JC.com, KC.com and MW.com all selling and changing ownership. BrokerageFirm.com were the buyers of JC.com and MW.com.
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Minds + Machines Finds Operating New gTLD Much Less Profitable Than Selling Apps: Swing to a Loss
September 22, 2015 @ 4:06 AMMinds + Machines Group Ltd (LON:MMX) reported today the company’s financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 “due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions” Minds + Machines reported a pretax loss of $3.7…
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Apple Using Apple.news As (Yawn) Redirect Service
September 22, 2015 @ 1:29 AMApple has become the latest famous brand to deploy a new gTLD domain in the wild. The domain apple.news has been observed this week being used as a URL redirection service by its Apple News app. It seems that when somebody shares a link to a news site via social media, using Apple News, the…
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Endurance CEO Takes Cash Pay Cut, With Potential Big Share Payday
September 21, 2015 @ 1:26 PMRavichandran could get up to 3.7 million additional shares of EIGI stock. Endurance International Group CEO Hari Ravichandran is taking a big cash pay cut in return for shares in the company if it hits free cash flow targets. Ravichandran’s annual salary will be reduced from $750,000 to $200,000 and he won’t receive any cash…
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