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Neuron SA of Paris Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On 19 Yr Old Neurones.com
July 22, 2015 @ 7:36 AMLuc Chammard of Nanterre, France, and the company Neuron SA of Paris, France, represented by Mr. Cohen, Lawyer, France was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Neurones.com in a decision handed down by a three member WIPO UDRP panel The domain holder was represented by UDRP POLICE DBS,…
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Scripps Files Trademark Applications for New Top Level Domains
July 21, 2015 @ 11:55 AMTrademarking Living and Lifestyle. Scripps Networks Interactive, through its top level domain name company Lifestyle Domain Holdings, has filed for U.S. trademarks matching a number of the top level domain names it will run. The company filed multiple trademark applications for “Living”, “Lifestyle” and “Vana”, which all match new top level domain names. There are…
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Flood of Wait-and-see Dot-brands Expected This Week
July 21, 2015 @ 11:46 AMICANN expects to sign as many as 170 new gTLD contracts with dot-brand applicants over the coming week. Dot-brands that have been treading water in the program to date are up against a hard(ish) July 29 deadline to finally sign a Registry Agreement with ICANN. VP of domain name services Cyrus Namazi told DI today…
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How to Apply to Be The Next CEO of ICANN
July 20, 2015 @ 11:20 AMICANN just published details regarding how to apply to become the next CEO of ICANN. The CEO of ICANN is currently making close to $900K in Salary and Bonus plus gets to travel at least 3 times a year to ICANN meetings which are usually held in some nice locations. The deadline to submit an…
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Sedo Makes Improvements to Direct Auctions
July 20, 2015 @ 6:24 AMAuctions will now trigger alerts to people who previously placed offers on the domain. Sedo has made a couple improvements to to its Direct Auction service, a recent option that lets customers start an auction for their domain name whenever they’d like for a $59 fee. One of the changes should be appealing to anyone…
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Las Vegas Sun Covers .vegas in a Largely Negative Story On "Lagging Numbers"
July 20, 2015 @ 5:15 AMThe LasVegasSun.com just covered the new gTLD .Vegas in what is largely a negative story on the new gTLD which is “lagging” behind other City new gTLD’s The Sun quotes Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto who blasted .Vegas: “”Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto, believes the .Vegas domain is a bad bet and doesn’t…
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John Ferber's Bidtellect Raises $22.35 Million Dollars in Series B Funding
July 17, 2015 @ 9:48 AMBidtellect just raised $22.35 million in new capital to help the company build out its technology platform, product development, and sales and marketing teams. John Ferber formerly of Advertising.com and DomainHoldings.com is the Chairman of the company. The Series B funding round was led by new investors Blue Chip Venture Company and G20 Ventures and…
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UDRP Panel Rejects "Renewal of a Domain Resets Bad Faith Clock": BabyBanana.com Saved
July 17, 2015 @ 5:06 AMLive-Right, LLC has just lost its attempt to grab the domain name BabyBanana.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. which was represented as usual by represented by Esqwire.com. I believe is a particularly important win for domain owners. The decision affirms the business of investing and reselling domain names is legitimate use under the…
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ParkingCrew Acquires NameDrive
July 16, 2015 @ 10:28 AMDomain name parking consolidation continues as Team Internet nabs NameDrive. ParkingCrew has acquired the NameDrive domain name parking business from KeyDrive. The acquisition includes the Overdrive service as well. Starting tomorrow, NameDrive customers will access their parking accounts through ParkingCrew. There is a account claim procedure in place; NameDrive customers should have received an announcement…
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Read That Controversial .africa Letter
July 16, 2015 @ 8:58 AMDid the African Union Commission really use a letter written by ICANN to express its support for ZA Central Registry’s .africa bid? Having now obtained and read it, I have my doubts. I’m publishing it, so you can make your own mind up. Here it is (pdf). That’s the letter that The Register’s Kieren McCarthy…
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