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American Automobile Association Loses Cybersquatting Case Against Locksmith
July 16, 2015 @ 7:58 AMGroup went after locksmith in Naples who uses the business name AAA Locksmith. American Automobile Association (AAA) has lost a cybersquatting claim against a Florida locksmith who uses the brand AAA Locksmith. Adam Cooper uses the domain name AAALocksmithNaples.com for his business, and AAA filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization to take his…
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Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based On Quality
July 16, 2015 @ 6:17 AMBill Hartzer who frequently write on domain names and SEO issues has published a list of the Top 20 Best New gTLDs Based on Quality. “As a part of Globe Runner’s New gTLD SEO Power Rankings Index, we gathered data from over 20,000 websites that have been actually built-or developed, on New gTLD domain names…
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DCA's .africa Bid Officially Unrejected By ICANN
July 16, 2015 @ 6:17 AMICANN’s board of directors has un-rejected DotConnectAfrica’s application for the new gTLD .africa. The board held an emergency meeting this morning to consider last Friday’s Independent Review Process decision, which said ICANN’s handling of DCA’s bid was not consistent with its bylaws. Speaking at the Internet Governance Forum USA in Washington DC in the last…
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ICANN Execs Helped African Union Win .africa -- Report
July 16, 2015 @ 2:59 AMTop ICANN executives helped the African Union Commission win the .africa gTLD on behalf of its selected registry, according to a report. Kieren McCarthy at The Register scooped last night that Dai-Trang Nguyen, head of gTLD operations at ICANN, drafted the letter that the AU used to demonstrate governmental support for ZA Central Registry’s bid…
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Judge: "You Were Trying to Set Him Up" in Cybersquatting Case
July 15, 2015 @ 10:34 AMJudge rips apart cybersquatting lawsuit. Want to see what it’s like when someone brings a weak cybersquatting case in front of a judge? Domain Name Wire has obtained the transcript from a hearing over a motion for preliminary injunction in the WorkBetter.com case. Office Space Solutions, run by Harsh Mehta, is starting a new business…
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Nf.com Domain Name Saved in UDRP
July 15, 2015 @ 8:30 AMPanel finds against French group but says it isn’t guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), a French certification company, has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of NF.com. AFNOR uses the domain name marque-nf.com. The case decision is in Chinese, so I invite any Chinese readers to chime…
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Microsoft Registers Generics As They Come Off Collision List
July 15, 2015 @ 8:03 AMTech giant registers domains such as desktop.computer and computer.systems. Microsoft has started registering generic/descriptive new top level domain names as they are released from the collision list. Specifically, Microsoft has registered at least a half dozen domain names in Donuts’ domains that were recently released as part of the registry’s phased release of names: arcade.zone…
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A Big .news Day
July 15, 2015 @ 7:17 AM.News, one of the better new top level domain names, launches today. Rightside launches its .News domain name today, and the company is hoping it becomes one of the highlights of its new top level domain name portfolio. .News has already racked up about 1,000 registrations during the trademark sunrise and early access phases of…
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Fake Story On New gTLD Domain, Bloomberg.market Sends Twitter Shares Up Over 5%
July 14, 2015 @ 9:31 AMAccording to several sources, a fake news story appearing on a new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market sent shares of Twitter up over 5% today when they reported Twitter was going to be bought for $31 Billion dollars to over $38 a share. The domain is Bloomberg.market, not Bloomberg.com but its made to look like…
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CSC Publishes July's NewgTLD.report: 3,945 New gTLD's in Alexa Top 1 Million
July 14, 2015 @ 8:09 AMThe brand protection company Corporate Service Company (CSC) published its bi-monthly New gTLD Utilization Report (newgtld.report) yesterday “with expanded metrics and analysis around dot brands” In the July Report CSC saw a significant increase in .Brand new gTLD’s registrations. There are now over 2,050 registrations under .Brand (and closed) top-level domains, up 55% since the…
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