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Workbetter.com Owner Fights Back Against ACPA Lawsuit
July 3, 2015 @ 6:26 AMJason Kneen fights motion for preliminary injunction and points out plaintiff’s apparent shenanigans. Earlier this week I wrote about how New York company Office Space Solutions, Inc. had filed a cybersquatting lawsuit against Jason Kneen of the UK over the domain name WorkBetter.com. Kneen registered the domain name in 1999, well before Office Space Solutions…
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New Musical Wonder.land Named After (And Uses) New gTLD Domain
July 3, 2015 @ 2:34 AMHow’s this for a high-profile registrant? A new stage musical, co-written by Blur front-man Damon Albarn, has opened in the UK this week, and it’s named after a new gTLD domain name. wonder.land is a take on Alice in Wonderland that reportedly “tells the story of a 21st Century teen who immerses herself in a…
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.org Wholesale Price to Top $9 at The End of July
July 2, 2015 @ 2:49 PMI just received a notice from enom.com informing me that the wholesale cost of that the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Registry Operator for the .ORG domain, will be increasing its annual registration price by $0.80 USD. As a result of this, eNom will raise pricing for the .ORG domain name extension by $0.80 USD…
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Walmart Files UDRP for Walmart.vodka & Walmart.beer; Beyonce for Beyonceshop.com & Beyonceshopping.com
July 2, 2015 @ 12:37 PMA bunch of UDRP have been filed in the last couple of days Walmart which previously filed and won a UDRP on the domain name Walmart.horse just filed a UDRP on the domain name Walmart.beer and Walmart.vodka. Google filed a UDRP on the 11-year-old domain name GoogleArt.com Beyonce filed two separate UDRP for the domain…
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Enom Adds 2-factor Authentication
July 2, 2015 @ 9:00 AMMake your eNom account more secure. Domain name investors who use eNom can now turn on two-factor authentication to secure their accounts. Setting up two-factor authentication is fairly simple. Once you log into your account, look for “Two Step Verfication” (sic) under the Account Overview: Click edit to start the process. eNom uses the Google…
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Lens.com Fails in Cybersquatting Complaint Over Lens.in
July 2, 2015 @ 7:57 AMLens.com not seeing so clearly. Online contact lens retailer Lens.com has failed to win a cybersquatting claim (pdf) against the domain name Lens.in. Lens.com filed the dispute under the .IN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (INDRP). The panelist determined that Lens.com doesn’t have any rights in the term “lens”, just lens.com. That would not give…
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New gTLD Sales Miss ICANN Estimates By a Mile
July 2, 2015 @ 12:17 AMNew gTLD registration volumes failed to live up to ICANN’s expectations by a long, long way in its fiscal 2015. When ICANN’s FY15 ended on Tuesday, new gTLDs had fewer than 6 million domains in their collective zone files. That’s just 18% of ICANN’s original early 2014 estimate of 33 million domains and just 39%…
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M+M Sells Net.work for $100,000
July 1, 2015 @ 10:32 PMMinds + Machines has made its first six-figure new gTLD domain sale. The domain net.work was sold in a private deal to business consultancy BearingPoint for $100,000, the company said today. It added that a “significant annual renewal fee” applies. It’s one of 430 premium domains to have been sold in .work, M+M said, since…
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Sex.com Lawsuit: Company Demands Domain Name Over Copyright and Trademark Claims
July 1, 2015 @ 8:34 AMCompany demands ownership of Sex.com to settle claims of trademark and copyright infringement. Sex.com is one of the most valuable and storied domain names of all time. A battle over its ownership has resulted in multiple lawsuits, a fugitive hunt and millions of dollars in transactions. The domain name most recently sold for $13 million…
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86 New gTLD Registry Contracts Have Changed Hands Already
July 1, 2015 @ 8:15 AMAt least 86 new gTLD registry contracts have changed hands since the end of 2013, I have discovered. ICANN calls the transfer of a Registry Agreement from one company to another an “assignment”. Global Domains Division staff said in Buenos Aires last week that it’s one of the more complex and time-consuming tasks they have…
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