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The UDRP is Not Designed for Stolen Domain Names!
April 25, 2017 @ 7:53 AMComplainants from China tried to recover 74 domains, that they claim were stolen, using a UDRP complaint and failed. And it is only natural that it failed. UDRP was not designed for recovering stolen domain names. It might be a cheap and easy way to recover a stolen domain name but it is not the…
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Markmonitor Tells .feedback to Take a Hike After "breach" Claim
April 25, 2017 @ 7:33 AMMarkMonitor is to voluntarily terminate its registrar relationship with Top Level Spectrum after the .feedback registry hit it with a breach of contract notice. Troy Fuhriman, director of domain management at the registrar, told DI today that the company has just sent TLS a letter stating that it no longer wishes to sell .feedback names…
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Study Shows That New TLDs Can Rank Like Other TLDs, But Not Much Else
April 25, 2017 @ 5:52 AMStudy provides little more than anecdotal evidence. You’re going to see some headlines today about an SEO study commissioned by The Domain Name Association (DNA). Some of these headlines might suggest that new top level domain names get some sort of search engine boost over .com domains. It’s not quite that simple. Here’s the deal:…
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DigitalTown Defends Gorgonzola.city
April 25, 2017 @ 5:17 AMDomain name is one of 20,000 .city domains it registered. DigitalTown has successfully defended its domain name gorgonzola.city in a UDRP. The domain name is one of over 20,000 .city domain names that the company registered for its smart cities platform. Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola, which was formed to control the use…
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ICANN Attendance Shrank in Denmark
April 25, 2017 @ 4:39 AMAttendance at ICANN’s recent meeting in Copenhagen was down about 8% on the comparable meeting a year earlier in Marrakech, according to ICANN statistics. There were 2,089 at the Denmark meeting, down from 2,273 reported a year ago in Morocco. The decline appears to be largely a result of relatively lower local participation. Africa is…
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Afnic CEO Quits, Heads to New Mystery Job
April 25, 2017 @ 2:52 AMAfnic CEO Mathieu Weill has abruptly quit the French domain registry and is heading to a new job elsewhere. The .fr registry said Weill will be replaced on an interim basis by his deputy, Pierre Bonis, from May 1. A formal search for a permanent replacement will begin “in the coming weeks”, Afnic said. Weill…
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Cannell Pushes for More Independent Board at Rightside
April 24, 2017 @ 10:22 AMInvestor wants other Rightside shareholders to vote “no” again this year. Investor J. Carlo Cannell, whose clients collectively own about 8.5% of Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME), is continuing to push for changes to the company’s board. On Friday, Cannell filed with the SEC and said Rightside’s board is exhibiting “value-destroying behavior” and needs “truly independent and rigorous…
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Spectrum (Charter) is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
April 24, 2017 @ 8:17 AMYour cable company might be a reverse domain name hijacker. Charter Communications, which does business as Spectrum, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a cybersquatting dispute it brought against the owner of MySpectrumNews.com. Based on the decision, it appears that Spectrum tried to acquire this domain name that was registered well…
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UDRPsearch Owner Sues After UDRP Filed Against One of His Domains
April 24, 2017 @ 5:14 AMVirtualPoint claims reverse domain name hijacking and asks for at least $100,000. VirtualPoint, Inc., the company that runs the UDRP information site UDRPSearch.com, has filed a lawsuit after one of its own domain names was subject to a UDRP. Florida company FastTrak, which uses the domain name FastTrak.biz, filed a UDRP against VirtualPoint’s domain name…
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Popular Website Stolen and Held for Ransom, David Weslow to the Rescue
April 21, 2017 @ 6:06 AMThief demanded $30,000 worth of bitcoin to return 411Mania.com domain name. 411Mania.com, a mixed martial arts, wrestling and entertainment website that gets seven million pageviews per month, was hijacked and held for ransom earlier this week. According to a lawsuit (pdf) filed in Virginia on Wednesday, the domain name was hijacked on or about April…
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