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What Does Bbb Stand For? a Bad Bad Bad UDRP Decision.
March 17, 2017 @ 6:37 AMI don’t follow the panelists logic in this UDRP. If I told you about the domain name BBB.cc, what would come to mind? If you’re in the U.S., it would undoubtedly be the Better Business Bureau. If you were a domain trader or in China, it would probably be a three-letter repeating domain name…
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WIPO Touts Record UDRP Filings in 2016
March 17, 2017 @ 6:05 AMUDRP filings at WIPO crossed the 3,000 threshold for the first time last year. 3,036 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases were filed with WIPO in 2016, a record. This record is only as it pertains to disputes filed with WIPO and does not represent total UDRP filings across all UDRP hearings…
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.feedback gTLD in Breach of Contract After Big Brand "fraud" Claims
March 16, 2017 @ 11:36 PMICANN has slapped .feedback operator Top Level Spectrum with a contract breach notice after a huge complaint about alleged fraud filed by a gang of big brands. The company becomes the third new gTLD to be hit by a breach notice, and the first to receive one as a result of losing a Public Interest…
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NameJet Adds Seller Dashboard
March 16, 2017 @ 6:07 AMDashboard will let sellers get the status of their domains for sale on the popular auction platform. Selling domain names on NameJet has always been somewhat of a manual process. NameJet just took a step to make it easier to monitor domains you have for sale, although the rest of the process remains manual. NameJet’s…
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Government Anger Over Two-letter Domains
March 15, 2017 @ 11:27 PMICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee has clashed with its board of directors over the lack of protections for two-letter domain names that match country codes. The board has now formally been urged to reconsider its policy to allow registries to sell these names, after angry comments and threats from some GAC members. Governments from Brazil, Iran,…
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OfferLogic Partners With GoDaddy to Offer Small Businesses Broad Portfolio of Products and Services
March 15, 2017 @ 12:15 PMOfferLogic, a leading provider of customer engagement technology solutions, today announced a partnership with GoDaddy, the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small,…
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A TLD Registry Just Slashed Its Wholesale Prices Up to 97%
March 15, 2017 @ 5:27 AMThis company is taking the opposite approach of Uniregistry. Will it work? In light of Uniregistry’s sharp price increases for registering and renewing many of its top level domain names, it was interesting to learn this week that another registry is taking the opposite move. Boston Ivy, which runs the .broker, .forex, .markets and .trading…
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Schilling Expects GoDaddy to Return After Dumping Uniregistry gTLDs
March 14, 2017 @ 9:18 AMUniregistry CEO Frank Schilling has expressed his “surprise” that GoDaddy has decided to stop selling his company’s gTLDs, but said he expects the registrar to return in future. GoDaddy’s decision to stop new registrations and inbound transfers for Uniregistry’s portfolio of gTLDs came after the registry revealed price increases for 16 strings that ranged from…
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Valuable Domain Name Bespoke.com Hit With Another Cybersquatting Complaint
March 14, 2017 @ 6:08 AMYet another company called Bespoke wants to get Bespoke.com without paying for it. When Garth Piesse paid $18,805 to acquire the domain name Bespoke.com in an expired domain name auction in 2014, I bet he didn’t expect to be hit with a couple cybersquatting complaints. But he has. First, a Swiss company filed a UDRP…
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GoDaddy Drops Uniregistry Domain Names Due to Price Hike
March 13, 2017 @ 3:42 PMWorld’s largest domain name registrar will no longer carry Uniregistry’s top level domains. GoDaddy has stopped selling Uniregistry top level domain names after Uniregistry announced a wholesale price hike effective this coming August. This afternoon I tried to transfer a .click domain name to GoDaddy but got an error that the domain couldn’t be transferred…
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