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Frank Schilling Wins Gabs.com Cybersquatting Dispute
March 1, 2017 @ 12:23 PMOne panelist also finds reverse domain name hijacking. Frank Schilling and lawyer John Berryhill have successfully defended the domain name Gabs.com in a UDRP. Gabs S.r.l., an Italian accessories maker, filed a UDRP with Czech Arbitration Court alleging that Gabs.com was a case of cybersquatting. Schilling registered the domain name in 2001. Gabs S.r.l. registered…
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Rightside Lays Out The Future
March 1, 2017 @ 11:54 AMCompany paints its vision of the future as it continues to face growth challenges. Rightside released its first earnings statement and held its first investor in its post-eNom reality yesterday. Here’s my take: The business going forward The divestiture of eNom means Rightside is doubling down on its new top level domain name business. It…
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Another WIPO Panelist Lets Complainant Off Easy
March 1, 2017 @ 8:31 AMDomain clearly wasn’t registered in bad faith but panelist doesn’t find RDNH. Yesterday I wrote about how a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist let6 California clothing company Reformation off the hook for reverse domain name hijacking. Just a day later, here’s another case in which I question the panelist’s decision to not find reverse domain…
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Rightside Sold a Single Domain Name Under .games for $183,000
March 1, 2017 @ 6:57 AMIt’s a big sale. Is it the biggest? On Rightside’s investor conference call yesterday, CEO Taryn Naidu announced that the company sold a domain under .Games for $183,000 earlier this month. Naidu believes it is the highest price paid for a single domain in a new TLD. Is it the highest? It’s hard to say…
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Internet Grows to 329.3 Million Domain Names in Q4 of 2016
March 1, 2017 @ 6:03 AMVeriSign, Inc. announced that approximately 2.3 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the fourth quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 329.3 million across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2016.1,2 The increase of approximately 2.3 million domain name registrations globally…
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Telepathy Settles Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Case
February 28, 2017 @ 9:45 AMTelepathy sued for reverse domain name hijacking in Parametric.com dispute. Nat Cohen’s Telepathy has resolved a lawsuit it brought against Parametric Portfolio Associates, LLC for alleged reverse domain name hijacking. Parametric filed a UDRP against Telepathy’s domain name Parametric.com last year. Rather than wait for a UDRP decision that cannot award financial penalties for reverse…
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WIPO Panelist Lets Clothing Company Off Easy
February 28, 2017 @ 9:34 AMCalifornia clothing company lost UDRP and the panelist could have been a lot tougher on it. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has denied LYMI, Inc.’s (d.b.a. Reformation) cybersquatting complaint against the owner of Reformation.com, but it also let the company off the hook without considering reverse domain name hijacking. Reformation uses the domain name…
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Donuts Took Down 11 Domains for Hollywood Last Year
February 28, 2017 @ 2:41 AMDonuts caused 11 domain names in its new gTLD portfolio to be taken down in the first 12 months of its deal with the US movie industry. The company disclosed yesterday that the Motion Picture Association of America requested the suspension of 12 domains under their bilateral “Trusted Notifier” agreement, which came into effect last…
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Mexican Company Central Media S.C. Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
February 27, 2017 @ 10:58 AMCompany wanted to get the .com to match its .com.mx domain name. A Mexican advertising company has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain name CentralMedia.com. Central Media S.C., which uses the country code domain name CentralMedia.com.mx, filed a cybersquatting complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization…
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Sanchez Beats Greenberg to ICANN Board Seat
February 27, 2017 @ 9:03 AMMexican intellectual property lawyer León Felipe Sánchez Ambía has been selected to become a member of the ICANN board of directors by the At-Large, comfortably beating his opponent in a poll this weekend. Sanchez took 13 votes (65%) to 10-year At-Large veteran Alan Greenberg’s 7, in a vote of At-Large Advisory Committee members and Regional…
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