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The Tables are Turned: Now Donuts Can Delay Verisign
November 30, 2016 @ 11:31 AMWaiting for the .Web. Many curse words were muttered about Verisign during the process of designing the new top level domain name program. Verisign spread plenty of FUD to delay the program. Now, the biggest new TLD company gets to take a turn at delaying Verisign. Verisign struck a deal to acquire rights to operate…
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Tencent Beats Back Cybersquatting Complaint Over Its Joox.com Domain Name
November 30, 2016 @ 9:55 AMBig Chinese internet company forced to defend its Joox.com domain name. Tencent, the $250 billion company behind QQ, has successfully defended the domain name it uses for its music service Joox. A Brazilian company that uses the domain name Joox.io for its custom products business filed the complaint. It turns out that the Brazilian company…
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Court Tosses Donuts' .web Lawsuit Because Donuts Promised Not to Sue
November 29, 2016 @ 12:54 PMJudge says agreement not to sue is enforceable. Judge Percy Anderson of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California has granted (pdf) ICANN’s motion to dismiss in a lawsuit brought by a subsidiary of new TLD company Donuts. Donuts filed a lawsuit because it was upset that Verisign was bankrolling another applicant’s bid for…
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Sedo Sells More Than $1 Million of .at Domains in Auction
November 29, 2016 @ 9:01 AMI didn’t have this seven-figure auction on my radar. Is this the sleeper auction of the year? I certainly didn’t expect an Austrian ccTLD auction to be one of the biggest of the year. But it certainly turned out that way. Sedo auctioned off more than 1,000 short .AT domain names this month for over…
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Asset Management Firm Tobam is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
November 28, 2016 @ 9:42 AMFrench company filed UDRP after failing to acquire domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) UDRP panel has found Paris asset management firm Tobam to have attempted reverse domain name hijacking. Tobam filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of Tobam.com. The asset management firm uses the domain name Tobam.fr. The owner of the…
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Transferring Domains Gets More Complex This Week
November 28, 2016 @ 8:29 AMA new anti-hijacking domain name transfer policy comes into effect this week at all ICANN-accredited registrars, potentially complicating the process of not only selling domains but also updating your own Whois records. But many registrars have already rewritten their terms of service to make the new rules as hassle-free as possible (and essentially pointless). From…
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Lawsuit Alleges CostaRica.com Domain Name Stolen
November 28, 2016 @ 7:52 AMDomain name was stolen last year, suit alleges. CostaRica.com, Inc. has filed a lawsuit alleging that the domain name CostaRica.com is stolen. The company filed the in rem action in U.S. District Court in Virginia, where Verisign is located. According to the suit, the domain name was stolen from the plaintiff’s Melbourne IT account in…
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GoDaddy in Talks to Buy Massive Registrar Host Europe - Report
November 25, 2016 @ 6:17 AMGoDaddy is reportedly talking to Host Europe Group, one of Europe’s largest registrars, about an acquisition. Reuters today reported that the deal, should it go ahead, could be worth as much as $1.8 billion. GoDaddy has been favored over rival bids from United Internet (owner of United-Domains) and buyout firm Centerbridge, Reuters said. HEG is…
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Namejet Adds Fee to Most Purchases
November 23, 2016 @ 1:59 PMFee will apply to any purchase/funding not made by wire transfer. NameJet will soon start adding a 2.5% surcharge to purchases and deposits made with payment methods other than wire transfer. The fee kicks in December 14. It will apply to credit card payments, as well as the new payment options of PayPal and Alipay…
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Update Your WHOIS Records Before December 1
November 23, 2016 @ 7:45 AMDo this now to avoid a big pain in the future. Hopefully my U.S. readers are getting ready to enjoy turkey and stuffing right now, but you need to get back to work before the end of the month. As I discussed on this week’s podcast, a new domain name transfer policy goes into effect…
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