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Man Petitions to Get Google Trademarks Canceled After Google Files UDRP Against 763 Domain Names
April 25, 2012 @ 6:37 AMA whopping UDRP and a strange reaction. Google has filed a single UDRP case with National Arbitration Forum covering a whopping 763 domains. The domains names include the word Google followed by common search terms, e.g.: googleiphone4s.com googlevolkswagengroup.com googlescientology.com googlesamsung.com googledusseldorf.com googlesalvador.com googleducks.com googlesaints.com Many of these are “double trademarks” covering a Google trademark as […]
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Neustar’s .us Marketing: Cash Mobs
April 24, 2012 @ 11:22 PMNeustar continues .us marketing with cash mobs. Earlier this month I wrote about how .us registry Neustar was starting to market .us domains with its “Kickstart America” campaign. Neustar is continuing this effort with a couple new videos titled “cash mobs”. The company sends a bunch of customers to a retail store (that uses a […]
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Architelos Introduces 'Velocity' to Help Tlds Market in Evolving Domain Name ...
April 24, 2012 @ 10:41 PMWith top-level domains (TLDs) about to enter unchartered territory, Architelos today introduced Velocity marketing services to enable existing and new TLD registries to claim control of their marketing and directly address and interact with potential domain name registrants.
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Bloomberg and Reuters Feature Domain Name Price Index Created With Sedo Market
April 24, 2012 @ 9:05 PMSedo announced that Bloomberg and Reuters have added IDNX, the industry’s leading domain price index, to the financial markets covered on their respective Web sites. This validates the economic relevance and investment potential of domain names, and makes the domain market more transparent for investors.
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Domain Name Row Fuels Beastly Tensions
April 24, 2012 @ 1:25 PMMEAT and Livestock Australia has come under fire from Animals Australia for purchasing web domain names it says are linked to the animal welfare organisation.
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Domaintools Showcases Brand Management & Trademark Protection Solutions
April 24, 2012 @ 2:07 AMThe meeting is attended by more than 8,000 individuals from a global community of attorneys, brand managers, and interested parties of IP, as well as key industry media such as Intellectual Property Magazine, Leader’s League, Managing IP, Newton Media, World Trademark Review, and Marcasur. “The Treadstone Group, Inc., a global I.P. investigation and acquisition firm, relies heavily on data returned through DomainTools’ products to identify, validate, and corroborate facts pertaining to domain name registrants (Whois Lookup), portfolios owned (Reverse Whois), and their propensity to cybersquat (Whois History),” says Ross D. Bulla, President, The Treadstone Group, Inc. The company offers a range of services for trademark research and brand protection, from Reverse Whois lookups, Domain name ownership records and finding domain typos to trademark alerts, registrant alerts and domain monitoring. Like the white pages of the Internet, DomainTools provides a directory that serves a comprehensive snapshot of past and present domain name registration and ownership records in addition to comprehensive research tools that help to uncover and discover everything there is to know about a domain name.
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Another .music Trademark Application and an Interesting One for .pay
April 23, 2012 @ 6:17 AM.Music trademark application dead on arrival and merchant service company applies for .pay mark. A California sole proprietor is the latest person to waste money trying to trademark .music. Joseph Walker, through is company ExtraWeb Ent., filed the application on April 12. Walker claims he’s using .music in commerce since April 10. Here’s his proof: […]
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.co Expands Number of Accredited Registrars
April 23, 2012 @ 5:53 AMInstra among most recent registrars to become accredited for .co. Most of the time you see top level domains operators try to get as many registrars as possible to carry their domains as possible. But .co took a different tact, launching with just 10 accredited registrars. These registrars (and their resellers) were the only ones […]
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Thursday is Deadline to Comment On Verisign .com Renewal
April 23, 2012 @ 1:42 AMTime running out to comment on .com contract. Thursday, April 26 is the last day to comment to ICANN about its proposed contract renewal with VeriSign. The terms of the agreement are very similar to ICANN’s last .com contract. It allows VeriSign to raise the wholesale price of .com domains by 7% for four of […]
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Irb Applies for .RUGBY Top Level Domain Name
April 23, 2012 @ 1:32 AMThe IRB announces it is applying to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to acquire the .RUGBY top-level domain name.
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