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Green Bay Packers Fail to Take Down Fan Site Totalpackers.com
November 3, 2016 @ 10:20 AMFootball team said domain name constitutes cybersquatting. The Green Bay Packers NFL team has failed in its attempt to take over the TotalPackers.com domain name through a cybersquatting claim. The National Football League team filed the UDRP case with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). TotalPackers.com is a fan site with news and analysis of…
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Governments Mull Greater Geo gTLD Powers
November 3, 2016 @ 9:55 AMGovernments are toying with the idea of asking ICANN for greater powers over gTLDs that match their geographic features. The names of rivers, mountains, forests and towns could be protected under ideas bandied around at the ICANN 57 meeting in India today. The Governmental Advisory Committee held a session this morning to discuss expanding the…
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Should New gTLDs Be First-come, First-served?
November 3, 2016 @ 6:10 AMWho needs rounds? The idea of allocating new gTLDs on a first-come, first-served basis is getting some consideration at this week’s ICANN 57 meeting. Such a move could have profound implications on the industry, creating new business opportunities while scuppering others. Whether to shift to a FCFS model was one of many issues discussed during…
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Two Stolen Three-letter Domains Returned Via UDRP
November 3, 2016 @ 5:19 AMPanels order EDP.com and LGI.com to be transferred back to their previous owners. Two three-letter domain names that were allegedly stolen from their owners have been returned through cybersquatting claims under UDRP. In separate decisions, a panel awarded the transfer of EDP.com to Energias de Portugal, S.A. and LGI.com to Liberty Global, Inc. The EDP.com…
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GoDaddy Releases Q3 Earnings, Posts 15% Top Line Growth
November 2, 2016 @ 12:23 PMCompany swings to a GAAP profit as top line continues to grow at healthy clip. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported earnings after the bell today. Total revenue was $472.1 million, up 14.8% year over year. Domains revenue was $236.6 million, up 10% year over year and 3% quarter-over-quarter. Hosting and Business Applications revenue continued to grow…
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.buzz Top Level Domain Name Hits Market for $3. 5 Million+
November 2, 2016 @ 5:52 AMOwner of .buzz plans to exit the business through an auction. The .buzz domain name can be yours-for a minimum bid of $3.5 million. DotStrategy, the company behind .buzz, is holding a sealed auction for the domain. .Buzz has always fascinated me, and not just because of the unique characteristics of the domain itself. It…
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Owner of Dataminer.co Nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Over Dataminer.com
November 1, 2016 @ 9:19 AMCompany filed UDRP after failing to negotiate a purchase of DataMiner.com. Skyline Communications NV, which operates a business at DataMiner.co, have been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name DataMiner.com. The company filed a cyberquatting complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization against WebMagic, a company that registered the…
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Paris Loses Another Domain Name Dispute
November 1, 2016 @ 5:23 AMCity files UDRP and doesn’t even meet the “confusingly similar” test. The city of Paris (Ville de Paris) continues to have trouble understanding trademarks and domain name law. It just lost another domain name dispute, this time for permislib.net. In this case, the panel found that Permislib.net wasn’t confusingly similar to any mark in which…
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Governments Raise Yet Another Un Threat to ICANN
October 31, 2016 @ 8:43 AMICANN’s transition away from US government oversight is not even a month old and the same old bullshit power struggles and existential threats appear to be in play as strongly as ever. Governments, via the chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee, last week yet again threatened that they could withdraw from ICANN and seek refuge…
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Donuts Can Reject DPML Plus Applications of Certain 3-character or Common Dictionary Terms
October 28, 2016 @ 8:35 AMDonuts announced upcoming price changes to its legacy DPML service and launched DPML Plus, a new and enhanced service for blocking trademarked terms, available for a limited time. In the original DPML service premium priced domain names could not be blocked by the mark holders. Now that DPML Plus allows blocking…
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