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Domain Owned By "World's Largest International TV & Broadband Company" Hit With UDRP
October 4, 2016 @ 3:04 PMThe domain name LGI.com has been hit with a UDRP. The domain is owned and forwards to the website of Libertyglobal.com which according to its site is the World’s largest international TV and broadband company. The Complainant who filed the UDRP is unknown as this point Here are the key facts listed on their website:…
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ICP.com Subject of UDRP
October 4, 2016 @ 1:00 PMAnother valuable three letter .com domain name has become the subject of a UDRP proceeding at the World Intellectual Property Organization. A company filed a UDRP against the ICP.com domain name. It is WIPO Case D2016-2005. ICP.com has a creation date of March of 1998, and the current admin organization is listed as Integral Capital Partners of Menlo Park, California. Looking at DomainTools Whois history Tool, it looks like the domain name has been owned by the same entity since the earliest archived record in 2001…
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Lycos Sells Hotbot.com for $155,000
October 4, 2016 @ 12:58 PMRemember HotBot.com? Someone wants to breathe new life into it. Feeling Nostalgic? Lycos has sold the domain name HotBot.com, which has a long and storied history. HotBot has gone through a number of iterations but started as a meta search engine that would query search (and directory) results from multiple search engines and directories. It…
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Markmonitor is Now Part of Clarivate Analytics
October 4, 2016 @ 10:38 AMMarkMonitor itself tipped me off to this new brand. Last Friday I asked “Who is Clarivate?” Some company registered a bunch of domain names through MarkMonitor for this brand. One thought that didn’t cross my mind was that MarkMonitor was registering the domain names for itself. As it turns out, Clarivate Analytics is the new…
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Judge Issues Order On IANA Transition
October 4, 2016 @ 5:38 AMHanks said there was no evidence to prove harm. On Friday, United States District Judge George Hanks in Galveston denied a request for an injunction that would have stopped the United States from allowing its contract with ICANN for IANA functions to expire. The request was made in a lawsuit filed by four conservative U.S…
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Stewardship of IANA Functions Transitions to Global Internet Community as Contract with U.S. Government Ends
October 1, 2016 @ 1:40 PMToday, 1 October 2016, the contract between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, has officially expired. This historic moment marks the transition of the coordination and management of the Internet’s unique identifiers to the private-sector, a process that has been committed to and underway since 1998.
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Internet handover is go-go-go! ICANN to take IANA from US govt
October 1, 2016 @ 3:27 AMAt 12.01am Washington DC time, the US government will walk away from the IANA contract, which has defined how the internet has grown and been structured for nearly 20 years, and hand it over to non-profit organization ICANN.
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Major Shake Up: Tucows Sending Expired Domain Names to GoDaddy Auctions
September 30, 2016 @ 2:19 PMTucows shifts expired domain inventory to GoDaddy. In a major shakeup in the expired domain name market, GoDaddy Auctions has begun auctioning off Tucows’ expired domain name inventory. This is the first time GoDaddy has sold a third-party registrar’s expired domain name inventory. I reached out to GoDaddy after noticing some of the inventory on…
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Court Rejects Last Minute Plea to Halt IANA Contract Handover
September 30, 2016 @ 2:03 PMJudge denies motion; U.S. contract with ICANN will expire tonight. United States District Judge George Hanks has denied a request for an injunction to stop the United States from allowing its contract with ICANN for IANA functions to expire. Four states filed suit this week in district court in Galveston, Texas to block the transfer…
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Dot Club Will No Longer Recapture Deleting Names As The Registry
September 30, 2016 @ 8:40 AMDot Club wrote on their blog today that they will no longer scoop up deleting .club names that they deem as valuable. The only exception being registry reserved names. Hopefully down the line they would even allow those domains to drop. The chance of getting something truly premium builds a modicum of excitement around an…
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