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Donuts to Offer $10,000 Brand Protection Service
September 28, 2016 @ 6:08 AMDonuts launches DPML on steroids. Top level domain name company Donuts will offer a new DPML Plus service for the last three months of this year. The service, which has a suggested retail price of $9,999, is an enhancement to the company’s existing Domains Protected Marks List service. The standard DPML allows brand owners to…
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Huh? UDRP Against 21-year-old Domain Based On 2-year-old Trademark is Not RDNH
September 28, 2016 @ 5:35 AMPanelist wimps out on finding that complaint was RDNH. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has failed to make a ruling of reverse domain name hijacking in an egregious UDRP filing. Arthur Yarlett / Graphic-FX filed a UDRP against Michael McGloin / Visual Voice over the domain name VisualVoice.com. McGloin registered the domain name in 1995…
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Leicester City Football Star, Christian Fuchs, Loses Domain Name Dispute
September 27, 2016 @ 10:15 PMThe footballer’s exact namesake, an engineer from Cheshire, took up the defence of the family name in a complaint to an internet watchdog. But now the other Christian Fuchs, of Honiton Way, Middlewich, has failed to wrest the domain name ‘fuchs.co.uk’ from a westcountry entrepreneur.
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Nominet Overcharges .UK Customers to Pay for Cheaper New gTLD's
September 27, 2016 @ 6:43 AMKieren McCarthy published a post yesterday entitled “The Great British domain name rip-off: Overcharged .uk customers help pay for cheaper .vodka; Time for competition authorities to take a hard look at Nominet” Here are some of the highlights of the story “.UK domain name holders are being overcharged while the company behind it wins contracts…
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.shop Soars With 40,000 Registrations in First 30 Minutes
September 27, 2016 @ 5:21 AMHigh demand for new .shop top level domain name. GMO Registry launched the .shop top level domain name yesterday and the early results are impressive. 39,801 .shop domain names were registered within the first 30 minutes and 45,427 within the first two hours. .Shop now has over 50,000 registrations including about 5,000 domains registered in…
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Over 50,000 Names Sold As .shop Has Successful Launch Day
September 27, 2016 @ 12:45 AMGMO Registry has recorded one of the most successful new gTLD launch days to date, selling over 45,000 .shop domain names in the first hours. The company said it sold 45,427 .shop names in the first two hours after general availability started yesterday afternoon at about 1600 UTC. The total at that point was 51,755,…
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GoDaddy Spearheads Domain Connect Spec
September 26, 2016 @ 11:46 PMGoDaddy has published a new specification designed to make it easier for domain owners to quickly set up web sites using third-party site-building tools. Its new Domain Connect Initiative is tailored for customers who do not know how to configure a DNS record and do not care to learn, according to Charles Beadnall, senior VP of…
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"UDRP-proof" .feedback gTLD Loses First UDRP
September 26, 2016 @ 10:27 AMThe first cybersquatting complaint against a .feedback domain name has resulted in a transfer, despite registry claims that the gTLD was “UDRP-proof”. De Beers, the diamond merchant, won a UDRP case against the registrant of debeers.feedback earlier this month. The registrant, who used a privacy service, registered the name back in January, when .feedback was…
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TV star Heidi Powell sues grandmother Heidi Powell over website [USA Today]
September 23, 2016 @ 11:44 PMA celebrity television trainer and star of ABC’s Extreme Weight Loss was so determined to gain control of Heidipowell.com this year that she sued a 60-year-old grandmother in Bellingham, Wash.
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The Domain Home.nyc Was Registered for $30 Because of a Glitch and The Owner Get's to Keep It
September 23, 2016 @ 7:19 AMThe domain name home.nyc is now not part of the .nyc auction as it was registered for $30 because of a glitch. Yesterday it was announced that there is going to be a .NYC premium domain name auction at Namejet. I took the list of 20 domains from the auctions.nyc website. The list included the…
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