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Donuts Files $10 Million Lawsuit to Stop .web Auction
July 23, 2016 @ 11:42 PMDonuts has sued ICANN in an attempt to block the auction of the .web gTLD this Wednesday. The gTLD portfolio registry filed a lawsuit in California on Friday, seeking over $10 million in damages and a temporary restraining order to stop the auction going ahead. The complaint alleges breach of contract, negligence and unfair competition…
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Escrow.com Now Offers Support in Five Additional Languages
July 22, 2016 @ 11:07 PMEscrow.com is out with a release today announcing that they have added agents who can now transact business in Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Punjabi and Korean. Release: Escrow.com Adds New Agents in Customer Support San Francisco, California, July 21st 2016 – Escrow.com’s team has grown rapidly in the first half of 2016, with the launch of…
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Facebook Registers Domain Names for Workplace Service
July 22, 2016 @ 6:36 AMIs it getting ready to expand its corporate offerings? Facebook has registered a handful of domain names suggesting it’s working on a service called WorkPlace…or a rebrand. The social media company registered the domain names facebookworkplace.com, fbworkplace.com, workplacebyfacebook.com and workplacebyfb.com, along with these domains in other extensions, yesterday. Facebook already has a service called Facebook…
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ICANN Denies Request to Delay .web Auction (Again)
July 22, 2016 @ 5:27 AM.Web auction should still take place this month, ICANN determines. ICANN has quickly responded (pdf) to a reconsideration request filed by Radix and Donuts that requested this month’s .web top level domain auction be postponed. The two companies are concerned that control of applicant Nu Dot Co might have changed, perhaps to a big-pocketed domain…
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Domain-hopping Torrent Site Seized, Founder Arrested
July 22, 2016 @ 2:07 AMA joint US-Polish law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of the alleged owner of the piracy-focused BitTorrent links site KickAssTorrents. The US Department of Justice announced yesterday that Ukrainian national Artem Vaulin has been arrested in Poland and that it will seek to extradite him to Chicago to face criminal copyright infringement charges…
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.web Auction to Go Ahead After ICANN Denies Donuts/Radix Appeal
July 22, 2016 @ 1:44 AMThe new gTLD .web seems set to go to auction next week after ICANN rejected an 11th-hour delay attempt by two applicants. ICANN’s Board Governance Committee said yesterday that there is no evidence that applicant Nu Dot Co has been taken over by a deep-pocketed third party. The BGC therefore rejected Donuts’ and Radix’s joint…
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One and Two-letter .at Domains Coming Soon
July 22, 2016 @ 12:43 AMNic.at will next month start selling .at domains shorter than three character domains for the first time. All one-character and two-character domains will be released, the ccTLD registry said, about 5,000 domains in total. The released domains include those containing any of the 34 non-Latin letters Nic.at supports, it said. Holders of trademarks valid in…
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Interesting ICANN Data On Domain Growth and Cybersquatting
July 21, 2016 @ 8:57 AMCharts in ICANN report reveal interesting trends. ICANN published the beta (pdf) of its gTLD Marketplace Health Index today. Here are some graphs I found interesting. These graphs only refer to gTLDs, not ccTLDs. Growth in second level domain additions was slipping until new top level domains were released: Geographic top level domains are more…
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Mike Mann Overturns UDRP Decision in Court
July 21, 2016 @ 6:51 AMDomain investor will keep SoundStop.com domain name. Domain name investor Mike Mann has successfully defended his domain name SoundStop.com in court after a UDRP panel ordered that he transfer it. Blue Ridge Fiberboard, Inc filed a UDRP against the domain name with the National Arbitration Forum. A three-person panel consisting of Jaime Delgado, Sandra J…
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John Cusack Files UDRP On JohnCusack.com
July 20, 2016 @ 1:05 PMI noticed an interesting UDRP filing I want to share with you. John P. Cusack filed a UDRP against JohnCusack.com. The UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization, and it is WIPO Case D2016-1460. I presume the UDRP was filed by the American actor John Cusack, although this is not confirmed. The JohnCusack.com domain name has a registration date of April 13, 2003, and the domain name is currently registered under privacy, so I am unsure of who owns the domain name…
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