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Markmonitor to Change Hands in $3.55 Billion Deal
July 11, 2016 @ 10:49 AMMarkMonitor owner Thomson Reuters is to sell of its IP division, which includes the brand-protection registrar, to private equity in a $3.55 billion all-cash deal. The company said it will sell its Intellectual Property & Science business Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia. MarkMonitor is of course a small part of that division. It…
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Parties Not Revealed in Reveel.com UDRP
July 8, 2016 @ 10:18 AMReveel.com stays with mystery owner. A UDRP panel has denied a cybersquatting complaint filed against the owners of Reveel.com. The owner of the domain didn’t register it in bad faith, as it was registered before the complainants had rights in the mark Reveel. The case (pdf) is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, the…
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.blog Launch Date and Pricing Revealed
July 8, 2016 @ 9:56 AMThe new gTLD .blog will go to general availability in November with a wholesale price tag of $20, it was revealed today. The registry, Knock Knock Whois There, told registrars that sunrise will kick off August 18 and run for 60 days with a $130 price tag. Disputed sunrise domains will go to auction. Landrush…
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GoDaddy Gets Its Dot-brand
July 8, 2016 @ 7:02 AMGoDaddy has become a new gTLD registry with the delegation yesterday of .godaddy. It’s a dot-brand, so domain name registrations will not be made available to the general public. In one of the shortest mission statements found in new gTLD applications, the company describes .godaddy like this: The mission or purpose of the .GODADDY gTLD…
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Interesting GoDaddy Patent Applications and Data
July 8, 2016 @ 6:00 AMCould these ideas increase aftermarket domain name sales? GoDaddy has filed two patent applications that contain interesting concepts and data. If fully implemented as described, the systems could increase aftermarket domain name transactions. The applications are number 14/591778 (pdf) for “Notifying users of available searched domain names” and 14/591758 (pdf) for “Notifying registrants of domain…
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Apollo.com Hit With UDRP
July 7, 2016 @ 1:44 PMUDRP against Apollo.com will be interesting to read. Earlier today, Elliot Silver wrote about a UDRP filed against the valuable domain name Zero.com. Add another valuable “dictionary” word to the list: Apollo.com just got hit with a UDRP. Fashion One Television Limited filed the UDRP. Fashion One launched in 2010 and produces a number of…
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Apollo.com Hit With UDRP
July 7, 2016 @ 1:44 PMUDRP against Apollo.com will be interesting to read. Earlier today, Elliot Silver wrote about a UDRP filed against the valuable domain name Zero.com. Add another valuable “dictionary” word to the list: Apollo.com just got hit with a UDRP. Fashion One Television Limited filed the UDRP. Fashion One launched in 2010 and produces a number of…
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Michael Berkens Owned 17 Single Letter/Number .tube Domains Today Until The Registry Took Them Back
July 7, 2016 @ 1:34 PMI was on the west coast this morning and decided to get up early and take a shot at registering some .tube domains at Uniregistry. I threw a bunch of domains into the system, include the single letter domain a.tube and out of the bunch of 100 or so, only a.tube and one other domain…
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UDRP Filed Against Zero.com, Which Sold for Over $329k
July 7, 2016 @ 12:52 PMA UDRP has been filed against the Zero.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complainant in this case is listed as CKL Holdings N.V. The Zero.com UDRP is WIPO Case D2016-1382. When I saw the UDRP in the WIPO database, I had to do a double take. Zero.com was created back in June of 1992, nearly 25 years ago…
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.tube to Offer "Video Curator" Plugin for WordPress
July 6, 2016 @ 7:31 AMJason Schaeffer (who is on quite a role defending domain names in UDRP proceedings) shared some information about the .Tube domain name extension that I want to share with you. The .Tube extension is owned by a company called Latin American Telecom, LLC whose founder is Rami Schwartz. Rami came up with the idea for .Tube in 2007 when he purchased approximately 1,500 (keyword) tube.com domains and built individual channels…
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