Ford Motor Company filled on March 21, 2013 for a trademark for the term ‘inflatable light urban vehicle’ (iLuv) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company has also filed another application for the …
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Sedo sells 749 domains worth $1.92 million: Breathalyzer.com 115k USD, IronDoors.com 52,800 USD -Week 8/4-14/4
This week, 749 transactions (738 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.92 million ($1.47 last week). Only 257 domains (236 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …
Read More »Go Daddy opening a Seattle office and hiring executives from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and eBay
Go Daddy is expanding again with a permanent Seattle-area office in Kirkland or Bellevue, Washington set to open in June. Several new employees are already operating out of a temporary office near Carillon Point in …
Read More »Domain name time machine: you better build one because I don’t see one for sale
Yesterday, I got an “inquiry” for a 1 word ultra premium and generic .info domain that I bought for 4 figures and has a 2002 registration date. The so called inquiry read: Just wondering what …
Read More »Final list of 263 new gTLD Objections published by ICANN
ICANN published the final list of 263 objections that have passed the Dispute Resolution Service Providers’ (DRSPs) administrative review: 67 String Confusion Objections 69 Existing Legal Rights Objections 23 Limited Public Interest Objections 104 Community …
Read More »4 new gTLDs applications withdrawn for .MII, .MITEK, .SAPPHIRE and .CONNECTORS (total at 43)
This past week 4 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 4 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 43. MiTek …
Read More »New gTLD program posts 41 new Initial Evaluation results as 38 applications get a pass and 1 gets an extention
The next set of Initial Evaluation Results was released by ICANN. The total number of passing applications is now 131. ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 109-149. …
Read More »WIPO 2012 Review: 2,884 UDRPs filed (up 4.5%) for 5,084 domain names (74.8% of which were .com)
The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center published its 2012 review on UDRP called “Internet Domain Name Dispute Resolution”. In 2012, trademark holders filed a record 2,884 cybersquatting cases covering 5,084 Internet domain names with the …
Read More »Paypal files UDRP complaint for 13 year old domain MyPaypal.com at WIPO
Paypal, Inc. filed a UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complaint was filed for the domain name, MyPaypal.com. The domain was registered in January 2000 and the current owner is from New …
Read More »Getty Images files UDRP complaint for 12 year old domain GettyImage.com at NAF
Getty Images, Inc. filed a UDRP complaint at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). The complaint was filed for the domain name, GettyImage.com. The domain was registered in July 2001, meaning that the company waited almost …
Read More »Sedo latest sales: Wantable.com 47,000 USD, Saubillig.de 25k EUR, Vorticity.com 22,5k USD, etc.
Here are some of the most notable sales at Sedo during the past week. These are sales that were published after the latest Sedo report was released last Tuesday. Please find below the list of …
Read More »MD.org sells for $555,650 at Namejet
MD.org sold for $555,650 at Namejet. The auction had 282 bids from 225 bidders. There were 2 bidders (with namejet nicknames winters and freedotcom) that took the price from $75,000, that was probably the reserve, and took …
Read More »Pirate Bay .gl (Greenland) domains get suspended
Pirate Bay is expecting that their Swedish domain name is going to be seized, so this week The Pirate Bay switched to two Greenland .gl domains (thepiratebay.gl and piratebay.gl), but the telecoms company in charge …
Read More »Twitter wins domain Twitter.org in UDRP in shady circumstances
Twitter, Inc. won the domain name Twitter.org at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. The owner was accueil des solutions inc of Vancouver, Canada, did not reply to the Complainant’s contentions. The Center appointed Richard Tan as the …
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