In what seems to be one of the worst decisions in domain name history I just lost the domain name ini.gr (INI.gr) to PepsiCo Greece. PepsiCo wanted to register ivi.gr (IVI.gr) but couldn’t because I …
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A Domain Name Lesson Not Learned
Some people have made up their mind and don’t want to listen to anyone. I was in a session at NamesCon where people from the audience were asking for domain name appraisals. People were saying …
Read More »“You are a Victim of Domain Name Theft. Now What?”
Eric Misterovich from Revision Legal published a blog post called “You are a Victim of Domain Name Theft. Now What?”. Here are a few tips suggested by Eric to help you deal with domain name …
Read More »Trademark Clearinghouse: 1,626 Marks Have Expired While Submissions Are Slowing Down
We are now reaching the first year anniversary of the first New gTLDs and already 1,626 marks have expired at the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). So far 34,400 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse …
Read More »Trademark Clearinghouse: 1,181 Marks Have Already Expired & 848 Marks Are Not Verified
We have not even reached the first year anniversary of the first New gTLD and marks are already expiring at the TMCH. So far 33,902 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of …
Read More »ICANN Amends UDRP Rules To Reduce Risk Of Domain Name Cyberflight
ICANN announced the implementation of amended rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). These 7 amendments to the UDRP rules were designed to reduce the risk of cyberflight during a UDRP proceeding. …
Read More »ICANN Grants Data Retention Waiver To 4 European Registrars
ICANN granted data retention waivers to 4 European registrars: GANDI SAS (France) IP Twins SAS (France) CPS-Datensysteme GmbH (Germany) Hostserver GmbH(Germany) The 4 registrars submitted to ICANN a Registrar Data Retention Waiver Request
Read More »Nominet’s Domain Dispute Resolution Service Passes 10,000th Case
Aston Merrygold, former member of boyband JLS, has been awarded the domain name astonmerrygold.co.uk following a complaint to Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). The decision marks the 10,000th domain dispute to pass through the DRS …
Read More »Meet The Attorney That Represents Attorneys In UDRPs
Website attorney Steven Rinehart recently won several new UDRP domain name disputes involving common law trademarks. Rinehart issued a press release about successfully establishing common law trademarks rights for two attorneys who were the target …
Read More »83% Of Lawyers Not Eager To Get .Lawyer Or .Attorney Domains
Here are the results of the latest Law Times online poll. According to the poll, the majority of respondents aren’t too eager to register a .lawyer or a .attorney domain name for their websites. 83% …
Read More »How To Check If Any Of Your Domains Have Been Stolen From Moniker
Yesterday Moniker send emails to all its users with new passwords and asked them to change the passwords immediately. It was later reported that this was done after a massive hacking that resulted in many …
Read More »Dumbass Selling Lenovo.Solutions On eBay For $6 Million
I just found out that a dumbass from Canada is selling the New gTLD domain name Lenovo.Solutions on eBay for $6 million dollars. If you are not familiar with the Lenovo brand you can visit …
Read More »Trademark Submissions At TMCH Are NOT Slowing Down: 32,993 Marks So Far
So far 32,993 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of the 16th of September 2014. The number of marks was 31,866 on the 28th of July. So the Trademark Clearinghouse added 1,127 trademarks …
Read More »ICANN Grants Data Retention Waiver To 5 German Registrars And Moniker
ICANN granted data retention waivers to 5 German registrars and Moniker that is US based but is owned by the European group KeyDrive S.A.: Key-Systems, LLC Key-Systems, GmbH InterNetworX Ltd. & Co. KG http.net Internet …
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