The ICA released a very important statement written by Zak Muscovitch on the price increase of .com domains. The ICA said that Verisign’s attempt to increase .com fees is still unjustified the despite diversionary tactic. …
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Injunction denied! (Oliver Hoger against Konstantinos Zournas)
A Greek court denied the injunction brought by Oliver Hoger against Konstantinos Zournas and OnlineDomain.com in a Greek court. The judge found, among other things, that since the article in question did not contain false …
Read More »Oliver Hoger filed a court injunction against Konstantinos Zournas and OnlineDomain.com
Oliver Hoger filed an injunction against Konstantinos Zournas and OnlineDomain.com in a Greek court. The injunction (I am not exactly sure what this procedure is called in foreign courts or if there an exact equivalent …
Read More »ICA points out the absence of any ICANN oversight over the UDRP
ICA sent a letter to ICANN pointed out the absence of any ICANN oversight over the UDRP such as an office or staff, regular review process, complaints procedure, or contracts with existing UDRP dispute resolution …
Read More »Whois status and impacts from GDPR on European ccTLDs
CENTR, the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries, published a report on Whois status and impacts from GDPR. Respondents of the survey were the following ccTLDs: .at, .au, .be, .ch, .cz, .de, …
Read More »WARNING: Google has a bug allowing possibly TM infringing ads to appear on your domain landing pages
This is a warning to be taken very seriously by all domainers that park their domain name with PPC ads. Google currently has a bug allowing possibly trademark infringing ads to appear on your domain …
Read More »Domain name auction house auctioning trademark domains
About a month back a well known domain name auction house was auctioning some trademark domains. This is no big news if the domains were expired or dropped. But in this case the domain names …
Read More »German High Court once again rules against ICANN and its stupid GDPR crusade
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that a German High Court has ruled against ICANN’s plea to reconsider the Court’s own decision. ICANN has been pursuing a preliminary injunction from the …
Read More »The Forum adds some FAQs to help domain name disputes (UDRP and URS) after GDPR
The Forum (previously known as the National Arbitration Forum), one of the five ICANN approved domain name dispute resolution service providers, announced today that is has added a few new FAQs regarding GDPR and other …
Read More »Mike Mann gets $90k for the domain DollarCity.com following a UDRP
Mike Mann announced that he sold the domain name DollarCity.com for $90,000. But there is more to the story. He actually sold the domain name to the company that filed a UDRP complaint for this …
Read More »Paul Keating attempts to bring some common sense to ICANN
Paul Keating sent a letter to the ICANN board of directors about the issue of “IGO-INGO access to curative rights protection mechanisms (PDP)”. Paul Keating is a very well known lawyer in the domain name …
Read More »If ICANN completely kills whois, GDPR will only be one of their problems
Göran Marby, ICANN President and CEO, wrote a blog post about a possible unified access model that was published by ICANN for community input. I don’t see much progress from ICANN since May that GDPR went into …
Read More »Buzzfeed threatens Mike Mann and his domain name Tasty.com
Buzzfeed is threatening Mike Mann and his Tasty.com. Seems like Buzzfeed, that is running Tasty.co, wants to upgrade from the .co to the .com by stealing a domain name that was registered and owned by Mike …
Read More »German appellate court denies ICANN injunction
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced that a German appeal court (Appellate Court of Cologne) has issued a decision on the injunction proceedings ICANN initiated against EPAG, a Germany-based, ICANN-accredited registrar …
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