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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, Inc. (CADNA), a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation founded in 2007, and it’s President Josh Bourne say that Cybersquatting is a serious issue in the current domain name space, and with …

The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) send a letter to ICANN about the Protection of the Names and Acronyms of the Intergovernmental Organisations (IGOs) in new gTLDs. Following consultations between the IGO coalition and the GAC, …

China Unicom objects to the contention set including .UNICOM and .UNICORN by sending a letter to ICANN. When ICANN released the string similarity contention sets for New gTLD program, ICANN only focused on the visually …