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Grand Theft Domain Name: Take-Two Interactive loses domain name dispute
Grand Theft Auto publisher fails in case to get GTA.tv domain name. Take-Two Interactive, the creator of the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto video game series, has lost a dispute it filed against the domain name GTA.tv. Take-Two has a trademark fo...
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Grand Theft Domain Name: Take-Two Interactive loses domain name dispute
Grand Theft Auto publisher fails in case to get GTA.tv domain name. Take-Two Interactive, the creator of the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto video game series, has lost a dispute it filed against the domain name GTA.tv. Take-Two has a trademark fo...
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November 27, 2013, 6:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
21 community objections have been decided. So far it’s unpredictable.
It’s difficult to predict the outcome of community objections. As of yesterday the International Chamber of Commerce had published 21 community objection decisions. Objectors have won just four of the cases. Time for new top level domain applic...
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21 community objections have been decided. So far it’s unpredictable.
It’s difficult to predict the outcome of community objections. As of yesterday the International Chamber of Commerce had published 21 community objection decisions. Objectors have won just four of the cases. Time for new top level domain applic...
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November 26, 2013, 3:23 pm
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Gold Coast Tourism Corporation guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Tourism group guilty of trying to hijack domain name from Digimedia. Gold Coast Tourism Corporation Ltd. has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP over the domain name GoldCoast.com (pdf). The case was filed against Digimedia, ...
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Gold Coast Tourism Corporation guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Tourism group guilty of trying to hijack domain name from Digimedia. Gold Coast Tourism Corporation Ltd. has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP over the domain name GoldCoast.com (pdf). The case was filed against Digimedia, ...
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November 25, 2013, 6:41 pm
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Andee Hill leaves Escrow.com to start new domain name escrow company
Familiar face at domain name conferences is starting her own domain name escrow company. Andee Hill has left Escrow.com to start her own domain name escrow service called EscrowHill.com. Hill has been at Escrow.com, the leading escrow service when it...
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Andee Hill leaves Escrow.com to start new domain name escrow company
Familiar face at domain name conferences is starting her own domain name escrow company. Andee Hill has left Escrow.com to start her own domain name escrow service called EscrowHill.com. Hill has been at Escrow.com, the leading escrow service when it...
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November 25, 2013, 4:00 pm
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What domain names Panasonic and 20 other end users recently bought
Panasonic spends $37,000 on domain name for its ToughPad tablets. GoDaddy and Afternic sold $1.65 million worth of domain names the week before last, including the $37,000 sale of ToughPad.com to Panasonic. Before jumping into the end user sales list...
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What domain names Panasonic and 20 other end users recently bought
Panasonic spends $37,000 on domain name for its ToughPad tablets. GoDaddy and Afternic sold $1.65 million worth of domain names the week before last, including the $37,000 sale of ToughPad.com to Panasonic. Before jumping into the end user sales list...
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November 25, 2013, 2:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Companies aren’t communities for new TLDs, panelist rules
Is Merck a community? It’s a murky argument. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has issued his rulings in three cases involving the Merck brand. In doing so, he has ruled that companies don’t qualify as communities, at least fo...
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Companies aren’t communities for new TLDs, panelist rules
Is Merck a community? It’s a murky argument. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has issued his rulings in three cases involving the Merck brand. In doing so, he has ruled that companies don’t qualify as communities, at least fo...
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November 22, 2013, 5:32 pm
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Domains that were subject to string confusion objections could be on hold for a while…
Board considers if there’s any sort of appeal mechanism to new TLD objections. The results of new TLD string confusion objections handled by International Dispute Resolution Centre were a mess. They were completely unpredictable and results wer...
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Domains that were subject to string confusion objections could be on hold for a while…
Board considers if there’s any sort of appeal mechanism to new TLD objections. The results of new TLD string confusion objections handled by International Dispute Resolution Centre were a mess. They were completely unpredictable and results wer...
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November 22, 2013, 2:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts disses Independent Objector. Panelist disses Donuts. .Medical is dead.
The independent objector has killed Donuts’ application for .medical. Prof. Alain Pellet, the independent objector for the new top level domain name program, has won (pdf) a community objection against Donuts’ application for .medical. Th...
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Donuts disses Independent Objector. Panelist disses Donuts. .Medical is dead.
The independent objector has killed Donuts’ application for .medical. Prof. Alain Pellet, the independent objector for the new top level domain name program, has won (pdf) a community objection against Donuts’ application for .medical. Th...
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November 21, 2013, 9:47 pm
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CM.com was deleted and is unregistered…but you can’t have it
CM.com was deleted this year, but is unavailable for registration. If you pop on over to DomainTools and type in the domain name CM.com, you might be surprised to see that it is not registered: But when you visit your domain name registrar, you&rsquo...
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CM.com was deleted and is unregistered…but you can’t have it
CM.com was deleted this year, but is unavailable for registration. If you pop on over to DomainTools and type in the domain name CM.com, you might be surprised to see that it is not registered: But when you visit your domain name registrar, you&rsquo...
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November 21, 2013, 7:28 pm
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Yahoo! sells Sandwich.com for $137,500, and here’s the history behind 9 other domain names it sold at auction today.
Today Yahoo! sold domain names that it picked up by acquiring Broadcast.com, HotJobs.com, Overture, and many others. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for dot.com nostalgia. Watching the Yahoo! domain name auction on Sedo today brought back memorie...
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Yahoo! sells Sandwich.com for $137,500, and here’s the history behind 9 other domain names it sold at auction today.
Today Yahoo! sold domain names that it picked up by acquiring Broadcast.com, HotJobs.com, Overture, and many others. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for dot.com nostalgia. Watching the Yahoo! domain name auction on Sedo today brought back memorie...
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November 21, 2013, 6:44 pm
