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How is this “confusingly similar”?
I’m not sure how this UDRP case passed the confusingly similar test. The first prong of a UDRP case is whether the domain name at issue is identical or confusingly similar to one of the complainant’s trademarks. It’s usually the sim...
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How is this “confusingly similar”?
I’m not sure how this UDRP case passed the confusingly similar test. The first prong of a UDRP case is whether the domain name at issue is identical or confusingly similar to one of the complainant’s trademarks. It’s usually the sim...
Discussion
March 12, 2013, 11:25 am
Domain Name Wire
CSC buys Melbourne IT DBS for A$152.5 million
A shocking price tag for Melbourne IT’s brand protection business. There’s money in online brand management. Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) announced today that it has sold its Digital Brand Services (DBS) division to Corporation Services Compan...
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CSC buys Melbourne IT DBS for A$152.5 million
A shocking price tag for Melbourne IT’s brand protection business. There’s money in online brand management. Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) announced today that it has sold its Digital Brand Services (DBS) division to Corporation Services Compan...
Discussion
March 12, 2013, 10:58 am
Domain Name Wire
Pepsi’s interesting $8,000 domain purchase
Pepsi buys a hyphenated domain for $8,000 and it won’t be easy to by the unhyphenated version. As I was going through Sedo’s sales report from last week, one domain caught my eye — mostly because of the buyer. PepsiCo bought Green-L...
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Pepsi’s interesting $8,000 domain purchase
Pepsi buys a hyphenated domain for $8,000 and it won’t be easy to by the unhyphenated version. As I was going through Sedo’s sales report from last week, one domain caught my eye — mostly because of the buyer. PepsiCo bought Green-L...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the dom...
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Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the dom...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 1:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
So much opposition to a closed .cloud, yet none of these companies bought Cloud.com?
Companies that are worried about competitive advantage should reexamine their own domain name strategies. An awful lot of big brands are speaking out against the prospect of “closed generic” top level domains, such as .cloud and .book. Th...
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So much opposition to a closed .cloud, yet none of these companies bought Cloud.com?
Companies that are worried about competitive advantage should reexamine their own domain name strategies. An awful lot of big brands are speaking out against the prospect of “closed generic” top level domains, such as .cloud and .book. Th...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 12:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domains T. Rowe Price and others bought
Financial firm makes shrewd domain purchase. T. Rowe Price didn’t become an investment giant by overpaying for assets. So it’s fitting that it paid just $1,495 for the domain name MoneyConfident.com. Here are other end user domain sales f...
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What domains T. Rowe Price and others bought
Financial firm makes shrewd domain purchase. T. Rowe Price didn’t become an investment giant by overpaying for assets. So it’s fitting that it paid just $1,495 for the domain name MoneyConfident.com. Here are other end user domain sales f...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 12:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire is 8
Domain Name Wire turned 8 years old this past weekend. On March 8, 2005, I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire. This post is number 6,250. I’d like to thank both my readers and advertisers for your continued support. Without both of you, t...
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Domain Name Wire is 8
Domain Name Wire turned 8 years old this past weekend. On March 8, 2005, I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire. This post is number 6,250. I’d like to thank both my readers and advertisers for your continued support. Without both of you, t...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 11:24 am
Domain Name Wire
The person you’d most like to have dinner with will probably buy you dinner
And you don’t even have to fly to the Caymans. I asked a light-hearted question on this year’s domain name survey: What one person in the domain industry would you most like to have dinner with? The funny thing is that the #1 guy on the l...
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The person you’d most like to have dinner with will probably buy you dinner
And you don’t even have to fly to the Caymans. I asked a light-hearted question on this year’s domain name survey: What one person in the domain industry would you most like to have dinner with? The funny thing is that the #1 guy on the l...
Discussion
March 8, 2013, 12:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Registrars miffed about new accreditation agreement. Will it delay new TLDs?
Fighting over new agreement continues and threatens new TLD timeline. The team of registrars negotiating with ICANN for the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) issued a stern statement today saying ICANN is making some unreasonable requests a...
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Registrars miffed about new accreditation agreement. Will it delay new TLDs?
Fighting over new agreement continues and threatens new TLD timeline. The team of registrars negotiating with ICANN for the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) issued a stern statement today saying ICANN is making some unreasonable requests a...
Discussion
March 8, 2013, 9:41 am
Domain Name Wire
Google says it will make .app, .blog, .cloud, and .search TLDs “open”
Company plans to change some new TLD applications after pressure over “closed generics”. Google plans to update four of its new top level domain applications to make the domains more open to registration outside of Google. In comments sub...
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Google says it will make .app, .blog, .cloud, and .search TLDs “open”
Company plans to change some new TLD applications after pressure over “closed generics”. Google plans to update four of its new top level domain applications to make the domains more open to registration outside of Google. In comments sub...
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March 7, 2013, 9:26 pm
