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Say what?? It’s not reverse domain hijacking if you admit it upfront.
When is a case of RDNH not RDNH? You won’t believe this one. Some UDRP cases should be clear cut cases of reverse domain name hijacking. Consider the decision just handed down over GoodUniverse.com. The complainant was just formed. It recently ...
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Say what?? It’s not reverse domain hijacking if you admit it upfront.
When is a case of RDNH not RDNH? You won’t believe this one. Some UDRP cases should be clear cut cases of reverse domain name hijacking. Consider the decision just handed down over GoodUniverse.com. The complainant was just formed. It recently ...
Discussion
October 12, 2012, 11:30 am
Domain Name Wire
Poll: How much will 1 and 2 letter .org domains sell for?
What will domains sell for at auction? This week Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs .org, announced auctions for 85 one and two character .org domain names. The domains will be auctioned through Go Daddy and eNom in what the company d...
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Poll: How much will 1 and 2 letter .org domains sell for?
What will domains sell for at auction? This week Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs .org, announced auctions for 85 one and two character .org domain names. The domains will be auctioned through Go Daddy and eNom in what the company d...
Discussion
October 12, 2012, 8:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Could Twitter identify the best domain registrars?
The sentiment of your tweets may suggest which domain name registrars are best. A few weeks ago TechCrunch wrote about Kevin Ohashi’s new web hosting review site ReviewSignal.com. (If Ohashi’s name rings a bell, Ohashi is a Domain Name Wi...
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Could Twitter identify the best domain registrars?
The sentiment of your tweets may suggest which domain name registrars are best. A few weeks ago TechCrunch wrote about Kevin Ohashi’s new web hosting review site ReviewSignal.com. (If Ohashi’s name rings a bell, Ohashi is a Domain Name Wi...
Discussion
October 11, 2012, 8:56 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN’s bombshell: new TLDs sooner than expected thanks to a lottery
New TLD applicants will likely applaud plan — after they try to massage it to their best interests. It’s still just a plan open to comment, but ICANN today released big news related to the orderly delegation of new top level domains. Firs...
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ICANN’s bombshell: new TLDs sooner than expected thanks to a lottery
New TLD applicants will likely applaud plan — after they try to massage it to their best interests. It’s still just a plan open to comment, but ICANN today released big news related to the orderly delegation of new top level domains. Firs...
Discussion
October 11, 2012, 7:58 am
Domain Name Wire
TRAFFIC domain auction was the most exciting in years
Auction was high energy despite low sales prices. If you didn’t attend the domain auction Monday at TRAFFIC, you’ve probably read a bit about: The domains didn’t sell for much. Some people lost money selling domains for less than th...
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TRAFFIC domain auction was the most exciting in years
Auction was high energy despite low sales prices. If you didn’t attend the domain auction Monday at TRAFFIC, you’ve probably read a bit about: The domains didn’t sell for much. Some people lost money selling domains for less than th...
Discussion
October 10, 2012, 10:37 am
Domain Name Wire
Google and Yahoo .ie domain nameservers temporarily hijacked
Visitors to Google.ie and Yahoo.ie yesterday didn’t get what they were looking for. Yesterday the whois record for Google.ie was temporarily changed, along with its nameservers. Michele Neylon of Blacknight was first to write about the hijackin...
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Google and Yahoo .ie domain nameservers temporarily hijacked
Visitors to Google.ie and Yahoo.ie yesterday didn’t get what they were looking for. Yesterday the whois record for Google.ie was temporarily changed, along with its nameservers. Michele Neylon of Blacknight was first to write about the hijackin...
Discussion
October 10, 2012, 8:42 am
Domain Name Wire
PIR taps Go Daddy to auction 1 and 2 character .org domain names
.Org registry teams with Go Daddy for auction of short domains. Public Interest Registry (PIR) will auction 42 one and two character .org domain names through Go Daddy, the companies announced today. The release of these previously reserved domain na...
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PIR taps Go Daddy to auction 1 and 2 character .org domain names
.Org registry teams with Go Daddy for auction of short domains. Public Interest Registry (PIR) will auction 42 one and two character .org domain names through Go Daddy, the companies announced today. The release of these previously reserved domain na...
Discussion
October 10, 2012, 8:08 am
Domain Name Wire
Persona.com survives second UDRP from different complainant
Persona.com successfully defended — for the second time. If two completely different complainants file a UDRP against the same domain name, doesn’t that kind of show that it’s a common generic domain? Persona.com was first hit with ...
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Persona.com survives second UDRP from different complainant
Persona.com successfully defended — for the second time. If two completely different complainants file a UDRP against the same domain name, doesn’t that kind of show that it’s a common generic domain? Persona.com was first hit with ...
Discussion
October 9, 2012, 9:55 am
Domain Name Wire
Doh! Melbourne IT accidentally shut down Twitter’s t.co link shortener
Company placed domain status on hold thanks to phishing complaint. Yesterday Twitter’s t.co link shortener, which it wraps all outgoing links in, went down. Was the culprit some self-proclaimed anonymous user? Or a DDoS? Nope. Domain name regis...
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Doh! Melbourne IT accidentally shut down Twitter’s t.co link shortener
Company placed domain status on hold thanks to phishing complaint. Yesterday Twitter’s t.co link shortener, which it wraps all outgoing links in, went down. Was the culprit some self-proclaimed anonymous user? Or a DDoS? Nope. Domain name regis...
Discussion
October 9, 2012, 9:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Software company guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking against Frank Schilling
WIPO panel rules company filed UDRP “to obtain the disputed domain name at any cost”. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found a software company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP filed against one of Fra...
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Software company guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking against Frank Schilling
WIPO panel rules company filed UDRP “to obtain the disputed domain name at any cost”. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found a software company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP filed against one of Fra...
Discussion
October 9, 2012, 8:30 am
