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Unlike UDRP, Nominet doesn’t want your .uk disputes to go to court
Nominet says court decision validates its dispute resolution service. Nominet is celebrating a decision by the High Court (a senior court in England) upholding a decision reached in its Dispute Resolution Service for the domain Emirates.co.uk. In its...
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Unlike UDRP, Nominet doesn’t want your .uk disputes to go to court
Nominet says court decision validates its dispute resolution service. Nominet is celebrating a decision by the High Court (a senior court in England) upholding a decision reached in its Dispute Resolution Service for the domain Emirates.co.uk. In its...
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March 9, 2012, 11:47 am

Domain Name Wire
Verisign says 225 million domains registered, discusses domain hijacking
Domain name base keeps growing. VeriSign has released its latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. Here are the latest stats, according to VeriSign and Zooknic: - Last year ended with over 225 million domains registered across all top level domai...
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Verisign says 225 million domains registered, discusses domain hijacking
Domain name base keeps growing. VeriSign has released its latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. Here are the latest stats, according to VeriSign and Zooknic: - Last year ended with over 225 million domains registered across all top level domai...
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March 8, 2012, 4:50 pm

Domain Name Wire
ICANN releases checklist for domain seizures
Non-profit releases paper explaining considerations and parties involved with domain seizures. Citing increased domain seizures and take downs due to criminal activity, the ICANN Security Team has released a paper explaining the process and considera...
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ICANN releases checklist for domain seizures
Non-profit releases paper explaining considerations and parties involved with domain seizures. Citing increased domain seizures and take downs due to criminal activity, the ICANN Security Team has released a paper explaining the process and considera...
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March 8, 2012, 1:04 pm

Domain Name Wire
Google files patent app for group buying
Application for “online marketplace” describes group buying system. Long before Groupon took the idea of group buying of services and gift certificates mainstream, many people have tried group buying for physical goods. Remember Mercata, ...
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Google files patent app for group buying
Application for “online marketplace” describes group buying system. Long before Groupon took the idea of group buying of services and gift certificates mainstream, many people have tried group buying for physical goods. Remember Mercata, ...
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March 8, 2012, 11:16 am

Domain Name Wire
Elk.com and INW.com hit with UDRPs
Two three letter .com domains have been hit with UDRP filings. Australian fashion accessories company ELK Accessories Pty Ltd. has filed a UDRP case in an effort to get the domain name Elk.com. The company’s web site is elkaccessories.com.au. S...
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Elk.com and INW.com hit with UDRPs
Two three letter .com domains have been hit with UDRP filings. Australian fashion accessories company ELK Accessories Pty Ltd. has filed a UDRP case in an effort to get the domain name Elk.com. The company’s web site is elkaccessories.com.au. S...
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March 8, 2012, 10:58 am

Domain Name Wire
Warner Bros registers domains for Journey 3 movie
More proof that a three-peat is in the works. With Journey 2 already grossing $270 million world wide at the box office, rumors have been swirling that the studio is planning Journey 3. Here’s some more evidence that a third installment is in t...
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Warner Bros registers domains for Journey 3 movie
More proof that a three-peat is in the works. With Journey 2 already grossing $270 million world wide at the box office, rumors have been swirling that the studio is planning Journey 3. Here’s some more evidence that a third installment is in t...
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March 8, 2012, 10:10 am

Domain Name Wire
iPad number names are suddenly worth less
iPad3.com will still get a lot of traffic, but Apple just through out that naming convention. Apple was supposed to announce the iPad 3 today. But it didn’t. Instead, it launched the “new iPad”. No number after it. No other designat...
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iPad number names are suddenly worth less
iPad3.com will still get a lot of traffic, but Apple just through out that naming convention. Apple was supposed to announce the iPad 3 today. But it didn’t. Instead, it launched the “new iPad”. No number after it. No other designat...
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March 7, 2012, 8:18 pm

Domain Name Wire
Company behind ProTrada releases web site development tool DevName.com
DevName helps domainers develop their domain names. Winged Media, the company behind domain auction and expired domain tool ProTrada, has released a new domain development system called DevName.com. Like many auto-web site developers, DevName takes t...
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Company behind ProTrada releases web site development tool DevName.com
DevName helps domainers develop their domain names. Winged Media, the company behind domain auction and expired domain tool ProTrada, has released a new domain development system called DevName.com. Like many auto-web site developers, DevName takes t...
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March 7, 2012, 1:38 pm

Domain Name Wire
16 good end user domain sales, including WebmasterWorld
From WebmasterWorld to (RED), here are some end user domain sales from the past week. Here’s a look at 16 end user domain sales from the past week. All sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Health Partners of Philadelphia bought ...
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16 good end user domain sales, including WebmasterWorld
From WebmasterWorld to (RED), here are some end user domain sales from the past week. Here’s a look at 16 end user domain sales from the past week. All sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Health Partners of Philadelphia bought ...
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March 7, 2012, 1:07 pm

Domain Name Wire
Paul Keating gets sole win in Auto-Owners cases
Panel rules that AutoOwner.com registrant can keep domain name. In January I wrote about how Auto-Owners Insurance filed four UDRP cases against owners of domain names it said infringed its mark. The first two decided cases went in favor of the insur...
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Paul Keating gets sole win in Auto-Owners cases
Panel rules that AutoOwner.com registrant can keep domain name. In January I wrote about how Auto-Owners Insurance filed four UDRP cases against owners of domain names it said infringed its mark. The first two decided cases went in favor of the insur...
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March 7, 2012, 11:52 am