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How Secure is the .Secure Trademark Application?
Company that filed .secure trademark application is now apparently using it in commerce. People will try to game the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office all day long. In August I wrote about how Asif LLC applied for the .secure trademark. It later appli...
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How Secure is the .Secure Trademark Application?
Company that filed .secure trademark application is now apparently using it in commerce. People will try to game the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office all day long. In August I wrote about how Asif LLC applied for the .secure trademark. It later appli...
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October 24, 2011, 9:09 am
Domain Name Wire
Lego Loses First UDRP
Lego finally loses a UDRP case. LEGO Juris A/S, makers of the popular legos toy, has filed nearly 300 UDRP cases to date. It hadn’t lost a single one — until now. In a decision dated October 1 (but for some reason just published this week...
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Lego Loses First UDRP
Lego finally loses a UDRP case. LEGO Juris A/S, makers of the popular legos toy, has filed nearly 300 UDRP cases to date. It hadn’t lost a single one — until now. In a decision dated October 1 (but for some reason just published this week...
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October 21, 2011, 1:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Friday Contest: TRAFFIC Picture Quiz
Identify these four pictures to win. It’s Friday so let’s have some fun. The first person to identify all of the items below will win a free copy of David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game Book. Put your answers in the comments. You must g...
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Friday Contest: TRAFFIC Picture Quiz
Identify these four pictures to win. It’s Friday so let’s have some fun. The first person to identify all of the items below will win a free copy of David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game Book. Put your answers in the comments. You must g...
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October 21, 2011, 12:53 pm
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Mitt Romney Buys CareerPolitician.com from Oversee.net
Oversee.net was previous owner of CareerPolitician.com. Mitt Romney’s campaign launched CareerPolitican.com this week to blast rival Rick Perry. The seller? Oversee.net. The domain name was originally registered at GoDaddy in 2007 by Tucson, Ar...
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Mitt Romney Buys CareerPolitician.com from Oversee.net
Oversee.net was previous owner of CareerPolitician.com. Mitt Romney’s campaign launched CareerPolitican.com this week to blast rival Rick Perry. The seller? Oversee.net. The domain name was originally registered at GoDaddy in 2007 by Tucson, Ar...
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October 21, 2011, 8:01 am
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Garry Chernoff Scores Again with 2 More Domain Sales
Two strong five figure domain name sales. Garry Chernoff has just completed two domain name sales in his sweet spot — high five figures. First, Chernoff just completed the sale of Ripley.com for $78,000. The buyer is someone in Santiago, Chile....
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Garry Chernoff Scores Again with 2 More Domain Sales
Two strong five figure domain name sales. Garry Chernoff has just completed two domain name sales in his sweet spot — high five figures. First, Chernoff just completed the sale of Ripley.com for $78,000. The buyer is someone in Santiago, Chile....
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October 20, 2011, 10:10 pm
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VeriSign Releases DomainFinder
Tool searches for available domain names. VeriSign has released a new beta tool called DomainFinder to help people find available domain names. On the surface the tool is just a basic domain name generator: enter a keyword and it shows you available ...
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VeriSign Releases DomainFinder
Tool searches for available domain names. VeriSign has released a new beta tool called DomainFinder to help people find available domain names. On the surface the tool is just a basic domain name generator: enter a keyword and it shows you available ...
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October 20, 2011, 3:29 pm
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HostExploit Names Oversee.net #1 Bad Host
Group releases its latest list of “bad” hosts. HostExploit, which previously put the heat on eNom, now says Oversee.net is the “#1 Bad Host”. The group compared data from 11 sources on a number of “bad” things that...
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HostExploit Names Oversee.net #1 Bad Host
Group releases its latest list of “bad” hosts. HostExploit, which previously put the heat on eNom, now says Oversee.net is the “#1 Bad Host”. The group compared data from 11 sources on a number of “bad” things that...
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October 20, 2011, 12:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN Threatens to Shut Down Cheapies.com
Registrar failing to escrow whois information. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Cheapies.com, threatening to de-accredit the domain name registrar. Cheapies, which bills itself as “domain reg...
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ICANN Threatens to Shut Down Cheapies.com
Registrar failing to escrow whois information. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Cheapies.com, threatening to de-accredit the domain name registrar. Cheapies, which bills itself as “domain reg...
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October 20, 2011, 11:29 am
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Validus Holdings Says Former Contractor Used .Co Domains to Intercept Confidential Emails
Former contractor allegedly intercepted emails using .co domain names. Validus Holdings, a publicly traded (NYSE: VR) reinsurance and insurance company, has filed a lawsuit against the owner of several .co domain names. The company claims that the ow...
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Validus Holdings Says Former Contractor Used .Co Domains to Intercept Confidential Emails
Former contractor allegedly intercepted emails using .co domain names. Validus Holdings, a publicly traded (NYSE: VR) reinsurance and insurance company, has filed a lawsuit against the owner of several .co domain names. The company claims that the ow...
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October 20, 2011, 10:54 am
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Warner Bros Registers Reddit Movie Domains
Movie studio registers Reddit related domain names as it works on movie suggested by Reddit commentor. Reddit is certainly a powerful force on the internet. But is Warner Bros working on a movie about it? The company just registered a number of domai...
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Warner Bros Registers Reddit Movie Domains
Movie studio registers Reddit related domain names as it works on movie suggested by Reddit commentor. Reddit is certainly a powerful force on the internet. But is Warner Bros working on a movie about it? The company just registered a number of domai...
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October 20, 2011, 10:19 am
