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Grocery chain wins first .XXX UDRP case
HEB gets HEB.xxx. HEB Grocery Company, headquartered in San Antonio, is the first complainant to win a uniform domain name dispute resolution (UDRP) case for a .xxx domain name. Atlanta resident Eric Gonzales registered the domain name after he claim...
Discussion
February 8, 2012, 4:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
DealDash buys defunct Swoopo.com domain name (and 22 other end user sales)
DealDash buys defunct rival’s domain name. Remember Swoopo.com, the auction site where you had to pay for each bid? It shut down amidst controversy, and now a competitor has purchased its domain name via Sedo. UK based DealDash Ltd paid 10,000 ...
Discussion
February 8, 2012, 10:57 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
2012 Domain Name Wire Survey…the results are in
A look at who took this year’s survey. Domain Name Wire’s 7th annual domain name industry survey has concluded with over 1,500 participants. I’m busy collating and analyzing the results, which will be posted on Domain Name Wire thro...
Discussion
February 8, 2012, 9:34 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Hey NAF, this is a classic example of reverse domain hijacking
Respondent wins but should have gotten more than that. National Arbitration Forum panelist Beatrice Onica Jarka got the “answer” correct in a recent UDRP case. But she really should have considered reverse domain name hijacking. The case ...
Discussion
February 7, 2012, 11:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
.Kyoto top level domain in the works
.Kyoto may join .Tokyo as top level domain. It appears that .kyoto may be one of the location specific top level domains that will hit the web in coming years. The announcement is in Japanese and all translations I’ve seen are rather jumbled, b...
Discussion
February 7, 2012, 1:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Key-Systems CEO discusses Moniker and SnapNames acquisition
No dramatic changes on tap but more ccTLDs and other improvements on the way. KeyDrive’s acquisition of Moniker and SnapNames last week has shaken up the domain name investor ecosystem. I just talked to Key-Systems CEO Alexander Siffrin to bett...
Discussion
February 7, 2012, 11:30 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
.Ping trademark in jeopardy, but Ping sailing through
PING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to an trademark application for .Ping. It was filed by Karsten Manufacturing, which owns the PI...
Discussion
February 7, 2012, 10:29 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
6 questions about DOMAINfest answered
A look back at last week’s DOMAINfest conference. Before heading to DOMAINfest I posed six questions that would be answered by the end of the week. Here are the answers. 1. How will Oversee.net’s new leadership present itself? Just before...
Discussion
February 7, 2012, 10:11 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
What domains American Airlines and others bought last week
American Airlines, The Nature Conservancy, New York Life, and other end user domain buys. I tried to do last week’s end user domain sales report during DOMAINfest, but some whois servers didn’t like my mobile connection. So it’s a b...
Discussion
February 6, 2012, 1:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy’s BYOB: Build Your Online Business
Company plans to start promoting a different kind of BYOB. It looks like GoDaddy.com will start promoting BYOB, but it has nothing to do with beer. The company filed two trademark applications at the end of last month. The company filed application 8...
Discussion
February 6, 2012, 11:11 am
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