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Thesis.com Purchased For $100K By Parent Co. Of WordPress Saved In UDRP
In a very interesting UDRP, Chris Pearson who owns the WordPress Theme of Thesis, lost its bid to grab the domain name Thesis.com from the parent company that owns and operates WordPress, Automattic, Inc. According to the UDRP, Respondent and Complai...
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Thesis.com Purchased For $100K By Parent Co. Of WordPress Saved In UDRP
In a very interesting UDRP, Chris Pearson who owns the WordPress Theme of Thesis, lost its bid to grab the domain name Thesis.com from the parent company that owns and operates WordPress, Automattic, Inc. According to the UDRP, Respondent and Complai...
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July 9, 2015, 4:51 am
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Playa Games, Maker of Online SFGame Played By 40M: Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Playa Games GmbH which is the creator and operator of an online game called “Shakes & Fidget” which it says is known as “SFGAME” was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name SFGame.com The deci...
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Playa Games, Maker of Online SFGame Played By 40M: Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Playa Games GmbH which is the creator and operator of an online game called “Shakes & Fidget” which it says is known as “SFGAME” was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name SFGame.com The deci...
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July 8, 2015, 8:35 pm
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Qatar Airways Loses 2nd UDRP in a Month On 15 Year Old DiscoverQatar.com
Qatar Airways Q.C.S.C. of Doha, Qatar, just lost a second UDRP in a month, its attempt to grab the domain name DiscoverQatar.com Last month the state owned Airlines lost a UDRP on two other generic domain names, discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org...
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Qatar Airways Loses 2nd UDRP in a Month On 15 Year Old DiscoverQatar.com
Qatar Airways Q.C.S.C. of Doha, Qatar, just lost a second UDRP in a month, its attempt to grab the domain name DiscoverQatar.com Last month the state owned Airlines lost a UDRP on two other generic domain names, discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org...
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July 8, 2015, 4:34 pm
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14 Year Old GSUS.com (Jesus in Spanish) Saved In UDRP From TM Holder of G-SUS
G-Hold License B.V. just lost its bid to grab the domain name gsus.com which is owned by Vertical Axis, Inc in a UDRP. gsus.com is the spanish word for Jesus. Vertical Axis registered the domain name Respondent registered the disputed domain name on ...
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14 Year Old GSUS.com (Jesus in Spanish) Saved In UDRP From TM Holder of G-SUS
G-Hold License B.V. just lost its bid to grab the domain name gsus.com which is owned by Vertical Axis, Inc in a UDRP. gsus.com is the spanish word for Jesus. Vertical Axis registered the domain name Respondent registered the disputed domain name on ...
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July 8, 2015, 3:31 pm
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Verisign Announces $30K Winner of #InternetOfficial Contest: KidsCookDinner.com
Verisign the registry for the .com registry has announced the Grand Prize Winner of it’s #InternetOfficial contest. It’s KidsCookDinner.com, registered through Network Solutions! “”New York-based Kate K. submitted the most des...
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Verisign Announces $30K Winner of #InternetOfficial Contest: KidsCookDinner.com
Verisign the registry for the .com registry has announced the Grand Prize Winner of it’s #InternetOfficial contest. It’s KidsCookDinner.com, registered through Network Solutions! “”New York-based Kate K. submitted the most des...
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July 8, 2015, 2:27 pm
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BlackBerry Limited Registers Android Domain Names
BlackBerry Limited has registered the domain name AndroidSecured.com adding to recent rumors that they may have a device called BlackBerry Venice that will have an Android operating system.
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BlackBerry Limited Registers Android Domain Names
BlackBerry Limited has registered the domain name AndroidSecured.com adding to recent rumors that they may have a device called BlackBerry Venice that will have an Android operating system.
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July 8, 2015, 11:41 am
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Paul Allen Decides To Go With .Fish instead of buying the .com from Most Wanted Domains
Jay Westerdal blogged on Tuesday about Microsoft co – founder and billionaire Paul Allen going with a .Fish domain. Allen chose to go with SmartCatch.fish instead of purchasing SmartCatch.com. The interesting thing about this story for us here ...
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Paul Allen Decides To Go With .Fish instead of buying the .com from Most Wanted Domains
Jay Westerdal blogged on Tuesday about Microsoft co – founder and billionaire Paul Allen going with a .Fish domain. Allen chose to go with SmartCatch.fish instead of purchasing SmartCatch.com. The interesting thing about this story for us here ...
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July 8, 2015, 9:21 am
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A look at Dot Luxury One Year In To The Process
Tony Kirsch of ARI Registry Services posted an interview with Monica Kirchner of Dot Luxury. Tony was looking to get some perspective on how things are going one year into the process. Dot Luxury names are not cheap, checking out a few registrars: Th...
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A look at Dot Luxury One Year In To The Process
Tony Kirsch of ARI Registry Services posted an interview with Monica Kirchner of Dot Luxury. Tony was looking to get some perspective on how things are going one year into the process. Dot Luxury names are not cheap, checking out a few registrars: Th...
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July 8, 2015, 9:09 am
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Google Hates ICANN’s Attempt to Eliminate Whois Privacy Calling it “Impractical & Ineffective
Google filed it’s comment on the whois privacy issue with ICANN today. Google seems to hate the proposal of the ICANN working group to prohibit commercial domain registrants from using proxy or privacy services calling it unf...
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Google Hates ICANN’s Attempt to Eliminate Whois Privacy Calling it “Impractical & Ineffective
Google filed it’s comment on the whois privacy issue with ICANN today. Google seems to hate the proposal of the ICANN working group to prohibit commercial domain registrants from using proxy or privacy services calling it unf...
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July 8, 2015, 3:05 am
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From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise Registrations
The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the registry has had in any of its new domain name extensions, just short of 500. Matt Overman...
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From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise Registrations
The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the registry has had in any of its new domain name extensions, just short of 500. Matt Overman...
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July 7, 2015, 10:15 pm
