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Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Without Filing A Response: Judgmentfree.com
PFIP, LLC (“Complainant”), represented by Teresa C. Tucker of Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger PLLC, New Hampshire, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name hijacking in a UDRP decision on the domain name judgmentfree.com The...
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Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Without Filing A Response: Judgmentfree.com
PFIP, LLC (“Complainant”), represented by Teresa C. Tucker of Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger PLLC, New Hampshire, has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name hijacking in a UDRP decision on the domain name judgmentfree.com The...
Discussion
October 3, 2014, 12:31 am
The Domains
As Many As 5K .Com’s Taken Away By Sealed Court Order By Verisign Including Some Of Mine
Overnight I received a notice that several domain names I owned were transferred by a sealed court from Verisign without notice and of course without the court order. The domain names just were transferred by Verisign to another domain and are now li...
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As Many As 5K .Com’s Taken Away By Sealed Court Order By Verisign Including Some Of Mine
Overnight I received a notice that several domain names I owned were transferred by a sealed court from Verisign without notice and of course without the court order. The domain names just were transferred by Verisign to another domain and are now li...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 5:46 pm
The Domains
Freenom Operator of 2nd Largest Domain Extension .TK; To Launch .GQ; Yes It Will Be FREE
Freenom which operates the .tk registry which is the world’s 2nd largest domain extension in terms of registration, has partnered with GETESA, the largest telecommunication operator in Equatorial Guinea and a joint venture with Orange, to...
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Freenom Operator of 2nd Largest Domain Extension .TK; To Launch .GQ; Yes It Will Be FREE
Freenom which operates the .tk registry which is the world’s 2nd largest domain extension in terms of registration, has partnered with GETESA, the largest telecommunication operator in Equatorial Guinea and a joint venture with Orange, to...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 2:13 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Says .Law & .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer) Will Only Be For Lawyers
Minds + Machines, which won the private auction for .Law a couple of weeks ago announced that .Law and .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer, M+M was the only applicant for .Adogado) are expected to launch in early 2015. Both .Law and .Abogado will be restric...
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Minds + Machines Says .Law & .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer) Will Only Be For Lawyers
Minds + Machines, which won the private auction for .Law a couple of weeks ago announced that .Law and .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer, M+M was the only applicant for .Adogado) are expected to launch in early 2015. Both .Law and .Abogado will be restric...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 1:54 pm
The Domains
Public Comany Acquires Internships.com For $10M in Cash & $1M In Stock
Chegg, Inc. (CHGG), the Student Hub, today announced it has acquired Internships.com, a division of CareerArc Group LLC for $10 million in cash and approximately $1 million in shares of Chegg Common Stock. Internships.com is not just a domain name, b...
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Public Comany Acquires Internships.com For $10M in Cash & $1M In Stock
Chegg, Inc. (CHGG), the Student Hub, today announced it has acquired Internships.com, a division of CareerArc Group LLC for $10 million in cash and approximately $1 million in shares of Chegg Common Stock. Internships.com is not just a domain name, b...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 1:44 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD For .Deals 2,592: .Bayern 20,396
One new gTLD went into general availability yesterday, .Deals. Including domain registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register their domain during the Early Access Program (EAP), .Deals ended its...
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1st Day New gTLD For .Deals 2,592: .Bayern 20,396
One new gTLD went into general availability yesterday, .Deals. Including domain registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register their domain during the Early Access Program (EAP), .Deals ended its...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 1:38 pm
The Domains
Google Entering the Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com
David Hernandez wrote a piece on Seeking Alpha that Google entering the domain business may not be as bad as thought for competitor Web.com. Web.com owns Register.com and Network Solutions. The stock is down 37.7 % year to date. Here is the summary o...
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Google Entering the Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com
David Hernandez wrote a piece on Seeking Alpha that Google entering the domain business may not be as bad as thought for competitor Web.com. Web.com owns Register.com and Network Solutions. The stock is down 37.7 % year to date. Here is the summary o...
Discussion
October 1, 2014, 10:18 pm
The Domains
Results of our Numeric Dot Com Readers Poll
Our poll question for September was where you the reader, saw the value of numeric dot com domains going. We had 188 votes and the majority of voters see prices going higher. Where do you think values are going for Numeric .com domains ? Up (52%, 98 ...
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Results of our Numeric Dot Com Readers Poll
Our poll question for September was where you the reader, saw the value of numeric dot com domains going. We had 188 votes and the majority of voters see prices going higher. Where do you think values are going for Numeric .com domains ? Up (52%, 98 ...
Discussion
October 1, 2014, 8:23 pm
The Domains
Frank T. Schilling Registers 12K+ New gTLD In Addition to The 75K Owned By North Sound Names
We noted last week that North Sound Names a company owned and.or controlled by Frank Schilling registered some 31,000 domain names in new gTLD’s extensions owned by another Frank Schilling Company, Uniregistry. About 10,000 domain names were re...
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Frank T. Schilling Registers 12K+ New gTLD In Addition to The 75K Owned By North Sound Names
We noted last week that North Sound Names a company owned and.or controlled by Frank Schilling registered some 31,000 domain names in new gTLD’s extensions owned by another Frank Schilling Company, Uniregistry. About 10,000 domain names were re...
Discussion
October 1, 2014, 4:26 pm
The Domains
SimpleBank.com Lost in UDRP To Common Law Trademark Holder of The Word “Simple”
Simple Finance Technology Corp (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name SimpleBank.com which is owned by CDN Properties Incorporated. Simple alleged that it had a common law trademark to the term “Simple” however t...
Discussion
SimpleBank.com Lost in UDRP To Common Law Trademark Holder of The Word “Simple”
Simple Finance Technology Corp (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name SimpleBank.com which is owned by CDN Properties Incorporated. Simple alleged that it had a common law trademark to the term “Simple” however t...
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October 1, 2014, 3:49 pm
