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WIPO Denies Another Legal Rights Objection To .Music: Community Trademarks Of Objector “Not Bona Fide”
A WIPO panel has rejected another Legal Rights Objection to the new gTLD .Music . This objection was to Famous Fours application to operate the .Music registry and was filed by another applicant for .Music, DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos. The ...
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WIPO Denies Another Legal Rights Objection To .Music: Community Trademarks Of Objector “Not Bona Fide”
A WIPO panel has rejected another Legal Rights Objection to the new gTLD .Music . This objection was to Famous Fours application to operate the .Music registry and was filed by another applicant for .Music, DotMusic Limited/Constantinos Roussos. The ...
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August 15, 2013, 12:44 pm
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13 Year Old Domain Togu.com Saved IN UDRP Panel Cites Delay In Bringing Case
TOGU Gebruder Obermaier oHG of Prien-Bachham, Germany, just lost a UDRP on the domain name Togu.com. The domain owner Port Media Domains was represented by Esquire.com Its not clear to me why the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH...
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13 Year Old Domain Togu.com Saved IN UDRP Panel Cites Delay In Bringing Case
TOGU Gebruder Obermaier oHG of Prien-Bachham, Germany, just lost a UDRP on the domain name Togu.com. The domain owner Port Media Domains was represented by Esquire.com Its not clear to me why the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH...
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August 15, 2013, 12:12 pm
The Domains
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Files UDRP’s Against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings On 4 Domains
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc makers of the widely popular Grand Theft Auto games, filed a UDRP’s today against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings, LLC on four domain names with WIPO. All four domain names are listed for sale at Mike...
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Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Files UDRP’s Against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings On 4 Domains
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc makers of the widely popular Grand Theft Auto games, filed a UDRP’s today against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings, LLC on four domain names with WIPO. All four domain names are listed for sale at Mike...
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August 15, 2013, 10:22 am
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NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown Risk” In Collision Report To Move Forward
In a comment filed with ICANN on the Name Collision Report of Interisle, the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) signed by Tim Switzer, laid out a pretty compelling argument for why ICANN should not delay the roll out 279 new gTLD’s that fell...
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NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown Risk” In Collision Report To Move Forward
In a comment filed with ICANN on the Name Collision Report of Interisle, the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) signed by Tim Switzer, laid out a pretty compelling argument for why ICANN should not delay the roll out 279 new gTLD’s that fell...
Discussion
August 15, 2013, 9:46 am
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ICC Rejects Verisign’s String Confusion Objection To .Cam As Being Too Cofusing to .Com
One of the more interesting objections filed at the ICC based on String Confusion was Verisign’s objection to .Cam being confusing to .Com. Today a panel has ruled that .Cam is not confusing to .Com, finding “the visual similarity of the ...
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ICC Rejects Verisign’s String Confusion Objection To .Cam As Being Too Cofusing to .Com
One of the more interesting objections filed at the ICC based on String Confusion was Verisign’s objection to .Cam being confusing to .Com. Today a panel has ruled that .Cam is not confusing to .Com, finding “the visual similarity of the ...
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August 15, 2013, 8:55 am
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Troubling: Domain Awarded By UDRP With No Trademark Based On $1K Bank Account, Flyers & 61 Customers
In what I consider a very troubling and horrible decision, A one member UDRP panel has awarded a domain names welldonebbqs.com and welldonebbqcleaning.com to a Complainant who didn’t have a registered trademark, on the basis doing a whopping $1...
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Troubling: Domain Awarded By UDRP With No Trademark Based On $1K Bank Account, Flyers & 61 Customers
In what I consider a very troubling and horrible decision, A one member UDRP panel has awarded a domain names welldonebbqs.com and welldonebbqcleaning.com to a Complainant who didn’t have a registered trademark, on the basis doing a whopping $1...
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August 14, 2013, 4:45 pm
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CircleId Post Rips The Domain Name IDNX Pricing Index
Alex Tajirian, CEO at DomainMart in a post on CircleID.com just ripped into the IDNX domain name index backed by Thies Lindenthal and Sedo. “The index is intended to be a benchmark for domain owners and investors. “ “But it’s ...
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CircleId Post Rips The Domain Name IDNX Pricing Index
Alex Tajirian, CEO at DomainMart in a post on CircleID.com just ripped into the IDNX domain name index backed by Thies Lindenthal and Sedo. “The index is intended to be a benchmark for domain owners and investors. “ “But it’s ...
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August 14, 2013, 2:57 pm
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Rocket Internet Incubator & Accelerator Company Raised $500 Million Since 2012
In a press release just out today Rocket Internet announced “that it has raised a total of USD $500 million from partners Investment AB Kinnevik and Access Industries since May 2012, representing the largest investment ever made in an internet ...
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Rocket Internet Incubator & Accelerator Company Raised $500 Million Since 2012
In a press release just out today Rocket Internet announced “that it has raised a total of USD $500 million from partners Investment AB Kinnevik and Access Industries since May 2012, representing the largest investment ever made in an internet ...
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August 14, 2013, 11:49 am
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Publicly Traded Ceat Mahal Of India Files UDRP Against BuyDomains.com On Ceat.org
Ceat Mahal a tire manufacturer located in India, filed a UDRP against BuyDomains.com on the domain name Ceat.org Buydomains.com appears to have picked up the domain name on a drop in late 2012. The Tire manufacturer appears to be a public company and...
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Publicly Traded Ceat Mahal Of India Files UDRP Against BuyDomains.com On Ceat.org
Ceat Mahal a tire manufacturer located in India, filed a UDRP against BuyDomains.com on the domain name Ceat.org Buydomains.com appears to have picked up the domain name on a drop in late 2012. The Tire manufacturer appears to be a public company and...
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August 14, 2013, 9:27 am
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Finalist For Britain’s Million Pound Startup Competition Buys FaceBuy.com For $10K On Sedo
The domain name FaceBuy.com just sold on Sedo for $10,000 and I think the seller may not be thrilled when they realize the buyer is a App developer from Australia who has already gotten some mainstream coverage in the press and whose Facebook page ha...
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Finalist For Britain’s Million Pound Startup Competition Buys FaceBuy.com For $10K On Sedo
The domain name FaceBuy.com just sold on Sedo for $10,000 and I think the seller may not be thrilled when they realize the buyer is a App developer from Australia who has already gotten some mainstream coverage in the press and whose Facebook page ha...
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August 14, 2013, 8:20 am
