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EU Might Place Restrictions On Trademark Keyword Advertising
According to the New York Times an adviser to the highest European Union court recommended Thursday that some restrictions be placed on the rights of advertisers to use the names of rivals as keywords to generate sponsored links on Internet search en...
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EU Might Place Restrictions On Trademark Keyword Advertising
According to the New York Times an adviser to the highest European Union court recommended Thursday that some restrictions be placed on the rights of advertisers to use the names of rivals as keywords to generate sponsored links on Internet search en...
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March 27, 2011, 9:12 am
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The Free Speech Coalition Launches “Just Say No To .XXX” Boycott Campaign; Why It Won’t Work
According to AVN.com, The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announced yesterday that it is launching an anti—.XXX campaign urging adult online businesses not to register into any .XXX sTLD. Diane Duke, FSC Executive Director, ...
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The Free Speech Coalition Launches “Just Say No To .XXX” Boycott Campaign; Why It Won’t Work
According to AVN.com, The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announced yesterday that it is launching an anti—.XXX campaign urging adult online businesses not to register into any .XXX sTLD. Diane Duke, FSC Executive Director, ...
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March 26, 2011, 11:49 am
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Disco.com Bought At Domanfest New York 2010 For $255K Is Now Owned By Google & Launched As A “Group Texting ” Site
The domain name Disco.com sold at Domainfest New York last year for $255,000. Disco.com was ranked by DnJournal.com as the 31st highest domain sale of 2010. The domain is now owned by Google and has been launched as a Group Texting site. The domain w...
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Disco.com Bought At Domanfest New York 2010 For $255K Is Now Owned By Google & Launched As A “Group Texting ” Site
The domain name Disco.com sold at Domainfest New York last year for $255,000. Disco.com was ranked by DnJournal.com as the 31st highest domain sale of 2010. The domain is now owned by Google and has been launched as a Group Texting site. The domain w...
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March 25, 2011, 1:22 pm
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Violet.com Sells For $65K on Sedo.com
The domain name Violet.com just sold for $65,000 on Sedo.com The domain currently forwards to a site called pinstripegifts.com. It seems like a good web 2.0 domain. Congrats to the buyer and seller
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Violet.com Sells For $65K on Sedo.com
The domain name Violet.com just sold for $65,000 on Sedo.com The domain currently forwards to a site called pinstripegifts.com. It seems like a good web 2.0 domain. Congrats to the buyer and seller
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March 25, 2011, 12:44 pm
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Trademark Office Again Rejects AOL Try To Trademark Ad.com
In yet another finding by the USPTO dated march 21st 2011, AOL.com application to trademark Ad.com was rejected. “In the present case, the proposed mark is generic because it consists of the generic term ‘AD” combined with the top l...
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Trademark Office Again Rejects AOL Try To Trademark Ad.com
In yet another finding by the USPTO dated march 21st 2011, AOL.com application to trademark Ad.com was rejected. “In the present case, the proposed mark is generic because it consists of the generic term ‘AD” combined with the top l...
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March 25, 2011, 11:49 am
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Is This A Good Way To Sell DOmains? “This Domain Is Not For Sale (unless you know us)
I came across an quite different domain for sale banner on top of the parked page for MoneyBrokers.com the other day. As you can see below the top of the page has a banner that says, THIS DOMAIN IS NOT FOR SALE (unless you know us). If you click the ...
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Is This A Good Way To Sell DOmains? “This Domain Is Not For Sale (unless you know us)
I came across an quite different domain for sale banner on top of the parked page for MoneyBrokers.com the other day. As you can see below the top of the page has a banner that says, THIS DOMAIN IS NOT FOR SALE (unless you know us). If you click the ...
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March 25, 2011, 10:02 am
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HireAHitman.Net Taken Down After Someone Pays Someone $19K For A Hit & Is Now A Landing Page
According to Cnet.com, HireaHitman.net was a site where you could do just exactly that, Hire a guy to whack someone (and the government thought Craigslist was bad). So according to the story Marissa Mark of Jersey ...
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HireAHitman.Net Taken Down After Someone Pays Someone $19K For A Hit & Is Now A Landing Page
According to Cnet.com, HireaHitman.net was a site where you could do just exactly that, Hire a guy to whack someone (and the government thought Craigslist was bad). So according to the story Marissa Mark of Jersey ...
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March 24, 2011, 3:20 pm
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Apple Starts Enforcing Its “App Store” Trademark Against Amazon & Adult App Site Even Though Microsoft Is Appealing The Trademark
Apple seems to have gone on the offensive to defend it App Store trademark, although the mark has not been approved and actually has a pending objection from Microsoft. According to Bloomberg.com, Apple Inc. filed suit against Amazon.com...
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Apple Starts Enforcing Its “App Store” Trademark Against Amazon & Adult App Site Even Though Microsoft Is Appealing The Trademark
Apple seems to have gone on the offensive to defend it App Store trademark, although the mark has not been approved and actually has a pending objection from Microsoft. According to Bloomberg.com, Apple Inc. filed suit against Amazon.com...
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March 24, 2011, 9:39 am
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CNBC’s “Squawk on The Street” Covers New gTLD’s & .XXX Staring The Heads Of Central Nic & CADNA
CNBC Had a 5 minutes + segment on Squak The Street” on the new gTLD program and .XXX on Tuesday entitled “Has the Internet outgrown .Com” “The segment discussed whether adding more domains for websites will have big implicatio...
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CNBC’s “Squawk on The Street” Covers New gTLD’s & .XXX Staring The Heads Of Central Nic & CADNA
CNBC Had a 5 minutes + segment on Squak The Street” on the new gTLD program and .XXX on Tuesday entitled “Has the Internet outgrown .Com” “The segment discussed whether adding more domains for websites will have big implicatio...
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March 24, 2011, 7:51 am
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Yahoo Answers Google’s Instant By Rolling Out Search Direct: Guess Who Owns The Domain
According to TechCrunch.com, Yahoo has countered Google’s Instant Search Product with it’s own named “Search Direct” “It looks a lot like Google Instant: as you start typing a query into Yahoo Search, the site will begin...
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Yahoo Answers Google’s Instant By Rolling Out Search Direct: Guess Who Owns The Domain
According to TechCrunch.com, Yahoo has countered Google’s Instant Search Product with it’s own named “Search Direct” “It looks a lot like Google Instant: as you start typing a query into Yahoo Search, the site will begin...
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March 23, 2011, 2:27 pm
