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City of Paris ordered to pay $100k for reverse domain name hijacking
Paris guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, ordered to pay over $100,000. A U.S. federal district court has ordered Ville de Paris (City of Paris) to pay $100,000 for reverse domain name hijacking and tortious interference. Judge Melinda Harmon al...
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City of Paris ordered to pay $100k for reverse domain name hijacking
Paris guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, ordered to pay over $100,000. A U.S. federal district court has ordered Ville de Paris (City of Paris) to pay $100,000 for reverse domain name hijacking and tortious interference. Judge Melinda Harmon al...
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September 17, 2012, 12:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Warner Bros registers domains for Magic Mike 2 sequel
Studio registers domain names after writer and star start talking. A sequel to the male stripper movie Magic Mike is rumored to be in the works. Here’s some fuel to add to the fire: Warner Brothers has registered a few domain names related to a...
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Warner Bros registers domains for Magic Mike 2 sequel
Studio registers domain names after writer and star start talking. A sequel to the male stripper movie Magic Mike is rumored to be in the works. Here’s some fuel to add to the fire: Warner Brothers has registered a few domain names related to a...
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September 17, 2012, 10:49 am
Domain Name Wire
Details of $528,000 sale of Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk
Pixel Capital buys domain names to enter online travel market. Australian company Pixel Capital Pty Ltd announced last week that it had acquired Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk for a combined $528,000 USD. Both domain names were owned by a ...
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Details of $528,000 sale of Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk
Pixel Capital buys domain names to enter online travel market. Australian company Pixel Capital Pty Ltd announced last week that it had acquired Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk for a combined $528,000 USD. Both domain names were owned by a ...
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September 17, 2012, 10:14 am
Domain Name Wire
Did “Netbank” lie, or was it just inept in this UDRP?
A quick look at archives disproves a UDRP complainant’s statement. UDRP complainants and their lawyers make all sorts of claims when filing UDRPs. Sometimes they make assertions that are false, and sometimes these are honest mistakes. But at wh...
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Did “Netbank” lie, or was it just inept in this UDRP?
A quick look at archives disproves a UDRP complainant’s statement. UDRP complainants and their lawyers make all sorts of claims when filing UDRPs. Sometimes they make assertions that are false, and sometimes these are honest mistakes. But at wh...
Discussion
September 14, 2012, 10:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Amazon’s Quidsi to launch Afterschool.com offering equipment for after school activities.
Latest niche store to offer equipment for afterschool activities. In June I scooped that Amazon.com subsidiary Quidsi was working on a new site call Afterschool.com. This is the second Quidsi site I’ve scooped thanks to domain registrations. Af...
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Amazon’s Quidsi to launch Afterschool.com offering equipment for after school activities.
Latest niche store to offer equipment for afterschool activities. In June I scooped that Amazon.com subsidiary Quidsi was working on a new site call Afterschool.com. This is the second Quidsi site I’ve scooped thanks to domain registrations. Af...
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September 13, 2012, 9:46 am
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UDRP panel gets LivingSocal.com decision correct
Socal may be a typo of social.com, but it also means something. I frequently write about when UDRP panels make the wrong decision, and sometimes that’s the case even when they find for the respondent. Some domainers give me grief for it, but I ...
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UDRP panel gets LivingSocal.com decision correct
Socal may be a typo of social.com, but it also means something. I frequently write about when UDRP panels make the wrong decision, and sometimes that’s the case even when they find for the respondent. Some domainers give me grief for it, but I ...
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September 13, 2012, 9:29 am
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Why Sale.com has everything to do with “Right of the Dot”
It’s left of the dot, but it’s going to benefit from the right of the dot. When I first saw the press release today about Right of the Dot brokering Sale.com, I had a chuckle. What is a company named “right of the dot” doing s...
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Why Sale.com has everything to do with “Right of the Dot”
It’s left of the dot, but it’s going to benefit from the right of the dot. When I first saw the press release today about Right of the Dot brokering Sale.com, I had a chuckle. What is a company named “right of the dot” doing s...
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September 12, 2012, 10:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
On day of iPhone 5 announcement, iPhone5.com sits dark
Apple owns the domain name but does nothing with it. Back in May Apple did something smart: it went after the iPhone5.com domain name well in advance of the launch of the new device. A week after Apple filed a complaint with World Intellectual Proper...
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On day of iPhone 5 announcement, iPhone5.com sits dark
Apple owns the domain name but does nothing with it. Back in May Apple did something smart: it went after the iPhone5.com domain name well in advance of the launch of the new device. A week after Apple filed a complaint with World Intellectual Proper...
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September 12, 2012, 3:40 pm
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Some big names make domain purchases
Fortune 500 Yum! Brands among this week’s domain buyers. This week’s end user sales list is a little shorter than usual, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there were fewer end user buys last week. I generate this list by looking thr...
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Some big names make domain purchases
Fortune 500 Yum! Brands among this week’s domain buyers. This week’s end user sales list is a little shorter than usual, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there were fewer end user buys last week. I generate this list by looking thr...
Discussion
September 12, 2012, 1:56 pm
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Like I was saying… Go Daddy wasn’t hacked or attacked
Guy on twitter says he took Go Daddy down. Press bites. Yesterday dozens (hundreds?) of “respectable” publications reported that Go Daddy was hacked, and that it was done by a hacker who was part of anonymous. This morning I tweeted: &ldq...
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Like I was saying… Go Daddy wasn’t hacked or attacked
Guy on twitter says he took Go Daddy down. Press bites. Yesterday dozens (hundreds?) of “respectable” publications reported that Go Daddy was hacked, and that it was done by a hacker who was part of anonymous. This morning I tweeted: &ldq...
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September 11, 2012, 11:44 am
