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Facebook not holding on to all recovered typo domains
Company lets domain expire that was recovered in lawsuit. Facebook has been on the hunt over the past year to capture typos of its domain names. But it’s not holding on to all of them. For example, last year the company filed a massive cybersqu...
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Facebook not holding on to all recovered typo domains
Company lets domain expire that was recovered in lawsuit. Facebook has been on the hunt over the past year to capture typos of its domain names. But it’s not holding on to all of them. For example, last year the company filed a massive cybersqu...
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April 11, 2012, 9:46 am
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy sold 42,321 aftermarket domains last month
Company continues to churn out aftermarket sales including a couple for six figures. I’m a bit behind checking in on GoDaddy’s auction sales report for last month. But it was a great month for the service. In total it sold 42,321 domains,...
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GoDaddy sold 42,321 aftermarket domains last month
Company continues to churn out aftermarket sales including a couple for six figures. I’m a bit behind checking in on GoDaddy’s auction sales report for last month. But it was a great month for the service. In total it sold 42,321 domains,...
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April 10, 2012, 9:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Event planner sues ICANN over San Francisco gala
Company says it had a contract with ICANN to plan gala. San Francisco event planning company Corporate Concepts (warning: music on home page) has sued ICANN (pdf), saying the non-profit breached a contract to run the gala at its San Francisco meeting...
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Event planner sues ICANN over San Francisco gala
Company says it had a contract with ICANN to plan gala. San Francisco event planning company Corporate Concepts (warning: music on home page) has sued ICANN (pdf), saying the non-profit breached a contract to run the gala at its San Francisco meeting...
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April 10, 2012, 2:57 pm
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Go Daddy gets patent for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”
Go Daddy gets another patent. Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC has been granted U.S. patent number 8,156,180 for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”. I wrote about this patent application when it was published last year. It describes...
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Go Daddy gets patent for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”
Go Daddy gets another patent. Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC has been granted U.S. patent number 8,156,180 for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”. I wrote about this patent application when it was published last year. It describes...
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April 10, 2012, 11:42 am
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Neustar launches new .US branding campaign “Kickstart America”
Company pitches .US domains to small businesses. Neustar, the registry for the .us country code domain name, has launched a new marketing strategy today aimed at small businesses. As part of the new branding the company has relaunched About.us and cr...
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Neustar launches new .US branding campaign “Kickstart America”
Company pitches .US domains to small businesses. Neustar, the registry for the .us country code domain name, has launched a new marketing strategy today aimed at small businesses. As part of the new branding the company has relaunched About.us and cr...
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April 10, 2012, 10:20 am
Domain Name Wire
JustinTV.com sold for $32,500 on eBay and just got hit with a UDRP
Buyer may learn an expensive lesson. In February a Chile man bought the domain name JustinTV.com for $32,500 on eBay. JustinTV.com is, of course, often mistakenly typed in by people looking for the popular live TV site Justin.tv. This wasn’t a ...
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JustinTV.com sold for $32,500 on eBay and just got hit with a UDRP
Buyer may learn an expensive lesson. In February a Chile man bought the domain name JustinTV.com for $32,500 on eBay. JustinTV.com is, of course, often mistakenly typed in by people looking for the popular live TV site Justin.tv. This wasn’t a ...
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April 9, 2012, 7:42 pm
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Bain & Company takes fight with BainConsultingGroup.com owner to court
Consulting firm sues man for copyright and trademark infringement of Bain name. Bain & Company, one of the world’s most prestigious management consulting firms and a former employer of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is taking a Colorad...
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Bain & Company takes fight with BainConsultingGroup.com owner to court
Consulting firm sues man for copyright and trademark infringement of Bain name. Bain & Company, one of the world’s most prestigious management consulting firms and a former employer of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is taking a Colorad...
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April 9, 2012, 10:39 am
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No .Facebook and .Pepsi?
Spokesperson tells AdAge that the company isn’t apply for .Facebook TLD. According to an article just published by AdAge, you shouldn’t expect Facebook to apply for .Facebook nor should you expect to navigate to .pepsi any time soon. Of c...
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No .Facebook and .Pepsi?
Spokesperson tells AdAge that the company isn’t apply for .Facebook TLD. According to an article just published by AdAge, you shouldn’t expect Facebook to apply for .Facebook nor should you expect to navigate to .pepsi any time soon. Of c...
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April 8, 2012, 10:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
New gTLD hopefuls play trademark games in EU, too
French lawyer with ICANN, NAF, and WIPO connections helps new TLD applicants file trademarks for prospective top level domains. I’ve chronicled many of the attempts by new gTLD hopefuls to “frontrun” trademarks for new TLDs in the U...
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New gTLD hopefuls play trademark games in EU, too
French lawyer with ICANN, NAF, and WIPO connections helps new TLD applicants file trademarks for prospective top level domains. I’ve chronicled many of the attempts by new gTLD hopefuls to “frontrun” trademarks for new TLDs in the U...
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April 6, 2012, 12:20 pm
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Domain Tools files preemptive lawsuit over copyright claims and its trademark
Domain Tools files lawsuit for declaratory relief on copyright and trademark issues. Domain Tools, LLC has filed suit (pdf) against a New Jersey man after he threatened to file a lawsuit against it and try to get its trademark for “Domain Tools...
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Domain Tools files preemptive lawsuit over copyright claims and its trademark
Domain Tools files lawsuit for declaratory relief on copyright and trademark issues. Domain Tools, LLC has filed suit (pdf) against a New Jersey man after he threatened to file a lawsuit against it and try to get its trademark for “Domain Tools...
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April 6, 2012, 10:15 am
