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• ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector...

  Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• According To Alexa There Is No Traffic Leakage From Beat.La To BeatLa.com

  For those that think that branding a site on any non-.com is going to automatically lead to traffic bleed over to the matching .com I present the case of... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Report: Godaddy Acquires Locu.com For $70 Million

  

  GoDaddy, said it had acquired San Francisco startup Locu according to Allthingsd.com While the company did not disclose the terms of the deal, sources close to... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To New gTLD .Academy

  Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD . Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTL...

  Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block the New gTLD .Blue

  Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by th... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Car Maker Land Rover Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

  The car maker Jaguar/Land Rover Has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name MountainRovers.com. The domain name was  owned... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• So Now What Will Google Do With Its New gTLD Application For .Search

  Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google’s application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Domainer Marc Ostrofsky Author Of Get Rich Click, New Book: Word of Mouse: 101+...

  Domain inverstor and author, Marc Ostrofsky new book Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play is coming out on September 10th. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NY Times Covers New gTLD’s: “Like Derivatives on Wall Street, They Have No Value”

  The New Tork Times just covered the coming new gTLD’s and quotes a number of sources which give some juicy quotes like the one in the title which came from ... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Vice.com Sold By Anything.com In 2010 Gets $70 Million Dollar Investment From...

  According to a report in the Financial Times, Century Fox has invested $70 million in media company Vice Media, giving Fox a 5 percent stake in the company and... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Brand Protection Fail: This Weeks TM Domains Brands Let Drop & Get Registered...

  We have written over the years about brands, brand protection companies and dropping domain names which both brands and brand protection companies continue to... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 95 New gTLD Pass ICANN IE: .Visa; .College; .Casino; .Poker; .Hamburg; . Cologne...

  95 new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation today. Two Geographic applications passed today both a large German cities; .Cologne and .Hamburg Some generic... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN New gTLD Committee Kills Off Dotless Domains

  The new gTLD Committee of ICANN just killed off Dotless Domains according to a resolution published last night. Google notified ICANN that it modified  its... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 8 New gTLD Private Auctions Produce $9.65 Million

  Innovative Auctions today announced the successful completion of the second Applicant Auction. Winners in the auction will pay a total of $9,651,000 after... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Looks Like 1st New gTLD Private Auction For This Week Is Over As Donuts Loses &...

  It appears that the 1st of this weeks private auctions being held by Applicant Auction is completed as Donuts has withdrawn its application for .Casa on the... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• WIPO Denies Another Legal Rights Objection To .Music: Community Trademarks Of...

  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... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 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... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Files UDRP’s Against Mike Mann’s Domain Asse...

  

  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... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown Risk”...

  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 compellin... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 BUSINESS, TECH