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• Ambit.com Purchaed In 2010 Saved in UDRP From Billion Dollar Company

  Ambit Holdings, L.L.C. who held a trademark on the term Ambit just lost a UDRP on the domain name ambit.com The domain holder which also formed a corporation... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Nokia & Mark Monitor.com Put up Plum.com For Sale In SnapNames Auction

  Nokia Corporation has put one of its domain names up for sale on SnapNames.com. The domain name Plum.com is the Moniker Premium Spring Auction that just... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• MiTek USA, Inc Withdraws All 4 Of Its New gTLD Applications Making It 43...

  MiTek USA, Inc. has withdrawn all four of its new gTLD applications. The withdrawn is now reflected in ICANN’s website. The four new gTLD’s applications were fo... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses 21 Facebook Domains In One UDRP

  Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings of Potomac, Maryland just lost a UDRP to Facebook, Inc on 21 domain names which it didn’t even respond to The domain at issue... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Acquires YT.Be To Use As YouTube Shorterner

  According to Thenextweb.com, Google has acquired the domain name YT.be, which it started forwarding to its goo.gl URL shortening service today. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• CADNA Wants ACPA Amended To Increase Penalties & Cover PPC Providers & Parking...

  The Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) issued a paper last night calling for lawmaker to increase the penalties for Cybersquatters and to expand the... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• The GAC Puts The Brakes on Hundreds of New gTLD Applications Including Closed...

  The GAC issued Its Advice from the ICANN meeting in Beijing and its a long one. The very long list effecting hundreds of applications which is going to push bac... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD Trademark Clearing House By The Numbers: 323 TM Holders, 450 TM: $15K T...

  There are some interesting numbers coming out of the Trademark Clearing House Session at the ICANN meeting today To dare there are 323 trademark holders that... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 2 More Objections Hit The ICC: .Rugby & .Insurance

  A couple of more objection have hit the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) site today as part of ICANN new gTLD program The International Rugby Board... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Purva.com Bought In May 2012 Saved in UDRP: Godaddy Placeholder May Have Saved It

  The Complainant is Puravankara Projects Limited of Bangalore, Karnataka, India,  just lost a UDRP on the domain name purva.com which turns out to be a pretty... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Starts “Public Conversation” On ICANN’s Future & Wants Your Input

  As Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President & CEO, announced this week, that ICANN has launched a public conversation about ICANN’s future. ICANN has posted on its... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .XXX Paid Search Engine Is Now Live

  We just got an email from the ICM Registry that the .XXX paid Search Engine is now Live. Search.XXX is a search engine for just sites using a .XXX domains and... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 BUSINESS, LOVE & SEX, TECH

• NiceCar.com Owned For 13 Years Lost in Horrible UDRP Decision

  In another horribly lazy opinion, the domain name NiceCar.com was just awarded to NICE CAR, INC. by a one member UDRP panelist Sandra J. Franklin to a... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Monaco Wins Rights To MonteCarloVodka.com In UDRP

  In January we told you that  the Government of Monaco, officially; Gouvernement de la Principauté de Monaco SAM Marques de l’Etat de Monaco filed a UDRP... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• GAC Is Concerned About Plural & Singular Generic New gTLD’s

  The Government Advisory Council (GAC) has an open meeting with the ICANN Board late yesterday afternoon in Beijing and shared some of its concerns with the... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD

  In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Donuts Secures Additional New gTLD Funding For Auctions

  Donuts Inc., the applicant for the largest number of new gTLD strings, announced tonight that is has closed on  “Series B equity investment which was... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Horizon Publishing Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On Opulence.com

  Horizon Publishing, LLC which is based in Ft Lauderdale, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Opulence.com How... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• One Week After Launch The First UDRP For A .PW Is Filed By Morgan Stanley

  Less than two weeks after the .PW registry went live for domain name registrations,  the first UDRP on a .Pw has been filed. The .PW Registry went live on... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Ontario Court Rules In Favor Of George Kirikos On Pupa.com & Awards $4,500 In...

  George Kirikos company, Leap Of Faith Financial Services,  (Leap) just won a declaratory judgement that is was the lawful owner of the domain name Pupa. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH