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• Horrible UDRP Ruling; No Trademark; No Bad Faith & No RDNH On 14 Year Old...

  A one person UDRP panel rejected the attempt of the The Restored Church of God of Wadsworth, Ohio, to steal the domain name RT.org from Alexa Properties, LLC... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN Publishes “Changes to Registry Agreement for New gTLDs”

  ICANN has just posted the  Revised Registry Agreement for Review “In the interest of transparency and accountability ICANN is providing the latest revision of... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• .CO To Launch IDN’s In Chinese, Japanese and Korean on April 15th

  According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 12 Year After Losing UDRP, College Sues Graduate For $100K Over Same Domain

  In a story that appeared in ChristianPost.com, Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Fla. has filed a suit against a former graduate  Peter Gage over the... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Investors Business Daily Covers Mike Mann

  Investor’s Business Daily Just Covered Domainer Mike Mann the founder of DomainMarket.com “Among the best-known companies in domain names are Demand Media... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Freshlook.com Purchased For $3,500 In SnapNames Auction In Feb Lost In UDRP

  Freshlook.com a domain bought at a SnapNames.com drop auction for over $3,500 in Feburary has just been lost in a UDRP. The UDRP, which we wrote about when it... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Adweek: As New gTLD’s Roll Out “Marketers & Media Outlets Will Spend Millions”

  In a new post by AdWeek.com entitled:  “Brands Facing Dot-Com Domain Identity Crisis. As Icann readies roll out, marketers and media outlets will spend millions... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• YouTube Co-founder Chad Hurley Buys MixBit.com For $2,088 On Afternic To Start...

  The Co-founder of YouTube Chad Hurley just announced announced on Twitter that he was  launching his new Video site, MixBit.com which he purchased on... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Godaddy.com Sells Over 42K Domain Names In March

  Godaddy.com posted its sales totals for March 2013, reporting 42,600 domain sold on its platform in March. This is a substantial increase over February where... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• King.com Drops The .Com & Rebrands As King

  

  According to Socialnewsdaily.com, King.com has re-branded itself by dropping the .com and going with just King, to celebrate it 10 year anniversary. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• JD.com Bought by China’s Jingdong Which Has 35 Million Active Users

  

  The domain name JD.com has been purchased by China’s leading direct B2C e-commerce company, Jingdong , who announced today that effective immediately, it’s... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• 27 More New gTLD Applications Pass Initial Evaluation

  ICANN just passed  27 more new gTLD applications today bringing the total of passed applications to 52. Included in today list an application from Verisign... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• UDRP Panel Gives 30 Rock/SNL Star Tracy Morgan Control Of TracyMorgan.com

  A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) UDRP panel just awarded the domain name TracyMorgan.com to 30 Rock and former SNL star, Tracy Morgan. Tracy... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• WIPO: UDRP 2012: Complainants Win 91%; Parties Settle 20% of Cases

  Here are UDRP stats of cases filed under WIPO in 2012: Trademark holders filed a record 2,884 cybersquatting cases covering 5,084 Internet domain names with... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Add Edward Smith To The Reverse Domain Hijacking List

  A three member UDRP panel has found Edward Smith of Riverside California, Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in the attempt grab of the domain name... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• After Offering To Buy Domain For $15K, 6 Years Ago TM Holder Loses UDRP

  Zija International, Inc. of  Utah just lost its UDRP bid to get control of the domain name zija.com, a domain it repeatedly tried to buy from the domain holder... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Motorola Objects To Demand Media’s Application for .Moto

  Motorola Trademark Holdings LLC has filed a Legal Rights  Objection to Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) application for the new gTLD domain name . Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Frank Schilling Rolls Out BIN Prices On 35K Domains, As Low As $4,990

  Frank Schilling company, Name Administration, has apparently jumped on the Buy It Now pricing wagon, by listing around 35,000 of this domain names with Buy It... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• Defender Security Files Objections To All 9 Other .Home Applicants

  Defender Security Company which is an applicant for  the new gTLD .Home under DotHome Ltd, filed a Legal Rights Objection against the 9 other applicants for... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH

• ICANN: GAC Expects To Deliver Advice On New gTLDs In Beijing

  ICANN has posted that the Government Advisory Council (GAC) Expects to Deliver Advice on New gTLDs in Beijing “”With the GAC Member Early Warnings phase... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 BUSINESS, TECH