On Monday Microsoft got a federal court in Alexandria, Va. to grant an order to deactivate hundreds of domain names that the company said were linked to botnet named Waledac. The court…
Month: February 2010
Godaddy Starts Affiliate Program @ 20% For All Customers On All Products
Go Daddy.com sent out a press release today announcing the broad opening of an an Affiliate program that pays commissions of 20% to any Godaddy customer that has a “shopper account”. An…
Italy Finds 3 Google Execs Guilty Criminally For Online Videos Posted On Google Video
In what could be a legal decision having wide implications around the world, an Italian judge on Wednesday held three Google executives criminally responsible for an online video of an autistic teenager…
Baidu.com Launches It New Media Site Using a LLLL: QIYI.com
China’s largest search engine Baidu.com announced today it is going to launch an independent online video website subsidiary under the brand name Qiyi.com. The subsidiary’s CEO Gong Yu said the “Qiyi” video…
WIPO: You Need To Know The Trademarks Of Mexico Too
In a case involving the domain name, Bachoco.com, a one person WIPO panel held in favor of the trademark holder. The term Bachoco is the subject of a trademark registered in Mexico…
Why The ICA Objected To The Contract To Run The .XXX Extension In 2007 & Still Does
Back In February 2007 the Internet Commerce Association (the”ICA”) wrote to ICANN objecting to the contract ICANN was considering entering into the ICM Registry to run the .xxx extension. With the ICM…
Google Sued By Advertiser For Dropping Its Quality Score & Increasing Prices 10,000%
Domainers are all too well aware of the quality scores that Google imposes on publishers/domainers which winds up adjusting the payments that publishers/domainers receive for the traffic it sends to Google. Google…