The Homeland Security Department, announced today some time limitations on how long border agents can hold on to devices they seize at the border. As we pointed out last year in a post, when you come into the United States your laptop and cell phone, along with all your other possession are subject to search and seizure, whether you’re a visitor to the US or a citizen returning into the … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2009
Auction.com Rings Up $32 Million In Sales
REDC the company that bought the domain auction.com for just $1.7 million earlier this year, announced that they just completed an online nationwide foreclosed property sale, using the domain auction.com. The sale generated $31.7 Million in sales. The online auction using auction.com, offered 770 assets in 45 states and saw traffic from thousands of online bidders from August 3 through … [Read more...]
Is Google Going Into The Loan Service Business? LendingTree.com Files Suit
Is Google going to start competing against its own advertisers? According to a suit filed Tuesday by LendingTree.com, they might be planning to. LendingTree filed suit against Mortech Inc. in federal court, claiming that Mortech is violating an exclusive agreement with LendingTree, by setting up a competing loan-referral service will reveal LendingTree trade secrets to Google, by working … [Read more...]
New American Bar Association Trademark Chairman Is Focused On Domain & Online Issues: Get Ready
Today an lawyer, Anthony Biller, Esq., a Member of the law firm of, Coats and Bennett, has been appointed to chair the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Committee on Trademark Litigation. According to the press release Mr. Biller in his roll as chairman of ABA committee is concerned with several issues including: "The potential expansion of domain name infringement, or “cybersquatting”, … [Read more...]
Breaking News: .Cm “Go Live” Postponed; Again
Well, in what now seems to be now an "official continuing saga", the .cm registry has postponed for a second time, the 'Go Live' registration period, which was to begin at 8pm EST tonight. Once again the delay seems to be due to "technical issues". Once again the postponement was announced just minutes before the "Go Live" was to go live. (thanks to our friends at Moniker.com for passing … [Read more...]
.Cm Live Registrations Start At 8PM EST Tonight
The .CM registry has announced that the "Go Live" registrations for .cm domains opens at 8PM EST tonight. This means, you will be able to register any available .cm domain for registration fees. Many of the top domain registrars will start accepting live registrations for .cm domains. Moniker.com for example is charging $119 a year, for a live registration, with a one year minimum, while … [Read more...]
NameJet: .CM Pre-Orders Yield 11,000 Registrations: 4,500 Domains Going To Auction
According to NameJet.com, the central clearing house for all .CM Pre-orders, they received over 36,000 Pre-orders for .CM domains. Out of the 36,000 Pre-orders, 15,500 were for unique domain names. 11,000 domains only had one pre-order and will be processed today and tomorrow and will go be awarded for the registration fee of $350, for a two year registration. These domains show a status … [Read more...]