A new study by DNattorney.com suggests that a handful of domain name arbitrators are appointed to decide a disproportionate amount of cases. The National Arbitration Forum, which is accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a Dispute Resolution Provider. The NAF has administered approximately 10,000 such cases since 1999. The NAF has about 141 … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2010
Don’t Plan On Using .Co To Infringe On Trademarks: Registry Is First To Adopt Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) On Rollout.
.CO Internet, the company that is operating the .CO (Colombia) registry, announced that they will be the first registry to adopt the IRT IP clearinghouse and Global protected markets list and Uniform Rapid Suspension, when the registry rolls out the extension. The IP clearinghouse is a designated third party which assist brand owners by reviewing their trademarks to ensure that they meet the … [Read more...]
Adrenaline TLD Announces Plans To Spend $1M+ To Get 5 New gTLD’s: .Ski, .Bike, .Surf, .Board and .Skate
You probably have never heard of Adrenaline TLD LLC, however the company is very public about their plans to go after 5 new gTLD's. At the announced ICANN fee of $185K per, that almost $1M not counting all other fees and costs of becoming a registry for 5 gTLD's. The company announced that they are going to apply for .Ski, .Bike, .Surf, .Board and .Skate. The company plans on having … [Read more...]
Former Oversee Employees and Executive Starts SecondPorch.com & Get $1M In Funding
Several former Oversee employees, including its Co-founder are involved in a startup which announced they secured $1,000,000 in funding this week. The site SecondPorch.com, offers vacation homeowners an easier way to generate and manage high-value rental inquiries. Investors include the former CO-founder of Oversee.net, Fred Hsu and the Oregon Angel Fund. Another former Snapnames … [Read more...]
D.TV & P.TV: How Did They Get Registered At Dynadot Last Night For Less Than $22
Lost in the .TV talk today are two of the best possible .tv domains, single letter .tv domains that appearently got registered yesterday. Neither of these domains were on the list of premium .TV domains released by Enom last night. The domains, D.tv and P.tv are showing as being registered yesterday. The domains were registered by the same lucky person located in China using the registrar … [Read more...]
$5.5 Million In .TV Domains Up For Grabs Today, Winners & Losers
As you know by now the .TV registry released over 22,000 previously reserved domains, last night just after midnight. Here are some early observations: Of the 16 highest price domains, 7 of them were trademarked terms: pdf.tv 4630 mac.tv 4500 bbc.tv 4310 ibm.tv 3750 gmc.tv 3560 nfl.tv 3500 dlp.tv 3440 bbc.tv is going to be trouble. same for nfl.tv and dlp.tv. Regardless of … [Read more...]
Kentucky Supreme Court Reverses The Appeals Court On The 141 Seized Domains
The Kentucky Supreme Court today reversed the Kentucky Appeals court's decision that tossed out the seizure order issued on 141 gambling domain names. The 17 page ruling by the Supreme Court today (pdf) was really on a technical issue, that none of the parties that brought the suit against the Commonwealth had "standing". Standing is a legal term that means in very simple terms the only one … [Read more...]