Google has just published on its blog, a summary of the requests it received from Governments around the world to remove content from Google or one or more of its operated sites like YouTube.com The report is for the period from January 1, 2011-June 30, 2011. As for the US: "" We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
TechDirt: 20 More Domains Seized Over The Weekend
According to TechDirt.com 20 more domain names were seized over the weekend by ICE, part of the Department of Homeland Security. The domain names all allegedly involved sale of unauthorized NFL merchandise The list of domains seized: … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $630K in Domains Led By Averages.com for $20K
Afternic.com announced sales tonight for the week ending Sunday October 23rd In all $630,000 of domain names sold lead by Averages.com for $20K 23rd.com was a nice sale IMHO at $14K .com Sales … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells $654K In Reportable Domain Sales – Over $1.73M For The Week
Sedo.com just released its sales for the week with $653,924 in reportable sales, and a total of $1.73M sales from 871 names being sold through their marketplace. The reportable sales were led by callisto.com for €50,000 followed by cocomo.com for $33,000. Here is the complete list of reportable sales: … [Read more...]
Berryhill Wins UDRP For Channel.TV: But Why No Reverse Hijacking?
Mr. John Berryhill has just won another UDRP this time on a .TV domain, Channel.TV The Complaint was brought by Channel Television Limited of St Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom of Great Britain whom despite finding that they had "unregistered trademark rights" to the domain, found no bad faith by the registrants. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the three member panel: "The … [Read more...]
Luxembourg Offers Domain Companies Great Tax Advantages
Recently I learned of the tremendous tax treat the country of Luxembourg offers companies involved in domain names. I figured If I didn't know about it, a lot of you may not know about it as well. Its one of the few countries that have a special tax incentive program for Intellectual Property and specifically domains. Its starts with a tax rate of a ridiculously low 5.7% . Moreover you … [Read more...]
The Department of Commerence To Put The IANA Contract Up For Bid
The U.S. Government announced a few days its putting up the contract to run the the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) out for competitive bid starting November 4th and ending December 4th. ""The IANA functions include (1) the coordination of the assignment of technical Internet protocol parameters; (2) the administration of certain responsibilities associated with the Internet DNS root … [Read more...]