The High Court in England ruled today that 5 of the UK's largest internet service providers (ISP's) have been ordered to prevent their subscribers from accessing the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. The five ISP's are Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media. According to zdnet.co.uk, blocking will "come into place over the course of the next few weeks" "The High … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2012
Hermes Gets $100 Million Dollar Damage Award Against 34 Sites Selling Fake Goods & Judge Orders De-Indexing
According to sfgate.com, A Federal Court in New York just awarded Hermes International $100 million dollars in damages against 34 websites that sold fake copies of its goods. The fake goods were for "at least nine Hermes products including Birkin and Kelly handbags, wallets, watches, belts and jewelry". Some of the websites were: HermesBags- … [Read more...]
ICANN Eliminates Friday Public Board Meeting At Future Conferences
According to a new announcement starting with the June ICANN meeting ICANN is eliminating the Board meeting typically held on the last day of the conference, Friday which includes committee reports and the public Board meeting. In some past conference the Friday Board meeting have been kind of exciting with voting on .XXX and the new gTLD program hanging in the air. But at the last ICANN … [Read more...]
BuyDomains.com Gets Hit With 3rd UDRP In A Week With Visible Difference.com
Buydomains.com just got hit with another UDRP this time on the descriptive term VisibleDifference.com The complainant this go around is the worldwide cosmetic brand of Elizabeth Arden which uses the term for a skin care product. The domain name is parked and pulls up results for anti-aging skin products and other skin cremes. However I couldn't find a Trademark in the USPTO for the term … [Read more...]
Demand Media Jumps 40% In Pre-Market
Following the story this weekend that Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) turned down an offer of $1.2 Billion dollars a 100% premium to its closing price of Friday, it looks like Demand is going to open Way up this morning. In pre-market trading shares of Demand are up almost 40% currently at $9.95 a gain of $2.70 from Friday's close. We will let you know later today how the stock fared. … [Read more...]
Blog.com With 8.5 Million Visitors a Month Hits The Sales Block
The category killer domain name Blog.com is hitting the sales block. Blog.com is being brokered by Sedo.com, and according to its press release has an Alexa Traffic Rank just above 700. "Blog.com currently hosts a fully-featured online publishing platform that launched in January 2010 with great success." "Immediately, the site attracted upwards of 3 million unique monthly visitors and, since … [Read more...]
Demand Media Turns Down $1.2 Billion To Go Private
Allthingsd.com is reporting that Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) turned down $1.2 Billion dollars in a deal that would have taken the company private this past week. The current market cap of Demand Media is $620 Million at the closing share price on Friday of around $7.25 a share. Demand is off 65% of its market cap when it went public at $17 a share. "According to the report, "Demand Media was … [Read more...]