The Complainants Columbia Insurance Company of Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America; and H.H. Brown Shoe Company, Inc. of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States of America, just won a UDRP on the domain name carolinaboots.com. The trademark holder didn't own a trademark on the term "carolina boots" but owned a trademark on the term CAROLINA which covered shoes and boots. The trademark … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
YouTube.com Rolling Out Paid Channels
According to AdAge.com, YouTube.com is prepping to launch paid subscriptions for individual channels on its video platform as early as the 2nd quarter of this year with the first paid channels to cost between $1 and $5 a month. The article quotes YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar as saying: "If we have a subscription model then absolutely that's something that becomes possible." "We have long … [Read more...]
Final Webfest Auction List Released
The final list of the domain names to be auctioned off as part of the Webfest conference was been released by Moniker.com/SnapNames.com The live domain auction will be held on, Wednesday February 6 at 4:00pm Pacific Time. Prebidding is now live on SnapNames.com, where there is already some $35,000 in prebids. There are .com's., .net's, .Me and .Ca domains up for sale. The domain with … [Read more...]
Supermodel Cindy Crawford Wins The Domain CindyCrawford.com In A UDRP
Cindy Crawford whose full name is Cynthia Ann Crawford ,won the rights to the domain name CindyCrawford.com in a UDRP decision handed down today, by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Now that the decision is out its clear that the Supermodel never owned the domain, despite that the whois for many years showed her as the owner of the domain, and that the domain was pointed to … [Read more...]
Enom New gTLD Program Joining Parallels
eNom, a top 5 ICANN accredited registrar, and Parallels, worldwide leader in hosting and cloud service enablement and desktop virtualization, today announced the inclusion of eNom’s new Top Level Domain (TLD) program in the latest version of Parallels Plesk Panel and in Parallels Domain Name Network (DNN). According to the press release out today, additionally, Chris Sheridan, vice president of … [Read more...]
Yahoo Reports: Search Revenue Up 4%; Paid Clicks Up 11%; Price Per Click Falls 2%
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. The market liked the report as shares of Yahoo are up over 3% to $20.95 in after hours trading. As you can see below revenue from search was up 4% for the 4th Quarter of 2012 and up 2% for the year. GAAP revenue was $1,346 million for the fourth quarter of 2012, a 2% increase from the … [Read more...]
Google+ Passes Twitter To Become 2nd Largest Social Network
According to British research firm Trendstream's Global Web Index, Google+ is now the 2nd largest social network, passing Twitter. Here are the ranking according to Trendstream: 1. Facebook: 693 million monthly users, 51% of all internet users 2. Google+: 343 million monthly users, 25% of all internet users 3. Twitter: 288 million monthly users, 21% of all internet users 4. … [Read more...]