UBER PROMOTIONS, INC. a Florida corporation filed a federal lawsuit today against the the world famous Uber.com whose formal corporate name is UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC for trademark infringement, unfair competition under the Trademark Act of 1946, under Florida law and under common law. The Florida corporation alleged they had a website for transportation services started in Gainesville Florida … [Read more...]
Three Letter Domain Name TPP.Com Hit With UDRP
The domain name TPP.com has been hit with a UDRP The Complainant is unknown at the moment but the domain is owned on behalf of a client of MarkMonitor which generally means big corporate client and was owned earlier this year by Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc a client of MarkMonitor.com since at least 2005. There are at least 7 different trademarks for the world-famous term TPP in the USPTO … [Read more...]
.Com Tops 120 Million Total Domain Names & Over 119 Million Active Domains
Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names has topped 120 Million for the 1st time and likewise the number of domain names active in the .Com zone file top 119 million. The .Com domain name base which has topped 120 million domains is explained as: ""The domain name base is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured for use in the … [Read more...]
Sen. Cruz Asks The GAO to Determine Whether Obama Has “The Power to Give Away the Internet”
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is also running for President, along with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday … [Read more...]
One Direction Wins the Right to the Domain Name OneDirection.video
1D Media Limited of London, just won control of the domain name OneDirection.video in a UDRP on behalf of one of the most famous pop bands in the world. The one member panel of Richard G. Lyon awarded the domain on a pretty easy case saying "that the term ONE DIRECTION has no sensible or reasonable meaning that does not relate to the Complainant or its activities." The panelist found that … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Takes Over New gTLD .HIV
According to imstilljosh.com, who seems to be involved with the .HIV registry, the new gTLD string .HIV is being transferred to Uniregistry. ""Today, Uniregistry takes over the lead in this unique journey to use a top-level domain to promote a social good. The dotHIV charity will continue its work for .hiv and focus on community support. The creative agency thjnk from Hamburg, Germany, … [Read more...]
Study on Facebook Users: 14% Check It During A Funeral; 15% in The Shower
Stop Procrastinating published the results of a survey of 2,000 people that use Facebook Regularly and it contains some pretty interesting results: 56% described their Facebook use as compulsive and of these, 68% were worried by their inability to control their use of Facebook. Examples include: Leaving a restaurant meal with friends or their partner to visit the bathroom or toilet to … [Read more...]