Lawrence Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator in a blog post yesterday asked everyone to weight in on the ICANN transition away from the United States Supervisory Roll. "I urge all parties with an interest in the IANA transition to review these proposals and provide feedback to the working groups. This is the best way to make your voice … [Read more...]
How Did the UDRP Panel In Chooser.com Not Find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking?
Chooser S.A. of Jodoigne, Belgium just lost its attempt to grab the domain name Chooser.com in a UDRP. The Belgium company didn't have any registered trademark but attempted to grab the domain name based on a "common law mark" they alleged but could not prove, that they owned the domain back in "2010 when due to an error by someone in the IT department they let the domain drop." The UDRP … [Read more...]
.Online Tops 550 Sunrise Registrations With 15 Days To Go
Radix the owner of the new gTLD .Online told TheDomains.com today that the number of Sunrise domain name registrations for .Online by trademark holders have exceeded 550 with over 15 days to go. The .Online Sunrise period for trademark holders ends on 17th August, and will be followed by an Early Access Phase from 19th to 26th Aug. General Availability starts on August 26th, 2015. The … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports Over $1 Million In Domain Sales In July
Namejet.com just reported over $1 Million in domain name sales in July led by SX.com which sold for $555,050 As usual, only sales of $2,000 or more are included in the report and only those domain names that were paid for by the end of … [Read more...]
Trump Trademarked “Make America Great Again” in 2012 but Missed The .Com When Dropped in 2014
Its pretty hard to find a picture of Donald Trump in the last few weeks not wearing a baseball cap with his now famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential run of "Make America Great Again' You might be surprised to find out that The Donald filed a trademark on the term back in November 2012. However the trademark was filed for opposition in 2013 and not finally granted until July, 14th … [Read more...]
Fed Court of Appeals Affirms Dismal Of Name.Space’s Claim Against ICANN’s New gTlD Program
The United States' Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of antitrust and other claims against ICANN made by a company called name.space, related to ICANN's new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Program, in an opinion published today In 2013, a federal district court dismissed all of name.space's claims, and today the Ninth Circuit affirmed that dismissal in all respects. … [Read more...]
KraftHeinz.com Registered The Same Day the Merger Was Announced Lost in UDRP
A one member UDRP panel awarded the domain name kraftheinz.com was registered on March 25, 2015, the same day the merger between Kraft Foods Group, and H.J. Heinz Company was announced. The decision was published in Korean and we used Google translate. The panel said: "Registering a domain name that combines the names of the target company by merger or a merger between companies that act … [Read more...]