The New Yorker Magazine just did a cover story on the new gTLD program entitled “The Great Internet Land Grab” “Suddenly reorganizing the way we navigate the web with new strings like…
Category: Domains
Brand Protection Fails: This Weeks Trademark Infringing Domains That Brands Let Drop & Get Registered By Others
Welcome to another installment in our continuing series of trademark infringing domain names that Brands allowed to let drop and wind up in third parties hands. Once again these are the same…
Police Officer In Jail For Buying Domains Of Police Chief & Pointing Them To Porn
According to turnto10.com the site of an NBC affiliate station in Rhode Island, “A Richmond police officer faces charges after state police said he purchased domain names containing variations of the chief’s…
Right Before Start Of Regular Season, The NFL Gains Control Of Almost 1K Bang On Domain Names
With the regular NFL season looking to kick off in just a couple of weeks the NFL gained control of just under 1,000 bang on domain names yesterday. The domain names were…
Louis Vuitton Files Federal Cybersquatting Suit over 98 Domain Names
For the 2nd day in a row a trademark holder has bypassed the UDRP process and went straight to federal court to file a suit over trademarked infringing domains. This time it…
According To Alexa There Is No Traffic Leakage From Beat.La To BeatLa.com
For those that think that branding a site on any non-.com is going to automatically lead to traffic bleed over to the matching .com I present the case of Beat.La. The domain…
Report: Godaddy Acquires Locu.com For $70 Million
GoDaddy, said it had acquired San Francisco startup Locu according to Allthingsd.com “While the company did not disclose the terms of the deal, sources close to the situation said it paid…