This is another post in a continuing series on how big brands are missing and allowing third parties the opportunity to register domain names that are bang on domain names dealing with well known and trademarked products. These are not typo's. They are domain names of trademark products. These are just some of the domains we tracked that got registered by someone other than the trademark … [Read more...]
Coca-Cola Puts Smiley Face Emojis Into Web Address Using .WS Domains
Ad week is reporting that Coca-Cola Puerto Rico that puts smiley-face emojis right in the brand's web addresses. The brand registered URLs for every emoji that conveys happiness. Entering any of these happy icons into a mobile web browser, along with the .ws suffix, leads users to Coca-Cola Puerto Rico's website. Ad Week goes on to say: Why .ws, which is … [Read more...]
Tech.Co “What’s In A Domain Name ?”
Ann Diab wrote a piece on Tech.co that featured Howard Lefkowitz who keynoted NamesCon 2015. The article delves into the deeper meaning of a brand, that it is not just the advertising or how catchy it sounds. The article also includes a video of the NamesCon keynote speech. In a very interesting analysis, Lefkowitz points out that books .com, shoes .com, and even search .com are rarely used and … [Read more...]
Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Domain Names Are Property
Cincinnati.com published an article on a Minnesota court case that declared domain names are property and subject to garnishment. (TIP of the Cap to George Kirikos who tweeted out the story) Back in December of 2013 John Berryhill left a comment that I felt was good enough to be its own post, John spoke of why domain investors really don't want domain names to be property. From the … [Read more...]
To The CEO Of ICANN Fadi Chehade: Do You Think Vodafone Is The Biggest Domain Hogger?
Two weeks ago we called out the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade, for some remarks he made in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com to wit: “The reality is, the more there are names (new gTLD’s), less people will actually be hogging names in order to charge a lot for them. Theregister.co.uk then followed up by reporting on the story which included my blog post At the ICANN meeting this … [Read more...]
Cremation.com Sues Cremations.com, Sold By FMA For TM Infringement & Seeks Transfer of Domain
In a pretty unusual case, Directors Advantage, Inc., of Clinton NC, owner of the domain name Cremation.com filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Cremations.com, for cybersquatting under the Federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d), "stemming from wide-ranging aggressive, unethical, and unlawful sales practices and bad faith actions of the registrant of … [Read more...]
Vice.com Covers Gary Millin of World.com “The Man Squatting on Millions of Dollars Worth of Domains”
Vice.com just did a story of about Gary Millin of World.com who has one of the great domain name Portfolio's in the world. Unfortunately the author of the story, Jason Koebler chose to go with the "S" word to describe the amazing portfolio of assets they have put together ("Squatting") rather using the … [Read more...]