On May 18 I wrote about BarclaysBank.com being sold for $3,003 on NameJet. The domain was registered in 1999 and owned by Roy Edward Messer the man who sold Vodka.com for $3 million in 2006. In the comments Roy said: roy e messer says May 18, 2020 at 6:50 am I tried multiple times to GIVE the name to Barclay and no one from the bank followed up on the transfer, thus, i let exprire. Well … [Read more...]
Google opposes trademark application on Floogle
Google is opposing the trademark registration of Floogle. A gentleman by the name of David Dennis filed an application for trademark on the word FLOOGLE. Goolgle claims it is likely to cause consumer confusion because of the similarities of the trademarks as both are also in connection with COVID-19 information websites. Google actually won a UDRP case on the domain name Floogle.org back in … [Read more...]
At what point does it become ok to own a reported stolen domain name?
There is quite the discussion going on at Namepros with regards to a domain name that was first reported stolen in 2007. Provenance is important in things like art and domain names. In an interview with Giuseppe Graziano, Nat Cohen was asked the following? What do you think needs to happen for the domain industry to outgrow its current status and for domains to become a widely held … [Read more...]
All things UDRP – an interview with Gerald M. Levine
Gerald M. Levine is the author of a critically acclaimed treatise on trademarks, domain names, & cybersquatting, Domain Name Arbitration, and the creator of a widely read Blog on domain name disputes and cybersquatting arbitrated under the UDRP and URS implemented by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers and analyzing the jurisprudence that has developed in that area of the … [Read more...]
There is a lot of naming speculation going on in the Sports world
There are a lot of name discussions going on in the world of sports. The Washington Football team retired their name after major brands threatened to pull out of sponsorship deals if a change was not made. Seattle has a new hockey team and they ended up going with a name I was hearing about from the very start, KRAKEN. The new team will be the Seattle Kraken. Kraken.com is a cryptocurrency … [Read more...]
It’s not just domain squatting but trademark squatting as well
The Washington football team of the NFL will be making an announcement today that they will being moving on from the name "Redskins" The new name will not be announced today but there has been a lot of speculation. Some have thought Washington Warriors, the interesting thing here, Daniel Snyder the majority owner of the Washington football organization, had purchased the rights to a Washington … [Read more...]
Googles vs Google
It seems before the search juggernaut came along there was a children's company called Googles Children’s Workshop. In 1997 they registered the trademark GOOGLES. They of course also registered the domain name Googles.com. The website did not launch until 1998 when that little company in Mountain View came on the scene. While they have many tm's Google's first tm looks to have been given in … [Read more...]
