According to Gamblingcompliance.com, the Supreme Court of Kentucky "ruled yesterday that two trade groups representing over 60 of the internet addresses in question did not have standing to litigate on behalf of those addresses or their owners." Back In March of this year, the owners of TruePoker.com allowed the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association and the Interactive … [Read more...]
Uk Company EasyGroup Seems To Think It Own The Word “Easy” As Its Claims EasyDate Is Infringing On Their Mark
According to several news sources, a UK company, EasyGroup has notified another public UK company, EasyDate that it is infringing on its intellectual property Easy Group which owns intellectual property rights for the family of trade marks used by a group of companies which includes easyJet, easyHotel, easyCar, easyBus, easyJobs, easyVan, easyOffice and easy.com. easyGroup says they also … [Read more...]
eBook.com Hits The Auction Block With 4.5 Million Unique Visitors A Year
From Amazon's Kindle to Apple's ibooks there hasn't been a much hotter topic than ebooks over the last year. The domain name eBook.com is now at auction. The company that owns the domain eBook.com, DNAML PTY LTD (DNAML) says they are "exiting the eBook retailing business" and engaged Viant Capital to sell the domain URL, the #1 organic search result for "ebook" across all major search … [Read more...]
Adult Domain Auction Starts With Some Of The Best Adult Domains On The Planet
The Webmaster Access GFY/HuntingMoon Domain Auction Powered by Moniker/SnapNames has just started. The auction features over 400 domain names which are mostly adult in nature including some of the best possible adult domains on the planet but which also includes domains with double meanings (could be adult or not adult) and domains which are clearly not adult. WARNING: THE LIST OF DOMAINS … [Read more...]
Bing.com Launches Rewards Program: Paying Users For Clicking Round 2
Microsoft has launched another attempt to get people to use it search engine by paying or in this case rewarding them to do so. The Bing Rewards Program unlike Microsoft's Live.com Search program that paid people cash to use it for searches, will reward people with items like gift cards, movies tickets and electronics to name a view rewards that can be earned. "Become a member of the Bing … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Brokers The Sale Of IPO.com For $500K
Talk about a killer domain at a great price, Sedo.com has just completed brokering the domain name IPO.com for $500K. Jeff Gabriel and Matt Rosebrook co-brokered the domain on behalf of Sedo.com Personally I think its one of the better buys of the year. I know the IPO market has been soft through the recession but we all know at some point in the next year or two this sector of the … [Read more...]
What The Anti Privacy Bill Means To Domainers
Yesterday several blogs reported on the bill proposed yesterday entitled the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act". (pdf) I spent a while today reviewing the bill to see what if any effect it could have on domainers. I also chatted with Phil Corwin general counsel that represents the Internet Commerce Association about the proposed law. Here are my thoughts: As I read … [Read more...]