In a letter sent to ICANN yesterday by Verisign's Chuck Gomes, Vice President, Policy of VeriSign, Inc. responded to the response he received from his initil letter to ICANN seeking to "set the record straight" As the previous two letters its worth a read: Dear Cyrus, I was disappointed by your October 3, 2013, response to my August 30 letter to Fadi. But before I tell you why, let me … [Read more...]
PPA Media Services / Ryan G Foo Loses 3 Separate UDRP’s In One Day & His 56th Overall
PPA Media Services / Ryan G Foo lost three separate UDRP decisions with three separate complainants all handed down yesterday. In the 1st case brought by Sirius XM Radio Inc., the domain at issue as the typo Sriusxm.com amazingly it took the trademark holder 7 years to being the UDRP: "Complainant argues that Respondent registered the sriusxm.com domain name on July 29, 2008, one day after … [Read more...]
UDRP: FlowGuard.com Barred By Laches To Get 17 Year Old Domain Name Flow-Guard.com
CoorsTek, Inc. which owns the domain name FlowGuard.com lost its bid to grab the domain name flow-guard.com with the majority of the panel finding that the trademark holder waited to long and was barred by the doctrine of latches from making the complaint. FlowGuard.com was registered on March 24, 1998. Flow-Guard.com was registered on August 15th, 1996 The domain holder was represented … [Read more...]
First 4 New gTLD’s (ALL IDN’s) Cleared By ICANN To Go To Delegation
According to an announcement by ICANN, today, the first four domains from ICANN’s New Generic Top-Level Domains Program were cleared to proceed to delegation. These first new gTLDs, or strings, are: شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) – the Arabic word for “Web” or “Network” Registry : International Domain Registry Pty. Ltd. онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Russian for “Online” Registry: Core Association сайт … [Read more...]
DrugMaker Loses UDRP On Domain Name Diet-Xenical.com
Drug manufacturer Hoffmann-La Roche just lost a UDRP on the domain name diet-xenical.com. Its a pretty amazing decision considering that Xenical is a trademark term for a diet drug, the domain holder didn't even response to the complaint and the domain resolves to a website that advertises Generic Xenical for sale. Here are the relevant findings from the one member panel: The disputed … [Read more...]
Starting Today, Twitter Allows You To Schedule Your Tweets For Publication Up to A Year In Advance
According to a blog post on Twtter.com, starting today, all marketers using Twitter’s Ad Products can schedule organic or Promoted Tweets for specific dates and times up to a year in advance. These can be coordinated to go live with new or existing Promoted Tweet campaigns to enable you to plan your real-time campaigns at your convenience. With scheduled Tweets, you can publish content at … [Read more...]
Sedo Launches Site In Chinese: Sedo.cn
Sedo, unveiled a new Chinese website today, according to a press release we just received, "expanding its international reach to serve China's 591 million Internet users and more than one billion Chinese speakers around the world". "With the addition of a Chinese-language site, Sedo now offers a platform that powers domain related services and transactions in 7 languages, and support from a … [Read more...]