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 all transferred to the NFL's brand protection company MarkMonitor.com. The domain names had many different owners according to the whois records but many of the records appeared to have just made up information like the … [Read more...]
Napa Wine Association Letter to ICANN Makes It Clear They Should Have Applied For .Napa/.Wine Instead Of Just Whining
After reading the letter sent by Bruce Cakebread telling ICANN how the 500 members of the Napa Valley Vintners need protection from the new proposed gTLD's of .Wine and .Vin, I walked away thinking that the wine producers of Napa simply missed their chance to apply for .Napa and/or .Wine and now just want to whine about it. In his letter representing the association Mr. Cakebread told ICANN … [Read more...]
comScore: Yahoo Beats Google For 1st Time In Years Becoming Most Visited Websites
According to comScore, for the first time in several years, Yahoo (YHOO), web properties were the most visited in the country in July. With 196.6 million visitors who Yahoo properties compared to 192.3 million who visited Google for the first time since May 2011. Yahoo's unique visitors were up by roughly 20% compared to July of last year, when it came in third behind Google and Microsoft … [Read more...]
Looks Like A New Parking Company Just Launched & They Are Spamming The Hell Out of Me: AceAds.com
There appears to be a new parking company in town and they are spamming the hell out of me. The emails started coming in a late yesterday and I'm already up to over 30 and counting. As I own around 75,000 domains I could have a really long way to go. The pitch for the parking company named AceAds.com is pretty creative, at least one I have never heard before Basically park your domain … [Read more...]
National Association Of Realtors Reminds ICANN .Realtors Is a Brand App & Should be Outside Of GAC Advice
In a letter sent to the Chair of the new gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) The National Association Of Realtors reminded ICANN that its application for the new gTLD .Realtors is a brand application, not a generic application and should be freed from GAC Advice. Oh by the way they would also like a response to their letter of over a month ago on the same subject: "We send this correspondence for … [Read more...]
ICANN Denies Booking.com Request To Reconsider String Similarity Panel Ruling; Bad News On Cam Vs Com?
In turning down Booking.com request for reconsideration the ICANN Board appears to also have bad news for those that think the Board will step into settle the .Com Vs .Cam split decisions. As for Booking.com ton July 7th 2013, they submitted a the ICANN Board to reconsider the ICANN staff action of 26 February 26th 2013, when the String Similarity Panel placed the applications for .hotels and … [Read more...]
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 is luxury handbag maker Louis Vuitton that filed the suit under the ACPA seeking $100,000 in statutory damages per domain, plus the domain and attorney fees on 96 domain names Here are the domain names subject to the … [Read more...]