Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings were not similar confusing, shouldn't be a huge surprise to anyone in the domain space. After all anyone that follows UDRP's on a regular basis knows there is little consistency … [Read more...]
According To Alexa There Is No Traffic Leakage From Beat.La To BeatLa.com
For those that think that branding a site on any non-.com is going to automatically lead to traffic bleed over to the matching .com I present the case of Beat.La. The domain name was purchased just a couple of weeks ago by the Phoenix Suns on Sedo for $5,300 The purchase of the domain and subsequent launched received a lot of publicity from the mainstream media and sports from the … [Read more...]
Report: Godaddy Acquires Locu.com For $70 Million
GoDaddy, said it had acquired San Francisco startup Locu according to Allthingsd.com "While the company did not disclose the terms of the deal, sources close to the situation said it paid $70 million in cash and stock for the company." There are also earnouts for the two dozen employees of Locu going to GoDaddy. "Locu, which was founded out of MIT in Massachusetts in 2011, helps … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Back Academy Sports Legal Rights Objection To new gTLD .Academy
Academy, LTD., d/b/a Academy Sports + Outdoors lost is Legal Rights Objection filed against Half Oaks, LLC (a Donuts compny) application for the new gTLD .Academy finding that "the common generic use of the term “academy”, as well as the lack of clear evidence showing widespread public recognition of the Objector’s ACADEMY marks, standing alone, weigh heavily in the Applicant’s favor. In this … [Read more...]
Biotechnology Industry Organization Loses WIPO Legal Rights Objection On New gTLD .Bio
Biotechnology Industry Organization of Washington, lost its Legal Rights Objection filed against Starting Dot applied for new gTLD .bio. Here are the relevance findings by the one member WIPO panel: A fundamental issue in this proceeding is the appropriate recognition of the word “bio” by different sectors of the public, founded on differences in the basic meaning of the word, and on … [Read more...]
Blue Cross Loses Legal Rights Objection To Block the New gTLD .Blue
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association just lost a Legal Rights Objection to Afilias Limited new gTLD application for .Blue Here are the relevant findings by the three member WIPO panel: ""The Applicant has not denied that it was aware of the Objector when it lodged the Application. However, on the evidence which has been produced, the Panel has no reason to doubt the Applicant’s assertion … [Read more...]
Car Maker Land Rover Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
The car maker Jaguar/Land Rover Has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name MountainRovers.com. The domain name was owned and used by the domain holder since 1998. The domain name holder did not file a response to the UDRP Not only did the one person National Arbitration Forum panel find that Land Rover guilty of RDNH it found that claim was barred by … [Read more...]