American Council on Education (“ACE”) GED Testing Service LLC (“GEDTS”) which won a UDRP on the domain name GED.net back in February has now filed a UDRP on GED.org The domain name GED.org is parked and pull a page full of links about the GED test and other links related to the GED test. The domain appears to have been registered in 2008. We will keep our eye on this one and let … [Read more...]
UPDATE 2: Its Time To Name Names: We Call Out Dead Beat Buyers, Game Players, Mind Changers
Dead Beat Buyers, I hate them. From those agreeing in an email to buy a domain for a set price then to just refuse to follow through, to those that actually set up a Escrow.com transaction to buy a domain name even agree to the transaction, but never fund it, to those that agree to buy a domain for a price only to come back sometime later with an offer to still buy the domain but at a lower … [Read more...]
Boston Globe Is Sold Including Boston.com & New gTLD .Boston For 70 Million To Owner of Red Sox
Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry is going to buy The Boston Globe. The Boston Globe also owns and operates Boston.com and is the sole applicant for the new gTLD .Boston for $70 million in cash. The seller is the Times Co. which operates the New York Times. The Times Co. is taking a huge beating on the transaction as it purchased the Globe for $1.1 billion it paid for the paper in … [Read more...]
2013 TRAFFIC Award Nominees Announced
In an email tonight from the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference annouunced the nominees for the 2013 TRAFFIC Awards. Congrats to all Nominees!!! "Below are YOUR nominees for the 10th Annual 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards." "Official voting ballots will be mailed to you later this month and awards will be presented on Tuesday October 22nd at the Ritz Carlton in Fort Lauderdale, … [Read more...]
92 New gTLD’s Pass IE: .Quebec; .Honda; ,Android; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .Porn
92 more new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. Highlighting the results today are the Geographic applications for .Quebec; and .Scot Leading .Brands applications passing today were the applications for .Android; .Honda; .Staples; .Gap; .AARP; .GMO; and .Ram Some generic string passing today included .Organic; .BlackFriday; and .Porn With today's results ICANN has gone … [Read more...]
WIPO Panel Rejects Legal Rights Objection To Google’s .Tube Application
Latin American Telecom, LLC of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, represented by ESQwirecom has become the latest Objector to lose a Legal rights Objection. Latin American Telecom objected to Google's application for .Tube C. The Merits With respect to the applicable standards, Article 20(a) of the Procedure gives the Panel initial guidance: “(a) For each category of Objection identified in … [Read more...]
Vertical Axis Gets Hit With UDRP On The 12 year Old Domain Lulac.com By Owner Of The .Org & .Net
A UDRP has been filed against Vertical Axis, Inc. on the domain name Lulac.com Although the Complainant is not listed, the most likely suspect is The League of United Latin American Citizens, which was established in 1929 and operates under the domain names Lulac.org and Lulac.net As for Lulac.com that domain name goes to a parked page where it returns a lot of links containing … [Read more...]