Afternic, today announced a strategic partnership with Dot Kiwi Ltd, the applicant for the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .KIWI. Afternic has been selected by Dot Kiwi to to create reserve lists for their new TLD and "provide definition and valuation services for .KIWI premium domains, expected to launch in late 2013". The .KIWI registry will offer New Zealand businesses greater branding … [Read more...]
WOW: PNC Bank Loses UDRP On 9 PTCBank Domains Going To Parked Pages With A Similar Logo To The Bank
The UDRP rulings get nutter and more inconsistent by the day and today a one member panel denied PNC Financial Services Group, Inc which owns and operates PNC Bank on 9 domains all containing the term PTCbank even though the domains were parked and the domain owner used a logo on the parked domains that a copy of Complainant’s “PowerLink” logo and has the same colors as those used in Complainant’s … [Read more...]
Judge Says Godaddy Is Not Entitled To Safe Harbor Protection On Parked Pages Program
In a 29 page ruling a California Federal Court denied Godaddy's motion to have the case filed by the ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES, (the Oscars) which was filed in 2010, thrown out, denying Godaddy.com the Safe Harbor that domain name registrars typically enjoy. DomainNameWire.com reported last week that Godaddy was testing out some new parked landing pages, but this ruling might … [Read more...]
Royal Baby Is Named & Domains Registered In Seconds: GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com; PrinceGeorgeAlexanderLouis.com
Cnn.com just reported that the Royal baby has been names George Alexander Louis and within seconds the domain names GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com and PrinceGeorgeAlexanderLouis.com were registered. The domain name GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com was registered by Luc-Andre Biggs of of key-domains.com at Moniker and the domain name is already parked at Internet Traffic.com The domain name … [Read more...]
Google Announces ChromeCast Without Owning ChromeCast.com But Did Just Register Chromecast.Tv
Google announced a new product today called Chrome Cast which is described as something like Apple TV which allows users to stream videos from a phone or tablet to their TV using Chrome. Google doesn't own the domain name ChromeCast.com that honor goes to a media design and IT consulting company out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada which registered the domain name back when it was formed in … [Read more...]
Frank Schiling’s Name Administration & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP On Spielwarenmesse.com (ToyFair in German)
Spielwarenmesse eG of Nürnberg, Germany, has lost its bid to grab the domain name spielwarenmesse.com which is ToyFair in German in a UDRP away from Frank Schilling's Name Administration which was represented as always by John Berryhill. Here are the relevant fact and findings by the three member panel: The Complainant, Spielwarenmesse eG, is a German cooperative which has been organising a … [Read more...]
LoveYahoo.com? Yahoo! Wins 33 Domains In 1 UDRP
Yahoo! was awarded 33 domain names today in a single UDRP The decision issued by one of the newer UDRP providers, the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and included many typos of Yahoo products including Rocket Mail, a company Yahoo acquired fro $92 million; Ymail and Flickr as well as a few non-typo domain names including LoveYahoo.com; YahooPhoto.com and YahooArticle.com: Here are all the … [Read more...]