A three member UDRP panel just rejected the attempt of WALA-Heilmittel GmbH of Bad Boll, Germany, to grab the domain name Wala.com This is another UDRP with an interesting set of facts which was first registered in 1999 and for a time had on its homepage a message that the domain was for sale for $5,000,000. Here are the revelant facts and findings by the three member panel: The … [Read more...]
FreshDrop’s Pheenix Changes On Aug 1 To Accept Multiple Back orders & Provide For Drop Auctions
Freshdrop which officially rolled out their back order program out of Beta on April 23rd under the name of Pheenix, announced today that it will be changing their back order system effective August 1st from a one domain per back order system to one which will accept multiple back orders on the same dropping domain. Those dropping domains with multiple back orders will go into auction like they … [Read more...]
Shop.Org Study: U.S. Companies To Spend 40% Of Marketing Budget On Paid Search & 14% On SEO
As study cited by MediaPost.com conducted by Shop.org and Forrester Research entitled: State Of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing &; Merchandising, found that "U.S. companies will invest about 40% of their $7.6 million aggregate marketing budget in paid search and 14% to organic search." Some 80% of the survey participants in the "" report admit they will spend more on paid search about 71% … [Read more...]
Apple Files 2 UDRP Seeking 28 Domains Including FindMyiPad.com & Macbook7.com
Apple Computers filed two UDRP's today seeking 28 domain names in total with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Some of the domain names sort are typo's like apole.com,appestore.com, applesore.com, applestpre.com, applestroe.com and appllestore.com while others are product domains or variations on of Apple's products like ipodtouch5.com, FindMyiPad.com & Macbook7.com The … [Read more...]
The ICA Forces ICANN To Issue A “Status Report on UDRP/URS Providers & Uniformity of Process”
ICANN issued a Status Report on UDRP Providers and Uniformity of Process, last night and the timing of it makes it look as a direct result of the criticism of Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) made public during the ICANN meeting that concluded on Thursday. First for the report, then some comments will follow: ""Issues relating to Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution … [Read more...]
Shocker? Publisher Of Vogue Loses UDRP ON The Domain Name VogueFashionModels.com
In one of the more interesting UDRP decision of the year the publisher of Vogue Magazine, Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. of New York, lost a UDRP on the domain VogueFashionModels.com which is owned by Premier Models International Inc of New York. The three member UDRP had a split decision with two panelist voting to deny the complaint and one voting to transfer the domain to the trademark … [Read more...]
.Christmas Comes Early As 89 New gTLD Pass IE: .Madrid; .Nokia; .Audi; .Xfinity; .Faith; .Brother; .Dupont; .WTF
Christmas came early for Frank Schilling's Uniregistry whose new gTLD application for .Christmas was one of the 89 to pass ICANN's Initial Evaluation (IE) today Other application passing IE of note today were: The Gergraphic application by the city of Madrid for .Madrid The Brand applications for .Nokia by the cell phone maker; .Xfinity submitted by Comcast; .Dupont by the global … [Read more...]