Global Village Publishing, Inc. just won the rights to the three letter domain name gvp.com, in a one member panel UDRP decision, a domain which is owned for many years until their Godaddy account was hacked and the domain transferred. Here is what the Complainant had to say: Complainant has for many years owned the <gvp.com> domain name, and has continuously conducted business and … [Read more...]
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice, Inc. represented by Matthew H. Swyers of The Trademark Company, LLC, Virginia, USA. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in attempted theft of the domain names hivinnocencegrouptruth.com and hivinnocenceprojecttruth.com by a one member National Arbitration Forum UDRP decision. The one member panel in finding RDNH said: "The … [Read more...]
38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Paris; .Forex; .Cpa; .Airforce, .Guide, .Melbourne
38 More new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Today. Heading the list are the Geo's of .Paris (which had been earlier passed over on its turn) .Melbourne and .Durban Other generics passing IE include Amazon's (AMZN) applications for .Talk and .Silk, Google's (GOOG) applications for .Cal, and .Cpa Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) application for .Airforce. ICANN has now evaluated … [Read more...]
.Sexy Is Just For The Sexy People
Unregistry in a Press Release put everyone on notice that the new gTLD .Sexy will be for only the Sexy people: ""Uniregistry, the Cayman based new gTLD applicant, has announced new registration requirements to improve quality and combat abuse in their pending .sexy TLD. " "The new eligibility requirements will restrict registration in .sexy to registrants who are actually sexy. " "Upon … [Read more...]
Pinky Brand Predicts 408.5 Million Domains By The End Of 2016, 73.6M New gTLD’s
Pinky Brand just published some bold predictions for the number of domain names that will exist in 2016 including registrations from new gTLD's. For those that don't know, Pinky is one of the founders of .mobi, which is "today ranked in the top 30 off the roughly 268 existing TLDs worldwide with nearly 1.1 million active domains in the zone." "So what kind of market share can we expect by … [Read more...]
Mashable Covers Startup Good.Co
Mashable.com published a nice feature story on Good.co last night as part of its Launchpad series. The site Good.co launched in Beta last month classifies job hunters and companies into different personality types based on a proprietary algorithm and provides a score that shows how well the two match up. The goal is to help job hunters better understand their own strengths and improve the odds … [Read more...]
Yahoo Wants Out Of Its Bing Deal & Move To Google & Why That’s Bad News For Domainers
According several sources, Yahoo would like to get out of its deal with Microsoft and let Google Monetize their search results. Yahoo entered into a 10 year search deal in 2010 and uses Bing search engine to power search results on Yahoo sites. Microsoft just extended the revenue guarantee associated with the partnership, the second such extension since the 10-year pact took effect in … [Read more...]