In January we told you that the Government of Monaco, officially; Gouvernement de la Principauté de Monaco SAM Marques de l’Etat de Monaco filed a UDRP against the domain name MonteCarloVodka.com which is not only a domain name but a brand of Vodka. Monaco wasn't happy about their name being put on a Vodka, the logo on the bottle which they said closely resembled the coat of arms of the … [Read more...]
GAC Is Concerned About Plural & Singular Generic New gTLD’s
The Government Advisory Council (GAC) has an open meeting with the ICANN Board late yesterday afternoon in Beijing and shared some of its concerns with the Board. The GAC is quite concerned about plural and singular generic new gTLD's and that they weren't placed into contention sets using .car and .cars as an example. This is the same criticism that TheDomains.com had when the contention … [Read more...]
Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD
In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting being plans for .Search which is plans on operating "a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/)." "To further elaborate on our plans to amend these applications, I am including a brief summary of our revised … [Read more...]
Donuts Secures Additional New gTLD Funding For Auctions
Donuts Inc., the applicant for the largest number of new gTLD strings, announced tonight that is has closed on "Series B equity investment which was "oversubscribed" and which "nearly doubles our capacity to compete". The investment round was "led by existing investor Generation Partners, at twice the valuation of the initial Series A round, as well as additional financing from Columbia … [Read more...]
Horizon Publishing Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On Opulence.com
Horizon Publishing, LLC which is based in Ft Lauderdale, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Opulence.com How bad was Horizon's case? Consider that the domain holder didn't even file a response and the panel on its own initiative found RDNH. Here is what the one member panel Paul M. DeCicco, said in part on the issue of RDNH: "In … [Read more...]
One Week After Launch The First UDRP For A .PW Is Filed By Morgan Stanley
Less than two weeks after the .PW registry went live for domain name registrations, the first UDRP on a .Pw has been filed. The .PW Registry went live on March 25th. A UDRP complaint was filed with the National Arbitration Forum by Morgan Stanley over the domain name morganstanley.pw The domain name is not currently resolving. Of course the question I have is if Morgan Stanley didn't … [Read more...]
Ontario Court Rules In Favor Of George Kirikos On Pupa.com & Awards $4,500 In Fees
George Kirikos company, Leap Of Faith Financial Services, (Leap) just won a declaratory judgement that is was the lawful owner of the domain name Pupa.com and was awarded its court costs, all arising out of a UDRP filed last year by the Italian cosmetics company Micys. (not Macys). In June of last year we told you that a UDRP was filed on the domain name Pupa.com, owned by frequent … [Read more...]