The domain name JD.com has been purchased by China's" leading direct B2C e-commerce company", Jingdong , who announced today that effective immediately, it's current domain, 360buy.com, will redirect users to JD.com According to the company, Jingdong had 35 million active users and 80 million registered users as of December 2012. "Jingdong is delighted to streamline its … [Read more...]
27 More New gTLD Applications Pass Initial Evaluation
ICANN just passed 27 more new gTLD applications today bringing the total of passed applications to 52. Included in today list an application from Verisign another application for Donuts and One From Google, Amazon, and Afilias. This batch of new gTLD applications brings the prioritization number of reviewed applications up to 60. All the applications passed today are all still … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Gives 30 Rock/SNL Star Tracy Morgan Control Of TracyMorgan.com
A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) UDRP panel just awarded the domain name TracyMorgan.com to 30 Rock and former SNL star, Tracy Morgan. Tracy Morgan's official site is currently TracyMorgan.net According to DomainTools.com, the domain name has an original registration date of 2001. The domain is owned by PPA Media Services and Ryan G Foo Now that the ruling is out here … [Read more...]
WIPO: UDRP 2012: Complainants Win 91%; Parties Settle 20% of Cases
Here are UDRP stats of cases filed under WIPO in 2012: Trademark holders filed a record 2,884 cybersquatting cases covering 5,084 Internet domain names with the WIPO Center under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). This represents an increase of 4.5% over the record established in 2011. Since the UDRP’s launch in December 1999, the WIPO Center has … [Read more...]
Add Edward Smith To The Reverse Domain Hijacking List
A three member UDRP panel has found Edward Smith of Riverside California, Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in the attempt grab of the domain name Joopa.com Mr. Smith, who just filed for a trademark on the term Joopa on March 2011, which was granted in December 2012, tried to use the trademark to grab the domain name Joopa.com which was registered some 12 years earlier on January … [Read more...]
After Offering To Buy Domain For $15K, 6 Years Ago TM Holder Loses UDRP
Zija International, Inc. of Utah just lost its UDRP bid to get control of the domain name zija.com, a domain it repeatedly tried to buy from the domain holder for $15,000 since 2006. Yes way back in 2006 after a series of letters back and forth, the domain holder refused to sell the domain name for $15,000 or even or counter with a selling price. Fast forward 6 years later and the trademark … [Read more...]
Motorola Objects To Demand Media’s Application for .Moto
Motorola Trademark Holdings LLC has filed a Legal Rights Objection to Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) application for the new gTLD domain name .Moto Motorola Trademark Holdings LLC is owned by Google which also applied to for the .Moto new gTLD. According to Demand Media, Inc: "The term “moto” is a generic and broadly used word that holds particular affinity for people and organizations … [Read more...]