In a unanimous decision, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled in favor of Dire Straits in a “cyber-squatting” case. The U.K. rock band filed a complaint with the Geneva-based patents and intellectual property authority May 28 over a disputed domain name, www.direstraits.com.
In their complaint to WIPO, Dire Straits claimed to own the intellectual rights to their band name, which has been in existence for 30 years.
The respondent, Alberta Hot Rods of Canada, has been involved in “many domain name disputes” including a site named after Tom Cruise, and did not offer any reply in this case, according to WIPO’s adjudication. (Read more…)
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This is an update to our story about Bobog.com a few days ago. Seems as if the news reported was not 100% accurate and that the US judge overstepped his boundaries. Visit Jay Westerdal post here for his perspective on the matter.
Another perspective on the story can be read here.
Source: Chief Editor – DomainNews.com – August 31st, 2007
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The ICANN comment period on its new gTLD policy is over. The comments reflect overwhelming opposition to the Council’s attempt to impose a standard of “morality and public order” on new TLD strings. The vast majority of comments — about 60 of the 75 or so comments — criticized the policy of censoring TLD strings and asked ICANN to stick to technical and operational criteria. Only one comment — by Vittorio Bertola, putative leader of ALAC — called for ICANN to retain limitations on expression. (Read more…)
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DotAsia Organisation announced a landmark partnership with ICANNWiki, a grassroots domain collaborative website and industry resource for ICANN stakeholders, that will leverage the Web 2.0 web-based communities to expand online community participation for DotAsia’s .Asia Pioneer Domains Program. (Read more…)
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In his weekly wrap of the previous week’s domain name sales, Ron Jackson reports LI.COM was the biggest seller last week, selling for US$500,000. Other six-figure sales were supernatural.com ($125,000) and Passover.com ($100,000). Ron also notes Sedo was responsible for “27 of the 50 highest sales including the top two and seven of the first ten.” In the ccTLD sales, reviews.co.uk sold for £38,000 while baby.org sold for €47,234 and Pay.mobi for $50,000. An interesting sale was home.gr for €21,000, the 20th biggest sale for the week. (Read more…)
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According to the quarterly Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief – August 2007 published by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the number of domain names registered worldwide is now over 138 million domain names . Of course, as expected, most registrations are .com, .net, .de (Germany), .uk, .cn (China) and .org.
Strong growth in country code TLD (ccTLD) registrations, such as China (.cn), Russia (.ru) and South Korea (.kr). ccTLDs grew to about 51.5 million worldwide by the end of the second quarter, approximately 13 percent more than the first quarter of 2007, and 36 percent more than the same quarter of last year. More moderate growth was experienced by gTLDs, including .com and .net, which grew to 73 million domain name registrations.
Raynor Dahlquist, VP of Naming Services at VeriSign said, “As the Internet grows and becomes more global, so does the challenge to ensure that businesses and Internet users throughout the world can rely upon it. VeriSign is focused on ensuring that as the Internet develops, it remains accessible and operational around the world.” (Read more…)
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Cambridge, Mass., August 29, 2007 – Last Thursday, August 23, 2007, GreatDomains closed its second live auction powered by Sedo. This auction saw increased participation with even more bidders from more than 35 different countries around the globe. Not only has GreatDomains seen more bidders but they’ve also closed even more sales than the introductory auction last month, with 22 domains meeting or exceeding the reserve. Some notable sales include lifts.com at $67,000 and dental.net and queries.com both selling for $21,500. (Read more…)
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Based on a recent report, the .eu top-level domain, launched a year ago, has proven particularly popular with groups that have been created as a result of cross-border mergers. For example, Dexia, the Franco-Belgian group, as well as companies registered outside their home country for regulatory reasons. Cyprus, a popular destination for company registrations, has boasted the seventh-highest number of .eu domain names.
The European Commission says: “Now that the initial flush of registrations has passed, there is an increasing trend towards using .eu domains immediately they have been registered as opposed to simply registering them as a precautionary measure and letting them lie dormant.”
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Source: Financial Times – August 27th, 2007 – Original Article
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Online gamblers have been in a bit of a pickle this week with trouble at Bodog.com due to a dispute over the ownership of the domain name bodog.com, causing the website to be temporarily out of action. It’s back up and running now at a new address www.newbodog.com (Read more…)
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Version 2.0 of ready.mobi provides new site testing tools which evaluate the quality of mobile .mobi web sites and provides developers with in-depth analysis of more than 35 attributes that determine how well a site is likely to perform on a mobile phones. (Read more…)
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