Wednesday, 11 June 2008 03:26
In this recent case involving Vicki Roberts (2008 WL 1944634), the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) held that the use of a term as part of a domain name alone may not constitute use as an indicator of the source of goods or services to be registered.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 03:23
On March 5, 2008 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that misleading use of a trademark is infringement. The plaintiff, Schlotzsky’s Ltd, sued the defendant, Sterling Purchasing and National Distribution Co, under the Lanham Act. Prior to the suit, the defendant and plaintiff entered into a non-exclusive agreement where as the defendant would be one of several suppliers to the plaintiff. Soon after the agreement was made, the defendant began falsely holding themselves to be the only and exclusive supplier prompting the plaintiff to sue.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 03:21
Frank Schilling, owner of one of the world’s largest domain portfolios, originally filed for a patent application in May 2001 with attorney John Berryhill, with the idea of recovering traffic lost to error pages that resolve when top-level domains (TLDs) are mistyped (i.e. .CIM, .CPN, .DOM etc., returning traffic solely to the .COM domain). This patent named the “Generic Top-Level Domain Re-Routing System” in April 2006, could play an important role not just for domainers but for the industry as a whole.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 03:19
On April 30, 2008, a Federal District Court in New Jersey held that a trademarked term placed in a single meta tag constitutes fair use, and therefore does not infringe upon that trademark.
In Syncsort, Inc. v. Innovative Routines International, Inc., the plaintiff Syncsort, a UNIX sorting software manufacturer, sued Innovative Routines, another UNIX sorting software manufacturer, for using the plaintiff’s trademarked term “syncsort” in a meta tag on the defendant’s website. The defendant used the plaintiff’s term because their program is able to translate the plaintiff’s syncsort language into its own.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 03:15
Many Sedo users contact us with concerns about receiving bids that they consider to be too low. The good news is that there is another option for securing serious offers for domains. Although a Premium Listing is recommended, there is an under-utilized option available that can help: set your own pricing information.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 03:13
As a professional domain investor you know by now that optimizing the settings for your parked domains can result in dramatic increases in earnings. For every domain there seems to be a certain magic combination of page layout, photo, keyword, and related links which simply send your RPM through the roof. Sedo has recently introduced a new feature, “Auto-Select Best Layout” as a new option in the Layout pull-down menu on the Domain Optimizer page. Select this option and the system will automatically choose the best-performing layout for each one of your domains! When you select this option we rotate each of our best performing layouts on the domain to find the best performing layout. Read more…
Wednesday, 11 June 2008 03:10
A positive and informative article featured in the Globes Magazine of our friends Andrew Miller and Mike Zapolin of Internet Real Estate.
Via DNJournal:
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 03:02
At its meeting on May 29, 2008 the Board agreed to the release of a paper on the reform of ICANN meetings that has been prepared by staff.
The paper asks the community to consider changes to the number of meetings that ICANN holds and the location. Read more…
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 17:57 Vince Milder
Friday, June 13th, 4pm EST only on Webcast 1
Catch Darren Cleveland, co founder of Recall Media as he
discusses FuneralHomes.com, The World Series of Poker,
and other exciting projects next Friday, June 13th at 4pm
only on Webcast 1.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:41 David Goldstein
Connectingnyc is preparing to make an application for the .NYC gTLD, and the proposal has made the New York Times this week.
The report notes Connectingnyc was handing out fliers to New York City workers to solicit ideas and gain publicity.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:27 David Goldstein
With 973,894 domain names registered at the beginning of June, .ES is the latest ccTLD to be approaching the magical one million mark. Already in the first five months of 2008 registrations have increased 20 per cent.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 09:27 Chief Editor
SEATTLE, WA – June 9, 2008 – Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX, MCHXP), a local search and advertising company, today launched Marchex Adhere™, a new pay-per-click advertising channel that provides advertisers and agencies with exclusive placement on hundreds of premium publisher Web sites and on Marchex’s OpenList® network. Marchex is also adding several new premium publishers and locally focused Web sites to Marchex Adhere, further expanding the breadth and depth of the network and enhancing Marchex’s leadership position in local search and advertising…
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 09:07 Chief Editor
Sedo.com has reported the following sales data to DomainNews.com for the week of June 2nd:
.Com Sales ov.com 200,000 USD
drumset.com 27,050 USD
zircle.com 20,000 USD
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 07:30 Chief Editor
As most of you know, opportunities are steadily diminishing for domain investors and speculators in the .com market. All the ‘low-hanging fruit’ has been picked and the .com aftermarket which now commands some pretty hefty prices. Therefore, many domainers are turning towards the ccTLD market to expand their riches. One of the most thought after domain markets is the British .co.uk market.
It is not surprising that a new player, Hubbard Media (a UK based company) now offers new opportunies in the British .co.uk domain investment market, specifically in UK based domain backordering, drop lists. Hubbard Media is a tech consultancy firm in the UK with expert knowledge of how the .uk ccTLD domain space operates…
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 06:57 Chief Editor
David Chelly, editor of Domaine1.fr wrote an article he wants to share with the readers of DomainNews. He discusses reasons why it is worth investing in French domain names and we think it is a very good article and hope you will enjoy it… Reason # 1: A huge reservoir of endusers
French is the mother language of about 200 million people in the world and it is used by over 500 million people in dozens of countries…
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 06:06 Chief Editor
The June Cover Story has just been posted at DNJournal and I think it is one of our most amazing personal profiles published to date. As you know, domains have made a number of people wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. People like Kevin Ham and Frank Schilling have built companies that earn not just millions of dollars a year, but tens of millions annually…
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 06:00 Chief Editor
We’ve already covered the “build verse park” topic in previous issues, and will happily again as there’s a constant paradigm shift revolving around that question. Lets, however, assume that you do decide to build out a domain. How much does THAT cost? It must be prohibitive – right? Wrong. Here’s a couple of thrifty ways to build sites that have rich utility and social networking functions: www. copenda.com/, www.ning.com, www.VBulletin.com, www.Joomla.com.
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Monday, 09 June 2008 14:02 David Goldstein
China (.cn) has overtaken Germany (.de) to become the world’s largest country code for domain names. With an average of around 400,000 to 500,000 .cn domain names registered each month it would be safe to assume there are more than 12,300,000 names registered compared to 12,098,279 .de names registered at the time of writing.
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Monday, 09 June 2008 06:30 David Goldstein
.NU Domain -manager the .nu top level domain name- will begin accepting registration of Numeric Domain Names on June 10, for the first time allowing registration of numbers-only .nu domain names – such as 247.nu, 123.nu and 3663.nu (the English word "food" on a phone keypad.)
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 10:44 David Goldstein
For those wanting to know more about the .nyc proposal, Tom Lowenhaupt gives a video presentation in this ISOC New York public forum where he explains all you need to know about the proposed gTLD.
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