Friday, 23 May 2008 08:24 David Goldstein
by Matthew Hall, Swaab Attorneys
Are you a trade mark owner? Have you done a search on Google or Yahoo recently to see what results are returned when your trade mark is entered? Are there a number of sponsored sites, possibly competitors, whose results are returned? The use of trade marks as sponsored keywords by search engine operators has become a great concern to trade mark owners. To date the courts have sided with search engine operators.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 03:19 Michael Gilmour
While there is a shortage of traffic I see that there will be two tipping points for the power to shift in the direction of the advertising aggregators and away from traffic aggregators such as parking companies. Read more…
Friday, 23 May 2008 03:09
Brussels, 22 May 2008 – On Saturday, 24 May EURid is updating and expanding its technical infrastructure for increased performance and stability. This means that the EURid public website, as well as the .eu WHOIS service, will be briefly inaccessible starting at 9:00 local Belgian time (CEST) on Saturday morning.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the necessary maintenance efforts.
Source: EURid — Reprinted with permission — May 22, 2008
Friday, 23 May 2008 03:01
This month’s GreatDomains Auction has been creating some serious buzz. With premium names like America.com, Import.com and Cognac.com up for bid, what domainer wouldn’t want to take part in this auction? Best of all, many of the premium domains for sale are without reserves, so the highest bidder wins!
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:23 Chief Editor
DomainNews.com reporting Live! from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Orlando on Day Two. Donny Simonton, Chief Technology Officer at Parked.com discusses the history and future of domain parking and addresses industry concerns…
Source: Copyright DomainNews.com 2008 – Posted by Chief Editor – May 22nd, 2008
Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:00 Chief Editor
DomainSponsor has announced that it will host a dinner party at Domainer Meeting in Paris on Thursday, June 19 at 8:00pm – 12:00am at Le Cab Restaurant and Club. This event will feature gourmet cuisine, cool refreshments, and engaging conversation. Entertainment for the evening will be “magical” and “mysterious”. In fact, rumor has it that Thursday evening is the night for local fashion models to gather and party at Le Cab. You won’t want to miss it…
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 17:45 Chief Editor
Most recently notified WIPO Domain Name Decision(s) between May 20th and 22nd:
danzas.mobi
> Transfer
metrolinkrider.com
metrolinksucks.com > Complaint denied
lexapro-information.com
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 17:01 Chief Editor
Reporting Live! from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Orlando. Michael Gilmore, founder of ParkLogic and one of our expert writers here on DomainNews discusses the future of parking domains, and whether or not you should develop your domains…
Source: Copyright DomainNews.com 2008 – Posted by Chief Editor – May 22, 2008
Thursday, 22 May 2008 16:42 Chief Editor
The registry for Ireland’s official internet address dot.ie announced that the number of dot.ie domain name registrations in Ireland had reached the 100,000 mark. To celebrate this achievement, internet community leaders, registrars, business and consumer groups gathered in Dublin last night where guest of honour, where Eamon Ryan, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources presented the 100,000th registrant www.royal-hospital-kilmainham.ie with free domain registration for the next 100 years.
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 16:03 Chief Editor
Live from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Orlando… bringing you the Welcome address video:
Thursday, 22 May 2008 11:36 David Goldstein
Noted Los Angeles photographer Fernando Escovar is auctioning off what may be the world’s largest domain name portfolio valued at $1.5 million. The portfolio contains 1500 English, Spanish, Tech, TV and geo-centric domain names including numerous Las Vegas names. The auction will go live on eBay on June 3, 2008. A portion of the auction’s proceeds will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 04:47 David Goldstein
Register.com announced the results of its Small Business Web Survey examining web strategy trends from among its small business customers. The survey was conducted over a three week period, April 28 – May 16, 2008.
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 04:08
ICANN today enabled an online survey, available in 11 languages including English, to facilitate understanding of the way in which the community uses existing materials prepared in multiple languages. It will also help ICANN understand how it could enhance multilingual access to the work of the organisation.
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 22:09 Chief Editor
Here is our first video from Day One’s Live Auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East in Orlando… bear with us on the quality of the video. We are going to post more VERY interesting videos featuring industry experts who spoke on various panels shortly. Auction sales results of Day One can be found here.
Source: Copyright DomainNews.com – Post by Chief Editor – May 21st, 2008
Wednesday, 21 May 2008 21:43 Jeff Behrendt
INForum, the internet’s largest forum dedicated to discussing Indian domain names, has published an interview with Pravin Anand, a leading IP lawyer, about Indian Domain Law. Here is an excerpt:
What are the practical differences between the INDRP and the UDRP?
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 21:31 Jeff Behrendt
One of domainers greatest frustrations is buyers who win domain auctions and then do not pay for the domain. In an effort to combat this, Sedo has introduced new member certification requirements for GreatDomains auctions and Sedo Premium Auction Events.
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 15:33 David Goldstein
Today (May 21), leading domain name community NamePros has announced its 80th live domain name auction taking place on Thursday, May 22nd 2008 at NamePros.com.
The NamePros auction lasts for three hours and features many valuable domain names sold by individual owners. This weeks auction covers true gems such as three character and four character domain names (Ex: FYK.net, 072.org Hiah.com) and many other valuable domain names which, in many cases, cannot be acquired anywhere.
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 09:35 Chief Editor
Berlin, Germany – May 20, 2008 – dotMP today announces from the International Trademark Association (INTA) annual meeting that this summer it will provide ".mp" domains and robust domain-centric identity management services to all individuals online–free of charge. To help trademark owners protect their intellectual property, dotMP also announces it is initiating a Sunrise period at http://get.mp to provide ample time (May 15 – August 31) for trademark owners to protect their marks prior to the entire top-level domain being opened to the general…
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 09:08 Chief Editor
Reporting Live! from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Orlando where Day One concluded. A short day with registration activities starting at noon and a cocktail party later in the evening followed by a short live auction conducted by Moniker/SnapNames. We are including the auction results below and a video link of this event will follow shortly…
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