AFNIC have announced they will discontinue their service of publishing the list of newly registered .fr domain names as of February 19, 2008 as per the news release below. (Read more…)
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by Jacqueline D. Lipton [Harvard Journal of Law and Technology]
Abstract: In June of 2007, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled on a motion to dismiss various claims against the Youtube video-sharing service. The claimant was Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corp (”Universal”), a manufacturer of pipes and tubing products. Since 1996, Universal has used the domain name utube.com – phonetically the same as Youtube’s domain name, youtube.com. Youtube.com was registered in 2005 and gained almost-immediate popularity as a video-sharing website. As a result, Universal experienced excessive web traffic by Internet users looking for youtube.com and mistakenly typing utube.com into their web browsers. Universal’s servers were initially unable to handle this traffic causing interruptions to its online business. The Youtube litigation, although factually idiosyncratic, does raise questions as to how effectively current laws and policies deal with situations where two different companies assert similar interests in one or more domain names. There have been many examples since the inception of the domain name system where several parties with legitimate claims to similar trademarks have battled for corresponding domain names, such as delta.com. This article examines the possibility of developing domain name sharing strategies in such cases. In particular, it presents a new proposal to expand the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy to facilitate domain name sharing arrangements.
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by Christopher Healey
Abstract: When a domain name is registered, the registrant is given five days to cancel for a full refund. While the purpose of this grace period is to protect those who innocently err in the registration process, speculators have taken advantage of the grace period through a process called “domain tasting.” These “domain tasters” register hundreds of thousands of domain names and cancel the vast majority of them within the five-day grace period, keeping only those that may be valuable as placeholder advertising websites or to holders of trademark rights. This iBrief will outline the “domain tasting” process, analyze why it is a problem, and discuss solutions to the problem. Ultimately, it concludes that the five-day grace period is unnecessary because it serves little, if any, legitimate purpose. (Read more…)
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The 3rd Annual Domain Name Wire Survey is now open for participation. Survey participants can win prizes, speak their minds. This survey has been the voice of the domain community for several years, and this year’s survey lets domain industry participants give their opinion on:
Which registrar is best?
What’s most important when selecting a registrar?
Which parking service is best?
What’s the best place to buy and sell domains online?
What will happen to the value of domains in 2008?
Which domain forum is best?
Is ICANN doing a good job?
Where do you prefer to buy expired domains?
What is the biggest threat facing the domain industry in 2008?
There are several new questions for 2008. Here are two that should be interesting: (Read more…)
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Mobile phone manufacturers, telecom carriers and internet groups and well a few of those interested in domain names for mobile devices are to get together at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona according to a recent Reuters report.
The mobile internet and wireless broadband are the big things with Nokia, Google, Microsoft and Apple all rivals having previously coexisted relatively peacefully. (Read more…)
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NIC Costa Rica will be releasing its second level “.cr” domains. Starting in the near future (starting date not yet announced), they will hold a 90-day Sunrise for registrants of third level domains so they can secure their second level equivalents. After that, they will release the second level to all interested parties. (Read more…)
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Domain Tools is hosting a live domain auction on February 29. The criteria is pretty simple writes Jay Westerdal. Domain Tools is looking for the best domains at or under $250 reserves. While they aren’t sure how many they will accept, if Jay thinks the domain is worth over $2000 and the reserve is listed at $250 he will pop it into the auction. Also featured will be all domains not sold in the January auction. There is no holding period on the domains if domains don’t sell in the auction and the commission is the standard 10%. There is no fee for listing, only commission if the domain sells. Now is the perfect time to submit some killer low value domains. (Read more…)
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ICANN Board has unanimously approved the Prague-based Czech Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic (the “Czech Arbitration Court”) to become a new UDRP service provider. The Czech Arbitration Court plans to start accepting complaints under the UDRP in approximately six months.
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Amazon seems to not taking too kindly to registrants with domain names that include the word “kindle” Blogoscoped reports. According to their report, Jason Schramm registered the domain name KindleReport.com some time ago to report on Amazon’s ebook, the Kindle. Jason obviously likes Amazon, as he has an Amazon Affiliates account. But, Amazon’s lawyers have sent Jason a letter more or less saying he should cease and desist from using any domain name including the term “kindle”.
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New video presentation from Targeted Traffic. I just saw it myself for the first time and see I was featured in it. The seven figure deal reference was a traffic deal we made with Oversee.net (2005?) at the Silicon Valley TRAFFIC show. The deal came about after I was watching an Oversee rep. on stage during their sponsor lunch presentation, a feeling of “I know what needs to be done” took over me.
Thanks to the fast way Oversee are working, thanks to Ron Sheridan and Ryan Berryman, we had a deal in no time. Because of this deal industry leader Hitfarm (company I work with today) moved aggressively into long-term contract negotiations with many top players in the business. A couple of months later I signed with Hitfarm as well and has been there since.
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