http://domainnamewire.com News and Views for the Domain Name Industry Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:24:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Man gives controversial domain name to Beck after proving a point. Isaac Eiland-Hall just won a highly publicized case against Glenn Beck over the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. As soon as he won, he did something surprising: he offered the domain name to Beck for free. In a letter (pdf) to Beck, ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/06/after-winning-case-man-hands-domain-name-to-glenn-beck/ Letter insinuates that CADNA does not take a balanced approach to intellectual property rights. The ICANN IP Constituency is distancing itself from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA). In a letter to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom, J. Scott Evans, President of the Intellectual Property Constituency, referred to a recent discussion in ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/06/ip-constituency-distances-itself-from-cadna/ Glenn Beck loses challenge to parody web site. Conservative TV personality Glenn Beck has lost his dispute over the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. (See Domain Owner Respond to Glenn Beck.) In order to win the domain name, Beck had to prove three things to an arbitrator: 1. The domain name was confusingly similar ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/06/glenn-beck-loses-domain-dispute-over-meme-site/ Considering .asia and .tel results, how many domains can a new TLD expect to register? What makes a top level domain name successful? If you compare any top level domain to .com, they are all failures. But if you look at it from the registry's perspective, the number required ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/06/analyzing-asia-and-tel-domains-what-does-it-mean-for-new-tlds/ Registered base of .mobi domains is sinking. The total number of .mobi domain names registered fell to 850,712 in July 2009, the latest number available through ICANN. That represents a 10% drop from the same month in 2008 when the total base was 946,357. The number of .mobi domains registered has ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/06/mobi-domain-registration-base-down-10-over-year/ Court dismisses case with prejudice over jurisdiction. Go Daddy Group has scored a legal victory involving jurisdiction, which should be a sigh of relief for other domain name registrars, parking companies, and even the internet industry as a whole. uBid sued Go Daddy for allegedly including domain names that included uBid's trademarks ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/05/go-daddy-scores-victory-to-benefit-domain-registrars-and-internet-companies/ Domain name renewal scam resurfaces. A domain renewal "scam" that I first wrote about in 2007 has surfaced again. The e-mail scam comes from an outfit calling itself ISP renewal aka Domain Renewal, and informs you that your domain name is expiring. The company misleads domain registrants to think they need ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/05/domain-renewal-scam-is-back/