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Two Defendants Respond to Verizon Cybersquatting Lawsuit

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Response filed in Verizon domain name lawsuit. Two defendants in a lawsuit filed by Verizon alleging cybersquatting have responded to the suit. Both The Producers, Inc., and Michael Gardner have responded to Verizon’s allegations that they registered domains related to Verizon trademarks. The somewhat bizarre case revolves around what DirectNIC does with domain names when [...]

14 Comments » - Posted in Domain Registrars by Andrew Allemann


Verizon Sues DirectNIC for Parking Expired Domain Names

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Suit claims registrar parked trademarked domain names for the period between expiration and deletion. Verizon has a filed a lawsuit (pdf) against domain name registrar DirectNIC and related companies, alleging that the defendants parked expired domain names infringing on Verizon’s trademarks in the period between expiration and deletion. The lawsuit also names directors of DirectNIC [...]

30 Comments » - Posted in Domain Registrars by Andrew Allemann


Domain Companies Head to Austin for SXSW

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Domain companies en route to Austin later this week. Several domain name companies are heading to Austin later this week for the start of the annual South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Festival. The Interactive portion of the event attracted over 10,000 attendees last year. Many stay in town for the music festival, which [...]

5 Comments » - Posted in Domain Services by Andrew Allemann


DirectNIC Picks up Red Register Domains, ICANN Notifies Two More Registrars

Monday, October 12th, 2009

More registrar transitions thanks to ICANN enforcement. Domain name registrar DirectNIC will take over domain names that were registered at Red Register, which was recently de-accredited by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Red Register had approximately 7,000 global top level domain names under management. Billing contact information was not provided by Red [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Policy & Law by Andrew Allemann


Afternic’s Instant Transfer Enables Registrar Integration

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

New Premium promotion option utilizes instant transfer technology. Over the weekend Afternic rolled out a number of changes, including a new “Premium” promotion level. I caught up with NameMedia Senior Vice President and General Manager Peter Lamson, as well as members of the product and customer service teams, to learn more about this new level [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Domain Services by Andrew Allemann

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