"Sorely misguided" complainant loses bid for Fired.com. [This is the second Domain Dunce award for 2008. See the first one for Verizon.] What do you do if you want a domain that's already registered and you don't want to pay for it? Furthermore, you ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Archives for December 2008
Peaches Uniforms Wants a Bite Out Of Peaches.com
· Policy & LawUniform company files arbitration to get Peaches.com domain. Peaches.com wouldbe sweeter.Peaches Uniforms, a seller of fashion uniforms and scrubs to women in the medical industry, has filed an arbitration request with National Arbitration Forum to ... Continue Reading12 Comments
GoDaddy Donates $1.7 Million to Charity
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy tops last year's giving by $300,000. With all of the negative news I've written about Go Daddy this year, it's nice to end the year on an up note. Today the company announced that its total philanthropic giving for the year is $1.7M, topping ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Top 10 Domain Name Wire Stories of 2008
· UncategorizedAs the year crawls to a close, here's a look back at the most viewed stories of 2008. Good riddance. That's what most people are saying to 2008. After losing half their retirement savings, seeing the value of their homes plummet, and fearing for ... Continue Reading4 Comments
2008 Domain Dunce Awards: Verizon
· Policy & LawVerizon likes to play both sides of the fence. For that we give it an award. With just a few days left in 2008, I thought I'd write about a couple of the more egregious stories in domain names this year. Think of it as the dumbest moments in ... Continue Reading6 Comments
The Perils of Trying to Go Public
· ServicesNameMedia's withdrawn IPO more painful than it looks. It may appear that NameMedia's decision last week to to drop its planned initial public offering is just a temporary setback. Aside from the costs of filing its S-1 to go public, going on the ... Continue Reading5 Comments
8 Domain Name Blogs in My RSS Reader
· UncategorizedA look at domain name blogs I read frequently. Earlier this year I published a list of blogs that I subscribe to. That list has changed somewhat over the year because some blogs have disappeared and others emerged. I generally subscribe to a ... Continue Reading7 Comments
How .Gov Domain Names Work
· Uncategorized.Gov domain names are highly restricted domains. Here's how they work. Yes, it's a slow newsweek. Save for a $33 million cybersquatting judgment and NameMedia pulling its IPO, not much goes on in a holiday week. So here's another post I saved ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verizon Wins $33 Million in Cybersquatting Case
· Policy & LawVerizon wins default judgment against top 15 domain registrar. Customers of OnlineNic, Inc., a top 15 domain registrar with over 1,000,000 domains registered, should be concerned about the state of the registrar after a judge ordered the company to pay ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Scarlett Johansson Wins ScarlettJohansson.com Domain Name
· Policy & LawActress wins domain name at WIPO. Actress Scarlett Johansson has won rights to the domain name ScarlettJohansson.com in an arbitration decision at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Johansson has starred in numerous movies including Lost ... Continue Reading8 Comments