Company filed cybersquatting complaint against domain registered well before it had trademark rights in the term Hudson's Detroit. Bedrock Management Services, LLC has been found to have tried reverse hijacking the domain name ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Hudson’s Detroit developer tries to reverse hijack domain name
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James Booth successfully defends another .ai domain name
· Policy & LawIt's Booth's second win in as many months. Domain investor James Booth has fended off a cybersquatting claim on the domain name semify.ai. SEO company Semify, LLC, which uses the domain name semify.com, filed the complaint. A three-person ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
German company tries reverse hijacking domain from Tucows
· Domain RegistrarsComplainant omitted key parts of pre-dispute correspondence in its filing. A German building products company has been found (pdf) to have tried reverse hijacking a domain name. Otto Lehmann GmbH filed a dispute against the domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
IONOS announces layoffs
· Domain RegistrarsMajor domain and hosting company to trim workforce by over 10%. Domain name and hosting company IONOS (ETR: IOS) today announced plans to reduce its headcount. The company, one of Europe's larger domain providers with customers worldwide, said ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Beware fake domain sales posts on X
· UncategorizedSpaceship's founder called out a fake sales post on X this week. Earlier this week, a user on X posted about a big domain sale on Spaceship. "Tom Adams" claimed to have sold thread .pics for $87,000, and even showed the sales email to prove ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign changes drop time for .com and .net domains
· Expired DomainsBrew some coffee; the drop is going to start early. Drop catchers, start your engines...a bit earlier. Domain registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) is changing the time at which .com and .net domain names drop after pending delete. Previously, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
French human resources consulting company attempts reverse domain name hijacking
· Policy & LawCompany goes after domain registered well before it adopted the matching brand name. NOOUS, SAS, a French human resources consulting company, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybersquatting claim ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Exclusive: Aruba applies for 39 top level domain strings
· UncategorizedAruba plans to expand beyond .cloud. Aruba S.p.A., which operates the .cloud top level domain, is expanding its domain portfolio. The company told Domain Name Wire that it applied for 39 top level domains in this year's new TLD round. That number ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
This week’s end user domain name sales
· Domain SalesA law firm, a food company, and a scaffolding lead generator bought domain names this week. Sedo's top public sale this week was h2.com for $240,000. A domain investor bought it and has relisted it for $3 million. The second-highest sale is an ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
auDA decision could impact millions of .com.au domain registrations
· Policy & LawBoard approves changes that would make it difficult, if not impossible, to register generic/dictionary word domains. auDA, the organization that oversees Australia's .au country code domain, is implementing a radical change to registration ... Continue Reading4 Comments
