Company files arbitration case with National Arbitration Forum. Domain registrar Register.com has filed a UDRP against another ICANN-accredited domain registrar, DomainIt, for its use of Register.cc. DomainIt, which manages 22,354 domains according to ... Continue Reading20 Comments
Senate Anti-Phishing Bill (or Reverse Cybersquatting in Disguise)
· Policy & LawWhat you can do about a bill that will hurt your domain assets. Over the past week a lot has been written about the Senate's so-called anti-phishing bill. On February 25, 2008 U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe introduced S. 2661, the "Anti-Phishing Consumer ... Continue Reading31 Comments
GoDaddy Spends $580,000 on Federal Lobbying
· Domain Registrars, Policy & LawDomain registrar spends big bucks to lobby on capitol hill. Domain registrar GoDaddy.com spent $580,000 in federal lobbying last year, according to data obtained by Domain Name Wire from the Center for Responsive Politics. This is up from $460,000 ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Tucows Fights off Car Dealership
· Domain Registrars, Policy & LawTucows wins UDRP decision for Batchelor.com. Domain registrar Tucows has successfully defended against an arbitration proceeding over the domain name Batchelor.com, which the registrar acquired with its NetIdentity purchase. NetIdentity holds nearly ... Continue Reading2 Comments
GoDaddy Files Patent for Filtering Ads on Trademark Domains
· Domain Registrars, Policy & LawTechnology could be crucial to registrars and parking companies. GoDaddy has filed a patent for a technology that would filter ads from domain names containing trademarks. Patent application #20080033822 reads: invention allow for filtering online ... Continue Reading7 Comments
America (In Parked Domains)
· Policy & LawThere are lots of parked domains out there. So I'm going to use them in this article to disguise a commentary that really has nothing to do with domain names. It's election year in the United States. That means countless commercials promising a ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Theglobe.com To Sell .Travel Domain Name Registry
· Policy & LawCompany enters into letter of intent to sell subsidiary. Theglobe.com (TGLO.ob) has signed a letter of intent to sell its Tralliance subsidiary. Tralliance is the registry for .travel domain names. Sounds simple enough, but this incestuous deal is ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Time Warner, Yahoo Team Up to Cybersquat
· Policy & LawCompanies join the ranks of big corporations redirecting "error" traffic. Time Warner's Road Runner internet service has teamed up with Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) to typosquat on millions of unregistered domain names. The feature from the two companies is ... Continue Reading23 Comments
CADNA Releases Report on Domain Name Drop Catching
· Policy & LawSpecial interest group suggests that non-refundable $.20 fee is not enough to stop domain tasting. The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) released a report today about expired domain drop catching. It's an interesting report and contains good ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Google Duped Us
· Policy & LawGoogle is smart, and it proved it with its "we are not evil" approach to domain kiting. I knew those engineers at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) were smart. But they also have smart PR skills. Last week, Google decided to let the world know it was going to ... Continue Reading3 Comments