Judge rules Pocketbook.com owner isn't committing trademark infringement or cybersquatting. A judge has handed a big victory to SiteTools, Inc., the company that owns the valuable Pocketbook.com domain name. Pocketbook International SA filed a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Enom says bug took down 350,000 domains
· Domain RegistrarsDNS provisioning bug impacted hundreds of thousands of domains. Enom, a domain name registrar owned by Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX), has apologized for a botched data center migration and a DNS provisioning bug that took down websites over the weekend. The ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Judge reiterates demand that Canvas.com stop using its domain…tomorrow!
· Policy & LawCanvas will have to switch domain names by tomorrow. Perhaps you can forgive United States District Judge Dale A. Kimball for not understanding what goes into changing a web platform's domain name. But the engineers at Canvas' headquarters probably ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Fractionalized domain name ownership comes to Rally
· Domain SalesShares in Directions.com will be offered on Friday. Investing in a fraction of a domain name is about to become closer to reality. Tomorrow, fractional ownership platform Rally will sell shares in the domain name Directions.com. Investors can ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Wow: judge orders Canvas.com to stop using its domain name
· Policy & LawJudge grants preliminary injunction that will force Canvas to stop using its valuable domain name. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball has granted (pdf) a request for a preliminary junction by Instructure, Inc., thereby ordering Canvas to stop using ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Panel admonishes Afilias over .web appeal, Verisign claims victory
· Policy & LawIndependent Review Panel says appeal was frivolous and orders it to pay ICANN's legal costs. An Independent Review Panel (IRP) has denied Afilias' latest attempt to wrest control of .web away from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and has ordered the company to ... Continue Reading4 Comments
NFTs trip up Uniregistry’s top level domain auctions
· Policy & LawA marketing stunt gone horribly awry? Frank Schilling's top level domain company UNR auctioned its 23 top level domain names at the end of April, grossing more than $40 million. To date, none of the TLDs have transferred to the winning bidders. The ... Continue Reading8 Comments
GoDaddy wins contract to run .TV, Verisign didn’t bid for renewal
· ServicesGoDaddy Registry will now operate and market the .tv domain. GoDaddy Registry (NYSE: GDDY) has won the contract to operate Tuvalu's .tv country code domain name. Tuvalu is a small island nation of about 10,000 people. It struck internet gold ... Continue Reading5 Comments
PIR acquires 4 charitable top level domains, announces RSP contract bidding
· UncategorizedNon-profit expands its TLD portfolio and announces bidding for backend registry services. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the organization that manages .org, has acquired four top level domain names in two transactions. First, the non-profit ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Beer.com, AKA.com, Nonstop.com and other great domains go to auction
· Domain SalesOne of the best domain portfolios is hitting the market, and many of the domains have no reserves. A stellar portfolio of domain names is hitting the market and many of them have no reserve. Thought Convergence, a company that once ran a domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
