There’s something of a holy grail regarding developing a good format for delivering news to the mobile user – for example, the commuter who may wish to read the morning headlines on his/her Treo.
One format is the ‘river of news‘ that provides a feed of headlines that flows along the screen like
Domain Names
Seems Like EURid Is FUBAR
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Wired: EU Domain Dream in Disarray
Today’s Typo Site
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EURid Says Good EuRiddance To Registrars
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Silicon.com: Dot-eu ‘warehousing’ scandal strikes US registrars.’
EURid press release here.
Prior Trademark Blog coverage of allegations of irregularities concerning the .EU roll-out here.
“Domain Name Service Promises Safer, Faster Browsing”
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News.com: “DNS service promises safer, faster browsing” (domain name look-up service intended to combat phishing and typo sites).
When Good Laws Go Bad
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We don’t have all the facts, but based on this Honolulu Advertiser article, it sounds like an ACPA threat was used to stop political speech.
Yahoo Fails To Obtain YAHU.COM and YAHU.COM.CN
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Pacific Epoch: Yahoo lost an appeal to obtain the names YAHU.COM and YAHU.COM.CN in China. The article states that the current registrant’s name has the same pinyin, or phonetic rendering in roman characters, but uses different Chinese characters.
“ICANN Needs To Clamp Down On Domain Name Abuse”
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CHILDRENOFJOLIEPITT.COM For Sale
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You’ve got to acknowledge that the Jolie Pitts have proactive IP representation. They were particularly vigilant in obtaining the most obvious domain names incorporating the name of their newborn. This foresight has forced sites such as this, to offer such not-so surefire traffic generating names as CHILDRENOFJOLIEPITT.COM. (drill down to ‘fame capitalization.’
Software Piracy Trade Organization Accuses Law Firm of Cybersquatting
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Out-Law.com: “Law Firm Accused Of Cybersquatting”
The law firm of Scott and Scott uses the domain name SIIADEFENSE.COM to advertise its services of defending those accused of software piracy by the SIIA, the Software and Information Industry Association, a trade assocaition that polices software piracy.
Scott and Scott apparently also use BSADEFENSE.COM, the…