The Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN sent around an email this morning suggesing that at first glance, the registry monthly reports for July, the first month in which ICANN instituted a .20 fee on all domain name registrations in order to cut down on the practice of ‘domain tasting’ (the registration of domain names for
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Tolkein Rights Owner Reclaims Precious Domain Names
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“Pennsylvania Law firm Claims Websites Free-Ride On Its Name”
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ABA Journal: Pennsylvania Law firm Claims Websites Free-Ride On Its Name“:
A Pennsylvania law firm has sued a Canadian domain name registry, claiming that it helped create websites that free-ride on the Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn name.
Speculators Registering Bank Merger Domain Names
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The Guardian: “Computers are the only worthwhile assets banks have left“:
Even as the short-selling vultures began circling Lehman Brothers, HBOS, Merrill Lynch and co, a legion of entrepreneurs began betting on domain names for hastily merged financial institutions. For example, when Barclays and Bank of America began to emerge as buyers for…
Declaratory Judgement vs Virgin Enterprises re VIRGINHEALTH.NET
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Read this document on Scribd: Complaint Virgin Health
DrillBabyDrill.Com
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Well that’s interesting. DrillBabyDrill.com.
IPC Paper on Sunrise Mechanisms for gTLDs
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The Intellectual Property Constitutency of ICANN has released this paper on sunrise mechanisms for opening new generic top level domain names.
Read this document on Scribd: IPC perfect sunrise
What A Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Opinion Looks Like
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Registrant obtained COLLECTIVEMEDIA.COM in 2002. Opponent begins use in 2005, brungs UDRP. Held: opponent should have known it would lose. Collective Media, Inc. v CKV . COLLECTIVEMEDIA.COM WIPO D2008-0641.
Com Laude Newsletter On The New gTLDs
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Registrar Com Laude (run by friends of the blog Nick and Lorna) on the new gTLDs:
Read this document on Scribd: CL Newsletter Summer 08
“ICANN Opens Up Pandora’s Box Of New TLDs”
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ICANN cleared the way today for a wider scope of generic top level domain names.
The more land there is, the less valuable individual parcels are.
ArsTechnica coverage here.
SlashDot coverage here.
Circle ID coverage here.
IP Watch coverage here.
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