21 February 2012 Recovery of a domain name that contains your trade marks or trade name By Paul Bicknell It must be understood that a domain name is not an intellectual property right. A domain name merely forms the subject matter of a contract between the Registrant (the person who purchased the domain name) and ...
Swiper, no swiping! I got a chuckle this morning from a “hard hitting” investigative story in Orange County. WFTV.com reports on Orange County sheriff’s candidate John Tegg. The TV station says that someone “swiped” the domain name for Tegg’s old campaign web site, johnteggforsheriff.com, and redirected it to a rival. Swiped, eh? Well, the domain ...
According to DomainTools.com, a provider of domain name research and whois information, the number of .com domains under management by the registry has eclipsed 100 million domains. In a statement issued earlier today DomainTools claims that through their research they “calculated the current total of domains managed by Verisign to be over 100.2 million” DomainTools’ ...
A number of organizations track the .com domain registrations by simply reading the Verisign daily zone file, a methodology that underestimates the current count. According to DomainTools, their research shows that the .com count is already well past 100 million. Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) January 26, 2012 DomainTools, the recognized leader in domain name research and ...
Some well-known San Antonio companies failed to claim their .xxx domains and at least two local businesses have moved to protect their brands from possibly being associated with smutty online content. The .xxx designations went live late last year as a way to distinguish adult-entertainment sites. Many companies not part of the adult-entertainment industry moved ...
Salesforce.com loses dispute over Forces.com domain name at National Arbitration Forum. Salesforce.com has lost an attempt to get the domain name Forces.com, which it said was similar to its Force.com domain name. The registrant’s predecessor had registered the domain name before Salesforce.com started using the Force.com domain name. As Elliot Silver pointed out when the ...
Company wins dispute over FacebookLive.com domain name A National Arbitration Forum panelist has awarded Facebook the domain name FacebookLive.com. The domain name was originally registered in 2006 but its whois record was protected by a proxy service. The whois proxy was lifted in 2009, revealing Domainstand.com LLC as the owner. After the dispute was filed ...
In early February, Ron Jackson reported that Screenshots.com had sold for $32,500. The third largest deal of the week was completed by Eric Rice, and the buyer was DomainTools. The company has been offering historical screenshots of websites via its Whois lookup page. For instance, you can see the old format here. A press release ...