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 ...
Tyson gets domain name MikeTyson.com. Knock out! A World Intellectual Property Organization has determined that retired Boxer Mike Tyson should get the domain name MikeTyson.com. The domain name was originally registered in 2001, but it expired in 2004 and was picked up by the current owner. The registrant appears to have gone by the name ...
Company says Moniker didn’t appropriately notify it of expiring domain names. [Update: see Moniker Oversee.net comment below] A large client of domain name registrar Moniker has sued the company and parent company Oversee.net over alleged shenanigans with expired domain names. Mainstream Advertising, Inc. filed the suit (pdf) claiming breach of contract, conversion, unjust enrichment, and ...
Published: 15:27 Photo: Postimees/Scanpix The Estonian Internet Foundation’s domain disputes committee has settled another case in favor of a well-known trademark owner, ruling that a dot-ee domain name be given over to Federal Express Corporation. The committee stated that the registrant had no legitimate interest in claiming the domain name, fedex.ee. “It is bound to happen ...
auDA kicks out Miranda Kerr cybersquatter By Stan BeerMonday, 12 September 2011 14:05 Business IT – Security Would be Australian Internet entrepreneurs who think they can trade off the names of the rich and famous can think again, according to the administrator of the .au domain namespace. auDA says that recent reports in the ...
When it comes to building a robust globe-spanning network of crimeware and making the victims dance to a tune of the cyber-criminals’ choosing, you’re guaranteed to find domain name abuse at the heart of the operation. DNS provides the critical flexibility and underlying scalability of modern command-and-control (CC) infrastructure. Cyber-criminals that master DNS (and manage ...
A group set up by Nominet, which is the internet registry for .uk domain names, said that a new “expedited process” should be created to allow law enforcement agencies to ask for domains to be suspended if they are associated with serious crime. Currently Nominet’s terms and conditions of domain name registration state that it ...