The “UTAH E-COMMERCE INTEGRITY ACT” which was just introduced in December of 2009, passed the Utah Senate last month, was voted into law by the Utah House today. When I first wrote about this bill in December,  it was meet with the usual domainer apathy I see when I write about something that c...

In a WIPO decision issued today a pretty generic domain domain,  7Days.com was awarded to a the owner of a trademark registered in Greece and Portugal. Although the domain was parked, none of the links were alleged to go to the trademark owners site or competitors site, just a general parking page....

If you think the trademark laws are tough in the United States, you should check out the french laws. If you visit Sedo’s home page for France, you will see on the bottom of the front page a judgment of a French court entered against Sedo for a total of 95,000 Euro’s for apparently just ...

ABC evening news has a story on ICANN plan to release an unlimited amount of extensions called “.AnythingGoes”. The first line from the story: “Is This The Beginning Of The End For .Com’s?” You can watch the whole 1:28 second piece The piece seems to come back around at...

I just literally stumbled across  a new blog aggregation service called Gurus.com which is covering the domain industry along with blogs of some other industries.  The site is using the Slogan; “one site, all the gurus” Of course most of you are familiar with Domaining.com and NameBee....

Talk about having some bad timing. The domain ChileEarthQuake.com dropped just 2 days after the 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile. Today the expired domain was auctioned off and sold on SnapNames.com While we always discourage people from registering domains that take advantage of any disasters we couldn&...

Go Daddy announced today that it has just surpassed 40 million, registered domain names. Godaddy said it typically registers a million domain names per month. Godaddy also says they have a 50% market share of all active new domains registered in the world and is more than three times the size of its...

What happens when a site which is suppose to be giving out unbiased reviews of products is accused of changing it reviews based on ad dollars? Welcome to the world of Yelp.com, which was hit with a second class-action suit this week, alleging that they “extorted” companies by offering to...

According to the BBC News , ICANN is going to reconsider the .XXX extension on Friday March 12 at its meeting in Nairobi. The BBC article quotes a representative of ICANN saying: There is “no indication what action the ICANN board will take”. “However, it is unlikely to overturn th...

In yet another shoot from the hip WIPO decision this one involving the domain SkyWaterSystems.com, the sole panelist found that even though the Complaint and the Domain Holder were in the same type of business,  there is not necessarily any confusion. “”"As far as the record here reveal...

The .Co registry announced today what it is calling the .CO Founders Program Starting today, the registry is starting to accept applications, for “the .CO Founders Program, an initiative designed to help qualified “first movers” to proactively develop and maintain domains with the .CO exte...

Once in a while you will see them on a drop list, the domain of a company that was once an internet high flier. So is the case of NextMonet.com a site that was founded in 1998 and was a Forbes.com “Best Of The Web”,  and reportedly raised at least $23M in capital raised, with investors ...

NIC Mexico the company responsible of the administration of the .MX ccTLD, announced today that has reached 400,000 domain name registrations under .MX (including in this number all the current classifications .com.mx, .net.mx, .org.mx, .edu.mx, .gob.mx and .mx). “Today, NIC Mexico has reached mor...

A study released by Corporate Service Company (CSC), a brand protection company, looked at domains that start with “www” to see how much traffic those domains got in relation to the actual domain. “”"To understand how much traffic these domain variations could potentially dri...

This week Resuecom which sued Google for selling ads under its trademarked keywords 6 years ago simply dropped the case. Back in April 2009 we wrote about how the appeals court ruled against Google in favor of Resuecom. At the time we wrote: “”"The 2nd Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ru...

As reported by NewOrleans.com a lawsuit was filed yesterday in the United States District Court in East Baton Rouge Parish against the NFL & the Saints.  The suit alleges 16 counts of misconduct, including Breach of Contract, Deceptive Advertising, Trademark Infringement and Dilution, Negligenc...

A new article published today by Wired.com entitled: Domain Name Czar Seeks .OnlineUnity interview Rob Beckstrom CEO of ICANN discusses the proposed gTLD’s and various ICANN and domain issues. My favorite quote from the article by Beckstrom is in response to the issue about the new gTLD’...

In a WIPO decision a sole panelist took away a domain registered by the domain holder in 1997, that’s 13 years ago. The domain at issue is sporto.com Over the years, the domain has been used many different ways including as a developed site but also for a period of time as a parked page. This ...

SnapNames.com is holding its March Showcase Auction featuring Entertainment & Sports domains from March 9th-March 16th and just released the domains up for bid. We will release our top picks a couple of days before the auction closes although we couldn’t help but see ScreenSavers.com sitti...

Well in an interesting WIPO decision, a sole panelist rejected a trademark holders claim even though they found the domain at issue, finaza.com “was confusingly similar to a mark in which Complainants have rights” and even through the domain was parked for some time. “”"The P...

Just as a reminder the LuxuryNames.com auction on Snapnames.com is closing at just a few hours at 3:15pm EST in accordance with snapnames normally closing rules. As of noon there are 3 domains with bids that have met reserve Graduatedegrees.org $2,600 Graduatedegrees.org $2,600 dartmouthhotels.com ...

The theaustralian.com.au is reporting that domain name Qant.as, (as in Qantas airlines) sold for a whopping $1.35 million dollars. The .As extension is the ccTLD of American Samoa and I’m willing to go out on a limb and say if true, its a record setting sale. The owner of the domain, Dominic H...

Over the years I have received about 50 “Certified Offers” From Network Solutions. If your not familiar with the product, Network Solutions offers a method for buyers to contact buyers and to make an offer a domain. For the privilege the “buyer” has to pay NSI $19.95 PLUS plu...

Google just released its own SEO Report Card. In a 49 page report it rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including the Google search home page and gives itself a failing grade in a number of categories. One of the biggest areas of failure for is in “search resu...

Bill Warren the former President of  Monster.com, has big plans for the .jobs extension. No this is not one the new proposed gTLD’s. The extension already exists. Employ Media LLC was granted the right to manage the .job registry all the way back in April of 2005. You can currently register a...