Receiver asks for typo domains to be confiscated from Apple and others

Receiver wants ICANN to reverse domain transfers.

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Blackstone Group says it “sucks”

Blackstone group registers “sucks” domains for its name and its chairman. Private equity giant Blackstone Group thinks it sucks. That’s the only plausible explanation for seven recent domain name registrations by the company.

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ANA proposes “Do Not Sell” list to ICANN

ANA asks for top level block list or it may proceed with legal action. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has proposed that ICANN adopt a “Do Not Sell” list for the new top level domain name application period that opens up later this week.

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Perhaps trademark holders should no longer defensively register domains

In the future brand owners may need to change their domain name strategy. With potentially hundreds of new top level domain names heading to the internet as early as 2013, brand owners are crying foul

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Valero is third company to belatedly request .xxx domain name

Energy company complains to WIPO about Valero.xxx. San Antonio, TX based energy giant Valero Energy is the third company to ask an arbitration panel to give it a .xxx domain name. The company filed a complaint last week with World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO), seeking control of Valero.xxx

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Amazon’s Quidsi appears to be working on Casa.com

Quidsi’s latest store is likely Casa.com. Amazon.com’s Quidsi, which runs Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, and YoYo.com, appears to be working on something new: Casa.com

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Salesforce.com can’t force owner of Forces.com to hand over domain

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.

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EA loses domain dispute for SSX.com for upcoming SSX launch

Video game maker unsuccessful in challenge to SSX.com domain name.

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Ray Ozzie is $33,000 Cocomo.com buyer

Mystery domain buyer is creator of Lotus Notes.

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United Domains gets Punk’d

Members of ICANN community and competing domain registrars find themselves as new United Domains account holders. Someone is having a laugh at United Domains’ expense. Over the past few days an unknown perpetrator has set up roughly 500 empty accounts at domain name registrar United Domains using email addresses of people active in ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee and at various competing domain name registrars.

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Social network buys Dudu.com domain name for $1 million

Dudu.com sells for an incredible $1 million.

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Braden Pollock joins ScienceFiction.com as traffic explodes

ScienceFiction.com tops 1 million monthly pageviews and reshuffles its ownership. Domain name investor Braden Pollock is now part owner of ScienceFiction.com, LLC , joining Patrick Ruddell in the online site that wants to be the “TechCrunch of science fiction”. I caught up with Ruddell today to understand what this means for his business and how the site is doing

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Simon & Schuster buys rights to Marc Ostrofsky’s Get Rich Click book

Famous domain investor sells his book to major publishing house. Simon & Schuster has purchased the rights to Marc Ostrofsky’s Get Rich Click book, sending him on new PR rounds.

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DomainTools gets two trademarks

Domain and web hosting data company gets trademarks for “DomainTools”. Remember when DomainTools was called (the much less desirable) whois.sc? It was shorter, but running a domain name business on a Seychelles ccTLD is no bueno

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Zooz uses 1% of its funding to buy Zooz.com

A start-up spends 1% of its recent funding round on a domain name and other interesting domain name purchases. It’s time for the weekly roundup of end user domain name purchases

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Top Domain Name Wire stories of December

From .xxx to Google to expired domains.

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Domain attorney Ari Goldberger featured in NBC Miami story about expired MiamiPolice.com domain

Goldberger featured in TV news story about MiamiPolice.com. Domain name attorney Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com was featured in an NBC Miami story last week about MiamiPolice.com

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First two .xxx UDRP disputes filed

First of many .xxx UDRP cases filed. The first two uniform domain name dispute resolution (UDRP) cases for .xxx domain names have been filed. As with any new TLD launch, you can expect many more in the months to come.

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