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PING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to an trademark application for .Ping.
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.Ping trademark in jeopardy, but Ping sailing through
Trademark office sends office action to PING Golf brand owner. On Wednesday I posted a list of 115 trademark applications that could be related to new top level domains, along with their current status. The USPTO has a policy of not granting trademarks on top level domains, and the number of “speculative” trademark applications has ballooned as ICANN gets ready to expand the TLD universe
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USPTO to Karsten: not so fast with .PING
I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S
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115 Top level domain trademarks and their current status
eNom founder’s company will apply for ten top level domains. eNom founder Paul Stahura plans to apply for ten new top level domain names through his new company Donuts Inc., Bloomberg reports . Donuts raised $1 million in outside capital beginning in April of 2011
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Paul Stahura’s Donuts Inc to apply for 10 TLDs
.XXX opens for registration today. At the time of writing the .xxx domain name launch is just two hours away and the internet is buzzing thanks to an aggressive TV ad campaign. The ads tell visitors to visit www.Buy.xxx, where you’ll find a list of accredited registrars who will sell you a .xxx domain name. But many of those registrars have already closed their queues for the first few hours of today’s launch. Some of them had a deadline of yesterday to pre-order domains
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It’s go-time for .xxx as www.Buy.xxx commercials make a buzz
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa athletics department is looking to purchase an x-rated Internet domain, or several. A new Top-Level Domain (TLD) dot-x-x-x – geared toward legitimizing the adult entertainment industry – was surged with more than 80,000 applications.
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Hawkeye Athletics Looks to Buy Porn Domains
RegistryPro wants to trademark .med and .law domain names. There’s something sneaky going on with RegistryPro, the registry for the .pro top level domain name. First, the company filed trademark applications for the second level domains .med.pro and .law.pro.
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Registry Behind .Pro Says It Used .Law, .Med Back in 2004
…but these companies have a good reason not to. Bloomberg BusinessWeek just published an article that says representatives from P&G and HP have confirmed the companies don’t plan to apply for new top level domain names. A couple observations: 1.
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P&G and HP Say They Won’t Register Their Own TLDs
WILMINGTON, DE– – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is set to kick off its New Generic Top-Level Domain Program on January 12, 2012, and open up branded domain name extensions to …
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CSC Provides Guidance on Applying for New Generic Top-Level Domains
Some bad and ugly top level domain name ideas. I’ve written about a number of company’s and city’s plans to apply for new top level domain names
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What’s The Worst Idea for a New TLD?
ICANN has never had a formal policy against registry-registrar cross-ownership. ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has responded to European Commission Commissioner Neelie Kroes on the issue of cross ownership between domain name registrars and registries, also know as vertical integration. Kroes sent a letter to Beckstrom in June expressing concern over vertical integration and potential competition concerns
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Did You Know? No Policy Against Registry-Registrar Cross-Ownership
A charity top level domain wants you to be charitable to get it off the ground. A group hoping to launch the .HIV top level domain name is turning to crowdfunding to raise the six figures required to apply for the domain. The idea is that companies can use a .hiv domain in addition to .com to generate money for HIV/AIDS research. The group’s site says that money will be earned with each click to a .hiv web site, although it’s unclear if the owner of the second level domain is the one that ends up making the donation. The group is raising money through crowdfunding platform indiegogo.com .
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.HIV Domain Name Initiative Turns to Crowd Funding
Mystery company files trademarks for .wedding, .club, and .discount. California’s What Box?
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What Box? Adds 3 More TLDs to Trademark List
Latest six figure sale is a sign of things to come. ICM Registry’s sale of gay.xxx for $500,000 is simply staggering. If there was any doubt before, the company is clearly going to make a mint. This also shows that second level domains in relevant new top level domain names will sell for a lot more than the same second level in a generic TLD (save for .com and and perhaps .net and .org). ICM says it has now sold nine premium .xxx domain names for $100,000 or more
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.XXX Is Going to Make a Whole Lot of Money
Public Interest Registry asks for permission to allocate one and two character .org domain names. .Org domain name registry Public Interest Registry is asking ( pdf ) ICANN to allow it to allocate certain one and two character .org domain names. PIR’s contract with ICANN currently prohibits registering these short .org domain names. PIR wants to allocate any such domains excluding ones that correspond to a country code. There’s a model for releasing these domains as ICANN has approved every request to date from other registries for similar plans
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Shorter .Org Domain Names May Be On The Way
Whoever said there wasn’t enough room in Munich this time of year for anything but the mighty Oktoberfest clearly underestimated the draw of the new Top-Level Domain Program and the interest within Europe.
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Munich’s New Domains Conference Reveals Urgency to Act Now
www. will make a comeback with new top level domain names. Type in any correctly configured domain name and you don’t need to include www. Technically www is merely a subdomain
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The Return of WWW.
Trying to get a domain name that existed before your trademark. I’m a big supporter of intellectual property rights. Unfortunately I’m stuck writing more often about lawyers and companies that overstep their bounds. The latest case: Smart Tax Holdings, LLC. The company filed a federal lawsuit ( pdf ) against Marchex for the domain name SmartTax.com
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Is this Trademark Lawsuit Unethical or Something Worse?
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