Feds Seize 307 Sports-Related Domains Ahead of Super Sunday

Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional sports merchandise, including National Football League paraphernalia.

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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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Google bats .740 against YouTube typosquatter

Google wins 37 of 50 typo domain names. Google has won rights to 37 typo domain names of its YouTube brand, but it won’t be happy with the results. That’s because the National Arbitration Forum panelist who decided the case also determined that the typosquatter could keep 13 infringing domain names, including youtubr.com and youtbue.com

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Hockey Hall-of-famer Doug Gilmour gets DougGilmour.com

Hockey great gets his namesake .com. Former NHL great Doug Gilmour, who was inducted into the hockey hall of fame this year, has won a UDRP proceeding over the domain name DougGilmour.com. I remember watching Gilmour play for the St. Louis Blues in the 1980s.

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New TLD program has two hearings on Capitol Hill within one week

Get ready for representatives to pretend like they know about domain names. ICANN and its new top level domain name program will be put under the microscope in Washington, D.C. twice over the next 7 days.

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ad:tech London Kicks Off

Show heads to London for two day vent. The London edition of ad:tech got underway this morning with a discussion with Nike brand communications director, global football Ed Elworthy and EuroRSCG CEO Russ Lidstone. The event runs through Wednesday at the National Hall in Olympia in London. Compared to the U.S.

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DPRK Premier Gets Familiar with Work in Different Domains of National Economy

Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) — Premier of the DPRK Choe Yong Rim got familiar with the work in different domains of the national economy from August 6 to 10.

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ICANN responds to ANA’s complaints about proposed new domains

Washington, D.C.—Last week, the Association of National Advertisers called “potentially disastrous” the Internet Corp.’

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Nationnal.com and Natiional.com – One is a Trademark Typo, the Other Isn’t

Two different panels come to different conclusions in essentially the same case. I’m frequently perplexed by UDRP decisions for similar domain names. Here’s another example. National Arbitration Forum has handed down decisions for nationnal.com and natiional.com literally within days of each other. Both domains are typos of “National”, and both are parked at HitFarm

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Pentagon Wants To Secure Dot.Com Domains Of Contractors

Quietly, the NSA is asked to determine whether it can — and should Defense Department – National Security Agency – United States Secretary of Defense – United States Department of Defense – National security

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Cyberwar defence plan is essential, says former CIA head

Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and the National Security Agency, has said countries should develop international agreements over what grids are off-limits if attacked

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NCIs Ken Buetow Discusses caBIGs Plan to Build Network of Licensed Service Providers

Four years after it was launched as a pilot project, the National Cancer Institutes Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid project is looking to ensure that researchers who adopt caBIG technologies have access to adequate technical support.

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NIIT ropes in Ignou for professional courses

IT training firm NIIT today partnered with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to launch industry-linked study programmes, aimed at enhancing the employability of the youth.

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Arbitrator hands xboxonline.com to Microsoft

An arbitrator with National Arbitration Forum has awarded the domain name xboxonline.com to Microsoft .A complainant was submitted to the National Arbitration Forum,in which Microsoft requested the domain name xboxonline.com to be transferred from the respondent to the complainant.

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Google wins Googlebooks.com domain name in arbitration

The National Arbitration Forum announced that a ruling has been issued in favor of Google regarding rights to the Internet domain name Googlebooks.com .Google,represented in this case by Meredith M. Pavia submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,asserting legal rights to the disputed domain name.

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NSF grant funds Clemson project to improve high school physics classes

( Clemson University ) A Clemson University professor has received a $600,000 National Science Foundation grant to study ways to improve physics classes for high school students.

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