UDRP decision: Marc Randazza to receive all domains squatted by Reverend Crystal Cox

IP attorney Marc Randazza has prevailed at the WIPO, today. In a case involving several personal domain names registered by blogger and marketing/SEO specialist, Reverend Crystal Cox, the decision comes as a bold statement about squatting domains of famous or important people for profit. The UDRP ends thus: “[...] the Panel grants the relief sought [...]

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French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo intermittently down after publishing Prophet Mohammed cartoons

The French magazine Charlie Hebdo published several cartoons today, featuring a figure that looks like the Prophet Mohammed. Charlie Hebdo appears both in print and online. However, the Charlie Hebdo web site is currently facing database issues, as the following message appears quite often, when visiting CharlieHebdo.fr “Connection impossible Can’t connect to local MySQL server [...]

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Sex.com case lawyer to get “FU” made out of $211,223.04

Back in June, we wrote how an argument between The Oatmeal and the Funny Junk owners ended up involving Charles Carreon, the lawyer who became famous for his role in reclaiming the stolen domain, Sex.com, in the mid 90′s. Carreon asked for $20,000 for his client, in order to settle an alleged case of defamation; [...]

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Oatmeal in hot waters as Funnyjunk hires Sex.com case lawyer

The Oatmeal creates original comic artwork with an admittedly caustic sense of humor. Meanwhile, Funnyjunk is an online repository of anything funny, reposted by its users. In other words, while The Oatmeal creates content, Funnyjunk replicates it; these are two opposingly different business models. A while ago, The Oatmeal owner discovered a large number of [...]

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Father Domainicus: Those that register the URL of a 3 year old are evil

Good Sunday evening, my brothers and sisters in domaining. This is Father Domainicus with a short and sweet message. As I pulled my chair in front of my computer, despite having mowed the lawn earlier at the local church festival, I could not help but ponder on the evil in people. Some sassy lass from [...]

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Judge agrees: A 3 year old cannot blog on a Squatted Domain!

Vittoria, the 3 year old daughter of Vicdania Gomez is apparently very advanced for her age. After all, the toddler talks about it on her blog, aptly titled “Vittoria’s Freedom Blog“: Hi, I’m Vittoria and this my first website that my mommy helped me launch in order to begin my journey in making the world [...]

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Beware of Greeks bearing …blogs

Greek politicians aren’t phased out by the current state of the Greek economy; while the government takes the customary “August baths“, there’s already a new law in the works that would put freedom of speech to danger. The planned law, to be introduced for voting by the end of September, aims to make it obligatory [...]

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