WIPO: Infotrax.com was denied transfer in UDRP but no RDNH finding
Citing first use of the mark “InfoTrax” in 1999, InfoTrax Systems waited 13 years to pursuit a trademark. When the mark was registered with the USPTO in 2013, the company decided to go after InfoTrax.com – a domain registered in 1995 – by filing a UDRP at the WIPO. Despite having a registered trademark for […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Namecheap to offer web hosting for $10 bucks per year and cPanel
After going off on a tirade on Facebook about not getting any love or media coverage from domain bloggers, domain registrar Namecheap announced the availability of discounted web hosting services. The price: a paltry $10 annually, or less than the average cost of a dot .com registration. There are several tiers of web hosting, however, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.TRAFFIC 2014 in full blast – First Halloween party pics emerge!
TRAFFIC parties are legendary, and TRAFFIC 2014 in Miami marks the 10th anniversary of the original domain conference founded by Rick Schwartz. With dozens of costumed participants, the TRAFFIC Halloween party proved to be worthy of its reputation. All the big cheese domainers were there, including dozens more that attended for the first time. The […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.IBM takes the .Buzz domain via UDRP
Despite the new URS process that allows for trademark holders, particularly those of famous marks, to disable an offending gTLD domain, IBM took the UDRP route. In a case filed at the WIPO against the domain IBM.buzz, the Complainant was International Business Machines Corporation. The UDRP was filed 4 months after the domain IBM.buzz was […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.UDRP for TheAA.email adds to the Yoyo pile
Another day, another UDRP for Yoyo Email, Ltd. – a UK corporation that has had a record number of UDRP cases filed against it this year. The reason: registrations of corporate names, brands and trademarks in the dot .Email gTLD, a practice that Yoyo Email refers to as a “business model”, asserting that it has […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cyber-catcall: Shoshana B. Roberts missed out on the dot .com
We’ve said it before: if you plan to be part of a viral campaign, make sure you already own your name as a dot .com, maybe even a variation of it. Shoshana B. Roberts, a New York based actress, made national news recently over her role as a naturally beautiful, casually dressed female walking in […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Real Estate agent does not want to be a dot .Realtor
In a brutally honest essay on the dot .Realtor availability, Real Estate agent, Teresa Boardman, states that she will stick to dot .com for now. “I think I’ll just stick with my .com domains. I can have domain names like StPaulRealEstateBlog.com and StPaulCondolife.com and StPaulPhotos.com and several others that don’t include my name, or the […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.DigikaPart: Iranian domain lost in UDRP due to copycat content
When your brand copies off another business’s name, making claims about the name’s origin won’t work if you also copy their content. A UDRP filed at the WIPO against the domain name DigikaPart.com by DigiKey Electronics, was met by a surprising claim by the Respondent. DigikaPart was registered in Iran and appears to be providing […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Same, but different: Sedo gets a redesign
Sedo has redesigned its homepage and content pages, giving them a much-needed “facelift.” The new design is not responsive, and the homepage places emphasis on the new direction in the domain industry, that of gTLDs. Below the masthead, domain listings are displayed, which refresh every few seconds – a nice touch. Inner pages more or […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.UDRP for Banksy.com dropped after Complainant was revealed to be an impostor!
A UDRP that was filed against the owner of the domain name Banksy.com, was dropped by the arbitrator at the WIPO, who issued a partial reimbursement of the UDRP fees. While no details were revealed by the UDRP documents, the sleuths at The Register contacted the owner of the domain, who shared some shocking info. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Juan Diego Calle: LinkedIn profile status ‘unemployed’
After founding and selling .CO Internet S.A.S. to Neustar for several million dollars, Juan Diego Calle is currently in dire straits. Despite the huge success of dot .CO domain names, Juan Diego Calle’s personal story is heart-breaking; his LinkedIn profile clearly states “Unemployed“. We ran across Juan Diego in a house for the poor and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Insomniacs: Sedo, Afternic and NameJet domain sales listings make great bed time reads
If you suffer from insomnia, you are not alone; about 22% of all American adults suffer from a chronic bout of lack of sleep. A shocking 48% reports having insomnia occasionally, and the number goes up as the use of tablets and smart phones at bed time increases. What can domain investors do in order […]
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