Domain News: Weekly Digest, January 6, 2013

January 6, 2013

After Filing Over 500 UDRP’s & 15 Years, Lego Finally Wins Rights To Lego.net - TheDomains.com

After Filing Over 500 UDRP's & 15 Years, Lego Finally Wins Rights To Lego.net
TheDomains.com
I count over 500 UDRP's on domain names filed containing the term “lego” and many cases contain more than one domain. However despite all the filings and wins by the toy maker the it has finally won a UDRP on the bang on matching domain of its …

Barron’s: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End” - TheDomains.com

Barron's: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End”
TheDomains.com
Generally just an overall on the new gTLD program but once again domain names are being discussed in the biggest of business publications which can't be a bad thing for the industry. Some notable quotes out of the story: “A new epoch begins this year on …

UDRP Filed On Generic kinder-chocolate.com By Owner Of kinderchocolate.com … - TheDomains.com

UDRP Filed On Generic kinder-chocolate.com By Owner Of kinderchocolate.com …
TheDomains.com
Here is the interesting part, the same company owns the domain name kinderchocolate.com which they just registered in August 2012. The domain name kinder-chocolate.com was registered back in 2009. The domain kinderchocolate.com which is owned by …

A Mad Genius Zlatan Ibrahimovic Fan Bought His Favorite Player’s Domain … - Deadspin

A Mad Genius Zlatan Ibrahimovic Fan Bought His Favorite Player's Domain …
Deadspin
A Mad Genius Zlatan Ibrahimovic Fan Bought His Favorite Player's Domain Name, Will Give It Paris Saint-Germain acquired the services of Zlatan Ibrahimovic from AC Milan over the summer, and since his old team confirmed that he'd be heading to the Paris …

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Take Zlat! Cheeky fan sets Ibrahimovic 12 bizarre challenges to win website … - Bayoubuzz (subscription)

Take Zlat! Cheeky fan sets Ibrahimovic 12 bizarre challenges to win website …
Bayoubuzz (subscription)
Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic may have finally met his match – but not with another player – instead with a cheeky fan who bought the internet domain name Zlatan.fr and set him a number of ridiculous challenges if he wants to win it off him. The bold …

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The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End - Barron’s

The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End
Barron’s
There's a background screening of an applicant's officers, to guard against anyone with a history of financial malfeasance or cybersquatting (a kind of extortion in which a rascal registers a domain in the name of someone else's trademark, then demands to be …

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Edwards Wildman | Edwards Wildman’s Tom Smedinghoff Comments on Top … - Linex Legal (press release) (registration)

Edwards Wildman | Edwards Wildman's Tom Smedinghoff Comments on Top …
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
Keeping Up With Domain Name Explosion, Big Data, Social Media, And Online Innovation Are Top-of-Mind Legal Issues Among Cyberlaw Experts Bloomberg BNA asked several dozen leading attorneys and online experts for their views on the most …

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Over 50 end user domain sales including Paramount Pictures’ $65k purchase … - Bayoubuzz (subscription)

Over 50 end user domain sales including Paramount Pictures' $65k purchase …
Bayoubuzz (subscription)
A lot of small businesses buy domain names toward the end of the year. One reason is they want to get the purchase on this year's books. That's what one buyer told me the last week of December — “I'll do it for this price if you can complete the sale by the …

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Rogue Google SSL certificate not used for dishonest purposes, Turktrust says - Computerworld

Rogue Google SSL certificate not used for dishonest purposes, Turktrust says
Computerworld
An intermediate or subordinate CA (sub-CA) certificate inherits the trust given by browsers to the issuing CA and allows its owner to sign and create trusted SSL certificates for virtually any domain name on the Internet. Turktrust's error was discovered after one …

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