Top 20 web sites now safe in .xxx

Top 20 web sites won’t be “sexsquatted”.

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Huffington Post Gets Sexsquatted

California man registers HuffingtonPost.xxx.

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Former Sedo broker Frank Aiello Joins Domain Holdings

Domain Holdings adds another broker from Sedo.

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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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ProForma: Why Build a Brand When You Can Buy One?

Domain broker files trademark application for a great slogan. Domain name broker ProForma Inc has filed a trademark application for a nifty slogan: Why Build a Brand When You Can Buy One? ProForma handles domain name brokerage for “some of the world’s largest portfolios of premium, generic domain names.” Anyone who has ever visited a domain owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration is familiar with ProForma, as Schilling uses ProForma for domain inquiries.

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Off to ad:tech, The Show Without Its Domain Name

Huge trade show for online advertising has a disappointing domain name. This morning I’m off to ad:tech, a large interactive advertising conference, in San Francisco.

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DOMAINfest NYC Wrap Up

DOMAINfest draws a large crowd.

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Jeff Kupietzky’s 5 Myths of the Domain Name Industry

Oversee.net CEO dispels five myths in the domain name industry. Today at DOMAINfest in New York, Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky tried to dispel 5 myths about the domain name industry. 1.

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Important Ruling against AOL in Favor of Advertise.com in Attempting to Trademark Generic Domains on the Internet

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Important Ruling against AOL in Favor of Advertise.com in Attempting to Trademark Generic Domains on the Internet.

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In AOL Advertising.com Case, Court Explains Perils of Generic Domain Names

Building a brand around a generic domain name may create trademark headaches. You usually find the real juicy stuff in a company’s annual report in the footnotes.

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Woman With World’s Smallest Waist Wins Cybersquatting Lawsuit

A domain name is a terrible thing to waist . Cathie Jung, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as having “ The Smallest Waist on a Living Person ” at 15 inches, has won rights to the domain name CathieJung.com. Jung filed an Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act en rem (meaning it was against the domain name and not the registrant) case back in December 2009. Jung claimed that the domain name was registered by a corset designer.

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13 Country Code Domains That Can Follow in .Co’s Footsteps

Here are 13 ccTLDs just begging to be commercialized. With the recent launch of .co, we’ve seen another re-purposed country code domain name get international recognition. It joins other fairly successful commercializations such as .tv and .me, as well as failures such as .ws and .md. Here are some other country code top level domain names that might have commercial potential, and my predicted marketing success for each one

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Seriously, Wooot the Hell?

Wooot.com case needs proofreading; sheds light on UDRP panelist practices. Yesterday Elliot Silver wrote a post about the UDRP decision for Wooot.com .

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Consultant Says New gTLDs Will Banish .Com to Less Professional, Mom-and-Pop Operations

I was interviewed for an article posted on AOL News today. The reporter asked for my reaction to a comment from an attorney/new gTLD consultant who said “Some day people will look upon .com as the less professional, mom-and-pop segment of the Web where only small businesses and amateurs dwell.”

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AOL wins domain name case covering thirteen domain names

AOL ,the American global Internet services and media company,has recently won thirteen domain names in Arbitration.

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