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Bittrex, Inc. is a global leader in the blockchain revolution. According to their web site, at Bittrex.com: “We operate the premier U.S.-based blockchain trading platform, which is designed for customers who demand lightning-fast trade execution,...
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August 9, 2018 DomainGang
bittrex, bittrex UDRP, Blockchain, Domain Law
The domain iyzi.com was registered in 2005, but 13 years later, İyzi Ödeme ve Elektronik Para Hizmetleri A.Ş. of Istanbul, Turkey, filed a UDRP to grab it. The reasoning behind the Complainant’s filing? A trademark for IYZI in Turkey, registered ...
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May 28, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, Turkish domains
ICANN wants your opinion on its plan to allow Verisign to auction off o.com, with a potential impact on the future release of other single-character .com domain names. The organization has published a proposed amendment to the .com registry contract an...
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May 14, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, first place internet, o.com, scdn, single-character
Nominet has become the second major registry to announce that trademark lawyers will have to pay for Whois after the EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect next month. The company said late last week that it will offer the intellectual...
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April 23, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.UK, cocca, Domain Registries, gdpr
Guess, the apparel maker company, has just lost the UDRP they filed against the domain G81.com. At the same time, they were branded with a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding. Registered in 2004, G81.com matches the Complainant’s trademark, G81...
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April 4, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Law, g81, g81.com, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
After a major business setback, Michael Gargiulo spent close to $1 million to acquire VPN.com. Imagine creating a website that is generating $1,500-$2,000 a day and then getting hit with a lawsuit claiming trademark infringement and cybersquatting. That’s what happened to Michael Gargiulo. Making things more complicated, he was leasing the domain name from someone […]
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March 12, 2018 Andrew Allemann
Podcasts, VPN, vpn.com
Domain investors often amass a variety of digital assets, stashing them in portfolios. Some domainers collect aged domain names, or numerics, or generic words. Others, gather domains related to news, products or brandable words. Regardless of what type...
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February 24, 2018 DomainGang
domain collection, domain trademarks, domaincollection, meaning of domain
Apparent domain name homograph attacks against major brands are a “significant” problem, according to research from Farsight Security. The company said last week that it scanned for such attacks against 125 well-known brands over the three ...
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January 22, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Tech, Farsight, homograph, phishing
DME Company LLC, a molding equipment company, attempted to snatch the aged domain DME.com via the UDRP process. The Complainant produced evidence of a registered trademark for DME, with a registration date of 1994. Meanwhile, the domain DME.com was reg...
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January 20, 2018 DomainGang
DME, DME.com, DME.com UDRP, Domain Law
If you plan on filing a trademark for your domain, brand or business services at the USPTO, it will now cost you more. After several years of maintaining the current fees, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced its new fees yesterday. ...
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January 15, 2018 DomainGang
domain trademark, michael gleissner, trademark applications, uspto, USPTO fees