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The typosquatter of a Pornhub domain paid a small fortune to acquire it. The registrant of Ponrhub.com alleges he spent 7,241 EUR in late 2018 to get the domain in the aftermarket – about $7,946 USD. In the ensuing UDRP filed by Licensing IP Inte...
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March 17, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Law, Ponrhub.com, PornHub, Pornhub domains
It’s not just domainers that are jumping into the coronavirus registration cesspool – brand wannabes are swimming in it too. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been receiving applications for trademarks that contain t...
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March 16, 2020 DomainGang
coronavirus, coronavirus domains, coronavirus trademark, coronavirus trademarks
Microsoft is apparently getting ready to change the name of Cortana, the personal productivity assistant in Windows 10. Unlike Apple and Siri, Cortana does not arrive with its own domain name. Microsoft has chosen a path on Microsoft.com for Cortana, w...
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March 9, 2020 DomainGang
Cortana, Microsoft 365 Assistant, Microsoft domains, Microsoft365Assistant.com
Business 101 : When a company acquires intellectual property rights from its former partners, they’d better not forget to include the related domains in the exchange! In the case of Corioliss Europe S.L., Spain, they paid the sum of $750,000 doll...
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February 15, 2020 DomainGang
corioliss, corioliss.com, Domain Law
Pornhub is one of the biggest destinations of adult content on the Internet, and they have trademarked their brand, operating from the matching .com domain. In 2010, the domain Pornhub.co was registered, and the domain apparently changed hands in 2018....
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February 12, 2020 DomainGang
adult domains, Domain Law, PornHub, Pornhub.CO
Philip Morris Products S.A. has filed numerous UDRP complaints for domains that contain its marks. The smokeless tobacco company set new records in 2019, and continues to do so in 2020. In just 5 weeks, Philip Morris Products S.A. has filed 26 new UDRP...
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February 6, 2020 DomainGang
heets, iqos, philip morris
Registered in 1998, the domain name Stobich.com was taken through the UDRP process at the WIPO, where it was lost. Stöbich Brandschutz GmbH, the owner of the Stöbich mark, uses the German umlaut that is transliterated as “oe” – indeed...
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February 4, 2020 DomainGang
Domain Law, Stöbich, Stobich.com
The Uniform Rapid Suspension process is to stay in .org, after the ICANN board of directors rejected an appeal from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF had challenged the inclusion of URS in the recently renegotiated .org Registry Agreement, on...
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December 18, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, ethos, isoc, reconsideration, rfr, URS
The registrant of practicesnapshot.com is a dental studio that instructed one of its employees to register the domain in 2016. Apparently, the words “practice snapshot” have nothing to do with hockey, but it’s about providing software...
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December 11, 2019 DomainGang
deny transfer, Domain Law, practicesnapshot.com
The domain Localvore.com was registered in 2006, and its Registrant used it consistently with food-related guide services since then. In 2012, another company began to use the term, and managed to register LOCALVORE TODAY, and in 2017 LOCALVORE with th...
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December 6, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Law, localvore, Localvore.com