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Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Italy’s sixth-largest bank, has become the latest new gTLD owner to tell ICANN it no longer wishes to run its dot-brand. It’s the 47th new gTLD to request termination of its registry contract. The affected TLD is...
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April 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.bnl, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Domain Registries, dot-brands
Less than a quarter of all third-level .uk registrants have taken up the opportunity to buy their matching second-level domain, just a few months before the deadline. According to February stats from registry Nominet, 9.76 million domains were register...
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March 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.UK, direct.uk, Domain Registries, second-level
Imagine registering a domain in 1999, and 20 years later a company steps in to claim rights arising from a 1982 trademark. Right? In the case of Losango.com, a domain that’s 20 years old, Banco Losango S.A. – Banco Múltiplo of Rio de Janeir...
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February 26, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Law, losango, Losango.com
A US appeals court has ruled that generic, dictionary domain names can be trademarked. The hotel-booking web site Booking.com was told last week that it is in fact eligible to have “Booking.com” registered as a trademark, over the objection...
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February 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
The UDRP case filed against the domain GreenRoads.com was decided upon by 3 panelists at the WIPO. The 2005 domain registration was challenged by Green Roads of Florida LLC that asserted rights to a 2017 mark for GREEN ROADS. The Respondent was represe...
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January 30, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Law, Greenroads, GreenRoads.com
UDRP cases that involve a claimed registered trademark usually emphasize the mark’s fame at the time the domain was registered. In cases where the domain’s registration predates that of the mark, it’s a good idea to outline the chrono...
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January 22, 2019 DomainGang
CloudInsure.com, Domain Law
Domain investors with registered trademarks are familiar with the lengthy registration process at the USPTO. How much time does it take to register a trademark in the US? The answer is, “it depends.” Let’s take a look at two registere...
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November 12, 2018 DomainGang
Domain Name Wire
The domain BiggerHammer.com was registered in 2003, and in 2018 a company used a trademark registered in 2014 to take it from its registrant. Complainant is B.H.P.S. Corp. dba “Bigger Hammer” that asserted trademark rights in BIGGER HAMMER ...
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November 6, 2018 DomainGang
biggerhammer.com, Domain Law
Many domain investors use the United States Patent and Trademark Office web site, to research potential issues with domain names. IP attorneys that work on a variety of intellectual property cases, from trademark infringement to the filing of UDRP disp...
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October 20, 2018 DomainGang
trademark search, uspto, USPTO.gov
Registrars are still largely ignoring requests for private Whois data, according to a brand protection company working for Facebook. AppDetex wrote to ICANN (pdf) last week to say that only 3% of some 9,000 requests it has made recently have resulted i...
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October 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
appdetex, Domain Policy, gdpr, temp spec