WIPO panel rules aspirational entrepreneur filed a cybersquatting claim in bad faith. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found (pdf) Axel Sylvian van den Braken to have tried reverse hijacking the domain name gains.com. Van den ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
All pain, no gains: man tries to reverse hijack gains.com
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Boot company gets Freebird.com domain name through lawsuit
· UncategorizedDomain owner didn't show up to defend the domain name. The boot company Freebird Life, which uses the domain freebirdstores.com, just got an inexpensive domain name upgrade: a court has awarded the domain name freebird.com to it. The company ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Heavy metal band Slipknot dismisses lawsuit over slipknot.com domain
· Policy & LawBand never served the domain name owner. The heavy metal band Slipknot has voluntarily dismissed a cybersquatting lawsuit it filed against the domain name slipknot.com. Slipknot.com was registered in 2001, and the band was formed in the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy CashParking moves to RSOC and Yahoo feeds
· Domain ParkingPay-per-click parking program moves on from AdSense for Domains. Today, GoDaddy announced that it has shifted its CashParking program from using Google AdSense for Domains to using Google Related Search for Content (RSOC) and Yahoo ads. The move ... Continue Reading1 Comment
This week’s end user domain name sales
· Domain SalesAn engraving machine company, a benefits provider, and a sticker marketplace bought domain names this week. We're now caught up on Sedo sales lists after the holidays, so this list includes sales completed over the past week. Sedo had some ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Google RSOC comes to registrar parked pages
· Domain RegistrarsDomain registrar GoDaddy is adjusting to the end of AdSense for Domains. When Google AdSense for Domains went away last year, it created a particular challenge for domain name registrars. For decades, registrars have monetized domains that their ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy Auctions adds “Hidden Gems” for searched domains
· Expired DomainsSearch filter finds domains that otherwise might not be on your radar. GoDaddy Auctions has launched a "Hidden Gems" search for all users. Hidden Gems shows domain names that have been searched for availability on GoDaddy within the past year. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Book disclaimer warns about outdated domain names
· UncategorizedBooks are forever. Website content is not. When a book is published, its words stay there forever. That includes links or references to domain names. This can be a problem if the domain in the book later points to another website. Consider ... Continue Reading2 Comments
CSC Domain Security Report finds growth in DMARC and registry lock adoption
· UncategorizedReport shows growth in DMARC, but slow adoption of other security measures. Corporate domain name registrar CSC has published its 2026 Domain Security Report, which evaluates the domain security hygiene of Global 2000 companies. The registrar ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Chinese man won’t give up his fight for valuable one-letter .com domains
· Policy & LawMan's 17-year quest to obtain short .com domains continues. A Chinese man doesn't seem willing to give up his fight to secure reserved one- and two-letter .com domain names. Minjie Zheng filed lawsuits in China in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2018, and ... Continue Reading1 Comment
