Yes, two companies can operate with names that differ by one letter. A chemicals company has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name sichem.com. Sipchem Europe S.A. is part of the Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem), founded in 1999. The company filed a cybersquatting dispute with World Intellectual […]

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Domain investors may shoulder additional risk when they register domains in the relaunching .ad TLD, judging by the registry’s new cybersquatting policy. Andorra Telecom, which will make .ad names generally available globally October 22, has signed up with WIPO to implement an adapted version of the UDRP that is a lot less friendly to domainers. […]

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Company filed a cybersquatting complaint against a childcare company in New York. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) that Seed of Life Center for Early Learning and Preschool, Inc. tried to reverse hijack the domain name SeedsOfLifeChildcare.com. According to its website at SeedOfLifeLLC.com, the Complainant operates four childcare facilities in the Seattle […]

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Keeper Security failed to show that the domain was registered in bad faith. Cybersecurity company Keeper Security, Inc. has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against the domain name keeper .com. The Complainant argued that the domain name was spreading malware. It hired a private investigator who gathered evidence that suggested the domain owner was […]

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It’s probably a bad idea to let a critical infrastructure domain expire, even if you don’t use it any more, as Identity Digital seems to be discovering this week. White-hat hackers at WatchTowr today published research showing how they managed to undermine SSL security in the entire .mobi TLD, by registering an expired domain previously […]

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Spanish film producer goes after domain name used by publicly traded Chinese cinema operator. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found (pdf) that Wanda Films, S.L. tried to reverse hijack the domain name WandaFilm.com. The company produces and distributes films in Europe and Latin America for the Spanish speaking market. It uses the domains […]

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If you noticed ICANN’s web site acting sluggishly or failing to respond at all last week, now you know why. The site at icann.org was hit by a distributed denial of service attack on September 3 through September 4, according to a brief statement on the Org’s now-functional site. ICANN identified a Distributed Denial of […]

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Company filed a cybersquatting complaint without disclosing its long history with the domain owner. A fight between pool construction companies in Texas resulted in a misguided UDRP filing. Pools123 Houston LLC filed a dispute over Pools123Texas.com, which is registered by Aquamarine Pools of Texas. The case involved a confusing set of facts, but in a […]

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Domain investors successfully defend UDRP cases with the help of well-known domain attorneys. Czech Arbitration Court published two reverse domain name hijacking decisions today. Both cases involved personal name domains owned by domain name investors. Schwanhäußer Industrie Holding GmbH & Co.KG, which owns a biking accessories company called Gonso, filed a dispute against gonso.com. The […]

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Hockey club wins cybersquatting dispute over confusingly similar name used to perpetuate fraud. The Edmonton Oilers hockey club has won a cybersquatting complaint it brought to disrupt an invoice fraud scam. In a dispute before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the team said that the registrant of eBmontonoilers .com was cybersquatting with its registration […]

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Complainant previously owned the domain name, and tried to buy it back from a domain investor before filing a UDRP. Mangels Industrial S.A., a manufacturing company in Brazil, has been found to have tried to reverse hijack the domain name mangels.com. The company owned the domain at one point, but it let it expire (or […]

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Türkiye’s ccTLD has seen a massive spike in registrations, experiencing instant growth of about 8%, at the end of its year-long second-level liberalization process. The .tr space had 1,187,324 domains at the end of yesterday, according to stats published by government-run registry Trabis, up about 91,000 on the previous day. That’s more that four time’s […]

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While some domain registrars have increased prices faster than wholesale increases, robust competition means consumers can still register and renew domains for close to the wholesale cost. One of Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) defenses to increasing .com prices is that “unregulated” domain registrars set the price people actually pay for domains — and many of those […]

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A surprising factor helped the domain registrant, and the panel rightfully decided this case was too close to call to order the domain transferred. OneTab Ltd, which offers a browser plugin for organizing tabs on Google Chrome, has lost a cybersquatting complaint in an interesting case that tested the bounds of the Uniform Domain Name […]

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1inch tried to snag a .com domain registered before the company existed. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled that crypto company 1inch Limited tried to reverse domain name hijack the domain 1inch .com. The company cited European Union and United Kingdom trademarks in a cybersquatting filing against the domain name. The problem was […]

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Digging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month’s report: GoDaddy registered over 100,000 fewer .com domains this March than last March. It has 1.2 million fewer .com […]

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Nominet has named the five people who have put themselves forward for two seats on its board of directors. While there are familiar faces, there are also notable absences. Ashley La Bolle of Tucows is defending her non-executive director seat and standing for her second term, but fellow NED Simon Blackler, famously of the PublicBenefit.uk […]

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The domain name industry seemed to have dodged a bullet when it came to last Friday’s devastating worldwide computer outage, but it emerged over the weekend that at least one ear was grazed. ICANN revealed late Friday that its email systems, hosted by an external provider, were affected by the bug, which saw millions of […]

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AI could have decided this case. World Intellectual Property Organization published a decision for young.com today. The three-person panel unanimously found in favor of the domain registrant (pdf) and found that Complainant Young Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed the case in bad faith. The panel had especially harsh words for the Complainant, noting that “to assert that it […]

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