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    Domain Name Wire Outside Interactive sues to get outside.com

    Company tried to get the domain name via UDRP over 15 years ago. Outside Interactive, a sports and outdoor media company, has sued the owner of outside.com in an effort to get the domain name. It’s the company’s second attempt to acquire the domain through legal means. In 2006, the company’s...
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    Domain Name Wire Russia says .aero domains were unfairly suspended

    Russia is asking ICANN to intervene after it says the .aero registry unfairly suspended domain registration for organizations in the Russian Federation. .Aero is a sponsored top level domain operated by SITA Information Networking Computing USA, Inc. Andrea Zhinov, Russia’s GAC representative to...
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    Domain Name Wire Paul Diaz moves from Public Interest Registry to CleanDNS

    Diaz joins company that aims to rid the DNS of abuse. Paul Diaz has joined CleanDNS as vice president of engagement. CleanDNS helps registries and registrars eliminate domain registrations that are involved in abuse. For example, it recently worked with Sav.com to suspend 60,000 domains that...
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    Domain Name Wire Google just dealt another blow to domain name parking

    New ad accounts must opt-in for their ads to show on parked pages. Domain name parking (or what’s left of it) just took another hit. Today, Google informed advertisers that new Google ad accounts will automatically be opted out of serving ads on parked domains. Advertisers with Search and...
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    Domain Name Wire ICANN sends breach notices to family of six domain registrars

    Six registrars are breaching their contract with ICANN. ICANN sent breach notices to six domain name registrars yesterday. The organization sent breach notices to MAFF Inc., Maff Avenue, Inc., Flappy Domain, Inc., DotMedia Limited, DomainName Fwy, Inc., and DomainName Blvd, Inc. All six...
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    Domain Name Wire Coachella wins a cybersquatting dispute that was really a trademark dispute

    A panelist ordered a legitimate non-profit’s domain name transferred. The Coachella music festival has won a dispute it filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP), resulting in the transfer of the domains teachella.net and teachella.org. Festival organizers certainly could...
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    Domain Name Wire $50,000 .io sale tops end user domain name sales

    .Io domains top Sedo’s sales this week. Sedo’s top two public sales this week were .io domain names. A sports marketing company paid $50,000 for fan.io, and an unknown buyer plunked down €33,684 for med.io. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view...
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    Domain Name Wire Cannabis company tries reverse domain name hijacking

    Panel agrees with domain owner that the case was filed in bad faith. A UDRP panel has ruled that Cronos Group, a Canadian cannabis company, tried to reverse hijack the domain name CronosGroup .com. Cronos Group Inc. uses the domain name TheCronosGroup .com for its website. It approached the...
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    Domain Name Wire ICA opens nominations for new Trailblazer Award

    New award to recognize company or individual that significantly advanced the domain industry. Internet Commerce Association has opened nominations for a new award dubbed the ICA Trailblazer Award. The award will “recognize and celebrate companies and individuals that have significantly advanced...
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    Domain Name Wire Sav applies for patent for AI-powered website builder

    Application describes a way of generating a website and suggesting a domain using AI. Domain name registrar Sav.com has applied for a patent titled “Systems and methods for automatically generating a website and selecting a related domain name using generative artificial intelligence.”...
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    Domain Name Wire Afternic Boost commissions kick in on Wednesday

    Afternic sellers will pay an additional 5% commission unless they opt out of new program. Domain investors who sell domains through Afternic will start paying higher commissions this Wednesday unless they opt out of a new program. Afternic Boost officially kicks into gear on September 4. At that...
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    Domain Name Wire Edmonton Oilers win dispute over invoice fraud

    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...
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    Domain Name Wire GoDaddy sued over expired domain purchase clawback

    Company clawed back the domain nearly two months after selling it to winning bidder. A Swedish company has sued GoDaddy after a domain it purchased in an expired domain auction was clawed back by the registrar nearly two months after it bought it. Crisby Studio AB bought calor.com (heat/hot in...
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    Domain Name Wire Manufacturing company tries to reverse hijack mangels .com

    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...
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    Domain Name Wire This weeks end user domain name sales at Sedo

    A janitorial supply company, a maker of electronic fish bait, and a tracksuit seller bought domain names. Sedo had a lot more sales over $2,000 this week than in a typical week. Unfortunately, few of them resolve to active websites yet so it’s difficult to tell if end users bought the domains...
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