Josh Bourne ⬥ 4 October At the end of September, Interpol coordinated a massive, multi-pronged effort to crack down on illegal Internet pharmacies that peddle fake prescription drugs. A recent article in The Registerdescribes how police forces, customs agencies, ISPs, payment processors and delivery companies all contributed to the effort that arrested suspects in 81 […]
Steve Levy ⬥ 28 September “Bad faith” can some times be the trickiest element to prove when trying to demonstrate that a registrant has cybersquatted a domain name. Many times, whether a domain owner has acted in bad faith comes down to timing, specifically when he or she first registered the domain name. This principle
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 27 September Early last month, I blogged about Web.com’s acquisition of Network Solutions, the oldest domain name registrar in existence. Now, as of last week, Group NBT, a London-based domain name management and web hosting company, has been purchased by private equity firm HgCapital Funds. According to ShareCast, the terms of the
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Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 26 September First there was an app to help guys answer that eternal question, “Where the ladies at?” Now, for the truly socially unfortunate who can’t even seem to find a girlfriend using a giant digital compass, there is a brand-new service: FakeGirlfriend.co. Remember that old line, “Yeah dude, I totally have
Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 22 September Normally, we refrain from getting too overtly political here on the DomainNameStrategy blog. And as easy as they are to make, I’m going to take the high road and remind myself that Sarah Palin jokes are passé. But we can’t push it off any longer. The Tea Party has finally
FairWinds Partners — September 15, 2011 Today we’ll begin discussing some of the risks associated with applying for and owning a branded gTLD. We’ll wrap up this discussion tomorrow. RISKS OF OWNING A BRANDED GTLD The return on investment is not clear. Because brand owners have never had the chance to own their own gTLDs
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FairWinds Partners — September 7, 2011 A recent post in The Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted the fact that some universities here in the U.S. have opted to use .COM domain names in addition to their .EDU domains. Typically, universities use their .EDU domains for their main sites – think Yale.edu, Georgetown.edu, Virginia.edu, etc. –
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Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 29 August When dealing with domain names that contain a brand or trademark and are owned by third parties, one of the first things brand owners must consider before determining a course of action is how those domains are being used. Many times here at FairWinds, we see domains containing our clients’
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Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 24 August I’m going to preface this post by saying that I was a vegetarian for seven years, I don’t own anything made of fur, and I love animals. In theory, I support what the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) represents, particularly its stance against animal cruelty. How it
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FairWinds Partners — August 23, 2011 Early this week, Mashable reported that Nic.ly, the site of Libya’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) .LY registry, had been hacked by a group calling itself Electr0n. The group pointed the domain to a site with anti-Muammar Gaddafi messages. Fortunately, the hack did not impact the most widely-used .LY sites
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 19 August During a recent interview with City A.M., former Chair of the ICANN Board of Directors Peter Dengate Thrush, who joined Top Level Domain Holdings in July after retiring from the ICANN Board, stated that the current domain name market is worth about $12 billion. It is unclear exactly what Dengate
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Josh Bourne ⬥ 17 August Readers of FairWinds’ Weekly News Brief will have already learned about Go Daddy’s announcement about its pricing structure for domain name registrations in the .XXX TLD. In the Sunrise A period, each domain will cost $209.99 the first year, which includes the application fee and the first year registration, and
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