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Charity Auction Raises Over $5,600

Elliotsblog , 6 hours and 12 minutes ago
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I want to once again thank all of those who bid on domain names and services in the Domain Boardroom and Escrow.com sponsored auction that will benefit the American Red Cross. I especially want to thank the people who offered up their domain names and services. The auction raised a total of $5,655 in bids. [...]The post Charity Auction Raises Over $5,600 appeared first on Elliot's Blog.

Aftermarket.com to combine parking and selling

Domainnamewire , 8 hours and 50 minutes ago
Thought Convergence’s domain marketplace will integrate domain parking and the company has switched ad feed providers. Aftermarket.com, the domain name sales platform by Thought Convergence, is getting ready to launch a combined parking and selling platform. In a blog post today, the company said it will start offering a parking platform integrated into Aftermarket.com. Domain [...]

Tumblr Proves That Even Billion Dollar Companies Can Screw Up Mass Emails

TechCrunch , 9 hours and 18 minutes ago
Tumblr just can’t catch a break. Yeah, yeah, they’re getting a billion dollars from Yahoo — but it’s been a torrent of criticism ever since. Angry users! Porn! Poooooorn! Know what probably won’t help? Botching the key detail of an email sent to many of your most tech-savvy users. Tumblr just sent out a big ol’ mass email to all of the users who host a Tumblr blog through their own, independently owned domain. In other words, to the folks who know enough about these bleepy-bloopy electronic space typewriters we use to be able to get a bit fancy with their Tumblr blogs. It warned users of an impending change they’d need to make to their settings — a new IP address they needed to point their domain at — unless they wanted their blog to suddenly “no longer work“. The catch: they, uh, kinda forgot the most important part. They’d put in a placeholder for the IP, and… it never got replaced. “Please point your custom domain to [IP Address],” it directed. Wherps. For many of these users, this was among the first emails they’d received since the Yahoo acqusition. Within about 30 seconds, the tweets lampooning the email started going up. Moral of the story: If you work at a lil’ company and manage to botch a mass email, don’t worry too much. You’re in good company. Billion dollar company.

Ron Paul Isn't Getting RonPaul.com

Mashable , 9 hours and 25 minutes ago
Ron Paul doesn't own RonPaul.com. Ron Paul wants RonPaul.com. Ron Paul isn't getting RonPaul.com Paul has lost his World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) petition to get RonPaul.com from Paul supporters who run a fan site at the domain Paul filed the petition earlier this year, arguing it confuses Paul supporters who think it's an official website. RonPaul.com's owners previously offered to sell Paul the domain for $250,000 or to give him RonPaul.org for free. Paul didn't accept either offer (Paul's campaign website was CampaignForLiberty.org). WIPO found RonPaul.com's owners have a right to the domain for multiple reasons: First, Paul did not trademark his name. Second, RonPaul.com's owners are providing value with their community of Paul supporters. Third, the owners were not acting in "bad faith," i.e. cybersquatting to sell the domain. Read more...More about Domain Names, Ron Paul, Us World, Politics, and Us

SuccessFactors CEO Dalgaard Leaving SAP in Cloud Business Shake-Up

AllThingsDigital , 9 hours and 30 minutes ago
Seventeen months after being acquired, the founding CEO of SuccessFactors is leaving.

91 New gTLD Pass IE: .NYC, .Microsoft, .GOP; .Kiwi, .Monster, .Berlin, .Youtube

TheDomains , 9 hours and 52 minutes ago
a Total of 91 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE)  including 8 applications which were previously passed over. This is the most new gTLD applications to pass IE in a single week and ICANN is now processing 100 new gTLD applications up from 50 per week as they promised would happen in June. This weeks more interesting new gTLD applications passing IE include two killer Geo’s .NYC and .Berlin; .budapest, a pseudo Geo of .Kiwi;  Google’s application for .youtube, Microsoft’s applications for .Microsoft and .Hotmail; the Republican’s parties application for .GOP. Some other .brand applications passed IE including .Neustar, .Monster, .Oldnavy; .Pioneer; .Genting (casino operators) .Lancia (Fiat); .Travelchannel; and Amazon’s application for .Kindle. ICANN has now gone through all new gTLD applications with a prioritization of  500 or less, with 436 having a decision. Here are the applications passing IE released by ICANN today:   <!-- table { }td { padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl65 { vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; }.xl66 { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; } -->139 FISHING Top Level Domain Holdings Limited 171 CASA Top Level Domain Holdings Limited 192 GOP Republican State Leadership Committee, Inc. 262 LOVE Top Level Domain Holdings Limited 291 BOOK Top Level Domain Holdings Limited 331 KIWI DOT KIWI LIMITED 335 LLC Top Level Domain Holdings Limited 370 ISELECT iSelect Ltd 401 AUDIBLE Amazon EU S.à r.l. 402 WEDDING Wild Madison, LLC 403 CPA Top Level Domain Holdings Limited 404 EARTH Interlink Co., Ltd. 405 DELIVERY dot Delivery Limited 406 TICKETS Accent Media Limited 408 MSD MSD Registry Holdings, Inc. 409 NEUSTAR NeuStar, Inc. 411 SKI Wild Lake, LLC 412 LEASE Victor Trail, LLC 413 SALON Aesthetics Practitioners Advisory Network Pty Ltd 414 MONSTER Monster, Inc. 415 IMMO dotimmobilie GmbH 416 OLDNAVY The Gap, Inc. 417 PIN Amazon EU S.à r.l. 420 DESIGN NU DOT CO LLC 422 PETS John Island, LLC 423 BERLIN dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG 424 ECO Big Room Inc. 425 MOVISTAR Telefónica S.A. 426 ROCHER Ferrero Trading Lux S.A. 427 GRAPHICS Over Madison, LLC 428 ART .ART REGISTRY INC. 429 CAM AC Webconnecting Holding B.V. 430 HEALTH Afilias Limited 431 WIEN punkt.wien GmbH 432 TECHNOLOGY Auburn Falls 433 PIONEER Pioneer Corporation 434 LANCIA Fiat S.p.A. (“società per azioni”) 435 REVIEWS Extra Cover, LLC 437 GRAINGER Grainger Registry Services, LLC 438 NEWS Amazon EU S.à r.l. 439 DEALS Top Level Domain Holdings Limited 440 MOV Charleston Road Registry Inc. 441 SOLUTIONS Silver Cover, LLC 442 GENTING Resorts World Inc Pte. Ltd. 443 PIZZA Asiamix Digital Limited 444 SMILE Amazon EU S.à r.l.…

8 things not to do while at TRAFFIC Las Vegas

DomainGang , 10 hours and 43 minutes ago
So you bought your TRAFFIC ticket for Las Vegas, hopefully as an ‘early bird.’ Your hotel room is booked, and your flight ticket is neatly tucked inside your passport or other form of id. Domain conferences, such as TRAFFIC, offer the opportunity to many newcomers and veterans alike, to intermix, exchange ideas and engage in [...]

John Berryhill Says UDRP Panel Got It Right Ron Paul’s Domains

TheDomains , 11 hours and 19 minutes ago
John Berryhill, Esq, PHD says that the UDRP panel in the Ron Paul Domain name case got its right. The decision has garnered a lot of strong opinions, but Mr. Berryhill who has won more reverse domain name hijacking cases representing domain holders says the panel got it right and says that the UDRP panel that awarded HillaryClinton.com to Hillary Clinton got it wrong: In a comment left on a post on TheDomains.com to Mr.Berryhill says:   Hillary Clinton was only a wife of the politician…” IMHO, that case was wrongly decided.   But you don’t correct for a wrong decision by continuing to make wrong decisions. Mike, the difference between Brad Pitt and Ron Paul is that Brad Pitt is a subject of interest for purely commercial reasons.   Trademark law exists in tension with the First Amendment.  The First Amendment says, “say what you like”.  Trademark law says, “you can’t say certain things in the context of commercial speech.” Given that the First Amendment’s core purpose is to allow, first and foremost, unfettered political speech, the tension comes to the fore in what are almost always “blended” political and commercial contexts.  Often, nothing falls clearly on one side or the other of a bright line somewhere. A good case for exploring the topic involves former California Governor Schwarzenegger.  California, as may be expected, has a lot of protections around commercial rights of publicity.  But Mr. Schwarzenegger’s career had something of a dual character.  On the one hand, his rights in his name as a commercial brand were substantial.  On the other hand, as a political figure, he was fair game for commentary. So, what happened is that someone was selling action figures showing Mr. Schwarzenegger as “The Governator”.   The court had a really tough time trying to sort out whether this activity was primarily a political comment playing off the duality of his reputation as a politician and actor, or primarily a commercial enterprise free-riding on the value of the Terminator franchise.  The case is a good read, though. The UDRP is a bad fit for a lot of “right of publicity” claims in personal names as opposed to purely trademark claims.   Where the line is drawn depends, in a lot of cases, on the particular evidence and arguments in front of the panel.   One way to approach whether a name acts primarily as a “mark” is in the distinction between saying: 1.  “I saw a movie directed by Steven Spielberg.” 2.  “I saw a Steven Spielberg movie.” In statement 1, “Steven Spielberg” is used as a proper noun – the name of the person who directed the movie.…

John Berryhill Says UDRP Panel Got It Right On Ron Paul’s Domains

TheDomains , 11 hours and 19 minutes ago
John Berryhill, Esq, PHD says that the UDRP panel in the Ron Paul Domain name case got its right. The decision has garnered a lot of Strong opinions, but Mr. Berryhill who has won more reverse domain name hijacking cases representing domain holders says the panel got it right and says that the UDRP panel that awarded HillaryClinton.com to Hillary Clinton got it wrong: In a comment left on a post on TheDomains.com to Mr.Berryhill says:   Hillary Clinton was only a wife of the politician…” IMHO, that case was wrongly decided.   But you don’t correct for a wrong decision by continuing to make wrong decisions. Mike, the difference between Brad Pitt and Ron Paul is that Brad Pitt is a subject of interest for purely commercial reasons.   Trademark law exists in tension with the First Amendment.  The First Amendment says, “say what you like”.  Trademark law says, “you can’t say certain things in the context of commercial speech.” Given that the First Amendment’s core purpose is to allow, first and foremost, unfettered political speech, the tension comes to the fore in what are almost always “blended” political and commercial contexts.  Often, nothing falls clearly on one side or the other of a bright line somewhere. A good case for exploring the topic involves former California Governor Schwarzenegger.  California, as may be expected, has a lot of protections around commercial rights of publicity.  But Mr. Schwarzenegger’s career had something of a dual character.  On the one hand, his rights in his name as a commercial brand were substantial.  On the other hand, as a political figure, he was fair game for commentary. So, what happened is that someone was selling action figures showing Mr. Schwarzenegger as “The Governator”.   The court had a really tough time trying to sort out whether this activity was primarily a political comment playing off the duality of his reputation as a politician and actor, or primarily a commercial enterprise free-riding on the value of the Terminator franchise.  The case is a good read, though. The UDRP is a bad fit for a lot of “right of publicity” claims in personal names as opposed to purely trademark claims.   Where the line is drawn depends, in a lot of cases, on the particular evidence and arguments in front of the panel.   One way to approach whether a name acts primarily as a “mark” is in the distinction between saying: 1.  “I saw a movie directed by Steven Spielberg.” 2.  “I saw a Steven Spielberg movie.” In statement 1, “Steven Spielberg” is used as a proper noun – the name of the person who directed the movie.…

Demand Media commits five TLDs to private auctions, but three are dead on arrival

Domainnamewire , 11 hours and 20 minutes ago
Demand Media throws five domains into private auction ring, but three are against competitors who won’t participate. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD has committed five of its applied-for top level domains to the first private domain auctions to be handled by Peter Cramton. The five domains are .fishing, .green, .mom, .rip, and .wow. Donuts recently [...]
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