Of the 100 priciest Internet domains sold this year, 11 are numeric domains, compared with no more than one in each of the prior three years, according to data tracked by Domain Name Journal.Fifth Third Bank, whose 53.com is one of the most successful two-digit online domains, spent decades building meaning around its name.
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Former eBay chief’s political bid hits cybersquatter snag
Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, hasn’t said whether she will run for governor of California in 2010. On Oct. 15, Whitman filed a petition with the World Intellectual Property Organization to claim rightful ownership of five web addresses, known as URLs. They are: megwhitmanforgovernor.com megwhitman2010.com meg2010.com whitmanforgovernor.com whitman2010.com. Mitch Zak, a Republican strategist working with Whitman, said she was solely focused on McCain’s race, but he added that her advisers are “definitely pursuing URLs to give Meg options should she choose to run for governor.”
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The Pressure Is On Google For Their Role In Typosquatting
The domain owner is hoping that someone typing bankofamerica.com will make a mistake and come to their page instead. There are hundreds such domains just for bankofamerica.com.
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Cybersquatting:Domain Names of Famous Authors and Other Celebreties
The administrative panel of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has issued numerous decisions addressing cases in which famous authors or celebrities have sought to prevent other individuals or entities from using their names or derivatives, or their names within registered domain names, a practice generally known as cybersquatting.
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‘MLS’ name dispute lands in court
Marc Rasmussen, a Realtor in Sarasota, Fla., who in 2003 registered TheSarasotaMLS.com as a domain name for his real estate Web site, has filed the legal complaint in an effort to keep that Web address, which he says is important to his business.
The Sarasota Association of Realtors owns the SarasotaMLS.com Web site. Allegations of trademark infringement, trademark dilution and cybersquatting.”
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Kentucky Court Affirms Seizure of Poker Domain Names
A Kentucky Circuit Court judge has dismissed all objections brought by representatives of as many as 141 Internet domain names subject to seizure and forfeiture to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the result of an order issued by the same court late last month.
In his decision to affirm the forfeiture, Judge Wingate dismissed serious counterpoints about Kentucky’s jurisdictional reach while defining within his opinion that an Internet domain name is a “device” used in gambling, thereby making it illegal under Kentucky law.
A more serious challenge under Judge Wingate’s consideration was the matter of Kentucky’s jurisdictional reach, in seizing domain names that are neither housed nor serviced in Kentucky, yet remain generally accessible via the Internet.
The decision by Judge Wingate gives the affected domains 30 days to institute geoblocking to be removed from the forfeiture portion of the case, with a final hearing set for November 17th, 2008.
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