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Company claims trademark infringement and that Facebook hijacked its username. The Chicago company that owns Timelines.com and a federally registered trademark for “Timelines” has filed a trademark infringement suit (pdf) against Facebook over its new “Timeline” feature. According to the suit: Facebook has announced its intention to use and, indeed has already begun to re-direct [...] Continue reading
It’s incredible: the domain name NumericPortfolio2.com is listed on the GreatDomains.com home page, under the “Recently Sold” section. Wow! Only problem is, the domain is currently unregistered. Not only that, but NumericPortfolio.com is also unregistered as well. Doh! Clearly a mistake by the Sedo outfit of GreatDomains Edit: Sedo confirmed that it’s an [...] Continue reading
Bodis girls - hotter than GoDaddy's? It seems that the use of sexy female imagery by mainstream domain companies works out well. Over the years, several named and anonymous females were featured on the GoDaddy homepage, including Danica Patrick. Now Bodis, the parking company, is introducing a trio of female beauties that seem to check [...] Continue reading
V for Verisign It’s Friday – and what a better time to gather the insight of Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Verisign’s Naming Services. In this exclusive write-up, Pat Kane discusses the key considerations for business/brands looking to apply for new gTLDs, along with important milestones and implications resulting from the [...] Continue reading
PLUS: Gotcha! Amazon is performing astonishing jujitsu on Google.and Apple-- will capture and control every Web transaction performed by Fire users;Google Analytics Launches $150K Paid Service and strong arms U.S. Government on eMail contract; Twitter Leads Product-Placement Pack in TV Roles- Ad Revenue to Reach $139.5M in 2011;Owen FragerGotcha! Amazon is performing astonishing jujitsu on [...] Continue reading
In 2009, it was announced that former US Vice President Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection (an organization in which he is deeply involved) were teaming up with Dot Eco, LLC, a quarter of which is owned by publicly traded Top Level Domain Holdings, to bid on the .eco gTLD. A couple of days ago, [...] Continue reading