According to cryptocoinsnews.com, Bitcoin investor and early evangelist Roger Ver is suing a Hong Kong website operator for $567,000 USD, over an alleged breach of agreement over alleged lost revenues from Bitcoin.com. Roger Ver is the website’s owner, registrant and administrator. "In documents filed to Hong Kong’s High Court on Wednesday Ver claimed that OKEX Fintech had broken a … [Read more...]
Drop Catchers Beware: Domain RaiseMe.com Lost in UDRP Despite Lack of Registered Trademark
Raise Labs, Inc (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name RaisemMe.com in a UDRP/ The US-based company did not have an US federally registered trademark. The one member panel of The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown QC found the company had common law rights to the name in part based on the fact that the Complainant owned the domain but let it lapse in 2013. The decision also … [Read more...]
Senators To NTIA: Agency Violated Fed Law Using Fed Funds To Relinquish U.S. Oversight
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), today sent a letter to NTIA Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling, questioning the agency’s apparent violation of federal law in using federal funds to relinquish U.S. oversight of the Internet. Here is the letter The Honorable Lawrence Strickling Assistant Secretary for … [Read more...]
Google Finally Acquires the Domain AndroidTV.com
Google has finally acquired the domain name AndroidTV.com Google lost a UDRP on the domain name back in March 2014 after the panel said the dispute was outside the types of disputes the UDRP was set up for. You can read our summary of the UDRP here. In April 2014 Google announced that they were launching a product called Android TV. Google did in fact launch Android TV and … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Domainking.ng Moved To A New Registrar After Rick Schwartz Announced UDRP
The domain name domainking.ng changed registrars yesterday, apparently as a result of our post announcing that Rick Schwartz filed an administrative proceeding similar to a UDRP with the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) which manages the Top Level Domain (.ng ccTLD) based on his "domain King" trademark. The domain name domainking.ng is being used as a domain name registrar and … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Files UDRP To Protect His “Domain King” Mark & There’s More To Come
Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the "Domain King" has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. Rick not only is commonly known as the Domain King inside the domain community, but has a federally registered trademark on the term "Domain King" in the United States since 2003 (which … [Read more...]
Watch Out for DomainVerification.Net emails; Charging For ICANN Whois Verification
I got an email today which looks like one of those ICANN required verification emails that registrars have to send out to domain holders. ICANN requires registrars to send a notice to verify whois information and "when a registrant does not respond for over 15 calendar days to a registrar's inquiries regarding the accuracy of contact details or Whois data associated with the registration, the … [Read more...]