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Domain Name Resources
The domain lookup firefox extension allows you to select a phrase on a page and then easily check if the domain is available. It’sa nice shortcut to save retyping phrases or copy, pasting and removing spaces. Nice one Richard ...

Domain Name Wire Turns Three (And a Gift)
The reason this site is still around while other domain news sites have started and disappeared is because of loyal readers — so thanks! If you haven’t yet added Domain Name Wire to your RSS reader, see the feed links to the left. ...

Selling a Domain Name Online
The premier place to auction off domain names these days seems to be a website called Sedo.com. You can list a domain name there, and troll for offers. Or, you can put the name up for auction. If the name is a good quality name ...

The Domain Name Spirit...
Respondent has a pattern of cybersquatting and registered the disputed domain name, chivasregal.com , in 2004 and used it in connection with a website providing links for third parties' products including products directly competing ...

Presidential Debate: Is this Cybersquatting or Not?
It looks like domain name registrations incorporating the names of political candidates continues to occur. The question becomes whether the registration and use is cybersquatting or not? Clearly Hillary Clinton has been the victim of ...

Domain Fraud - Being Cheated by a 16 Year Old
Domain Bits has a story about stolen domain names at Domain Name Forum. “In this case, jayspot of DNF purchased the domains pornos.com, liveporn.com, and asianxxx.com from Alexa the Top . Jayspot paid $115000 for the first two ...

Domain Name Expiration - Don't Let Your Domain Be Held Hostage By ...
We've had a great response to our article last month on protecting your domain name and why you should not let your webmaster own it on your behalf. This month's article is about domain name expirations and what you should know to keep ...

Fox News loses domain name fight
Later that day, a company by the name of Worldwide Directory Services registered the domain name foxbusinessnetwork.com. Fox news was unable to gain control of the domain because they did not register a trademark for the term until July ...

Trademark Law and Domain Names: ACPA or UDRP?
No one owns the trademark, but everybody wants the brand: Not all domain names are trademark protected, but people inappropriately attempt to use trademark law to resolve domain name issues. While discussing each prototypical domain ...

US shuts down Domain Name of Spanish Company selling Trips to Cuba
The United States prides itself as the guardian of free speech on and off the Internet. Countries such as China may censor the Internet, and otherwise-civilized nations such as Germany or France may attempt to block what they view as ...