The Freename Forum

... two young businessmen who bought the domain. They were not immediately as successful in the market as they had hoped with candy.com, so Schwartz made a few concessions in return for further equity stakes. When the business went beyond confectionery, the domain owners founded greenrabbit.com in ...

... that there was no prospect of proving the mandatory requirement that the domain had been registered in bad faith. In the complaint, she made no real attempt to prove bad faith registration; she limited herself to alleging bad faith use. Even here, the complaint relied on a series of ...

... in the Indian Ocean, the last remaining part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, has regained its sovereignty after lengthy negotiations made headlines around the world. However, fears that the top level domain .io and with it hundreds of thousands of registered domains could disappear ...

... 27 September 2024, Berners-Lee and Leith announced under the heading ‘An Update on the Future of the Web Foundation’ that the decision had been made to wind up the foundation. They explained that in 2009, just over 20 per cent of the world's population had access to the internet; this had changed ...

... ccTLDs. The data was collected in March 2023, shortly before the domains were renewed or their registration was terminated. A distinction was made between developed domains (high-content), parked domains (low-content) and domains without a web presence (no-content). After the respective registration ...

... and online. It is currently still possible to submit a talk, including a draft of the presentation slides, by 18 October 2024. A distinction is made between ‘plenary presentations’, which are designed for 20 to 25 minutes of presentation and 5 to 10 minutes of questions and answers, ten-minute ...

... of application extends far beyond registered trade marks. In addition, it is sufficient if either the registration or the use of the domain is made in bad faith, whereas the UDRP requires both cumulatively. As a rule, the language of the proceedings will be English or Catalan. The move comes ...

... panel is of the opinion that the matter is closed due to the principle of res judicata. The three-member panel in the preliminary proceedings had made a serious error of judgment, as it had assessed the “SCOOP SOLDIERS” trademark as merely descriptive, rejected the trademark rights and granted ...

For Eesti Interneti Sihtasutus (EIS), administrator of the Estonian country code extension .ee, the release of domains with only one character via auction has paid off. The highest price was achieved by e.ee, which went to the highest bidder out of a total of 12 bidders for EUR 220,000. However, s.e...

... Board of Directors and ICANN itself. Its responsibilities include resolving disputes, filing complaints and taking action in response to decisions made by ICANN staff, the Board of Directors or supporting organizations. The Ombudsman regularly presents the number of complaints, his function and ...