Cybersquatting on new top level domains

Why you probably don’t need to worry about cybersquatting on new top level domains - Domain Name Wire: " . . . the breakdown of gTLD UDRP filings at WIPO last year. . . . almost all the action is in .com. Now, you can point out that there are a lot fewer .info and .biz domains registered, and that’s why the numbers are skewed this way. You’re right. In fact, the ratio of domains registered to UDRP’s filed in .com, .net, .org, and .info is right around 30,000 to 1. (.biz and .mobi have ratios closer to 50,000 to 1). Yet that also kind of proves the point. Most of these new top level domains will be small. If the domains don’t get much type in traffic (which they won’t) and aren’t in an identical field (like the oft mentioned example nike.shoes), there’s not much to worry about. Should Nike worry about Nike.actor? Nah. “But what if someone starts selling fake Nike’s on it?” That’s no harder than selling fakes on nike.somefreehost.com. The consumer doesn’t really realize the URL they’re visiting most of the time. That’s why phishing attempts just use similar looking domains to trick people."

The Internet In 2012: 634 Million Websites, 2.4 Billion Users: "Highlights from the list include 2.2 billion email users worldwide (425 million use Gmail, making it the biggest email service around), 634 million websites (with 51 million being added to the web every year) and 246 million domain name registrations in 2012. There were 100 million .com domain names (remember the first one, registered in 1985?), 2.4 billion internet users worldwide, and 1.2 trillion searches on Google in 2012. On the social media front, in 2012 there were 2.7 billion likes on Facebook every day, 175 million tweets were sent on Twitter every day, while Google's +1 button was used a whopping 5 billion times per day. Finally, there were 1.3 billion smartphones in use worldwide by the end of 2012, 4 billion hours of video was being watched on YouTube monthly and a flabbergasting 7 petabytes of photos were added to Facebook every month."

Berryhill Wins His 2nd UDRP Of The Day & Almost Another RDNH Finding
TheDomains.com
“Complainant is owner of the INTELLIGENTSIA trademark registration, United States Reg. No. 2,599,643, filed April 26, 2001 and registered on July 23, 2002.” The Panel finds that the Domain Name is identical to Complainant's mark, because the gTLD “.com ...

Finally A UDRP Panel Gets The Domain Aftermarket Finding RDNH On ...
TheDomains.com
Mr Schwartz feel free to add Personally Cool Inc. of New York, USA to your list of companies found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ColdFront.com. Thedomain, as indicted in the title to the post, is owned by Frank ...

The best time (and way) to get press for your domain business
Domain Name Wire
I get a lot of pitches to write about domain name companies and their launch, latest products, new features, etc. I have six tips on the best and worst times to get press, and the best way to pitch. 1. Friday is the worst day to put out news about your ...

And here is the court order that stopped the deletion of publication.com
Domain Name News
In the case of the non-deletion of publication.com last Friday, DNN has now obtained a copy of the court order that prevented the deletion and you can see it here (PDF). Please note that this is the unsigned version of the restraining order as it was ...

Twitter.org Being Used For Scams, Twitter Seeks To Gain Control Of Rogue ...
Marketing Land
The UDRP permits complainants to file a case with a resolution service provider, specifying, mainly, the domain name in question, the respondent or holder of the domain name, the registrar with whom the domain name was registered and the grounds for ...

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