 by Alex Athans, Legal TeamNovember 4, 2008 marked a historic occasion for Americans from all walks of life. Now that the dust—and the rhetoric—have settled, president-elect Barack Obama begins the challenging task of putting together his cabinet and preparing his policies for his inauguration on January 20, 2009. In a presidency sure to be fraught with many difficult challenges, where does intellectual property come on his list of priorities? By Liz Oliveira, Legal TeamRecently, Société Du Figaro, a French publisher best know for the newspaper Le Figaro, was successful in obtaining the transfer of the domain lefigaro.tv through an action initiated under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Actions for trademark infringement under the UDRP are quite common and are often selected by trademark owners when filing a dispute. As a domain owner you should know a thing or two about the UDRP because you have agreed to comply with the terms of this policy by simply making the decision to register a domain. by Ben Falk, Transfer Consultant and Monica Ibrahim, Brokerage AssociateThe .com extension remains the top seller of Top-Level Domains (TLDs) with almost every word in the Webster’s Dictionary already registered with a .com extension. Even if a generic .com domain is available for sale, the hefty price tag attached makes it hard to commit to the investment. It’s often a difficult and daunting task to get your dream .com domain; from the .com you’ve been hoping to brand your business around to the one you planned on turning into a political blog after recent events. Well, all hope is not lost as now in particular, there is an availability of alternate extensions. TLDs like the .eu, .asia, .mobi, .info, and .me can provide the appeal of a .com in targeted markets without the overwhelming cost.
 According to the Lowdown, Ron Jackson just got word that Sedo.com closed two big sales today - Lowfare.com at $365,000 and Banners.com at $360,000. In addition to that bit of news, Jackson poses a question: Is SEO dead? Writing on his LearnToDuck.com blog today, Lijit Networks Business Development Director Micah Baldwin said “If you do SEO for a living, you will be out of business or irrelevant in 3 years.” Click here for full articles. Source: Reprinted with Ron Jackson’s Permission – DomainNews.com on November 10th, 2008 – Posted by Caycee Boyce – Editor The domain name vibrators.com sold for US$1 million to PriveCo, a small company selling adult goods, and is set to be one of year’s biggest sales.
Discussion within ICANN tends to focus on wealthy countries,
demonstrating a gap between developed and emerging nations, according
to participants at this week's ICANN public meeting in Cairo claims IDG.
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With one month to go until Sunrise opens, trademark owners were warned at the recent ICANN meeting in Cairo that they risk missing out on being listed in the new global, ‘live’ contacts directory if they fail take advantage of the first come, first served application period for their branded .tel domains. The deadline is December 3, 2008!
DUBLIN, IRELAND- 6 November 2008 – Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that a new Global Phishing Survey released by the Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG) reveals that the .INFO domain, managed and operated by Afilias, is now safer from phishing attacks. Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and financial information by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic transaction...
