Panelist admonishes Complainant and IP law firm for its cybersquatting complaint. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) Propel Pro guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after filing an “inexplicably sloppy” UDRP. Propel Pro is launching an app that gives athletes access to coaches and former athletes for training. It uses the domain […]

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Three-member panel agrees bank had no reasonable basis for bringing the case. A panel has affirmed a decision denying PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.’s cybersquatting complaint against pnc.co.uk and pnc.uk. It has also affirmed that the bank’s case was reverse domain name hijacking. PNC, a large bank, filed the original dispute under the Nominet Dispute […]

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Motion.io seemed like the perfect domain for this business. Turns out, it had some issues. Perry Rosenbloom thought he had a great domain to launch his business on: motion.io. But three years later, he rebranded the business to LaunchBay. On today’s show, Perry explains why the company decided to rebrand. He also shares some advice […]

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Large finance company seeks to recover 49 domain names. Financial services company BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against 49 domain names that it alleges infringe its trademarks. The company filed the in rem lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia, where both the .com registry, Verisign, and the .org registry, Public […]

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Move comes ahead of more top level domain expansion. Ethos Capital, the private equity firm that acquired a majority stake in Identity Digital in 2021, announced a new funding round for the company today. Ethos completed a continuation vehicle (CV) transaction for Identity Digital, bringing in institutional investors including TPG GP Solutions, funds managed by Neuberger, Accel-KKR, Coller […]

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