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Sahar Sarid and co-defendants sentenced to probation. The three remaining defendants in a California criminal case involving Mugshots.com have been sentenced after entering into a plea agreement. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced charges of extortion, money laundering, and identity theft against the four alleged operators in 2018. According to Becerra’s office, the site published […]

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Author: Andrew Allemann
Posted: May 9, 2025, 12:07 am

End users bought these domains at Sedo this past week. Sedo had a couple of nice sales this past week that are surely to end users, but for which the buyers’ identities are not yet known. Sollers.com sold for $50,000. The first Google result is for a Russian auto company, but other companies also use […]

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Author: Andrew Allemann
Posted: May 8, 2025, 8:16 pm

Panelist shows how train maker’s bad faith arguments didn’t make sense. A recent UDRP decision at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) raises interesting questions about complainant diligence and reverse domain name hijacking. Alstom, a French train and rail manufacturer, filed a dispute against the domain name AlstoMarketing .com. The company became aware of the […]

Post link: Alstom’s cybersquatting arguments did not compute

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Author: Andrew Allemann
Posted: May 8, 2025, 3:54 pm

GoDaddy back above 600k monthly adds; Namecheap adds nearly 400k .coms. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers January 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: GoDaddy had a better January than the month prior (when it dipped below 600k), although it was […]

Post link: Registrar stats: GoDaddy rebounds and Namecheap surges

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Author: Andrew Allemann
Posted: May 8, 2025, 1:02 pm

Company went after domains that were registered in good faith by arguing retroactive bad faith. A UDRP panel has found Styleline Studios International Limited to have tried reverse hijacking two domain names. The case shows the limits of using UDRP to settle commercial disputes when a domain is originally registered in good faith. Styleline filed […]

Post link: Retroactive bad faith argument leads to reverse domain name hijacking decision

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Author: Andrew Allemann
Posted: May 7, 2025, 3:55 pm

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