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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A domain expiration at my podcast platform hit while I was recording. ICANN has several policies in place to prevent people from accidentally letting their domain names expire. One of these is that registrars must “interrupt” the site by changing nameservers; this alerts the domain owner to the expiration during the time they can still renew the […]

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A bitcoin forum, a private equity company, and Delaware North bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this week was a private equity company buying the .com to match its .co.uk domain. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that were completed at Sedo over the past week. You can view previous lists […]

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Trademark group had asked court to settle circuit split on domain registration dates. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied an appeal in a cybersquatting dispute over trx.com. Had the court heard the case, it could have had significant ramifications for how the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) is applied. Loo Tze Ming bought the domain […]

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