Non-profit sues after losing UDRP. Save the Children Federation is suing the owner of MySaveTheChildren.org after failing to win the same domain name in a UDRP proceeding. The non-profit filed a UDRP case against the domain owner ProServices in April. ProServices forwards the MySaveTheChildren.org domain name to its zulufamily.net web site, which collects donations. Save ...

Europe's digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark for works in the worldwide public domain—has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement. The agreement, which data providers and aggregators will transition to by the end of 2011, authorizes Europeana to release the metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public ......

People try to make a quick buck off Steve Jobs’ death. When news happens, domains get registered. People registered 1,517 domain names related to Osama bin Laden being killed in the 15 hours after news of his death broke — at GoDaddy alone. Over a hundred hurricane domain names were registered in the wake of ...

Marketplace to hold registry auction for .me domain names. Sedo will auction more than 170 .me domain names currently held by the .me registry. The auction will start October 27th and runs until Thursday, November 3rd. Looking over the list there are definitely a lot of good keywords. But missing are the catchy domains that ...

It's time for Dining out with Rob Balon. Rob takes us to North in The Domain.   ...

The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), has targeted a projection of N250million contribution annually from registering about 250,000 users on .ng domain names....

People try to make a quick buck off Steve Jobs’ death. When news happens, domains get registered. People registered 1,517 domain names related to Osama bin Laden being killed in the 15 hours after news of his death broke — at GoDaddy alone. Over a hundred hurricane domain names were registered in the wake of ...

Mystery company files trademarks for .wedding, .club, and .discount. California’s What Box? Holdings, LLC has applied for three more top level domain name trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The three applications are: .Wedding – filed September 27 .Club – filed October 3 .Discount – filed October 3 Little is know about the ...

Maker of Wholly Guacamole goes after widow of domain registrant; loses. I love Wholly Guacamole. It’s the only guacamole I buy; I just picked some up at the grocery store over the weekend. Too bad it turns out some people at the company are assholes. I don’t think I’ve ever used that term on this ...

Company says Moniker didn’t appropriately notify it of expiring domain names. A large client of domain name registrar Moniker has sued the company and parent company Oversee.net over alleged shenanigans with expired domain names. Mainstream Advertising, Inc. filed the suit (pdf) claiming breach of contract, conversion, unjust enrichment, and unfair competition. The company started using ...