Tag Archives: website

July, 2009

• 31 July

  Sears loses dispute for my-gofer domains

  What do the domains my-gofer.biz,.info.,.net,.org,and .info have in common? Sears Brands, LLC does not have rights to any of them. They apparently thought they did, however, and took the case before an arbitrator. MyGofer is the chosen name and trademark of Sears’ shopping service. Their main website is mygofer.com Sears …
• 30 July

  40% of small businesses have no website

  Part of what has pushed the domain industry to new levels is a drastic increase in the number of small businesses owning websites. With the majority of people in developed nations online, businesses have finally realized the value of the web. There are still quite a few firms stuck in …
• 28 July

  WIPO rules in favor of free speech over trademark

  In a rather interesting domain dispute, the Sutherland Institute, a right-wing think tank, accused the registrants of sutherlandinstitute.com of cybersquatting. The actual website of the institute is sutherlandinstitute.org. The respondents used the .com top-level domain to run an protest site they claimed was a parody of the real Sutherland Institute. …
• 27 July

  SCOPE rinses away cybersquatter

  The Proctor and Gamble Company (PG), responsible for products such as Tide detergent, Pampers diapers, and Scope mouthwash, recently filed a domain dispute with Richard Jones, a man who registered scopemouthwash.com and used it for his search portal of miscellaneous advertisements available in multiple languages. PG owns pg.com as well …
• 27 July

  Federal court rejects Hotels.com appeal

  The website owners of Hotels.com have been trying to get trademark status for the domain name for over year, but Friday The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the ruling of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. According to the court, the term “hotels” …
• 27 July

  Alice.com does the shopping for you

  Out of toilet paper? Forget to buy dish soap? Don’t worry, Alice.com has you covered. After buying the domain for £152,434 ($250,000 USD) in 2008, entrepreneurs Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire recently launched the site, which sells consumables such as toothpaste and shampoo most Internet retail outlets won’t sell. The …
• 16 July

  What's in a password?

  Phishing is on the rise, and with more services moving online, web fraud is a serious concern. Most people are pretty confident that their passwords are safe from cybercrime, but are they really? For your Twitter account, maybe you are not that concerned if your password is your daughter’s name, …
• 15 July

  Victoria's Secret undresses a cybersquatter

  Florida resident Chris Williams must have thought he was really on to something when he registered victoriassecretangelcreditcard.com. As with most cybersquatting, he used the domain name to setup a website with third-party links, some of which linked to competitors of the popular lingerie company. He did not respond to the …
• 10 July

  Korean DDoS malware may self destruct

  Earlier this week, we reported a series of attacks on key South Korean and U.S. government servers that took some of them offline. The attacks are still under investigation, but a blog post on the Washington Post’s website suggests that the botnet being used to deliver the DDoS (distributed denial …

June, 2009

• 2 June

  CBS News to stream live news on Ustream

  In an attempt to attract a younger, more internet-savvy audience, CBS News has partnered with a website called Ustream to simulcast its news online. The web site will show CBS News with Katie Couric live over the Internet. Their hope is that streaming their news with third-party websites will attract …