J.B. / Fusible.com:
Apple wins dispute over iPods.com, domain name ordered transferred — WIPO Panelist David Cairns has ruled in favor of Apple in a dispute over the domain name ipods.com. — Apple filed the complaint at the end of May with the World Intellectual Property Organization.
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Apple wins dispute over iPods.com — WIPO Panelist David Cairns has ruled in favor of Apple in a dispute over the domain name ipods.com. — Apple filed the complaint at the end of May with the World Intellectual Property Organization. — Although the company is known for paying millions …
Bill Hartzer:
Facebook Sues Over Massive Cybersquatting Attack on Its Brand — Facebook, the social network, has filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California, claiming trademark infringement. The case, “Facebook, Inc. v. Cyber2Media, Inc. et al”, involves a lot of domain names, which are essentially …
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Smartling, a Language Translation Engine for the Web, Raises Million — Last Friday, I was collecting the grim news from Norway from local news sites in that country. News sources like NRK.no, it seemed to me, were publishing details of the attacks faster than international news sites in English …
LAUNCH:
The GOOGLE+ Punch List (21 Items Google Must Add to Plus) — We asked Google+ users—on Google+—what Google had left out of the service. Here’s what they said, with a little added analysis. — Must Haves — 1. Brand pages: Based on the brouhaha we’ve seen over Mashable getting …
Christopher Finke / Less Talk, More Do:
What do people type in the address bar? — Earlier this year, I added a feature to URL Fixer (a browser add-on that fixes errors in URLs that you type in the address bar) that collects anonymous usage stats from users who opt in in order to help improve the ways that URL Fixer corrects typos …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Feature: Big Content’s latest antipiracy weapon: extradition — As major American copyright holders continue their long war on file-sharing, the focus of the debate has increasingly shifted overseas. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun seizing the domain names of so-called rogue sites based overseas.
Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:
Craigslist Sues Sellers of Phone Verified Accounts, Fights Posting Spam — Classifieds site goes after company selling “phone verified accounts” and helping people auto-post to Craiglist.org. — Craigslist has sued a Colorado man and associated businesses for helping people circumvent tools created to block spam on its site.
Cabel Sasser / Panic Blog:
The World’s First Emoji Domain — Ladies and gentlemen, are you comfortably running Mac OS X Lion? — Because this is our moment. — Years of technological progression, a steady flowing river of genius and fortitude, breakthrough and discovery, have sent us ever-forward, hurtling towards this.
Ben Grubb / The Age:
Clash of the coupons: Aussie brothers cash in again after blocking US giant Groupon — After cashing in for million on selling their online coupon business to a consortium led by James Packer, two Australian brothers have now brought one of the biggest online brands to heel …