Twitter and Facebook, as well as many other social media networks such as Pinterest, both encourage and endorse reverse social media hijacking. The current trademark policies of these social media networks allow (and encourage) trademark holders to take over social media IDs, whether that ID was originally register in bad ...

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Reverse Domain Name Hijacking is "a disgusting practice...", according to Rick Schwartz (aka the Domain King), and co-founder of T.R.A.F.F.I.C.. "I always think about the mom and pop with one domain and their entire lives wrapped up in it. Along comes a bully and they are out of business. Robbing ...

The .ME domain name registry, .ME Registry, is holding a social media contest. There are prizes for everyone who participates during this social media contest, and three grand prize winners will receive a Canon EOS Rebel T3 Camera. If you follow .ME on Twitter and retweet the .ME contest once a ...

It looks like Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk, the search engine for domain names, has been hacked, and apparently is hosting malware on their web site. These messages started appearing to visitors of both Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk within the past 24 hours, and I have verified that users are still getting these ...

Godaddy, the domain name registrar, has apparently been caught registering domain names after someone has looked up the availability of a domain name. This guy claims that he looked up a domain name to see if that domain name was available. The domain name was available, but apparently he did ...

Microsoft recently launched Outlook.com as a new online email service, to rival Google's Gmail. Hotmail.com will be replaced by Outlook.com. On the same day that Microsoft rebooted Outlook.com, they registered a whole slew of similar domain names--in a move that looks like it's mainly to protect the Outlook brand. By looking ...

Thomson Reuters has signed an agreement to purchase MarkMonitor. This acquisition of MarkMonitor, based in San Francisco, California, is said to "strengthen the broad portfolio of intellectual property solutions from Thomson Reuters". The completion of the acquisition is, of course, subject to standard regulatory approvals, and the actual terms of ...

In the past 24 hours, Microsoft has registered 43 new domain names--all related to their new Microsoft Surface tablet. These new domain registrations were done a day after their announcement of this new product. All in all, Microsoft registered 47 new domain names in the past 24 hours, three of them ...

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has just registered 11 new domain names in the past 24 hours. Usually moves like this indicate upcoming projects, especially because Wikipedia does not have a history of regularly registering new domain names. Here is a list of the new domain names registered ...