Facebook is the first brand owner to file under the new Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) domain dispute system. Facebook used the new Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) system to dispute the ownership of the domain name Facebook.pw, where they prevailed. [Read more…]

As you might know by now, one of the things that I follow on a regular basis is the domain names that companies register. Quite often, when companies register domain names, they’re related to upcoming products, services, or other future plans that the company has. Sometimes those plans get changed, or the domain registration is just an offensive move to make sure that someone else doesn’t register the domain. [Read more…]

Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), has added seven new generic top-level domains that will soon be available for new registrations. There will be 13 registrars where you can register a new domain name using any of these 7 new gTLDs. [Read more…]

Based on recent domain name registrations by Facebook, it looks to me like the social media network is up to something related to prepaid. Facebook has acquired several domain names related to prepaid. And typically, major brands such as Facebook will acquire the domain names that describe new service offerings. So potentially this could mean that Facebook is getting into the prepaid business. Just exactly what they are going to do with these domain names is still up in the air. [Read more…]

Microsoft is up to something. I’m not sure what, but I am really curious as to why Microsoft recently registered 26 domain names at once: all related to the word contosoyams. From my research so far, I have not been able to find any references anywhere to contosoyams, and can only determine that this is a fictitious word made up by someone at Microsoft. [Read more…]