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Donuts and ice cream are big business in United Arab Emirates.

Dunkin’ Brands, through two intellectual property holding companies, has filed for arbitration to get United Arab Emirates .ae domain names related to two of its brands.

The two separate cases were filed with World Intellectual Property Organization. In the first case, the company filed for two domains related to Dunkin’ Donuts: dunkin-donuts.ae and dunkindonuts.ae. The second case is for Baskin Robbins: baskin-robbins.ae and baskinrobbins.ae.

United Arab Emirates recently liberalized its registration rules. The domain names were probably registered after the registration rules changed.

Both Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins have stores in United Arab Emirates.

All of the domain names are registered to Ali Abdelwahed. Abdelwahed also received a domain arbitration filing for hardees.ae, filed by the popular fast food restaurant chain. Hardees is part of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR).

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Attorney general alleges deceptive practices in credit card disputes.

The Minnesota Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against National Arbitration Forum, one of the largest domain name dispute providers under UDRP. The lawsuit does not pertain to domain arbitration, but instead to credit and collection disputes.

The Attorney General alleges “that [National Arbitration Forum] misrepresented its independence and hid from consumers and the public its extensive ties to the collection industry.”

In most credit card terms and conditions, credit card users agree to arbitration in the event of a credit card dispute. According to a press release from the Attorney General:

“The company tells consumers, the public, courts, and the government that it is independent and operates like an impartial court system. In fact, it has extensive ties to the collection industry—ties that it hides from the public,” said Attorney General Swanson.

The lawsuit alleges that the National Arbitration Forum, while holding itself out as impartial, works behind the scenes—alongside creditors and against the interests of ordinary consumers—to convince credit card companies and other creditors to insert arbitration provisions in their customer agreements and then appointing the Forum to decide the disputes. The lawsuit alleges that the Forum pays commissions to executives whose job it is to convince creditors to put mandatory arbitration clauses in their customer agreements. The suit alleges that the Forum does this to generate arbitration filings in the Forum—and hence, revenue—for itself.

National Arbitration Forum has posted a media statement about the lawsuit, essentially saying that it is independent.

In 2006 NAF processed 214,000 consumer collection arbitrage claims, according to the lawsuit. That makes the low four figure number of domain arbitration cases seem like small potatoes.

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According to theinvestor on DN Forum, at least 245 NNN.ca domains will be dropping next week (most/all on July 22nd). I didn’t count them myself however I did take a quick look and that number seems about right. With only 1000 NNN.ca domains in existence, that’s almost 25% of the NNN.ca market which is dropping […]

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I want to follow-up to a post I wrote a few weeks ago called “Make 1,000% Profit.” In the article, I discussed how people can analyze what names are selling at auction at Snapnames, buy names for registration fee at Moniker, and then sell them on Snapnames. The jist was that you can register a […]

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There’s talk on Namepros today about how the Chrome OS encourages less type-in traffic — something which will no doubt continue in the future as both the Chrome OS becomes more popular (which should happen next year when the Google Operating System comes out) and more web browsers are designed with monetization in mind. Let’s […]

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Get a completely free .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, or .us domain from Register.com. For instructions on how to get your free domain, see: http://www.mrrcentral.com/blog/free-1-year-domain-name-from-register-com/ . Limit of 1 free domain name.

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Beckstrom gives initial comments about domainers.

In an article about new top level domains and trademarks in today’s Financial Times, ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom is quoted saying:

“You can look at domainers in many ways. Some see them as cybersquatters, some look at them as entrepreneurs. I think there is a rich and healthy debate to be had.”

Most domainers will view this as a positive statement. I e-mailed Beckstrom to make sure he was quoted in context and get some clarification. He responded verifying the quote and his view on the role of domainers in the domain ecosystem:

I think there are always multiple perspectives on any issue. Not unlike hedge funds. Some countries see them as villains while other market participants see them adding great liquidity to markets. I’m not sure but am open to both perspectives.

Here’s hoping that, under Beckstrom, ICANN will pay more attention to the views of domainers.

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Beckstrom gives initial comments about domainers.

In an article about new top level domains and trademarks in today’s Financial Times, ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom is quoted saying:

“You can look at domainers in many ways. Some see them as cybersquatters, some look at them as entrepreneurs. I think there is a rich and healthy debate to be had.”

Most domainers will view this as a positive statement. I e-mailed Beckstrom to make sure he was quoted in context and get some clarification. He responded verifying the quote and his view on the role of domainers in the domain ecosystem:

I think there are always multiple perspectives on any issue. Not unlike hedge funds. Some countries see them as villains while other market participants see them adding great liquidity to markets. I’m not sure but am open to both perspectives.

Here’s hoping that, under Beckstrom, ICANN will pay more attention to the views of domainers.

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Toys ‘R’ Us domain name forwarding mistake back in the picture.

Oh brother.

A few months ago I wrote about Toys ‘R’ Us forwarding its newly purchased ($5.1M) domain name Toys.com to ToysRUs.com. This resulted in the company losing its search rankings for Toys.com. The story was viewed 30,000 times.

Some people hypothesized that Toys ‘R’ Us didn’t care about the search rankings and only bought the domain name to keep it away from competitors. It turns out this isn’t the case — Toys ‘R’ Us has relaunched Toys.com, sans search rankings. The new site is a hub for all of the company’s brands, including eToys (which it purchased around the same time it bought Toys.com).

It looks more and more like someone at Toys ‘R’ Us made a decision to forward the site without realizing the search repercussions. Surely, if the company planned to create a new site at Toys.com and thought about search engines, it would have done something to preserve its search rankings. That’s a big mistake to make with one of the most expensive domain purchases of all time.

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