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“Sorely misguided” complainant loses bid for Fired.com. [This is the second Domain Dunce award for 2008. See the first one for Verizon.] What do you do if you want a domain that’s already registered and you don’t want to pay for it? Furthermore, you have no chance of winning a UDRP arbitration because the domain was registered years before your first use of the domain? And the domain is generic? And it isn’t infringing on your brand? According to World2Work, you go ahead and file a UDRP. I

Uniform company files arbitration to get Peaches.com domain. Peaches.com would be sweeter. Peaches Uniforms, a seller of fashion uniforms and scrubs to women in the medical industry, has filed an arbitration request with National Arbitration Forum to gain control of the domain name Peaches.com. Peaches Uniforms, founded in 1987, filed for a trademark on the term Peaches for medical uniforms in 2006. The trademark was granted in April 2007. Peaches.com was originally registered in 1995. The

How Much Money Do You Need? Guest post by Melodieann Whiteley I was reading a business forum the other day. One of the posts was from a woman who was announcing she was quitting her business and going back to work. She just couldn’t make her business successful. It seems she stared out with way too little money and so her plan was to go back to her job and save enough money to start again. I don’t know what type of business she was in, but I do know one thing. If she had $50 dollars, she coul

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GoDaddy tops last year’s giving by $300,000. With all of the negative news I’ve written about Go Daddy this year, it’s nice to end the year on an up note. Today the company announced that its total philanthropic giving for the year is $1.7M, topping last year’s $1.4M in giving. That’s about $1,000 per employee, a very respectable number. Go Daddy supports a number of non-profits from local (Phoenix Children’s Hospital) to international (Make A Wish Foundation). According to the company, it