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GoDaddy.Com Launches 'Radio Go Daddy' SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of domain names worldwide, announced today the launch of its newest venture, Radio Go Daddy, www.radiogodaddy.com. Broadcast LIVE every Wednesday night at 7 pm (PST)/ 10 pm (EST) via the Internet and over Sirius and XM Satellite Radio stations (as well as select AM stations), Radio Go Daddy is hosted by Bob Parsons, president and founder of Go Daddy. This is the first-ever LIVE radio show hosted by a leading Internet CEO that is available via Internet, Satellite Radio and podcast. It broadcasts from a brand new state-of-the-art radio studio located at Go Daddy's Scottsdale headquarters, and is presented during the first hour of 'The David Lawrence Show.' To date, Radio Go Daddy has tackled numerous topics, including, phishing, Internet predators, cell phone viruses and online privacy rights. Several guests have appeared on Radio Go Daddy, including "hacker turned good-guy" Kevin Mitnick, author of the best selling book, "The Art of Deception" and the recent, "The Art of Intrusion." Radio Go Daddy has also taken to the road, having broadcast LIVE from Denver during filming of Go Daddy's newest commercials (www.godaddy.com/gdshop/superbowl05/landing.asp) and tonight, from the international Domain Roundtable conference in Seattle (www.domainroundtable.com). Detailed descriptions of prior shows can be found at www.radiogodaddy.com, together with free downloads to iPODs, MP3 players and personal computers. Transcripts are also available for download, free of charge. The show is co-produced by Bob Parsons and long time radio presence David Lawrence of 'The David Lawrence Show.' According to Lawrence, "The delivery of this show is an affirmation of the whole 'Pod Casting' community. It's groundbreaking in that there hasn't been a 'live broadcast to PodCast' show, backed by an Internet company of Go Daddy's caliber, and featuring a prominent industry personality as Bob Parsons." "People have questioned why we would want to move into radio," added Parsons. "But when you think about it, moving into radio is a natural progression from the blog (www.bobparsons.com) I started late last year. The whole idea behind the blog was to create a forum to discuss important issues impacting technology and the Internet, open up additional lines of communication between Go Daddy and its customers, and to have some fun. I see Radio Go Daddy as being yet another communication medium for accomplishing these goals." About The Go Daddy Group, Inc. The Go Daddy Group is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar both in terms of new registrations and domains under management. The Go Daddy Group enables individuals and businesses to acquire, create and safeguard their unique identities and brands on the Internet by offering a complete line of web development tools, including domain name registration, hosting, email systems, SSL certificates and complementary products and services. The Go Daddy Group includes three ICANN-accredited domain name registrars: flagship registrar GoDaddy.com (www.GoDaddy.com), membership-based registrar Blue Razor Domains, Inc. (www.bluerazor.com), and reseller registrar Wild West Domains, Inc. (www.wildwestdomains.com). The Go Daddy Group also offers private domain name registration services through Domains By Proxy, Inc. (www.domainsbyproxy.com), as well as SSL Certificates through its SSL Certificate Authority, Starfield Technologies, Inc. (www.starfieldtech.com). The Go Daddy Group registers a new domain name every 6 seconds.
Available Topic Expert(s): For information on the listed expert(s), click -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Air France wins 'sucks' domain name - AirFranceSucks.com By OUT-LAW.com The name was registered by Florida-based Virtual Dates Inc. in 1999. It was only in February 2005 that Air France took a claim before the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), alleging cybersquatting. The decision was made on 24th May and published today. For most of the past six years, Virtual Dates pointed the domain name at a page of ePinions.com, an ad-supported site that rates and invites reader comments on everything from movies and barbecues to office supplies and zoos. Virtual Dates said AirFranceSucks.com was a freedom of expression site for the registration of complaints or recommendations about the airline. Air France said it was just trying to cash-in on its trade mark: this was a commercial entity, not the gripe site of an aggrieved customer. Two of the three WIPO panellists reckoned that a domain name that adds 'sucks' to a trade mark will generally be confusingly similar to that trade mark. Presiding panellist Knud Wallberg wrote: “The incorporation of a well known trade mark in its entirety as the first and dominant part of a domain name is confusingly similar to this trade mark regardless of whether the additional elements are pejorative as in this case or of a more neutral kind such as airfrancetickets”. Co-panellist Christian-André Le Stanc agreed: international customers might not appreciate the pejorative nature of the term 'sucks', which would leave users confused. The third panellist, Jeffrey M Samuels, disagreed. Samuels, an intellectual property professor at Akron University, Ohio, accepted that not all internet users will be familiar with the pejorative nature of the term 'sucks.' But he added: "it is likely that a substantial percentage of potential customers of Air France are familiar with the English language and, thus, would be aware of the pejorative nature of 'sucks.'" A confusingly similar trade mark is not enough of itself to force a transfer: it must also be shown that the registrant has no rights or legitimate interest in the name and that its registration and use were in bad faith. But if a panel is convinced that a domain name is not confusingly similar to a trade mark, the rest of a cybersquatting claim will collapse. In Samuels' opinion, the domain name was not confusingly similar to Air France’s trade mark, because it did not look or sound alike nor convey the same commercial impression. Decisions on 'sucks' sites have gone both ways trade mark owners in the past. But the current panel's majority view on their similarity to a trade mark is supported by a WIPO report on trends in domain name dispute decisions, published in March. On 'sucks' sites, it agreed that non-fluent English speakers would fail to recognise the negative connotations of the word. |
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