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RIM registers nearly 300 domains for BlackBerry Curve 9350, 9360, and 9370

Blackberry Curve 9350, 9360, and 9370

Research in Motion always goes big when it comes to domain name registrations that coincide with a new product launch.

This week the company unveiled three new smartphones, the BlackBerry Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370.

A day before the announcement was posted to The Official Blackberry Blog, Research in Motion registered nearly 300 new domain names centered around the devices.

The domains are all over the board, ranging from .com, .net, .biz, and .org, to apps domains and hyphenated domains.

Earlier this month when the BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860 and the Blackberry Torch 9810 were released, Research in Motion registered over 500 domain names.

The latest group of domains were all registered on August 22. 

You can see the full list here.

Discussion: Ricksblog.com and DomainTools blog

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Atari submits trademark for Atari Smash as it expands into social gaming

Atari

On the same day Atari announced it strengthened its senior management team as the company shifts its focus to casual gaming, the gaming company filed a trademark for a yet-to-be-announced game called “Atari Smash”.

The trademark application (Serial Number 85399951) was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on August 17, 2011.

Here’s a look at the filing:

Word Mark  ATARI SMASH

Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Electronic, video and multimedia game software for use on personal computers and electronic game playing machines; recorded computer game software programs; game software for computers, downloadable video game software

Standard Characters Claimed 

Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK

Filing Date August 17, 2011

Current Filing Basis 1B

Original Filing Basis 1B

Owner (APPLICANT) Atari Interactive, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 417 Fifth Avenue New York NEW YORK 10016

Attorney of Record Kristen J. Keller

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Lady Gaga wants the domain name rights to LadyGaga.org, files complaint

Lady Gaga

Pop singer-songwriter Lady Gaga who topped Forbes’ annual Celebrity 100 list as the most powerful celebrity is going to battle over the web address ladygaga.org, according to a recent complaint filed with the National Arbitration Forum.

Not only has Lady Gaga mastered the music scene, but she’s dominated the web and social media scene, and has more Twitter followers than anyone else in the world (at the time of this posting, 12,886,773 followers on @LadyGaga).  

Though Lady Gaga works on behalf of non-profit organizations and donates money, she may be planning her own official non-profit organization.  Because of all her philanthropy, it comes as no surprise that a domain dispute has been filed for the .org web address, a domain that’s intended for non-profit organizations.

The domain dispute (case No. 1403808) has been filed with the National Arbitration Forum

Lady Gaga domain dispute

Because the National Arbitration Forum doesn’t publicly identify complainants on its website until a decision has been reached, the official complainant isn’t known at this time, but it’s safe to say it’s either Lady Gaga or her production team, Mermaid Music LLC, which is the registrant of LadyGaga.com.

The dispute which has been filed against oranges arecool XD (the current registrant), may be an open and shut case for the NAF panel.

As I wrote about back in early June, oranges arecool XD owns and operates other celebrity domains and websites including blakelively.com, jennifer-hudson.com, beyoncegallery.net, mirandakerr.com, alilarter.net and dozens more.

Ladygaga.org is currently a Lady Gaga fan site.

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Amazon registers KindleScribe.com and KindleScribes.com, but why?

Kindle Scribe

Could Amazon’s next Kindle device be called the Kindle Scribe?

Or is Amazon going to release a powerful note-taking feature with the Kindle e-book reader?

There are plenty of rumors and speculation swirling around the possibility of Amazon launching a new Kindle device in the near future.

Now, we have another name to add to the rumor mill called the “Kindle Scribe”, after Amazon’s Legal Department registered the domain names KindleScribe.com and KindleScribes.com on August 20, 2011.

Domain: KINDLESCRIBE.COM

  Date Registered: 08/20/11
    Date Modified: 08/22/11
      Expiry Date: 08/20/12
                   DNS1: NS-1.AMAZON.COM
                   DNS2: NS-2.AMAZON.COM
                  
  Registrant
 
                   Amazon.com Holdings, Inc.
                   General Counsel
                   P.O. Box 81226                  
                   Seattle, WA (US)
                   98108-1226

At the time of this story, neither domain resolves to a website.

Discussion: GeekWire, SlashGear, mocoNewsPhandroid, Business Insider, Time.com, Engadget, TechFlash, eBookNewser, Good e-Reader blog, Xataka, Publishers WeeklyPDF Devices and Zatz Not Funny!

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eBay buys the domain PayPalPress.com

eBay PayPal

It looks like eBay could be trying to improve its press relations for its wholly owned subsidiary PayPal.

On August 20, 2011, eBay acquired the domain name paypalpress.com, after the domain name had expired in July.

PayPal already has a press center at paypal-media.com, but it may be looking to upgrade its web address and press image as it fights off hacker groups.

Here’s a look at the Whois record:

Domain Name: PAYPALPRESS.COM
Registrar: NOTSOFAMOUSNAMES

Registrant:
        Payable Accounts
        eBay, Inc
        2005 E. Hamilton Ave., Ste. 350
        2125 Hamilton Ave
        San Jose
        CA
        95125
        US

Domain servers in listed order:

        NS1.MARKMONITOR.COM
        NS3.MARKMONITOR.COM

        Record created on:        2011-08-20 14:14:42.0
        Database last updated on: 2011-08-20 16:55:14.097
        Domain Expires on:        2012-08-20 14:14:42.0

PayPal has owned paypal-press.com since 2007, which it redirects to its home page, so the purchase of the non-hyphenated domain name may be nothing more than part of its intellectual property strategy.

Other possibilities include a PayPal WordPress plug-in or “PayPal How-To” books published by the e-commerce company under the name PayPal Press.