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WILL TUMBLR HELP YAHOO!?
YAHOO! has concluded that TUMBLR, the social blogging service,...
Facebook Tells Appellate Court to ‘Like’ Decision
Facebook’s “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people...
Senate Passes Bill to Collect Sales Tax on the Web
A bipartisan coalition in the Senate easily passed legislation...
ALL WEB SALES SOON TO BE TAXABLE
Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the...
MICHAEL GILMOUR TALKS ABOUT T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Well known Blogger of Whizbangsblog.com and owner of one...
The IRS doesn’t believe it needs a search warrant to read your e-mail.
I previously wrote that the FBI is being sued...
NEW BENCHMARK IN REVERSE DOMAIN NAME HIJACKING
A National Arbitration forum Panelist, Paul M. DeCicco, has...
Google fights FBI’s warrantless National Security Letters
GOOGLE is the first major company to openly challenge...
My domains have been “Frozen”
My Guest blogger, Mark Hershiser has posted this blog>...
NEUSNEWS.COM HAS A NEU LOOK FOR OUR 3RD ANNIVERSARY
Thanks to Danny Pryor and his company Rodan Media...
AMAZON’S QUEST FOR NEW GTLDS DRAWS OPPOSITION
Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the...
ANDREW ETEMADI, FOUNDER AND CTO OF EYEMAGINE, FOUND GUILTY OF RDNH
“ finding of is warranted if the Complainant...
ATTORNEY BERRYHILL GETS NAF PANEL TO RULE REVERSE DOMAIN NAME HIJACKING
The National Arbitration Forum panels are beginning to catch...
NAF SETS NEW PRECEDENT IN DENYING A COMPLAINT SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF LACHES
In the case of Laminex, Inc. v. Yan Smith,...
ONLY 2 NATIONAL ARBITRATION FORUM PANELS FOUND REVERSE DOMAIN HIJACKING IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS
Though WIPO panels found a number of Reverse domain...
WHO ARE THE TOP TEN PANELISTS THAT DENY COMPLAINTS AT WIPO?
Every six months we bring you an update on...
RUSSIAN COALITION WITHDRAWS INTERNET PLAN
If you read my blog yesterday, you saw that...
INTERNET GOVERNANCE TALKS IN JEOPARDY
A 12-day conference of the International Telecommunications Union, taking...
OBAMA SIGNS SAFE WEB ACT INTO LAW
The new law expands the FTC’s powers so it...
INTERNET REGULATION TO DOMINATE GLOBAL SUMMIT
An unprecedented debate over how the global Internet is...
A NEW WEB SITE IS NOW UP WHICH WILL PROVIDE ONE-STOP SHOPPING FOR ALL OF YOUR INTERNET LEGAL NEEDS
Howard Neu, “the Internet Lawyer” and co-founder of the...
CREEPING INTERNET CENSORSHIP HITS AGAIN – THIS TIME IT IS THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Government crackdowns on Internet dissidents and bloggers in the...
GOOGLE BLOCKED IN CHINA AS COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS BEGINS
The company said it was not having any technical...
ELECTION OFFICIALS OVERWHELMED BY E-MAIL VOTING
Governments strained to allow voters to participate in the...
DONUTS’ GRAB FOR DOMAINS RAISES FEARS OF CYBERSQUATTING
Donuts.co, backed by more than $100 million in venture...
NEUSNEWS.COM IS ONCE AGAIN UP AND RUNNING
Here are some edited down versions of NeusNews.com Blog...
CHINA BLOCKS ACCESS TO NEW YORK TIMES WEBSITE
As President Ronald Reagan used to say, “There they...
IS ICANN ABOUT TO GET A MAJOR COMPETITOR?
The Internet Governance Forum’s annual meeting provides an opportunity...
D O J REVIEWING VERISIGN DOTCOM CONTRACT WITH ICANN
Verisign said late last week in releasing its latest...
FACEBOOK FACES ANTI-TRUST LAW SUIT
Gambit is the leading virtual currency and payment- processing...
GOOGLE V. FRANCE – WHO WILL WIN THIS BATTLE?
Google has warned it would exclude French media sites...
THE URS IS COMING – BUT WHO WILL ENFORCE IT?
ICANN envisioned the URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension) procedures as...
WHICH COUNTRIES CENSOR THE INTERNET THE MOST?
Recently, Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization, published “Freedom...
JUDGE ORDERS ARREST OF BRAZIL GOOGLE PRESIDENT
A Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of the head...
FBI RENEWS REQUEST FOR NEW INTERNET SURVEILLANCE LAWS
“Companies should be required to build in back doors...
GOOGLE REJECTS OBAMA REQUEST TO PULL MUSLIM FILM CLIP
The Internet company said it was censoring the video...
ANOTHER ASIAN COUNTRY CRACKS DOWN ON FREE SPEECH ON THE INTERNET- AND IT IS STILL NOT CHINA
The Indian government said in a statement it had...
AN ASIAN GOVERNMENT IS CRACKING DOWN ON INTERNET FREEDOM, AND IT ISN’T CHINA
In South Korea — A government critic who called...
GOOGLE TO PAY RECORD FINE OVER SAFARI PRIVACY VIOLATION
Google has agreed to pay a record settlement over...
CONGRESS RAISES NEW CONCERNS ABOUT NEW gTLDs
Congressmen are saying they want fresh assurances that the...
GOOGLE SHOULD PAY $750 A BOOK, AUTHORS SAY In E-BOOK SUIT
Google is being sued over its plan, announced in...
CONGRESS RESISTS CONTROL OF INTERNET PASSING TO U.N. AGENCY
At present several non-profit US bodies oversee the net’s...
ARE AFFILIATE NETWORKS REALLY VIABLE IN THE LONG-TERM?
One of my arguments against the long-term viability of...
WHO ARE THE TOP TEN PANELISTS THAT DENY COMPLAINTS AT THE NATIONAL ARBITRATION FORUM?
Every 6 months, we bring you up-to-date on the...
WHO ARE THE TOP TEN PANELISTS THAT DENY COMPLAINTS AT WIPO?
Every 6 months, we bring you up-to-date on the...
GOOGLE IN DEAL WITH FRENCH GROUPS OVER ‘JEW’ SUGGESTION
GOOGLE’s motto is “Do no evil”, but it certainly...
TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL ACCUSES GOOGLE OF WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE
The allegations surfaced in a court filing earlier this...
HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES TO PREVENT U.N. INTERNET REGULATION
Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., championed the resolution, which...
SAVEME.COM WINS REVERSE DOMAIN HIJACKING DECISION AT WIPO
I have the distinct privilege of calling Rick Schwartz...
LAWMAKERS BLAST U.N. “POWER GRAB” FOR THE INTERNET
The U.S. government wants to bring as much ammunition...
FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE IS FORMING THE INTERNET DEFENSE LEAGUE
“The Internet Blackout was just the beginning,” the league...
NEW YORK PROPOSES BAN ON ANONYMOUS POSTS
A resulting bill, known as the Internet Protection Act...
THE CONSTITUTION PROJECT AND OTHER GROUPS CALL SENATE CYBERSECURITY BILLS ‘FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED
After blasting a controversial House cybersecurity information-sharing bill, then...
FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDER EDUARDO SAVERIN GIVES UP U.S. CITIZENSHIP
Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion...
THERE IS SOMETHING DRASTICALLY WRONG WITH ICANN
I met with a United States Congressman today who...
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ANNOUNCES CINCO DE MAYO SALE FOR SPONSORS
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is presenting a unique opportunity for Sponsors and...
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION GETS OUTSIDE COUNSEL IN GOOGLE INVESTIGATION
The FTC is examining Google’s immensely powerful and lucrative...
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES CISPA
The House of Representatives passed on Thursday a controversial...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART X
The latest chapter in Government takeover of Cyberspace Freedom...
BIG BROTHER BILL “CISPA” GAINS OPPOSITION
Last-minute opposition to the CISPA, which has been criticized...
EX-LOVER PUNISHED FOR FACEBOOK REVENGE
A jilted boyfriend who put nude pictures of his...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART IX
Rumors that Iran plans to ‘shut down the internet’...
CONGRATULATIONS TO RICK SCHWARTZ ON HIS BLOG’S 5TH ANNIVERSARY
It seems like a century ago when I first...
ZYNGA IN TALKS WITH WYNN RESORTS FOR ONLINE-GAMBLING DEAL
Eager to marry the popularity of social gaming with...
FACEBOOK RELEASES ZUCKERBERG’S HARVARD DAYS EMAILS
For the first time, Facebook released a trove of...
PAYPAL SPARKS FUROR OVER LIMITS ON “OBSCENE” E-BOOKS
PayPal sent an email on Feb 18 to Mark...
CIVIL LIBERTARIANS SLAM McCAIN CYBERSECURITY BILL
“This is a privacy nightmare that will eventually result...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART VIII
About a dozen Internet providers had since Saturday blocked...
WEB PRIVACY GUARANTY? CRITICS REMAIN SKEPTICAL
The White House has proposed ab online privacy “BILL...
F.T.C. TELLS EPIC TO MIND ITS OWN BUSINESS ABOUT GOOGLE
Last year, Google signed a consent decree with the...
MICROSOFT ACCUSES GOOGLE OF BYPASSING INTERNET EXPLORER PRIVACY SETTINGS
“When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed...
GOOGLE’S IPHONE TRACKING GETS COMPLAINTS
The companies have been using special computer code that...
EPIC FILES SUIT AGAINST GOOGLE ON PRIVACY CHANGES
Google’s plan to streamline privacy settings for some 60...
E.U. WANTS GOOGLE TO DELAY PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
The move is a shot across the bow for...
LAWMAKER WANTS PROBE OF GOOGLE’S PRIVACY CHANGES
In a separate statement, Markey plans to ask the...
EUROPE WEIGHS TOUGH LAW ON ONLINE PRIVACY
The proposed data protection regulation from the European Commission,...
WIPO UPDATE III — WHO IS IN YOUR CORNER THIS TIME?
Last week we published the results of our survey...
WAS 2011 A GOOD YEAR FOR YOU?
A year ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer....
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LOSES UDRP TO ATTORNEYS FOR MILITARY CLAIMANTS IN SEPARATE LAWSUIT
In a case filed with the National Arbitration Forum,...
NAF UPDATE III – WHO IS IN YOUR CORNER?
During the past 6 months, there have been a...
SENATORS CALL FOR FTC PROBE OF GOOGLE
Committee Chairman Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah)...
GRIPE SITE PISSEDCONSUMER.COM WINS ROUND IN LAWSUIT
The companies — software developer Ascentive and mattress manufacturer...
US IMMIGRATION SERVICES BLASTED FOR DOMAIN SEIZURES
Since its launch in June 2010, the initiative, spearheaded...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART VII
Opening a two-day conference on digital freedom sponsored by...
SENATORS WARN ICANN TO TREAD CAREFULLY WITH NEW gTLDS
Kurt Pritz,a senior vice president at ICANN, said the...
BIPARTISAN LAWMAKERS OFFER ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL TO ONLINE PIRACY BILLS
A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers released...
PATIENT SUES DENTIST WHO CHARGED HIM FOR BAD REVIEWS
Robert Lee was compelled to sign a privacy agreement...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART VI
Opponents of the PCIPA say that it is not...
THE TIDE SEEMS TO HAVE TURNED AGAINST THE STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT
“Need to find a better solution than #SOPA #DontBreakTheInternet,”...
LEGO LOSES UDRP ON LEGOWORKSHOP.COM
In a WIPO action decided on October 1st, the...
GOOGLE CEO SCHMIDT TELLS U.S. SENATE THAT GOOGLE DOESN’T DOMINATE SEARCH
“Google has many strong competitors,” Schmidt said in answers...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART V
Foreign Secretary William Hague said the fact that criminals...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART IV
Controversy over a new copyright bill continues to grow...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART III
The United States and other democracies around the world...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM – PART II
This is the second in a series of blogs...
GOVERNMENT POWER IS TAKING OVER CYBERSPACE FREEDOM
On August 6, 1991, a little over 20 years...
IPADS MAY ELIMINATE FREE HOTEL WI-FI
If, like me, you have been complaining about unusually...
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AND ZENSCROW.COM TEAM UP TO OFFER SELLERS “2ND BITE”
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. has partnered with Zenscrow.com to offer bidders guaranteed...
EUROPE PLANS CHARTER TO SAFEGUARD INTERNET USER
Internet activists say governments ranging from Egypt to Pakistan...
PREMIUM CATEGORY KILLER DOMAIN HEADLINES T.R.A.F.F.I.C. LIVE AUCTION
Fort Lauderdale, FL and Six Nations of the Grand...
GOOGLE RIVALS TO TESTIFY IN ANTITRUST ASSAULT IN D.C.
In a preview of today’s Senate antitrust hearing on...
APPLE CUTS -JEW OR NOT JEW APP- FROM FRENCH APP STORE
Anti-Semitism is still alive and kicking in Europe and...
U.S. GRAND JURY CONDUCTS CRIMINAL PROBE OF EBAY EMPLOYEES
The two companies have been feuding for years in...
CAROL BARTZ: YAHOO “F—ED ME OVER”
Last evening, barely 24 hours after Yahoo chairman Roy...
DDOS ATTACK ON FELLOW DOMAIN BLOGGER FROM FRAUD EXPOSE
Hi all, Some of you may or may not...
CEO’s OUSTER THROWS YAHOO’S FUTURE INTO UNCERTAINTY
The move had analysts and bloggers buzzing over the...
STARWOOD HOTELS CAN’T WIN UDRP FOR USE OF “W” OR “FOUR POINTS”
In a WIPO case decided July 25th by sole...
FALSE ADVERTISING SUIT CAN PROCEED AGAINST GROUPON
A U.S. judge said parts of a false advertising...
ICANN DEPARTURES AFTER NEW TLD VOTE DRAW CRITICISM
Four days after Dengate Thrush finished his term as...
WIPO PANEL DENIES CLAIM EVEN THOUGH DOMAIN IS USED IN “BAD FAITH”
In a case decided August 2nd by Sole Panelist,...
FACEBOOK SAYS CEGLIA CONTRACT DOESN’T MENTION FACEBOOK
Facebook Inc. says it’s discovered the “authentic contract” signed...
BUSINESSES IN U.S. COMPLAIN OF .XXX SHAKEDOWN
Lawyers for the most storied brands in the United...
ARE WE DROWNING IN LIQUIDITY?
Drowning In Liquidity? Here’s a term I’ve heard for...
MOST ADULT INTERNET USERS USE EMAIL AND SEARCH -HOW ABOUT YOU?
While increasing numbers of savvy Internet users may Tweet...
FACEBOOK CALLS EVIDENCE ‘SMOKING GUN’ IN CEGLIA CASE
Facebook Inc. said its inspection of computers turned over...
WIPO COMPLAINT BROUGHT BY LAW FIRM FOUND ABUSIVE; COMPLAINANT IS GUILTY OF RDNH
Sole Panelist, Tony Willoughby, gives a well-thought-out explanation of...
JUDGE TOSSES OUT WINKLEVOSS TWINS V. FACEBOOK CASE
A federal judge in Boston has handed Cameron and...
JOHN BERRYHILL BEATS HOLY MOTHER IN UDRP CASE
In a WIPO case decided on June 22nd, 2...
UDRP PANEL SAYS THAT FREE SPEECH IS NOT JUST A U.S. CONCEPT
In the recent WIPO case of Nippon Paper Industries...
UDRP CLAIM DENIED THOUGH NO RESPONSE WAS FILED
In a new case decided on June 30th at...
A GEO COMMON LAW TRADEMARK REQUIRES SPECIFIC PROOF IN NEW UDRP CASE
In a case decided on June 30th, by Carolyn...
GRANDMA SUED BY PORN MOVIE STUDIO
The Palm Beach County grandmother whose 14-year-old grandson set...
A COMPANY NAME DOES NOT GIVE RISE TO A COMMON LAW TRADEMARK
Just because a company has used its name to...
WHEN DOES A PARKED DOMAIN NAME TRUMP A PRE-REGISTERED TRADEMARK?
A recent case at the National Arbitration Forum was...
SOMETIMES YOU MAY NOT HAVE TO RESPOND TO A UDRP COMPLAINT, IF YOU THAT YOU’RE RIGHT
No response was filed by the Domain Registrant of...
THE GOURMET DEPOT LOSES UDRP WITH COMMON LAW TRADEMARK
In the recent NAF case of The Gourmet Depot...
WINKLEVOSS UPDATE – TWINS TO FILE ANOTHER SUIT AGAINST FACEBOOK
In a status report filed on Thursday with the...
THINGS THAT REALLY BUG ME – PART 1
Everybody needs an outlet to let others know what...
PARKING PAGE VS. SALE PAGE- WHICH ONE IS BETTER?
I want to start out by thanking everyone for...
WELCOME TO MY BLOG
When Ray acquired HowardNeu.com and along with one of...

NeusNews.com is Three Years Old!

We are pleased to celebrate with a fresh look to our blog!

YAHOO! has concluded that TUMBLR, the social blogging service, is worth more than $1...

Facebook’s “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the...

  • May 21st, 2013
    WILL TUMBLR HELP YAHOO!?

    YAHOO! has concluded that TUMBLR, the social blogging service, is worth more than $1 billion. That’s what their betting on the service. Whether it’s worth that amount will depend upon whether or not the combined company can turn its millions of users into an interlocking set of services that no competitor can hope to replicate. [...]

  • Facebook’s “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court. “Any suggestion that such communication has less than full constitutional protection would result in chilling the very valued means for [...]

  • A bipartisan coalition in the Senate easily passed legislation on Monday to force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes for state and local governments, sending the issue to the House, where antitax forces have vowed to kill it. But the 69-to-27 vote in the Senate will give the measure significant momentum. Hundreds of retailers are [...]

  • Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for passage of a bill to effectively end tax-free shopping online. A final Senate vote is scheduled for May 6. The bill, called the Marketplace Fairness Act, would allow states to require online sellers around the country to collect sales tax for [...]

  • Well known Blogger of Whizbangsblog.com and owner of one of the best monetizers around, ParkLogic.com, speaks on why he attends, and why YOU should attend T.R.A.F.F.I.C. The next conference will be held May 29th through June 1st at the Bellagio Resort in Las Vegas. Go to http://targetedtraffic.com to get your tickets TODAY!

  • I previously wrote that the FBI is being sued by GOOGLE for attempting to access files without a warrant. Now, it’s the Internal Revenue Service’s turn. The IRS continued to insist on warrantless e-mail access, internal documents obtained by the ACLU show, even after a federal appeals court said the Fourth Amendment applied. Newly disclosed [...]

  • A National Arbitration forum Panelist, Paul M. DeCicco, has found a Complainant guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, EVEN THOUGH NO RESPONSE WAS FILED!! In Horizon Publishing, LLC v. Opulence Communications Ltd, Claim Number: FA1302001487500, Horizon Publishing, LLC, a well-known and well-established publishing company that publishes a monthly print and electronic magazine named “South Florida [...]

  • GOOGLE is the first major company to openly challenge FBI’s warrantless data-gathering known as national security letters, which authorize a gag order ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. The company asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco last week to grant a “petition to set aside legal process” in response to a national [...]

  • My Guest blogger, Mark Hershiser has posted this blog> I woke up this morning to an email that said “We have received a Temporary Restraining Order relating to domains in your account. We have disabled the domains.” Apparently domain investor Joel Williams and the company he was involved with BrandLab, are having some issues and [...]

  • Thanks to Danny Pryor and his company Rodan Media Group, we have a new look on this, our 3rd anniversary of NeusNews.com. We are now on WordPress and the ease of publishing is terrific! We will continue to be dedicated to publishing all the news that is of interest to domainers from a legal perspective. [...]

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  • If you read my blog yesterday, you saw that things were looking pretty bleak for ICANN and international control of the Internet. However, today things have changed. A Russia-led coalition withdrew a proposal to give governments new powers over...

  • A 12-day conference of the International Telecommunications Union, taking place in Dubai, is supposed to result in the adoption of a new international treaty governing trans-border communications. But in a critical session at the midpoint of the conference on...

  • An unprecedented debate over how the global Internet is governed is set to dominate a meeting of officials in Dubai next week. The 12-day conference of the International Telecommunications Union, a 147-year-old organization that’s now an arm of the...

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