Facebook has filed a suit against 25 typosquatter who have registered domain names similar to facebook.com reports VentureBeat . According to the report, the domain names in question are either typos or closely related to facebook.com and are what Facebook calls example of trademark infringement. “(The) defendants’ schemes also diminish the goodwill associated with Facebook and its marks, injure Facebook’s reputation, breach enforceable agreements between Defendants and Facebook, interfere with Facebook’s business, and unjustly enrich Defendants,” Facebook states in the court document. “Facebook therefore seeks an order cancelling Defendants’ rights in their typosquatter domain names or transferring those typosquatter domain names to Facebook, awarding Facebook damages and providing other relief.” Of those accused of typosquatting most are companies, a few individuals, and some of the domain names in question are facebobk.com, facemook.com, wwwfacefook.com, ffacebook.com and faecbook.com.

Change of status for the domain name 3.org.uk The domain name 3.org.uk was registered at the end of the Registered Rights Sunrise phase. Following registration, an objection was raised concerning the IP rights provided by the applicant for that domain

The super premium one character .De domain name, 2.De has a bid of $28,000 on Sedo.com The domain has hit reserve and will sell.

EuroDNS will be part of the next Domain Roundtable conference as a Gold Sponsor.This high profile conference will be held at Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas on March 1-4 ,2011 . Domain Roundtable is an annual conference focusing on domain names and new products, technologies and companies in the domain marketplace

A Spanish Oasis fan that registered the domain name noelgallagher.com around ten years ago has been tempted to hand over the domain after some wooing from Gallagher. According to a report in the NME, the fan originally demanded tens of thousands of pounds but was tempted to hand it over after Gallagher flew him “to London, put him up in a swanky hotel and offered him a truckload of Oasis [merchandise] and a guest list place for future solo gigs, he relented.”

One of Australia’s largest retailers appears to have neglected to have registered a premium generic domain name, with its main rival snapping it up. Woolworths, Australia’s largest retailer, paid A$33,333 for the domain name hardware.com.au that had previously been registered to Bunnings Building Supplies.

The domain name P2P.com was stolen by a New Jersey man and sold on eBay for more than $111,000, AP reports. The report says a 26 year-old man has pleaded guilty in a New Jersey court to hacking into the registrant’s Go Daddy account in 2006 and transferred the domain name to his own account before selling it to an unwitting buyer who did not know the domain name was stolen. Prosecutors will recommend that he serves a five-year prison term and pay restitution for his crimes, the report says.