The Fortrend Group LlC which owns the domain name ThePrive.com is seeking to upgrade its domain name by filing a UDRP on the generic domain Prive.com
Prive is a french word that mean private in English.
Armani has a line of clothing name Prive
There is a hair salon in Miami name Prive
There is a sexy nightclub in South Beach name Prive.
According to their website, like Armani, Fortrend is in the clothing business. Here is how the company describes itself from their site:
“Fortrend Group LLC was formed in 2005 and immediately established itself as the premier short term event sale [“sample sale”] company throughout North America. Through their wholly-owned subsidiaries, The Art of Shopping and PRIVE Designer Sales, Fortrend Group has become one of the most recognized and sought after companies that designer brands and fashion houses turn to when they need to move excess inventory. Fashion and brand conscious consumers await our upcoming events to shop the most sought after brands at discount prices.”
“Fortrend Group has experienced tremendous growth and has moved into new categories beyond women’s and men’s apparel, and now holds events with action sports apparel and equipment, children’s products, handbags, shoes, belts, leather goods, tabletop, and home goods.”
“In February 2008, Fortrend Group received its best recognition when Forbes Magazine listed The Art of Shopping as one of the top 10 shopping destinations worldwide.”
In addition to owning ThePrive.com, the company also owns TheArtofShopping.com
The domain name Prive.com has an orginal registration date of 1996.
The domain was owned by an M. Stenzel of Kahului, Hawaii and parked at Dotzup.com until 2010 when it went under privacy at Godaddy and appears to have been a site selling clothing.
In May of this year privacy came off and the owner appears to be Rami Atallah of Canada.
The domain name Prive.com does not currently resolve.
The domain name ThePrive.com has an original registration date of 1999 and appears to have been acquired by Fortrend sometime in 2009.
The domain ThePrive.com is listed on Sedo.com for sale.
If I was YummyNames.com I would be very concerned about its domain ArtofShopping.com which they own and goes to a parked page with a link for “fashion shopping”
“The domain name ThePrive.com has an original registration date of 1999”
Michael where do you get this year? I see 2006 as the original registration for ThePrive.com.
I own prive.info since 2002. So I had a look…
There are a lot of prive domains that were registered lately.
There are other domains they could have gone after but they went for the big one.
DomainTools.com
Domain: theprive.com – Whois History
Cache Date: 2001-06-14
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Created: 1999-06-02
Updated:
Expires: 2003-06-02
Reverse Whois: Click on an email address we found in this whois record
to see which other domains the registrant is associated with:
reto_bruehwiler@hotmail.com support@mydomain.com
Registrant:
RETO BRUEHWILER
ALTE KIENBERGERSTR. 131
WITTNAU, AG 5064
CH
Domain Name: THEPRIVE.COM
Administrative Contact:
BRUEHWILER, RETO reto_bruehwiler@HOTMAIL.COM
RETO BRUEHWILER
ALTE KIENBERGERSTR. 131
WITTNAU, AG 5064
CH
062 871 01 91
Technical Contact:
MyDomain.com support@MYDOMAIN.COM
P.O. Box 637
Los Gatos, CA 95031
US
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Record last updated on 14-Jun-2001
Record expires on 02-Jun-2003
Record created on 02-Jun-1999
Database last updated on 11-Jan-2002 15:00:24 EST
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM 216.34.13.236
NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM 64.75.34.132
NS3.MYDOMAIN.COM 64.75.34.140
NS4.MYDOMAIN.COM 64.75.34.134
Sure but the domain doesn’t currently have a 1999 registration date.
It dropped and was reregistered in 2006.