Beyond the fact that an undisclosed complainant is trying to take away a dictionary word domain, the even more shocking part is that the domain name is not parked, not inactive but a fully developed site owned by a company named Vanity.com, Inc.

The site has a members area and has sections for Fashion, Beauty, Cosmetic Surgery, well all things about vanity.

The case number is 1443435.

The complainant is not yet listed.

The word Vanity has  27,900,000 results on Google so it’s an often used word.

The UDRP is well out of control now, where those wanting to acquire a domain name that is unavailable due to use or price, are now taking a risk free shot at grabbing the domain name from its lawful owner.

We need UDRP reform and we need it now.…

Furthermore, this premium domain name will be available for online bids in the Moniker and SnapNames Premium International & ccTLD Domain Name Auction starting June 21 and ending July 19, 2012 at 3:15 p.m. Eastern.

“Given this domain’s usage of the popular keywords ‘Free’ and ‘Sex’, this highly-recognizable asset will provide the buyer with a means to reach a broad and international online audience in a relevant and targeted manner.”

“As evidenced from the $13 million USD selling price of ‘Sex.com’ in late 2010, ‘Porn.com’ for $9.5 million USD in 2007 and ‘FreePorn.com’ for $4 million USD in 2008, the market demand for rare premium adult names is strong – although seldom available for sale in an open market forum.”

“We are pleased to announce the selection of Moniker as the exclusive brokerage firm for ‘FreeSex.com’,” said the current owners. “This decision was based on their track record and ability to reach qualified buyers globally. We look forward to offering this valuable domain name to the market in partnership with Moniker and SnapNames the premium domain name brokerage and auction house.”

There was no reserve range or pricing mentioned in the Press Release…

It probably won’t surprise you to find out the all 2,000 .Com domains are taken.

Some popular baby names are also the names of cities like Brooklyn and Madison while others are also three letter abbreviations.

Yet  if you search through the list you will find many of these baby names used by brands and many are trademarked like “Michael”

We ran the list to see who owned the .com domains of the matching 2,000 top baby names and found that:

Worldwide Media, Inc, d/b/a MostWantedDomains.com owns 96 of the domains.

Tucows.com owns 82 of the domains.

Frank Schilling’s NameAdministration.com owns 44 of them.

42 are owned by clients of the brad protection company CSC Corporate Domains

27 of the domains are owned by clients of the brand protection company MarkMonitor.com

25 are owned by Anything.com.

30 are owned by domain name giant Scott Day’s company DigiMedia.com

9 are owned by Future Media Architects

24 appear to be owned by Vertical Axis Inc.

Other company’s owning some of the 2,000 domains are Marchex and Buydomains.com

Many of the registrations are under privacy so its impossible to account for all.

If you own some of these domains for bragging rights feel free to disclose in the comment section.

Here are the top 10 boy and girl names for 2011 and who owns the .com:

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Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales:

Other domains topping the list of public sales were onlinefreegames.com for $90,000 followed by w.to for $53,000.

In all 947 domains were sold.

41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.

Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies:

The panel rejected that the domain represented the city of Stockton and terms related to Golf.

The panel found that the ““Stockton” name is, and has been, synonymous with professional golf since at least the early 1970s and awarded the domain to him based off a finding of a common law trademark.
The Panel rejected the domain holders argument that it has been  using the disputed domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services.

Here are the relevant findings by the Panel:

“The service being offered is Internet Advertising.   Much like the Yellow Pages® provides visibility for print advertisers, the Respondent company provides visibility for Internet advertisers.  The Respondent started its commercial activities in 1999.  Its principals had been raising and competing with English Setter hunting dogs on a national level for several years.  Throughout the summer and fall of 1998, they had been discussing how they could most effectively and economically bring national exposure for a local product, like their English Setters.  That discussion of a private business gradually evolved into a much more global discussion of how people from around the world could get exposure for their products across a much wider global area.  In the late winter of 1998, the early discussion of resolving the problem of global recognition and exposure for a local product took a turn in a new direction as they began to learn and realize how a “global” medium like the Internet could help nearly any business sell their goods and services.  The solution to the global marketing problem eventually emerged as the ability of small and large businesses to economically promote their offerings in a network of advertising and information websites concentrated in the areas of real estate, hunting, fishing, dogs, travel, and golf.  While the Respondent registered some generic websites like <dogforsale.com> and <pheasanthunt.com>, it mostly registered geographic domain names, such as <huntnorthdakota.com>, <northdakotahunt.com>, <minnesotahunt.com>, <huntminnesota.com>, <dickinsonrealestate.com>, <topekagolf.com>, <bismarckgolf.com>, <stocktongolf.com>, etc.”

“The Respondent states that the website at the disputed domain name contains the following statement:

“Welcome to www.stocktongolf.com. A Global network directory of Stockton golf. Golf courses, tee times, golf shops, supplies,  equipment, golf real estate and related products and services.…

The domain Facebook.info was 1st registered in 2004.

The domain is not parked, but rather has a choice of taking you to its Twitter account or to something its calls Forum.Facebook.info

Many of the posts on the “forum” have such titles as “Copy Breitling Emergency Watch For Sale”, download Friends With Benefits, and “Watch Bad Teacher Online” certainly things Facebook, Inc wouldn’t want to appear to be involved in.

It look like the owner of the domain name has owned the domain and used it in the same fashion since at least 2005 and other than its IPO I’m not sure what has changed that has caused Facebook to finally wake up and file a UDRP on the domain.

The case number is D2012-1008

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Alton Flanders represented by John Berryhill, just beat back a UDRP on his domain name CondomWorld.com

The complaint was bought by Nicholas Perez who claimed he owned an US Trademark on the term CONDOM WORLD and common law rights to the term.

The complaint said he uses the term as the name of retail stores that sell condoms and other adult-oriented products in Puerto Rico.

Here are the relevant facts and findings from the one man Panel said:

“”There can be no bad faith registration of the domain name because no evidence has been presented that Complainant had rights in a trademark or common law mark at the time the domain name was registered. ”

“Furthermore, no evidence was presented that Respondent could have had, or did have, knowledge of Complainant’s business at the time the domain name was registered.

“Respondent registered the domain name in 1996.”

“Complainant has not presented evidence that he held either trademark rights or common law rights in the CONDOM WORLD mark as of the date the domain name was registered.”

” Moreover, there is no evidence that Respondent had any knowledge of Complainant in 1996 when Respondent registered the domain name.  Under these circumstances, there can be no bad faith registration of the domain name.”

“Generally speaking, although a trademark can form a basis for a UDRP action under the first element irrespective of its date. . .when a domain name is registered by the respondent before the complainant’s relied-upon trademark right is shown to have been first established (whether on a registered or unregistered basis), the registration of the domain name would not have been in bad faith because the registrant could not have contemplated the complainant’s then non-existent right.”

Accordingly, it is Ordered that the <condomworld.com> domain name REMAIN WITH Respondent.

Bruce E. Meyerson, Panelist…

Here is the full memo:

The company just picked up $24 Million more in funding bringing it total capital raised by the company to $62 Million dollars.

The London based company, in a Press Release clearly laid out its plans to use the domain name FreeBookings.com in the US for its online reservation system or the equivalent of its Live Bookings site in the Europe

Live Bookings bought the domain name FreeBookings.com for just $3,900 in November 2011.

The seller is a domainer.

The company started with the domain name LiveBookings.net and that is still the official site listed by CrunchBase.

However

We write these stories from time to time not to embarrass or to make the sellers of the domain feel badly for missing out on a big payday but to educate.

The bottom line is you don’t know who might be interested in buying your domain and any chance you have to figure it completely disappears when the domain is listed with a Buy It Now (BIN) option, as this domain was.

There are even those who feel we have sold domains way too cheap.

A blogger wrote last week about our meet.me sale for 450,000 who felt we could have gotten seven figures or more for the domain and quite possible we could have.

At the end of the day its virtually impossible to fetch the maximum price a buyer is willing to spent.

We are not privy to their budget or plans for the domain.

As a domain owner need to put yourself in the best position to know who your buyer could be.

Its one thing to walk away with mid-six figures for a domain that may have fetched 7 figures and quite another to walk away with just a few thousand.

So here is another cautionary tale of putting domains up for sale with a small BIN price only to find out months later that the buyer has tens of millions in the bank.

Ouch…