There seems to be a never ending array of domain investors looking for "brandable" names. One of the dominant themes of domain wanted threads on Namepros. I think that the broad request of brandable might be wasting a lot of people's time. I see people argue all the time what is brandable and what is not, someone told me the mattress company that acquired Purple.com was stupid. They said, … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by two 6 figure sales
Sedo released their weekly sales and the top sale was Casino.ro at 220,000 Euros, ($254,678). The Romanian extension doesn't get many big sales, and it was not the only cctld kicking butt, GolfTV.co.kr and Golftv.kr sold for 60,000 Euros, ($69,460) and 50,000 Euros, ($57,892) respectively. Jobster.com was the top .com at $200,000. Path.net sold for $22,000. Another week of less than 50 … [Read more...]
It would have been better to lose this UDRP
The registrant of JustBulbs.com was able to win two (1, and 2) UDRP decisions, 11 years apart. But 3 years later they ended up losing the domain name, $50,000 and attorney's fees in an ACPA court case. Gerald Levine wrote about the case here. What I also found was the lawyer who represented the company bringing legal action vs Greg Ricks, the domain owner, taking great pride in their … [Read more...]
NameJet adjusting incremental bid amounts on pending delete names
NameJet sent out an email that they will be changing the incremental bid amounts on pending delete auctions. Incremental Bid Announcement For Pending Delete Names Dear NameJet Customer, We are writing to announce a new opportunity for you to compete for the Pending Delete names you want on NameJet. Effective, October 17th, 2018, we are … [Read more...]
Google says cryptocurrency is not real money
Google produced an ad for it's latest call screening service, it takes a swing at cryptocurrency, with one of the actors saying cryptocurrency is not real money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=O4jOdVTkqS4 Neer Varshney wrote about this on TheNextWeb.com From the article: The company banned all cryptocurrency related ads starting June, but later relaxed the rules to … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by TL.net
Sedo released their weekly sales and TL.net was the top sale at $40,000. DuoLab.com was the top.com sale at 33,000 Euros,($37,934). Not a lot of sales this week, 50 in total. 38 .com sales 9 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
When Chrome 70 rolls out your favorite site could have a problem
Google is always doing something and sometimes it's wanted and other times it's not wanted, like messing with the URL. According to Zack Whittaker at TechCrunch, when Google releases Chrome 70 a lot of popular sites are going to be blocked. From the article: Chrome 70 is expected to be released on or around October 16, when the browser will start blocking sites that run older Symantec … [Read more...]
