The New CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom Posted a "Message From The CEO" on ICANN site a few days ago. We welcome Mr Beckstrom to his new position and agree with him when he says: ""In the end, every single name must be unique and only one party can own it."" True. ICANN, WIPO, trademark holders disputes, UDRP's, The IRT, the URS all summarized perfectly in one sentence by Mr. … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2009
Does The Internet Need A Non-Profit Extension? .NGO Is Proposed
There is a movement afoot to roll out a new gTLD that would be exclusively for charities and non-profit entities. I know your asking isn't that what .Org's are suppose to be for. The answer to that question is of course, but since the registry never required anyone to prove its non-profit status before obtaining or registering a .Org, its a opened extension. What is being proposed is a … [Read more...]
Buy Or Sell: Answer To Yesterday’s Post
Yesterday in a post I thought we have some fun and see if you would buy or sell these domains at the following prices: Videospark.com $8,500 Wet.net $6,500 55R.com $6,000 LejourPlus.com $3,000 Monroe.net $3,000 The results that while some of you would have bought buy wet.net and a few others voted for Monroe.net, the rest would … [Read more...]
Is Third Time The Charm? Toxic Sells For $27,600 On NameJet.com
Toxic.com sold for the third time on Namejet.com today for $27,600, less than half the original sale price. As you may remember Toxic.com originally sold for $56,566 on May 4th and again on May 2oth for $40,500 after the first bidder defaulted. However in June, NameJet.com announced a new deadbeat bidder policy which will hopefully mean that the third time will be the charm, and the domain … [Read more...]
Hotels.com Loses Appeal To TradeMark Hotels.com
Hotels.com lost its bid to register a trademark on “hotels.com” when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled the mark was a "too generic term" to be trademarked. The decision handed down yesterday, upholds the ruling by the Trademark Appeal Board, of March 2008, which denied Hotels.com's application for a trademark, also calling it too generic. The appeallate court in … [Read more...]
No End Users? GetARoom.com Just Sold On Sedo, Goes To Hotels.com Founders
The DNJournal reported on the sale of the domain GetARoom.com for $30,000 on Sedo.com a couple of weeks ago. Today it appears that the domain GetARoom.com was purchased by the founders of Hotels.com and is going to be rolled out in a multimillion dollar ad campaign. The site is already up and running. Bob Diener and David Litman, founded Hotels.com sold it in 2003, have been under a … [Read more...]
Buy Or Sell: 55r.com $6K; Videospark.com $8,500; Wet.net $6,500; Monroe.net $3K
Let's play a game. Take the following domains and tell me would you pay these amounts to buy them, or take these amounts to sell them if you owned them. That's your choice; Buy or Sell at these prices and later on today I will let you on to the secret, which if you know already, congrats, but don't spoil it for the rest of us. Here's the domains, make you picks by copying and pasting in … [Read more...]