D&D Consulting Ltd. is offering a $10,000 finder’s fee to anyone who refers the individual who buys the company’s Internet domain, Disaster.com. The silent auction started Oct. 22 with a minimum asking…
Month: November 2009
Attempted Domain Theft By Trademark Fails In WIPO: Project.me
A German company missing the landrush for the domain project.me goes out after the landrush and registers a trademark on the term in Germany and then files a WIPO complaint against the…
12,000 Auctions, 8,900 Bidders and 350,000 Bids: We Conclude Halvarez Was The Only Shill Bidder At Snapnames
When Snapnames put each user’s entire auction history into there respective Snapnames.com account last Saturday night, we went to work. We scraped all the data from every auction. We got every bid,…
The Hypocrisy of the Kentucky Gambling Domain Seizure Hits A New Note: TwinSpires To Buy YouBet.com
The continuing saga of the Commonwealth of Kentucky seizure of 141 domain names related to online gambling took an interesting turn today. The action of Kentucky was protectionist as online betting is…
HitWise: Bing Up 7% In October: Long Searches Up 4%
Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 70.60% of all U.S. searches for October. Yahoo search share was 16.14% down 1% Bing.com search share rose 7% from September to 9.57%. Hitwise also…
$25K Being Spent Today On Typo and Infringing Domains
Someone today is going to spend over $25,000 in pure typo domains. How do I know? They are all backordered at NameJet.com today at $69 per. In all around 370 domains and…
Appeals Court “Turns Down” Mattress.com’s Bid For Trademark As Being Too Generic
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit rejected an appeal by 1800Mattress.com which filed an application to trademark the term, Mattress.com, finding that the term was too generic to be…