In a WIPO decision, today a domain was take based off a comon law trademark Although the domain was parked none of the results on the landing page went to the complainant or any competitors of the complaint, rather the links on the landking page were completely unrelated to the business of the complaintant. The domain in question was DimFusion.com The facts are as follows: The … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2010
Moniker.com Sells T-Shirts.com, T-Shirt.com, TShirts.com, Tees.com, Tee-Shirts.com for $1.265 million
Well it looks like one of my picks from the DomainFest auction for tomorrow, was sold tonight. Moniker.com tonight announced that it successfully brokered T-Shirts.com, T-Shirt.com, Tshirts.com, Tees.com, Tee-Shirts.com for $1.265 million. The buyer is Costumes Galore, Inc. Nice sale. Congrats to the Buyer and Seller … [Read more...]
Our Picks From The Live New York DomainFest Auction
Clearly Moniker.com is relying on at least one big dollar sale at the Live domain name auction at Domainfest, tomorrow , as out of the 122 domains up for auction only 16 have a reserve of under $10K, while 53 have a reserve of $100K or more. Wow. What a great catalog of domain names. The auction will start at 4pm EST and remote bidding will be available on SnapNames.com. By the way we … [Read more...]
.Org Grows By 7.6% in 1st 6 Months of 2010 To 8.5 Million Domain Names
The .Org registry released its bi-annual domain name report, "The Dashboard," today and reported a higher growth rate for .Org domain names for the first six months of 2010, than .com or .net. The .ORG domain grew by 7.6%, more than doubling last year's first half gain of 3.2%. This increase in registrations has brought .ORG's total domains under management to 8.5 million. The … [Read more...]
“1st Fund” To Invest Only In Domains Launches August 1st Promises To Make Domains Accepted As An Asset Class
Here is what maybe a huge step for Domains to become a real world asset in the wider investment community. In a press release today, a company called the The Domain Developers Fund says they will officially launch on August 1. "The DDF offers institutional and private investors equity investments in Internet Domain Names." "Its the first fund to invest in domain names … [Read more...]
IS God Squad Too Close To Geek Squad? Best Buy Thinks So & Is Suing A Priest Over It
According to the Milwaukee Journal, Best Buy has no love for the God Squad and is suing them for infringing on their trademark for the Geek Squad, even though the user of God Squad is a priest. Father Luke Strand received a cease-and-desist letter about his car, a Volkswagen Beetle has oval door stickers that read "God Squad" . "Paula Baldwin, senior manager for public relations at Best … [Read more...]
Lycos.com Which Once Sold For $12.5 Billion Sells For $35 Million
According to cnet.com, Lycos,com, one of the 1st internet search engines just sold for $35 Million to Ybrant Digital, an India-based digital marketing company. Cnet.com points out that the site once sold for $12.5 Billion dollars in May 2000, then most recently sold in 2004 for just $95 Million. You might be surprised as I was to find out that the site still draws some 16 million visitors a … [Read more...]