According to a story in TechCrunch today, a European company which they describe as being an "international mobile roaming and app company" announced it was changing its name to just "Tru". The problem as TechCrunch points out is that they don't own the domain name Tru.com. That domain seems to be owned by Toys R Us. So the company that is changing their corporate name from TruPhone to … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2010
Cupid.com Sells for $7 Million Dollars After Easy Date Bows To The C & D Of Easy Group
Back in September of this year, we told you of a European Airlines called EasyJet, which is owned by a company called "Easy Group"that was asserting trademark rights to the word "Easy" much like Facebook has done to the works "Face" and "Book". Our post talked about EasyGroup sending a C & D to a dating site operating in the UK called, EasyDate. The company owned and operated Easy Date … [Read more...]
Here Is Your Early Christmas Present: Money Making Tip: Watch For People Wanting To Upgrade To The .Com
Well after spending over a week on posting about ICANN new extensions and legal issues, I thought it would be time to get back to writing about making some money. A few people commented on the $30K sale of BubbleShooter.com that we posted yesterday in our weekly Afternic.com report. Most of the commentators couldn't understand how that domain name sold for $30,000. However as one reader … [Read more...]
Mark Zuckerberg Founder Of Facebook Is Named Time’s “Person of the Year”
Since 1927, Time Magazine has been naming a "Person Of The Year". This year, Time named Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook as the Time's Person of the Year. For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is Time's 2010 … [Read more...]
ICM Registry Launches .XXX Founders Program
In a press release issued today by ICM Registry, who is seeking to run the .XXX registry, the announcement of a Founders Program was made. The program allows for webmasters who plan to develop a site using a .XXX domain to secure it prior to general availability. Here is the full release: Adult Webmasters can secure premium .XXX domains if they proactively develop and maintain domains … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $640K In Domains
The weekly Afternic.com report is out for the week ending December 12, 2010. In all just under $640,000 of domains were sold in reportable .com sales priced $2,000 or more & non .com's priced $1,000 or more. This report shows 8 domains selling above the $10,000 mark and 22 domains selling above $5,000. Congratulations to Afternic.com on another successful week of sales, indicating the … [Read more...]
In A Video Interview ICANN’s CEO & Chairman Says .XXX Extension Approval “Is Little More Than A Formality
ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush and CEO Rod Beckstrom indicated in a video tapped interview today ICANN will proceed with the registry contract over the GAC’s objections, if necessary The Video interview appears on the top of the ICANN site. Both the Chairman and the CEO indicated that Consultation with the GAC which is scheduled for February "is little more than a formality" Thrush … [Read more...]