In A UDRP issued today a one member panel denied the complaint of a trademark holder on the domain name MariahRadio.com While we often write about questionable to outright awful UDRP decisions where domain names are taken away from the holders this one might drive the trademark crowd crazy. The complainant had a TM on the exact term "Mariah Radio" The Domain name was going to a parked … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2012
100,000 New gTLD by 2020? One Blogger Has Just Made That Prediction
Naseem Javed is a frequent author of articles on domain names and gTLD issues and he has been published fairly frequently by CircleId.com where his 23 posts have been viewed over 600,000 times. He just published a post on business2community.com, making the case that there will be as many as 100,000 new gTLD's by 2020: """Imagine. Suddenly it’s 2020, and ICANN has just opened its 10th window … [Read more...]
First 7 Figure .TV Domain Name Sale To Be Reported “Within A Week To A Fortune 500 Company”??
According to a comment left on TheDomains.com on our post about Verisign's renewal of the .TV contract, the first seven figure domain name is going to be reported to DnJournal.com "within a week" The commentator goes on to say that the .TV domain name sale is in escrow and is being purchased by a Fortune 500 Company. ""First 7-figure .tv sale to be reported to DnJournal within one … [Read more...]
Verisign Renews Contract With Tuvalu To Run .TV Registry Through 2021
I have confirmed that Verisign has they have signed an extension with the government of Tuvalu to operate the ccTLD domain name extension .TV through December 31, 2021. Prior to the extension, Verisign's agreement with Tuvalu to operate the .TV ccTLD, only ran through 2016. During the most recent Verisign earnings call, they listed signing the renewal of the .TV contract of one of Verisign's … [Read more...]
Google Loses UDRP On Youtube.com.pe
In a UDRP decision just handed down Google lost its case to acquire the domain name youtube.com.pe .Pe is the ccTLD (country code) for Peru. The domain holder was a company known as "googel ltd. which is located at Two Stooges LLC, China." (The original decision was written in Spanish and we used Google translate to translate the decision to English) Basically the panel held that the … [Read more...]
Mississippi House Proposes Bill To Legalize Gambling & To Seize Domains
The MISSISSIPPI House Legislature just proposed a bill that would legalize gambling and as part of the bill give the state the power to seize domain names. The Bill entitled the "MISSISSIPPI LAWFUL INTERNET GAMING ACT" The Bill would allow all sorts of legalized Internet gambling would subject to heavy licensing, regulation, and taxation and would establish a commission to oversee the … [Read more...]
Catching Up With Namejet.com NYC.info; LLLL.com & More
A few interesting sales from NameJet.com in the last few days highlighted by LLLL.com and NYC.info LLLL.com sold for $13,100 LLLL.com is the generic way that domainers describe 4 letter .com Coop.org sold for $9,660 NYC.info sold for $9,100 DefensiveDrivingSchool.com $5,766 UsPresidents.com sold for $5,400 PompanoBeachRealEstate.com sold for $5,098 Pompano Beach is located … [Read more...]