Our resident ICANN expert George Kirikos of Leap.com, just got hit with a UDRP on a 4 letter .com. Not unlike the UDRP that went against BuyDomains.com this week for Faci.com, another complainant is playing the UDRP lottery by trying to grab the domain name Pupa.com How generic is Pupa? A search under Google for Pupa returns a wikipedia.org entry for the term in the 1st position. Pupa … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2012
ICANN Pushes Off TAS/ New gTLD’s Off For 7 More Business Days, We Predict Big Reveal For May 31st
According to a statement released by ICANN tonight, it appears the TAS system is at a couple of weeks away from being re-opened. Today was the day that ICANN promised a week ago it would give a date for the re-opening of the TAS system and for the Big Reveal Here is what ICANN said a week ago about today April 27th: "“”No later than 27 April 2012 we will provide an update on the reopening … [Read more...]
Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA) Introduced To Protect Users From Having To Divulge Personal Info
Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced legislation today to protect users of social networking sites from having to divulge personal information to employers, schools and universities. The legislation protects people already employed or enrolled, and those seeking employment or admittance, or those facing disciplinary action. “Social media sites have become … [Read more...]
How To Lose A Fortune In The Domain Business, Register Domains Like This: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-42-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
I was looking on the dropping domain name list on NameJet.com today and I found these … [Read more...]
On The Heals Of Yesterday’s Loss On Faci.com, BuyDomains Is Hit With Another UDRP On JoyfulEvents.com
Buydomains.com which just lost a UDRP on the domain name Faci.com yesterday, just got hit with another UDRP filing today. Today its another generic term at issue. The domain is JoyfulEvents.com, which is going to a parked page returning results for things like Weddings and Quinceanera Dresses. Although the complainant is not yet listed I did find a couple of live trademarks for the term … [Read more...]
GoldCoins.org, GoldPrices.com, RareCoins.com & RareCoins.org Become Lastest Target Of A UDRP
Yup someone just filed for a UDRP on a bunch of generic domain names including: GoldCoins.org, GoldPrices.com, RareCoins.com & RareCoins.org The filing also includes the domains: acoins.com austinreport.com goldinfo.net silverinfo.net All of the domain name are currently owned according to the whois by a "Hoa Nguyen" but were owned in December of last year by Aleks Krasnopolski … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports 1st Q: Revenues Up 13%, Net Up 67%; 116.7 Million .com/.net Domains & 1.39 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012 after the market closed today. "VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $206 million for the first quarter of 2012, up 13% from the same quarter in 2011. " "Verisign reported net income of $68 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.42 for the first … [Read more...]