Afternic just reported sales for the week ending July 29th. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 996,285. Here are the reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2012
Dem’s Win As Jack Abramoff Loses Bid To Get JackAbramoff.com Through UDRP
A three member UDRP panel refused to award the domain name JackAbramoff.com to Jack Abramoff. The domain is owned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) who has been using it for less than flattering purposes but what the panel found to be protected political speech. Its clear the panel didn't buy any of Mr. Abramoff's arguement including that he had trademark rights to … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Report Totals $1.3 Million
Sedo just posted its weekly sales report which includes transactions which they acted as escrow agent. In all, 823 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.3 million. 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .com: expecting.com at 49,999 USD · Top ccTLD: gr.ee at 21,000 … [Read more...]
Microsoft Replacing Hotmail With Outlook.com
Microsoft is announced today that is going to convert its hotmail service into an email service called outlook.com Microsoft acquired Hotmail in 1998. Hotmail has about 350 million active users. Gmail has roughly 425 million users It looks like Microsoft acquired the domain name Outlook.com in early 2008. You check check out a review of the new Outlook.com mail service here … [Read more...]
Attorney Marc J. Randazza Files UDRP on Three Domains Which Are A Variation Of His Name
Marc J. Randazza an attorney who practices in the first amendment and domain/trademark space has just filed a UDRP against the holder of what appears to be three domains which are variations of his name. The domain in question are: marcjohnrandazza.com marcjrandazza.com marcrandazza.com The ownership of the domains appear on the direct whois link to be an Eliot Bernstein of Boca Raton but … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz: Yes There Will Be A Live Domain Auction At TRAFFIC & We Already Have Over 5K Submissions
I reached out to Rick Schwartz today about whether there will be a live domain name auction at the TRAFFIC conference this year. There have been a bunch of emails and announcements from the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference about the conference, the nomination for the awards to be handed out (see here, here and here,) people speaking at the conference, but not a word on a live domain … [Read more...]
Three Letter .com; NGF.com Gets Hit With A UDRP
Another three letter .com just got hit with a UDRP. The domain name is NGF.com which is owned by Mediablue of Hong Kong. The complainant is unknown at this time. The domain is parked with Internet Traffic and is pulling results for a divergent group of topics including golf. NGF.org is owned by the National Golf Foundation which holds two US trademarks for the term NGF in the US, so … [Read more...]