We have seen thousands of domain names hit with UDRP's over the year but this maybe the worst domain I have ever seen. The domain name is: anytime-fitness-bridgeport-wv.com I assume the UDRP was filed by the health chain, AnytimeFitness.com but right now the complainant is not listed. I have no idea of why someone would ever have spent $10 to register this domain nor why its important … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2012
UDRP Panel Rejects Trademark Holder Complaint’s Over Publicare.com
A UDRP panel in a ruling issued today, denied the claim of Publicare Marketing Communications GmbH of Germany on the domain name publicare.com. The one member panel found although the company did hold a valid trademark on the term, the trademark was filed for four years after the domain holder registered the domain and although the domain was parked and offered for sale, the domain was also a … [Read more...]
Lawley: “If You Buy One Of These Premium .XXX You Get The .Sex, .Porn & .Adult For Free”
After releasing all but a few hundred of the balance of premium reserved .XXX domain names and putting them up for sale, we reached out to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM the operator of the .XXX registry. ""Each and every one of the 1,000 names up for sale , will come with entitlement under our "grandfathering" program we previously announced."" "This means , if we are successful in … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1,042,000 In Domains Led By SixPackAbs.com For $58K; Sobriety.com For $30K
Afternic.com just released its weekly report and its quite nice to see some higher dollar transactions on the list. SixPackAbs.com a really nice domain name that was sold by Frank Schilling's Name Administration Inc led all sales at $58,000. Frank's Name Administration scored again with the third highest sale of the week vetonline.com for $20K Tucows.com owned names took 2 of th eother 4 spots … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Sedo.com Transactions For The Week Total $1.35 Million Led By MexicoCityHotels.com For $45K
Sedo just published its weekly report, and in all 867 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.35 million. Over 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: mexicocityhotels.com at $45,000 USD Top ccTLD: monkey.co.uk at 14,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: ria.biz at 8,000 EUR Domain … [Read more...]
153,000 Premium Domain Names Owned By Ondova Hits The Bankruptcy Court Auction Block: Minimum Bid $4.3 Million
The U. S. Bankruptcy Court has just issued a Court Ordered for the sale of two portfolios of domain names, one containing more than 150,000 domain names and separate portfolio of more than 3,000 domain names (the “Portfolios”), plus related monetization and registrar contracts. The minimum bid is $4.3 million dollars and you will have to put up $500,000 into escrow to bid on the auction. The … [Read more...]
Site Dedicated To Stir Up Support Against Nominet Plan To Sell .UK Domains Goes Live: That.co.uk
Within what appears to be the last week, a new site has gone up to dedicated to the proposed change by Nominet, the organization that runs the .uk ccTLD, to start selling domain names ending in just .UK rather than .co.uk or .net.uk. This is what the site, That.co.uk decribes about itself: "This site is here to make people aware of some drastic changes that are being proposed to the UK … [Read more...]