A one person UDRP panel just ruled against Audi AG of Germany on the domain name audicity.com The case seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name was "registered for over 10 years, and there is no evidence that the Respondent has ever attempted to sell the Domain Name". "Furthermore, when asked by the Complainant to transfer the Domain Name, the Respondent refused without making a … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2012
The Biggest Domain Sale Of The Year? 25.Com Gets A $1.5 Million Dollar Bid At CAX.com
The domain name 25.com in auction at CAX.com has a $1.5 Million dollar bid and has met reserve. I wrote to Francois Carrillo who owns and operates CAX.com who confirmed that the bidder has bought on the auction system before. Therefore it looks like this domain name will sell. If the sale completes it will rank as the highest reported domain name sale of the year, according to … [Read more...]
Single Letter & Number Registry Owned .Tk Domain Names Hit SnapNames.com Starting At $500
The fast growing ccTLD is .Tk which is also according to the latest Verisign Report is the second largest ccTLD in the world in terms of numbers of registration. SnapNames.com is holding a premium.TK domain name auction featuring registry owned .TK domains. There are single letter .Tk, single number .Tk as well as 2 letter and great keyword domains. It will be interesting to see how much … [Read more...]
G.Co Hits Times Square By Letting You Put Your Pictures & Message In Times Square
G.co has hit New York's Times Square and now so can your pictures. Google is using the domain name G.co as a branded marketing shortcut. The campaign is called "For Everyone" and is part of their ad campaign for Google's Chrome Book product. "There's no bigger stage … [Read more...]
Just Because Your gTLD Application Escaped GAC Early Warning, It Doesn’t Mean The GAC Won’t Object To It
This week the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) issued 242 early warnings on new gTLD applications. There seems to be a belief held in the domainer community that if an application didn't receive a GAC early warning, the GAC will can't or won't object to a string or an application. Wrong. This is what the latest ICANN Applicant Guidebook (dated June 4, 2012) has to say about GAC early … [Read more...]
How many new gTLDs Applications Will Not Be Approved? Dirk Krischenowski of DotBerlin Says More Than 700
In a story posted by Netnames.com, DotBerlin promoter Dirk Krischenowski gave his analysis on how many gTLD applications might not make it. As we know there are over 1,900 applications still alive after several have been withdrawn for around 1,400 different strings. Mr. Krischenowski concluded that that 521 would drop out because they are in direct contention sets and another 80 would be in … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Turns Back Ireland Governmental Agency Bid To Grab DrivingLicence.ie
A UDRP rejected the complaint of the Irish Road Safety Authority Act, which :has sole authority and competence in Ireland for oversight of the driving licensing system, including management of the driving test, development of driver licensing policy and drafting licensing legislation" on the domain name drivinglicence.ie. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel: The … [Read more...]