The domain name Opulence.com has been hit with a UDRP. With almost 8,000,000 references in Google opulence is a dictionary word that has been registered since at least 2000 according to Domaintools.com The domain name was owned until recently by Opulence Communications Ltd of the UK with an expiration date of 2018. Suddenly in early 2013 the domain name whois information was gone and the … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2013
CEO Of Marchex: We Don’t Believe The New TLDs Are A Significant Factor In Value of .Com’s
In the Marchex (MCHX) earnings call today a question was asked about how the new gTLD's will effect .com's values specifically those domains held by Marchex. and how the continued movement of consumers to smart phones will also effect the values. Here is the question which was asked by Andre Sequin of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division: "In terms of the value of the domain … [Read more...]
Fallout From Contention Sets: .Law/.Lawyer; .Hotel/.Hotels; .Car/.Cars & Many More
Now that ICANN has stuck to its guns and only placed 4 new gTLD's strings that look confusingly similar into contention sets, rather than those that sound identical, such as .inc and .ink or those that have the same meaning like .Law and .Lawyer or those that are singular and plurals of the same word, we now know what we will get when the new gTLD's roll out and in part its going to be a very a … [Read more...]
Nominet Haults Plan For .Uk Domain Names, For Now
According to a post on its blog, Nominet.org.uk, is stopping with its plan to sell the shorter, "direct.uk, domain names for now. Nominet says there will be studying the issue over the coming months. The plan which would have allowed Nominet the company that runs the .UK ccTLD to start selling domains ending in just .UK rather than the current .co.Uk came under attack by domain holders and … [Read more...]
Ron Paul Now Files UDRP For RonPaul.Org
A couple of weeks after Ron Paul filed a UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the domain name RonPaul.com, the congressman has now filed a UDRP on the domain name RonPaul.org The domain RonPaul.org is being forwarded to RonPaul.com which is a "fan site". The domain … [Read more...]
Breaking: ICANN Publishes Contention Sets & Only Puts Four Non-Match gTLD’s Strings Together
ICANN just published it long awaited New gTLD String Similarity Contention Sets fand quite surprisingly just put four non-matching applications into two contention sets. ICANN placed the new gTLD application for: .Hoteis by Despegar Online SRL into the same contention set as the application by Booking.com for .Hotels ICANN however, did not include the 7 applications for .Hotel into the … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Two Portuguese Domains
Sedo.com just released its weekly report. In all 844 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.6m. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. The weekly sales were led by vagadeemprego.com which means "job vacancy" in Portuguese The highest selling non-com was a .TV, Jogo.tv at $15,000 Euro's or around $18K Jogo is also … [Read more...]