Afternic.com just released its weekly reportable domain sales report for the week of 2/18/13 – 2/24/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,043,176 All domain sales were led by ChillerSystems.com at $18K and we must mention the domain comingtoamerica.com a very funny Movie back in the day and a great call to action type of domain … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2013
Microsoft Releases ccTLD Registry Security Assessment Service To Find & Fix Security Vulnerabilities
Microsoft released the Microsoft Country-Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) Registry Security Assessment Service at the RSA Conference today in San Francisco: The new service was designed to help ccTLD registry operators find and fix security vulnerabilities before they are exploited. The offical annoucment was made on technet.com. "The exploitation of vulnerabilities specific to country-code … [Read more...]
Brands Are Missing The Boat Catching Cheap TM Domains On The Drop & Saving UDRP Money
Brands which have endlessly expressed their concerns over cybersquatting in the new gTLD's space and complained about the cost of enforcement of their trademarks in existing TLD's and ccTLD's are still missing a huge opportunity to secure dropping trademark infringing domains for nominal fees. Brands which spent thousands of dollars to bring a single UDRP are failing to take advantage of … [Read more...]
TLDH (Minds + Machines) Gets Additional $15M In Funding For New gTLD Auctions
According to a press release we were sent today by Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH), better known to the domain community as Mind + Machines, the Company "has agreed a funding facility to support its participation in a prospective auction in relation to a specific contested gTLD application". "The conditional funding will be provided solely in exchange for a perpetual share in the … [Read more...]
Melbourne IT Promises A “Huge Dividend” From New gTLD Defensive Registrations
According to ComputerWorld.com.au, on a conference call with media after reporting its financial results for 2012 resulting in revenue and profit declines, Melbourne IT CEO Theo Hnarakis said ICANN's release of new gTLDs would generate a “huge dividend” for the company in 2013. Mr. Hnarakins is quoting as saying: “We have 3800 corporate customers, many of which are very defensively oriented in … [Read more...]
Despite Trademark, Artek.com Saved In UDRP
A one member WIPO panel ruled in the favor of the domain holder in a case published today on the domain name Artek.com The complaint was brought by Artek oy ab of Helsinki, Finland founded in 1935. The Complainant has continuously used the sign “artek” in business since it was founded. "The Complainant’s business is known worldwide as an innovative contributor to modern design and … [Read more...]
Now That uBank Got A $8M Investment They Will Buy The Domain uBank.com
According to Quintura.com, "The Russian venture capital firm Runa Capital has invested $8 million in uBank, a Russian mobile payment provider". "uBank offers a mobile app for smartphones that helps pay utility bills. Released last December, uBank free app for Android has been downloaded more than 250K times from Google Play." What the company does not have is the domain name … [Read more...]