This week the domain industry mourned the death of one of its greats, Igal Lichtman. The tragic loss of Igal, way before his time, is also a cautionary tale for all domainers, as some of Igal's prize domains were lost this week as well. Three domain names owned by Igal's company, Mrs Jello LLC, expired and were auctioned off this week generating almost $75,000 in sales for the auction … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2013
ICANN Announces Pre-Beijing Meeting Webinar: Here is How You Can Participate
ICANN just announced that it will be holding a webinar before Beijing Meeting. "Whether you plan to participate in the upcoming ICANN meeting in Beijing remotely or in person, you're invited to an update on the background and current status of major policy issues which are likely to be discussed during the Beijing Meeting. The ICANN Policy Staff will provide a briefing on Thursday 21 March … [Read more...]
Acting President & CTO Of Mike Mann’s DomainMarket Resigns
According to his Facebook Page the Acting President and CTO of Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com, Chad Bennett has resigned. Chad Bennett wrote on his Facebook page today: After a little more than 10 months as acting President and CTO of DomainMarket, I officially resigned last Friday. In the short time I was there we doubled e-commerce revenues and traffic to the website, increased monthly … [Read more...]
ICANN: Over 22% Of Changes Requests From New gTLD Applicants Not Approved Or Posted Yet
According to ICANN's site, 143 new gTLD application which changes were requested by the evaluators still have either not been update or the changes have not been accepted by ICANN As of February 19, 2013 there were a total of 631 change requests submitted to applicants and only 488 of the change requests have been approved & posted. Percentage wise that means that of all the change … [Read more...]
SnapNames.com “Feb Deals” Auction Ends Thursday & So Far Only 1 Bid
SnapNames.com is running a "February Deals" auction of 65 domain names all at "no reserve". So far not many are taking advantage of the "deals" As of time of publication there is only 1 bid in the auction, that on the domain name healthmyths.com which has a bid at $199. Although the auction says all the domain are at "no reserve" when you go to place a bid the minimum 1st bid is $199 … [Read more...]
ICANN Tells POLITICO On Closed Generic gTLD’s: “The Train is Leaving the Station”
Politico has posted about the new gTLD closed generic controversy asking "should a company be allowed to run a generic term such as tire, insurance or book as a domain and wall off its use from competitors?" In response, Akram Atallah, ICANN’s chief operating officer, told POLITICO “The train is leaving the station,” “There are a few instances where stakeholders are feeling this is an issue … [Read more...]
AnyDoc.com Saved In UDRP Despite Predated Trademark and Non-Use
Microsystems Technology, Inc. d/b/a ANYDOC of Tampa, Florida just lost a UDRP on the domain AnyDoc.com which is owned by Matthew Lamb, despite having a trademark on the term since 2004 and despite the fact that since the domain holder acquired it at SnapNames.com in 2006 the panel found the domain name usually did not resolve and when it did, it went to a parked page with some links to products … [Read more...]