ICANN just opened a comment period to get input on a portion of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. ICANN is looking for input on "how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of New gTLD strings". Comments can be left from now until the period closed on May … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K
Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,003,088. The highest sale was TabletScreen.com, which sold for $25,000. Other reportable high dollar sales were Skids.com for $17,000 and BuyTicket.com for $16,000. Here is the full list of reportable … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million
Sedo.com just pubished its weekly report in all 756 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.2m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: farmrealestate.com at 20,000 USD, and indonews.com at 20,000 USD · Top ccTLD: låna.nu at 19,300 USD · Top “other” TLD: … [Read more...]
Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google
Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwords product. Here is an except of the interview which you can read here. ""Ten years ago today, my business partners and I sold Applied … [Read more...]
Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com
Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn't even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registered in 2009: Here are the relevant facts and findings by a one member panel: "The Complainant is a Chinese investment holding company … [Read more...]
.PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks
According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as “the Professional Web”, was available for General registrations from March 25, 2013 with a strong distribution channel of 120+ ICANN Registrars including Network Solutions, … [Read more...]
After 8 Years TickerNetwork.com Lost In UDRP
Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just got the domain name TickerNetwork.com in a UDRP based off a trademark for the term Ticket Network. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel: "The Complainant hosts an online marketplace for event tickets to concert, sport, and theater events in the United States of America (U.S.) and globally. "Through its … [Read more...]