ipprotheinternet.com, in its latest issue chats about UDRP shopping, inconsistent decisions which are bound to occur since none of the providers require uniformity and the coming URS. The article quotes a lot of familiar UDRP attorney's including Zak Muscovitch, Brett Lewis, Howard Neu, and Eli Pearlman, The article also quotes Kristine Dorrain, director of internet and IP services at NAF a … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2013
Above.com Becomes 1st Registrar To Share Profits Of Sold Expired Domains
Above.com just announced this morning a new program where it will become the first domain name registrar to share the revenue generated from the sales of expired domain names. The Expiring Domain Sales Program is an opt-in program offered to clients with more than ten domain names registered at Above.com. Participants of the program would retain 60% of the profit from the sale of any domains … [Read more...]
Co-founder of PayPal Names His New Company Glow But Buys Glowing.com From Scott Day
Branding decisions are one of the most important a company can make so I was pretty surprised to read on Cnet.com, that one of the founders of PayPal.com Max Levchin, who also "sold a slide-sharing service to Google, helped start Yelp, and sits on Yahoo's board", has named his newest company, Glow, but the company doesn't own Glow.com or even Glow.co but the domain name Glowing.com. Sounds like … [Read more...]
.XXX Sells Over 12,000 Domain Names During May Promotion
xBiz.com is reporting the ICM registry the company that operates the .XXX extension has sold over 12,000 domain names during its May promotion where domain registrations went for a low as $8.99. The promotion will end Friday at 4 p.m. PDT (midnight UTC time) at which time the price of a .XXX registration goes back to $62 wholesale. ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley told XBIZ that most of those … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.19 Million Led By HumanPro.com & 30Seconds.com
Sedo.com just reported that 623 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.19 Million Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: humanpro.com at 19,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: fitnessstudio.de at 13,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: santorinihotels.org at 4,310 USD Some … [Read more...]
.Club Domains LLC Raises $3.5 Million & Is Headed To Private Auction
.Club Domains, LLC an applicant for the new top level domain, (new gTLD) .CLUB, announced today that they have raised $3.5 Million dollars and is heading to a private auction next week. Earlier today Domainnamewire.com reported that .Club Domains, LLC filed a Form D with the "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to raise up to $7 million". It appears they raised half of that … [Read more...]
2.4 Billion People On The Net Up 8% From Last Year But Only 34% Are Online
As reported by Cnet.com, Mary Meeker, a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Meeker, speaking today at the AllThingsD D11 Conference, reported that 2.4 billion people around the world are on the Internet, an 8% year-over-year gain. Only 34% of the world's population is online. In the U.S., the Internet penetration is 78%. In May 2009 … [Read more...]