This week namejet.com auctioned off several prime generic .PW domain names thereby setting the value of these types of .PW domains. Some of the domains that sold this week had some of the best prime generic terms like search.pw, internet.pw, blogs.pw and money.pw and creditcards.pw . As new gTLD's rollout each registry is going to have to consider if they are going to throw much of their … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2013
Palace.com 20 Year Old Domain, Saved in UDRP, But Why No RDNH?
Palace Sports & Entertainment LLC of Auburn Hills, Michigan, lost its bid to grab the domain name Palace.com away from the domain holders Palace Enterprises, NV of New York, which was represented by David Lin of Lewis & Lin, LLC. However the panel failed to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking which it should have found in our opinion as all the elements were present. A generic domain, a … [Read more...]
90 New gTLD Pass IE: .Apple; .Baidu; .AOL; .CBS; .Republican; .Navy; .CPA
90 new gTLD's passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today with 2 applications heading for the dreaded extended evaluation. The 2 applications heading for extended evaluation was the application by Commercial Connect LLC for .Shop and SuperSport International Holdings Limited application for .Supersport Some of the more interesting applications pass IE today were Apple Computers brand … [Read more...]
Catching Up With NameJet.com: FountainPens.com A Dropped Domain Sells For $10K
The domain name fountainpens.com sold on NameJet.com yesterday highlighting our catching up with NameJet.com sales. Fountainpens.com was a dropped domain that wound up at Namejet.com since it was registered with NetworkSolutions.com The second highest sale on our NameJet.com board this week was egv.com which sold for $8,000 which was owned by Register.com which seem to take the domain over … [Read more...]
Two More gTLD Applications Are Withdrawn; .Movie By Straat & .BWAY
Two more new gTLD application were withdrawn and reflected on the ICANN site tonight. Straat which applied for 13 new gTLD's withdrew their second application tonight this time for the new gTLD .Movie. There were originally 8 applications filed for .movie and with Radix previous withdrawal of their application for .movie there are now 6 applicant left including Amazon's application to … [Read more...]
Breaking: New gTLD Program Committee Votes Not To Change Policy on Singulars/Plurals
The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) voted tonight to not change the policy on new gTLD applications concerning singular and plural terms. The GAC advised ICANN that it should place singular and plural new gTLD strings into the same contention set. For example there were applications for .Car/.Cars: .Auto/.Autos, .Hotel/.Hotels; .Coupon/.Coupons; .Deal/.Deals; .Game/.Games; … [Read more...]
Breaking: New gTLD Program Committee Puts Closed Generics On Hold
The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has put “Closed Generic” new gTLD applications on Hold by passing a resolution tonight. Of course by placing closed generic new gTLD applications on hold, those with competing applications for the same strings , even those wanting to operate those strings as open are going to be put on hold as well. After the ICANN Beijing meeting, the GAC … [Read more...]