FindYourDomain.com has brokered the sale of the domain name Shen.com for $125,000 to a Chinese buyer. Shen means "God" or "Spirit" in Chinese. According to FindYourDomain the domain Shen.com was listing in one of our NameJet auctions last year with a $50,000 reserve, however, the reserve price was not met (the high bid was $44,444). FindYourDomains.com was established in 2002 to … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2013
Over 35 Two Letter .Co.Uk Hit The Auction Block at NameJet
Although its not a market I invest in, I found it interesting that over 35 two letter .co.uk domain names have hit the auction blog over at Namejet.com .co.uk domain names has been in the news as Nominet UK, the company that operates the ccTLD has been consider plans to offer .Uk domain names thereby great diminishing the value of .co.uk domains. The domain names do have an undisclosed … [Read more...]
Vertical Axis Gets Hit With UDRP On ParkRoyal.com (Again) Now Based on 8 Year Old Trademark
The domain name ParkRoyal.com owned by Vertical Axis, Inc. has just been hit with a UDRP for the second time. The complaint was filed by, Grupo Costamex, S.A. de C.V. (COSTAMEX) Operación y Supervisión de Hoteles, S.A. de C.V. (OPYSSA) who has a trademark on the term for Travel club services; travel agency services, filed in February 2005 There are several US Trademarks for this term, one … [Read more...]
Community Objections to .Islam and .Halal Denied By ICC
Two separate ICC panels have denied the objections to the new gTLD's .Islam and .Halal finding that although there "opposition to Respondent’s application to some extent, but such opposition is not substantial". Although they were two separate opinions both shares a lot of the same finding and drew the same conclusions: Here are the relevant parts of the decision: The Expert observes that … [Read more...]
NewDomains.org Conference Kicks Off On Sunday In Munich
The NewDomains.org Conference being held for the second year in Munich, jammed packed of seminars, speakers and social networking events. The show kicks off on Sunday with some networking events and dinner and then goes into full gear on Monday morning with two sessions running all day. Monte Cahn from RightoftheDot.com a company in which I'm a Director in will be speaking in the session … [Read more...]
We Said It Over A Year Ago, The BC Tells ICANN Allowing Singular & Plural New gTLD’s Are A Bad Idea
In a letter sent to ICANN, the Chair, ICANN Business Constituency (BC) told ICANN what we at TheDomains.com said over a year ago, that allowing new gTLD's of plural and singular of the same term is a bad idea. "As we move towards the launch of the first new gTLDs this year, the Business Constituency is extremely concerned about ICANN’s intention to delegate both singular and plural versions of … [Read more...]
Losing Private New gTLD Auctions For .Lawyer & .Website Net Top Level Domain Holdings $4.8 Million
Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) said by losing the private auctions for .website and .lawyer, which concluded on Oct. 23, it will add £2.97m ($4.81m) to its cash reserves. The 14 previous new gTLD private auctions held by ApplicantAuction.com, totaled $18.9 in winning bids or around $1.33 million per string. This week ApplicantAuction.com declined to furnish a total amount raised in … [Read more...]