According to a press release out today FinanceIt, has raised a $13 million Series A financing. The company owns the domain name Financeit.ca "which is today a Canada-only play". The domain name Financeit.com is owned by a US company evenmoney.com The press release goes on to say that they money will help the company expand to the United States, starting in 2014. I guess they are going … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2013
Nominate Approves .Uk Domain Names; .co.uk Holders to Get 1st Shot
Nominet the company that runs the .UK ccTLD on behalf of the United Kindom announced today that it was going ahead with its controversial plan to domain go launch the shorter .uk domain name not only to compete with all the thousands of new gTLD's most notably .London, but to bring the UK into line with other European countries such as France (.fr), Germany (.de) and Ireland (.ie) Nominet … [Read more...]
New gTLD Strings With The Smallest Number of Domains In Collision (Non-Brand, Non-IDN’s)
We have chatted about the new gTLD strings with the most number of collisions based on ICANN report here are the 10 new gTLD's with the smallest number of collisions, that are not Brand applications and not IDN's: .MutualFunds 26 .CancerResearch 27 .Bargains 52 .Yachts 62 .Passagens (Portuguese for cheap) 67 .Gripe 120 .Voto (Spanish for Vote) 137 .Translations … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com/Afternic.com Sells $1.67 Million In Domain names Led By ToughPad.com For $37K
Godaddy.com/Afternic.com released their weekly sales reporting $1,656,650 in domain name sales All sales were led by ToughPad.com which sold for $37K and TAMR.com which sold for $25K more than Rags.com which sold for $20K Here are the reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million Led By Outbreak.com
640 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million dollars This amounts to $59.9 million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 46% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: outbreak.com at 73,000 USD · Top ccTLD: publicidade.com.br at 17,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: … [Read more...]
Donuts Picks Sedo To Run Sunrise Auctions & Run Premium Domain Name Auctions
Donuts, Inc. selected Sedo, to manage contention resolution for competing trademarked domains, and will also assist in auctioning premium names that will be reserved from general registration. Donuts will commence Sunrise periods in November 2013 and they will continue through the middle of 2014. Sunrise provides an opportunity for trademark holders to secure their names before domains are … [Read more...]
Trademark Holder of “Ovation Hair” Registered In 2012 Wins UDRP On Ovation.com Registered in 2008
The owner of a trademark on Ovation Hair, DC Labs Inc. was awarded the generic domain name Ovation.com by a one member panel although the term Ovation is a generic term and the trademark OVATION HAIR was not granted by the USPTO until 4 years after the domain name Ovation.com was acquired by the domain holder Of course the trademark was for a broader term than the domain name itself. Its a … [Read more...]