NWC Body Works, Inc. of Elk Grove Illinois just got hit with the proverbial Mack Truck. as Mack Trucks filed a UDRP to gain control of the domain name MackTruck.com The UDRP has a filing date of December 25, 2013 Bah humbug. Not sure why the company picked this day to file a UDRP on the domain since the domain was first registered way back in October 1997 which makes the domain more than … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2013
Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total $1,550,036 Led By Supporter.com For $35K
GoDaddy and Afternic’s released its sales report for the week of 12/16/13 – 12/22/13. Total domain sales for the week summed to $1,550,036. All sales were led by Supporter.com for $35K, followed by uchat.com for $20K. The top non-.com sale of the week was Bludot.ca for $10K. CoinCase.com for $5,500, keep you eyes on that one think it might be something. Below is the entire sales … [Read more...]
Mamma Mia ! Italy Passes the Google Tax
M Italy passes the Google Tax. In what seems to be a law that violates European Union rules the Italian Senate has passed a law that will require companies to purchase their Internet ads locally. Forbes covered it here From the article: The Italian Senate has now passed the “Google Tax” and Italian lawmakers really do seem to be entirely blind to the fact that this law is illegal under … [Read more...]
Registrar BigRock Gets ICANN Terminated Registrar Dynamic Dolphin’s Domains
ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from Dynamic Dolphin, Inc. to BigRock Solutions Ltd. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of Dynamic Dolphin, Inc. Former registrant-customers of Dynamic Dolphin, Inc. should receive notices from BigRock Solutions Ltd. advising of the transfer. Customer questions about the transfer should be … [Read more...]
88888.com Sold For $245K; 888888888888888888888888.com Is Dropping Tomorrow
The domain name 88888.com was sold for $245,000 just a few weeks ago by Name Administration. At the time we chatted about how the number 8 was super lucky in Chinese Culture so what could be better than five 8's? How about 24 eight's in a row. The domain name 888888888888888888888888.com is dropping tomorrow as is already on the Namejet.com 50 most back ordered list for tomorrow for … [Read more...]
Porn.XXX Ranks On 1st Page Of Google for Porn; Good News For New gTLD’s
Well its taken a while but the bang on domain name Porn.xxx is has made it to the first page of Google for the search term "porn". As you might imagine, porn its one of the toughest terms to rank on the first page on, with millions of adult sites all trying to get in that position. Interestingly with all the talk about how Google has lessened the importance of Exact Match Domains, 4 of the … [Read more...]
St. Andrews The Golf Course Wins Control of 10 year Old StAndrews.com in UDRP
St Andrews Links Ltd of St Andrews, Fife, the United Kingdom of Great Britain just won control of the domain name standrews.com in a one member UDRP decision. The decision is no surprise, the domain was parked until very recently pull up golf related links. The only real question is why did it take the complainant 10 years to file the complaint? Here are the relevant facts and findings … [Read more...]