Last week ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this domain name Luxury.Villas as a very expensive premium domain. Hexonet for example had the domain for around $9,500 however when I check Godaddy the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2014
UDRP Panel Spilts On 20 Domains; Domain Holder Keeps Developed Domains Loses Parked Domains
A UDRP panel just awarded several domains to the trademark holder while denying the transfer of others. The only difference to the panel is what the domain owner was doing with the domains. The domain holder got to keep those domains that had "developed websites" on them but but the panel ordered all the parked domains transferred to the trademark holder The Complainant is Blue Diamond … [Read more...]
.Club Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD
.Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growing extension according to namestat.org, given the extension a rating of 100 on the scale of 100, while .Guru is still … [Read more...]
PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General Availability Today
"The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution” in non-Latin-based scripts – one in Devanagari (.संगठन), one in Cyrillic (.орг), and one in simplified Chinese (.机构). “The launch of these international domain names allows us to … [Read more...]
USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains”
USA Today just covered new gTLD's in a story entitled "Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains" "Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you'll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domain alternatives to .com, .gov or .edu, descriptive of whatever it is you're trying to do". "Are you an expert? There's .guru. Starting an organization? Try .club. … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Its 1st URS On Finn.Sexy
Finn.no AS of Oslo, Norway just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the the domain name Finn.sexy. The domain name is owned by North Sound Names which is a company associated with Frank Schilling, who also owns Uniregistry and of course John Berryhill, Esq represented the domain holder. This is the first URS case decided that involved North Sound Names and the 1st URS represented by … [Read more...]
Bitcoin Set to Overtake Paypal
The IB Times did a piece on Bitcoin surpassing Paypal in terms of USD transactions. From the article: Popular digital currency bitcoin is expected to overtake e-commerce giant eBay's payment processor PayPal in terms of US dollar transactions in the near future. California-based hedge fund Laureate Trust says that bitcoin is fast establishing itself as the currency to use globally and … [Read more...]