I spotted a few hard to believe things that happened in the domain world this week and I thought I would put them into one post.
I’m thinking about making this a regular weekend feature as there is typically no shortage of incredibly hard to understand things that happen every week in the domain space.
Let me know what you think.
On second thought you always do
Someone actually registered the domain name dddddddddddddddddddddfsd.fish
The domain extension .Fish just launched this week and according to ntldstats.com, only 725 have been registered including this gem.
Honorable mention also goes to these two domains also registered in the .Fish Extension:
ssssssssssssssssssdsdsdsfsfs.fish.
sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssd.fish.
One .Fish domain that wasn’t taken and is actually still available as of publication is Sword.Fish arguably the best possible .Fish domain, (Tuna.fish is NA) but it does carry a registration and renewal price at Godaddy of $1,050 per year.
I just went ahead and registered thesword.fish for $28
.Vision another new domain extension that launched this week has less than 1,000 registrations but one registration caught my eye (pun intended):
ssssssssssssss.vision
In case your wondering not all four domains (the three .fish and the one .vision were not registered at the same registrar)
On a completely different note some trademark holders spent a lot of money this week to file UDRP on what I would consider pretty stupid and worthless domains.
Philip Morris filed a UDRP on the domain name buying-tax-free-marlboro-cigarettes.com which is going to a simple parked page which doesn’t even have that many links to Cigs. I’m sure I can find 100 much worse infringing domains on Marlboro if you give me an hour.
Harley Davidson filed a UDRP on the domain name harley-davidson-jewellry.com this week and already got the domain transferred to it but not only does the domain have two hyphens in it but the word Jewelry is misspelled and we can assume gets probably zero visitors a year.
On the other hand the domain name harley-davidson-jewelry.com, correctly spelled, is registered under privacy at Godaddy, not by the trademark holder and is 7 years old.
Finally the Compagnie Générale des Etablissements Michelin (Michelin) filed a UDRP on this totally worthless domain:
michelin-guide-in-hokkaido.info
The domain name doesn’t even resolve.
Between filing and legal fees figure a UDRP costs somewhere around $2,500 to file.
stinky.fish
rotten.fish
Amazing!
Those .fish registrations are really weird!
@Berkens
You missed the biggest event of the week, probably because it happened just yesterday, and that is Domenclature.com launch of it’s StringIQ.com to monitor the social heartbeat of new gTLDs.
Domen
I didn’t miss it
Amazingly the 5 comments you left about it on thedomains.com & , tweets & Facebook have gotten to me.
I have checked out the site but was unimpressed.
So far all you have is tweets about the most registered new gTLD’s.
I checked out the:
Intelligence tab
“”New GTLDs Intelligence COMING SOON””
So your Intelligence is coming soon
I will wait
You mean that the Intelligence digest, and widget are coming shortly, not that MY OWN personal intelligence is coming soon.
Fine. Check back very shortly. Meanwhile, all social chatter, research, events, publications, tools, are conveniently streaming in one place, so there’s impressive value now…
Maybe the lawyers are trying to look busy? I had a laugh at their expense, thanks for posting.
$2500?
You seriously undersestimate what the lawyers who service that sort of client are able to get away with.
$2500 doesn’t even pay for the opinion letter that says, “We should go after this crap domain name.”
I thought that .fish would be mostly for people interesting in fishing! But it turns out to be the perfect name for “that strange place on the internet”.