Insolvency Services Group, Inc., which is the Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors of BIDZ.COM, INC. just won the UDRP on the domain name Bids.com which is currently in an bankruptcy auction with several other domains including Bidz.com The sole panelist Sandra J. Franklin denied the UDRP finding the dispute is outside those cases that should be decided by the UDRP system. As the domain … [Read more...]
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Robert Downey Jr. Wins Rights to The Domain Name RobertDowneyJr.Actor
Robert Downey Jr. won the rights to the domain name RobertDowneyJr.actor in a one member UDRP panel handed down by the National Arbitration Forum. Although the domain in question was a new gTLD Mr. Downey filed the Complainant as a UDRP The registrant who lives in India, Shashank Agarwal, first said he was “publicly known by ‘Robert Downey Jr’ as a screen name in order to pursue his career … [Read more...]
Mike Mann Featured In Washington Post: DomainMarket Grosses $4M A Year
The Washington Post just published a post on legendary domain name investor Mike Mann, entitled "Domain-name mogul Mike Mann will sell you happybirthday.com — for $2 million" While this is far from the first press Mike has received, its a very good article in which he reveals some information I personally didn't know, such as that his DomainMarket.com "grosses around $4 million a year in … [Read more...]
Mobile.co.com & Movil.co.com Sell for $32K
The co.com LLC announced today that the premium domains names mobile.co.com and movil.co.com have been sold to the freelancing and mobile “micro jobbing” company, Mobile Inc. for $32K. Mobile.co.com was sold for $25K and Movil.co.com for $7K. Igloo.com represented co.com Registry as the broker on this sale. “We are very pleased to have an innovative company like Mobile Corporation acquire … [Read more...]
SchoolLoans.com 1st Domain Name Sold For The CryptoCurrency Sync Coin
According to a press release we just received from the The Sync Foundation, the Domain-Backed CryptoCurrency has recorded it first sale. The domain name SchoolLoans.com was sold in Private Transaction, a first for the organization which backs a cryptocurrency called Sync Coin with these domain assets. “We call it ‘Proof of Concept’,” says Sync Foundation co-founder Mike Fiol. “Premium … [Read more...]
Godaddy Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Top 500,000 New gTLD Registrations
According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has become the first domain name registration to have registered more than 500,000 domain names. Godaddy has 500,091 new gTLD domain names under registration, 100,000 more than the second closest domain registrar, Network Solution which topped the 400,000 domain mark although around 377K of the 400,000 Network Solutions domain names were given to … [Read more...]
Tech Companies Want Senate To End NSA Collection Programs Before Republicans Take Control
Tech companies coming together to get the Senate to act to eliminate the NSA's bulk data collection programs. Companies like Google and Microsoft etc... are worried about losing business around the world as foreign governments might fear that the U.S. government can gain easy access to the data of their citizens. With the change of power in the Senate there is a fear among tech leaders that this … [Read more...]