TechCrunch.com just covered a company that acquired the domain name Handy.com which quotes the buyer saying “it wasn’t cheap.” The domain name was owned by Neue Medien GmbH of Germany. which may have been formerly known as Media Empire and Benjamin Pitzer as that was what the domain was registered under a couple of years ago and according to Screeshots.com the website hadn't changed in … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After 1st Day Of GA
.Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday. .Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and in the Early Access Program (EAP), while .fishing after its first day of GA is sitting at 387, .Horse is sitting at 327, … [Read more...]
FCC Receives Over 3 Million Comments on Net Neutrality
Yesterday was the last day to get comments into the FCC with regards to Net Neutrality. Tech Crunch noted that there were over 3 million comments with a few hours left, this was double the number reported last week. There were several websites that asked for the public to speak up. Name Cheap has been out there urging everyone to get involved, and Blake Irving of Go Daddy sent a letter to FCC … [Read more...]
LINDT Loses UDRP Bid To Grab ExcellenceChocolate.com Based On Its EXCELLENCE TM
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (“Complainant”), just lost its attempt to grab the domain name excellencechocolate.com based on a trademark on the term EXCELLENCE. Although the panelist James A. Carmody, Esq. found that "Complainant rights in EXCELLENCE are suspect", "that the underlying the mark is a clearly generic phrase neither coined by nor inherently associated with Complainant that … [Read more...]
Esqwire.com Gets Another Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling: CountryGirl.com
LML Investments LLC (LML) represented by Jeremiah A. Pastrick of Continental Enterprises, Indiana was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name CountryGirl.com The domain holder P.A. Gordon represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com, New Jersey, USA. The three member panel of Paul M. DeCicco, Esq., The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown, QC, James A. Carmody, … [Read more...]
Cabs.com Sells On Sedo For $50K
The domain name Cabs.com just sold on Sedo for $50,000 The domain name was owned by Enterprise Solutions Holdings Inc, of Alpharetta Georgia The new owner is William Berry of London, England which he acquired in 2013 from Softbrands who seemed to acquire the domain in 2004. The domain name was first registered on September 05, 1995. Sounds like a hell of a buy. Congrats … [Read more...]
At Least One Registrar is Offering Free .Webcam Domain Registration
Courtesy of our new gTLD blogging friend Jean Guillon comes word that at least one domain name registrar is offering free .Webcam registration through the end of the year though one registrar. According to Jean you can register free .Webcam domain names can be registered at the domain name registrar AlpNames.com for one year with this coupon: NEWSGTLDS100 The offer is valid until December … [Read more...]