According to ifeng.com, a Chinese publication, on July 30, Changping police announced the busting of the an online domain name brokerage scam and detained over 100 suspects. "The scam company, with over 130 employees, markets itself as a subsidiary of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), operating under the cover of domain name brokerage. Its “business development” team … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
15 Year Old QIQ.com Saved In UDRP Against Trademark Registered in 2012
The domain name QIQ.com was saved in a UDRP bought by QIQ Communications Pty Ltd of Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia who got a trademark on the term QIQ in 2012 The domain owner was Netico, Inc. of California registered the domain back on March 28, 1999. The panel refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) although there does not seem to be any reason why RDNH was not … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports Over $500K in Sales For July
Namejet.com reported over 500,000 in domain auctions of $2,000 or more for the month of July. All such sales totaled $509,926.00 lead by BigDeals.com at $36.100 and Gains.com for … [Read more...]
Visa Rebrands From 1 Letter .Me Domain to 12 Letter. Com; V.Me To VisaCheckout.com
Visa Intentional has decided to rebrand its new digital wallet product from V.Me to VIsaCheckout.com stating that the name change is going to help the company "a great deal" in helping explain what the solution is about. It was just back in November that we told you, Visa was rolling out V.Me a new service that lets you shop without sharing your card account information with the seller when … [Read more...]
Inside the BTC.com Sale With Mike Robertson of Domain Guardians
We are talking today with Mike Robertson of Fabulous.com fame and Co - Founder along with Jen Sale of Domain Guardians. Domain Guardians successfully brokered the name BTC.com for seven figures, He was kind enough to give us a few minutes on just how the sale went down. 1) What was the total sales price of the domain, was there a buyer's premium or any other added costs ? If you can add, … [Read more...]
Rightside Names Board Of Directors
Rightside Group, Ltd., (NAME) today announced through a press release the members of its board of directors and executive management team following the completion of Rightside’s spin-off from Demand Media, Inc.® on August 1, 2014. I Rightside Board of Directors Rightside’s board is composed of three independent members and two non-independent members. The board is structured with three … [Read more...]
Virtual Reality Could be the next big thing in Advertising
Cotton Delo published an article on Ad Age that looked at Virtual Reality and its role in advertising. Virtual Reality got a big boost with Facebook purchasing Oculus Rift, the deal closed a couple weeks ago and for a good read on the deal check out The Guardian and their story "Facebook closes its $2bn Oculus Rift acquisition. What next?Social network completes deal announced in March, so what … [Read more...]