According to Bloomberg.com, Gannett Co. (GCI), the owner of USA Today, agreed to pay $1.8 billion for the 73% of Cars.com that it doesn’t already own already Gannett, which already owns about 27%of Cars.com, values the whole business at about $2.5 billion, the person said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. The deal could be announced as soon as tomorrow, the person … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
The 14 Year Old eMoney.com Saved In UDRP Panel Finds $300K Asking Price Ok
Electronic Transaction Systems Corporation just lost its attempt to grab the domain name eMoney.com which was registered back in January 2000. The domain owner was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer of Esqwire.com The panel found, unlike other panels have found that they $300K price tag was not outrageous. Here are the facts and finding of three member panel of Debrett G. … [Read more...]
Banks, Brokerage and Poker Dominate Over 200 .Financial Sunrise/EAP Domain Registrations
.Financial goes into general availability on Wednesday meaning it becomes available to be registered on a first come basis just completed it Sunrise period for trademark holders and its Early Access Program (EAP), for those who were willing to pay a one time additional fee for early access. Reviewing the zone file so far it looks like many of the major banks, brokerage houses, financial … [Read more...]
As The GAC Restricted new gTLD’s Launch Registrants Maybe Unaware They Are already in Violation of TOS
For the first time some of the new gTLD's that fall within the "GAC Category 1 Advice", which generally are strings that the GAC determined should not be open to be registered by everyone, have started to launch. From what I'm hearing, the vast majority of the general public along with domain investors, have no idea that such rules exist but they have agreed to follow them in the Terms of … [Read more...]
IronDome.com is out to intercept Patent Disputes
To say that the term Iron Dome is in the news everyday would be an understatement, more like in the news every hour. Iron Dome of course is the the Israeli built defense system that knocks out incoming missiles out of they sky before they hit their target. As a domain name, IronDome.com was registered back in 2004 by McLeod Capital Corp. of Calgary, Canada. The defense system was … [Read more...]
New .Co Site Making National News: ManServants.Co & Frank Schilling Owns The .Com
A new site launched on a .Co domain name is getting some national news coverage, I saw a feature on the site on Fox News yesterday. The site is ManServants.co By the way not that it's going to come as any shock to anyone in the domain name space, Frank Schilling's Name Administration owns the domain name ManServants.com So to start with what is a Man Servant you ask? According to the … [Read more...]
Neustar Fighting To Keep Contract Worth Half of Their Annual Revenues
Neustar is fighting to keep a contract that makes up over half of its revenue and it has nothing to do with domain names. The company has been in charge of a major governmental telecommunications contract for the last 17 years. The contract deals with the local number portability administrator (LNPA), which helps phone subscribers keep their numbers when switching carriers. The company is now … [Read more...]