Sedo.com reported today that the domain name Autism.Rocks sold for $100,000 in its weekly report. The domain name Autism Rocks.com sold last year for $9,500 to the same Buyer. The buyer paid more than 10X more for the new gTLD Autism.Rocks than he paid for the .com domain AutismRocks.com last year. I just chatted with the Seller of the domain name, Chris Wilson who is a neighbor in … [Read more...]
Sedo Reports $1.6 Million In Transaction Led by Autism.Rocks at $100,000
Over the past week, 545 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 million. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All domain sales were led by the domain name Autism.rocks at $100,000 which seems to have been bought by the owner of Autism.rocks. According to AutismRocks.com is a site set up by British born philanthropist "Sanjay Shah who … [Read more...]
On The Wrong Side of a TM Domain? Take An Offer Rather Than a UDRP Loss
We basically know that everything is trademarked at this point Of course there are those who are just straight out cybersquatter, make a living off of typo domains like wallmart.com or Verision.com but all domainers at some point might trip over a domain they didn't know was trademarked or just made a good guess of a forthcoming product. Consider the case of Marriott International, Inc who … [Read more...]
XYZ Adds .Protection As its 8th New gTLD it Has Ownership Interest In
Earlier today we wrote about the .XYZ team buying the new gTLD .Security from Symantec .XYZ has now announced they have also acquired the new gTLD .Protection from Symantec as well. The .XYZ group now owns or has a interest in 8 new gTLD's. .XYZ; .College, .Rent .Security; .Protection and an half ownership of .auto; .car and .cars with Uniregistry. Here is the announcement by .XYZ on … [Read more...]
LogicBoxes Helps .MN Registry Grow by 350%
LogicBoxes, the business consulting and automation technology provider for ccTLD & New gTLD Registries, Domain Registrars and Web Hosts, today announced the milestone achievement of completing 10 successful years of partnership with Datacom LLC, the .MN Registry. .MN is the ccTLD for the country of Mongolia LogicBoxes met Datacom’s requirement for a long-term partner that would help them … [Read more...]
Nominet (.UK) Release Domain Name Dispute Report For 2014
Nominet, the nonprofit that behind .UK, released its the annual summary of domain name disputes bought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) which is similar to the UDRP system. A total of 726 complaints were made, up 8% on 2013. However, 2014 also saw a 51% increase in the number of cases where people were able to come to an agreement themselves and with the help of a Nominet … [Read more...]
Congress TM Caucus Tells ICANN To Give Amazon; .Amazon If It Wants Its Independence
The co-chairman's of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, wrote to ICANN telling them they need to approve Amazon's application for .Amazon which has been rejected due to "rights" asserted by Brazil nor Peru in relation to the Amazon Forest and tied the outcome of this issue to the IANA transition away from US oversight that ICANN is seeking: "At this critical stage in which the United States … [Read more...]