The company we wrote about yesterday being found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, Consolidated Artists B.V. of Rotterdam Netherlands, today we were given a hat tip by Domainincite.com, that this company is also a new gTLD applicant. The domain names which Consolidated Artists B.V were found to be guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking were Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk. The company … [Read more...]
BTC.com Launches New Platform For Bitcoin Users: $1M Purchase Price is a “Long Term Lease”
BTC.com announced today a new platform for the world’s Bitcoin users on "the million-dollar domain". We also learned from the press release that the BTC.com sale for $1 Million dollars is "long term lease agreement" and that BTC.com plans on selling subdomains. We had an interview with the Broker who sold the BTC.com domain name which you can check out here Here is the press … [Read more...]
Here Is The Statement Phil Corwin Of The ICA Will Be Giving To The House Judiciary Committee
Here is the Statement of Philip S. Corwin, Counsel, Internet Commerce Association will give today to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet The hearing is entitled: "Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation" The hearing should have a … [Read more...]
GM Becomes 1st Fortune 50 Company To Launch a Site On a New gTLD: GeneralMotors.Green
General Motors has become the 1st Fortune 50 Company to launch a site on a new gTLD domain, in this case GeneralMotors.green Although other bloggers have pointed out Fortune 50 companies have acquired and activated new gTLD domain names, they are mostly re-directing the new gTLD domains to existing .com sites. GM maybe the 1st to actually launch a targeted site on a new gTLD … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Same.com For $233,333
Sedo reported that 673 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million Dollars 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: Same.com at $233,333 · Top ccTLD: Veilingen.nl at 31,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: Laws.org at $10,000 Here are the reported sales: Domain … [Read more...]
.Design Is Live & Almost Everything is Available Including Single Letter & Two Letter Domains: My.Design
.Design just launched today into general availability and virtually every domain name is available including single letters and two letter domain names, for a price. Domain names like E.Design and A.Design and X.Design can be registered for $6,500 with renewal pricing at $6,500 a year at Godaddy (i.Design and u.design are either taken or reserved). You.Design is likewise priced around $6,500 … [Read more...]
Co. With 13K Employees, 2,700+ Stores Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.uk
Consolidated Artists B.V. of Rotterdam Netherlands was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk Its only the 5th time in 13 years that a company has been found guilty of RDNH on a .co.uk or .uk domain It should be noted that this is not a UDRP decision. Nominet the operator of the .uk ccTLD extension has a procedure which is … [Read more...]