.Fun which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month has been resolved with Oriental Trading Company, Inc who owns the domain Oriental.com prevailing in a private auction beating Google and the company that owns and operates .Buzz .Fun will be the only new gTLD that Oriental Trading Company, Inc. will operate. The company applied for .Party but did not prevail … [Read more...]
Owned For At Least 14 Years Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, Inc Hit With UDRP on Boon.com
Domain Investor Nat Cohen's company Telepathy, Inc, has been hit with a UDRP on the domain name Boon.com which according to DomainTools.com it has owned since at least 2001. The UDRP was filed by Wirecard AG, a "global financial services and technology company headquartered in Aschheim, Munich, Germany. Its internet payment service competes with PayPal and Western Union. Wirecard AG is … [Read more...]
NF.com Bought In 2014 Hit With UDRP By Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR)
The two letter domain name NF.com has been hit with a UDRP just a year after it was acquired from Anything.com. The domain name was owned by Anything.com back in June 2014 and since then has changed hands several times. 4.cn a Chinese based domain broker, owned the domain (possibly under escrow) until August went it was sold to VINCENT CHENG of CRAZY TOP ONE LTD of Auckland. … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals .Fashion 2,182; .Garden 388: Science Passes .XXX & .Pro
Two new gTLD's were released this week by Minds + Machines After domain name registrations made in Sunrise by Trademark Holders .Fashion has 2,182 registrations. .Garden on the other hand only grew to 388 domain registrations. On another note .Science which was released about a month ago by Famous Four Media, now has skyrocketed to the 6th most registered new gTLD's (actually number 5 if … [Read more...]
Free .REALTOR Domains Expanded To Local & State Realtor® Associations & Brokerages On May 7
"The National Association of Realtors® top-level domain .REALTOR will be available to local and state Realtor® associations as well as brokerages in the U.S. and Canada starting May 7. State and Local REALTOR® Member Boards, and REALTOR® owned and operated MLSs have the opportunity to receive a FREE .REALTOR domain for up to 5 years" Since the .REALTOR top-level domain became available to … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins The New gTLD .Theater
Donuts has won another private auction for a new gTLD, this time the right to operate the new domain extension . The only other applicant for .Theater, KBE gTLD Holding Inc. of Brooklyn New York, whose web address is broadwayacrossamerica.com, withdrew its application Some of the new gTLD's in that vertical include .broadway, .tickets and .show .Theater was scheduled to go to an ICANN … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Fair Criticism Site & Its Not a .Sucks
Loney John Hutchins (“Complainant”), of Tennessee, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on his matching domain name LoneyHutchins.com The panel of Fernando Triana, Esq, found that the domain was being used as a fair criticism site of conduct of the person's name in the .com address So the domain holder was able to express his first amendment rights to free … [Read more...]