Hugo Boss just lost its bid to gain control of the domain name Hugo.mx The domain holder Jesus Navarro Saracibar, of Baltimore who seems to own some 10K domain name represented himself in the matter and seemed to do a very good job even citing other UDRP cases in support of his arguement. Bottom line the panel rightly found the term "Hugo" is generic Here are the highlights: Factual … [Read more...]
World Domain Day 2015 Industry Award Winners & A Big Thanks From TheDomains.com
The World Domain Day 2015 Industry Awards were presented at the World Domain Day conference that was held in New Delhi on April 10th, 2015. We at TheDomains.com are very proud to announce we won the award for Best Domain Blog and thank the show organizers and all the voters. Here are the winners of the Awards handed out by WDD, … [Read more...]
ICANN Really .Sucks By Saying They Don’t Regulate Content: Anyone Remember .XXX?
After collecting over 1/3 of a billion dollars in application fees, ICANN attempted to pass off the whole .Sucks issue to law enforcement this week, asking them for an opinion, which is very unlikely to come, of whether the .sucks roll-out violates US or Canadian federal law. ICANN is quoted as saying it was “concerned about the contentions of illicit actions” by Vox Populi but that it lacks … [Read more...]
New gTLD’s Registrations Top 5 Million; .Science & .Link Break 100K: We Break Down the Numbers
The number of new gTLD domain name registrations have topped 5 Million for the first time, according to ntldstats.com Here are the top 30 most registered new gTLDs: Domain Total Reg % of all Reg .xyz 867,598 17.33% .网址 … [Read more...]
SnapNames Is Holding Auction of 36 Registry Owned .Yoga Domain Names
SnapNames.com is holding an auction of 36 .Yoga domain names. About 1/2 the domain names have a reserve range price of $1k or less. Many are at no reserve and only one domain has a high range reserve of $2,500 All of the 36 .Yoga domain names are owned by the registry, Minds + Machines (LSE: MMX). The auction closes on May 4th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snapnames.com normal … [Read more...]
NameJet Holding Auction Of Court Ordered Domains To Be Sold Including FILETMIGNON.COM
Pursuant to Order of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and further at the direction of the US Marshals Service, NameJet is auctioning some terrific steak-related domains, such as FILETMIGNON.COM, along with a few other assorted names, including the … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Holding No Reserve Auction Of Over 250 Short .BUZZ Domain Names
Namejet.com is holding no reserve auction of over 250.short Buzz domains. All of the domains are short, most are 4 letters (5 letters is the longest) as well as some 3 letter words. The domain have to be back-ordered by dates starting as soon as April 16th but they are staggered, with the last one's needing to be back-ordered by May 3rd. Here is the list of domain names, which all … [Read more...]