The domain name Diamond.com is back on the market and its being brokered by Godaddy. In 2006 Ice.com bought the domain name Diamond.com for $7.5 Million from Odimo According DnJournal.com, Diamond.com it is the 5th highest all cash domain sale of all time. “If you consider that in nine years, the market has gone up, we hope for a better number than [the previous sale],” says Paul Nicks, … [Read more...]
Hip-Hop Artist Wiz Khalifa Files UDRP On TaylorGang.com, Registered in 2007; TM Filed 2014
Hip-Hop artist and rapper Wiz Khalifa whose real name is Cameron Thomaz, filed a UDRP again the owner of the domain name TaylorGang.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The domain name was first registered in August 2007 according to DomainTools.com but according to Screenshots.com there was a site on the domain going back to 2005. However again according to … [Read more...]
Author Asks Security Expert To Steal His Godaddy Domain/Account & He Does
csoonline.com, just published a Troubling post on how easy it was to gain control of a domain name and access to a Godaddy account they did not own. The author of the story, Steve Ragan, tells the tale of how he asked the CEO of Night Lion Security Vinny Troia, to try to take control of the author's domain name and account at Godaddy. The story entitled "GoDaddy accounts vulnerable to social … [Read more...]
Major League Baseball (MLB) Wins the New Domain Extension .Baseball Beating Donuts
In what only can be described as win for the new gTLD program, Major League Baseball (MLB) has won the rights to operate the new domain name extension .Baseball. Donuts was the only other applicant. Donuts had won many sports extensions including .football, .Hockey, .Run and .Soccer. .Baseball was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week. Here is what MLB plans for the … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins new gTLD .GMBH Beating Google & 3 Other Applicants
Donuts has won the rights to the new domain extension .GMBH beating Google, Straat (.Co) as well as InterNetWire Web-Development GmbH, and TLDDOT GmbH which had applied and lost its bid to win the extension on a community basis. GMBH is a a type of legal entity very common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other German-speaking Central European countries and would be equivalent to .INC and … [Read more...]
Scripps Networks Wins .DIY Beating Google: Now Owns 11 gTLD’s
Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. part of the Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., and Scripps Networks, LLC (“Scripps”) won the rights to operate the new domain extension .DIY beating Google who withdrew its application. The company operates the The DIY Network.com, as well as many other Television networks including the Food Network, and the Cooking Channel, HGTV and the Travel Channel. Of … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Google To .MBA; Google Wins .PHD
Two more new gTLD strings that were scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction next week, have been settled privately. Donuts won rights to operate the .MBA new domain extension, beating out Google and a company known as Your Dot Phd, Inc. Yourdotphd.com Google won the rights to operate the new gTLD, .PHD beating out Your Dot Phd, Inc. There are plenty of new gTLD's in the education … [Read more...]