Donuts has won the rights to the new gTLD .fyi beating Google Fyi for those who don't know is short for "For Your Information" There is also a television network owned by A & E, called fyi.tv There is of course already a .info extension which has around 5.5 million registrations. .Fyi was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. … [Read more...]
Donuts Wins The New Domain Extension .Family Beating Google & Uniregistry The Winner of .Mom
Donuts has won the right to operate another new gTLD extension .Family beating Google and Uniregistry. Uniregistry just won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Mom over the weekend beating Google and Rightside. It would think if you won one of these new gTLD's you would want the other. I don't know how many people or companies, in a world of 1,000 choices of domain extension would choose … [Read more...]
Why Did It Take This TM Holder 10 Years To File A UDRP On The Parked Domain HumanRightsWatch.com?
Human Rights Watch was awarded the domain name HumanRightsWatch.com in a otherwise unremarkable UDRP opinion. "The organization has a United States Trademark on the term since 2003 and "uses the HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH mark to identify its efforts promoting and protecting human rights worldwide". Respondent has not used the disputed domain name for a bona fide offering of goods or services, or a … [Read more...]
Amazon Wins The .Free New Domain Extension Beating Google, Donuts, Uniregistry M +M
Amazon has won the rights to operate the .Free new gTLD. Amazon beat Google, Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free .Free was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Amazon already won the rights to the .buy new gTLD which is pretty much the opposite of .free It will be really interesting to see what Amazon … [Read more...]
Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside
Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here is how Uniregistry describes the extension in their ICANN application for .Mom ʺGod could not be everywhere, so mothers were created.ʺ -- … [Read more...]
RealSaltLake.com The Professional Sports Team (MLS) Buys RSL.com For $45K
The domain name RSL.com has been sold to the profession MLS Soccer Team "Real Salt Lake" which uses the domain name RealSaltLake.com Aron Meystedt the Director of the Intellectual Property Department of Heritage Auctions brokered the domain and gave some details of how he sold the domain which is a good lesson I think for all of us that are brokering domain names for third parties: "A client … [Read more...]
Report: BufferApp Buys Buffer.com For $600,000 & It Took Almost 2 Years
inc42.com published a story about how BufferApp.com purchased the domain name Buffer.com for $600,000. Interestingly the company itself, Bufferapp.com, published a lot of details about the acquisition of the domain name which took almost 2 years to complete from first contact with the owner of the domain. The company BufferApp.com did not mention the price it paid for Buffer.com in their … [Read more...]