The domain holder who lost a UDRP on the domain name RentMyPartyBus.com has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona. Plaintiff Aleksey Silenko is the Director of Business for Safeway Transit LLC, a Minnesota company who is the named registrant for the domain name rentmypartybus.com. It's a pretty interesting case, since the "trademark holder" was first incorporated on May 1, 2014 but in … [Read more...]
Delta Airlines Loses UDRP To Grab Domain Delta.Tours
Delta Air Lines, Inc. just lost its bid to grab the new gTLD Delta.tours in a one member panel UDRP of Douglas M. Isenberg. The domain holder's case was greatly helped because he registered four other .Tours domains on the same day. ""Complaint states that the Disputed Domain Name was registered on July 8, 2015, that “[w]ithout [Complainant’s] authorization, Respondent is likely intending to … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $95 … [Read more...]
Looks like 86 Sunrise Domains For .Law; 30 For .Abogado But Not All Registrants Are Lawyers
The new gTLD's .Law and .abogado are in general availability but due to the new domain extensions being restricted, registrations are taking a while to show up in the zone file. Today it appears the domain names registered in the Sunrise Period were loaded into the zone and at the moment the count is 86 domain name registrations in .law and 30 for .abogado. However interestingly there seems … [Read more...]
After Offering $400, Brian Fera Loses UDRP To Grab Two Letter Domain Wi.com
Brian Fera of Heppenheim, Germany, just lost its attempt to grab the two letter .com domain name of Wi.com in a UDRP The domain is owned by Media Options S.A.who was represented by Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC, The three member panel of Tony Willoughby, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. and Thomas Hoeren rejected the Complainant argument that its trademark in the term WICOM entitled it to Wi.com but … [Read more...]
New Study: 88% of Startups Have .Com Domain Names: 41% Are “Invented Names”
A new study out today by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based research firm, whose domain name is Clutch.co, shows that 41% of newer, venture-funded startups have invented names, almost three times the amount of invented names in comparison to other high growth companies. "The influx of invented names could be in response to the desire for a dot-com domain extension. Clutch's data showed that 88% of … [Read more...]
New Lender For Domain Names: Lendvo.com
There is a new lender for domain names, Lendvo.com. The founders of the company are Ben Lichtman and Patrick Izzo Making loans on domain names is only one of Lendvo.com products which include loans on income producing websites, buying out installment sales of domain names or leased domains, factoring and business loans. Here is how the company describe itself: "Lendvo is a Alternative … [Read more...]