This is a weird one for sure. A UDRP has been filed against the domain name Hopscotch.com The Complainant is listed as the Hopscotch Group, which is a french PR company whose website is on the domain name hopscotchgroupe.com The company also owns the domain Hopscotch.fr, but that domain isn't even being forwarded to the company main website at hopscotchgroupe.com As you can see the … [Read more...]
IAC To Spin Off Match.com, Tinder, OkCupid.com + 42 More To IPO Of The Match Group (MTCH)
IAC/Interactive (IACI) is spinning off 45 sites including Match.com, Okcupid.com and Tinder into a new public company called the The Match Group which filed for an IPO Friday, applying to be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker "MTCH." The company has filed to raised up to $100 million in the IPO. According to the S-1, The Match Group had 4.7 million paying subscribers worldwide at the end … [Read more...]
2014 Final UDRP Stats From WIPO & NAF: 0.003% of All Domains Subject to A UDRP/URS
This week the WIPO published it stats for the cases it determine under Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP") in 2014. Back in September the other major organization that hears UDRP and the only one to decide cases filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System ("URS") the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) announced their stats for 2014. So now that we have the stats for … [Read more...]
Unblock.com Saved In UDRP But Panelist Should Have Found Reverse Domain Hijacking
NetProtect, Inc. just lost its attempt to grab the domain name unblock.com in a UDRP in a silly case that should have resulted in a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) but the panelist was IMHO lazy and decided just to throw out the case. Calvin A. Hamilton was the sole Panelist for the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) who rejected Complainant argument that it had acquired … [Read more...]
Blackstone’s B2R Holdings Rebrands As Lending.com
B2R Holdings, a portfolio company of a Blackstone Group (LPBX ) , announced today that B2R rebranded itself as Lending.com and said it hoped to extend $10 billion in loans over the next three years. According to Jason Hogg, the CEO of Lending.com, expects to help facilitate $10 billion in loans in the next three years. Lending.com was founded with funds managed by Blackstone Tactical … [Read more...]
Former Adult Site VS.com Is The 3rd Reported Two Letter .Com Domain Sale Today
The domain name VS.com appears to have sold. The domain name was registered to a VS Media, Inc. of Calabasas, California until a couple of months ago when it went under privacy at Godaddy. However the servers did not change and the domain was registered at Godaddy while it was owned by VS Media, Inc. VS.com as recently as 2006 was an adult site Video Secrets according to … [Read more...]
There Goes Another Two Letter .Com: PT.com Appears To Have Been Sold
The domain name PT.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by a Mark Conrad of Rochester New York for many years and his former company Performance Technologies, who owned the domain since at least 2001. The domain has an original creation date of March 3rd, 1989. The buyer is Xu Caijun of Hangzhou Midaizi Network Co., Ltd. of HangZhou, China. If you're asking how … [Read more...]