TripAdvisor, brought a UDRP on two domain names, tripadvosor.com and trpadvisor.com and walked away winning one and losing the other David A. Einhorn as Panelist awarded the domain name Trpadvisor.com to TripAdvisor but refused to hand the domain name tripadvosor.com over to the company. The same person owned both domain name and didn't bother filing an answer. CitzenHawk represented … [Read more...]
DNpric.es Compares Aftermarket For .Guru, .Expert & .Ninja
DNPric.es issued a report to "compare three pretty equal new gTLDs and see how they do in terms of various key performing indicators, .EXPERT, .GURU, and .NINJA." "They were delegated around the same time a year and a half ago. About half of all registrations in each zone originate from the United States. All three are operated by strong registries and all of them are relatively short, … [Read more...]
ICANN Releases Results of Its 1st Global Registrant Survey
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. Here are the key findings: Awareness of new gTLDs is higher among registrants of domain names than among general Internet users; 65% of domain registrants reported awareness of at least one new gTLD versus 46% of general … [Read more...]
Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names
Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD's). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD's they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won … [Read more...]
Domain Holding Brokers The Sale Of Bluestar.com for $90K: A Very Interesting Story
DomainHoldings.com has brokered the sale of the domain name Bluestar.com Hobi Michalec wrote a post giving a lot of details about the sale, how it was negotiated and the different price points that were offered by two different companies along the way. What makes the story particularly interesting is that the Seller wound up selling the domain for $10,000 less, to the 2nd highest bidder, as … [Read more...]
20 year Old Bart.net Lost in UDRP to Owner of Bart.org & Bart.Gov
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (“Complainant”), which is known As BART and owns the domain Bart.org and Bart.gov, just won the rights to the domain name Bart.net The sole panelist Dennis A. Foster awarded that the domain name which was registered initially in 1995 and has been sold and resold by a number of entities until Respondent acquired the name in June 2015 where is now … [Read more...]
Blackjack.com UDRP Thrown Out With Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Ruling
Complainant Cary Pinkowski, Darren Little, and Joe Whitney (together the “Complainant”), which were represented by Eric Misterovich of Revision Legal, Michigan, USA, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Blackjack.com The three member UDRP panel of Sandra J. Franklin, Dawn Osborne and The Honourable Neil Anthony Brown QC quickly dismissed the complaint … [Read more...]