According to Donuts they sold around 800 Two Character New gTLD's domain names in its Early Access Program (EAP) which ended yesterday. Donuts released around 200,000 Two Character New gTLD's domain names last week, meaning domain names that are two letters (LL), a letter and a number (LN), a number and a letter (NL) and two numbers (NN). The Early Access Program allowed customers to … [Read more...]
Nice Try But Givkwik Failes To Get GiveQuick.com in UDRP
Givkwik Inc.just lost its bid to grab the domain name givequick.com in a UDRP Nathalie Dreyfus was the sole panelist who found although givequick.com was confusingly similar to Complainant’s GIVKWIK IMPULSE PHILANTHROPY mark the domain holder did not act in bad faith in registering or using the domain that they bought from BuyDomains.com in April 2014. givequick.com was registered on … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Sells 899.com For $801,000: Now Has 1st & 3rd Largest Reported Sales Of 2015
Rick Schwartz, the Domain King, has sold the domain name 899.com for $801,000 which becomes the 3rd largest reported domain name sale of 2015. (DnJournal. com is the official keeper of all reported domain name sales) Earlier this year Rick sold the domain name Porno.com for $8,888,888 which is the highest reported domain sale of 2015. The 2nd highest reported domain sale is PX.com which was … [Read more...]
Foundation Fitness Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Stages.com
Foundation Fitness LLC of Portland, Oregon, United States of America (“US”) represented by Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, US was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Stages.com The domain holder was represented by ESQwire.com The three member panel of John Swinson, Timothy Casey and The Honorable Neil Brown Q.C. really hit the COmplaintnants hard on all … [Read more...]
TSLA.com Lost In UDRP Decision Although Domain Holder Was Willing To Give It Up
Tesla Motors, Inc. just won the rights to the Domain name TSLA.com is a one member UDRP panel decision although it was willing to give up the domain name to Tesla. It's a shame that the case had to go to a decision. ""Respondent, via its formal Response, consents to having the at-issue domain name transferred to Complainant."" Many domainers have the opinion that they will always have the … [Read more...]
Sweden Is #1 In Global Broadband Study; Canada is #2; US 8th, India 24th
Ovum just published a 35 page detailed study,(pdf) entitled the " the Global Broadband Experience Scorecard" which analyzed fixed line broadband use by consumers in the top 30 countries Sweden scored the highest level of broadband experience (with a score of 88%) of the 30 countries researched. The United States has a Score of 8 well below its neighbor to the north, Canada which had a … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes “An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance” Finding They Are Not
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced the results of a study: "An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance", Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email … [Read more...]