The words Bank, Local, Experts, Trump, Scope. Alphabet, Fantasy, Tomorrow, Method and Teeth were the top trending keywords registered in .Com in August according to Verisign the registry for the .com and .net extensions. Alphabet is related to Google's naming of its parent company and Trump I think you can figure that one out for yourself. Trump and Alphabet where the only two trending … [Read more...]
ipaymentinc.com Found Guilt Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on A domain it used to own iPayments.com
In what is a great case for al domain name holders iPayment, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, represented by Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, just got found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ipayments.com The company who brought the complaint used to own the domain name and let the registration lapse which the three member panel found to be … [Read more...]
Down The Stretch We Come as the ROTD/4.cn Action Has Over $6M In Bids & Closes Wed @ 8AM EST
The RightoftheDot.com auction which is being held on 4.CN as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has 331 domain names have bids as of publication, including many with no reserves. You can see all the domain names in the auction here In all there are are 545 domain names in auction meaning that well over 60% have a bid. The auction starts to close over a four hour staggered period on … [Read more...]
CSC September New gTLD Report: .News & .Sexy Are Hot
The brand protection and domain name registrar CSC published its New gTLD Utilization Report for September late last week and had some interesting findings. We picked through the report and found what we believe are the highlights. You can review the entire report here. CSC publishes a New gTLD report every two months, and it's "designed to update digital marketers and their peers in … [Read more...]
Breaking: Rick Schwartz Sells a NNN.com Domain Putting Him 2nd on The YTD Sales Chart
Rick Schwartz wrote to me today to tell me he sold an NNN.com domain name for an amount which will land him as the 2nd highest reported sale of 2015 per DnJournal. The transaction is still in Escrow, so the Domain King will not reveal what the domain is or what the purchase price was until the escrow transaction is closed. Rick, like RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction is using 4.Cn escrow's … [Read more...]
Google Registers Alphabet.Sex in Sunrise: How Did They Do That? + More Generic’s Reg As TM
Google has added another domain name to its growing Alphabet brand, this time Alphabet.sex which got registered yesterday. But Google registering another Alphabet domain name is not the story. The issue is how did Google get that domain name registered in Sunrise when to register a domain name in any new gTLD Sunrise period the registrant has to have a registered trademark for the term and … [Read more...]
This Weeks New gTLD Totals: Amsterdam 12,681; .FYI 1,159; .MBA 701; .Fans 653
4 new gTLD extensions launched this week into General Availability (GA) where the could be registered into a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and before GA (.Fans did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program) here are the total number of domain registrations according to ntldstats.com as of the last zone update: .Amsterdam … [Read more...]