According to a story in the telegraph.co.uk today, traffic to Alphabet.com surged 5,000% since Google announcement on Monday. The Telegraph siting stats from Similar Web a "digital measurement service" says traffic to BMW owned Alphabet.com that saw "an average of 3,000 desktop visits" prior to Google announcement " surged to almost 60,000 visits following Google's announcement on Monday before … [Read more...]
Google Didn’t Even Contact BMW To Offer To Buy Alphabet.com
According to a story today in the KansasCity.com, it seems that Google did not even contact BMW, that owns the domain name Alphabet.com, to see if they would sell it before going with abc.xyz The article quotes a spokesman at BMW, who said "that the automaker was not informed ahead of time of plans by Page and Brin to create a company called Alphabet and had not received any offers to buy the … [Read more...]
Negari of .XYZ On Bloomberg TV On Dominance of .Com: “I Think It’s Over”
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry was interviewed on Bloomberg Television today during the Bloomberg West show. .XYZ has been in the headline since Google announcement of the formation of its parent company Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. The co-host of the Bloomberg West show asked the following question: There are now a Lot of choice for a domain … [Read more...]
New gTLD .LOL Has Just 772 Domain Registrations After its 1st Day: Trump.lol; Obama.lol
.LOL launched into general availability yesterday by Uniregistry and wound with just 772 registrations including some 70 domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders. Uniregistry is charging $6.88 for a .LOL registration. Uniregistry beat out Google for rights to operate .LOL in a private auction. There are several domain names registered of people running for … [Read more...]
Best Headline For New gTLD’s: “Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance”
Wired.com just published a story which maybe the best headline ever for the new gTLD lovers and supporters: "Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .XYZ Will End .Com Dominance" That as Taylor Swift would say is the best headline "like ever, ever" for a new gTLD Yeah Ponder on that one for a while. Ok I will give you a few. The rest of the story goes on to chat about Daniel Negari who sold … [Read more...]
Sweet Art Company LLC Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking on Domain Registered in 1998
Sweet Art Company LLC represented by Christopher M. DeBacker of Law Office of Mark Brown, LLC, Kansas was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain sweetartinc.com which was registered in 1998. Sweet Art got a trademark in 2009. The one member panel of David E. Sorkin found: "In this case, it should have been obvious to Complainant that it could not prove that the … [Read more...]
SharkTank.com Saved in UDRP: No Reverse Hijacking Despite Domain Reg 6 Yrs Before TM
Sony Pictures Television Inc. just its attempt to grab the domain name SharkTank.com which was registered in 2002, while the trademark was not filed for until 2008 and not granted until 2009. However the Panel took a long way around and some interesting language to avoid finding Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Here are the highlights of the three member UDRP panel of Alan L. Limbury, Sandra J. … [Read more...]