Rightside (NAME) just published a post about the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market which as we wrote earlier today which led to a huge rally in shares of Twitter and more than 50 million shares being traded today which is more than double its average three-month volume. Within a few hours of our post Rightside shut the domain name down. Rightside, which is the registry for the new gTLD … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.5 Million Led by SexShows.com At $40K
Over the past week, 480 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5 Million. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: sexshows.com at 40,000 USD · Top ccTLD: i.la at 19,900 USD · Top “other” TLD: accomplice.net at 7,500 USD There was only 1 new gTLD sale and it was a .club Here are the … [Read more...]
Fake Story on New gTLD Domain, Bloomberg.Market Sends Twitter Shares Up Over 5%
According to several sources, a fake news story appearing on a new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market sent shares of Twitter up over 5% today when they reported Twitter was going to be bought for $31 Billion dollars to over $38 a share. The domain is Bloomberg.market, not Bloomberg.com but its made to look like Bloomberg.com We have chatted on many occasions that … [Read more...]
CSC Publishes July’s NewgTLD.Report: 3,945 New gTLD’s in Alexa Top 1 Million
The brand protection company Corporate Service Company (CSC) published its bi-monthly New gTLD Utilization Report (newgtld.report) yesterday "with expanded metrics and analysis around dot brands" In the July Report CSC saw a significant increase in .Brand new gTLD's registrations. There are now over 2,050 registrations under .Brand (and closed) top-level domains, up 55% since the May … [Read more...]
Enom.com Wins Rights to Enoms.com Just 15 years After it Was Registered
eNom.com won the rights to the domain name Enoms.com in a UDRP just 15 short years after the domain name was first registered and 8 years after the domain was registered by the current domain holder. By the way you got to love the name of the domain holder "Muhammad Enoms General delivery / ENoms.com has been registered just few days after Enom.com, therefore could not have been regstere" … [Read more...]
You Can Buy .Love, But It’s Going To Cost You Up To $15K Per Year, Per Domain
.Love which launches Thursday, is the first offering of Merchant Law Group which applied for 8 new gTLD's. Despite a report yesterday, the best domain names for the new gTLD .Love have huge premium registrations/renewal prices, actually the highest we have seen other than some Rightside new gTLD domain names up to $15,000 a year. There are other top .Love domain names that are reserved and … [Read more...]
Makers Of YPlan App Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Highjacking on 14 Year Old Yplan.com
YPlan, Inc. (“Complainant”), represented by Eugene Rome of Rome & Associates, A.P.C., of California, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name yplan.com by a one member UDRP panel of Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson Talk about a slam dunk case. The Complainant which says its the "creator of the well-known and famous application based or mobile app based … [Read more...]