Many in the business know the story of Nissan.com, the large multinational car company wanted Nissan.com from it's owner Uzi Nissan. Jalopnik.com wrote an excellent piece on the history of the dispute and how it affected the life of Uzi Nissan. The story is food for thought if you could or would take on a large multinational over a domain name. Of course people love to comment, "F them" or "I … [Read more...]
Ziff Davis acquires BlackFriday.com
George Kirikos has broken another domain story with BlackFriday.com being acquired by Ziff Davis. Ziff Davis, a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc., is a leading global digital-media company operating in three core verticals: Technology, Gaming, and Shopping. Its brands – PCMag, Mashable, Speedtest, ExtremeTech, Geek, Toolbox, IGN, AskMen, Offers.com, TechBargains, emedia and Salesify – produce and … [Read more...]
From airplanes to tires the journey of Continental.com
Usually when a large company owns a one word .com they tend to hold onto it even after a merger. Continental.com was once owned by Continental Airlines who merged with United back in 2012. The company has always looked out for domain names infringing their ip. They filed UDRP's at the beginning of the 2000's for names like continentalairlines.biz and the typo … [Read more...]
DomainNames.com should have never been listed for sale according to Web.com
Yinan Wang the buyer of DomainNames.com received an update from Web.com. They actually called him on a Friday night. They say domain name should never been listed for sale nor can be transferred, there should have been a registrar lock. Just an update: A vice president of Web.com gave me a call last night, he told me he would like to appologize for this matter personally (I do … [Read more...]
DomainNames.com was purchased for $2,577 and now it’s been taken back
Yesterday I wrote a post about DomainNames.com being sold. Most assumed it must have been a big sale. Nope, it was purchased for just $2,577. Now the buyer says Network Solutions removed the domain from their account. Hi, guys I'm the buyer of DomainNames.com, I did the search via NetworkSolutions.com on 12.Feb, and found it's in their premium domain name lists with a very bargin … [Read more...]
DomainNames.com sold?
Josh from Brand Consultants gets the tip of the cap here as he spotted the valuable name moving from New Ventures Services Corp to a Wang, Yinan out of Beijing. The domain was registered in 1996. Currently the site does not resolve to a website. … [Read more...]
Gerald M. Levine on ADO.com and asking high prices for domains
Gerald M. Levine over at ip legal corner wrote an excellent article discussing the ADO.com UDRP. Mr. Levine has a lot of experience and expertise in these matters and gives a very detailed breakdown of the case. (tip of the cap to GeorgeK) I wrote about the case here and how it could have other implications. From the article: The single most prominent reason long-held domain names are … [Read more...]