Now that ICANN has stuck to its guns and only placed 4 new gTLD's strings that look confusingly similar into contention sets, rather than those that sound identical, such as .inc and .ink or those that have the same meaning like .Law and .Lawyer or those that are singular and plurals of the same word, we now know what we will get when the new gTLD's roll out and in part its going to be a very a … [Read more...]
Brands Are Missing The Boat Catching Cheap TM Domains On The Drop & Saving UDRP Money
Brands which have endlessly expressed their concerns over cybersquatting in the new gTLD's space and complained about the cost of enforcement of their trademarks in existing TLD's and ccTLD's are still missing a huge opportunity to secure dropping trademark infringing domains for nominal fees. Brands which spent thousands of dollars to bring a single UDRP are failing to take advantage of … [Read more...]
Now That uBank Got A $8M Investment They Will Buy The Domain uBank.com
According to Quintura.com, "The Russian venture capital firm Runa Capital has invested $8 million in uBank, a Russian mobile payment provider". "uBank offers a mobile app for smartphones that helps pay utility bills. Released last December, uBank free app for Android has been downloaded more than 250K times from Google Play." What the company does not have is the domain name … [Read more...]
The Academy Awards Rebranded as “The Oscars” Why Isn’t TheOscars.com Working?
I'm sure a lot of you will be watching the Academy Awards' tonight. This is actually the first year in which the award show has been officially Rebranded as The Oscars. The award show is put on by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences which owns most of all the related domain names, including AcademyAwards.com, Oscar.com, Oscars.com and TheOscars.com All of the domain names … [Read more...]
Who Would Have Thought .Biz Domains Will Cost More Than .Com
In its letter to ICANN today, Neustar the operator of the .Biz registry, notified ICANN that it will be raising the wholesale cost of a .Biz domain name registration or renewal to $8.63 effective September 1, 2013 Once the increase goes into effect the wholesale cost of a .Biz registration will be higher than the wholesale cost of a .Com Currently the wholesale price of .Biz is exactly the … [Read more...]
Forbes Calls New gTLD’s “Rich New Territories For Cybersquatters” & Why Forbes IS Wrong
Forbes just published a story entitled "Cybersquatters Get Rich New Territories With Generic Domains" The Forbes Article of course chats about Donuts which Forbes says "raised $100 million to take control of as many generic top-level domains as it could." The story goes on to quote Jeffrey Stoler, a partner with Holland & Knight, who complained that Donuts appeared to have close ties … [Read more...]
Sports.TV Sold to Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios
The domain name Sports.TV has been sold to Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios of Los Angeles California. The price was not disclosed. The domain was listed for sale back in November of 2012 in a Domainstore.TV newsletter for $650,000. The sale is under NDA so we don't know what the purchase price of the domain is, but we do know that the buyer of Sports.TV owns one of the best .TV domain … [Read more...]