The Trimount Company, Inc DBA StinkySocks Hockey (“Complainant”), of Massachusetts, just lost its attempt to grab the domain name stinkysocks.com in a UDRP rather than just pay the domain holder the $6,500 he was asking for the domain. The domain was registered on February 2, 2000. The Complainant trademark was registered over 15 years later on September 22, 2015 and at that the trademark … [Read more...]
Owner of MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com Wants “$2 Million At Least”
Back in August we wrote about the domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com which is has become Donald Trump's famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential run. At the time we noted that although "The Donald filed a trademark on the term back in November 2012, the trademark was filed for opposition in 2013 and not finally granted until July, 14th 2015. The domain name MakeAmericaGreatAgain.com … [Read more...]
Tuscany.com; Erotica.com; Penis.com Added At No Reserve To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Some amazing domain names were added to the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at Namescon late last week all at NO Reserve by CheapDomains.com, including one that has an Estibot value of over $5 Million Dollars. That domain name is Penis.com, one of the premier "adult" domains but which is one of those adult words you can say on broadcast television. Penis.com of course can be used as … [Read more...]
Google Buys More “Letter” .Com’s: Now owns 19 of Them; Maybe only 6 Left
Google bought several more "letter".com's yesterday picking up abcdefghijkl.com abcdefghijklm.com abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy.com All registered in 2004. Since turning the domain world on its head buying abc.xyz Google now … [Read more...]
The ROTD Domain Auction At Namescon Tops $5.5 Million In Bids
The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction being held live/online on January 11, 2016 has now topped $5.5 Million in Pre-bidding on Namejet.com In all there are 325 domain names with at least one bid and about 250 of those have more than one bid. About 125 domain names will be in the live auction with the rest staying opened for bidding on Namejet.com until January 21st. There are 12 … [Read more...]
Google Adds abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com to its Collection Of Alphabet Domains
Google has just added another "Alphabet" domain name to its collection buying the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com. The domain name was most recently owned by the The Giardino Law Firm, Inc of San Antonio and by a domainer in Tennessee before that. The domain has an original creation date of 2003. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its … [Read more...]
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop? Chinese are Buying English Word Domains Too
Raymond published a post today on TheDomains.com, on the sales report from the first ever live domain auction at the Chinese Domain Festival and China Digital Asset Investment Summit which generated some 150 million RMB in sales. The official exchange rate is 1 RMB is equal to $.15 USD so the live auction generated $22.5 Million in sales. For me the biggest news out of the auction is that … [Read more...]