The company in China known as 51DNS has purchased the domain name DNS.com The domain name 51DNS.com is now forwarding to DNS.com The domain appears to have been sold possibly in March or April and it maybe the fourth time this domain name has changed hands in less than a year. In April 2014, the domain was owned by the Comodo Group, Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey and registered at brand … [Read more...]
TheVerge.com Calls Purchase of RandPaul.com For $100K “Ransom”
TheVerge.com is apparently on the Verge of calling anyone who owns a domain name and is looking to sell it a Cybersquatter and somehow is calling on the next President of the United States to outlaw the practice of buying a domain name and selling it. The story is about Rand Paul purchase of RandPaul.com for $100k yesterday calling payment of $100K "Ransom" "Rand Paul's presidential campaign … [Read more...]
Is Carly Fiorina Lying About a Domain Registration?
We published a post earlier today about the domain name CarlyFiorina.org in response to 100+ stories published on how Carly failed to register the domain name CarlyFiorina.org and allowed a hater to get the domain and use it against her. Today in response to all the stories but not ours, Carly told the Wall Street Journal today that she "Should Have Registered ‘CarlyFiorina.org Before Critic … [Read more...]
Campaigns And Cybersquatters Register Domains up to Decades in Advance
CNBC published an article an hour ago taking a look at the brisk action in candidate domain names. "They're the modern-day real estate," said Amichaim Abramson, an entrepreneur based in Brooklyn, New York, who bought a number of domains for future elections across the political spectrum. He said he hopes to help candidates he supports or keep domains out of the hands of those he doesn't like, but … [Read more...]
Carly Didn’t Fail To Secure CarlyFiorina.org; She let it drop
There has been a fair amount of press that the new GOP candidate and former CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina "failed to secure" her matching name with the .org domain name CarlyFiorina.org but here are the facts! Carly DID own the domain name CarlyFiorina.org Carly Fiorina Enterprises (which she is CEO and Chair of) according to Wikipedia owned the domain name since at least March 3, 2008 according … [Read more...]
Company That Bought Brand.com For $500K Sells It For $300K & Files Bankruptcy
According to technical.ly, after spending $500,000 for the domain name Brand.com, the company formerly known as Reputation Changer filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last month. Technical.ly says according to the filing, Brand.com sold its domain for $300,000 . The domain name is currently in escrow.com at Igloo.com Technical.ly also reports that the company sold the domain name NHQ.com, the … [Read more...]
30 More Big Brand Fails: Bang On Trademarked Domains Continue To Drop To Third Parties
This is another post in our continuing series of bang on trademarked domain names that drop and the continuing failure of brand holders to catch them on the drop allowing third parties to register them and control them. All of these domains were owned by someone other than the trademark holder then dropped and could have been picked up by the trademark holder if they pursed the domain in the … [Read more...]