The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. "Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses" Nope just since January 2014. ""Vox … [Read more...]
Bloomberg Files UDRP To Gain Control Of The Domain That Caused The Twitter Stock Swing
Bloomberg filed a UDRP to take control of the domain name Bloomberg.Market the domain that caused shares of Twitter to rise 8% when it published a fake report that Twitter was being bought out. Bloomberg.Market which you can see a screenshot of here, was taken down by the Registry of .Market, Rightside (NAME) a few hours after the Twitter story broke per their "normal operating … [Read more...]
Brand Blunders: Domino’s Files UDRP To Get The Domain Dominos.Pizza: Wynn On Wynn.Vegas
Domino's pizza has filed a UDRP to gain control of the new gTLD domain name Dominos .Pizza. For me its another huge brand failure to protect a brand, on a bang on new gTLD domain. Last week we saw what happened when Bloomberg allowed a third party to register Bloomberg.Market by failing to register the domain name in Sunrise which led to a huge swing in the price of Twitter when a story on … [Read more...]
Google Answers The Question Of How Will It Rank New gTLD’s: .Brands Get No Extra Weight
Google published a post today on how will Google rank new gTLD's. ""With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), we'd like to give some insight into how these are handled in Google's search. We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs, for example: Q: How will new gTLDs … [Read more...]
Owner of e-renter.com Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on erenter.com
E-Renter USA Ltd. of Bellingham, Washington, represented by Brownlie Evans Wolf & Lee, LLP, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name erenter.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc.and was represented by ESQwire.com The three member UDRP panel of Nicholas Smith, Debra J. Stanek and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that since the domain name registrations are … [Read more...]
.Sucks Tops 6,000 Registrations: Will It Be The Most Profitable New gTLD?
.Sucks has now passed 6,000 registered domain names. According to ntldstats.com .Sucks has 6,153 domain name registered. We know that around 3,400 domain names were registered in Sunrise for up to $2,000 wholesale. That is almost $7 Million dollars if they were all at $2K, which they should be since the Sunrise period was only opened to those in the Trademark Clearinghouse (THCH) … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Sun Covers .Vegas In A Largely Negative Story On “Lagging Numbers”
The LasVegasSun.com just covered the new gTLD .Vegas in what is largely a negative story on the new gTLD which is "lagging" behind other City new gTLD's The Sun quotes Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto who blasted .Vegas: ""Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto, believes the .Vegas domain is a bad bet and doesn’t advise his clients to buy a .Vegas domain. Not only are … [Read more...]