A  UDRP decision handed down today shows why the UDRP system is still a mess and why we get some many bad decisions. The UDRP system has been handing down decisions for over 13 years and today's case points out panelist still disagree on the meaning of  1 of the 3 elements required to prove  a UDRP claim bad faith and what the language of the rule means. Writing for the majority In the case … [Read more...]

Y.CO announced its newest sale of a .Co  single letter web address,  Y.co today as the 2013 Monaco Yacht Show gets underway. The purchase of y.co from .CO Internet S.A.S sees the super yacht brokerage and management company become the first luxury brand to migrate to a single letter domain and further reinforces the company's position as an industry leader in digital marketing and … [Read more...]

Over the past week, 752 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. This amounts to $49.8m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. “Congratulations to the buyer of novigo.com: The buyer is a global consulting firm based in California and providing information technology services. Formerly called GOPA IT … [Read more...]

The luxury Jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels filed a UDRP on 7 of the worst domain names you will ever see. Obviously there must be something going on well beyond the domain names themselves, but on a domain name basis all of these are brutal. This maybe the best case for owning a registry, as all sort of ridiculous domains are registered everyday and at the end of the day the registry … [Read more...]

In a email that just went out to customers of Afternic.com, the online domain name marketplace owned by Name Media, Godaddy has acquired Afternic. According to the email, Name Media which owns Afternic.com, is just selling Afternic.com the marketplace and not BuyDomains.com another company owned by NameMedia which owns and operates reportedly some 1 million domain names. It will be … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the period of 9/9/13 – 9/15/13. Domain sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $951,287. The highest sale was BaliMap.com which sold for $10,000 followed by Broda.com for $9,077. Here is the full list of reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

The Islamic Republic of Iran in a letter to ICANN said that the new gTLD applications of .ISLAM and .HALAL "should be managed and operated by the Muslim community through a neutral body that represents the different sections and segments of the Muslim community including Governments, NGOs and IGOs, Private Sector, Academia, as different stakeholders of internet in the this community." The … [Read more...]