Ambit Holdings, L.L.C. who held a trademark on the term Ambit just lost a UDRP on the domain name ambit.com The domain holder which also formed a corporation named Ambit some how was able to acquire a domain name in 2010, that the trademark holder with a BILLION dollars in sales failed to do. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel Complainant is an electricity … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 3/25/13 – 3/31/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,483,223. The highest sale was a domain owned by us, WaitTime.com, that sold for $20,000. Other reportable high dollar sales were gfa.com & referencebank.com, each separate transactions at $15K. Here … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending April 1st, 2013. In all over $1.25MM domains were sold. The top seller was elend.com at $140,000 followed by schokolade.de for 63,000 EUR. In all, 704 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Just under 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable … [Read more...]

Over the past week, 865 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.47m. Over 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: madame.com at 28,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: singlebörse.de at 30,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: medicine.org at 75,000 USD   Here are the … [Read more...]

According to a press release we just received by  KSregistry GmbH, which is owned by Key-Systems GmbH, "a third party has executed a transfer of the domain name adamsnames.net and now operates a shadow registry under this domain". Adams Names is the Registry for the ccTLD's of .TC, .GD and .VG and uses KSregistry as its back end to operate the registries. "According to the CEO of AdamsNames … [Read more...]

According to several reports the Big East Conference is going to change their name to the America 12 Conference. The Domain name America12.com is owned by Oversee.net which has owned the domain name since 2010. The domain name america12conference.com was registered by brand protection company MarkMonitor.com definitely indicating that America12 will in fact be the name of the new conference … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,265,707 for the week of 2/25/13 – 3/3/13. The publicly reportable sales were led by LawHelp.com at $85,000, and followed by Racing.ca for  $39,200. RacingStuff.com also sold for $18,000. Based on the name servers, transaction date, and Canadian registrant there's a good chance the purchase was related to the Racing.ca … [Read more...]