Marshall Amplification plc, just filed a UDRP against the quite generic domain name of Marshall.com which is owned by Frank Schilling's Name Administration. The company filing the compliant makes Marshall Amps and their official site is at MarshallAmps.com Wikipedia.org has a page dedicated to all the different uses for Marshall and Marshall Amps is only one of them, including 18 cities in … [Read more...]
Google’s Issues ‘Disavow Links Tool” To Take Down Spammy Links Or “Bad Link Building” To Be Disregarded For Ranking Purposes
Today Google issued a "Disavow Links tool" which enables webmasters to take control of undesirable links and ask that they be disregarded for ranking purposes. Webmasters who believe their site's ranking is being harmed by low-quality links from spam sites can now take control and ask Google not to take them into account when assessing ranking. The primary function of the 'Disavow Links' … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $875K in Domain Names
Afternic’s just released it weekly reportable domain sales for the week of 10/08/12 – 10/14/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 875,669 .com … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Transactions For The Week Total $1.65 Million
Sedo just posted its weekly report for the period ending October 15th, 2012. In all, 853 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totalling $1.65 million. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .com: vogel.com at 75,000 USD - Top ccTLD: doctor.co.uk at 24,999 GBP - Top “other” TLD: restaurantes.info … [Read more...]
Trademark Holder of ezTaxReturn.com Loses UDRP Bid On The Plural, ezTaxReturns.com
A one member panel just rejected the Complaint brought by ezTaxReturn.com, LLC who owns a trademark on ezTaxReturn.com against the owner of the plural version of the domain name ezTaxReturns.com Its a pretty long opinion especially since the panelist knocked the case out finding that the domain holder had letimate rights to the domain name and didn't even get into the "bad faith" … [Read more...]
NameJet.com & Afternic Team Up On New gTLD’s
NameJet, and Afternic, have teamed up to sell domain names for gTLD registries according to a press release today. "Through this powerful combination of resources, NameJet and Afternic will provide a single resource for all the technical and marketing services needed to fully manage a registry's TLD launch including sunrise and landrush auctions, premium domain valuation and distribution, and … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Transactions For The Week Total $1.25 Million
Sedo just posted it weekly report. In all, 775 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totalling $1.25 million. Over 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .com: fahrrad.com at 90,000 EUR - Top ccTLD: online-casinos.at at 24,000 EUR - Top “other” TLD: space.travel at 10,500 USD Here are the reportable … [Read more...]