In a 3 person panel decision, a WIPO panel denied the complaint of Parkroyal Hospitality Management Pte Ltd. of Singapore, over the domain ParkRoyal.com. What makes this case noteworthy is that the Complainant, owed the trademark "PARKROYAL" since 2002 and has "47 trademark registrations for PARKROYAL in 15 different countries around the world." The Complaint operates hotels by under this … [Read more...]
Online Advertising Growth Slows, But PPC Is Getting A Bigger Chunk
According to a report released yesterday, by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, online advertising last year reached $23.4 billion, with the 4th quarter total of $6.1 billion up 2.6% from the 4th quarter of 2007. The 2.6% increase in 4th quarter ad revenue, was the smallest since 2002. The 51% of total online ad dollars spent during the second half of 2008 was also … [Read more...]
Is Catholic.org Really Worth “Considerably More Than $200,000”
According to a blog post on the catholic spirit blog Catholic Online, agreed to settle a lawsuit for $200,000 and pledged the domain catholic.org which according to the story """is estimated to be worth considerably more than $200,000, as collateral to ensure restitution is made.""" It appears that the District Attorney for Kern County (Bakersfield, Calif) must have agreed that the domain's … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Let’s Virgina Anti-Spam Law Die
Today the Supreme Court, without comment, rejected the state of Virginia's appeal to keep its anti-spam law, regarded to be the toughest such state law, in place. The law known as the Computer Crimes Act banned commercial and noncommercial spam e-mail sent to consumers in that state. Mr. Jaynes was convicted in 2004 for sending bulk unsolicited electronic messages in violation of the Virgina … [Read more...]
Our Take Of The AfterMarket.com Auction
Using our friends over at Esitbot.com valuation tool, we ran the domains in the AfterMarket.com auction, which closes on Tuesday, but it already opened for prebidding, to find the "Best Buys". According to Estibot.com here are the domains with the lowest Starting price to Estibot appraisal (any domain in bold already has a bid as of time of publication): Also please note that the prices … [Read more...]
Government Fires CEO of GM
Outside the world of domains, but certainly food for thought for all of us located in the US, is today's news that the Federal Government has basically asked for and gotten the resignation of the CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner. This is the first time in history that the US government has demanded that a private company fire the head of a company. The demand of the US government comes on GM's … [Read more...]
“The Perils Of Selling Out Too Cheap”
A very interesting blog post over at Tech Crunch talks about human nature and the tenancy of selling out too cheap when faced with a buyout offer, or as the author puts it: """Entrepreneurs selling companies too early. """Several entrepreneurs here have described themselves as having a huge appetite for taking risk on the front end; but being risk-adverse when it comes to turning down a huge … [Read more...]