My representative at Enom.com informs me that they are offering discounts on any premium .tv domains you may have, if your willing to renew them now. I just renewed one of my few premium .tv domains, great.tv for 2 years. With interest rates at 2% you could save a lot more by renewing any premium .tv domains now. For rates and information you should contact Deborah Burditt at … [Read more...]
Volvo Loses A Domain “Trademark” Dispute On Domain Used In Commerce
The car maker Volvo, filed a case under the dispute resolution panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), against the owner of a spare parts seller, for control of the domain volvospares.com. The panel found that the owner of volvospares.com was found to have legitimate interests in the name. The panel said that although the domain was confusingly similar to Volvo's … [Read more...]
Getty Images Acquires Photos.com
Jupitermedia Corporation ("Jupitermedia") (NASDAQ: JUPM) announced today that it completed the sale of Jupiterimages Corporation ("Jupiterimages"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupitermedia, to Getty Images, Inc. for $96 million in cash. Included in the assets acquired by Getty Images is the prized domain name Photos.com Jupitermedia meantime announced that it will change its name to … [Read more...]
.TV Domain Sells For As Much As A 3 Letter .com on NameJet.com
Yes shocking, but true. A .tv domain sold on NameJet.com for just $100 less than a three letter .com sold for the day before. Interracial.TV sold for $5,000 yesterday while GGK.com a very good three letter .com fetched just $5,100 the day before. Here are the other sales from NameJet.com over $1,000 that sold this weekend that were on my list partsforsale.com … [Read more...]
ICANN Hands All Geo gTLD Extensions Over To Governments & That’s Just The Start Of The Problems
When it comes to applying for a Geographic (GEO) New gTLD, The Second draft of ICANN's Guidebook makes it pretty clear that you better either do it with the underlying jurisdiction or their blessing in writing. We all know that the government of cities of New York (.nyc), Paris (.Paris) and Berlin (.Berlin) were at the forefront of pushing from the new gTLD's to be apporved as they already have … [Read more...]
ICANN Releases New gTLD Guide Book: Still Includes No Price Caps: Your Domains Are At Risk
ICANN released its second draft of guide book for the New gTLD's today. You can download the pdf version here by clicking here. As one of the most knowledgeable people on ICANN matters, George Kirikos points out on on his post on Circleid.com: ""There continue to be no price caps in place to protect registrants (see section 2.9). """This is a backdoor way of allowing existing registry … [Read more...]
It’s A Good Thing We Made It To The Playboy Mansion While Playboy’s Still Around
It's looking like the Domainfest attendees, we were lucky to make it to the Playboy mansion while Playboy still around. Playboy Enterprises Inc (PLA), posted a wider fourth-quarter loss, hurt by $157.2 million in restructuring and other one-time costs, as well as weaker-than-expected revenues today. Playboy, which posted a net loss in each quarter of 2008, said it would be open to discussions … [Read more...]