One of the great things about traveling is the opportunity to meet people that live and work in different parts of the world. On our recent trip to Brussels for the ICANN meeting, we do what we always do, talk to the local shop owners, taxi drivers, people that are sitting next to you in restaurants, about world events, their country, their way of life. We chatted with one middle aged … [Read more...]
A Bang On Trademarked Term Adderall Sells For $4,800 on NameJet.com
You wouldn't have to go far to find someone who has heard of the Attention Deficit Disorder drug Adderall, usually prescribed for children, but this domain just sold on NameJet.com yesterday for $4,800. Of course the manufacturer of the drug has a trademark registered on the product. Moreover, certainly over the last year or two, no online "business" has been under attack more than the … [Read more...]
Business Week Covers .XXX: “The Man Who Would Be The Dot-XXX King”
Bloomberg/BusinessWeek just published a story about the tentative approval of .XXX by ICANN and the CEO of the ICM registry, Stuart Lawley entitled "The Man Who Would Be The Dot-XXX King". You will have to read the whole story which you can find here, but here are a couple of the more interesting points; Mr. Lawley is a very wealthy guy. According to the article he was named by the London … [Read more...]
Feds Seize 9 Domains For Copyright Infringement, But Based On What Law?
According to the Wall Street Journal, federal authorities seized 9 domain names of sites that were offering pirated movies. The nine domain names were registered using U.S.-based registrars, allowing authorities to take control of their site addresses. Some of the sites themselves were run on computers based in the U.S, in Colorado, Florida and Illinois, but others used computers based in … [Read more...]
How Much Is XXX.Com Worth Now? We Are About To Find Out, As It Hits The Auction Block At DomainFest
Certainly nothing has been in the domain news, even the general news much more in the past few days than the tenative approval of the .XXX extension by ICANN. Beyond the ICM registry who owns the .XXX TLD, the biggest other beneficiary very well maybe the owner of XXX.com. Now you will have the chance to be that guy, the owner of XXX.com because that domain is hitting the auction block at … [Read more...]
Moniker Sells Slots.Ca for an Amount “In Excess of $200K”
Moniker.com just informed me, that hot on the heals of the sale of Slots.com for an amount in excess of $5.5M they have brokered the sale of the domain name, Slots.CA for "an amount in excess of $200,000." The buyer was not disclosed but this marks yet another six figure sale by Monte and his team in this year. The next big even up for Moniker will be a one day DomainFest Event in New York … [Read more...]
Adult Tradeshow Operator Sues A Competitor Over 19 Domain Names, Seeking $1.9 Million
According to xbiznewswire.com, the parent company of the Exxxotica adult trade show filed suit against a competing adult-consumer show operator Adultcon, claiming that its owner is squatting on 19 domain names. The complaint, was filed Tuesday at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. There is currently a annual show for Exxxotica Miami Beach, a Exxxotica New Jersey and a new adult show to be … [Read more...]