In an interview published by AdAge, Joanne Bradford, the Chief Revenue Officer for Demand Media said that Demands goals were to be bigger than AOL and Bigger than Yahoo. Some other interesting points in the Interview: Demand has "1,000 copy editors" Demand publishes 7,000 articles or pieces of content a day. Demands eHow.com gets over 50 million unique visitors a day (seems like an … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Response To The Receiver Of The Typo Auctioned Domains: Too Bad, So Sad; They’re Gone
Andrew from DomainNameWire.com wrote earlier today about the NameJet.com auction of some typo domains that expired and sold. The story goes on to say that the Receiver appointed by the court to watch over the assets of John Zuccarini including the domains that were not renewed and auctioned off, was off to court to somehow stop or undo the sale of those domains which had already been sold and … [Read more...]
Guestlist.Me Taken In A UDRP: The Right Of Dot Counts In Determining Trademark Infringement
There has been a lot of discussion going on in the domainer community regarding whether a domain can violate a trademark including the extension or the right of the dot. Recently this issue was brought up in relation to the auction for E.CO. Today a one person WIPO panel found that the entire domain, including the extension (or right of the dot) as a whole, can be considered in determining … [Read more...]
GBT.com Sells For $12K On NameJet.com, Filters.Net For $5,100
A few NameJet.com auctions over the last couple of days has proceed some nice sales. The three letter domain GBT.com went for $12K. Filters.Net went for a pretty reasonable $5,100. A very popular last name, Fernandes.com went for $5,660. Some other sales FindABuilder.com $1,410 Descanso.com, a Geo domain went for $4,500. BWIA.com sold for $4,100 DoBusiness.com $1,501 … [Read more...]
Seller Defaults In Sedo.com Auction of 7 Domains For A Total of Almost $200K
Last month we wrote about 7 legal domains that sold at auction at Sedo.com for almost $200K. Sedo.com has now declared the Seller of the domain names in default as he has refused to transfer the domains. The domains at issue … [Read more...]
If You Want To Bid In The E.CO Auction You Have To Pre-Qualify WIth Sedo, Here’s How
Just a heads up to anyone who thinks they may want to bid on the charity auction for E.CO being held live at Internet Week in New York and will close at 4pm EST on June 10th, with remote bidding on Sedo.com. Even if you have been pre-approved for bidding in the past with Sedo, even if you are qualified as a premium or premium plus bidder, you need to get a special approval to bid on this … [Read more...]
Domainer Successfully Defends MySchool.com From UDRP After Trademark Holder Passed On Buying The Domain
Domainer Andy Booth who was represented by Stevan Lieberman won a UDRP today on the Domain MySchool.com. The UDRP was bought by the trademark holder after he refused to buy the domain from the former owner. Apparently the trademark holder was offered the domain by the previous owner for $25K and then at $15,500 but rejected both offers. Mr. Booth went ahead and then bought the domain for … [Read more...]