The brand protection company Corporate Service Company (CSC) published its bi-monthly New gTLD Utilization Report (newgtld.report) yesterday "with expanded metrics and analysis around dot brands" In the July Report CSC saw a significant increase in .Brand new gTLD's registrations. There are now over 2,050 registrations under .Brand (and closed) top-level domains, up 55% since the May … [Read more...]
Enom.com Wins Rights to Enoms.com Just 15 years After it Was Registered
eNom.com won the rights to the domain name Enoms.com in a UDRP just 15 short years after the domain name was first registered and 8 years after the domain was registered by the current domain holder. By the way you got to love the name of the domain holder "Muhammad Enoms General delivery / ENoms.com has been registered just few days after Enom.com, therefore could not have been regstere" … [Read more...]
You Can Buy .Love, But It’s Going To Cost You Up To $15K Per Year, Per Domain
.Love which launches Thursday, is the first offering of Merchant Law Group which applied for 8 new gTLD's. Despite a report yesterday, the best domain names for the new gTLD .Love have huge premium registrations/renewal prices, actually the highest we have seen other than some Rightside new gTLD domain names up to $15,000 a year. There are other top .Love domain names that are reserved and … [Read more...]
Makers Of YPlan App Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Highjacking on 14 Year Old Yplan.com
YPlan, Inc. (“Complainant”), represented by Eugene Rome of Rome & Associates, A.P.C., of California, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name yplan.com by a one member UDRP panel of Antonina Pakharenko-Anderson Talk about a slam dunk case. The Complainant which says its the "creator of the well-known and famous application based or mobile app based … [Read more...]
HG.com, Here.com, TheOpening.com And More Domain Movers
Welcome to the always interesting and often "breaking news" series called Domain Movers exclusively here on TheDomains! I scour the web and watch what companies are buying and registering domain name wise and report to you what I see. I heavily rely on whois records, which doesn't always speak the whole story but most of the time it is providing factual information as to what is happening with … [Read more...]
.XYZ Issues The Challenge: Giving Away $2K For The Best New .Com & .XYZ Domain Name
The .XYZ registry has issued The Challenge "Think you can register the best .COM or .XYZ domain name?" "Submit yours, along with a short survey, for your chance to win $1,000! "2 winners will be announced on August 10th and 2 more on September 7th" Here is how TheChallenge.xyz as explained on the .XYZ site: ".COM is suing me - Daniel Negari, CEO and Founder of .XYZ - in part over a … [Read more...]
Monte Cahn Named As One Of Top 400 CEO’s to Follow On Twitter
StrategicObjectives.com, published The Ultimate List of Social CEO's on Twitter @SO_pr and my partner in RightoftheDot.com made the very impressive list of 400. If you check out the top 20 you can see its a very impressive list to make: 1. Oprah Winfrey @Oprah (24,518,272 followers) –CEO of OWN 2. Bill Gates @billgates (16,282,164 followers) – CEO of Bill & Melinda Gates … [Read more...]