Weigel Broadcasting Co. has filed a UDRP on the domain name Me.Tv The domain name is owned under privacy since at least 2005 at Enom.com and it looks like it may have been owned by Enom.com as it went to an Enom.com registration page in 2012 rather than a placeholder according to Screenshots.com The domain went to Channelme.tv for several years for a few years ending in around 2009 according … [Read more...]
Qatar Airways Loses Attempt To Grab DiscoverQatar.org & QatarTourism.org
Qatar Airways Doha, Qatar, just lost its bid to grab the domain names discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org in a UDRP which are owned by Travelindex SA The one member panel of Tony Willoughby found the Complaint which owns qatarairways.com slogan on its site "Qatar – Discover the Spirit” did not give it trademark rights nor did the “Discover Qatar” logo which they trademarked. Qatar … [Read more...]
Co. Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.UK; Owns New gTLD .Mango
The company we wrote about yesterday being found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, Consolidated Artists B.V. of Rotterdam Netherlands, today we were given a hat tip by Domainincite.com, that this company is also a new gTLD applicant. The domain names which Consolidated Artists B.V were found to be guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking were Mango.co.uk and Mango.uk. The company … [Read more...]
BTC.com Launches New Platform For Bitcoin Users: $1M Purchase Price is a “Long Term Lease”
BTC.com announced today a new platform for the world’s Bitcoin users on "the million-dollar domain". We also learned from the press release that the BTC.com sale for $1 Million dollars is "long term lease agreement" and that BTC.com plans on selling subdomains. We had an interview with the Broker who sold the BTC.com domain name which you can check out here Here is the press … [Read more...]
Here Is The Statement Phil Corwin Of The ICA Will Be Giving To The House Judiciary Committee
Here is the Statement of Philip S. Corwin, Counsel, Internet Commerce Association will give today to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet The hearing is entitled: "Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation" The hearing should have a … [Read more...]
GM Becomes 1st Fortune 50 Company To Launch a Site On a New gTLD: GeneralMotors.Green
General Motors has become the 1st Fortune 50 Company to launch a site on a new gTLD domain, in this case GeneralMotors.green Although other bloggers have pointed out Fortune 50 companies have acquired and activated new gTLD domain names, they are mostly re-directing the new gTLD domains to existing .com sites. GM maybe the 1st to actually launch a targeted site on a new gTLD … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Same.com For $233,333
Sedo reported that 673 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million Dollars 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: Same.com at $233,333 · Top ccTLD: Veilingen.nl at 31,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: Laws.org at $10,000 Here are the reported sales: Domain … [Read more...]