In what maybe the quickest action filed by a trademark holder against a domain holder, the domain name bbva.careers has been hit with a URS 5 Days After Registration. The domain name bbva.careers was registered on March 5th on the last day of EAP for many times general availability rates which would have gone into effect the following day on March 6th. The URS was filed today on March … [Read more...]
Chinese Game Company 37wan.net Is Buyer of 37.com For $2.1 Million & Predicts $36 Million In Profit
According to a story out tonight in Chinatechnews.com, the buyer of the domain name 37.com for $2.1 Million dollars is Shanghai-headquartered 37wan.net a Chinese Gaming company The company officially renamed the company 37 Game today. Li Yifei, president of the company said "the market for web game exports is optimistic and it is a necessary way for gaming companies to expand into overseas … [Read more...]
Fred Krueger of Minds + Machines Book “Stop Drinking and Get Fit” Hits Amazon
Fred Krueger of Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) book entitled "Stop Drinking and Get Fit: A guide to personal transformation" is now in paperback and available at Amazon for purchase for $15.18. This new 200 page "Director's Cut" is a must have..." says Krueger Fred wrote on his Facebook page that he dropped close to 30 Lbs and had gotten under 15% body fat: "Phase 1 was … [Read more...]
Mashable Looks at “The History of the Domain Name”
Max Knoblauch did a post entitled "A Brief History of the Domain Name" Starting off with Symbolics.com owned by Aron Meystedt, to 1995 and the end of free domain names. 1998 and the privatization of the DNS and ICANN. 1998: Privatization of the DNS and ICANN In 1998, the Department of Commerce, under President Clinton's urging, issued a proposal for privatizing the Domain Naming System (DNS), … [Read more...]
It’s Official: Google Is Giving Away Free Domain Names
Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn't have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,000 new gTLD's in its first live new gTLD which is an IDN, .みんな Domainincite.com broke the news that Google is offering a free domain name to the first … [Read more...]
Purchased For $65K Kiko.com Saved in UDRP
Kiko s.r.l. of Bergamo, Italy just lost its bid to grab the domain name kiko.com in a UDRP The domain holders bought the domain for in 2010 for $65,578.50 to use for a social networking site. Here are the relevant facts and finding by the three member panel The Complainant’s business is the manufacture of cosmetic products. The Complainant is the owner of trademark registrations in … [Read more...]
Tencent Pays $15 Million For 15% Stake In JD.com
According to Wall Street Journal, the Chinese Giant, Tencent, has agreed to pay $215 million for a 15% stake in JD.com. JD.Com’s planning on a $1.5 billion IPO. JD.com, formerly known as 360buy.com, is a distant second in the Chinese e-commerce market to Alibaba’s shopping sites, Taobao.com and Tmall.com. It was recently revealed that 360buy.com paid $5 Million dollars for the domain name … [Read more...]