Andtech Corporation just lost its attempt to grab the domain name andtech.com from the domain owner Portmedia Domains/Portmedia Holdings Ltd which was represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com The Complainant Andtech got its trademark on Christmas Day 2012. The domain name owner registered the domain September 4, 2003. The Complaint offered $1,000 for the domain and the domain owner … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Oversteps Its Authority & Transfers 17 Year Old Murko.com
UDRP's were to settle clear cut disputes for trademark holders where a matching domain name or one which was confusing similar. I think this panel has gone way beyond a set of facts that qualifies for simple in awarding a domain name murko.com registered some 17 years ago back in 1997 to a complainant on common law trademark rights grounds. Moreover for to order a transfer of a domain name … [Read more...]
Famous Four Open Its First New gTLD .Bid & You Can Bid To Own The Domain
FFM today announced a "reservation program" .Bid called Bid on .Bid The .BID Reservation program is split into two phases: Bid-on-.BID and First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) Bid-on-.BID When? From 14:00 UTC on 20th January 2014 until 10:00 UTC on 14th February 2014 Registrants are invited to submit their bids for .BID second level domains through participating ICANN accredited … [Read more...]
CM.CN leads Premium .CN Auction Selling for $176,103
NiceNic.net posted the latest results for the English word domain .cn domain auctions along with the Premium .CN domain auctions. These were domains previously reserved by CNNIC. The current exchange rate: 1 CNY = 0.165240 USD See below the latest 2014 Premium .CN domain sales list and their final bidding prices in CNY: cm.cn 1,066,000 one.cn 1,004,000 shop.cn … [Read more...]
SlideShare.net voted #1 in the .NET100
Verisign and Entrepreneur put together .Net100 and apparently the votes are in for the top ranked .net sites on the Internet. Coming in at number 1 was SlideShare.net. The site has an Alexa ranking of 118 and is a very popular resource for those looking to create slideshow presentations. Welcome to the .Net100 - a ranking that measures the top sites on the web with the .net domain extension. … [Read more...]
WhizzBangsBlog Is Back & Says Domainfest Will Be Held March 31- April 2, 2014
Michael Gilmour has been hard at work for a relaunch of WhizzBangsBlog.com as a website with a social networking platform and is reporting that there will indeed be a Domainfest and it will be held on March 31st-April 3rd 2014. In a post Michael Says: "DomainFest is announced! The dates are 31st March until 2nd April. Further details to follow. :-)" As far as WhizzBangsBlog, the blog is … [Read more...]
ICANN BC Committee Tells ICANN Not To Allow Singular & Plurals Strings (Again)
Elisa Cooper the Chair of the ICANN Business Constituency has told ICANN (again) not to allow singular and plural's strings of the same word. The letter dated December 30, 2013 was just published yesterday on ICANN' site yesterday. We at TheDomains.com previously stated that allowing singular and plural strings of the same word i.e. .car and .cars was going to be a huge mess and was one … [Read more...]