FairwindsPartners.com which is a brand consultancy firm and also represented many Brand new gTLD applications, rolled out today a site to "let consumers know what to expect" from the launch of the new gTLD's "Beyondthedot.com is designed to help prepare Internet users for the new web addresses coming at them - because it's likely to be surprising and confusing" The site says: "LOOKING TO … [Read more...]
La Salle U Allows The Direct Match Domain To Be CyberSquatted On for Over 13 Years & It Sells Email Addresses Too
La Salle University won control of it's direct match .com domain name today LasalleUniversity.com in a one member UDRP ruling. The fact that La Salle, won control of this domain isn't the story. The story is it took La Salle over 13 years to even file the UDRP against a domain holder who was not only parking the domain name with results going to other educational links but even sold email … [Read more...]
Microsoft Wins Control Of 13 Bing Domain Names In UDRP: BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com; BingFace.com
Microsoft just won control over 13 domain names infringing on its Bing Trademark. Some of the domains like BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com and BingBrazil.com are easy to see why the company would want the domains. Some others like Bing119.com and BingFace.com are a bit stranger. One domain BingBaidu.com was a double threat infringing on the trademarks of two companies which I assume either … [Read more...]
Cruises.com.au Sells For $102,000 To Company With Over $50 Million In Sales
According to a press release out this morning the Domain name Cruises.com.au, sold for $110,000 AUD (approx. $102,000 USD) in an all cash deal. The domain was brokered by , Dtrade. The domain name was purchased by Ozcruising Pty Ltd which according to the press release is " Australia’s number one online cruise agency with sales exceeding fifty million dollars annually." Another nice … [Read more...]
As The WikiLeaks Movie Gets Set To Open 2 Domainers, Schilling & Howe Get Ready To Cash In
As the movie about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entitled The Fifth Estate, whose URL is TheFifthEstateMovie.com, is getting ready to open 0n October 18, two well known domainers are primed to make some money off the movie which is already getting a lot of buzz. Frank Schilling's Name Administration owns the domain name FifthEstate.com while my Domain Sherpa weekly domain investor co-star … [Read more...]
ThePrive.com Loses Bid To Grab 17 Year Old Prive.com In A UDRP
Fortrend Group LlC of Port Orange, Florida, whose website is located at Theprive.com, lost its bid to grab the generic domain name Prive.com Unfortunately the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and even failed to discuss the issue although the complainant only started in business in 2008, only received a trademark in 2010 and the domain name was registered in 1996 and of course … [Read more...]
CBS.de Sells for $30K on Sedo & Meetings.co.uk Sells For A Measly $1,200
A couple of sales of note crossed the Sedo.com sales wire this morning. The domain name CBS.de sold for 22,015 Euro's or around $30,000. The CBS of course is one of the four Major Television broadcast networks in the United States but can stand for thousands of other things as well. .De is the ccTLD for Germany. It will be interesting to see who the buyer of the domain is. On … [Read more...]