Montblanc the luxury pen maker filed a federal lawsuit today in the Virginia Eastern District Court against a bunch of domain holders for CyberSquatting under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) seeking control of the domain names, $100,000 statutory damages for each domain name and attorney fees Here are the domain names subject to the … [Read more...]
H2O.com/H20.com Gets A $200K Bid On Flippa
The domain names H20.com and H2O.com (one with the zero and the other with the letter O) are at auction at Flippa.com and has gotten a high bid as of publication of $200,000. The domain name has not hit reserve. In all there are 10 bidders on the domain name and 3 bidders who have bid $125K or more The auction closes on September 18th. Estibot.com values the domain names are $19,000 … [Read more...]
Infiniti Retail Limited of Mumbai Guilty Of RDNH On 17 Year Old Domain Croma.com
Infiniti Retail Limited of Mumbai, India, represented by Anand & Anand, India was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. We don't need to bore you with the details. The domain name was registered on October 3, 1996 some 17 years ago, for use in connection with a business called Croma Web Services which operated from or around February 1997. This website subsequently … [Read more...]
2.5 Million New Followers Of Twitter Accounts In Last 30 Days Can’t Be Wrong; Domains Are Hot
TheDomains.com has maintained a Twitter account for just about as long I we have been publishing the blog which is coming up to 6 years. In the last 30 days I have noticed a huge spike in new followers to @thedomains that have a huge amount of followers themselves. These are business oriented accounts, publications, money making guru's and people from outside the domain name … [Read more...]
TM Holder Pay Thousands Of Dollars To Get ConsumentengidsOnline2013.com In UDRP
Trademark holders, god love them. I still have a hard time understanding how large companies think, operate and spent their money when it comes to domain name and brand protection. Today we have a company Consumentenbond of The Hague, who has a trademark on the term Consumentengids that went out and spent thousands of dollars in filing and attorney fees and won a UDRP on the domain name … [Read more...]
ICANN Sends Breach Notice To A Top 10 Domain Name Registrar, Register.com
ICANN sent a "Breach Notice" to Register.com yesterday giving the domain name registrar until October 2nd, to provide information to ICANN and cure the Breaches or face a possible Registrar termination. Register.com is owned by Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and is a top 10 domain name registrar in terms of domain name under management. Shares of Web.com traded down just about 4% in trading … [Read more...]
GAC Tells ICANN It Can Proceed Normal Evalution Process On .Wine and .Vin
The "GAC agreed in Durban to set a firm deadline for providing a potential safeguard advice regarding .wine and .vin. and in a letter to ICANN today, the Governmental Advisory Counsel, (GAC) advised the ICANN Board that the GAC has finalized its consideration of the strings .wine and .vin and "further advises that the applications should proceed through the normal evaluation process" The letter … [Read more...]