Valideus which is private company "currently managing 5% of all new gTLD applications", including Amazon's sent a letter to ICANN asking for a lot of details on ICANN’s "Last Resort Auctions" which are scheduled to begin in mid-October. Included in the requests are many valid concerns about the amount of the deposits that will be required to participate in the auction, who will hold the funds, … [Read more...]
Trademark Loses UDRP On Direct Match Domain Bongrille.com Used As A “Sucks” Site
Deskan S/A of Nassau, the Bahamas, which owns a trademark to the term Bon Grille In Brazil lost a UDRP seeking 3 domain names including the direct match domain bongrille.com. The other 2 domains sort in the UDRP were franquiabongrille.com and franquiabg.com The domain bongrille.com is basically a 'sucks" type of site and the panel engaged in a very interesting discussion of free speech and … [Read more...]
9 Year Old TeleFire.com Saved In UDRP Despite Seller Asking $70K
A Telefire Fire & Gas Detectors Ltd. of Petach Tikva, Israel just lost a one member panel UDRP decision on the domain name Telefire.com in what in my opinion was a unnecessarily long opinion. The Panelist basically calls out the Complainant attorney's for doing a poor job of presenting the case and providing the panel with evidence that would have potentially changed the result and … [Read more...]
Marchex’s Archeo Puts Up Its Zip Code Portfolio For Sale After Selling 1 Domain In The $50K-$100K Range
As I reported earlier today, Marchex's (NASDAQ: MCHX) Archeo unit put up over 200,000 domains for sale on its new marketplace archeodomains.com. Yesterday in my chat with Rod Diefendorf the COO of Marchex I asked about Marchex project involving thousands of Zip Code .com domain names they company has acquired. Basically that project is off the table and all the Zip Code domains are for … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $930K Led By URFA.com For $30K
Over the past week, 639 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $930,000. This amounts to $47,3m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 46% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Sedo wants to congratulate the buyer of urfa.com: Urfa is a city in the south-east of Turkey with a long ancient history. It is close to the Euphrates River and the … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $970K in Domains Led By HomesInc.com For $15K
Afternic.com just reported its weekly domain sales for the week of 9/2/13 – 9/8/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $968,810. Here are the reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
Nominet Opens Comment Period On Whether .UK Domains Should Contain “Offensive Words”
Nominet which runs the .Uk domain naming system, just opened up a comment period on whether .UK domain names should be allowed to contain "offensive words or phrases". "Nominet is today launching a review of its registration policy for .uk domain names. " "The scope of the review focuses on whether there should be restrictions on the words and expressions permitted in .uk domain name … [Read more...]