After taking a beating in the media for registering the matching .com domain name of the Royal Baby GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com it seems the Royal's don't want the domain even for free. In a message sent from Buckingham Palace to Luc Biggs of of key-domains.com they politely declined to take the domain name for free. The wording of the response is pretty much to the effect that the Royal's … [Read more...]
.PW Becomes First TLD To Adopt Uniform Rapid Suspension
The .pw Registry just announced it is the first TLD to adopt ICANN’s latest rights protection mechanism, the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS). The URS is in the Applicant Gudebook for new gTLD's. "The URS seeks to provide trademark holders with faster protection against infringement than the existing Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). " "While the UDRP, a more expensive and … [Read more...]
How To Blow $50K In Domain Registrations
Virtual Planet of Mill Valley, CA is dropping 103 domain names all registered at NetworkSolutions.com for 13 years. The normal registration renewal prices of NSI is $35 a year. That comes to a total of almost $50,000 for these domains. The kicker maybe that the domain holder does not even seem to be the owner of virtualplanet.com a domain that has been registered since … [Read more...]
Orbitz Loses UDRP on Orbotz.com Parked For Last Five Years
Orbitz Worldwide, LLC which was represented by CitizenHawk, Inc., just lost a UDRP on the domain name Obotz.com a domain which has been parked for the last five years. How could a UDRP panel reject the claim of Orbitz you ask well the domain holder registered the domain back in 2001 "with the intention of developing a series of stories about robots called “Orbotz” on a planet in outer … [Read more...]
GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com Is Getting 7,500 Daily Visitors: Owner: “I’ll Probably End up Donating it to the Royal Family”
According to the owner of the domain name GeorgeAlexanderLouis.com, the domain is getting around 7,500 Unique visitors a day. Moreover in a comment to TheDomains.com on a post we wrote about Royal Baby names being registered just minutes after the Royal Baby's name was announced, the Owner of the domain name, Luc-Andre Biggs of of key-domains.com said: "I'll probably end up donating it to … [Read more...]
15 Year Old MusicZoo.com Saved IN URDP Challege From TheMusicZoo.com
The Music Zoo Corporation whose website is TheMusicZoo.com just lost a UDRP on the domain name MusicZoo.com which was registered way back in December 8, 1998. The Complainant, had a trademark for both MUSIC ZOO and THE MUSIC ZOO however the trademark for the MUSIC ZOO wasn't filed until October 7, 2010, & registered November 8, 2011 and for the THE MUSIC ZOO which was filed October 7, … [Read more...]
You Hate Obama?: Check Out The Links Network Solutions Is Serving Up On JoeBiden’s Expired Domain
Elliotsblog.com reported today that the domain name matching of the Vice President of the United States JoeBiden.com expired and could be heading for auction. I checked out the parked page that NetworkSolutions.com is serving up now that they as the registrar are in control of the expired domain name. I couldn't help but notice some links on the parked page that will probably not exactly … [Read more...]