Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/8/13 – 7/14/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,073,756. The highest sale was ahn.org which sold for $50,000, followed by Baseball24.com for $15,000. Here is the full list of reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
MSNBC Does On Air Interview With Political Domainer Michael Deutsch
A few days ago the Nationaljournal.com wrote a story about political domainer Michael Deutsch who has over 1,800 domain names including naturalcondom.com to yankeestadium.com to drinkmilk.com to stemcellresearch.com. Today MSNBC did on air interview for over 5 minutes with Mr. Deutsch about his domain activities. Here it is: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about … [Read more...]
ICANN Still Has No Idea What’s Its Going To Do With The Surplus From New gTLD Fees & Auctions
We have been saying for quite sometime that ICANN has not committed on how what its going to do with the surplus from the new gTLD program and today at the ICANN meeting in Durban ICANN confirmed it. Speaker at the meeting of the ICANN Board and Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) Steve Crocker Chairman of the Board of ICANN stated: "Although there's a lot of money that's been raised, … [Read more...]
9 Year Old Domain Rive.com Saved in UDRP; TM Holder: Domainer Is a CyberSquatter “He Owns At Least 25 Domains”
Rive, LLC lost its bid to take away the domain name Rive.com from the domain owner who registered it back in 2004, based on a trademark registered with the USPTO, on August 23, 2011 The Complainant argued that the domain owner registered and used the domain name in bad faith, "because Respondent attempted to sell the domain name for $45,500, fails to make an active use of the domain name, and … [Read more...]
AspenHeights.com Saved In UDRP But No RDNH Because of Non-Response to Emails
BRG Partners, LP (“Complainant”), lost its attempt to take the domain AspenHeights.com away from Wild Escape Theme Park who was represented by Traverse Legal. However the panel found the lack of response to the Complainant's emails was somehow fatal to a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). The Complainant had a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office … [Read more...]
Slam Dunk: GoodTherapy.org Loses UDRP To Grab GoodTherapy.com
Over a month ago we told you about the UDRP filed by GoodTherapy.org, LLC to grab the .com version of the domain. Tonight the UDRP decision is out GoodTherapy.org lost its attempt to grab the domain GoodTherapy.com, without the domain owner even filing a response. Although the .Org domain holder had a registered trademark with the USPTO, the trademark wasn't registered until January 9, 2007 … [Read more...]
GoDaddy: First Major Registrar to Sign ICANN’s New Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA)
According to a press release we received, GoDaddy, announced today it was the first major registrar to sign ICANN's new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The new agreement provides customers a better experience, allows registrars to offer the upcoming new gTLDs and sets the standard for the future of the Internet. Signing the new agreement enables GoDaddy to offer the new top level … [Read more...]