International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) just lost a UDRP in an attempted grab of the domain name OpenPower.org against White Label Energy GmbH The UDRP decision was originally published in German. Although IBM had a trademark on the term OPEN POWER which predated the domain name registration by some five years, the one member panel noted that IBM abandoned its Open Power product in … [Read more...]
Founder Of Oversee Launched RTB.com (Real Time Bidding)
According to Mediapost.com, the co-founder of Oversee.net, Fred Hsu, new company officially launched RTB.com today which stands for Real Time Bidding. The domain name appears have been acquired last year from Telepathy, Inc for what I would guess was a six figure sale. Hsu, RTB.com founder told MediaPost the focus of the company "now turns toward building out hyper-targeting capabilities by … [Read more...]
AtFirstSight.com Purchased For $5,400 Is New App Of Bachelor Host & Demand Co-Founder
"The Bachelor" host Chris Harrison, together with the show's creator Mike Fleiss and Perceptual Networks, announced the launch of At First Sight, a new dating app that uses video profiles to help members make genuine connections. The domain name AtFirstSight.com which is now the URL for the App, was purchased just a month ago on Afternic.com for $5,400 and is currently under privacy at … [Read more...]
Brand.com Is Sold & Brands.com Is For Sale (Bring A Big Checkbook)
According to TechCrunch.com last night and later covered by Morgan Linton, The domain name Brand.com sold for six figures to Reputation Changer online reputation management company. Seems like a Bargain and great domain. Today it seems the domain name Brands.com is for sale as well. But forget about paying six figures for that domain as the site prominently says: ""For The First Time … [Read more...]
XM.com Purchased By XEMarkets, A Brand of Trading Point
Trading Point of Financial Instruments Ltd of London, has acquired the two-letter domain name XM.COM as the short name for XEMarkets for an undisclosed amount. This marks the two letter .com to have sold in the past month as IG.com traded hand to another UK based financial services company. Although the terms of that deal were no announced the buyer said it was the second highest amount ever … [Read more...]
100 New gTLD Pass IE: Moscow, .Wales; .Lol; .NBA; .Target; .HSBC; .Ninja
ICANN released another set of results from Initial Evaluations (IE) with 100 new gTLD applications passing and 1 getting the dreaded eligible for extended evaluation. Highlighting those applications passing today are: The Geo's .Moscow, .Wales and .Istanbul. Generic's include Google's application for .mom; and .lol; Amazon's controversial closed application for .Book and my personal … [Read more...]
BuyDomains.com Loses UDRP On 10 Tear Old Domain Name Frize.com
The Complainant Sumol+Compal Marcas, S.A. of Carnaxide, Portugal, just won a UDRP against BuyDomains.com on the domain name Frize.com This is actually the 2nd UDRP Buydomains.com lost this week, earlier this week they voluntarily handed over the domain name gamewinner.org but since it was a published UDRP decision is counts as a loss. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three … [Read more...]