In a news release today DomainNameSales.com announced a new 2.5 version of their site. The new site has a lot of information is quite interactive for each of the domain names as a buyer you're inquiring about. As a buyer you get a sales pitch, why you should buy the domain. It's quite ingenious. Take the domain name 4x4pictures.com. This is what DomainNameSales.com says about … [Read more...]
Florida DOT Forgets To Renew FDOTDocuments.com Which Is “Now Owned By Germans”
According to mdwcomm.com, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) forgot to renew the domain name, FDOTDocuments.com, "which is featured on their new Toll-By-Plate billing mailers! and is now owned by Germans" Actually a company from Germany "DomCollect AG" which the author of the article describes as a company which "has a history of domain hijacking" is now the owner of the domain … [Read more...]
Genova.com Sells For $17K on NameJet.com
The domain name Genova.com sold on NameJet.com yesterday for $16,998. Genova is a city in Italy which is "Sandwiched between the sea and the Ligurian hills, Genova spreads upwards from the port, a jumble of a city with a long and chequered history. The European Capital of Culture in 2004, Genova has dozens of museums and galleries, a renowned theatre, and the largest aquarium in Europe. The … [Read more...]
MyBank.com Hit With UDRP
A UDRP has been filed on the domain name MyBank.com. The domain just came off of privacy days ago at Moniker.com MyBank.com was under privacy since 2009 before privacy was removed a few days ago. MyBank.com back in 2009 was owned by another party than currently appears to hold the domain. The domain shows a original registration date of 2002 when it was owned by Berea National Bank … [Read more...]
Donuts Loses 3rd Private Auction As Their Application For .College Is Withdrawn
It appears that Donuts has lost is 3rd private auction as their application for the new gTLD .College was withdrawn from ICANN site today. Yesterday we reported that Donuts was one of the losing bidders for the new gTLD .Club which was won by .Club Domains, LLC. The day before we noted that another Donuts Application was withdrawn for .Vote which we figured at the time was the result of a … [Read more...]
113 New gTLD Pass IE: .London; .Windows; .Bloomberg; .Broadway; .Ferrari; .Sony; .Samsung
113 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today. The winner of the day might be Uniregistry which had 12 applications pass IE today which had been previously passed over. Today also saw the most number of previous passed over applications passing IE, by my count 28, thereby making 113 applications passing IE with only 100 new gTLD application being evaluated Other … [Read more...]
Marchex Gets Hit With UDRP On ZoomTv.com By Owners Of Times Of India
A UDRP has just been filed by Television Division of Bennett, Coleman & Company Limited against Marchex on the domain name ZoomTv.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). If you thought that the complainant of the UDRP is the owner of Zoom.tv you would be wrong. That domain is owned by Herethereandeverywhere, Inc The complainant however is no small fry. The … [Read more...]