Afternic, announced their partnership with Directi, the largest domain registrar in Asia and seventh-largest registrar in the world. Directi will join the Afternic reseller network as a Premium Partner, incorporating Afternic’s vast inventory of premium domains for sale through their BigRock brand. This exclusive relationship brings premium domains to India for the first time, opening up new … [Read more...]
H2.Co Launched By Linkedin Co-Founder & Ex-Google, Verisign, Apple Executives
Another .Co is in the news today as H2.co announced its holding its inaugural meeting at LinkedIn's global headquarters in Silicon Valley in October 2013. Talk about name dropping. Lets start with Reid Hoffman who is a Partner at Greylock and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn Then we move over to Nayan Patel and Jeff Merkel who between them are ex-Google, Verisign and Apple … [Read more...]
Ron Paul Loses Both UDRP’s On Ronpaul.com and Ronpaul.org
In two UDRP decisions that are expected to be published later today, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) denied Congressman's Ron Paul, bid to obtain the domain names RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org The Congressman filed two UDRP's one for both of the domain name RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org against Whois Privacy Services Pty Ltd / JNR Corp and another UDRP on just the domain name … [Read more...]
Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Owns Over 5% Of Verisign
Back In February we told you that Warren Buffets's Berkshire Hathaway purchased 3,685,700 shares of Verisign (VRSN) which at the time of acquisition represented an investment of around $165 Million dollars. Today according to Cnbc.com, Berkshire Hathaway added another 4.49 million shares last quarter and now owns 5.35% of VeriSign. ""While the introduction of a new category of "top level … [Read more...]
Bill Sweetman Consulting Firm Name Ninja Launches
After resigning from his vice president’s role at Tucows to pursue his passion for domain name strategy, respected domain name expert Bill Sweetman has unveiled Name Ninja (www.nameninja.com), a boutique domain name consulting firm that officially launches today. “With the massive expansion of the Internet namespace due to the upcoming rollout of hundreds of new generic Top-Level Domains … [Read more...]
Veko.com Lost In UDRP: Domain Was Parked, For Sale & Owner Was Domainer
Veko Lightsystems International B.V. was awarded the domain name Veko.com by a one member UDRP panel The Complainant won the case based off of a Benelux trademark issued February 20, 2002. A Benelux trademark is about the easiest trademarks to get an usually a jurisdiction someone runs to if they have a weak claim for the trademark especially if they need one in a hurry. The panel put a … [Read more...]
Over 30 Domains Related To Oklahoma Tornado The Good, Bad & Ugly
Just about 48 hours after one of the worst Tornado's in US history hit the ground in Moore Oklahoma killing children, adults and causing over $1 Billion in damage, we found over 30 .com and .net and .org domain names registered which gives the indication they are for charitable or relief purposes. However scanning though all the registrations and sites on the domains only three seem to have … [Read more...]