ICANN has published it's Federal tax return form 990 for the tax year ending on June 30, 2012 all 68 pages of it. According to the filing, ICANN ended its fiscal year with $466 Million in Assets and $388 Million in Liabilities therefore showing a net asset balance of over $83 Million up $3 Million from the year before. ICANN paid almost $28 Million in Salaries including $7.1 Million paid … [Read more...]
3 More New gTLD Withdraw; .Inc, .Ltd and .Mail
3 More new gTLD applications have been withdrawn on the ICANN site. C.V. TLDcare out of the Netherlands withdrew its two new gTLD applications for .Ltd and .Inc Prioritization numbers for the two applications were 1,381 and 1,503 respectively Afilias, also withdrew its application for the .Mail new gTLD which had a prioritization number of 1,724 This marks the second withdrawn … [Read more...]
United Press UDRP For UpiPhoto.com Denied Based On Laches
United Press International, Inc. attempt to grab the domain name upiphoto.com from the United Photographers Internationals of Greece was just denied by a one member UDRP panel to which the domain holder didn't even respond. It seems the panel on its own found the domain name which has been used by the domain holder to sell photos since 2008 was barred by the doctrine of Laches. "Complainant … [Read more...]
Afternic Sells $1M In Domain Names Led By FreeBackup.com For $45K
Afternic’s just published its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 5/06/13 – 5/12/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,009,097 Sales were led by FreeBackup.com which sold for $45,000 which was sold by Frank Schilling's Name Administration (they still own FreeBackups.com) on the other hand the domain name … [Read more...]
Guy Registers TM Infringing Domain At The Same Registrar The Domain Infringes On
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) just won a UDRP on the domain name TheBulkRegister.com against The Bulk Register of Ontario, Canada and we have our first nominee for our 2013 "Not the Sharpest Tool In the Shed Award." Demand Media, Inc. owns the domain name registrars Enom and BulkRegister.com. Its a pretty easy win for Demand as it has a trademark for the term BULKREGISTER based on its … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Totoal $1.15M Led By iPark.com For $23K
Sedo just reported that 677 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.15m for last week. Sales were led by iPark.com at $23K. A .travel domain made a rare appearance with the domain name NewYork.Travel selling for $5K Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: ipark.com … [Read more...]
Marchex & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP Challenge On WebAnywhere.com
Marchex Sales, LLC (“Respondent”), represented by John Berryhill just beat back a UDRP on the domain name WebAnywhere.com that was brought by Webanywhere Ltd of the UK. At the end of the day this was a slam dunk case decided by a three member panel with the only remaining question is why the panel didn't find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. WebAnywhere trademark in the UK was registered in … [Read more...]