Its over 5 months now since a UDRP was filed on the two letter domain name, YU.com. The complaint which was filed on December 11, 2012 with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). We wrote about the UDRP when it was filed back in December noting that it seemed like an attempted Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) situation. The domain name is still going to a Hit Farm page … [Read more...]
.Lu (Luxembourg) Domain Names Subject To A 1 Year Freeze Upon Complaint
According to Lexology.com, starting on June 11, 2013, the .Lu registry will "freeze" a .lu domain name, preventing it from being transferred, sold or traded to another party for an initial period of 1 year upon receipt of a dispute from a party claiming to have rights to the domain. Lu is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Luxembourg. This freezing period must allow the claimant … [Read more...]
According To Estibot.com TRAFFIC Auction List Is Valued At $1,850,000
Today the organizers of TRAFFIC released the list of domain names to be auctioned off during the TRAFFIC Vegas conference which is being held from May 28th-June 1 at the Bellagio Hotel. The auction will be held on May 30th from 2PM-4PM Local time, in Las Vegas. "More than 50% of the list has NO RESERVE and will sell to the highest bidder. " "You can bid in person, by text, by email or by … [Read more...]
Sedo Reports: Domain Revenue Down 14%; Domains For Sale Up Tp 16.6 M
Sedo Holding AG published its consolidated financial results for first three months 2013. Although total Revenue grew of 7.3% to EUR 36.9 million, "This growth was particularly driven by the Affiliate Marketing segment." "The Domain Marketing segment was down 14.1% , to EUR 7.3 million compared with the previous year's EUR 8.5 million of revenue." "The Domain Marketing segment remained … [Read more...]
Radix Withdraws New gTLD Application For .Movie
Radix which had applied for 31 new gTLD's has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Movie. Radix application for .Movie had a prioritization number of 592. There are 7 other applicants for the .movie new gTLD including Google, Amazon, Famous Four, Straat Investments which is associated with the .Co registry, Donuts and Dish Network. Radix announced a month ago that it was joining … [Read more...]
UDRP Files Against Two Letter Domain Name SM.net
A UDRP was just filed yesterday the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name SM.net The domain name is owned by a M.A. Stenzel (info@topname.com) of Kahului, Hawaii and has been owned by him since at least 2003 but could go as far back as 1999. The domain name is parked and not surprisingly goes to a page full of adult links as S & M is well known as being an … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Many Domain Names Will Exist By The End of 2016?
Yesterday we published a blog post about Pinky Brand's prediction for how many domain names will be in existence by the end of 2016 Pinky's prediction was 408.5 Million domain names in the zone files by the end of 2016 including 73.6 million from new gTLD's Current there are 252 million domain names in existence including all the TLD's and ccTLD's but obviously the new gTLD's are yet to … [Read more...]