Not counting the ICANN Independent Objector that filed 23 formal objections to new gTLD's, Commercial Connect LLC and applicant for the new gTLD .Shop filed the most objections to new gTLD applications. Commercial Connect filed objections to the following applications: BUY Charleston Road Registry Inc. ECOM Ecommerce Inc. FORSALE DERForsale, LLC SALE Dot-Sale … [Read more...]
Wantable.com Purchased For $47K is Being Forwarded To Wantable.Co
The domain name Wantable.com sold this week on Sedo.com for $47,000 certainly a nice price for that domain. The Domain was purchased by Wantable.co, LLC of Milwaukee Wisconsin . You might thing that it was an "upgrade" acquisition by a .Co site to the .Com. However Wantable.com is being forwarded to Wantable.co We are all used to seeing .com owners buying .co domain names as defensive … [Read more...]
Microsoft Doesn’t Like Google’s Dotless .Search But Supports The GAC’s Move Against Closed Generics
Microsoft issued the following statement exclusively to TheDomains.com last night regarding events this week in at ICANN: “As the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to ICANN recommended this week, it is contrary to the free and open ideals of the Internet for a private commercial entity to act as gatekeeper to domains that consist of generic industry terms like .search, .cloud or … [Read more...]
Md.org Sells for $555,655 in an All Time Record For Namejet.com
The two letter domain MD.org name just sold for $555,5650 in what we think is an all time record for a sale on Namejet.com Interestingly its one of the only .Org domains to sell in the past two weeks on Godaddy.com or Namejet.com each of which had single letter and single numbered .org domains for sale with what appears to be reserves of $50K each. We are pretty sure that bidding on Md.Org … [Read more...]
Is National A-1 One of Bidders for Md.org?
The domain name auction for Md.org is still going on now topping $525,000 and it appears one the bidders is National A-1 National A-1 owns the domain name Free.com (now under privacy) and one of the two bidder for the domain name is FreeDotCom As to the other bidder for MD.org my money is on the group that recently launched Md.com … [Read more...]
38 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evalutions: 1st Non-IDN’s Passed is .Play: .Church & .Mormon Pass Too
39 more New gTLD applications have passed ICANN's Initial Evaluation (IE) and for the record the first non-IDN new gTLD extension to pass IE, is Amazon's application for .Play. Other applications passing today are for the generic .Party, .Energy, .Food Some of the new religion new gTLD's passed today as well as both .Mormon.and .Church passed IE Other generic applications passing today … [Read more...]
Ambit.com Purchaed In 2010 Saved in UDRP From Billion Dollar Company
Ambit Holdings, L.L.C. who held a trademark on the term Ambit just lost a UDRP on the domain name ambit.com The domain holder which also formed a corporation named Ambit some how was able to acquire a domain name in 2010, that the trademark holder with a BILLION dollars in sales failed to do. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel Complainant is an electricity … [Read more...]