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Efty Launches New For-sale Landing Pages
January 5, 2016 @ 5:31 AMEfty announced today that they just pushed the launch button on a first-of-its-kind service in the industry, offering a For-Sale landing page theme gallery for all of your domains in Efty. The theme gallery will allow you to host a…
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Rightside to Auction "XYZ" Domains at Namescon
January 5, 2016 @ 1:22 AM.xyz made a bit of a splash with domain investors in 2015, but is the meaningless string “xyz” inherently attractive? Even at the second level? Rightside seems to think so. The registry, which does not operate .xyz, is planning to auction at least four “xyz” domains during next Monday’s live auction at the NamesCon conference…
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Namejet.com Has Record Breaking Month Reporting Almost $3 Million in Sales
January 4, 2016 @ 8:56 PMNamejet.com reported its sales for December 2015, selling 383 sales at $2k and above for a total of $2,964,861, nearly double their previous record breaking month of November, 2015. Namejet only reports on sales of $2,000 or more. 23 of the top 40 domain names were for three letter .com (LLL.com) domains, of the remaining…
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1st Reverse Domain Hijacking Finding of The Year & Bretzel Ditsch GmbH of Germany is Guilty
January 4, 2016 @ 9:14 AMBretzel Ditsch GmbH from Mainz, Germany, represented by Horak Attorneys, Germany was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Ditsch.com which was registered on June 28, 1998. To the best of our knowledge this is the first RDNH finding of 2016 (although the decision was entered on December 24th but just…
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Stanley Pace Sues for Alleged Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
January 4, 2016 @ 7:46 AMPace sues after losing UDRP to dancewear company. Stanley Pace, a Texas resident who has faced his fair share of UDRP complaints, lost another one last month. A three member UDRP panel ordered the domain name Yumiko.com transferred to dancewear company Yumiko, LLC. He’s fighting back to halt the transfer and is asking for damages…
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Another UDRP That Should Have Never Been Filed
January 4, 2016 @ 6:37 AMiCloak.com was registered many years before the complainant had rights to iCloak. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has rejected a UDRP for the domain name iCloak.com. It’s another example of a case that was dead on arrival, and one that future UDRP rules should prevent from being filed. Simply put, the complainant tried to…
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Google Finally Acquires Alphabetinc.com
January 1, 2016 @ 6:26 AMGoogle finally acquired a domain name you thought it would have gotten well before its run on buying Alphabet domains, Alphabetinc.com. As we have been reporting Google since launching abc.xyz as the website for its holding company Alphabet, Inc has been acquiring all letter of the Alphabet they could get and now owns 20 of…
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Take-two Interactive Registers Genesis Domain Names
December 30, 2015 @ 8:57 AMCompany registers 10 “Genesis” domain names. Take-Two Interactive Software, maker of the popular Grand Theft Auto and Bioshock games, registered a number of domain names related to “Genesis” yesterday: genesis-dedication.com genesis-home.com genesis-honor.com genesis-medic.com genesis-remote.com genesis-rise.com genesis-slab.com genesis-soul.com genesis-spring.com genesis-zmen.com Oddly, the company didn’t register any of the unhyphenated versions of these domain names. My days…
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StinkySocks.com UDRP Was a Stinker
December 30, 2015 @ 7:52 AMDomain registered at least 6 years before hockey league was created. No surprise here: a National Arbitration Forum panel has determined that a case against StinkySocks.com was a stinker. Complainant The Trimount Company, Inc DBA StinkySocks Hockey, runs an adult hockey league in Boston. It started using the StinkySocks name as early as 2006. The…
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TGW.com Saved in Weird UDRP
December 29, 2015 @ 6:55 AMNo reverse domain name hijacking, but TGW.com to remain with owner. A three-person National Arbitration Forum panel has denied a case seeking transfer of TGW.com and thegolfwarehouse.com. The complainant, RG Golf, Inc. (“Complainant”) filed the case against The Golf Warehouse, Inc. The Golf Warehouse has owned the domain names since 1997. But there’s a bit…
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