Panel says the company made assertions “that appear to be inaccurate.” A National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled that Indoor Billboard/Northwest, Inc. tried to reverse domain name hijack IndoorBillboard.com in a UDRP. While the Complainant has a trademark for indoor billboard, it told the panel that it was unaware of …
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Sedo auction will help us understand the market for two letter domains. Sedo is running a two letter domain name auction that continues through Thursday, January 27. It will be interesting to see where the market for these short domains is, and the auction will give us some good data. …
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Not the right way to upgrade your domain name. Etrack LLC, which operates a website at by-fy.com, has been found to have tried to reverse domain name hijack the domain name byfy.com. The company has a trademark for byfy with a first use date in 2020. In its UDRP, it …
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DNW provisioning bug impacted hundreds of thousands of domains. Enom, a domain name registrar owned by Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX), has apologized for a botched data center migration and a DNS provisioning bug that took down websites over the weekend. The issue began on Saturday during a planned data center migration. …
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Company reported a strong December for domain sales. Newfold Digital reported its domain sales for December this week. The report does not include sales from the Thought Convergence auction. The company sold a total of $724,000 worth of domains at $2,000 or more, covering 129 domain names. Here are some …
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Canvas will have to switch domain names by tomorrow. Not the actual judge. Perhaps you can forgive United States District Judge Dale A. Kimball for not understanding what goes into changing a web platform’s domain name. But the engineers at Canvas’ headquarters probably won’t. Today, Kimball denied (pdf) a request …
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Owner of valuable Edibles.com domain name turns the tables on Edible Arrangements. The owner of Edibles.com is turning the table on Edible Arrangements. In 2020, fruit basket seller Edible Arrangements filed a trademark lawsuit against World Media Group, LLC over the domain name Edibles.com. Now, World Media Group is fighting …
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Domain investor buys front-page ads in major publication. A front-page ad for namers.com in the Times of India. An Indian entrepreneur has purchased some expensive advertising space to promote his names for sale at namers.com. Sandeep Maheshwari, a motivational speaker who also owns stock image site ImagesBazaar.com, is behind the …
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Payments company acquired bolt.com early in its life. According to statistics gathered by Statista, almost 80% of all online shopping orders in selected industries were abandoned in March 2021, a staggeringly high figure. While some shopping cart abandonment can be attributed to wishful thinking, or just checking how expensive an …
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Several Web3 companies were among end user buyers at Sedo this past week. If you use the term Web3 to encapsulate cryptocurrency, blockchain, NFTs and decentralization, then it’s clear that Web3 companies are very active in the domain aftermarket lately. You’ll see it in the list below. Here’s a list …
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Justice served? Mayo Foundation won rights to a domain name used for pornography. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, part of the famed Mayo Clinic, has won a complaint it filed against the domain name MayoPorno .com. In the complaint filed with National Arbitration Forum, the organization claimed the …
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Group says that it spurred ICANN to take action. As Jeff Neumann commented last week, Dot Hip Hop has withdrawn its reconsideration request regarding the assignment of the .hiphop TLD from Uniregistry to Dot Hip Hop (DHH). It’s only the thirteenth withdrawal of a reconsideration request at ICANN since 1999. …
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Investor Mark Levine shares his domain investing results for 2021. Mark Levine returns to the show today to give a breakdown of his domain sales last year. You’ll hear how many domains he sold, their median price, a breakdown of TLDs (hint: only 55% were .com), and more about his …
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CentralNic reports robust 2021 growth, even accounting for acquisitions. The news keeps getting better for CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC). In Q1 last year, its year-over-year organic revenue growth was 16%. In Q2, 25%. In Q3, the company reported that its year-to-date organic growth was 29%. Today, it announced full-year organic …
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Company that sold its assets to GoDaddy is returning cash to shareholders and winding down its operations. MMX (AIM: MMX), aka Minds + Machines, is offering its remaining shareholders 10.4 pence per share to surrender their equity in the company. The top level domain name company sold its domain names …
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Shares in Directions.com will be offered on Friday. Investing in a fraction of a domain name is about to become closer to reality. Tomorrow, fractional ownership platform Rally will sell shares in the domain name Directions.com. Investors can chip in as little as $10 for up to 14,000 shares in …
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