Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact    Latest News EU,US and Hong Kong authorities work together to take down counterfeit websites Time Magazine is reporting that European and U.S. authorities have cracked down on another group of websites that traffic in counterfeit goods. This continues to be an ongoing battle between authorities and the counterfeiters who have networks all throughout the world. From the article: “These websites were set up to dupe consumers i... The Domains - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 13:33 Hosting Company XBT.com Is The Buyer Of Servers.com For $300,000 The buyer of the domain name Servers.com has issued a press release about its $300,000 acquisition of the domain. XBT, whose website is XBT.com “one of the largest dedicated hosting, IP Transit and co-location provider of the European Union” acquired the domain name servers.com for 300.000 US dollars “as a highest b... The Domains - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 10:4 Kim Dot Com’s Mega.co.nz Is Buyer of Mega.co Sold For $60K Just over two weeks ago we reported that the domain name Mega.co was sold for $60,000 to JustCloud.com However today the domain name Mega.co is being forwarded to Kim Dot Com’s Mega.co.nz. cloud service. For Mega.com acquiring the domain name Mega.co makes a lot of sense not just as a URL shorterner, but I’m sure there wa... The Domains - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 9:56 12 Year old 8×8.net Lost in UDRP, Panel Rejects Laches 8×8, Inc. (“Complainant”), owner of the domain name 8×8.com just won a three member panel against 8×8 Mediacom Services Ltd  represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com, New Jersey, USA on the domain name 8×8.net which was registered back on August 8, 2001. Complainant states that it provides hosted business VOIP... The Domains - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 9:27 Go Daddy Auctions November Domain Market Report led by Surpass.com Go Daddy sells 39,077 domains in November vs 40,575 in October. It is interesting to note that October got adjusted up from 39,830. The top sale was surpass.com for $50,000. The domain was registered in 1997 and was purchased by BTL Group, its already developed into a website that helps universities in Europe with e-assessment. (Clic... The Domains - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 1:33 From An $11K Sale In 2004 Curious.com Sold Launched in May Gets $7.5 Million In Funding & Is Cove... Curious.com was which  just been covered by Forbes.com,  as after launching in May and now having raised $7.5 Million, has a pretty Curious past of its own. On the business front Curious.com was cofounded by Justin Kitch, Chief Technology Officer Thai Bui, and engineering chief John Tokash. Kitch and Bui were cofounders and Tokash an... The Domains - Sunday, December 1, 2013 - 10:49 Here’s a Mainstream Publication That Gets The Value Of Domains: Hope.com, Alert.com, Usher.com, W... bizjournals.com, covered what they considered to be very successful companies located in DC that own great domains in a post entitled  “The golden domain names of D.C. Tech” I quite an opposite approach to the Forbes article which portrayed those that acquired great domain names in the 1990′s as less than great busi... The Domains - Friday, November 29, 2013 - 9:2 Troubling: UDRP Panel Hands Over Generic Domain RainForest.es Rain Forest , SL of  Madrid, Spain just won the UDRP lottery and got the generic domain name RainForest.es The decision was handed down in Spanish and we used Google translate into English The panelist Albert Agustinoy Guilayn has some pretty disturbing language in this decision: The Respondent is the holder of many generic domain ... The Domains - Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 11:12 UDRP Panel Refuses To Let BuyDomains Give Up Domain & Issues Ruling Against It on Shiseido.net A one member UDRP panel refused to allow BuyDomains.com to unilateral consent to transfer the Domain Name Shiseido.net to the Complainant, Shiseido Company of Tokyo, Japan, and went ahead and issued its opinion ordering the transfer of the domain. BuyDomains.com tried to agree to the consent to transfer while still maintaining that i... The Domains - Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 10:15 Richard P. Glass, Jr. Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On Petfinity.com Registered in 1999 Richard P. Glass, Jr., represented by Charles F. Meroni, Jr. of Meroni & Meroni, P.C., Illinois, USA has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name Petfinity.com The complainant based his claim on a trademark registered in 2013. The domain name was registered on September 24, 1999. The Pane... The Domains - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 18:25 Maker of GRAND THEFT AUTO Loses UDRP On Gta.tv Panel Finds It Stands For “Great Toronto Area” Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. the maker of Grand Theft Auto just lost a UDRP on the domain, gta.tv (the “Registrar”). The disputed domain name was registered on March 19, 2010. The Respondent also owns some domain names since 2009, particularly the following: DOMAIN NAME gtanews.com and gta411.com The Complainant argues the fol... The Domains - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 13:29 Google Sued For Trademark Infringement Over Its Hangout Service By Hanginout Damages & Retraining... Hanginout, Inc. which describes itself as a San Diego based technology company filed suit against Google this morning over its “hangout” service for trademark infringement, federal unfair competition, and common law unfair competition. In addition to damages Hanginout is asking a judge to grant a temporary, preliminary an... The Domains - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 11:59 Escrow.com Responds To Customer Inquiries On Recent Departures From The Company Brandon Abbey on Behalf of Escrow.com has issued a statement in response to Andee Hill & 2 Other Employees which quit last Friday to go a newly formed competitor EscrowHill.com which was announced on Monday morning. Here is Mr. Abbey’s statement unedited (emphasis added): “Escrow.com appreciates the inquiries and supp... The Domains - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 10:59 Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million Led By 3dPrinter.net at $60K, Routes.com at $50K & Mozart.co A... Over the past week, 650 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. This amounts to $60,. Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: routes.com at 50,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: mozart.... The Domains - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 19:40 .Luxury Selects Namejet.com/Afternic.com For Sunrise Landrush Auctions & Premium Name Sales Luxury Partners, LLC, which own the new gTLD .LUXURY has selected NameJet and Afternic to manage the Sunrise, Landrush and Premium Name selection and sales. Godaddy.com which recently purchased Afternic.com, is currently taking pre-registrations of .Luxury domain names starting at $799.99 a year. Here is the rest of the press release... The Domains - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 15:44 Frank Schillings Name Administration Sells 88888.com For $245,000 DomainNameSales.com has brokered the sale of the domain name 88888.com for $245,000 The domain name was owned by Frank Schillings Name Administration. This domain was suppose to be included in the report we posted earlier but they mistakenly left it out of the report. At $245,000 its has to be the largest reported sale of a NNNNN.com... The Domains - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 14:55 Godaddy/Afternic Sell $1,685,659 In DomainNames Led By HeritageHome.com For $25K GoDaddy and Afternic’s reported weekly domain sales for the week of 11/18/13 – 11/24/13 of $1,685,659 All sales were led by HertiageHome.com which sold for $25K TheKingdom.com a nice domain sold for $11,610 A few product domains like GlassPartitions.com and DeckTiles.com each sold for $9,999 which appear to be Buy It Now Sales I coun... The Domains - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 14:33 DomainNameSales.com Reports $555K In Sales For Last Two Weeks Led By Novio.com For $45K DomainNamesSales.com reported $555,582 in reportable sales handled by the brokerage team for the two week period ending today. DomainNameSales.com  does not track or report on  “self brokered” sales made by their customers without the help of the brokerage team. Here are the sales from November sales from Nov. 13th to Nov. 26th All s... The Domains - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 13:18 Federal Judge Rules Domain Names Are Not Property Under Virgina Law A Virgina federal judge has ruled that domain names are not property under Virgina Law. The case is ALEXANDRIA SURVEYS, LLC, , v. ALEXANDRIA CONSULTING GROUP, LLC, (ACG)  Civil Action No. 1:13-CV-00891, United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division and was handed down by District Judge LIAM O’GRADY The case w... The Domains - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 11:28 If A New gTLD Applicant Used His $185K To Buy Bitcoins Instead His Investment Would be Worth $30M Back in May 2012 when the application period for a new gTLD’s  closed, the application fee was $185,000 per new gTLD string. At that time the value of a Bitcoin was trading at around $5.00. Instead of applying for a new gTLD string for $185,000 what if the applicant would have bought 37,000 Bitcoins, at $5 each. How much would ... 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