Building a brand around a generic domain name may create trademark headaches. You usually find the real juicy stuff in a company's annual report in the footnotes. That's why I like to read every part of court cases, too. In the recent U.S. Court of ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Archives for August 2010
CDRate.com Domain Sells for $42,500
· Domain SalesRates are low, but domain prices are high. If you've shopped for a certificate of deposit rate recently, you were probably disappointed by the results. Bankrate reports the typical 6-month CD is returning just 0.85%. Perhaps you should invest in ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Fannie Mae Launches $50,000 KnowYourOptions.com Web Site
· UncategorizedMortgage backer launches web site at $50k domain name. Fannie Mae has launched a new web site at KnowYourOptions.com, a domain name the company purchased for $50,000 in June. The company, which was bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, bought the domain name ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Sedo Sells OY.com for $90k, German Cloud Computing Domain Goes for $38k
· Domain SalesNo six figure sales, but two letter domain comes close. Domain brokerage Sedo sold oy.com for $90,000 this past week, which was the company's top completed sale. The company also had a big cloud computing domain sale, moving cloud-computing.de for ... Continue Reading5 Comments
VeriSign CEO: “PPC is a Dead Thing”
· UncategorizedPPC no longer a driver of domain name registrations, says VeriSign CEO. When it comes to growth opportunities for the .com namespace, domain parking "is a dead thing", VeriSign President and CEO Mark McLaughlin explained on an analyst conference call ... Continue Reading20 Comments
Facebook Wins Facebook.me Domain Name in Arbitration
· UncategorizedSocial networking site picks up domain name in arbitration. A World Intellectual Property Forum panelist has awarded the domain name Facebook.me to the giant social networking site. In what may be one of the longest WIPO UDRP decisions I've ever ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Wikileaks Could Put More Pressure on Whois Privacy Services
· ServicesCould WikiLeaks backlash bring renewed attention to whois privacy services? The backlash against WikiLeaks over its release of thousands of secret U.S. government documents about the war in Afghanistan is building. It's never pretty when your web site ... Continue Reading2 Comments
DomainSponsor Doubles Revenue in Europe, Plans Two European Roundtables
· ServicesParking company sees results from new European operations. The two largest Google domain name parking partners have long known their turf -- DomainSponsor was strongest in the U.S. while Sedo was strongest in Europe. Many years after Sedo set up an ... Continue Reading1 Comment
.Com and .Net Base Tops 100 Million Domain Names
· ServicesVeriSign reports growth over 100 million domain names. As forecasted, the total number of .com and .net domain names under management topped 100 million in the second quarter of 2010, reports VeriSign. The company ended the quarter with 101.5 million ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Latona’s to Auction Off Remaining Zuccarini Domains at TRAFFIC
· Domain SalesDomain names will be auctioned off at TRAFFIC in October if court approves. Assuming court approval, Rick Latona has scored a coup by getting rights to auction off the remaining domain names owned by John Zuccarini to satisfy a court judgment and U.S. ... Continue Reading12 Comments