An acquisition, domain disputes, defensive registrations, and new TLDs top last month’s news.
July was a busy month at Domain Name Wire, thanks in part to the launch of our redesign.
Before we go forward, let’s take a quick step back and look at the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month.
1. It’s not really Walmart: Walmart goes after union’s parody site
Walmart filed a UDRP against a union’s domain names that are used to parody a Walmart website.
2. USPS loses to Amazon.com on .Mail top level domain objection
The first of many rejections for the United States Postal Service, which apparently thinks it has a monopoly on the term “mail”.
3. Did SeaWorld register domain names to counter Blackfish movie?
Incidentally, I went to SeaWorld last week and overheard a couple employees talking about the movie.
4. Q&A with Matt Mazur, who just sold his domain name search company to Automattic
Automattic is beefing up its domain discovery with Lean Domain Search.
5. GoDaddy lets customers “watch” new TLDs
GoDaddy lets customers “watch” their favorite future top level domain names.
Donny says
newzealand.com for 6250.00 – must be a mistype on afternic rec-sold names.
???
Andrew Allemann says
@donny – what are you looking at where you see newzealand.com $6250?
ChuckWagen says
Maybe USPS now wants to apply for .booze