The Moscow Commercial Court ruled on January 15 to transfer the domain name Nike.Ru from businessman Stas Drugalyov, that heads the Caravan Telecom domain registrar, to Nike’s Russian office. Nike’s lawyer Anton Sergo stated in court …
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Canadian brothers go against each other in UDRP for the domain name Bousada.com
Two brothers from Canada went against each other in a UDRP dispute at the National Arbitration Forum for the domain name Bousada.com. Panelist Beatrice Onica Jarka found that the dispute fell outside the scope of the …
Read More »Boeing wins domain name wwwboeing.com at UDRP after waiting for 12 years
The Boeing Company won the domain name wwwboeing.com after submitting a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum. Respondent was Host for You c/o Vladimir Snezko from Russia. The domain wwwboeing.com redirects to a website containing …
Read More »Sedo: Domains sell Faster with Charm Prices
Sedo posted an article today about how domain names that are priced with charm prices (e.g. 2,899 or 999) sell faster in Sedo’s marketplace. Sedo also supports it’s automatic price suggestion tool but I find …
Read More »Sedo sells 1076 domains worth $1.60 million: Torrents.com sells for 84,700 EUR and EatStreet.com for 44,000 USD – Week 15/1-21/1 2013
This week, 1076 transactions (1055 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.60 million ($1.78 last week). Only 241 domains (300 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains …
Read More »MIT.edu defaced by LulzSec hacker group
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) website at mit.edu was hacked today by hacker group LulzSec in response to the death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was being prosecuted with the cooperation of M.I.T for illegall downloading …
Read More »Belarus puts up expired domains for charity auctions
According to new rules in Belarus, .by domain names, which registration has expired, are put up for a charity auction. The owner of the domain name gets 30 days to renew the registration. If the …
Read More »Sedo adds Asian registrar Net-Chinese to its SedoMLS Premium Network
Sedo added today another Asian registrar Net-Chinese to its SedoMLS Premium Network after adding registrar 66.cn last week. Net-Chinese is based in Taiwan and also has offices in the United Kingdom. Net-Chinese was accredited by …
Read More »Cheapies.com gets second notice of breach from ICANN in 1 week
Last week ICANN send notices of breach to 10 accredited registrars because they were in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). One of the …
Read More »Sedo allows you to set a Minimum Offer price when adding domains
Sedo announced today that it is now allowing it’s users to set a Minimum Offer when adding new domain names into their system. This way you don’t have to make 2 steps in order to …
Read More »Torrents.com sold for 84,700 EUR at Sedo and bought by Spanish P2P company
The domain name Torrents.com was sold today for 84,700 EUR at Sedo. The owner was a Spanish company that had registered the domain name in 1998. The company is named Industrias Torents S.A. and is …
Read More »Owner of Glasgow.com loses Glasgow-2014.com in UDRP
The owner of Glasgow.com lost the domain name Glasgow-2014.com, that was registered in 2006, under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy at WIPO. The Complainant was Glasgow 2014 Limited that is organizing and operating …
Read More »NamesBeyond welcomes Pool’s domains but transfers are still in process
Today I got an an email from the registrar NamesBeyond.com with the subject “WELCOME TO NAMESBEYOND!”. NamesBeyond is a North American registrar, and has been accredited by ICANN since 2001. All affected domain names from …
Read More »NoktaDomains.com send their first domain leasing newsletter
On Monday DnJournal reported that NoktaDomains has started offering their inventory of domain names for leasing. Today I got their first newsletter featuring some of their domain names with leasing prices that seem to be …
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