Domain Name News

Richemont International SA, owner of IWC watches, filed 7 UDRP complaints on a single day (10th of January 2013) with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. All complaints are related to their IWC trademark. Some of …

As of 11 January 2013, 10 ICANN accredited registrar are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN requests that these 10 registrars cure …

I see Ziff Davis and Cnet parking unused domains at Sedo and Domain Sponsor and I start thinking if domain name parking is dead or not. Sure earnings have dropped in the past few years …

DOA.com sold for $74,400 at Namejet in a public auction. There were 10 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. 2 bidders carried the auction from $15k up to $74k. The auction had 369 bid from 300 …

After a research paper from University of St.Gallen and Harvard accused ICANN of transparency deficits, ICANN Ombudsman defended his role by saying that “the Office of the Ombudsman, with access to information, and the ability …

UDRP complaint for grief.net and grief-recovery.com was dismissed at the National Arbitration Forum. The decision of the panel was not to proceed with the UDRP because of a pending litigation. The three member Panel said …

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) requested from Verisign (the .com and .net registry operator) a contractual compliance audit for the .net TLD. With a letter dated 8 of January 2013 to ICANN, …

GasStations.com sold for $25,300 at Namejet in a public auction. The domain probably had a $25k reserve. 3 bidders went over the reserve. The auction had 276 bid from 217 bidders. The domain name Ambitious.com didn’t sell at …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. This week 2 more domains have been confirmed as sold (whois has been updated): Thai.xxx for $8,250 and Dolls.xxx …

Go Daddy made an announcement that there is a phishing attack underway that may affect some of it’s customers. I suggest as a general rule to not click on links inside of emails. Here is …

Artsy that is one of the largest online collections of contemporary art and is powered by The Art Genome Project announced the move of its service permanently to the domain name artsy.net. The move comes following …

Sedo published today quite an impressive list of recent .co domain name sales. Here is the list: fx.co 50,000 USD forex.co 40,000 USD sugar.co 30,000 USD rocket.co 16,000 USD childcare.co 14,000 USD cinema.co 10,000 EUR …

A three member Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name Guarani.com that a Brazilian company filed at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because there was nothing indicating that the Respondent in the US …

Afternic started sending minimum offer amounts, for domain listings, to Go Daddy. But Sedo has been doing this for 3 months now and it hasn’t helped anyone. Many domainers have removed their portfolios from Sedo. …