Oscar Studio di Cavallin Oscar of Veneto, Italy, which owns an  Italian Trademark  on the term “leather crown” just won a UDRP on matching .com LeatherCrown.com which was owned by Rob Monster of Epik who registered the domain name on July 18, 2012. The Complainant operates its site at LeatherCrown.it and has a Italian trademark [...] Continue reading →

40 recent end user domain name sales at Sedo. During the past week, Sedo’s network sold $900,000 in domain names. The 3 highest sales were Heika.com ($300k), which is a title associated with Japanese emperors; Anker.com ($150k), the German for “anchor”; and HOOQ.com ($50k). As usual, I’ve compiled a list of 40 domains where an end user can [...] Continue reading →

The South Florida Domain Pros held a meeting last night in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We drove over to see industry friends and also get a closer look at the Pier Sixty-Six Hotel where Howard, Barbara and Ray Neu will be staging the debut edition of THE Domain Conference in September. [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday the domain 50.com officially changed hands. I track several different names I’m interested in as well as every domain in Elliot Silver’s portfolio and I received the email saying it just moved.  We know that Drew Rosener sold the name and he can’t say what he sold it for but based on the asking price [...] Continue reading →

CNN Money published an article on Eric Martin of York, Pennsylvania, which is an two hour drive away from me. The article title was catchy, “This guy used a get rich quick scheme and got rich” When you read the article it seems Mr. Martin spent some money to get rich quick. We wrote an [...] Continue reading →

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.• Google Pays $25 Million for .App Top Level Domain• Minds + Machines Patent App for Using Domain Names As Currency• Google: Make Your Website Mobile Friendly By April 21...or Suffer• ICANN Ditches Plan to Give Governments More Power• Verisign Sues .XYZ and Negari [...] Continue reading →

The US plan to remove itself from its unique DNS oversight role is about creating a coalition of nations to thwart attempts by Russia and other “authoritarian” countries to increase government control of the internet. That’s according to Larry Strickling, assistant secretary at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration, who delivered a beautifully succinct [...] Continue reading →