WIPO doesn’t admire dentist’s creative arguments. A WIPO panel didn’t like what this dentist was offering. A Missouri dental practice run by dentist Brian Henningsen has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name AdmireYourSmile.com. Admire Your Smile, P.C. started using the “Admire Your Smile” mark after a dentist [...] Continue reading →

Domain names suggest some sort of sports betting is in the works. Last year NBC Sports registered many domain names related to sports betting including NBCSportbook.com and NBCSportsSportsbook.com. It appears that Fox might also be gearing up for sports betting. A company just registered these domain names: foxbetaccumulator.com foxbetdailyfantasy.com foxbetdfs.com foxbetfantasy.com foxbetfantasygames.com foxbetfavorite.com foxbetmountairy.com [...] Continue reading →

Political domain names have made some major headlines in the past few years. In 2015, US Senator Rand Paul paid $100,980 for RandPaul.com and "Donald J. Trump for President, Inc." purchased ClintonKaine.com for $15,000. Recently, another significant political domain purchase took place, albeit at a far lower sales price. The exact...Canada's Prime Minister Bought [...] Continue reading →

It’s becoming a more common practice and one that costs almost nothing – defensively registering domains that could be used to damage your brand online. Critics of companies or public figures frequently register domains like <company-name>crook.com, or <company-name>scam.com. Now, companies are getting ahead of this trend and registering the domains [...] Continue reading →

A UDRP was filed against the VK.app domain name at WIPO. The UDRP was filed by the company that operates a business on the VK.com domain name. A three member panel ruled in favor of the complainant in the UDRP, despite the fact that VK.app appears to me to be generic enough to be defensible. [...] Continue reading →

With the entire domain name community apparently split along binary lines on the issue of price caps in .org, a third option has emerged from a surprising source. ICANN’s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group has suggested that price caps should remain, but that they should be raised from their current level of 10% per year. In its [...] Continue reading →

The brisk pace of domain sales in 2019 continued this week with more than 245 domain sales every day in the reporting period. There were 30 or more sales above  $1000 on six of the seven days. More than $100,000 in domain sales (>$100 value) exchanged hands each day. Keep in mind that the NameBio [...] Continue reading →