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Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE: MMX) provided the following H1 2020 trading update. Among other things MMX said “Management also notes that expected H1 channel sales from the Company’s brand protection activity were held back due to the impact of COVID-19, but anticipates those brand protection initiatives that were delayed in Q2 will resume [...] Continue reading
Did Stands4 buy a hot domain? A dispute over the domain name Calculator.com is getting messy, and I calculate that someone is going to lose a lot of money. Chloe Tsakiris Alston filed a lawsuit in Florida court after discovering that the Calculator.com domain name was no longer in her control. She says that [...] Continue reading
Today: ILoveMusic.com sold for $11,775 / China muscling in on business domain names / Buying Premium dictionary .com’s (High Budget) – Budget: Up to $100.000 / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: [...] Continue reading
Another day, another trademark application at the USPTO for domains that are generic in nature. Once seen as unregistrable marks, single word domains have given a new momentum to trademark registrations, ever since the SCOTUS decision on Booking.com opened the floodgates. This time around, we noted four new applications: Rate.com Recruiter.com Drips.com Give.com In particular: [...] Continue reading
Sedo, our premium domain sponsor, announced the sales results of its GreatDomains auction, that had a dot .CO theme to celebrate the 10th anniversary of dot .CO. Here are the results ordered by closing price: wings.co 8988 EUR lyrics.co 2250 EUR carpets.co 2055 EUR furnitures.co 2055 EUR spices.co 1850 EUR candies.co 1850 EUR lyric.co 1299 [...] Continue reading
There is an article on AmericanThinker.com a publication I had never read before until Koolishman at Namepros published a link. Talks about how China is trying to muscle an American company out on the domain name Invest.com. When you go to invest.com you are redirected to thehelpingcompany.com. The domain Invest.com is owned by The Helping [...] Continue reading
MMX saw poorer-than-expected sales of porn-related defensive registrations in the first half of the year, the only blip in what was otherwise a strong period for the company. The registry updated the market today to say that its domain name base grew by 31% year over year during the half, ending June with 2.38 million [...] Continue reading