Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD

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On today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000.

The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th.

The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not “registered” by Uniregistry until the day before it transferred to FTD.  The domain was not registered by North Sound Domains.

FTD is represented by CSC Domains.

The domain name Pro.Flowers is currently not resolving

Interestedly the domain name Flowers.Pro is owned by 1800flowers.com which is also a CSC client.

Flowers.Pro also does not resolve.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

      • Paul says

        ProFlowers.com and FlowersPro.com are better than Pro.Flowers and Flowers.Pro.
        I think the major purpose of acquiring names in the new gtlds should be for
        trademark owners.
        Revenue chain is the registry to the registrar to the trademark owners

  2. todd says

    “The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not “registered” by Uniregistry until the day before it transferred to FTD. The domain was not registered by North Sound Domains.”

    It’s a trademark but you can’t lose it in a UDRP if it’s not registered. Smart guy!

  3. Leonard Britt says

    So should this sale be merely considered trademark protection and not really a case of end users buying into new TLDs for the purpose of promoting their businesses? If a domain investor had registered this domain and listed it for sale, would a URS/UDRP filing have been a reasonable outcome?

  4. KC says

    The company’s site is FTD.com. Does anyone know what FTD stands for? I checked the site but there’s nothing there to suggest the origin of FTD.

  5. Domainer Extraordinaire says

    Even if they got the name for free, it amazing me that a company would allow themselves to look so stupid.