The domain name Milano.com has been hit with a UDRP. Milano as it is called in Italy, known to the rest of the world as Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world. The UDRP was filed by Grupo Milano, S.A. de C.V. whose website is Milano.com.mx. Of course there are a ton of other trademarks on the term from cookies to clothing to bean bag chairs. The domain recently transferred … [Read more...]
DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion
DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider. According to the statistics section on the site: "The database has 1,089,771 sales records of 1,015,189 domain names … [Read more...]
Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski
Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon conference at the New Tropicana Hotel & Casino, online bidding will be available. Names such as Rentals.ski, Water.ski, Jet.ski and the … [Read more...]
CSC’s November New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month
Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its "New gTLD Utilization Report" for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD's (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD's with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the … [Read more...]
Donuts: We are not Going To Delete New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded to last Friday's cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting "the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primarily due to financial underperformance". Donuts has responded strongly to debunk the report saying as the largest new gTLD operator they will not be closing down any … [Read more...]
Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com’s
Two more 2 letter .com's are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that RightOfTheDot.com is holding as from the Namescon conference on January 11, 2016. AT.com already has a bid of over $1.5 Million in pre-bidding at Namejet. In addition to the 3 two letter .com's, there are 5 three number .com's (NNN.com) … [Read more...]
Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com
Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also serves as the stat program for WordPress sites like TheDomains.com Automattic.com has been using the domain name Jetpack.me for the service, but yesterday the whois records updated and the domain names is now registered by Mark Monitor … [Read more...]