Pure Scooters is an electric scooter retailer out of the U.K. They announced they are rebranding to Pure Electric. The domain name PureElectric.com was caught by DropCatch and sold at auction for $1,501 in 2016. The domain name was parked at Uniregistry after being caught and then moved to Efty. The registrant info has been under privacy. It moved from NameBright to Epik and now it … [Read more...]
Masterhold prevails in year long battle for domain name
World Trademark Review posted a decision on a case that took over a year to get resolved. Masterhold.ru was the domain name in question. In 2018 LLC Masterhold lodged a complaint alleging that Kornev’s use of its domain name ‘masterhold.ru’ and MASTERHOLD and МАСТЕРХОЛД was illegal as these were confusingly similar to LLC Masterhold’s means of individualisation. On 15 October 2018, … [Read more...]
Verisign Q4 2019 DNIB: New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 10.3 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2019
Verisign (NASDAQ - VRSN) released their Q4 2019 Domain Name Industry Brief. The report shows 362.3 Million Domain Name Registrations In The Fourth Quarter Of 2019 From the report: The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 158.8 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at the end of the fourth quarter of 2019, an increase of 1.5 million domain name registrations, … [Read more...]
Datacom Group Limited not happy with RDNH ruling
Data is everything in today's world and a name like Datacom is a very strong brand. Down under it seems like a couple different companies have been using the name for decades. The names in question are <datacomaccounting.net.au> and <datacom.net.au> One company got hit with a judgement of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. The case was between Datacom Group Limited and Datacom … [Read more...]
Update on Autism.Rocks sale
Back in June of 2015 there was big news that Austim.Rocks sold for $100,000. Now there is news out that the buyer Sanjay Shah might be involved in some legal trouble. TheNational.ae reported: The assets of Dubai resident Sanjay Shah have been frozen as Danish officials seek to claw back losses A centre for autistic children in the UAE funded by an alleged tax fraudster has closed … [Read more...]
Researcher finds vulnerability with Unicode Latin IPA characters
Matt Hamilton published an article on Soluble.ai where he was able to register domains using homograph domain names on gTLDs (.com, .net, etc.) as well as subdomains within some SaaS companies using homoglyph characters. It's the Unicode Latin IPA homoglyph that are the source of this. Hamilton goes to great lengths to detail what he found, how he documented everything and the timeline for … [Read more...]
Those are some incredible bids
So while I was looking at GoDaddy auctions this morning, four auctions stood out. whatsaap.org7- - $11,750 *USD$ 3D 8H feverr.net7- - $11,500 *USD$ 3D 8H xvideos.page7- - $11,500 *USD$ 3D 8H orderfoodonline.org6- - $11,000 *USD$ All four of … [Read more...]