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Nearly $600k of last month’s auction sales:

Here’s what sold on NameJet and SnapNames. Newfold Digital’s domain auction services NameJet and SnapNames combined to sell 96 domains for $2,000 or more last month. These sales totaled $586,000. Many of the sales were less about the domain and more about how the domain was previously used. In fact, I think that was the […]

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Panel calls cybersquatting complaint “frivolous”

Panel has harsh words for Complainant. A National Arbitration Forum panel has found Empower Media Partners, LLC to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain EmpowerMedia.com. The three-person panel said it believes the Complainant misled it about when it obtained registered trademark rights. The panel also found the Complainant’s common law trademark claims lacking. […]

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Policy & Law, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

Data center company tries to reverse hijack KIO.com

WIPO Panel admonishes company and its counsel. Sixsigma Networks Mexico, S.A., an operator of data centers in Mexico, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking for the domain kio.com. The company inquired about buying the domain name last year. It didn’t hear back and subsequently filed the UDRP. It’s a decent […]

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Policy & Law, Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, world intellectual property organization

Some updates on the Uniregistry to Afternic transition

Before you use the migration tool… Earlier this week, I wrote about the closure of Uniregistry Market and the process for moving your domains to Afternic. Shortly after writing the article, I decided to dig into the migration process. I clicked the link to migrate and got a 502 error. I refreshed the page, and […]

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Uni Market, Uniregistry Market

Meta Platforms sues .tk registry operator Freenom

Meta Platforms alleges registry operator is infringing its marks such as Facebook and Instagram. Meta Platforms has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against Freenom and associated companies. Freenom is best known for operating the .tk namespace. .Tk is the country code domain name for Tokelau. Despite being just a small territory of New Zealand, Tokelau’s […]

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freenom, Meta Platforms, Policy & Law

17 end user domain sales up to $40,000

A software company, a job board and an airplane marketplace bought domain names. Sedo didn’t report any six figure sales this week (at least publicly) after reporting two last week, but it had some nice end user sales. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view […]

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Company sues to overturn multitrack.com UDRP decision

The UDRP decision was the latest questionable determination by panelist Aaron Newell. Christian Copyright Licensing International, LLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against Multitracks.com LLC to halt the transfer of its domain name multitrack.com. Multitracks.com LLC filed a cybersquatting dispute with National Arbitration Forum in November 2022 to get the domain. Multitracks is a descriptive […]

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anticybersquatting consumer protection act, Policy & Law

Squarespace tops guidance in Q4, expects 10%+ revenue growth this year

Shares rise on earnings report and guidance. Website, scheduling and online marketing company Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) reported fourth quarter and full year 2022 earnings this morning. The company reported $228.8 million in revenue for the quarter, which represents 10% year-over-year growth. Exchange rates zapped the momentum; revenue grew 14% on a constant currency basis. The […]

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Uniregistry market to shut down next month, here’s what you need to do

You’re about to lose your historical data, so pay attention. GoDaddy is shutting down the Uniregistry Market and parking service on April 18, the company announced today. UPDATE: SEE WARNING AT END OF POST This means that two key features will be going away: category targeting for parking pages and self-brokering. Perhaps more troubling to […]

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This UDRP decision bothers me

I don’t think this is a clear-cut case of cybersquatting. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has handed down a decision to transfer cic.marketing (pdf), and I find the case somewhat troubling. I say somewhat because the domain owner didn’t do himself any favors in his response. But to what extent should an end user […]

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Policy & Law, world intellectual property organization