Domain Sales

Google recently won a complaint it filed with the National Arbitration Forum over the domain googlemapsrealestate.com. The search giant claims the owner was using the name to operate a Google Maps knock-off and that it violates Google trademarks. The domain hasn’t be transferred yet and the site is still live. …

Domain vivant.com has sold at auction for £18,472 ($30,000 USD). “Vivant” is French for “living” and also the name of a pharmaceutical specializing in acne treatment. Other sales of note include: spinalinjury.com- $13,000 Kynos.com- $6,988 puredance.com- $5,900 badz.com- $5,400 thephonestore.com- $5,000 There is a lot of potential for spinalinjury.com over …

Last week, Apple won a domain dispute in which it accused a Los Angeles entrepreneur, Daniel Bijan, of cybersquatting. Bijan lost 16 domains to the company famous for its iPhone and iPod products. Now he has issued a public statement regarding the incident. The domainer says he was “naive at …

Two-character domain 8L.com has sold at auction for $14,000 USD. In addition, 9L.com also sold for $10,099. Though I really don’t see many applications for the names, two character domains yield such high sale prices because they are few and far between. Here are some other recent sales: silkroadonline.com- €7,610 …

Bulgaria has announced that it will likely apply for two IDNs with ICANN: .бг and .бгр. The move to apply for two extensions instead of one is the result of an online poll commissioned by the country’s Transport Ministry. Both IDNs received around a third of the votes, though .бг …

Migraine.com has sold at auction for a whopping $125,000 USD. The sale price itself could give someone a headache. Considering that millions of people suffer from this difficult to treat health problem every year, there’s an enormous market for the name. Other notable sales this week include: workincustomerservice.com- $5,000 tourlouisiana.com- …

Daniel Bijan, a Los-Angeles singer and entrepreneur, recently lost a domain dispute with Apple over 16 domains. In its complaint filed under ICANN’s UDRP, the Cupertino company claimed the names were confusingly similar to its trademarks. Naturally, the arbitrator ruled in favor of Apple. A few of the names seized …

In what is likely the biggest sale so far this year, CookingGames.com has sold for £219,628 ($350,000 USD). At first I thought there was no market for the name, then I was surprised to find there actually is a large niche for online cooking games. In addition, Pagani.com (Italian for …

Domain registrants can be sued for cybersquatting, but are registrars liable as well? Until recently, life insurance company Transamerica thought so. The company was in the process of suing several prominent domain registrars for trademark infringement— all because several of their customers had registered domains containing Transamerica’s trademark. Thankfully, the …

When the UAE renamed the Burj Dubai as the Burj Khalifa this week, they apparently didn’t think the domain name of the world’s tallest building was important. While the skyscraper’s developers missed out on the domain, a lucky Pakistani was quick to grab it shortly after the name change was …