Domain Sales

In a recent dispute over domain ShoeZone.com, arbitrator WIPO declared the owner guilty of bad faith and ordered the name be transferred to a UK trademark holder. This was in part due to his use of WHOIS privacy protection to hide his contact details: …the Respondent’s use of the privacy …

A number of hosts these days offer unlimited email accounts. While this can be very useful for websites with many staff members, you may not be able to send out bulk email. In an effort to conserve precious bandwidth and CPU usage, some web hosts have banned the sending of …

American pharmaceutical and general consumables company Johnson & Johnson recently filed a dispute over nizoralshampoo.com, registered by Jorgenson Group of Companies. J&J claimed that the domain is similar to its trademarked Nizoral shampoo product. For its defense, Jorgenson had nothing to offer, opting not to respond when the case was …

Domains containing hyphens generally don’t sell for much, but the exception today is hotel-reservation.com, which sold at auction last week for £125,525, or $208,000 USD. Hotels have always been a hot niche. A number of other big sales have also taken place as of late, including XP.com for $99,000, 34.com …

Whether they’re in a movie, a history book, or standing on the street corner, gangsters are an important part of American society. Domainers can now own a piece of this American legacy with the auctioning of gangsters.com on eBay. As of this post, the auction is at $6,800 USD with …

Have a domain you know you will be keeping for a long time? Why renew it yearly when you could register it for an extended period of time and save money? Many registrars offer discounts on long-term registrations. Usually the longer the period, the greater the discount. For instance, you …

In a rare victory for the little guy, a domain arbitrator has ruled that Kraft has no right to Oreo.nl, which the company recently filed a dispute over. J.C. van Winkel registered Oreo.nl in 2000. He uses the name for his personal email, but never set up a site with …

Are you a gold digger looking for money? You might be able to find some soon on MillionaireDating.com, which just sold for £8,979 ($15,000 USD) at auction to a private buyer. Other recent sales: rentersinsurance.net- $8,240.00 discountloans.com- $3,950.00 onlineaccountingdegrees.com- $3,400.00 simplyjobs.com- $2,950.00 onlinepsychologydegrees.com- $2,500.00 softwarecareers.com- $1,650.00 montrealvacations.com- $1,450.00 datingideas.com- $1,210.00 …

ICANN announced today that Brussels, Belgium will play host to its 38th international meeting on June 20-25, 2010. The event is to be sponsored by the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EURid), the operator of the .eu TLD. A number of other European cities were also considered for the …

The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) sent an open letter to ICANN this week, criticizing the organization for its failure to pay attention to non-commercial Internet users like you and I. It was sent in response to the recent approval of a new charter by ICANN that favors commercial groups and …