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It cost $480,843 to defend IMI.com
Costs of defending domain name in jury trial add up.
Jeffrey Black successfully defended his domain name IMI.com in court, but it cost a lot of money.
A filing by Black’s attorney reveals that the total billings to date are $480,843.
Black is asking the court (pdf) to force Irving Materials, the company that filed a UDRP against the domain, to pay the costs.
His attorney, Mike Rodenbaugh, outlined the saga in DNW Podcast #249. I’ve been following the case since a UDRP panelist awarded the domain to Irving Materials.
Black wasn’t aware of the UDRP case and was forced to turn to the courts to defend his domain name from the transfer. He won a jury trial, but at great monetary cost.
In addition to the legal costs, Black says he lost a venture funding deal because of the lawsuit.
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Lots of action in GreatDomains auction ending today
Bidding is heating up for short domains in Sedo auction.
At least six domains in the current GreatDomains auction ending today will sell for five figures.
DNE.com is the top domain to hit its reserve so far and bidding is at $24,000.
Other domains that have hit reserve and are at least $10,000 are Upgrades.com, HVW.com, IYW.com, Cafe.tw and Movie.tw. .TW is the country code for Taiwan.
The top bid overall is €66,666 for UHR.de, but that domain has a reserve of at least €100,000.
It will be interesting to see if someone bites at NorthDakota.com, which has a reserve somewhere between $50,000-$100,000. North Dakota is the fourth-least-populated state in the United States with fewer than one million people.
The auction ends at noon EDT.
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A dozen end user domain name sales
A bankruptcy law practice, accounting firm and VoIP company bought domain names this past week.
The “slow” days of late summer are almost over and I expect to see more end user domain sales in September. For this past week, I dug up a dozen sales at Sedo.
Here’s the list. You can view previous lists like this here.
CrosswordSolver.com $18,000 – This domain is used for a website offering free help for word riddles and quiz questions. There was previously a site on this domain and I’m not sure if the new site is a total re-write. The website’s owner is listed as 1337 UGC GmbH on the site.
Contabilidade.com $12,500 – This word translates to Accounting in Portuguese. The buyer works for an accounting firm.
Famille.fr €10,000 – A French website with a message saying, “Launched in September 2019, here is the new forum on the family…”
InsideDigital.de €5,000 – Forwards to Netzwelt.de – Netzwelt translates to “Net World”. This German site features an online magazine focused on the tech world.
FlowTrader.com $5,000 – Has a holding soon page that says something “really cool” is coming. The Whois is blocked by GDPR.
PaniniBakery.com $3,888 – Panini Bakery & Cakes in Dallas. The domain forwards to PaniniCakes.com.
Electrotecnica.com $4,500 – Groupo Electrotecnica is a technology firm with offices in several Central American countries.
SmallBusinessBankruptcy.com $3,750 – Purchased by the law offices of Andrew Moher, a law office in California that focuses (among other practice areas) in business bankruptcy. The main website for the practice is Moherlaw.com.
ZCRM.com $3,000 – Zadarma is a VoIP company with integrations into CRM systems. Its website is Zadarma.com.
TalentTransformation.com $2,888 – Eric Shepherd‘s LinkedIn profile says he enables “Talent Transformation”. Nice domain.
RaleighRealty.com $2,750 – Forwards to RaleighRealtyHomes.com, a residential property listing site for Raleigh, NC.
Plannerly.com $2,195 – Plannerly is a BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology company.
Costa-Brava.com €2,000 – A German travel blog about destinations in Spain.
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.Com winners and Losers: Dynadot stays hot
Dynadot remains in the top ten registrars for new .com registrations.
ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers April 2019.
Dynadot jumped into the top ten last month and it managed to stay there again this month. Dynadot has stopped its $6.99 promotional price on .com, so it will be interesting to see what happens when the Verisign/ICANN reports catch up to September.
NameSilo nudged its way back into the top 10 this month.
Also notable on the monthly chart is that Web.com (Network Solutions, Register.com) fell out of the top 10.
Here’s how registrars did in terms of new .com registrations:
1. GoDaddy.com* (NYSE: GDDY) 936,916 (970,751 in April)
2. Xin Net Technology Corporation 244,299 (324,617)
3. Tucows** (NASDAQ:TCX) 194,947 (191,620)
4. Chengdu West 157,668 (82,351)
5. NameCheap Inc. 154,281 (152,606)
6. Endurance+ (NASDAQ: EIGI) 127,762 (125,059)
7. Alibaba (HiChina) 127,090 (130,946)
8. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) 119,903 (119,976)
9. NameSilo (CSE:URL) 86,680
10. Dynadot 85,307 (104,837)
Here’s the leaderboard of the top registrars in terms of total .com registrations as of the end of May 2019.
1. GoDaddy* 51,026,467 (50,940,640 in April)
2. Tucows** 12,410,988 (12,484,323)
3. Endurance+ 6,981,256 (7,026,808)
4. Web.com++ 6,677,492 (6,713,881)
5. Alibaba 6,308,304 (6,288,135)
6. United Internet^ 5,575,836 (5,609,664)
7. Namecheap 4,799,244(4,745,085)
8. Xin Net Technology Corporation 3,982,474 (3,814,331)
9. Google 2,506,924 (2,434,742)
10. GMO 2,062,451 (2,026,751)
Many domain companies have multiple accreditations and I’ve tried to capture the largest ones. See the notes below.
* Includes GoDaddy, Wild West Domains and 123 Reg
** Includes Tucows and Enom
+ Includes PDR, Domain.com, FastDomain and Bigrock. There are other Endurance registrars, but these are the biggest.
++ Includes Network Solutions and Register.com
^ Includes 1&1, PSI, Cronon, United-Domains, Arsys and world4you
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Shredding company rebranding with its killer domain, Destruction.com
Company has used Destruction.com since 1996. Now it’s rebranding as its domain name.
Rick Carey, founder of Destruction.com.
A Boston-area shredding company is rebranding with the help of its great domain name Destruction.com.
Datasafe Information Security was founded in 1990 as a business focused on various aspects of data security, including shredding.
Founder Rick Carey told Domain Name Wire that, over the years, most of the company’s business has turned out to be shredding. So nearly thirty years in, the company is rebranding as Destruction.com. It’s a great domain for what it does: the destruction of everything from documents to electronics to defective products.
It’s a rebrand but not a new domain. Carey was fortunate to register Destruction.com in 1996 and has been using the domain for its website and emails ever since. But when you visit the site, the brand name is Datasafe, not Destruction.com. That will change soon and Carey hopes to complete the transition next year.
“We think our URL clearly defines who we are and what we do,” said Carey. “Plus, it’s a very memorable name.”
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Capital One loses data breach domain fight
Case shows the limits of cybersquatting dispute policy.
Capital One (NYSE: COF) has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against someone who registered a domain name after a massive data breach was disclosed this summer.
The company filed the dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) against CapitalOneDataBreach(.)com, a domain that was registered on July 30. That’s about two weeks after the breach hit the news. Capital One filed the dispute one week later, on August 6.
At the time, the registrant of the domain hadn’t started using the domain name yet.
The domain registrant, a Georgia man, said that he registered the domain with no specific intention to monetize the Disputed Domain Name. He saw the media reports of the data breach, and he thought he could provide to the public information about the breach “…and maybe run ads or sometime later or redirect traffic to [his] business website.”
The admission that he might run ads or profit from the site was a silly one to make, yet the panel noted that he is not yet running ads on the site. After receiving the complaint, the man created a simple website about the data breach that does not include ads.
Panelist Kendall C. Reed of National Arbitration Forum determined that this case is one of potential nominative fair use. While Capital One jumped on the registrant’s admission that he might run ads on the site, Reed noted:
The Panel disagrees. Respondent did not say that he would do these things, only that he thought he might, and as noted above, he has not followed through with these thoughts. What Complainant states is a certainty is actually a mere possibility.
This case shows how it can be difficult to file a UDRP against a newly-registered domain name; a registrant can make the defense that has plans for the site that haven’t been put into action yet because it takes time to create a website.
Reed suggested that Capital One can refile the case should the domain owner add ads to the website.
Capital One has a pending case against the owner(s) of other data breach domains. When I visited those, I saw ads or got a malware notification, so Capital One might win that dispute.
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Latest Firefox blocks tracking cookies
New standard feature will impact almost all website owners.
Browser maker Firefox is now blocking all tracking cookies by default, which is a big blow to all website owners.
Among the things this could impact:
- Accurate tracking in Google Analytics
- Affiliate links
- Conversion tracking
- Online advertising revenue
According to Firefox developers, the browser won’t block first-party Google Analytics cookies, but the browser shows that it blocks some Google Analytics cookies.
Commission Junction, a leading affiliate network, has been giving “browser-based adjustments” based on Firefox traffic for some time. It is also innovating cookieless tracking methods.
While Firefox’s share of the browser market is fairly small, there is an ongoing trend in browser features that make it very difficult for websites to maintain ad-supported revenue models. Apple’s Safari has some blocking features as well.
By removing some capabilities to track conversion rates, even sites that sell products to generate their revenue are in the crosshairs.
And yes, Firefox now blocks even the tracking cookies that are present on Mozilla.org.
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Google connects to domain registrars for Auto-DNS verification
New process makes it easier to verify domain properties with Google Search Console.
Google is making it easier for website owners to verify their Domain Properties within Google Search Console.
One of the ways to verify a site is to add a TXT record in the DNS for the website. This is usually done at the domain name registrar.
But many website owners aren’t familiar with adding this type of record. So Google has created an automated way to do it with many registrars.
It works by going through a registrar authorization process that enables Google to add the TXT record. Update: I have confirmed that Google is using Domain Connect for this.
As of right now, it appears to work with Gandi, GoDaddy, Internet.bs, Name.com and 1&1 Ionos.
Site owners can still use other verification methods to verify a site, such as uploading an HTML file.
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AgSpace Agriculture tries to reverse hijack domain name
Company filed a UDRP to try to get the unhyphenated version of its domain name.
Farming tech company AgSpace filed a case in abuse of UDRP in an effort to get AgSpace.com. It uses the domain Ag-Space.com.
Farming technology company AgSpace Agriculture Limited has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in its effort to get the domain name AgSpace.com. It uses the domain Ag-Space.com.
The company threatened the owner of the domain prior to filing a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It urged the owner to accept a trivial cash offer or it would face a UDRP.
The domain owner, who registered the domain in 1998 (well before the Complainant existed) told the Complainant that it didn’t have a case.
But AgSpace filed the dispute anyway, and the panelist had an easy time finding that the case was filed in abuse of the policy.
Panelist Flip Jan Claude Petillion noted that:
In the present case, the Complainant expressly acknowledges in its Complaint that “the Disputed Domain Name was registered prior to the registration of AgSpace Agriculture limited”. The Complainant further provides “our case is based principally on the fact that the Respondent has no bona fide or legitimate use of the domain name of our trademark and has refused to release the domain or respond to our offer to meet the respondent’s reasonable out-of-pocket costs related to the domain”.
The panelist determined that AgSpace failed to show that the domain registrant lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain and that it failed to show that it was registered in bad faith. In finding reverse domain name hijacking, the WIPO panelist wrote:
The mere lack of success of a complaint is not in itself sufficient for a finding of RDNH. In the present case, however, the Complainant knew it could not succeed as to the second and third element of the Policy as the Complainant had clear knowledge of the Respondent’s commercial identity corresponding to the Disputed Domain Name and the lack of bad faith by the Respondent. The Complainant expressly acknowledged that it knew that the Respondent had registered the Disputed Domain Name well before the Complainant had established its business or acquired its trademark rights. As a result, the Complainant clearly ought to have known it could not succeed under any fair interpretation of facts reasonably available prior to the filing of the Complaint. The website connected to the Disputed Domain Name has also never made reference to, let alone target, the Complainant or its mark and there are no indicia that would demonstrate that the Respondent intended to disrupt the Complainant’s business or create confusion with the Complainant’s trademark for commercial gain (see section 4.16, WIPO Overview 3.0).
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Mark Levine Returns – DNW Podcast #251
Domain investor Mark Levine drops some knowledge on this week’s podcast.
Domain investor Mark Levin returns to the Domain Name Wire Podcast to talk about how he’s investing in 2019 and his results. The year is only 8 months old, but he’s already smashed last year’s sales total. Today, he explains: what he’s buying, how much he pays for domains, how and where he sells them (it has changed since last year), and much more. I learned a lot from this interview and will incorporate some of Mark’s ideas into my own investing. You’ll learn a lot, too.
Also: new domain price cut, lawsuit resolved, GoDaddy’s new app.
This week’s sponsor: Name.
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Verisign gets domain backorder patent
A schematic from Verisign’s patent.
Last year I wrote about an intriguing patent application from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the company that runs the .com namespace. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now issued patent #10404650 (pdf).
The patent describes ways to change up the expired patent game.
One way would be to issue encoding domain names that give people the right to buy a domain upon its expiration. For example, if you wanted to get the domain example.com when it expired on March 28, 2020, you could register the domain dn–example-20200328.com.
The right to register the domain upon expiration could be transferred to someone else by transferring the encoding domain.
Additional embodiments include allowing priority to register domains from a pool of domain names.
Some of Verisign’s patent applications seem to be geared to changing how expired domains are captured, and this could be one piece of the puzzle.
When I wrote about the instant patent when it was merely an application, I noted:
I had another thought about Verisign’s overall patent strategy while reading through this patent application. In 2013, Verisign discussed monetizing its patent portfolio. It has dropped that discussion (at least publicly). It would be a huge risk for Verisign to go after other registries while it works to hold onto its .com contract.
But…once is clears the Cooperative Agreement with the NTIA, one option would be to sell its portfolio to a group that grants a license back to it. That way Verisign can continue operating, get a profit from selling the patents, and be arm’s-length from any actions the buyer takes.
Verisign has now amended the Cooperative Agreement with the NTIA but is still working with ICANN to try to incorporate the .com price increase. It obviously won’t do anything drastic until then. Once it gets its way with price increases, it will have to consider how bold it wants to be. Does it want to hold out on rocking the boat as it pushes for price caps to eventually be eliminated?
To be continued…
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CentralNic reports H1 earnings propelled by acquisitions
Topline up 225%; organic growth is 6%.
Domain name company CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) reported first-half earnings today.
Thanks to acquisitions, its top line grew by 225% compared to the first half of 2018:
Its organic growth was 6%.
The big acquisition was KeyDrive, which completed in August of last year.
CentralNic has completed several other acquisitions since then but the big ones closed after the end of the first half: TPP Wholesale, Hexonet and Ideegeo.
The company is paying for its recent acquisitions through a €50 million bond issue.
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How to use DAN.com for domain payments
You can use domain sales platform Dan.com to collect payments for your domain sales.
This week I recorded a podcast with domain name investor Mark Levine that will publish on Tuesday morning. Just like last time, I learned a lot by talking with Mark.
One of the things Mark mentioned was that he sometimes uses Dan.com to complete transactions that he has negotiated elsewhere. I didn’t realize you could do this.
Completing a transaction at Dan.com is an easy way to accept a guaranteed payment for a domain transaction. The company accepts credit card payments up to $50,000, which is well above any other platform I’m aware of. The company will go even higher than that with some manual verification.
The fee is only 5% if you bring the lead or just use Dan.com for payment.
To use this service, go to the ‘sales activity’ section of your account and select ‘add new lead’ (see top image). Then, choose if you want to import the lead to handle negotiations or proceed straight to payment.
If you choose the Lead option, the buyer gets an email introducing them to Dan.com and then you negotiate through the platform. If you select the Transaction option, they will get a link to make the payment.
Either way, you pay only 5%.
This seems like a convenient and affordable way to collect guaranteed payments for domain transactions.
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Court rejects France’s appeal in France.com case
Court of Appeals rejects France’s motion to dismiss on grounds of sovereign immunity.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has rejected an appeal by the country of France in a dispute over France.com.
Here’s the background:
Jean-Noël Frydman, who registered France.com in 1994, lost control of the domain name to the country of France after France intervened in a court case. Frydman was in a legal battle with an unrelated entity over trademarks when the French government intervened in the case and convinced a court to transfer France.com to it. Frydman sued in U.S. court to get the domain back.
(Hear about the saga directly from Frydman in DNW Podcast #184.)
France and its related entities filed a motion to dismiss Frydman’s lawsuit on three grounds:
1. It had sovereign immunity
2. The plaintiff was seeking to re-litigate a judgment rendered by a competent foreign court
3. The case failed to state a cause of action
United States District Judge Liam O’Grady granted (pdf) the motion to dismiss for several of the French entities (including the French Republic) because the Complaint lacked sufficient factual allegations to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. He gave Frydman’s company 30 days to file an amended complaint.
O’Grady said the issue of sovereign immunity would best be raised after discover has concluded.
France appealed the decision on immunity. It seemed odd to me that the country would do that given the state of the case and the win it just got.
Now the Appeals Court denied (pdf) the appeal because of the current status of the case:
This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2012), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-47 (1949). The order Appellants seek to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order. Accordingly, we grant the motion to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
Of course, the case is far from over. And while it works its way through the courts, France retains control of the domain name.
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13 end user domain sales up to €75K
An on-demand home services provider, and emergency vehicle intelligence company, and an insurance company bought domain names this past week.
Sedo had a couple of nice end-user sales this week, including AceTech.com and Homee.com
Here’s the list. You can view previous lists like this here.
AceTech.com €75,000 – AceTech manufactures vehicle intelligence for emergency service fleets.
Homee.com $40,000 – The Whois is for Homee, Inc. It’s a home services on-demand company that uses the domain HomeeOnDemand.com.
FacetData.com $19,888 – Facet is a San Francisco company in beta. It says it helps you “Empower your team to make better, faster business decisions at scale, without custom engineering.”
RunsOnRipple.com $10,000 – The domain is still in escrow but Ripple Labs (behind the cryptocurrency) has a trademark on it. I assume it bought the domain.
Chivers.com $6,980 – The buyer’s last name is Chivers.
TechnoShip.com $4,900 – A Dutch company, Technoship BV purchased this domain and is forwarding it to TechnoShip.nl. They are a maritime supplier and manufacturer.
ZD3.com €4,800 – Z2 Partners in Florida.
Nisys.com $4,500 – The domain forwards to Nisys.net, which has a ‘coming soon’ page on it.
CIM.io $3,999 – CIM Operations Pty Ltd in Australia.
Super.mx €3,800 – Super is an insurance company in Spanish-speaking countries including Mexico.
Staci.de €3,380 – Staci is a pick, pack and logistics company.
ArtInt.com $2,000 – This domain was purchased by a guy who works on AI, and it’s short for Artificial Intelligence.
DigiTex.org $2,000 – Purchased by Austin Community College, potentially for a new digital-related initiative.
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This is a dirty way to use an expired domain
A double amputee let his domain expire. Someone bought it for online gambling.
Not cool: the buyer of this expired domain re-purposed a site by a double amputee into an online gambling site.
Earlier this year, the domain name ScottRigsbyFoundation.org expired.
It was used by a double amputee who successfully competed in an Ironman Triathlon. These days he is also a motivational speaker.
The GoDaddy expired domain auction for the domain attracted multiple bidders and closed for $155 in February of this year.
The domain name itself doesn’t have much value to anyone other than the original registrant, but I’m sure it had some backlinks and good SEO. Some people buy expired domains for their SEO value and repurpose the website. I used to do this back in the mid-aughts.
But I’d never do something like this.
The domain buyer has apparently rebuilt the site as an online gambling information site. They even created a new logo calling it the Scott Rigsby Foundation.
That’s downright dirty. I couldn’t sleep at night if I did something like that.
Scott Rigsby is suing (pdf) over losing the domain, although I question the approach. He is suing GoDaddy in Georgia, claiming various parts of its contract aren’t valid and that he didn’t receive renewal notices for the domain.
I guess GoDaddy has money, but I don’t see this lawsuit going anywhere.
If the real goal is to get the domain back, Rigsby might do better by talking to a domain attorney who can walk him through options to get the domain either through a UDRP or via an in rem ACPA case in Virginia (assuming his claim that the registrant used false registration info is correct). I imagine he can easily show common law trademark rights in the term.
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Celgene gets CellGene.com domain in settlement
After originally being found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, pharma company gets domain.
Pharmaceutical company Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) has settled a lawsuit it brought against the domain name CellGene.com. It’s quite a turn of events, too.
The company was found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking earlier this year after it filed a UDRP against the domain name. The panel believed Celgene tried to mislead it.
After the adverse UDRP finding, the company hired a new attorney—David Weslow of Wiley Rein—and filed an in rem lawsuit against the domain name. The lawsuit claimed violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) and trademark infringement.
The domain owner originally tried to fight the lawsuit. It filed a response and counterclaims.
In the end, however, it settled by agreeing (pdf) to hand over the domain and $5,000:
On August 23, 2019, Defendant CELLGENE.COM served an Offer of Judgment in this action in which CELLGENE.COM: (a) agreed to transfer all rights to the domain name CELLGENE.COM to Celgene; (b) agreed to pay to Celgene the amount of $5,000.00; (c) agreed to dismiss with prejudice all counterclaims asserted against Celgene; and (d) acknowledged that Celgene had a reasonable basis for filing the claim set forth in the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceeding involving CELLGENE.COM under WIPO Case No. D2018-2673
I find it bizarre that the owner eventually agreed to pay money after originally fighting the case. It was an in rem case against the domain name. The owner could have just not responded and only lost the domain.
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Donuts slashing prices on 1.1 million premium domains
850,000 domains will be dropped to standard prices as part of repricing.
New top level domain name company Donuts is cutting prices on 1.1 million premium-priced domains, including moving 850,000 domains from premium tiers to regular prices. I believe this represents about half of Donuts’ premium inventory.
The company operates 242 top level domain names. The price drops will cover 45 of these top level domains.
A review of the impacted domains shows that many of them are from the Rightside portfolio of domain names that Donuts acquired. Rightside priced many more domains per TLD as premium compared to Donuts. Rightside was part of Demand Media when it applied for top level domains and used Demand Media’s data-driven approach to identify premium domains.
Rightside went way overboard. This became very apparent when new TLDs launched without as much fanfare as applicants expected.
The premium prices will drop on November 5. Starting September 5, anyone can register the domains that will drop in price and get the lower renewal price but still pay the higher premium price upon registration. It’s sort of a like a mini-Dutch auction; parties can pay a bit more to get the domains now rather than compete with people starting November 5.
Some registrars are expected to hold pre-order events for the domains that will reduce on November 5.
Donuts has a special page that lists all of the domains that will be reduced and the percentage change in wholesale price.
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Software company IFS upgraded to IFS.com and is stoked about it
This $700M+ per year software company is moving from IFSWorld.com to IFS.com.
Big software company makes a big domain upgrade. Graphic courtesy IFS.
A major enterprise software company is upgrading its domain from IFSworld.com to IFS.com, and you can tell it’s really excited about the upgrade.
CEO Darren Roos tweeted about it today:
https://t.co/2iNIGzeN06 is ours! It’s now even easier for current and future customers, partners, employees as well as all the other people in our ecosystem to be part of our journey. Visit us at https://t.co/2iNIGzeN06! #forthechallengers #proudlyIFS pic.twitter.com/IMgKM1y4o3
— Darren Roos (@darrenroos) August 27, 2019
In a blog post, the company noted:
… it’s clearly the obvious URL for our company and will help anyone wanting information and updates to navigate simply and easily to what they’re after. This is important for both our prospective and current customers and partners, but also extends to candidates, suppliers as well as many other people in our ecosystem.
According to historical Whois records, the domain was previously owned by United Technologies (NYSE: UTX). It was used for its Interlogix company.
IFS is a big company itself. It expects to gross over $700 million in revenue this year.
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Who bought domains on Uniregistry up to $92,000
A look at who bought domains on Uniregistry this past week.
Jaboneria Wilson, maker of Lava cleaning products, bought Lavax.com.
Uniregistry continues to publish its top (public) domain sales each week. I still haven’t decided if I’ll do end user searches on them each week, but this is what I found for the latest batch of 20 domains:
1. skew.com $92,000 – Whois only lists that the owner is in London. Perhaps the brand agency that uses SkewStudio.com?
2. simple.life $20,000 – Any guesses as to which end user bought this domain?
3. zord.com $13,000 – No idea on this one. Still resolves to sales lander.
4. joi.co $12,000 – Doesn’t resolve but the buyer put it on Cloudflare, so you can expect a site soon.
5. lavax.com $10,000 – Jaboneria Wilson is a cleaning products company that sells a product called Lava.
6. jendela.com $10,000 – This might be a personal name purchase.
7. beachweek.com $10,000 – There’s an Ohio band that recently changed its name from The Sublets to Beachweek and the Whois shows someone in Ohio. But the old band seems to have only had a Facebook page, so this seems like a longshot.
8. memberportal.com $7,500 – Delta Dental Plan.
9. poolcrew.com $5,500 – Whois shows the buyer is in Texas. It could be the the pool maintenance company that uses the domain MyPoolCrew.com.
10. expressoffers.com $5,000 – GoDaddy Whois privacy and it still resolves to the sales lander.
11. houseoflove.com $5,000 – Linkby Pty Ltd was formed in Australia last year but I can’t find any info about it.
12. wg1.com $4,500 – Whois shows someone who I think is a Chinese domain investor.
13. railanalytics.com $4,250 – Rail Analytics is a tech provider helping train companies.
14. offroadracer.com $4,000 – Obscured Whois and it doesn’t resolve yet.
15. datingatlanta.com $4,000 – Ditto on this one.
16. vancouverplumbing.com $4,000 – Uniregistry’s Whois doesn’t reveal the buyer but it appears to be an end user because it shows their location as British Columbia.
17. organicaloe.com $4,000 – This one has Uniregistry privacy and doesn’t resolve to an active page yet.
18. bitorex.com $3,800 – I suspect this domain is related to this.
19. 8852.net $3,300 – Chinese domain investor.
20. sketchbot.com $3,000 – Picture Mosiacs describes Sketchbot this way:
Live Sketch Mosaics are the latest mesh of robotics and mosaics. Leveraging user-generated content (photos, drawings, doodles, social posts, etc.), the system will create an augmented line sketch of that content. SketchBot will then draw the image in a specific location. Over time, a stunning and one-of-a-kind mosaic will be created.
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