File sharing company files IP lawsuit over trademarks. BitTorrent (and especially its users) are familiar with intellectual property lawsuits. But usually they’re on the receiving end. Now the tables are turned. BitTorrent, Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit in California against BitTorrent Marketing GMBH for trademark infringement and cybersquatting. According to BitTorrent, Inc. founder Bram [...]

Don’t forget to prove earlier rights if you claim them. Publisher Hidden Values has lost a dispute over the domain name TriangleKidsDirectory.com. Hidden Values publishes the Kids’ Directory. It also has a registered trademark for KID’S DIRECTORY. It’s an admittedly weak mark. It’s even a concurrent use registration that is limited in geographic scope. But, [...]

Every blog is supposed to write about the IPO I’ve got to write one, right? If religious blogs find a way to cover an IPO then a domain blog should, too. I actually have a bit of a domain angle. This morning I googled FacebookIPO.com because I recall seeing something about the domain previously. Here’s [...]

A look at a few stories I haven’t covered this week… There are a few notable stories in the domain name industry that I missed writing about over the past week, so here’s a quick run down. A “monster” of an acquisition – Mesh Digital, which owns domain name registrar DomainMonster, has been acquired by [...]

Moniker auction nets close to $20,000 in sales. The Moniker Premium Spring Auction at SnapNames just concluded. Here are the (unofficial) results: drivinggloves.com 6450 – this is a recently developed site. Auction included Facebook page (with 2,000+ likes) and Twitter handle. florists.info 3050 – good keyword, but not a bad price given how marketplace for [...]

Company transfers domains between registrar accreditations. If you start to see domain name registrar Domain.com growing in registrar ranking reports, there’s a good explanation for that. Dotster, which owns Domain.com, has transferred the domain names from its Dotster accreditation to the Domain.com one. I was alerted to this change when I received a DomainTools whois [...]

Request for .xxx domain name denied. United Kingdom insurance company BGL Group Limited, better known as CompareTheMarket.com, is the first complainant to lose a UDRP for a .xxx domain name. The company filed the complaint against UK resident Jon Watkins, who registered the domain back in December when .xxx became generally available. But as I’ve [...]

Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases. The biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report is Intuit. The company (of Quicken and Quickbooks fame) bought Apps.net for EUR 21,400 at Sedo. It already owns Apps.com. It offers Intuit Apps for many of its products. Here are other domain [...]

Zimbabwe.com sells for a fraction of what it sold for in 2007. We always hear stories about people who bought domains and flipped them for many times their purchase price. But the opposite also happens. Take the case of Zimbabwe.com, which just sold for $42,500 at Sedo. The last time this domain (reported) sold was [...]

Mamma.com owner selling Mama.com. I was originally a bit surprised to see mama.com in Moniker’s Spring Auction ending this week. Then I realized the domain on auction is actually a typo of the once popular search engine Mamma.com — not the search engine itself. Well, sort of a typo, as I later found out. I [...]