Morgan Stanley grabs 58 domains in a single UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on April 30, 2022, at 2:30 pm

Big banks are very protective of their brand and Morgan Stanley is one of the biggest financial institutions, with offices in more than 42 countries and more than 60,000 employees. The MORGAN STANLEY brand is therefore well-known and the mark was established with the bank in 1935. The bank has filed numerous UDRPs over the […]

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Last chance to register a .sexy #domain before they get super expensive!

Posted by DomainGang on April 29, 2022, at 2:39 pm

Do you have any .sexy domains? If not, today is your last opportunity to afford one. Beginning on April 30th, all .sexy domains increase in price and it won’t be just a couple of bucks. Right now, domain registrars such as Namecheap offer .sexy registrations for $29.98 dollars, with renewals locked at $43.98 dollars. From […]

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Meta Platforms wins UDRP for several “Horizon” domain names

Posted by DomainGang on April 29, 2022, at 12:13 pm

Meta Platforms, Inc., the parent company of Facebook, was formed after a corporate rebranding occurred last October. Since then, the company filed for several “meta” trademarks and others involving “horizon” – its latest expansion of the Metaverse: Meta’s Horizon Worlds is a social VR application that allows users to explore virtual worlds in an interactive […]

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Find out the renewal cost of gTLDs using the Namecheap bulk transfer

Posted by DomainGang on April 29, 2022, at 10:57 am

Unlike .com, .net, and .org, pricing of gTLDs can vary as much as a rainbow spread. From a few bucks to thousands of dollars, gTLD domains can be pricey to acquire and/or renew. Such premium gTLD domains listed for sale at auctions often carry the renewal cost. For example, SAV auctions list the domain’s renewal […]

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HDT.com: UDRP filer wanted to pay $11,000 dollars for this LLL .com #domain

Posted by DomainGang on April 28, 2022, at 10:56 am

Quality three letter .com domains can be hard to find; in the case of HDT.com the quality is stellar. The value of LLL .com domains has been consistently growing during the past decade and the registrant of HDT.com acquired it for $8,500 dollars in 2013. Soon after, the Chinese marketplaces erupted with domain investors buying […]

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Photomaton.com: Mega Domains nails yet another #UDRP

Posted by DomainGang on April 28, 2022, at 10:32 am

French company Photomaton filed a UDRP to get the domain Photomaton.com; as a prior registrant, the company apparently forgot to renew it and the domain dropped. The ensuing auction was won by Mega Domains founder, Ehren Schaiberger. The domain is for sale, with a $37,000 dollar price tag. Although PHOTOMATON is a registered trademark in […]

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Domain rebranding: BKD.com & DHG.com might be available in the future!

Posted by DomainGang on April 28, 2022, at 9:23 am

Three letter .com domains are the quintessential coinage of the domain industry. Quality letters are hard to find and it seems that a pair of LLL .com domains might be available in the future! BKD.com and DHG.com are the two domains that might be hitting the chopping block, as their respective owners agreed to merge, […]

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SpeechTherapy.com: Trademark registration application reveals #domain sale

Posted by DomainGang on April 27, 2022, at 3:51 pm

SpeechTherapy.com LLC, operators of the premium domain name, SpeechTherapy.com, have applied for the registration of the matching mark. The mark consists of a creative design of a thought or text bubble to the left of the wording SPEECHTHERAPY.COM. It’s an “intent to use” application, indicating that the mark has not seen commercial use yet. After […]

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Investors rush to register WW3 #domain names

Posted by DomainGang on April 27, 2022, at 1:44 pm

In a stark warning to war-mongering Russia, domain investors are rushing in droves to register “WW3” domain names. Motivated by the self-destructive attitude of Putin’s authoritarian regime, domainers find the “WW3” prefix lucrative and such domains are selling like hotcakes. Traded at prices higher than some fancy NFT collectibles, domains about a World War 3 […]

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MC5.com: Complainant lost UDRP despite 55 year old trademark use

Posted by DomainGang on April 27, 2022, at 11:56 am

The UDRP complaint filed against the domain MC5.com claimed rights to the registered mark MC5. While the domain was registered in 2003, it was sold to the current registrant in 2019 for the sum of approximately $2,900 dollars. The sale took place on the Chinese domain marketplace ename. Meanwhile, the MC5 mark was registered in […]

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After 25 years, c|net drops the pipe, rebrands its identity

Posted by DomainGang on April 27, 2022, at 10:19 am

Goodbye c|net, hello CNET. One of the leading technology media brands on the internet during the past 25 years, announced that it’s rebranding. In the process, the pipe symbol “|” is removed from its identity. No worries, the domain name cnet.com does not change! 😀 Rolling out a new identity and site design among other […]

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Bored Apes worth $1 million stolen using a dot .land #domain name

Posted by DomainGang on April 26, 2022, at 5:47 pm

Some unfortunate owners of the highly valuable Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs lost their assets yesterday. The cybercriminals took advantage of a security lapse at the BAYC Instagram page, substituting the official link with one they controlled. Using the domain YugaLabs.land, the criminals set up a page mimicking Yuga Labs, operators of the BAYC franchise. […]

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