Painless.com UDRP: Respondent delivers pain with this aged, generic domain name

Posted by DomainGang on May 24, 2023, at 10:19 am

The domain Painless.com was registered in 1996, at the dawn of the commercial internet. Along came Benco Dental Supply Co., a medical supply company, with a registered mark for PAINLESS from 1997; they sought to get the domain via the UDRP process 27 years later. They operate painless.benco.com to demonstrate use of the PAINLESS mark. […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, Forum, NAF, Painless.com, UDRP, deny transfer

Mike Mann drops price, sells NewLifeWellness.com

Posted by DomainGang on May 22, 2023, at 3:02 pm

Domain investor and entrepreneur, Mike Mann, is the master of negotiations. Even when the BIN price is a discount on the installments price, Mike Mann can make it happen. A recent domain sale that Mike shared is that of the domain name NewLifeWellness.com. By visiting that domain, one can see that there are two options: […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domains, Mike Mann, NewLifeWellness.com, domain discounts, domain market, sold domains

Decathlons.org: UDRP appears to ignore generic use of the term

Posted by DomainGang on May 22, 2023, at 11:41 am

Decathlon is a French manufacturer specializing in the conception and retailing of sporting and leisure goods. It generates more than 11 billion euro annually, with more than 105,000 employees worldwide. Its DECATHLON brand is a world-famous trademark. Decathlon is also an Olympic sport consisting of 10 events. The word is derived from the Greek “deka” […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Decathlon, Decathlon France, Domains, UDRP, WIPO, decathlons, decathlons.org

Techdd.com: Domain appears to have been sold using the Escrow.com concierge service

Posted by DomainGang on May 22, 2023, at 10:15 am

The domain Techdd.com was registered in 2004 by Mr. Evan Wagner. According to Archive.org records, the registrant is an independent contractor specializing in cable TV plant design. Mr. Wagner also worked at AT&T as CAD Operations Manager for its Broadband division, before moving to Comcast—quite an impressive resume. Techdd stood for “Technical Design & Drafting” […]

Filed under Domain News, Featured · Tagged with Domains, Escrow.com, Evan Wagner, Techdd, Techdd.com, domain concierge, escrow

SquadHelp AI becomes self-aware, launches new brandable domain marketplace

Posted by DomainGang on May 21, 2023, at 5:59 pm

Darpan Munjal, CEO and founder of SquadHelp, rolled out the platform’s first AI-driven domain description creator mere months ago. The successful integration of ChatGPT with the custom-coded domain portfolio manager went through several versions, breaking out of beta on May 1st. Twenty days later, something spectacular happened. “At 11:32am this morning, SquaddlyAid was born. It […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with AI, AI systems, Darpan Munjal, Domains, Parody news, SquaddlyAid, squadhelp

Google Registry: .dad and .phd are harmless but .zip and .mov are dangerous!

Posted by DomainGang on May 20, 2023, at 12:36 pm

Two weeks ago, the Google Registry opened the domain floodgates with no less than 8 new gTLDs: .dad, .phd, .prof, .esq, .foo, .zip, .mov, and .nexus. You can read about who is being targeted with each new gTLD from Google and the news isn’t how these gTLDs should be used, but rather how they shouldn’t […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with .mov, .mov domains, .zip, .zip domains, Domains, Google Registry, gTLDs

Domain rebranding: Buyer of PDF.ai flipped it for a nice profit

Posted by DomainGang on May 19, 2023, at 9:38 am

At the beginning of the year, the buyer of the domain name PDF.ai acquired it at an auction of expired .AI domains for the sum of $610 dollars. That sales amount seems to be a great bargain, for a popular, generic ccTLD that matches the “PDF” keyword. Indeed, the person who acquired PDF.ai just 5 […]

Filed under Domain News, Featured · Tagged with .AI domains, ChatGPT, ChatGPT PDF, Damon Chen, Domains, Looseleaf.ai, PDF, PDF.ai, domain rebranding

Seven with Sedo: TXV.com, RZE.com, Uik.net and more domains at this 3-letter auction!

Posted by DomainGang on May 18, 2023, at 8:56 am

The auction by Sedo that features 3-letter domains has started! Featuring LLL .com, LLL .net, and LLL .org domains, the week-long auction at Sedo takes place from May 18th to May 25th, 2023. From a total of 157 listed domains that are part of the Sedo auction, we picked 7 for this edition of “Seven […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domains, LLL domains, Sedo, seven with Sedo

GoDaddy not happy with Europeans having too many holidays

Posted by DomainGang on May 17, 2023, at 5:46 pm

Almost a year ago, GoDaddy acquired Dan.com by paying $71.4 million dollars; the Netherlands based start-up’s founders and investors cashed a big fat check in the process. There’s one thing that most likely wasn’t planned well in this acquisition’s particulars: European holidays. In Europe, state-mandated holidays extend far beyond Christmas, the only day that WalMart […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Ascension Day, Dan.com, Domains, European holidays, GoDaddy, Parody news

Vallhallan.com UDRP ends with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding

Posted by DomainGang on May 17, 2023, at 2:26 pm

Valhallan LLC, the Complainant, filed a complaint against Casey Strattan, the Respondent, regarding the domain name Vallhallan.com. The Complainant alleged that they had established common law trademark rights in the United States for the mark “VALHALLAN” and that the Respondent had no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. The Complainant further claimed that […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, RDNH, UDRP, Vallhallan.com, WIPO, reverse domain name hijacking

Evita.com dropped; female name unlike any other

Posted by DomainGang on May 17, 2023, at 1:49 pm

Evita.com, the domain name matching the female name “Evita” expired, dropped, and it’s in a DropCatch auction ending today. Evita is ranked as the 8,066th most popular given name in the United States with an estimated population of 1,161. That means the name is quite rare, according to stats provided by MyNameStats.com. We personally know […]

Filed under Domain News · Tagged with Domains, Evita, Evita Peron, Evita.com, domain names, dropped domains, madonna

Inspirus.xyz UDRP: Brand squatter uses the same sales pitch

Posted by DomainGang on May 17, 2023, at 9:00 am

When you squat on brands with a serial pattern you are a serial cybersquatter. The UDRP involving the domain name inspirus.xyz exposed a domain investor’s practice of registering .XYZ domains of existing brands and offering them for sale, with the same sales copy. The Chinese Respondent lists these infringing domains for sale strategically below the base […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with Domains, UDRP, WIPO, brands, cybersquatting, inspirus.xyz

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