Seven with Sedo: GreatDomains auction, including Typed.com, Bobo.de, JJG.com & more
Sedo, our premium sponsor, is rolling out a week-long GreatDomains auction of hand-picked domain names. Featuring 160 domains the Sedo GreatDomains auction takes place between February 15-22, 2024. All domains are listed with their own reserve pricing, that can range from a few hundred to thousands of dollars, or more. From the list we picked […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GPI.com UDRP was denied with no finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
The aged domain GPI.com was used for decades as an acronym representing General Parts, Inc. A lapse in displaying an obvious landing page, however, led the Great Plains Ventures, Inc. to file a UDRP complaint. The Respondent proved that they used the domain along with a registered trademark for many years, utilizing the subdomain openwebs.gpi.com for […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain rebranding: SussexRoyal.com upgrade to Sussex.com for the Duke and Duchess
In 2020, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they are stepping back from royal duties prior to their move to the United States. A year prior, they established the SussexRoyal foundation, operating from the domain names SussexRoyal.co.uk and SussexRoyal.com. As of yesterday, the ex-royals moved to the shorter, sexier Sussex.com. […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Baidu.ai: Chinese mega-brand acquired for $12,000 dollars lost in UDRP
The Chinese registrant of Baidu.ai acquired it for $12,000 dollars in 2017, then placed a poem on its landing page. Baidu Online Network Technology is registered in China since 2000, as the country’s most popular search engine. It is impossible, therefore, for anyone in China to not be aware of Baidu and its popularity as […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy: Strong Q4/2023 and full year 2023 results
On February 13, 2024, in Tempe, Arizona, GoDaddy reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2023. In Q4 2023, GoDaddy Inc. experienced a 13% increase in Applications & Commerce revenue. The company achieved a Q4 net income margin of 103%, which includes non-routine items, and a Q4 Normalized […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ziip.com: UDRP fails due to domain’s seniority over mark
The registrant of Ziip.com held the domain continuously since its registration in 2000. Almost a quarter of a century later, Ziip Inc filed a UDRP to get the domain on the basis of a trademark that was registered in 2015. The WIPO panelist noted that the domain was not registered and used in bad faith, […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.CNN domain investment coverage from 2000 talks about cybersquatters!
The year is 2000 and CNN covers domain buying and selling opting for a sensational term: Cybersquatters. The article discusses the rise of cybersquatting, where individuals register domain names containing famous names or brands with the intention of profiting from them. Meanwhile, domain investor Charles Sweeney from Scotland is highlighted as an example of an […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.SEO: Top 100 most visible domain names in 2023
SISTRIX measures rankings of over 100 million domains for 100 million keywords on Google. For 2023, SISTRIX examined 1,000 domains from each of the following categories: Biggest winners (percentage visibility growth) Biggest winners (absolute visibility growth) Biggest losers (percent visibility decline) Biggest losers (absolute visibility declines). Deduping this list resulted in a total list of […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.InjuredAtPublix.com: UDRP ends with loss for injury attorney
An attorney specializing in defending injured clients registered the domain InjuredAtPublix.com. This didn’t sit well with Publix Super Markets, Inc., commonly known as Publix, an employee-owned supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. The company has been using the Publix.com domain since 1995. The domain is pointed to the personal profile page of the attorney and […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Official update on the SnapNames auction refunds
SnapNames was on the receiving end of auction winner backlash, after it reversed the outcome of more than a dozen domain auctions and issued refunds. After communicating the issue with the SnapNames support team, its team lead supervisor got in touch with an explanation of what took place. We now have the official response that […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.PrimaCarne.net: Spanish company fails to grab UDRP Respondent’s prime meat
A Spanish company, Primacarne, SL filed a UDRP to get the domain PrimaCarne.net from its registrant, located in New Zealand and operating a business in the Philippines. The Complainant uses the .com for its pork-producing business in Spain. Prima carne means “prime meat” in Spanish and its generic nature, along with the Respondent’s legitimacy as […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.RunSmart.com: Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding for 1998 domain registration
In the UDRP filed against the domain RunSmart.com, the Respondent noted that since the domain was registered 10 years prior to the first use by Complainant of the RUNSMART mark, the domain could not have been adopted in bad faith since Respondent could not have know of a then nonexistent mark at the time of […]
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