In the present times, Internet has become almost indispensable in our lives. Not only does it help us in our professional lives to make business smoother, but it also enhances the quality of our personal lives by helping us stay connected with our loved ones. Right from a kid to an adult, everyone needs Internet for various things, ranging from searching of information, to communicating with people across the globe, making business transactions, sharing of data etc.
Jan 31
As the market shows little sign of an ultimate upheaval domain owners are left to speculate on which names to keep, many portfolio owners I have spoken to recently have come across staggering losses, portfolios where ten to fifteen thousand dollars sales were common are now coming up empty as domain owners search for a new solution. There is a solution, higher exposure but unfortunately that means more time spent on your names, what then do we do?
Jan 28
A large percent of domain owners are in the industry of buying and selling these assets, as an asset the end goal is obvious: buy low sell high. As a result, many companies find it difficult to purchase a domain without some inflated price that would keep the average citizen retired for years.
Jan 23
If you’re looking how to buy and sell your websites & domains online there’s a few ways to go about it but before you do it would be Smart to gauge whether or not your domain and site is worth anything. Once this has been established you need to take the purchase chain from the top and find those willing to pay the most down to the least. There are many sources to go through for each so in order to elicit the best results you have to act smart, let’s take a look at the best places to do all these things.
The first would be to gauge the pricing in metrics of each to figure the value of your website and/or website you need to look at:
Sep 10
Vanguard Trademark Holding, which holds the trademarks for National Car Rental, has failed to win the domain name Natonal.com in a UDRP. This is despite:
- Natonal.com resolving to a parked page full of ads for car rental
- The domain owner not responding to the UDRP
So why did Vanguard fail? It based its premise primarily on Natonal.com being confusingly similar to the company’s “National Car Rental” mark. The panelist pointed out that Natonal might be confusingly similar to National, but it’s not similar at all to the full three word mark. Vanguard argued it had rights to “National” as well, but apparently the lawyer didn’t focus on this and didn’t submit evidence. So Vanguard didn’t even clear the first hurdle of a UDRP.
Here’s something else that’s interesting. If anything, Natonal.com is a typo of National.com, which National Car Rental doesn’t even own! National.com is owned by National Semiconductor. Yes, it’s clear that the parked page at Natonal.com is targeting people looking for the car rental company, but can you imagine if an arbitration panel handed over a typo of a third party’s URL just because of how it was targeting ads?
