Two California men have filed a lawsuit and are seeking to file a class action status against the domain name registrar Go Daddy. According to these two gentlemen, they were not informed that the phone calls were being recorded. The lawsuit requests $5,000 per every recorded phone call for California residents who were not informed that the phone calls were being recorded. Plaintiff Robert Patterson claims that he received more than five phone calls between 2008 and 2012. Plaintiff David Higgins claims that he received five phone calls from Go Daddy between 2011 and 2012. The calls referred to in the lawsuit all appear to be outgoing calls that Go Daddy placed to customers rather than incoming customer service calls. Go Daddy representatives are of course refusing to discuss pending litigation.
Nordstrom sues NoMoreRack
Nordstrom is suing the flash sales website NoMoreRack.com. The retailing giant claims that the website’s domain name and brand name are infringing upon their trademarks. Nordstrom owns and operates over 100 outlet stores called “The Rack”. Nordstrom owns the trademarks for “The Rack” and “Rack”. NoMoreRack.com offers limited time closeout prices on their website. NoMoreRack.com earned around $46 million dollars in the first half of this year. Nordstrom said that they became aware of the NoMoreRack website earlier this year, and informed them that they believed they were being infringed on. Nordstrom feels that NoMoreRack chose their website name in order to capitalize on the reputation of “The Rack”, a brand that they had spent four decades trying to develop. Nordstrom is suing for trademark dilution, trademark infringement, and for a violation of the anticybersquatting consumer protection act. As part of the suit, Nordstrom is demanding that the domains NoMoreRack.com and Friendrack.com be transferred to them.
Sedo.com auction set for Global Entrepreneur Week
Sedo.com will be hosting a premium .CO auction from November 12th through November 19th. The auction will feature 50 premium .CO domain names. The reserve range for all domains in the auction is under $499. Some of the domains listed in the auction are Reason.co, Officer.co, Cent.co, Bring.co, Week.co, Little.co, Demo.co, Region.co, Put.co, Little.co, Under.co, Quartz.co, Weekly.co, Fabulous.co, and Close.co.
Afternic.com sells $1,042,000 in Domains
Afternic.com has had a really nice week of domain sales. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. topped the chart with their sale of SixPackAbs.com for $58,000. Frank’s Name Administration also had the third highest sale with vetoonline.com for $20,000. The second and fourth of the top spots went to Tucows.com. Tucows.com sold the domain Sobriety.com for $30,000 and HotelBedding.com for $10,000. Snapsac.com sold for $9,500 and addstore.com sold for $9,000. Strategyjobs.com, biosynthetic.com, and Cratic.com all sold for over $7,000 each. Hotrodclub.com, e-c-s.com, openage.com, r2l.com, ultimatefootball.com, openage.com, and eoto.com all sold for over $6,000. Coolcast.com, beachapp.com, atponline.com, g-n-sonline.com, workchina.com, bathandshower.com, teenprint.com, emzi.com, and atponline.com all sold for $5,000 or more. Griffy.com, sealab.com, asqa.com, britishmotors.com, techburst.com, endometriosistreatment.com, and teacherquality.com all sold for over $4,000. Peoplefinders.net sold for $10,800 and topped the list of Afternic.com’s non dot com sales. Afternic.com had many other great domain sales this week and nearly all of them sold for $1,000 or more.