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The Auction for 99bb.com completed yesterday (August 28th 2009) with a massive final bid of $12,599 USD. This is not surprising given the volume of traffic shown on Alexa Ranking for the domain.
Some heavy hitters entered the bidding war, with "wowogame" winning the final bid after a long showdown with "who". Also in the bidding war were "buydomains", "cnsun", "iteasy" and "demand", all of whom have very good reputations on the platform - so no shill bidding was happening here (for once!). Below is a screenshot of the final auction page. I bowed out early but had my bid in weeks ago in hopes of getting a shot.
Written by Wire Thursday, 27 August 2009 15:25
As recently posted on Namepros, Google is now allowing .ME domain holders to geo-target like any standard TLD, as opposed to treating like a cctld. Prior to this change, holders of ME domains were unable to switch their geo-target from "Montenegro," the country which applied for and won the cctld several years ago.
This is huge new for Geo Domain Holders. You can see the geotargeting for Nothing.ME in the attached panel.
Last Updated on Thursday, 27 August 2009 17:58 Written by Ed Muller Thursday, 27 August 2009 08:44
Items we are bidding on today at Namejet:
AdaptiveOptics.com - Great generic with about 5000 phrase searches per month and about 10 wordtracker.
I always question potential TM issues but as an observer I'm apt to say they are weak at best. Adaptive Optics Associates formed in 1995 and built their site at AOAINC.com and acquired adaptiveoptics.com some time after registering a trademark for the name of their company with an image mark. The corporation has since been acquired by Grumman. Prior to acquisition they renewed one trademark. After acquisition Grumman allowed a second similar the mark to expire.
While use of this term might have once been attributed to the company with the phrase "Associates" at the tail end of this mark, it seems unlikely that a generic such as this would be subject to TM dispute. Wikipedia is the top search result for this entry, has no links to any Grumman site, pdf or whitepaper, makes no mention of the former mark holder, and there is no record of anyone having pursued this mark as a matter of dispute. Moreover, I do not see any entries for Grumman, AdaptiveOptics.com, or AOAinc.com in any Google, Bing or Yahoo search results, so I am even more inclined to believe that not only is this mark unprotectable (much like try to protect ketchup if you are Heinz), but attached only to the old corporation as a means to protect itself as an entity, not as title-holder and rights-holder to the "Adaptive Optics" generic term.
Conclusion: Acquired successfully
Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 August 2009 12:30 Written by namemon Wednesday, 26 August 2009 11:04
Already at $500 with a few hours left, RubberWristbands.com, those comfortable bracelets you get to wear if you want to support a special cause - made famous by lance Armstrong in his fight for cancer - is up for grabs. Already with lots of visitors to the page and lots of market potential, this one is certain to go for 4 or 5 figures.
https://auctions.godaddy.com/trpItemListing.aspx?&miid=26547251
Good luck and happy bidding!
NOTE: This auction closed at $1,566 with 14 bids and 65 hits to the bid page at 1:23 PM EST
Written by sunlane Wednesday, 26 August 2009 09:55
The next few days will be some Sunlane.com drops which are presumably Enom captured domains. Whois lists all of the domains below as This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - sunlane.com whois is listed as This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- facetting.com
- tantrism.com
- maturating.com
- revilers.com
- herniae.com
- swordstick.com
- metamorphosing.com
- humeri.com
- sinkage.com
- pillared.com
- loitered.com
The last non-enom whois for Sunlane.com was in 2002 displayed below:
Registrant
Sunlane Media
PO Box 231789
Encinitas, CA 92024
Administrative Contact -
Tim Lyman -
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sunlane Media
P.O. Box 231789
Encinitas, CA 92024
Technical Contact -
Mike Cory -
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
XciteNet
947 Sedgewick Ct.
Westfield, NJ 07090
Record updated date - 2002-03-11 00:18:54
Record created date - 1999-04-09
Record expiring on - 2003-04-09
EAST.XCITE.NET 216.169.111.6
WEST.XCITE.NET 216.169.111.7
Written by nikolov Wednesday, 26 August 2009 09:29
As we stated yesterday, the Nikolov domains are still dropping. These are premium domains registered in July 1997. You can get a look at the latest list of names here:
- galvanize.com
- appreciate.com
- charismatic.com
- galvanized.com
- pylon.com
- telegrams.com
- arethusa.com
- anoraks.com
- nocturnes.com
- draughtsmen.com
- encores.com
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