Bloomberg Business published an article this morning about the legal battle that is playing out over the Playboy.London domain name. In a single panel UDRP decision rendered in January, a WIPO panelist ruled that the Playboy.London domain name be transferred to Playboy Enterprises International. The owner of the domain name is fighting to keep it.
According to the Bloomberg Business article, the owner of Playboy.London has filed a lawsuit in order to retain the domain name. From the article:
Amazon was one of the largest applicants for new gTLD domain name extensions, having applied to manage 76 new TLDs. Although the company is not going to operate all 76 of these extensions, the company is looking to hire a Project Manager for its Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
According to a job posting on Amazon.com, here’s the first paragraph of the Project Manager job description:
Kanye West has been in the news all day because of something he did at the Grammy Awards last night. He also made some news in the domain space for something he tweeted yesterday evening, prior to the Grammys:
00:00:03:21:45:33:05 http://t.co/8T1uPQw7bK
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 8, 2015
It looks to me like Kanye West is announcing a new website or app that will be launched on a .Supply domain name. If you click the Yeezy.Supply link, you can see a countdown timer with just over 3 days remaining. Based on some of the news articles that have been written about this by a variety of news outlets, it looks like Yeezy Supply could be related to a shoe project or sneaker.
Yeezy.Supply was created on February 1 of this year. For those who care, YeezySupply.com was also created on the same day, but the domain name does not resolve or forward. I would assume they are related.
Something like this is pretty good news for
Last week, I received my renewal notices from GoDaddy for N.Holdings and N.Ventures. These domain names are expensive to renew for another year, but I plan to keep them for the time being. Perhaps I will put them up for sale this year or next, but I think they are worth more than the renewal cost, so I will keep these two names.
I don’t own many other new gTLD domain names (fewer than 10 I think), so my renewal decisions are pretty easy to make. If I owned hundreds of new domain names with thousands of dollars in renewal fees, my decisions would be more complicated.
I am sure people in the domain investment space are thinking about their own renewals, and I am curious about whether you plan to renew the majority of your new gTLD investments.
This is probably not all that cut and dry of a question, so I think it would be helpful for you to share some feedback about why you are making your renewal decision. I also understand that most people do not renew every single domain name, so the question asks about the majority of new gTLD domain names rather than a simple “yes” or “no” question.
Please vote in the poll below and share your feedback in the comment section.
I don’t own very many new gTLD domain names. A couple of weeks ago, I bought two more. I now own Elliot.Link and ElliotSilver.Link. I didn’t buy them for investment purposes, as I am currently using them to forward people to my LinkedIn profile.
At NamesCon, Frank Schilling gave a keynote speech, and he discussed some synergy between .Link domain names and LinkedIn. I thought that made sense, as it seems much easier to remember a url such as Elliot.Link or ElliotSilver.Link rather than the longer LinkedIn.com/in/elliotsilver url that is the default url for my LinkedIn profile. This is especially the case for people whose names are used by others for their shortened LinkedIn profile link.
I primarily use LinkedIn as
Victor Pitts from Above.com shared some information about an auction the company is running with new gTLD domain names from Radix. Opening bids start at $200 and go up to $1,000. The auction features .Website, .Host, and .Press domain names.
One interesting aspect of this auction is that there is a buy it now option on all of the auctions. For people who don’t want to risk losing an auction, they can click the buy it now button to pay a higher price but avoid an auction. Buy it now prices run from $750 up to $3,000. I am unsure if a bid placed on an auction eliminates the buy it now option, but I would presume that to be the case.
Here’s some information Victor shared with me about the domain names that are included in the auction: