Buying Stadia (or Other New TM) Domains Makes No Sense to Me

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March 21, 2019

This week, Google announced a new gaming platform called Stadia. As I observed shortly after the news was announced, Google smartly acquired the brand match Stadia.com domain name in advance of the announcement. I did not notice other Stadia-related domain names registered by Google at the time I wrote my article, but the company appears to have registered many domain names in ccTLD and new gTLD extensions in the hours and days since. Ten of the Stadia domain names registered by Google (via DNStination Inc.) include:

There Are More .App UDRP / URS Filings Than Reported Sales

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Elliot Silver

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March 12, 2019

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According to nTLDStats.com, there are more than 375,000 registered .App domain names. This makes .App the 12th largest new gTLD extension by volume. .App domain names became available to register and purchase in early May.

In a comment on Sunday, Snoopy, a veteran domain name investor, noted that there are only 14 publicly reported sales of .App domain names in Nambio. The largest sale in this group is the $15,000 sale of Dispatch.App. The smallest sales are $117 sales of River.App and QAR.App. The average sale price, based on the 14 publicly report .App sales, is $4,099.

CellGene.com UDRP Results in RDNH

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Elliot Silver

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February 19, 2019

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A UDRP panel ruled that the CellGene.com UDRP was a case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. The UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization, and it is case #D2018-2673. The UDRP was filed by a large publicly traded pharmaceutical company called Celgene.

SecureLock.com UDRP: Finding of RDNH

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Elliot Silver

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February 18, 2019

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SecureLock.com was the subject of a UDRP proceeding at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). The decision was published over the weekend, and the three member panel found in favor of the domain registrant. In addition, the panel ruled that the case was brought in bad faith and “that reverse domain name hijacking has occurred.” The domain registrant will be able to retain the SecureLock.com domain name.

RDNH Finding on Dialoga.com UDRP

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Elliot Silver

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February 15, 2019

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A UDRP was filed against Dialoga.com at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO Case #D2018-2768). The complainant in the UDRP was Dialoga Servicios Interactivos, S.A. of Bilbao, Spain, and the domain registrant is Finlead, a domain investment company with a nice portfolio of generic domain names.

VDG.com UDRP: Complaint Denied

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Elliot Silver

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February 5, 2019

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A Canadian company called Van der Graaf Inc. filed a UDRP against the three letter VDG.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization. The registrant of the domain name, a domain investment company represented by Wiley Rein LLP, won the UDRP. The panel considered Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH), but that was denied. The registrant will retain the domain name.

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Buying Stadia (or Other New TM) Domains Makes No Sense to Me

There Are More .App UDRP / URS Filings Than Reported Sales

CellGene.com UDRP Results in RDNH

SecureLock.com UDRP: Finding of RDNH

RDNH Finding on Dialoga.com UDRP

VDG.com UDRP: Complaint Denied

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