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QW.com UDRP Denied Due to “Fraudster”

Elliot Silver
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A UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against the valuable 2 letter QW.com domain name. The complaint was a bit confusing, pitting the Complainant, Quickware, Inc. / Williams Fred, against Quickware, represented by Fred Williams, as the Respondent.

The sole panelist, Scott Blackmer, ruled in favor of the domain registrant in this UDRP. The decision was published on the WIPO website this morning. Based on my reading of the decision, it appears that someone impersonated the domain registrant in an attempt to wrest control over this high value domain name using the fairly inexpensive UDRP:

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No Negotiation Box with GoDaddy Offers

Elliot Silver
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Afternic recently began offering Dan.com-lookalike landing pages with GoDaddy branding. I liked them enough to move inventory to them away from Dan.com. Afternic followed this up with the ability to allow prospects to make an offer to buy a domain name in addition to the BIN and LTO options.

Unlike how the Make Offer process works on Dan.com, there is no negotiation box for sellers to communicate with buyers directly. Instead, when a buyer submits an offer via the landing page, the negotiation is handled by a GoDaddy broker.

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Will Google Change Be a Nail in the Parking Coffin?

Elliot Silver
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Jen Sale of Evergreen.com posted an email Google sent to its Google Ads advertisers. It looks like Google Ads will automatically opting-out new advertisers from advertising on parked domain names:

Domain name parking revenue has been on the decline for quite some time. I have never earned much revenue from PPC advertising on my domain names, but I know quite a few people who made a living from parking back in the day.

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Rocket.com Sold via Hilco Digital Assets (Update)

Elliot Silver
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In what I believe could be one of the top domain name sales of all-time, Hilco Digital Assets brokered the sale of Rocket.com. The domain name is currently pending transfer away from Network Solutions, Whois records at DomainTools show.

This morning, I reached out to Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Hilco Digital Assets, who had previously mentioned the domain name. Andrew confirmed the domain name was sold but could not comment about the sale price. “We can confirm that we oversaw the sale and acquisition of the Rocket.com domain name, in a win-win for the buyer and seller,” he told me via email.

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Quick Fix for NameBright Issues

Elliot Silver
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The other day, I consolidated some .com domain names at GoDaddy prior to the most recent Verisign price increase. When I tried to approve the transfers at NameBright, I encountered an error message that prevented me from transferring the domain names to GoDaddy.

I reached out to NameBright support, and I was directed to try and approve the transfers on the legacy website. NameBright recently launched a new platform, but it still operates the older platform at Legacy.NameBright.com. I logged in to my account on the legacy platform, navigated to the transfer authorization screen, and the transfers were immediately released after I approved.

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Atom.com was Reportedly Sold at a Loss

Elliot Silver
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When the domain name marketplace and branding platform now known as Atom.com was rebranded, I was under the impression that the company acquired the domain name from Andy Booth. James Iles reported Andy’s acquisition of Atom.com in 2022. Both Andy’s acquisition price and subsequent sale price were unreported.

Without being privy to any details, I was under the impression that it was another nice domain name sale for Andy, who has also sold and/or brokered the sale of great domain names like Universal.com, Tiger.com, Wolf.com, and too many others to list.

As is often the case, there is more to the story. According to a post from Andy this morning, Atom.com was actually sold at a loss.

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