Tobacco company scores a hit with marijuana domains. In December I wrote about how Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, had filed a complaint to get the domain names AltriaCannabis.com and AltriaMarijuana.com. The company won the case at World Intellectual Property Forum against Daniel Cheng of Washington, D.C., and the domain names should be ...

.TV registry operator Verisign has blown up their previous business model for the extension. Prices have been slashed on premium domains and renewal fees drop to standard rates for new registrants. It's all good except for those who bought premium .tv domains before the change and are still stuck with sky high renewal fees....

Popular blog repeats bogus information without fact checking. Yesterday DomainGang, a sometimes satire/sometimes not domain web site, wrote a piece titled “BullWhip to Fight PETA over ownership of Sex.com!” It was based on real “news”, that PETA sent out a press release asking Sex.com’s creditors to give it the domain name so it could help get its ...

Cost to register premium .tv domains just dropped — including renewal fees. Since its beginning, .TV’s commercialization was anything but a hit with domain investors. With steep, registry-set prices for premium domain names, the potential for investment returns was essentially wiped out by the registry. Not to mention that you had to renew ...

Data mining could identify problem registrars before it’s too late. It’s always a headache when an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar loses its accreditation. But often times that’s just the beginning, as customers of Parava Networks learned last year. Parava was allegedly bilking its customers by accepting payments for multi-year renewals, and then only renewing ...

Suit claims registrar parked trademarked domain names for the period between expiration and deletion. Verizon has a filed a lawsuit (pdf) against domain name registrar DirectNIC and related companies, alleging that the defendants parked expired domain names infringing on Verizon’s trademarks in the period between expiration and deletion. The lawsuit also names directors of DirectNIC and related ...

Turn that small purchase into a bigger one. Yesterday I took my three-year-old daughter to Six Flags in San Antonio. She loves amusement rides, and probably can handle more thrill rides than most adults. There are a few things Six Flags does well, including cross sells and up sells. Using behavioral economics, Six Flags presents ...

Do a little leg work and you can nab expiring domains for a fraction of the price. Competition for top expired domain names on NameJet and Snapnames is fierce, and auction prices go sky high. What if there was a way to usurp the auction process and buy premium expired domains at fixed prices? ...

With spring on the way temperatures aren't the only things heating up. Auction activity is breaking out all over. SnapNames just reported a $335,000 sale in their latest monthly showcase auction and two other big events are underway - Domain Madness 2 and a GreatDomains online auction....

Companies claim Sex.com owner in debt over $10 million. Three creditors filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against Sex.com owner Escom, LLC today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California. The petition, obtained by Domain Name Wire (pdf), lists three creditors, all of which appear to have investor and BuyDomains founder Mike Mann as the chairman. ...