The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) unveiled a new logo for their organization on the 26th April to correspond with a new direction they are taking for the 21st century.
The new logo is said to represent the iconic WIPO headquarters building in Geneva.
The color blue represents WIPO and the relationship they have with the United Nations.
UsedAirplanes.com has purchased Flying.com for $1.1 Million.
The new owners of Flying.com are currently developing the site to be launched on June 1st, 2010. The website will be used to display used airplanes and aircraft from UsedAirplanes.com. Flying.com currently states that it is “in the process of developing the first community and social media based portal for flying.”
The UDRP is the procedure that is used when someone wants to complain about the rights to a domain.
While it was established by ICANN, there are several companies that share the disputes.
Each of those companies select a panel to study each case and make a decision.
However it seems that at least one of these companies may not be totally fair.
With the .com turning 25 years old this months a peek at the oldest currently registered .com domain names along with the registration dates, according to VeriSign.
DOMAIN NAME DATE
symbolics.com March 15, 1985
bbn.com April 24, 1985
think.com May 24, 1985
mcc.com July 11, 1985
dec.com September 30, 1985
The website, MakeUp.com recently sold for a seven figure price to makeup company L’Oreal; the domain was transferred to L’Oreal USA Creative, Inc. in early March.
Personally I think the generic domain name sold relatively low.
L’Oreal is already one of the worldwide leaders in the makeup and beauty industry and acquiring this domain name will increase the success of an already successful company.
Morgan Linton founder of Linton Investments LLC has just announce the launch of, ccTLDInvestors.com, an online magazine dedicated entirely to investing in Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs).
See my earlier post with top sales like Credit.fr $851,875 and Free-SMS.de for $162,150 already this year. In 2009 ccTLD sales doubled making it the quickest growing segment in the Domain Investing space.
Read more at ccTLDInvestors.com .
According to Ron Jackson at DNJournal, Moniker competed the sale of Guns.com for $800,000 March 10.
Guns.com is third followed by Poker.org and Credit.fr in biggest sale overall this year.
Poker.org $1,000,000
Credit.fr $851,876
PartySupplies.com $360,000
Biking.com $250,000
Boating.com $250,000
Metal.com $165,000
Free-SMS.de $162.150.
Website.de $141,610
Trellian’s President David Warmuz interviews with Domainvestors.tv Morgan Linton about Above Parking Manager. The interview was recorded and DOMAINfest Global 2010, Santa Monica, California and can be viewed …
According to The VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief, February 2010, the number of .com domains registered has grown to over 80 million over the last 25 years. At the same time, the average daily DNS query volume is now more than 52 billion queries per day.
3D movies have become popular again with the release of Avatar and it is safe to say that 3D technology will improve over a very short period of time. Many more movies are set to be released in 3D and we have the ability to watch television in 3D; even YouTube supports 3D videos now. But as technology evolves, you have to ask: Is it worth registering 3D domain names?
When registering domain names you have to keep in mind how fast technology is evolving and how far ahead of the craze you will need to be, as an example 3dtv.com was created 14 years ago. Someone had a lot of foresight 14 years ago…
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