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Sedo sold just over $1.26 million in domains for the week.

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A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found an intellectual property lawyer guilty of attempting to engage in Reverse Domain names Name Hijacking and bringing a UDRP complaint in bad faith in abuse of the administrative proceeding.

Los Angeles lawyer Frank Michael Weyer filed the case against the owner of iShades.com.

The owner of iShades.com registered the domains four years before Weyer filed an intent-to-use trademark application for iShades, and more than five years before the first use date on the trademark application.

Upon reading the decision, you’ll wonder if Weyer actually read the rules about UDRPs. The panel ruled that he failed to make even a prima facie showing that the respondent lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain names.

Complainant merely includes the conclusory assertion, unsupported by any facts, evidence, or argument, that Respondent lacks legitimate rights in the disputed domainnames name. The remaining assertions of the Complaint (reproduced in Section 5.A.2 and 5.A.3 above) relate to the element of bad faith—and are equally unsupported.

In contrast, Respondent provided documentary evidence that establishes that it acquired the disputed domain name name ishades.com several years before Complainant sought and obtained his trademark registration. Respondent’s documentary evidence is hardly obscure—the date Respondent acquired the disputed domainnames name ishades.com is found in the WhoIs record and the date that Complainant acquired its trademark rights is found in the U.S. Trademark Office database. Had he not actually known these facts, Complainant could have easily discovered them with minimal due diligence.

The Panel concludes that these facts were in all likelihood known to Complainant at the time he filed the Complaint and that the Complaint itself is frivolous.

The WIPO panel also believed that Meyer “materially mischaracterized” communications between Meyer and the names owner regarding acquiring the names name. It also determined:

The allegations of the Complaint were unsupported by documentary evidence, despite the fact that such evidence exists, could have been discovered after a few minutes of Internet research or would have been in Complainant’s possession. This includes such basic evidence as a copy of the trademark registration upon which the Complaint is based and copies of the communications between the parties.

The respondent was represented by John Berryhill.

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BuyDomains, one of the most popular domainname name marketplaces in the world has just done a major overhaul of their platform and it looks good, really good. I am always impressed by companies that listen to their customers and continue to iterate and improve over time. Since most of the work I do is with startups who have little experience with domains, I’ve heard many a complaint about how confusing domainname marketplaces can be.

The general consensus (among the startups and VC’s I work with) is that many names platforms look like sites designed in the 90′s and sadly perform the same way. When you look at popular marketplaces like eBay, Amazon, Zappos, etc. major changes are happening all the time, this is what consumers are used to and have come to expect.

With their latest iteration BuyDomains has made a big move and a move that I know as a developer, is a major undertaking given the amount of traffic and transactional data that they deal with on a daily basis.

One of the biggest improvements that I think really helps with the ideation process that many startups go through when picking a name name is the new search results screen:

What I really like here is that they now make it easy to find similar domains and then can click on “View More Like This” to find similar domain name. One of the requests I hear a lot from startups is a collection of domains by category and BuyDomains has a really nicely designed category page that now makes this easier than ever:

These features are just the tip of the iceberg and there’s a lot more under the hood when you take a deeper dive into the new BuyDomains site.

After talking with some of the folks at BuyDomains I learned how much they take feedback into consideration and how user behavior helps to drive innovation. I can now say with confidence that this one of the best online marketplaces I’ve ever used, period. As an Afternic customer it is awesome knowing that my domainnames will be available to buyers all over the world through the new BuyDomains platform, in essence my own sales listings just got better.

If you haven’t taken the new BuyDomains.com for a spin I highly recommend checking it out. Startups looking for domain names names will definitely love the new platform and a lot of the ideation tools that come with it. On top of that I always recommend NameFind, another great tool by BuyDomains that is great for picking a domain name if you don’t have one in mind already.

Hats off to the entire BuyDomains team, I know this took a lot of time and energy to put together and as a user on both sides of the equation I can tell you I am one happy customer!

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The domain names is already live. The site appears to be distinct from porn.com, but PimpRoll said it plans to build another “tube” site there.

The price of the names was not disclosed, but PimpRoll is known to have paid $9.5 million for its .com address.

I’d guess we’re talking about low six figures for the .xxx, which was reserved by ICM as a “premium” domainnames.

ICM said in a press release that the buyer will also automatically qualify for porn.sex, porn.porn and porn.adult under ICM’s Grandfathering Program, should it be awarded those gTLDs by ICANN.

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