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Construction equipment company tries reverse domain name hijacking

Complainant mischaracterizes policy’s view on domain investing. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel found (pdf) that Mecalac Construction Equipment UK, a company that sells construction equipment, tried to reverse hijack the domain name fermec.com. Domain investor Global IP Holdings acquired the domain in an expired domain auction in 2019 for $240. A company affiliated with [...]

Appraise.software domain appraisal review: no backup data, but bulk tools

Appraise.software doesn’t provide any backup to its values, calling its usefulness into question. This is part of Domain Name Wire’s review of automated domain appraisal tools. Appraise is a generically-named domain appraisal tool hosted at Appraise.software. To avoid confusion with Appraise.net, we’ll refer to it as Appraise.software in this analysis. Appraise.software offers three pricing tiers [...]

$200,000 Asking Price, But One Fatal Problem: The Timeline – vol. 6.22

$200,000 Asking Price, But One Fatal Problem: The Timeline This decision is a useful reminder that trademark priority and domain name chronology are not the same thing. The Complainant undoubtedly possessed trademark rights predating the Respondent’s acquisition of <rapidpay.com>, but the Panel focused on the question that ultimately matters in cases involving descriptive or brandable [...]