Domains Arena

The exclusive .EU no reserve auction celebrated at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ended yesterday and the results are putting in doubt if investing in such secondary ‘continentTLD’ is worth it. The sales talk by themselves, some good premiums were on the list, that featured 50 .eu domain names, but only 10 of them were sold.

Here, the results:

Interpreters.eu 700 €
Progressive.eu 600 €
Teeth.eu 600 €
Professional.eu and Professionals.eu 600 €
Apples.eu 500 €
BuyGold.eu 500 €
EasyLoans.eu 500 €
GolfResort.eu 500 €
SellGold.eu 500 €
Diapers.eu 500 €

The registry operator for .tel, Telnic, choosed HHY.tel as the tel domain of the week. The pourpose of this sort of ‘contest’, launched by Telnic, is intended to demonstrate how useful the .tel extension can be and what you can do with it.

Dot tel domains where presented as a new and innovative alternative to dot MOBI, but a big part of the domain community has troubles seeing its utility.

Although, the numbers are not that bad. A total of 200.000 .tel domains were registered during the General Availability period, that started two months ago.

Some other names were considered interesting by Telnic, and these are the following:

telmasters.tel – Free .tel-related tools and services
fotokonkurs.tel – Reference of photographic contests in Russia
kentschools.tel – Schools in Kent, USA, with individual .tel pages for each
arthurguy.tel – Freelance developer
blpre.tel – Brokerage solutions for Boston's luxury properties
ambasade.tel – Embassies in Romania
nairobi.tel – Nairobi business directory
kravmaga.tel – Schools of Krav Maga, Poland
avg-directorio.tel – City council of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque city in Spain
thedrinksareonme.tel – Pub chain in the UK, promotional campaign .tel
komsitravel.tel – Tourism in Romania, publishes deals on .tel
powai.tel – Local directory for Powai, Mumbai, India
haitiearthquake.tel – Info and donations for victims of Haiti earthquake
nganhang.tel – Directory of banks in the Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
BeautyCall.tel – Hair & Makeup in England and Wales

This week's highest sale has been achieved by Software.de that went for 235.025 EUR at Sedo. Another dot DE domain that sells for a such price, demonstrating the excelent health of the german domain afermarket. The second highest sale of the week corresponds to business.tv, sold for $100,999 also at SEDO. It seems that finally dot TV is starting to have the consideration it deserves, despite some will say that this is a ridiculous amount for such a keyword.

Anyway, all other high-priced sales this week at Sedo are dot com and include :

gr8.com $16,000
iwant2.com 15,000 GBP
kleding.com 14,362 EUR
clickandgo.com $14,000
conjugasion.com 11,001 EUR
carpictures1.com $10,500
goalbet.com 10,000 EUR
reson8.com $10,000
creditimmobilier.com 9,750 EUR
hxjq.com $8,900
urbanjunkies.com 7,700 GBP
simplyjobs.com $6,750
festgeldkonto.com 6,100 EUR

Here we have another WIPO procedure won by Google over a domain name in a clear trademark infringement. The domain was vietnamadwords.com and Google, represented in this case by Ranjan Narula, won the procedure over the previous owner.

Google has offered advertising services under the mark Adwords since 2001. Therefore,they contended in the complaint that the domain name is confusingly similar to its trademark. But not only this, they also declared that the respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith.

• "Respondent had Complainant and its ADWORDS mark in mind when registering the Domain Name. The former prominent use of the word Google on Respondent’s website makes this conclusion virtually inescapable."
• "Respondent’s conduct constitutes an intentional attempt to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to Respondent’s site by creating a likelihood of confusion between the ADWORDS mark and the Domain Name."

The respondent failed to provide a response in this proceeding and the complainant managed to demonstrate all the elements needed, and the Panel decided the disputed domain name be transferred from the respondent to the complainant. As everyone expected, of course...

To see the full decision you can visit this page.