Viking River Cruises has acquired the premium generic domain name Viking.com from Office Depot, Inc. according to whois records.

Viking.com Whois

This premium domain name purchase by Viking River Cruises follows a very recent victory by Office Depot, Inc. defending a UDRP filing on the Viking.com domain name by Aurelius RHO GTM Development Limited, with a finding of revere domain name hijacking (RDNH) as reported by DomainNameWire.com and DomainInvesting.com.

This is an outstanding domain name purchase by Viking River Cruises, who … Read the rest

Read More

Avenue 81, Inc (DBA LeadBrite) which operates several lead page services, announced in December 2015 a new service called “Center” and was looking for early users. At the time, they were using the domain name Center.io but have now done a domain name upgrade and acquired the premium generic domain name Center.com from past owner Horoscope.com Inc. according to whois records.

According to a MarketingLand.com article about Center, they offer a lead management tool.

On February 10, 2016 the domain … Read the rest

Read More

Australian fashion designer Kym Ellery has secured the premium generic domain name, Ellery.com, potentially through a UDRP filing.

DomainInvesting.com mentioned the filing of a UDRP on Ellery.com on January 14, 2016. I checked several sources this morning and the UDRP status (case active) has not updated at time of this posting, yet late Sunday the domain name transferred ownership from GoDaddy’s NameFind, LLC to Kym Ellery.

Newly updated whois record on Ellery.com

Ellery.com Whois Records

Since the UDRP status states “case active”, it … Read the rest

Read More