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New
Owner of UDRP.com Turns Out to Be Both a Domain Investor
AND an End User
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As you may have heard,
Bido.com
sold
UDRP.com for $16,500 last week.
Considering the important role the UDRP
process plays in the domain industry
and the fact that each side in a single UDRP
dispute typically spends several thousand dollars
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someone got
a good deal on that domain. As it turns out the
buyer was both a domain investor and an
end user - noted domain attorney Ari
Goldberger (who was profiled in our June
2006 Cover Story). Ari has been the
winning attorney in some of the most important
domain cases of all time, Including NewZealand.com
and Mexico.com.
“NewZealand.com
was the first case of a country trying to claim
its domain," Goldberger told us. "The
owner’s entire business could have
collapsed if this case was lost, so the pressure
was on big time. It was a wonderful
victory, particularly since the panel found that
the Complainant engaged in Reverse Domain
Name Hijacking. The funny thing is
that the case was in the name of HRM, the
Queen of England, so CNN.com had
the headline: |
Ari
Goldberger |
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“British
Queen Loses Out on Cyber Name.” Mexico.com
was another case where an individual had
invested a lot and worked very hard could have
lost an entire business if I had not won.”
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Goldberger
is on just about every experienced domain owner's short
list if they have to seek help to defend against an
unjustified UDRP filing. Though he and his firm, ESQwire.com,
are already well known, acquiring the category killing
domain name for this particular corner of the legal
arena should only strengthen his position further. The
domain could be taken in several different directions
including being used as a simple redirect to drive
qualified traffic to his own website or developed into
the ultimate guide to the UDRP process and/or qualified
UDRP attorneys. As the owner of the defining domain
name, Ari is now is a position to lead the UDRP
discussion if he chooses to do so.
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Elsewhere today,
the special $795 early bird registration
fee for the 2010
GeoDomain Expo - coming up April
28-30 in New Orleans was supposed to
expire yesterday (Feb. 28), however since the
deadline fell on a Sunday, show organizers
decided to extend it through today.
Starting tomorrow, the price goes up to $995
where it will remain until April 1 when
it will go up again.
The show is going
to be held at the historic Roosevelt Hotel,
a showplace that just reopened in July 2009
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Hurricane
Katrina had shut it down for four
years. A $145 million
restoration project has returned The Roosevelt
to its place as the premier luxury hotel in New
Orleans.
The hotels’
world-famous Blue Room has hosted some of
the greatest musicians and singers of all time
including Louis Armstrong, Frank
Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles
and Ella Fitzgerald. The Roosevelt's Sazerac
Bar is also known as the source of the
first cocktail invented in America, an
absinth powered concoction that is now the official
drink of New Orleans.
Room at the
Roosevelt can be reserved at the show's
guaranteed lowest rate of $229 per night
by visiting the
online booking engine or by calling 504-648
1200 and referencing the GeoDomain Expo
group rate.
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One other
geodomain related note - Sedo is
hosting a week long auction featuring
travel and geo domains starting Friday
(March 5th) at 9 a.m. EST and
running until March 12th at 9 a.m. EST. Belgium.com,
Souvenirs.net and Tourism.biz are
a few of the domains slated to go on the
block in this sale. You can visit Sedo.com/TravelAuction
to view the current inventory.
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