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Kent99
21st April 2016, 05:45 AM
Nikon.world (尼康.世界) in Chinese sold for $6800 according to DNJournal.

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2016/20160427.htm

Not mine.

123
21st April 2016, 07:58 AM
Does this look like a serious end-user purchase? Doubt it. More likely someone regged this huge trademark and tried to sell it to the TM holder. Otherwise I don't see why Nikon Corporation would have to pay someone to use their mark.

IdnHost
21st April 2016, 03:22 PM
Does this look like a serious end-user purchase? Doubt it. More likely someone regged this huge trademark and tried to sell it to the TM holder. Otherwise I don't see why Nikon Corporation would have to pay someone to use their mark.

Maybe Nikon figured it would cost more going the UDRP route. Im betting $6800 to them is chump change and not even worth the time. Regardless, +1 point for the idn community

Rubber Duck
21st April 2016, 03:31 PM
dot org available.

sbe18
21st April 2016, 06:03 PM
dot org available.
I need to start looking at buying Czechian names.. for Nikon type brand squatting....
or was that Chechnyan names.....(grin)

now where is that Verisign Moldovian fast track cctld pdf I saved in 2006.......

http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20141129/slovaks-have-last-laugh-with-change-to-czechia.html

Kent99
23rd April 2016, 09:49 PM
Don't know how the purchaser found the seller. I can't even find a whois that works for .世界.

clipper
24th April 2016, 07:31 AM
Don't know how the purchaser found the seller. I can't even find a whois that works for .世界.

http://whois.nic.xn--rhqv96g/

Strangely, lookup only works with punycode.

And yes, the current owner is serious:

Domain Name: XN--8FTQ1D.XN--RHQV96G
Domain ID: D131219-RHQV96G
WHOIS Server: whois.nic.xn--rhqv96g
Referral URL: http://www.1api.net
Updated Date: 2016-04-08T08:59:46Z
Creation Date: 2016-01-09T11:36:04Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2018-01-08T23:59:59Z
Sponsoring Registrar: 1API GmbH
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1387
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registrant ID: C189132-RHQV96G
Registrant Name: Domain Administrator
Registrant Organization: NIKON CORPORATION
Registrant Street: 2-15-3 Konan
Registrant City: Minato-ku
Registrant State/Province: Tokyo


Announcement of Head Office Relocation
(http://www.nikon.com/news/2014/0811_01.htm)
Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President, Tokyo) announces that the company will relocate its head office to the address below.

New address:
Shinagawa Intercity Tower C, 2-15-3, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-6290 Japan

Relocation date (plan):
November 25, 2014

123
24th April 2016, 08:13 AM
Don't know how the purchaser found the seller. I can't even find a whois that works for .世界.

Many large corporations have teams monitoring extensions for trademark infringements. Under the new gTLDs there are trademark squatters registering very obvious TMs and offering them for sale for $xxxx knowing that most of these attempts will fail but in a few cases the TM holder will buy the name directly. Usually the TM holder will want the domain regardless of the extension and good lawyers can be expensive.

Sometimes the domain owner will even contact the TM holder directly and offer the domain for sale.

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2015-0069

Finally, the Complainant contends that the Respondent registered and is using the disputed domain name in bad faith. In particular, it results from the Complainant's undisputed allegations that the Respondent offered the Complainant the disputed domain name for sale via phone and combined this offer for sale with the proposal to further "register all domain names that a relevant to your brand for your company on time" for a "service fee of € 2000 / month". Additionally, the Complainant has filed further evidence from which it undisputedly results that the Respondent publicly offered the disputed domain name for sale also on an online auction platform for a minimum prize of € 25,000 and a "buy-it-now" prize of € 80,000.

"I will squat on your TMs for a low $2000/month."

尼康.com.cn is available for $6.99

andre
24th April 2016, 03:48 PM
http://whois.nic.xn--rhqv96g/

Strangely, lookup only works with punycode.



http://whois.icann.org can be used to perform lookup with Unicode form of 尼康.世界

André 小山 Schappo

123
24th April 2016, 06:12 PM
尼康.公司 and 尼康.网络 owned by Nikon but not in use. What's even stranger is that fact that their chinese website is nikon.com.cn (not surprising) but at the same time they did not bother to buy 尼康.com.cn for regfee while spending money on some fringe extension.

It's only a question of time before someone registers 尼康.com.cn and asks a lot of money for it. Then they would either have to pay a lawyer or buy it back.

Kent99
26th April 2016, 01:00 AM
Wonder who the seller was. One of our esteemed members here, perhaps.

123
26th April 2016, 07:24 AM
Wonder who the seller was. One of our esteemed members here, perhaps.

Doubt that anyone here would register .世界 domains.