A “monster” buyout, iPhone 5, and Vanity.com

A look at a few stories I haven’t covered this stretch…

There are a few notable stories in the domain name industry that I missed writing regarding over the past week, so here’s a quick run down.

A “monster” of an buyout – Mesh Digital, which owns domain name registrar DomainMonster, has been purchased by Host Europe Group for an undisclosed sum. DomainMonster isn’t a huge registrar, but it has proven quite adept at mastering domain registrations when fresh top level domains enter their “general availability period”. This will come in handing with hundreds of TLDs coming on line in the next couple years.

iPhone5.com – Apple filed a UDRP to get iPhone5.com earlier this month. The owners put up an initial fight ahead of deciding to hand the domain over the Apple this stretch.

Vanity.com – Quite a stink going on over at TheDomains regarding this UDRP filing. I hope there’s more to this story than meets the eye. For what it’s worth, the owner of the domain has had it since at least 2005. The firm was formed in Nevada.