Monthly Archives: September 2007

Sat 29th September 2007
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.NYC on a Horizon? - Group in New York wants a .nyc domain. A non-profit organization in New York City — connecting.nyc — wants to secure a new top level domain (TLD) for the city. The TLD, .nyc, would allow the city, its businesses, and residents to brand themselves as part of the city. The idea of a TLD for a city is not new. A group in Germany is well-known for trying to get a .berlin domain. .nyc’s goal is to get the domain during 2008. Connecting.nyc cites a number of benefits ... read more ...
Fri 28th September 2007
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Moniker Adds Name Media, DDN Domains to Marketplace - Moniker Marketplace now has 3M domain listings. Moniker has announced the addition of domains from Name Media and Domain Distribution Network (DDN) to its Marketplace and domain search results. With the addition of these listings, Moniker’s Marketplace now has over 3,000,000 domains. Moniker’s Marketplace was soft-launched at the end of 2006. Since then, Marketplace has been the site of Moniker’s silent domain auctions. By joining Name Media’s network ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2007
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Demand Media Raises Another $100M - Company has raised $320M to date. According to several blog and media reports today, domain name company Demand Media has raised an additional $100M in capital. That brings its total to a staggering $320M. Demand Media was founded by former MySpace executive Richard Rosenblatt. The company owns eNom, the second largest registrar (by names registered), as well as a large portfolio of good domain names. The company also markets the .TV domain name, which it is trying ... read more ...
Tue 25th September 2007
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Moniker Releases Initial TRAFFIC Domain Name Auction List - List includes 3800 domain names ranging from no reserve to over $5M. Moniker released a tentative list of domain names to be auctioned at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East, which kicks off October 9 in in Hollywood, Florida. The list of about 3,800 domain names includes both those that will be in the live auction and the ensuing silent auction. FantasySports.com has the highest reserve at over $5M USD. Other big ticket domains include Computer.com, Polls.com, and Taxes.com. ... read more ...
Sat 22nd September 2007
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GoDaddy May Have to Stop ’60 Day’ Transfer Policy - ICANN advisory would clarify the circumstances when a registrar can deny a domain name transfer request. Many people who have tried to transfer a domain name from GoDaddy to another registrar have faced a hurdle. If they’ve changed their whois information within the past 60 days, GoDaddy will deny the transfer for “security reasons”. Only one other major registrar, Network Solutions, has been known to do this. But the practice may come to an end thanks to ... read more ...
Fri 21st September 2007
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Iraq is For Sale (Well, a Domain Name during least) - Iraq.com is up for sale, current bid over $500,000. The domain name Iraq.com is up for auction at domain name aftermarket Sedo, and is currently bid up to the equivalent of $560,000 USD. Eight bidders have staked a claim, but the reserve price hasn’t been met. On the plus side, you don’t have to set foot in Iraq to own a piece of the country by buying this domain. Unfortunately, buying Iraq.com doesn’t come with any oil rights. The domain is owned by KuwaitNET ... read more ...
Thu 20th September 2007
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TrafficClub Delays Payments Due to Click Fraud - Domain parking service’s payments delayed from upstream providers. Publisher payments for Moniker’s TrafficClub domain name parking service will be delayed due to questions about click fraud. According to a notice on the TrafficClub site, the service’s upstream providers are delaying payment: Payments: With the increase of click fraud, we are receiving payment delays from our upstream providers. This is an industry wide issue that all companies are experiencing ... read more ...
 
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Will TigerDirect Flip Computer.com? - Domain may be on auction block at TRAFFIC East Auction. This is bad news for the domain industry. Rick Schwartz, the face behind the domain industry’s popular T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conferences, sent an email this morning saying that Computer.com will be featured in the next Moniker auction at TRAFFIC East in Miami next month: The auction will have some GREAT domains and we are hoping for another record setting event. One domain that may get some interest is Computer.com ... read more ...
Wed 19th September 2007
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Salesforce.com Buys Force.com Domain Name - Salesforce.com, known for its CRM application, changes brand to Force.com with domain purchase. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is now branding itself as simply “Force.com” with the acquisition of the domain name. According to a search of Whois history at DomainTools, the domain was transferred to Salesforce.com between July 24 and July 26 of this year. The seller was Gordon Force of San Jose, California. The branding change was necessary because the company has ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Refreshes Web Site - Domain aftermarket simplifies home page, targeting featured listings and auctions. Domain name aftermarket Afternic, a Name Media site, has simplified its home page design. The new design is simplified and focuses on featured listings and domain auctions that are ending soon. The site draws users’ attention to the benefits of Afternic, and drives them toward registering or signing in to their account. The previous design had up to five sets of domain listings: ... read more ...
Tue 18th September 2007
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DomainSponsor Expands Domain Leasing Program - Parking company leases domain portfolios for 6-12 months, pays cash up front to owner. At last month’s Domain Roundtable Conference in Seattle, DomainSponsor’s Director of Business Development, Ron Sheridan, said that his company is aggressively pursuing domain leasing deals. This is not a well-known concept in the domain name parking world, so I followed up with Sheridan to learn more about how the DomainSponsor leasing program works. It’s important to note ... read more ...
Mon 17th September 2007
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So Long, Overture Scores - At long last, it appears access to Overture data may be gone. In January I wrote about how Yahoo’s updated search marketing platform would mean the end of “Overture Scores”. (See The Death of Overture). After nine months, it appears the nail if finally in the coffin. Overture Scores represent the amount of times a keyword or domain is searched in the Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) network. For example, a keyword may show a score of 1,336, meaning the term was searched ... read more ...
 
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Televisions.com Sells for Six Figures - NameDrive brokers sale of premium domain Televisions.com. Domain name parking and sales company NameDrive has brokered the sale of Televisions.com for a substantial six figure price tag, Domain Name Wire has confirmed. Jakob Knightly, VP Sales – North America for NameDrive, confirmed the sale in writing and indicates it is one of the largest scales brokered by NameDrive to date. The company has brokered over $10M in domains (including portfolios) in 2007. Tom Carr ... read more ...
Fri 14th September 2007
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Internet Commerce Association Publishes Member Code of Conduct - Internet Commerce Association releases eight guidelines for members. Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a non-profit group created to represent the rights of domain name owners, has released a code of conduct its members must abide by. By addressing issues such as domain kiting and cybersquatting head on, ICA can diffuse some of the heat trademark lawyers and big companies are applying to the industry. The eight rules are tightly crafted and some of them leave ... read more ...
Thu 13th September 2007
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dotMobi to Auction Premium Domain Names Through Sedo - dotMobi will auction premium domains including ATM.mobi and Cars.mobi through domain aftermarket Sedo. dotMobi announced today that it will auction a number of premium domains through Sedo. dotMobi’s “Premium Names” consist of 5,500 commonly used words that dotMobi set aside rather than releasing for general registration. A number of those domains will be included in Sedo’s auctions. The first Sedo auction will start on September 26, the one year anniversary ... read more ...
Wed 12th September 2007
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Communicate.com Stock Jumps, Others Flat - Stock soars 45% in less than one month, company announces new COO. Shares of domain name company Communicate.com (OTC: CMNN.ob) have skyrocked 45% to $2.50 at the close of the markets yesterday. Less than a month ago the stock dropped to $1.72 after announcing dissapointing earnings. Shares are now just below their 52 week high of $2.65. Communicate.com’s shares have been on a tear since announcing Geoff Hampson joined the company as its new CEO. Hampson invested ... read more ...
 
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Parked.com Administrative Console Back Online - After a three day absense, clients gain full access to accounts. Client access to domain name parking company Parked is back online after a three day outage. On Friday afternoon, Parked experienced difficulties with its backend servers, according to a message on its web site: On Friday afternoon, we noticed a problem with one of primary backend servers that processes and stores all of our finalized stats. At that time we decided to bring the server down to try and ... read more ...
Tue 11th September 2007
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Auto-Generated Web Sites: The Future of Domain Parking? - Will parked pages be enhanced with auto-generated modules? Domain name parking companies continue to innovate with the goal of creating parked web sites that look more like real web sites. DomainEmbarking.com, one such service, is now in Beta 2.0 and appears to be on the right track. Before diving into Domain Embarking’s service, let’s review the history of web site auto generation. A few years ago savvy entrepreneurs figured out they could mass-develop web ... read more ...
 
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EURid Suspends 10,000 .eu Domain Names - EURid claims domains owned by Chinese woman. EURid, the registry that manages .eu domain names, has suspended 10,000 registrations because it believes the registrant does not meet residency requirements. According to various news reports, a Chinese woman Zheng Qingyin registered 10,000 domain names and is trying to resell many of them. Reselling domain names is, of course, not illegal. However, registrants of .eu domain names must meet domicile requirements including ... read more ...
Fri 7th September 2007
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Is Hulu.com Confusingly Similar to LuLu.com? - LuLu.com owner goes after Hulu.com for trademark infringement. LuLu.com is a self-publishing site. Hulu.com is a soon-to-be-released video site backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal. Is that confusing? According to the owner of LuLu.com, it is. LuLu.com has initiated legal action against HuLu.com, noting that both sites contain “digital content” and have similar domain names, according to a story in the Guardian. It seems that LuLu.com believes that ... read more ...
 
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Apple Doesn’t Own iPodTouch.com - Once again, Apple fails to secure domain name prior to product announcement. The world is buzzing about Apple’s (NASDAQ: APPL) latest product, the iPodTouch. But you won’t find information about the new gadget at iPodTouch.com. That domain was registered by a man in Canada in 2005. This isn’t the first time Apple has failed to secure important domain names prior to product launches. For example, they didn’t own any version of iPodVideo.com when that product ... read more ...
Thu 6th September 2007
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Great Domains Glitches, New Domain Parking Features - Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick updates us on domain name parking and auctions. Sedo‘s recent focus has been on integrating Great Domains into their system and getting high-profile domain auctions off the ground. Domainers on the forums are grumbling that their bids were not accepted, and that auctions have been canceled after the high bidder won the domain. One disgruntled domainer in that situation complained “we get an email first from Great Domains saying the ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2007
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Three Questions for CADNA - Three questions for The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA). A little over a month ago CADNA issued its first press release and disclosed its members. CADNA’s members are Fortune 500 companies who want to fight against the unsavory practices of typosquatting and cybersquatting. One of their goals is to stop domain tasting (registering domains only to return them within 5 days for a full refund). Fair enough. I’m a levelheaded guy who doesn’t believe ... read more ...
Tue 4th September 2007
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AfternicDLS: 10x More Likely To Sell - Domain Name Wire explores how to take advantage of AfternicDLS and if it helps sell domain names compared to the regular listings on Afternic. When NameMedia bought Afternic, I figured they weren’t just going to add the domain aftermarket to their portfolio of sales channels. They had plans to enhance Afternic and use it as an onramp to the parent company’s sales prowess. Shortly thereafter, Afternic announced AfternicDLS, an expanded promotion service that allows ... read more ...
Mon 3rd September 2007
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Book Review: “The 4-Hour Workweek” is Perfect for Domainers - Timothy Ferriss’ new book The 4-Hour Workweek will sound familiar to successful domainers. If you read the book jacket on Timothy Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek, it will remind you of the many internet marketing ebooks you’ve bought over the years. The top of the back cover reads: WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU WANT TO QUIT YOUR JOB It then highlights some of the things you’ll learn from reading the book, including: How to eliminate 50% of your ... read more ...