Monthly Archives: June 2008

Wed 25th June 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy Group Registers 30 Millionth Domain Name - RulesofSaving.com, registered by a Connecticut man yesterday, pushes company over milestone. A tip of the hat to GoDaddy Group, which runs GoDaddy.com, Wild West Domains, and Blue Razor, for crossing the 30 million domains registered mark. This number appears to reflect the total number of domains currently registered. Given expirations, that means GoDaddy has registered a lot more domains than that over its lifetime. According to RegistrarStats.com, GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
 
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Overcoming RSS (Repetitive Statistics Syndrome) - A look at a common affliction among domainers. Thousands of people suffer daily from Repetitive Statistics Syndrome (RSS). RSS is an obsessive compulsive disorder that involves checking revenue statistics from programs such as Google Adsense and domain parking multiple times a day. RSS sufferers know that checking their statistics repeatedly will not increase the final revenue number at the end of the day, but they can’t bring themselves to stop checking stats. ... read more ...
Tue 24th June 2008
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Tucows.com Does Adult - In  my dealings with Tucows last week I discovered that not only does Tucows own a lot of adult domains but they are monatizing them adding revenue from adult domains to their bottom line. Although their is nothing wrong with a public company being involved in the adult business, there are several of these including Rick’s Cabaret (RICK) and Frontier Media (NOOF), it was suprising to find out that Tucows owned and was profiting from such names as  “pussyshop.com” and  “onlinepussystop.com” ... read more ...
 
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Some lift concerns over ICANN Plan for “New” Extensions - From the Paris ICANN’s meeting,  where every seat was filled, more than 1,400 participants attended the new top-level domain (TLD) workshop Monday afternoon. Reports from the meeting, have quoted various people having some negative comments about allowing hundreds of new extensions, Jay Scott Evans, former chair of ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency and senior legal advisor for Yahoo. said “Why should brand owners have to invest huge amounts of money to protect their brands,” he ... read more ...
 
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SCAM ALERT: ICANN UNDER PHISHING ATTACK AND THERE AFTER YOUR DOMAINS - I just received this message in my inbox, which looks like its from ICANN. You will be getting one too soon. Looks like a very sophisticated and organized phishing attack. They are not using an obviously fake web address. They are using the domain Icannresolve.com All the links on the page go back to Icann.org and resolve properly, however they are trying to trick you into entering your domain name, user id and password including the registrar the domain is registered with. The domain is registered ... read more ...
 
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BerryHill Gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Charge Against Italian Company - Lawyer defends Gregory Ricks on Decal.com, wins RDNH charge. Domain name lawyer John Berryhill has successfully defended famed domainer Gregory Rick’s Decal.com domain name, as well as getting a charge of reverse domain name hijacking against Italian company Decal (Depositi Costieri Calliope). The decision, handed down on June 11 and just posted online, details an egregious attempt by the Italian company to steal a generic domain name that wasn’t used in an infringing ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Hit With Phishing Attack - Phishing attack mimics ICANN; asks for domain login information. A new phishing attack has been launched at domain name owners. It appears that the registrar where the phishing domain ICANNResolve.com was registered has taken it down. The e-mail used in the scam tells users that ICANN is upgrading all domain names in its database and that domain owners must submit their domain name information including username and password. The e-mail directs domain owners to ... read more ...
Mon 23rd June 2008
Written by DomainHack.er in NO and tagged
.com-navn er ut – mens .oslo er inn - Det finnes x antall domenenavn som kan brukes, og en stor etterspørsel har drevet prisen på korte, enkle navn i taket. Det finnes en del generelle toppdomenere, slik som .com, .net og .biz, samt 265 nasjonale toppdomener (TLD - Top Level Domain), slik som .no og .se. Det kan bli mulighet for å registere ".oslo" eller ".bergen", men samt også mulighet for ".telenor" eller ".hegnar". Det kan dukke opp nye domener som .oslo fra 2009, melder digi.no. ... read more ...
 
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So are we Ready For Hundreds of New Domain Extensions? - During the ICANN Meeting in Paris this week, ICANN annouced that it was seriously considering whether to opening up domain names to endless variations and approve hundreds of new extensions including .berlin, .paris, .quebec .cat (for Catalonia) and one for the big apple, .nyc “We’re talking about introducing potentially thousands more names,” said Paul Levins, executive officer of Icann “The addressing system hasn’t fundamentally changed since its invention. These changes have the potential ... read more ...
 
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Sedo and Pool Explain Employee Policies for Bidding - Sedo has strict policy on domain speculation, Pool outlines rules. [If you have arrived on this article from Slashdot, NoDaddy, etc., you may wish to see how this all started with GoDaddy.] Many people (63 comments and counting) have commented on Domain Name Wire’s article about GoDaddy letting its employees bid on domain name auctions on its site. Several readers e-mailed requests for information on other companies’ policies. Here’s what I’ve found: Sedo ... read more ...
 
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OVT Matcher Software Releases Upgraded Version - Tool for finding domain names with traffic releases improvements. OVT Matcher, a tool that automatically checks lists of domain names for “Overture Scores” from January, February, and March 2007 has released an upgrade. (See OVT Matcher Makes Finding Expired Domains a Snap). In the previous version, users had to manually download expiring domain lists from companies such as SnapNames. That is now automated, as well as a number of other improvements: – Import ... read more ...
 
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Domain Embarking Loses Google Adsense Feed - Automated site generation company informs customers that its Adsense account is canceled. Domain Embarking, one of several companies that creates auto-generated sites for domain names, informed its customers that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) canceled its Google Adsense account. In an e-mail to customers, Domain Embarking wrote: On May 15th, 2008, DE received notice from Google AdSense that our publisher account had been deactivated. NO specific reason was given in this ... read more ...
Sun 22nd June 2008
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Say Hello to .Tel - The newest Tld coming to market is .tel. Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for the new sponsored top level domain .tel, today announced details for launch at the ICANN meeting in Paris. Sunrise applications from national trademark owners will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis as of Wednesday, 3rd December 2008. Landrush registration, open to all at premium prices, will open on 3 February 2009 and general availability from 24 March 2009. Applications in ... read more ...
Sat 21st June 2008
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CORRECTION - In my initial post today on Domain Drop auction services , I INCORRECTLY identified Adam Strong as the  employee of Godaddy which had placed bids on the Godaddy auction Platform. The correct name of this person is Adam Dicker. Adam Strong is not an employee of Godaddy and has not engaged in any improper conduct in this matter. The post was corrected as soon as we learned of this error. We send our sincere apologies to him and our readers for this error. In all other respects we stand 100% by our ... read more ...
 
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Ethics of Domain Drop Auctions: TDNAM and NameJet called out Yesterday: Today We call out Tucows - Yesterday domainnamewire.com reported that employees of TDNAM.com and NameJet.com were allowed to bid on domains that were in their own company’s dropping auction service. In the article, domainnamewire.com sited some discussions on NamePros about GoDaddy employees, including Adam Dicker, who runs Godaddy aftermarket service, bidding on and winning auctions from their own system. Troubling for sure. Today we are calling out Tucows. Although Tucows in-house domain drop auction ended this week, ... read more ...
Fri 20th June 2008
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Yahoo Exec’s Vote on a Google Deal with their Feet and Run for a Door - It’s been a interesting week at Yahoo. According to reports many key executive are rushing to the exits at Yahoo. Qi Lu, an executive vice-president in charge of Yahoo’s search and advertising technology; Brad Garlinghouse, a senior vice-president who oversees communications tools like mail; and Vish Makhijani, a senior vice-president involved in search, are all reported to be leaving. Mr. Garlinghouse is the best known for his 2006 memo, when he said Yahoo was spreading itself too thin and advocated ... read more ...
 
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Domainer Meeting Paris Live Auction nets $361k - The live auction just completed in Paris and the auction netted $361,375 Here are the results: wrinklefreeclothes.com $200 phoneaccessories.com $25,000 parisguidebooks.com $100 oux.com $9,500 pariscams.com $1,500 appeler.fr $3,500 bavarian.com $9,000 assurancesvoiture.fr $3,500 aupair.fr $6,250 automobilepolicy.com $1,250 babymedications.com $2,000 vacations.org.uk $600 lawfirm.es $600 makeout.asia $500 meeting.eu $1,500 disease.es $1,000 aftermarket.com $125,000 propriedade.com $5,000 foreclosing.co.uk $600 nightclub.eu $600 professionalathletes.co.uk $300 loans.dk $15,000 cosmeticsurgeons.de $500 careeradvisors.com $3,500 computernotebooks.com $7,500 crepesuzette.com $100 domainermeetings.com $1,750 indemnity.com $5,500 21c.asia $100 rainbows.com $45,000 torche.info $100 projecteur.info $100 petsupplies.info $5,000 next.org $9,000 motorbikes.net $10,000 lougehrigsdisease.org $1,000 latinwomen.info $500 keep.info $1,150 hollywoodreporter.net $125 hoe.net $6,000 freemusicdownloads.info $300 domain.sc $1,500 ab.fm $100 attorney.mn $100 domain.pl $45,000 muslim.info $400 blackjack.gd $100 convention.la $100 business.vg $1,050 freevideos.jp $1,500 dvds.us $1,800 Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Expired Domain Services Let Employees Bid Against Customers - Two of the major services let employees compete with domainers. [Note: See update at bottom of article.] Earlier today a reader tipped me off to a discussion at NamePros about GoDaddy’s TDNAM service. Apparently GoDaddy VP (and owner of DNForum) Adam Dicker won a couple auctions for domains through the service. Dicker runs the aftermarket service. The reader was surprised that GoDaddy let its employees bid against its customers and push bid prices up: These employees ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions: “We’ll Stop Reserving if ICANN Adds Fee” - Network Solutions says it will stop controversial practice if ICANN adopts fee next week. Next week the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board will vote on its 2009 budget. The budget includes the much-talked-about provision to make the ICANN registration fee (currently 20 cents) non refundable once a registrar’s deletions during the five day grace period exceed 10% of new registrations during a month. Network Solutions says it will ... read more ...
Thu 19th June 2008
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Paris Domainers Auction Friday Morning during 8 AM EST - As a reminder moniker.com is holding a live auction from the Domainers show in Paris on Friday starting at 8am EST, 5am PST. Online remote bidding is avaliable through snapnames.com, as long as you have an account their and dowload the auction software from their site. There are some good names at reasonable reserves including the following all of which I expect to sell: OUX.com $5K-10K LiquidDiet.com 10K-25K Jets.biz $5K-10K 737.eu $1-5K Appeler.fr (“call” in french) $1K-5K Bavarian.com $5K-10K Aupair.fr ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Launches New E-Mail Service - Yahoo announced today two new e-mail domains that will give users the chance to register for an  e-mail address using the new Yahoo! e-mail address at ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Yahoo! Mail is the number one Web mail service in the world with more than 260 million users worldwide E-mail addresses at the new domains will have the same Yahoo! Mail features as addresses at the yahoo.com domain, including: Unlimited storage – Yahoo! Mail provides all users with free ... read more ...
 
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SEDO Parking Changes Looks Like Bad News - Sedo has on their site an announcement about changes to their parking system: “”””””””” New Domain Parking Requirements Sedo is implementing a few new changes to our parked domains network that will be rolled out starting this week. One of these industry-wide changes is the implementation of organic search results on parked domains. Organic searches will appear at the end of a search results page that is generated when visitors click on a related link or enter a search term. These ... read more ...
 
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Want to possess a square of Swingers.com? - According to AVN.com the company that owns the domain Swingers.com is looking for investors who has a minimum of $100,000 to invest. The managing partner of Swingers.com is quoted by AVN saying that the company is  “offering excellent terms to investors, who have working knowledge of dating traffic, in an effort to raise about $1 million dollars to build and brand Swingers.com as a legitimate online matchmaking community”.   We have already raised $100,000 from a private investor, which allowed ... read more ...
 
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Jimmy Buffett Needs His CheeseburgersInParadise.com - UDRP filing goes after domain name CheeseburgerSinparadise.com. An arbitration request has been filed with National Arbitration Forum over the domain name CheeseburgersInParadise.com. This is similar to “Cheeseburger (singular) in Paradise”, the famous song and brand owned by Jimmy Buffett and his associated companies. My guess is his restaurant chain, which uses the CheeseburgerInParadise.com domain name, is going after the domain. A screenshot of CheeseburgerSinparadise.com ... read more ...
 
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“The Domain Game” Now On Amazon - David Kesmodel’s “The Domain Game” book, which chronicles some of the big names in domain names and how they struck it rich, is now available for order on Amazon.com for $29.99. The book ships free with Super Saver shipping. Previously it was only available through Xlibris. So far the book has received nothing but glowing reviews. You can read Domain Name Wire’s review here. The Domain Game starts with the story of Frank Schilling, the legendary domainer ... read more ...