Monthly Archives: July 2008

Tue 8th July 2008
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Authorize.net Isn’t “Authorized”, Loses Domain Name Dispute - Reseller for Authorize.net can keep AuthorizeD.net. A reseller for online payment gateway company Authorize.net has prevailed in a UDRP case at WIPO. Authorize.net filed the complaint against Cardservice High Sierra of Colfax, California on May 14, 2008, claiming that Cardservice High Sierra was infringing its brand by using Authorized.net as its domain name to resell Authorize.net’s services. But this particular case hinged on the fact that Authorize.net had ... read more ...
 
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Monte Cahn Leads Aftermarket Business during Oversee.net - Moniker CEO expands role at new parent company. Oversee.net’s Monte Cahn speaks at a TRAFFIC conference. Photo courtesy DNJournal. Moniker CEO Monte Cahn has expanded his role after his company was acquired by Oversee.net. Cahn is now spearheading the Aftermarket Registrar business division at Oversee.net. I recently caught up with Cahn and Oversee.net to understand what this division entails and what’s in store for the future. Domain Name Wire: What does ... read more ...
Mon 7th July 2008
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Webmasters.org Attracts Bidders during SitePoint - Auction for Webmasters.org domain name hits $38,000. A listing for Webmasters.org on the SitePoint forums is attracting bidders. The price has been pushed up to $16,000 $37,000 $38,000 after being listed on July 5. I talked to owner Chad Horstman this afternoon. He thinks the buyer will be “People that are actually looking to develop it rather than as an investment or parking.” He continued, “It has strong aged in-bound links, which is important for SEO. ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Back Online After Weekend Outage - Domain auctions scheduled for weekend will end starting July 8. Domain auction service SnapNames is back online after a weekend outage. The site went down starting last Thursday at 10:30 PM EDT and just went live again within the past half hour. Fortunately for SnapNames it was a holiday weekend, so some buyers were probably on the lake rather than in front of the computer (but perhaps SnapNames’ web team was on vacation too). The company is rescheduling auctions ... read more ...
 
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“We Get It” Award: Tiff’s Treats and CookieDelivery.com - Cookie company uses generic domain name to rev up sales. When I was in college at The University of Texas a decade ago, a little cookie shop opened up called Tiff’s Treats. They baked fresh cookies and would deliver them to your dorm room. I thought it was a great idea with little revenue potential. I was wrong about the revenue potential. The company has exploded by focusing on the corporate niche, delivering cookies for meetings and as gifts. A couple weekends ... read more ...
Sun 6th July 2008
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ICANN Not Enforcing Rules Against Registrar Warehousing Because There Are No Rules - One of the leading domain attorneys we all know and love sent me an e-mail today about my Post the other day concerning Domain Registrars which warehouse expired domains of their customers instead of releasing them into a drop or auction. It seems that Paragraph 3.7.9 of the agreement between ICANN and the Regsitrars that we have been quoting to say: “”””Registrars shall abide by any ICANN adopted specifications or policies prohibiting or restricting warehousing of or speculation in domain ... read more ...
Sat 5th July 2008
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When Will SnapNames.com Start Working Again? - In case you haven’t noticed SnapNames.com has been down for several days now. I assume all ongoing auctions will be extended once the site is back up they have missed several days of “catching” deleting domains. This longest I can remember for Snap or any drop auction site to have been “down”. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 4th July 2008
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Moniker.com Systems Upgrade Complete - Moniker announced today that it the recent system upgrades have been completed resulting in the Moniker account control panel to load much faster making it easier to use for domainers and other bulk users. According to Moniker the new platform is 10 to 25 times faster than before, based on the size of the portfolio, making bulk management more efficient. For our own account we have noticed a much quicker loading process. In the past it would have taken well over a minute,  sometimes several ... read more ...
Thu 3rd July 2008
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Bido Drops “Guarantees” In Domain Auctions - Bido.com no longer guarantees a sales price to sellers. After gaining experience from a couple week’s worth of domain auctions, Bido has made a sweeping change. It will no longer “guarantee” a certain sales price to sellers. Bido cofounder Sahar Sarid noted on his blog “Looking at domain submissions we learned that if you state that you are willing to give a guarantee if certain guidelines followed, domain owners will submit anything and everything for ... read more ...
 
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Recap: Domain Name Auction Firestorm - Here’s a look back at the firestorm that hit domain auctions over the past two weeks. It’s been a busy week at Domain Name Wire. And perhaps a busier week for GoDaddy. Here’s a run down of what took place and what it means for the industry. It all started when a reader tipped me off to a thread at NamePros. The thread started out benign and was simply about the number of .us domain names going through auction at GoDaddy’s TDNAM and the high prices they ... read more ...
Wed 2nd July 2008
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Microsoft to Make New Bid For Yahoo Search?? - According to a report today by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is preparing a new bid for Yahoo’s search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo’s breakup. According to the Journal. Microsoft has already held talks with Time Warner and News Corp. Also accoring to the report representatives from Microsoft have, met with Icahn to encourage him to press his proxy contest as a way to keep pressure on Yahoo to enter into ... read more ...
 
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Did Business.com Really Sell for $7.5 Million?? - In a very interested article in Newsweek.com, Jake Winebaum is interviewed.  Mr. Winebaum apparently is one of the founders of a company called ecompanies, which bought the domain, business.com for $7.5 Million in 2000, or did they pay that much? In his interview he is quoted regarding the $7.5 Million dollar purchase price paid for business.com: “”””The $7.5 million was a stock deal that we did in 2000 when Internet companies were fairly highly valued. When we did our refinancing in 2004, ... read more ...
 
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Will Cost Per Action Replace Cost Per Click? - The future of cost-per-click is questionable. Cost-per-click advertising, such as Google Adwords, is a staple of the internet advertising industry. It is also the primary form of advertising used to monetize parked domain names. But will CPC give way to CPA (cost per action)? First, a little history. It used to be that many affiliate programs were actually CPC programs. You would sign up as an affiliate and the program would pay you a few cents for each click. ... read more ...
Tue 1st July 2008
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CADNA Serves Up More Ridiculous Figures - The The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) served up another ridiculous figure to the press today in discussing the new $.20 per domain, non-refundable fee imposed by ICANN to eliminate domain tasting. CADNA in said that ICANN move was only a “partial success” and it “is unlikely that the proposed solution will adequately address domain name tasting”. Here CADNA’s math: “””””””””””””A registrant that registers 100,000 domain names would keep 6,600 of them ... read more ...
 
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Pizza.com Sold - DomainNameWire.com has confirmed that the domain pizza.com was sold to National A-1, the price was not disclosed. The domain was at auction on Sedo.com were the high bidder at $2.6 Million defaulted. A group of domainers were looking to acquire the domain in the 1.5M range but at last report the Seller was demanding at least 2 million. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Preview of Geo Show Live Auction List - Moniker.com released a partial list of premium domains that will ge auctioned at the Geo Domain Conference in Chicago, on July 12th at 4:30pm CDT/5:30 EST st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } auction will include the following premium domains: · Fargo.net · Yemen.com · MauiHawaii.net · LargoFlorida.com · Brazil.tv · MalibuCalifornia.com · Murrieta.com · SimiValley.com · PortOfLongBeach.com · Burien.com · SonomaCalifornia.com · Afghan.com · EastRockaway.com · ChicagoHotelReservations.com · ... read more ...
 
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National A-1 Buys Pizza.com - Active domain buyer snaps up famed Pizza.com domain name. Pizza.com, which was auctioned off for $2.6 million at Sedo in April, finally has a new home. National A-1 Advertising purchased the domain name according to updated whois records. The whois record changed to Sedo on June 28 and National A-1 either yesterday or today. National A-1 was likely not the original bidder. It is currently unknown how much the company paid for the domain name, and National A-1 did ... read more ...
 
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BuyDomains Does Dirty Work of Targeting End Users - NameMedia division uses marketing muscle promoting domain names to small and medium businesses. It seems like everywhere I look these days I see an ad for BuyDomains. I’m not talking about ads targeted to domain owners, but ads targeted to end users. There were the skyscraper banner ad on GigaOm and CitySearch. And the e-mail blast to the WebProNews list (see below). And the countless other web sites showing BuyDomains banners. BuyDomains has mastered the ... read more ...
 
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Instant eCommerce Sites – Beyond Domain Parking - Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick.com provides a domain monetization update. SmartName is the premium service from Name Media – the parent company of Active Audience and GoldKey. They purchased the SmartName service that was originally developed by Ari Goldberger and Larry Fischer in March of 2007. NameMedia quickly moved the parked domains to their new system that offers over 500 themes (including all of the themes available at Active Audience and GoldKey and more). ... read more ...
 
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PushToAuction.com Helps Get Domains on Sedo Auctions - Site promotes $60 reserve domains to help get them listed in auction. Getting a domain listed in Sedo’s domain auction can be a big win for domain owners, especially if their domains are generic. (See “When Should You Send a Sedo Offer to Auction?“) There are two ways to get a domain listed in Sedo’s auction. One is to submit it to an account manager or to the monthly Great Domains auction. You have to have good domains with low reserves to get accepted. ... read more ...