Monthly Archives: July 2009

Thu 9th July 2009
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Another Day, Another Suit: Yahoo Sued For Trademark Infringement In E-Mail Advertising - Mary Kay cosmetics filed suit yesterday against Yahoo for trademark infringement, for allegedly inserting links to unauthorized retailers, in personal email messages that Mary Kay sellers send to their consumers. “Emails that advertise Mary Kay products are hijacked and manipulated by Yahoo and provide an unfair advantage for the unauthorized re-sellers and other competitors,” the company alleges in its lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal district court in for the Northern District which is Dallas ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch: “Pre-Order Your .CM Domain Now, Start Making Money Off Domain Typos Soon” - In a brutal article, entitled “Pre-order your .cm domain now, start making money off Domain Typos Soon“,TechCrunch talks about the Namejet.com/Enom exclusive .CM registry arrangement we told you about last week, for the .cm domain landrush. The article discusses the Business 2.0 article on Kevin Ham,  as well as that several trademarked terms appeared on NameJet site when they checked out the backorder page. As many readers discussed last night on another post on the .CM domains, this is not ... read more ...
 
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Comcast Starts Typosquatting Domain Names - IMHO, such “typosquatting”/”DNS help” these ISPs perform is “browser hijacking” (using my standard method of “definition based on actions”). A combination of my problems jover the years with Comcast’s DNS servers (including totally unresponsive DNS servers and the resolutions of domain names only after the second or third request — and using a third-party DNS server violates Comcast’s TOS, the last time I checked) — combined with the fact that Comcast regularly ... read more ...
 
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Follow ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom on Twitter - Keep up-to-date on new CEO via Twitter. New ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom is certainly a different type of businessman than former CEO Paul Twomey. As an entrepreneur and having published his own book, Beckstrom is a marketing guy. That means he’s more visible in cyberspace than his predecessor. One example is Twitter, where Beckstrom provides updates as @RodBeckstrom. Earlier today he tweeted: Attending #ICANN operational management meeting. Amazing range of projects ... read more ...
 
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Board Battle Erupts during Dark Blue Sea - Outside shareholders push to remove Chairman. A battle over domain company Dark Blue Sea’s (ASX: DBS) Board of Directors has erupted, with a significant shareholder calling for an Extraordinary General Meeting to remove the existing Chairman and insert two of its own to the board. Photon Group Limited, which owns about 28.25% of the company, called for the meeting and election. The group cites a nearly 75% drop in year-over-year profits for pushing for the change. ... read more ...
 
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Lawyer Suggests Alternative to Rapid Domain Suspension Scheme - Paul Keating suggests fixing UDRP, not introducing an alternative domain dispute mechanism. There were a number of thoughtful comments submitted to ICANN regarding the Implementation Recommendation Team’s (IRT) final report. But attorney Paul Keating went a step further, suggesting a way to modify UDRP domain arbitration rather than introduce a dual solution. Keating submitted a 20 page response to IRT’s proposal. The first several pages point out the numerous ... read more ...
Wed 8th July 2009
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TradeMark Holders Don’t Think The URS Is Tough Enough - As you know the comment period on the IRT committee recommendations to ICANN, which included the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS)  ended yesterday and from the comments of trademark holders, they are not perfectly happy with the URS either. In reviewing the comments of many of the trade groups and trademark holders I saw a consistent message; the URS is not tough enough or cheap enough. You know our thoughts on the URS (our comment is posted here, if you haven’t read it, the ICA comment are posted ... read more ...
 
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Google To Launch It’s Own Operating System To Compete With Windows - Google announced today on its blog that it is developing its own operating system in a direct challenge to Microsoft Windows system. Google said the Google Chrome OS, an extension of it Chrome Web browser, is an open source, lightweight operating system that initially will be targeted at netbooks. The company said later this year it will open-source its code and netbooks running the operating system will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Google said it has begun talking to partners ... read more ...
 
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Rick Latona .CM Auction Starts NOW - The Rick Latona auction,  for the pre-land rush .cm domains, opens for online bidding, right now, at 8PM EST, July 7 and closes on July 14th. In this exclusive auction,  there are 46  .CM domains that will not be available in the landrush and will only available through this auction Here is a complete list of the domains including reserve price: cars.cm                                $20,000 casino.cm                            $20,000 poker.cm     ... read more ...
 
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Netbook.co.uk Domain Name Goes adult for Auction - Domain attracts 12,000 EUR bid. The domain name Netbook.co.uk is on auction at domain brokerage Sedo. It has one bidder at 12,000 EUR ($16,700) with 4 days remaining in the auction. Netbooks, or small and cheap laptop computers, are a hot sales item these days. Earlier today, Google announced it is creating a new operating system that will initially be designed for use on netbooks. Computer maker Psion had claimed trademark rights to the term netbook, but has ... read more ...
 
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Test Driving Bido’s New Features - Bido releases new features on auction platform today. Social auction platform Bido released several new features today. I logged in this morning to check them out, and I think these changes will help take Bido to the next level in domain name sales. Here are a few of the changes. 1. Comments – Previously, you could only give a ‘thumbs up’ to an expert commentary about a domain name. Now you can leave a full comment, either reaffirming or disagreeing with ... read more ...
 
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Transamerica Sues Moniker Over Trademarked Domain Names - Insurance giant sues domain registrar, but red flags abound. Insurance company Transamerica has filed a lawsuit against Moniker, Oversee.net, and multiple John Does in United States District Court in the Southern District of Florida. The suit alleges that Moniker registered domain names including the Transamerica trademark and used these to profit for pay-per-click and pay-per-lead programs. Transamerica did not provide proof linking Moniker directly to any of ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2009
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TajMahal.com Sells On NameJet.com For $50K - The domain TajMahal.com sold on NameJet.com today for $50K  a day after Gocarts.com fetched $91,600 Taj Mahal is of course one of the top tourist destinations in the world, also named by some as one of the 7 wonders of the world, and also the name of a famous casino in Atlantic City owned by Trump Entertainment resorts. Also selling today on NameJet.com was DirectAdvertising.com for just short of $11K. I picked up inspecthomes.com for $555. Tomorrow the auction for filth.com closes and currently ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Does It Again: Launches A New Product Without Owning The Domain: SearchPad.com Or The Trademark? - Yahoo! announced another new product today, called Search Pad. Unfortunately in true Yahoo style,  it did not secure the domain searchpad.com which is currently parked, before announcing release of the product. It certainly couldn’t be the price of the domain that scared them off as of today the domain could be purchased for as little as the whopping sum of $750 (owner is taking offers starting at that amount at Sedo. A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about Yahoo most popular service Flickr.com ... read more ...
 
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Mark Cuban: Free=Failure - In a blog post today, legendary Internet Billionaire, Mark Cuban says businesses that are “free” are doomed to failure. “Lets look at the rule that eventually KILLS all freemium based content plays: There will always be a company that replaces you. At some point your BlackSwan competitor will appear and they will kick  your ass. Their product will be better or more interesting or just better marketed than yours, and it also will be free.  They will be Facebook to your Myspace, or Myspace ... read more ...
 
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Stop Selling Domains Like a Hyundai - Recent car shopping experiences are similar to buying a domain name. What’s it gonna take to getyou into this domain today? It’s time to replace my Acura, so I’ve been car shopping lately. I’ve checked out all the regulars, but decided it was worth stopping by the Hyundai dealer since everyone is raving about its Genesis. The Genesis is an upscale sedan priced around $35,000 — much less than comparable cars. But it’s being sold by a dealer used to selling ... read more ...
 
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BuyDomains Sells Rosary.com for $78,088 - Seller listed domain on AfternicDLS with Expanded Promotion. BuyDomains, the end user sales arm of NameMedia, has sold the domain name Rosary.com for $78,088. The domain was listed through Afternic.com, and the seller selected the Expanded Promotion option. This means the listing was syndicated across multiple sales sites and gave the seller access to BuyDomains’ sales team, which closed the deal. Although NameMedia wouldn’t disclose the name of the seller, ... read more ...
 
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Oakland Raiders Take Fight Off Field for Domain Name - Football team trying to get OaklandRaiders.com domain name. National Football League franchise Oakland Raiders have filed for arbitration to get the domain name OaklandRaiders.com. The case was filed at World Intellectual Property Organization against a registrant who is using whois privacy to protect his information. The domain name is parked and shows ads for Oakland Raiders tickets and merchandise. The Raiders’ official web site is Raiders.com. The whois history ... read more ...
 
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Sun Microsystems Awarded Patent for Detecting Spoofed Domain Names - Sun awarded patent to detect spoofed domains and send web users to intended domain name. Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has been awarded U.S. patent 7,559,085 for “Detection for deceptively similar domain names”. The patent was filed in 2004 and awarded today. The system includes a number of methods for detecting that someone is accessing a spoofed domain name and redirecting them to the correct domain name. For example, a web user may click on an email containing ... read more ...
 
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Most Domain Stocks Down in First Half of 2009 - Domain stocks fail to keep up with broader technology index. The NASDAQ was up 16% in the first half of 2009, but the rally didn’t extend to most domain name companies. Here’s a look at how they fared. The Winners Tucows (AMEX: TCX) jumped 27% to 42 cents a share at the close on June 30, 2009. The company stabilized over the period, but the stock jump was aided by aggressive stock buybacks. AdLINK (DUS: LKI), the parent company of Sedo, saw its price increase ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Introduces New Monthly Auctions - SnapNames gets monthly auctions and a makeover. SnapNames is starting a series of monthly themed auctions next week, and its interface is getting a timely update to handle these auctions and future extended live auctions. The new monthly auctions will augment SnapNames’ expired domain auctions and sister company Moniker’s live domain auctions. Monthly auctions will begin on the second Tuesday of each month and end the second Thursday. (The first auction, ... read more ...
Mon 6th July 2009
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GoCarts.com Sells For $91K On NameJet.com - The domain GoCarts.com sold for $91,600 on NameJet.com today.  The bidding went on for about an hour after the original end time between several bidders. This was one of our picks from a post a week ago. Here are some other notable sales from the last few days at NameJet.com: searchengineplacement.com     $6,766 eleonora.com                                $5,050 californiaforeclosures.com        $4,303 (also on our top picks list) neuroimaging.com                  ... read more ...
 
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PPC Advertising Will Grow by 20% This Year: Better Than Any Other Media - Publicis’ ZenithOptimedia Group, issued a forecast today saying that they expect Internet ad spending will expand 10.1% in 2009. The agency projects Internet ad spending will rise to $56.8 billion this year, or 12.6% of the global advertising economy. That means the Internet will pick up more than two points of worldwide advertising share, this year, and its momentum is only expected to accelerate. The report further predicts that Internet advertising “By 2011 we expect it to account for 15.1% ... read more ...
 
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Our Comments To ICANN On The URS - Today is the last day to submit your comments to ICANN for the proposed Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS). Although the URS on its face only applies to the new gTLD’s, comments made by representatives of ICANN clearly indicate that they will in fact apply to all existing extensions (.com. .net. .org) meaning all the domains you own sooner than later. If you didn’t read our initial post on the proposal set forth by trademark holder groups, you should go read it now, since it is arguably the worst ... read more ...
 
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Live Current Media Restates Finances - Problems continue at once high-flying domain name company. The problems keep mounting at domain development company Live Current Media (OTCbb: LIVC.ob). The company announced that its auditor found that a slew of its reported financial statements are incorrect. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company wrote: …C. Geoffrey Hampson, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, concluded that the previously filed consolidated ... read more ...