Monthly Archives: August 2009

Wed 12th August 2009
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eSnipe Fails to Snipe Domain Name - SNIPEIT! can’t snipe domain arbitration. Auction sniper software company eSnipe, Inc. of Bellevue, Washington, has failed to snipe the domain name SnipeIt.com through domain arbitration. Either the company doesn’t have strong trademarks dating back to earlier this decade or its lawyer failed to convey them to the arbitration panel. In making no finding of bad faith by registrant Modern Empire Internet, Ltd, the panel wrote: The Complainant points to its claimed ... read more ...
 
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DevHub Creator Turns Profitable - Web site building and monetization platform goes into the black. EVO Media Group, creator of the DevHub web site development platform, has reached profitability just five months after releasing its flagship project. The company boasts an active user base of 25,000 people developing web sites on its platform. Total visits to the network of sites built on DevHub is nearing 1 million per month with over 2 million page views, according to data from Quantcast. Operating ... read more ...
 
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Sedo COO Named to Boston 40 Under 40 - Key Sedo leader and ICA president names to prestigious list. Sedo chief operating officer and general counsel Jeremiah Johnston has been named to the 2009 Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40. This prestigious list recognizes 40 people under the age of 40 that have been recognized as leaders and are “people to watch” in their respective fields. A company press release describes Johnston’s success at Sedo as well as his civic involvement: “As a company, ... read more ...
Tue 11th August 2009
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SnapNames InterNEXT Adult Domain Auction Nets $88,587 - The InterNEXT adult domain auction held today at SnapNames.com closed with $88,587 in sales. In all 33 domains sold.  We only bought one domain at the adult auction and interesting enough, it was a non-adult domain, miraclediet.com Here is the complete list: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: Our Picks From The Snap Adult Auction: Closes Today: Domains With Bids - The  Snapnames adult auction closes today at 3:15pm As of 1:30pm here are the domains with bids and the current price. To join the auction, or to watch it, just click on the link below: gay.info $5,500 (note this started at no reserve) orgasms.com $42,180 pleaser.com $12,270 showersex.com $6,020 concubine.com $1,230 (interesting the plural Concubines.com still has no bid) hymenreplacement.com $1,230 Stud.Net $1,230 SexPlaza.com $615 tittes.com $615 yourgirlfriends.com $325 We will be updating you ... read more ...
 
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The Battle For .Eco & Just One Example Of The Nightmare ICANN Is Creating - I bet few domainers have an interest in the proposed .Eco domain, which is one of those new gTLD’s, that has more than one interested party wanting to own the extension. (.nyc is another propose new extension with expected multiple applicants ) .Eco its looking like its going to be a battle between two political heavyweights, former United States, VP Al Gore and former Russian ex-president Mikhail Gorbachev. Al Gore is supporting the Dot Eco LLC application, while Mr Gorbachev is linked to Big ... read more ...
 
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Moniker to Request Sanctions Against Transamerica in Lawsuit - Moniker and Oversee to ask for sanctions against Transamerica over cybersquatting lawsuit. Domain name registrar Moniker and parent company Oversee.net intend to request sanctions against Transamerica for a lawsuit the insurance company filed against them, according to a legal filing. The filing requested an extension to the time the defendants have to respond to the lawsuit, and notes: …the Defendants will soon be serving a motion for sanctions pursuant to Fed. ... read more ...
 
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Craig Snyder Joins Oversee.net - Marchex co-founder and former iREIT CEO will lead Moniker and SnapNames divisions. Los Angeles-based Oversee.net has name Craig Snyder General Manager of its registrar and aftermarket divisions (i.e. Moniker and SnapNames). Snyder co-founded domain name and local search company Marchex (MCHX) before joining Houston-based Internet REIT. Internet REIT was plagued by problems during his tenure, but most of these were rooted in decisions made prior to his arrival. ... read more ...
 
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Slimware Goes Big With Slimware.com - Slimware creator understands the value of the right domain name. When Lash Fary prepared to launch a new line of dinnerware designed for portion control, he knew he had to have the right domain name. He saw that Slimware.com was already registered and listed for sale at BuyDomains, but he didn’t think twice about choosing an available domain name for $10 instead of buying the ideal one. “I really like the name Slimware, so when I decided to design the line of ... read more ...
Mon 10th August 2009
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NewYorkMortgage.com Sells For $13K on NameJet.com & a 2 Letter .Org Goes For Under $7K - The domain NewYorkMortgage.com sold for $12,877 on NameJet.com today,  to lead the pack, closely followed by  GlobalOne.com which sold today or $10K. The term Global One has several trademarks and there are plenty of companies doing business under a variation of this name and was a the name of a huge European telecommunication company until it got bought and absorbed in 2001. The domain KL.org sold for under $7K, while you guys were sleeping, which maybe the lowest price paid for a  2 letter .org ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft Charging For Officelive.com Domain:”Very Competitive” $14.95: Why Not Office.com - Microsoft has been allowing people for free to set up shop using basically a subdomain such as for example: http://youroldcustomdomainname.web.officelive.com. Sure is a mouthful. Today Microsoft,  announced that starting October 1, customers will have to pay for renewing their domain, $14.95 per year saying: “An annual domain renewal fee of $14.95 per year will be due at the time of the domain renewal date” “This pricing compares very favorably in the marketplace.”” I have 2 questions: 1.  ... read more ...
 
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Blind Search: Side By Side Search Results For Google, Yahoo & Bing - A employee of Microsoft, Michael Kordahi, has launched a “fun experiment”,  side project to see how the three major search engines return results for the same keyword. He calls the service, “BlindSearch, the search engine taste test.” “”The goal of this site is simple, we want to see what happens when you remove the branding from search engines. How differently will you perceive the results?” The columns are randomized with every query, so Google isn’t  always ... read more ...
 
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Austin Venture Capitalist Loses Domain Registrar - Austin domain registrar among three losing accreditation. Barring a last minute reprieve, Austin venture capitalist Thomas Ball’s domain name registrar is one of three ICANN is giving the boot. ICANN sent letters to three accredited registrars informing them that their agreements would not be renewed upon expiration for various infractions. Lately, ICANN has used this tact to cut domain registrars that are nearing the end of their contracts as opposed to de-accrediting ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Buys OMG.com Domain Name for $80,000 - Yahoo buys popular texting term. Yahoo (YHOO) has purchased the domain name OMG.com for $80,000. Domain Name Wire reported the sale last week on its weekly Sedo sales wrap, but we didn’t know the buyer at the time. OMG.com, which commonly stands for “Oh My God” in shorthand and texting, does not currently resolve to a web site. As readers point out in the comments below, Yahoo has a popular celebrity gossip web site at omg.yahoo.com. Yahoo is not only a ... read more ...
 
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Payment.com and Payments.com Sell for Combined $400,000 - Sedo has another strong week; Brazil.com sale in the works. Sedo is on a roll with another strong domain name sales performance. Leading this week’s chart are Payment.com at $250,000 and Payments.com at $150,000, for a combined $400,000. The whois records for the domains still show Sedo’s transfer service, so the buyer isn’t known. Both domain names have had protected whois records for the past couple years. Although not on Sedo’s official list for the week, ... read more ...
 
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Photon Group Continues to Buy Dark Blue Sea Shares - Battle over Fabulous’ parent company continues to escalate. Photon Group Limited, which is trying to force out the Chairman of the Board of Dark Blue Sea and place two of its own on the board, continues to buy shares in Dark Blue Sea. According to a regulatory filing (pdf), Photon has acquired nearly 1.8 million shares of Dark Blue Sea (DBS.AX) on the open market since the beginning of July. The biggest acquisition was 1.227M shares on August 5 for 25 cents each. ... read more ...
 
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Open Season on OpenDental.com - Sloppy decision should worry domain name owners. The domain name OpenDental.com has been awarded to a software company in a domain arbitration case. The details of the case are startling, and all domain name owners should pay attention. The key fact is that the registrant of OpenDental.com, a licensed dentist in South Korea, registered the domain name in 1999. The complainant, which operates Open Dental Software, didn’t start using the trademark in commerce until ... read more ...
 
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PDDomains.com Latest Scam Appraisal Site - Scam gets a new home. The domain name appraisal scam seems to be mutating too quickly to follow, which means it may be time to create a web site dedicated specifically to it. The latest domain name to host the scam is PDdomains.com. Here’s an example e-mail being sent out. If you receive this email, hit the “report spam” button in your email client. To be clear, Sedo and AccurateDomains are included in the e-mail as decoys for legitimacy. They are not part ... read more ...
 
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eNom Launches RichContent Product - Domain registrar offers RichContent system to customers and resellers. Domain name registrar eNom has released RichContent, a new content widget system for individuals to add content to their web sites. The system is built by Pluck, which eNom parent company Demand Media acquired in 2008. RichContent offers various widgets users can copy and paste into their web sites to pull related content and links from various blogs and news sources. Major web sites already ... read more ...
Sun 9th August 2009
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NameJet.com Finally Sends Out An Update On The .CM Landrush and Auction - Well its been over a week since the .CM Landrush was to begin and Namejet.com has finally sent out a notice on the status of the .CM landrush and auctions, which was suppose to close on July 31. Readers of TheDomains.com got most of this information days ago, but NameJet has just released updated info on the .CM launch even though it was suppose to be rolled out over a week ago. Interestingly enough, although people are being given 2 more weeks to submit .CM domains, if you have already submitted ... read more ...
 
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Universal Goes With Despicable.me Instead of Despicableme.com - To promote its new animated film, “Despicable Me“, Universal studios,  chose to use the domain, Despicable.Me instead of Despicableme.Com. This is the first time I have seen a .ME domain used as the promotion tool of a major feature film. Before you think that Universal was “forced into” using the .ME because it failed to secure the .Com version, think again. Universal didn’t make that mistake,  as it secured the domain Despicableme.com as well, and is  forwarding it to Despicable.me. The ... read more ...
Sat 8th August 2009
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UPDATED: Our Picks From The SnapNames Adult Auction (Internext Show) Closes Today - The  Snapnames adult auction closes today at 3:15pm As of 1:30pm here are the domains with bids and the current price. To join the auction, or to watch it, just click on the link below: gay.info $5,500 (note this started at no reserve) orgasms.com $42,180 pleaser.com $12,270 showersex.com $6,020 concubine.com $1,230 (interesting the plural Concubines.com still has no bid) hymenreplacement.com $1,230 Stud.Net $1,230 SexPlaza.com $615 tittes.com $615 yourgirlfriends.com $325 We will be updating you ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2009
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Amazon Get’s Clothes.com In Zappos Deal: Domain Was Bought For $4.9 Million in 2008 - TechCruch.com is reporting that Amazon.com,  as part of its acquisition of Zappos.com,  is getting the domain Clothes.com thrown in. Amazon agreed to buy Zappos.com for $847 Million in cash and stock a couple of weeks ago. According to TechCrunch, the domain name, clothes.com was purchased by Zappos.com, from IdealLab.com for $4.9 Million in 2008. The article points out had that domain sale been reported, it would have been the second largest domain sale of 2008, behind Fund.com for $10 Million. This ... read more ...
 
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Rupert Murdock: You’re Going To Pay - Rupert Murdock, whose News Corp, owns everything from Fox Television, to the Wall Street Journal, to the New York Post and media outlets all around the world, took a look at his financial statements for his fiscal year ending in June and came to a business decision: You’re going to start paying for his content. Realizing that ad revenues may never recover to previous levels, Murdoch declared that the era of a free online news was over. “Quality journalism is not cheap,” said Murdoch. “The ... read more ...
 
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.CM Domain LandRush To Re-Open; Live .CM Registrations Further Delayed - The seemingly, unending sage of the .CM Landrush, and live registration mode, has gotten another push back. The .CM registry announced today, that the Landrush (the pre-order process) for .CM domains, which closed back on July 31st, will now be re-opened for two more weeks, starting on Monday. The registry will not accept Live registrations until August 27th. The following is posted on the .CM registry site this morning: “””First of all we would like to apologize for the delay of the “Go ... read more ...