Monthly Archives: August 2009

Tue 4th August 2009
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Trademarking Everyday Phrases: Harvard Gets In On The Act - If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know I’ve been telling readers that the English language is becoming trademarked, as most dictionary words and all common phrases are pretty much trademarked. The Boston Globe reported Saturday,  even Harvard University has gotten into the game and applied for U.S. trademarks on everyday phrases such as “Ask what you can do”,   “Lessons learned”,  “The world’s thinking”, “Power of ideas at work” and “Managing yourself”. The Globe ... read more ...
 
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LA Times: Domaining is “Shady” - Out of the news yesterday,  of the first ever arrest of a person for domain theft, came this gem from the LATimes.com: “”In a strange series of events befitting the shady world of domain name speculation, New Jersey state police arrested a man on suspicion of stealing the rights to p2p.com and selling them to Los Angeles Clipper forward Mark Madsen”” I’m not going to rehash the story of crime itself, as other sources did an excellent job in covering the story. What I do want to talk about ... read more ...
 
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iGuide.com Domain Name Sells for $100,000 - NameMedia sells close to $1M in domain names in one week. Thanks in part to a “no reasonable offer will be refused” marketing push at BuyDomains and a six-figure domain name sale, NameMedia sold nearly $1 million worth of domain names over the past week. That’s double what the company usually sells each week. The top sale was iGuide.com, which was purchased by Baroda Ventures LLC of Beverly Hills. It forwards to OVguide.com, a web site about online video. ... read more ...
 
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Ancestry.com Warns about Country Code Domains in SEC Filing - Company cites global domain name protection as risk in S-1. Ancestry.com has filed to go public. It’s another example of a great business built on a generic, category-killer domain name. But in its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company cites challenges acquiring country code domain names as a risk: If we are unable to protect our domain names, our reputation and brand could be affected adversely. We have registered domain names for ... read more ...
 
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Arrest for Domain Theft Gets Major Media Attention - Arrest grabs headlines and shines light on daily plague to domain industry. First ever domain thief mugshot. As far as theft is concerned, it doesn’t get much more intriguing than this. It involves the internet, intellectual property, the first arrest of its kind, and a celebrity. It’s a perfect storm and is shining light on one of the plagues of the domain name industry: domain theft. Domain Name News broke the story yesterday about an arrest in the theft of ... read more ...
 
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Back from Vacation - A little RR, now a fresh start to the week. Austin gets hot in the summer, and this year has been particularly brutal. So around this time of year my family usually takes off for a week to a cooler climate. Last year we went to Seattle, which has an average high temperature in the 70s in August. We rented an apartment in an older part of the city. Most homes in the area don’t have air conditioning since you rarely need it. As luck would have it, the temperature ... read more ...
Mon 3rd August 2009
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Greg Ricks Responds To C & D Letter By Filing Suit - The Las Vegas Sun, is reporting that Greg Ricks,  known to most in the domain community, filed a suit last week in U.S. District Court for Nevada against a company who sent him a C D letter on the domain DateCheck.com DCAEV Inc., has a trademark on the term “Date Check” and owns “date-check.com“. Date-check.com,  promotes incall and outcall escorts services around the country. Ricks registered the domain,  DateCheck.com in 1999. Ricks, DateCheck.com, is going to a landing page, but is ... read more ...
 
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No Trademark For Bing? Bada Bing - According to TechCrunch.com,  The Laptop Company, the owner of  website bongobing.com, received an extension until October 28, 2009, to oppose Microsoft’s attempt to trademark Bing, with the USPTO. The CEO and co-founder Raul Pellerano of bongobing.com is quoted by TechCruch, as saying: “We have worked hard and invested significant resources in building our BongoBing (TM) brand and identity, our website and services, and our corporate identity. We believe it is important for a small company ... read more ...
 
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comScore: “Forget The Click”; Treat Internet Ads Like TV Ads - Gian Fulgoni, chairman and co-founder of comScore, said at the MediaPost OMMA Metrics Measurement conference in San Francisco, Calif., Friday that advertisers should “Get rid of the click as the de facto standard to measure the success of an online campaign. It’s outdated and doesn’t represent real success. Instead Fulgoni says says advertisers and marketers need to forget the click, focus on the sales impact on campaigns and conduct post-buy analysis. “Internet advertising has had an impact ... read more ...
 
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Have Some Extra Cash? You Can Buy iLoveyou.com - The domain, iLoveyou.com is apparently for sale. If you have interest and some extra cash laying around you can grab it for the asking price of just $38 million. Yes its certainly a nice name and would be a great addition to any portifillio. How do I know the domain is for sale for $38 million? Just check out the site. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Server.com Sells for $770,000, Jesus.net for $124,000 - Domain brokerage Sedo turns in slew of major domain name sales this week. Sedo completed two six-figure domain name sales this week, including a monster sale of Server.com for $770,000. The domain name is showing a standard GoDaddy parked page right now, and was previously parked at Dotzup. According to Compete.com the domain name receives over 12,000 unique visitors per month. Sedo also turned in a spectacular .net domain name sale, selling Jesus.net for $124,337. ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Domain Name News Stories of Jul 2009 - A look back at the last month in domain news. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire in July, ranked by number of views. 1. Oakland Raiders Take Fight Off Field for Domain Name – The Oakland Raiders football team filed for arbitration to get the domain name OaklandRaiders.com. The case was terminated and the domain handed over to the National Football League. 2. GoDaddy Files Patent for Method of Selling Equity in Domain Names – domain name registrar ... read more ...
Sun 2nd August 2009
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Fraudulent Use Of Country Code Domains - As you know the most used country code domains, have grown exponentially, as users people in those countries are looking for information and to deal with products in their own country. However a story in the Telegraph.co.uk highlight the a new problem of using country codes to trick people into thinking they are buying from a “local” business. According to the story, up to 480,000 sites, representing approximately 6% of all .co.uk domains, which sell goods (rather than informational sites) are ... read more ...
 
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Judge: There Can Only Be One “Hot Russian Brides” - Matchmaking company wins rights to domain name. Retired New York State Supreme Court justice Ralph Yachnin has ruled that only one company has rights to the term “Hot Russian Brides” in web addresses. Acting as an arbitrator for National Arbitration Forum, Yachnin found in favor of internet company Romantic Tours, Inc, which operates HotRussianBrides.com. The company was awarded the domain name “HotRusianBride.com”. Notice the typo of Russian and the singular ... read more ...
Sat 1st August 2009
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MicroJets.com Sells For $5K on NameJet.com - The domain MicroJets.com sold for $5,100 on NameJet..com. MicroJets are the new generation of small lightweight jets, also knows an very light jets. With the domain Jets.com for sale at Sedo.com for $1.2 Million, I think this was a very good buy. Here are some other notable sales from Namejet.com in the last couple of days: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...