Monthly Archives: September 2009

Wed 30th September 2009
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ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom To Appear On CNBC Thursday - The CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom is scheduled to appear on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” at around 1:15 to 2 PM EST. We will let you know what he had to say. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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AucklandHotel.com Sells For $7,500 On Godaddy - The domain name AucklandHotel.com sold on Godaddy expired auction platform for $7,505 yesterday. HotelMelbourne.com also sold on Godaddy.com yesterday for $3,724. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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The US Sets ICANN Free - The Joint Project Agreement (JPA), the agreement under which ICANN has operated under since its inception expires today with the United States. ICANN released the”Affirmation of Commitments” which replaces the JPA starting tomorrow. Basically the US is giving up sole and full control over ICANN and sharing it with “the world” We predicted this would happen late last year in our predictions for 2009. What does this mean for the domainer community? For one it give a huge boost to the .xxx extension ... read more ...
 
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Snapnames & Moniker Partner Up With The Domain Distribution Network - Oversee.net announced today that it has partnered with Domain Distribution Network (DDN), a unit of Australia-based Dark Blue Sea to significantly expand marketplace options for aftermarket domain name buyers and sellers. The Domain Distribution Network enables registrars, resellers and portals to earn commission selling aftermarket domains from third party providers via an online, instant sales process.  The Domain Distribution Network empowers domain owners to sell domains easily in the widest ... read more ...
 
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Sedo to Release Domain MLS in 2010 - Sedo creating network to provide more exposure to domain name listings. [UPDATE: Sedo actually introduced its MLS platform earlier this year and I wrote about it here. Sedo’s recent marketing email about SedoMLS is that all Sedo customers will get access to sell domains on it sometime in 2010. Currently, only certain partners and large portfolio holders are able to use SedoMLS. I have updated the story accordingly.] Domain broker Sedo will introduce expand its ... read more ...
 
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Interview: Rod Beckstrom on Affirmation of Commitments - Domain Name Wire interviews ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom. We have a new acronym to add to the domain name lexicon: AOC, for Affirmation of Commitments. Earlier today the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally announced its new agreement to replace the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the U.S. Government. On the surface, the AOC (pdf) sounds like a wish list of everything a domain owner could want: explanations from ICANN about how it makes ... read more ...
 
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e.Biz Sells for $66,001 - e.Biz steals the show at successful one character .biz auction. It’s no surprise that e.Biz was the top selling domain name in Sedo’s one character .biz domain name auction. But $66,001? That will certainly turn a lot of heads. Especially since the winner could have picked the domain up for a few hundred dollars and a commitment to develop/market it had it gone through .biz registry Neustar’s RFP process. About 20 bidders participated, but just two bidders ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Founders Sell Remaining 24% of Company, Schumacher Promoted - AdLINK has purchased the remaining 24% of Sedo and promoted its managing director. Sedo parent company AdLINK Group has purchased the outstanding 24.06% of Sedo shares owned by its founders. AdLINK will purchase the shares for 5.5M EUR in cash plus 4.25 million shares of AdLINK. At today’s exchange rates and stock price, and assuming no restrictions on the stock, that values Sedo at about $130 million. Sedo Managing Director Tim Schumacher has also been named ... read more ...
 
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Domain Distribution Network Partners with Moniker - Sales network picks up inventory and distribution. Dark Blue Sea’s Domain Distribution Network (DDN) has partnered with Oversee.net and its Moniker and SnapNames divisions. Customers that have their domain names at Moniker and list them for sale can have the domains syndicated through Domain Distribution Network’s partners. If a domain sells, fulfillment will be automatic and not require any action from the domain seller. Other distribution partners currently ... read more ...
Tue 29th September 2009
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New FREE Keyword Search Tool Released By WordStream - WordStream introduced a tool that serves up the first 10,000 suggestions for related keywords for free. The WordStream Free Keyword Tool draws from a  database built with search data from ISPs, search engines and toolbars. “The tool is about generating niche suggestions you wouldn’t have thought of before,” says Tom Demers, WordStream director of marketing. “It’s a little bit about saving money and gaining more valuable suggestions.”WordStream introduced a free tool that serves up the ... read more ...
 
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Is Paris a Model for New Internet Governance? Let’s Hope Not. - Paris wants your domain name if it has Paris in it. As the U.S. cedes more control of ICANN to foreign governments, many people are worried about what happens when censoring countries like China get a role in internet policy oversight. Few people would ever think that countries like France would be a threat. But it appears that way, at least if the thinking of leaders in its capital are any indication. Earlier today Domain Name Wire wrote about three domain disputes ... read more ...
 
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ICANN To Announce New Governance Structure on Wednesday - ICANN’s future to become clearer on Wednesday. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will make an announcement tomorrow regarding the expiration of its Joint Project Agreement with the U.S. Government, Domain Name Wire has learned. Although details are not available at this time, sources tell Domain Name Wire that The Economist‘s article regarding an “Affirmation of Commitments” is a fair representation of the new arrangement, barring ... read more ...
 
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Paris Attacks Geo Domain Name Owners - Paris entity attacks generic domain names, including two domains that include the word “Paris”. In a startling move, a quasi-governmental organization in Paris, France, has filed domain disputes against owners of generic domain names including the word “Paris” that have to do with internet access. Ville de Paris filed cases against three domain names: WifiParis.com, Wifi-Paris.com, and Parvi.org. In a 2008 dispute for the domain name VilledeParis.com, the ... read more ...
 
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Reporters Without Borders: Keep a ICANN Status Quo - Press freedom advocate opposed to ICANN governance changes. Reporters Without Borders, an organization that pushes for freedom of the press, is urging the U.S. government to keep the status quo of internet governance. In an article on its web site, it suggests not handing any control of ICANN over to other governments. No one underestimates the risks of maintaining an Internet governance system controlled by a single entity,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general ... read more ...
 
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NameMedia Sells Flying.com, Racks adult $600k Domain Sales - NameMedia has another strong sales week. NameMedia, which sells domain names through BuyDomains and Afternic, had another big week with over $600,000 in sales. It sold Flying.com through its BuyDomains platform. The sale price of Flying.com was not disclosed, but Jets.com sold for $375,000 a couple weeks ago at Sedo. The company’s median .com sale was $1,062 with an average selling price of $1,479. The median non-.com sale was $800 with an average sale of $1,328. ... read more ...
Mon 28th September 2009
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YouTube.com: 10 Billion Videos Watched In August; The Internet: 25 Billion Videos Watched - Here are some more stats that will just make you shake your head in disbelief. According to comScore, more than 10 Billion videos were watched in August on YouTube.com. Google’s, YouTube.com, accounted for 40% of all online viewership in August. According to comScore, online video watching reached an all-time high in August with more than 25 Billion videos watched. The average online visitor watched 9.7 hours of video for the  month. The duration of the average online video was 3.7 minutes. YouTube.com, ... read more ...
 
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Apple.com: 2 BILLION Apps Downloaded & 85,000 Apps Online - Apple announced today that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone. Apple also announced that are more than 85,000 apps on its store and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. The numbers are truly staggering and a demonstration of the unprecedented power of the Internet. Shares of Apple at up over $3 to $185. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Spots A New Domain Trend: Registering Your Home’s Street Address: Is This The Secret To Selling Your Home? - GoDaddy.com,  said in a press release today, that it recently discovered a huge surge in the registration of domains named after street addresses. Comparing 2005, around the time the housing bubble “burst,” to last year, Go Daddy recorded a more than 320% increase in “home address” domain name registrations. States and cities with the most registrations include California, Florida, New York, Phoenix, Ariz., Atlanta, Ga., and Chicago, Ill. “We noticed ... read more ...
 
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Da ICANN, ai nuovi TLDs fino al mobile web, il futuro passa per i domini - Tutto parte da un’idea, una nuova avventura online, la scelta del nome per il progetto o per la nostra attività e poi di corsa alla registrazione di un nuovo dominio.Tutto è divenuto così semplice che la registrazione dei domini non si è fermata qui, ha creato nuovi scenari, come quelli delle aste online, del parking, per arrivare ad essere presente su qualsiasi devices, anche su quelli mobili. Un nuovo dominio è quasi sempre l’inizio di un nuovo business, tutti gli utenti partono da questo ... read more ...
 
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Yet Another Reason To Support The ICA: The Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) Is Knocked Out (For Now) - According to the Internet Commerce Association (the ICA), the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proposal, will NOT be included in the third version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook for new gTLDs to be released by ICANN in the first week of October. According to the ICA the disclosure came in the testimony of ICANN’s COO Doug Brent, at a hearing on “The Expansion of Top level Domains and Its Effect on Competition” held last week by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts and Competition ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Wants to Trap WHOIS Abusers for Study - Group sends our RFP for whois abuse study. ICANN, through Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), is seeking proposals from qualified companies to study whois abuse. One of its proposed mechanisms for studying abuse is to set up a number of test domain names to see what happens to the whois data created for them. A similar study (pdf) was conducted in 2007, but only to research whois harvesting for spam. In the new study, GNSO will also check for postal/phone ... read more ...
 
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AdMedia.com: Another Play on Ad.com? - The Ad.com saga gets more interesting. Sedo has completed the sale of AdMedia.com for $50,000. This is a curious sale because of what is now up at AdMedia.com: Zoom in on a couple key elements, including the logo and copyright notice: It sure looks like whomever has created this basic web site at AdMedia.com is trying to make a play on Ad.com, the disputed trademark that has caused some million dollar heartache. There’s very little information about AdMedia.com ... read more ...
 
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Live Current Media Loses $1.4M, Writes Down Auctomatic Acquisition - Live Current Media reports financial results. Live Current Media (livce.ob) reported that it lost $1,404,000 in the quarter ended June 30 on revenue of $1,705,000. That compares to a loss of $916,000 in the first quarter of the calendar year, but the loss is much less than in the last two quarters of 2008 thanks to cost cutting. The company has sold seven domain names this year through August for $3.4 million, not including the Cricket.com domain name. These sales ... read more ...
 
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Cheech & Chong Try to Smoke Out Domain Name - Comedians file for arbitration to get domain name. Comedy duo Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong are reuniting — to go after the domain name CheechandChong.com. After a long separation, the pair have been making numerous appearances and a tour together. So it naturally follows that they’d want to grab the domain name. A complaint was filed World Intellectual Property Organization and should be resolved within a couple months. The domain name is currently ... read more ...