Monthly Archives: September 2009

Fri 4th September 2009
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Another Day, Another Six Figures In Sales For .CM Domains At NameJet.com - Well thanks to a few domainers, we complied a list of 44 of the 500 .cm domains that went to auction today. FreePorn.cm topped everyone’s list selling for $13,700. Here is the domains we have record of, and of course we are missing over 90% of the domains that sold today (assuming the other 450 domains sold for even $500 on average, probably low, there is over $300K in sales) Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Moniker to (Again) Request Sanctions Against Transamerica - Moniker plans to file another request for sanctions against Transamerica. Moniker has notified the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that it plans to file another request for sanctions under Rule 11. Transamerica first filed suit against Moniker and many other defendants a couple months ago for cybersquatting. The complaint had many flaws that showed that Transamerica’s lawyers didn’t understand the domain name system. Last month Moniker ... read more ...
 
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Call.com Buyer Snaps Up Christian.com for $600,000 - Christian.com sells for $600,000, buyer to create Christian social network. Yesterday I wrote about Boris Kreiman, who bought the domain name Call.com for $1.1 million. He said he wasn’t done buying, and here’s proof: he just plunked down $600,000 for Christian.com. Kreiman told Domain Name Wire that he’s going to use the domain name for a Christian social network and Christian encyclopedia. The domain transfer is currently going through at Sedo. However, ... read more ...
 
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Sky Broadcasting Loses Domain Dispute over SkyTravel.com - British Sky Broadcasting fails to convince arbitration panel of rights to SkyTravel.com domain name. Broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group has failed to convince a three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel that it should get the domain name SkyTravel.com. The defeat is due in part to one of the arbitration panelist’s personal experiences. Sky operates a travel channel called Sky Travel and owns trademarks related to the name. But the owner ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2009
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SnapNames.com Releases It’s Monthly Showcase Domains For September - Snapnames.com released the domains it will be auctioning off in its Monthly Showcase for September. The auction starts on Tuesday September 8th at at 12Noon EST and ends on September 10th at 3:15pm EST, subject to snapnames.com’s normal closing rules. Here are the domains, the reserve range and the category they placed the domain in (You can also download the catalog here with “stats”): Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Another $115K In .CM Sales For NameJet, Just For The Domains We Tracked - Today at NameJet.com, the second of its 9 days of .cm auctions, the .cm domains we tracked sold for almost $115K. Once again there were 500 .cm domains auctioned off at Namejet and we tracked 40 of them. The highest sale today was for Yellowpages.cm for $30,100. Everyone should keep in mind that the amounts listed below are just for the auction, each winner still has to pay $350 for a 2 year registration in addition to the auction amount We picked up 4 domains today which are included in this list. Here ... read more ...
 
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eCoupons Locks In Country Code Domains for Success - eCoupons.com cashes in with category-defining domain names — in the U.S. and abroad. Matthew Cheng’s launch into the eCoupons business got a big boost in 2001. He wanted to get the ideal domain name for an ecoupons site, and a once-in-a-dot.com-bubble opportunity came about. eCoupons.com was an existing company that was shut down as the dot.com bubble crashed. The domain name expired and dropped, and was quickly snatched up by Michele Dinoia. (Dinoia owns a ... read more ...
 
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Exclusive: The Future of Call.com - $1.1 million purchase may be just the beginning. Boris Kreiman (and his company PhoneToPhone) has been confirmed as the buyer of Call.com. The better news is that he’s an end user, and he’s not done buying domain names. I briefly connected with Kreiman on the phone this morning to learn about his plans for the site. Kreiman runs a network of sites that connects consumers to professionals via the phone. An example is NewLawyer.com, where consumers can find a ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2009
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Hosting Companies Hit With $32 Million Dollar Verdict In Trademark Infringement Case - A little outside the world of pure domaining, but as another example of how trademark owners are continuing to press for greater protection for their brands and expanding those they are trying to hold responsible for infringement, comes the news that a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California found 2 Web hosting companies and their owner (personally)  liable, for contributing to trademark and copyright infringement for hosting sites selling counterfeit Louis Vuitton ... read more ...
 
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NameJet Hauls In $500K In 1st Day .CM Auctions & That’s Only For The Domains On My List - As you know the first of 9 days of .CM auctions at closed at NameJet.com today with Hotels.cm and Sex.cm leading the pack. For just the .Cm domains I had on my list, NameJet.com hauled in $486K. Namejet.com said they had 4,500 .cm domains going to auction and I only had 200 on my list. My list therefore reflects only 5% of all .cm auctions, although I’m pretty sure I have many of the high sale domains on my radar. No matter how you feel about .CM domains, you have to be impressed with the amount ... read more ...
 
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Minds+Machines Sues Wolfgang Puck over .Food TLD - Consulting firm sues Wolfgang Puck and his wife over failed .food deal. As if the new top level domain craze couldn’t get any weirder, new TLD consulting firm Minds+Machines is suing Wolfgang Puck and his wife. The lawsuit was filed by Minds+Machines, Top Level Domain Holdings, LTD., a British Virgin Islands registered company, and Federick R. Krueger. The lawsuit claims that Wolfgang Puck and his wife tried to interject themselves into all new TLDs Minds+Machines ... read more ...
 
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Casinos.org Prevails, But No Reverse Domain Name Hijacking? - Casinos.org owner can keep domain but panel fails to find RDNH. As a follow up to an article on Domain Name Wire back in June, the owner of Casinos.org has successfully defended his domain name in a UDRP case. Cedric Rimbault of Rungis, France, registered a French trademark for Casinos.org and registered the c-a-s-i-n-o-s.org domain name. He then tried to buy the domain name Casinos.org for as much as $9,000. When the owner asked for $115,000, Rimbault filed a claim ... read more ...
 
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Transamerica Files Amended Lawsuit Against Moniker - Transamerica’s lawyers get a quick education in how the domain name ecosystem works. Life insurance company Transamerica has amended its lawsuit against Moniker, Oversee.net, and many John Does for trademark infringement. The original lawsuit claimed that Moniker used fictitious entities to register trademark-infringing domain names on its own behalf. It frequently used quotes to refer to Moniker’s “clientele” and “customers”, as Transamerica alleged ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Scam Moves Web Site Again - Scam moves to a new domain. I’m getting tired of writing these stories (again), but I consider them a public service announcement. A long running domain name appraisal scam has moved to a new domain name, Macez.com. That the scammers keep moving shows that the scam is working well by getting unsuspecting people to pay for an appraisal at Macez.com. If you receive this email, hit “report spam” on your email client. Do not buy a domain appraisal from macez.com. from ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2009
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Hotels.cm Sells For $81K: Sex.cm Goes For $51K; as .CM Domains Begin To Close On NameJet.com - The NameJet.com auction for .CM domains with multiple preorders are started to close today with two big sales. The Domain Hotels.cm sold for $76,100 while sex.cm sold for 51,300. Coupons.cm sold for $20,100 There are quite a few other domains already into the five figures, which are closing throughout the afternoon, including Mail.cm $28 Porn.cm $22K Free.cm $18K We will recap after all the auctions close Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Domains Made 1 Teen A Millionaire & The Net Made 13 Others - A blog post entitled Young Entrepreneurs: Top 25 Teenage Millionaires, caught my eye this morning. The story lists 25 Teenagers who became millionaires by starting their own businesses as early as the age of 10. Out of the 25, I counted 14 that made their millions by starting a business on the net. One of these teenagers is a domainer: Matt Wegryzn. This young man made his fortune in the business of buying and selling domain names. Some of the individual domains that he’s sold have gone for over ... read more ...
 
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Your Chance To Own A Domain Worth $43K For Less Than $1K - How would you like to own a domain valued at $43K for less than $1,000? The domain Clippoo.com is at auction at GoDaddy.com. Godaddy values the domain at  $42,657. According to Godaddy, the domain is projected to receive over 70,000 visitors a month. Apart from the traffic the domain receives according to GoDaddy.com I have no idea of what makes this domain worth $43K. Of course Godaddy.com makes more in one hour of one day than I do all year, so if Godaddy thinks its worth $43K then who am I to ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Displays Customers’ Whois Queries to a Public - Domain registrar displays customers’ whois lookups for all to see. Here’s an interesting new “feature” on Network Solutions’ web site: a list of domain name whois searches performed by customers in the past day. That’s right. Do a whois lookup on Network Solutions and you can tip your hat to thousands of onlookers. Think of all of the fun things you could do with this information: …Figure out domains people are looking to buy and beat them to it …Find ... read more ...
 
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.Sport Asks, Just What is a Top Level Domain? - .Sport questions the definition of “top level”. If the .Sport Policy Advisory Council has its way, Shaq won’t be able to get his hands on the .basketball TLD. In a letter to ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate-Thrush and CEO Rod Beckstrom, the .Sport Policy Advisory Council suggests that a top level domain name should be the very top of a category, and anything less than that would diminish the importance of top level domain names. The letter states: …Thus, the ... read more ...
 
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eBay Starts Paying Affiliates by a Click. Here’s Why. - eBay is no longer paying per sale. But the real reason isn’t so obvious. For years, online retailer and auction service eBay offered a traditional affiliate program. It paid affiliates for sending new registrations and sales to eBay, similar to how most online retailers pay a commission for sales. But as many companies try to move from PPC to a pay-for-performance model, eBay is going the opposite direction. Well, in name only. It’s still pay-for-performance, ... read more ...