Monthly Archives: November 2009

Thu 5th November 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Rick Latona Auction Ends Today, Sedo 2 Character Auction Starts - One auction ends and another one begins today. The extended auction for Rick Latona’s TRAFFIC auction ends today, and bidding is open online. A handful of domains have already received bids (which also means they hit their reserve). Notable domains with bids include StateFlag(s).com at $25,000 and DLE.com at $12,400. In an email sent to Rick Latona newsletter subscribers today, the company said it acknowledges that the Proxibid interface may be frustrating to ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Nominet Releases Goldmine of Domain Renewal Statistics - Report provides insight into expired domain names. Nominet, the registry for the .uk country code, has released its 2009 Domain Name Industry Report (pdf). It includes in-depth stats about domain renewal rates and the reasons people let domains expire. This data should be useful to the ICANN Working Group examining the issue of expiring domains. As way of background, there are a couple differences between .uk and most other domains. First, registrations are for ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2009
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
TechCrunch.com Crunches Snapnames.com Calling The Domain Business “Dirty” - Michael Arrington, wrote the story for TechCrunch on the Snapnames.com bidding scandal and the opening paragraph should give you an idea of how the rest of the story reads: “”Anyone who doesn’t know how dirty the domain name business is, just doesn’t know the domain name business.”” Mr. Arrington says he a consultant to Pool.com years ago when he says it was pulling in over $1 Million dollars a month in revenue from expired domain auctions and concludes about Snapnames: “It’s inexcusable ... read more ...
 
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Can Oversee Get Some Of The Money They Paid For Snapnames.com Back? - It was in May 2007 that Oversee bought Snapnames.com for tens of millons of dollars. Shortly thereafter, Network Solutions its largest registrar partner used the escape clause in their contract with Snapnames.com to pull out of their agreement. Now it appears that the  former employee of Snapnames engaged in shill bidding was also a shareholder of the company that sold Snapnames.com to Oversee. If, as we quoted President of Oversee Jeff Kupietzky as saying, 75% of all this shilling bidding took ... read more ...
 
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Oversee Uncovers Huge Inside Bidding Scheme At SnapNames.com & Will Offer Refunds - In a huge breaking story for the industry that will continue to unfold over the next hours and days, Oversee.net the parent company of SnapNames.com, recently discovered that a now former employee has been shill bidding on Snapnames.com auctions in violation of the company’s policy for many years. This employee who was not identified by name, but is described as a long time employee of Snapnames.com, having worked for them prior to Oversee’s purchase. This individual appears to be well know, ... read more ...
 
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Our Moniker.com TRAFFIC Extended Auction Picks - The Moniker.com TRAFFIC extended auction closes in just about 3 hours and here are some of our picks as domains we think are interesting and may have been overlooked in the 2K+ domains currently in the auction. Most of these do not have an opening bid. The auction closes at 3:15 today EST To join an auction just click on the link so we can take some of Oversee’s cash Opening bids are listed pensionplan.com $41,180treasurynotes.com $25,000realestatelaw.com $23,530okk.com $23,5301y.com $15,300woodworks.com ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PL and tagged
Wybór rozszerzenia dla domeny firmowej - Rozszerzenie to jeden z elementów składowych domeny. Odpowiednio dobrane, wpływa na zwiększenie efektywności działań reklamowych firmowego adresu WWW. Określa również obszar działalności przedsiębiorstwa oraz wskazuje branżę, w której funkcjonuje.Rodzaje rozszerzeńW poszukiwaniu odpowiedniego rozszerzenia przydatna jest znajomość podstawowych typów domen. W przyjętej klasyfikacji domen wyróżnia się domeny najwyższego poziomu (ang. TLD - Top-Level Domain) ... read more ...
 
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Atlanta.com Mistakenly Named in Domain Dispute - Atlanta.com included in UDRP by accident. My heart skipped a beat today when I saw that Atlanta.com had been served with a domain arbitration notice. But then I quickly figured out that this is some sort of clerical error. Automobile Atlanta, Inc. filed a case with National Arbitration Forum for six domains including automobileatlanta.com, autoatlanta.net, automobileatlanta.net, dr914.com, and lifeinhighgear.com. Oh yeah, and a minor domain name called Atlanta.com ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain Auctions: Chill Out, But Let’s Re-examine - It’s time to step back and re-evaluate domain name auctions. The news today about an employee bidding at SnapNames is certainly disappointing. So here’s my take on what the domain industry should do. First, chill out. I’ve seen a bunch of comments today from people that now assume everyone who ever beat them in an auction is a fake bidder or scammer. Look, there are a lot of people out there who bid at the last second, bid in a lot of auctions, and bid to ... read more ...
 
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In SnapNames Scandal, Conspiracy Theorists Were (Sort of) Right - Its not like we didnt tell then there were iregularities? Ripoffreport.com- Report: Snapnames.com Category: Internet Services Snapnames.com ripoff Portland Oregon Rebuttal Box Respond to this report! What’s This? What’s This? Are you an owner, employee or ex-employee with either negative or positive information about the company or individual, or can you provide “insider information” on this company? Victim of this person/company? What’s This? What’s This? Are you also ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Employee Bid in Domain Auctions, Cleanup in Progress - SnapNames employee bid in auctions, but the bigger news is how company is handling it. You’ll probably read a lot today about how a SnapNames employee had been bidding on auctions for the past four years. In case you haven’t heard the story, here’s a brief recap: -Employee opened account in another name and started bidding in 2005 -Participated in about 5% of auctions, mostly between 2005-2007 -S/He won about 1% of the auctions during this period (so about ... read more ...
 
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Valuate.com Offers Nifty Domain Evaluation Tools - Valuate.com’s solid user interface gives quick access to domain data. It’s been a couple weeks since Cybertonic, the same company behind Domaining.com, launched Valuate.com in beta. Valuate uses Estibot 2.0 in the background to create domain appraisals. Now, I’m not usually a fan of automated appraisals. I think I’ll hit the next person who tells me a domain sold below market value “because Estibot says it’s worth x”. But there’s something to be ... read more ...
 
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Google Steps Up Domain Name Arbitration Cases - Google steps up domain trademark enforcement for its brands. After many years of using domain arbitration as the last resort for picking up trademark domains, Google has gotten involved in the domain arbitration process in a big way this year. Either it is changing its trademark domain recapturing process or the number of AWOL trademark registrants is on the rise. When Google filed a case for GoogleAdwords.com last year, my question to Google was ‘what took you ... read more ...
Tue 3rd November 2009
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Moniker.com Extended TRAFFIC Auction Now With 38 Domains With Bids - 38 domains currently have bids at the Moniker.com extended TRAFFIC auction which closes tomorrow,  Wednesday November 4th at 3:15 EST on Snapnames.com Yesterday, there was a bid on a domain at over $100K, but that bid could not be verified and it was deleted. The amounts listed are the current high bids and all the reserves on all of these domains have been met. This list is current as of Noon EST on 11.3 To join or add an auction to your snapnames.com watch list, just click on the link, so we can ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
PokerBonus.com Domain Name Sells for $85,000 - Gambling domain takes top spot for the week. There were no six figure sales at Sedo this past week, but the broker still scored some big sales. Number one on the list is PokerBonus.com at $85,000. The domain’s whois record has been protected by a private registration for much of the past few years, but last month a public record showed that the domain was owned by an Australian man. The second highest .com sale was BrowserGame.com at $30,000, although it was slightly ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
8 Ways to Improve Domain Conference Programming - Here are ways to make next year’s conferences even more valuable. As the 2009 domain conference schedule draws to a close and a record number of conferences are on the schedule for 2010, I thought I’d give some general feedback on how to make conference programming better. This isn’t targeted at any particular show; it’s just some best practices I’ve picked up from attending many diverse conferences in the past ten years (from domains to intellectual property ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
The .Org Traffic Spillover Effect Boosts .Com Domains - An example of why you a .com domain. What happens when you use a non .com domain name and market it? Yeah, every one knows that the .com equivalent suddenly gets more traffic. In case you’re looking for another concrete example, Domain Name Wire reader Ross Hosman stumbled upon TwoOfUs.org. Hosman was on Pandora recently and saw ads for TwoOfUs.org, a web site by National Healthy Marriage Resource Center. He ran a quick check at Quantcast to see how much traffic ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2009
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DirectNic Is Giving Away a Trip To The Mardi Gras 2010 Show - DirectNIC, Ltd., announced today the “directNIC, Ltd. Win a Trip to Domainer Mardi Gras 2010″ promotion. The promotion will reward one directNIC, Ltd., client with a trip to New Orleans, Louisiana to attend the Domainer Mardi Gras 2010 conference which will take place from February 11 – 13, 2010, and which occur simultaneously with Mardi Gras . The winner will receive a 4 day 3 night all-expense paid trip to New Orleans, including roundtrip airfare, hotel room and a pass to the show. Now through ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
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Yellowstone.org Sells For $13K on NameJet.com - The domain name Yellowstone.org sold for $12,978 at NameJet.com Of course Yellowstone National Park is one of the most visited National Parks in the US. Yellowstone.com is a parking page with almost 5K monthly visitors and Yellowstone.net is an active site with almost 50K visitors a month (visitor stats by Compete.com) Another big sale on NameJet.com was buyside.com for $9,088. Buy side is a term used in the investment community, for more info on it click here. Also of note was, well,  note.net, ... read more ...
 
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WIPO to Offer Fast Track UDRP Without ICANN Approval? - WIPO plans to make fast-track UDRP on its own. Managing Intellectual Property published an article today saying World Intellectual Property Organization will offer a fast-track UDRP starting next year. No, this is not the proposed “Uniform Rapid Suspension”. And, according to the article, WIPO says it can introduce this “Fast Track” without any interaction from ICANN. How can WIPO do this? It plans to make changes to its supplemental UDRP rules. These are ... read more ...
 
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DNW Giving Away 100 Bido Credits Today - Visit Bido today to get your share of 100 Bido credits. I’m sponsoring Bido.com today and giving away 100 free Bido credits. Here are the details: About Bido credits: When you submit a domain name to Bido, it needs to receive enough votes from the Bido community before it goes to auction. A credit lets you skip the voting and send your domain name directly to auction. They can also be used to submit domains with reserves. How to win: Join me in the lobby of the ... read more ...
 
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HomeAway.com Evicted in Domain Dispute - Vacation rental directory loses domain name dispute. HomeAway.com, Inc. has lost its domain dispute for HomeAwayFromHome.com against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Name Administration was defended by domain attorney John Berryhill. Name Administration bought the domain name for $1,400 in an expired domain name auction in 2005. HomeAway.com acquired the Home Away From Home trademark from another company in 2007. The arbitration panel at National Arbitration ... read more ...
Sun 1st November 2009
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The TRAFFIC NY Show Where Dreams Came True - On a personal note, I want to thank everyone in the domainer community for honoring me with the Domainer of the Year and the Domain Hall of Fame Awards. I’m quite humbled by your support and greatly appreciate the honor.  I was actually shocked to win, so surprised that I could barely put two words together, but at least I got to thank my Wife Judi who has been by my side for 22 years, and Adam Matuzich who has been on my other side for 8 years. My induction to the Domain Hall of Fame was made ... read more ...
 
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Jon Stewart Reluctantly Settles for .Net, Struggles with Comptroller - Two Daily Show clips related to domain names (Ok, so one’s a stretch). Last week on the Daily Show Jon Stewart discussed net neutrality. In the story, he also poked fun at domain names, saying he registered a .net because he couldn’t get the .com. He repeated it several times during the story. I can’t repeat the made up domain he mentions in the video, but he emphasized .net. “I was going to have that .com but it was already taken, so I got dot net.” Later ... read more ...