Monthly Archives: January 2010

Mon 11th January 2010
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Survey Focus: Which Domain Sales Company is Best? - Which company is best for selling domains? When it comes to selling domain names, everyone has a different opinion on which sales company is best. On the Annual Domain Name Wire Survey, we ask two questions regarding domain name sales companies: Which ONLINE domain sales venue do you think is best? – this question is strictly limited to online sales sites. Which company is most innovative when it comes to selling domains in the aftermarket? – for this question, ... read more ...
 
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Willie Mays Wants His (Domain) Name Back - Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays asks arbitrator to get domain name WillieMays.com. Major League Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays has filed for arbitration with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to get the domain name WillieMays.com. The case was posted to WIPO’s web site this morning. The “Say Hey Kid” played for the New York and San Francisco Giants before concluding his career with the New York Mets. The domain name is currently registered to “Global ... read more ...
 
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DNW Radio: It’s Domainer Mardi Gras Time - Michael Ward discusses Domainer Mardi Gras 2010. One of the most talked-about domain name shows from last year kicks off one month from today in New Orleans – Domainer Mardi Gras 2010. Whether you’ve been to Mardi Gras or not, this is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy a domain conference and some of the most fun you can have in a weekend. I caught up with Domainer Mardi Gras executive director Michael Ward to get the scoop on this year’s show. In this show, ... read more ...
 
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Republicans Ready to Slam Congressional Dems with New Web Sites - NRCC registers dozens of domain names including Democratic foes. That National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) appears to be gearing up to slam House democrats with a slew of new domain name registrations. The domain names include Democrat congressmen followed by “facts.com”. On Friday, NRCC registered about 30 domain names, such as ZackSpaceFacts.com (Ohio), HeinrichFacts.com (Martin Heinrich, New Mexico), and BillFosterFacts.com (Illionois). The ... read more ...
Sun 10th January 2010
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Mozy Backs Up Domain Names with WIPO Win - Online backup service wins one domain — with another case pending. Online backup service Mozy, a Decho service owned by EMC, has picked up the domain name Mozy.nl through arbitration at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). .Nl is the country code for the Netherlands. In its complaint, Mozy alleged that the domain’s owner, another online backup service called BackUpsOnline.nl, admitted to receiving leads through the domain name and offered to sell ... read more ...
Sat 9th January 2010
Written by The Domains in EN
Sears Launches Sites Using These Beauties: MarketplaceAtSears.com; TVMatchMaker.com and CameraMatchMaker.com - Sears launched a couple of shopping comparison sites this week at CES, TVMatchMaker.com and CameraMatchMaker.com According to the company, these sites will help customers find their perfect TV or camera by asking them a series of compatibility questions to find their perfect match. TvMatchMaker.com users interactively answer questions about their home and viewing habits. CameraMatchMaker.com users answer questions about the types of pictures they shoot. The company also announced this week that it ... read more ...
Fri 8th January 2010
Written by The Domains in EN
The Hottest Tech Trend From The CES Show Is Slates: Wait Until You See What High Tech Company Owns The Domain - Out of the CES show this week the hottest tech items seems to be a tablet computer which is generally being referred to not only by the media but by the manufactures as “Slates”, in anticipation of Apple’s expected introduction of the iSlate latter this month. cnet.com is reporting that “Slate Mania grips PC Makers” at the CES show. So which high tech company owns the potential category killer domain slates.com? Well it turns out if owned by a very low tech company, Levi Strauss the jeans ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Settles The AA Trademark Case On The Sale Of Keywords To Competitors - According to MediaPost.com, Yahoo has settled a lawsuit bought by American Airlines we reported about in October 2008, for selling PPC advertising to competitors which included one of AA trademarks. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Before settling the American Airlines lawsuit, Yahoo unsuccessfully attempted to have the matter heard in California. Yahoo argued that the airline, which is also an advertiser, was bound by its search marketing contract to litigate all matters with Yahoo ... read more ...
 
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The Family Of The Author Of Blade Runner Is Not Happy With Google’s Choice Of Nexus One - The family of the the Author of the sci-fi novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” that later became the sci-fi classic Blade Runner says that Google lifted the name of their new smart phone, Nexus One from the book. The book written by Philip K. Dick, was about a private detective tracking down a rogue android, a Nexus 6 model. “Google takes first and then deals with the fallout later,” Isa Dick Hackett, Dick’s daughter, told Wired.com. The family says the use is a trademark violation, ... read more ...
 
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I Just Signed Off & Accepted The Snapnames Settlement Agreement - Now that the new year has rolled around, I went ahead today and signed the amended Snapnames.com settlement agreement arising out of the Halvarez bidding scandal. Once I determined based on my own records that all amounts were credited to me for auctions in which Halvarez finished second and once the release was amended to limit it to the activity under the bidder account of  Halvarez I made up my mind that I was going to accept my mid five figure settlement and move on. I wanted to wait until the ... read more ...
 
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Survey Focus: Who Has a Most Influence on Domain Industry? - Survey says… The question “Which person has the most influence on the domain industry?” has been asked on the Annual Domain Name Wire Survey for the past two years, making its return again this year. Like last year, it’s an open response question, meaning you can write in which ever person you believe fits the bill. Of course, to everyone the definition of “most influence” means something different, which is fine. For that reason, I’m not going to ... read more ...
 
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These UK Students Must Have a Big Budget to Buy Domain Names - New domain purchase inquiry “form letter” making the rounds. I got a suspicious domain name inquiry yesterday. It was suspicious for two reasons: 1. Whenever someone vaguely explains their reason for buying generic domain names, that’s a red flag. 2. I received an email from another domainer at the same time, who had received the same email. It purports to be from some students/”small time entrepreneurs” in the UK looking to buy domain names. I’m not ... read more ...
 
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Hover Email Service Hit by Phishing Attack - Domain registrar’s personalized email service is target of phishers. Hover Personalized Email, a service from Tucows, is reporting that its members are receiving phishing emails. The services lets you sign up for a personalized email address using one of Tucows’ 40,000 last name domain names, which it obtained when it acquired NetIdentity. For example, people with the last name Smith can get firstname@smith.net. Here’s an example of the phishing email: From: ... read more ...
 
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Survey Focus: Which Domain Name Forum is Best? - Cast your vote for the best domain name forum. For many years, there have been two major domain forums, DNForum and NamePros. Behind that were a number of smaller forums. While that remains true, some shakeup is in progress. DomainState, a smaller forum, has been put on the auction block. Hopefully DomainState, which has a very different audience and feel than the larger forums, sticks around. It seems that bidding interest is high. But which domain forum is ... read more ...
Thu 7th January 2010
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France: We Should Start Taxing Internet Advertising Revenue At Google, Yahoo & Facebook - The culture ministry of France said today that France should start taxing Internet advertising revenue at Google, Yahoo, Facebook Microsoft and AOL. According to the Ministry, funds raised from the levy could raise up to 20 million euros ($29 million) a year. The effort would aim to put an end to “the endless enrichment without payback,” Jacques Toubon, one of the authors of the report, The recommended tax would be imposed on the ad revenue of companies, based on the online use of their services ... read more ...
 
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Google Takes Up $5 Million Dollars Of Ad Space A DAY To Promote Nexus One - Today Google began running an ad on its home page, right under the search box,  to promote its  Nexus One mobile phone. According to Gene Munster, research analyst at Piper Jaffray, the value of the homepage ad is between $4 million to $5 million  per DAY. We discussed the other day that Google inexcusably failed to secure the domain nexusone.com before announcing the product. According to Alexa that domain already ranks in the top 38,000 of all sites, which is a lot of traffic to lose out on ... read more ...
 
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The Newest Site To Sell Your Domains Launches Today: BestDomainsWebsite.com - A domainer has launched a new platform to sell your domains on. BestDomainsWebsite.com was launched today as joint business venture of Howard Neu, of T.R.A.F.F.I.C., and Danny Pryor, of Rodan Media Group. People or companies wishing to sell domains can set up a free account, then submit up to ten domain names per submission, to be listed for sale on the website. Domain names for sale are currently categorized into 20 groups and may expand as the sales platform grows. One of the unique features of ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Expanding in Iowa - Domain registrar expands footprint in Iowa. Domain name registrar GoDaddy is bulking up its customer service operations near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The new customer service facility should be running by this spring. The company is looking to hire 60 people in the next eight weeks, but the facility has 50,000 square feet and can accommodate 500 employees. Cedar Rapids already houses a number of GoDaddy employees in marketing, development, legal and business intelligence. ... read more ...
 
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Google’s Brilliant Move: Not Buying NexusOne.com Domain Name - By not buying NexusOne.com, Google reinforces the power of Google search over direct navigation. Over the past few days I’ve read numerous stories by my peers suggesting that Google messed up by not registering the NexusOne.com domain name prior to launching its new phone initiative. My initial reaction was the same. But I quickly changed my mind: not acquiring the domain name was actually a smart move. Brilliant. Hear me out. Let’s think about the company ... read more ...
 
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Off Topic: Hook’em Horns - Texas plays Alabama for the college football national title this evening. “Punk.” That’s what I recall thinking to myself when I saw him. It was January 4, 2006. I was at Scholz Garten, a bar just off the University of Texas campus. It was the big day, the day the Texas Longhorns took on USC for the football national title. There was a big stage where a local sports radio station was doing a remote, dozens of big screen TVs, and several local news crews ... read more ...
Wed 6th January 2010
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Wish You Could Buy Stock In FaceBook Or Twitter? You Can!! Meet SecondMarket.com - You ever wish you could buy shares of stock in one of those hot private tech companies like Twitter or Facebook? Well actually you can. A company SecondMarket.com, acts a a middleman for insiders of private companies that are looking to sell some of their shares before the companies go public. I inquired a few weeks ago about the availability of shares of Facebook.com and at the time they had 60,000 shares available at $31 per. Are there drawbacks? Sure. Several. To start, in most instances your ... read more ...
 
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Transamerica Dismisses Moniker from Lawsuit, Win for Domain Registrars - Oversee.net and related companies dropped from Transamerica lawsuit. Transamerica has dismissed Moniker, Oversee.net, Domain Systems, and Moniker Privacy Services LLC from its lawsuit over alleged trademark infringement. The parties filed a Joint Stipulation for Dismissal with prejudice on December 28, 2009. Moniker also withdrew its request for sanctions under Rule 11. This is a big win for domain name registrars. Since the beginning, Moniker claimed it was merely ... read more ...
 
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Heading to TRAFFIC or DOMAINfest? - Start networking now by posting which shows you’re going to. It’s hard to believe, but the 2010 domain conference schedule kicks off with TRAFFIC Las Vegas in just 15 days. TRAFFIC will run January 21-23 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest Global will follow the next week in Santa Monica January 26-28. Passes to both events are still available. (If you’re looking for a discounted pass to DOMAINfest, a Domain Name Wire reader is ... read more ...
 
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Champagne.us: Interesting Use of .US Domain Name - Champagne Bureau uses .us domain for Champagne petition call-to-action. An ad on the back of this week’s The New Yorker includes an interesting use of a .us domain name: Champagne.us. The ad is a call to action to sign a petition asking congress to crack down on companies labeling sparkling wine as “Champagne” when it isn’t from the Champagne region of France. There’s a legal loophole that allows American U.S. sparkling wine producers to label their wines ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Gets Patent for Domain Name Reseller and Affiliate Program - Domain name registrar picks up patent for domain name reseller programs. The USPTO has granted The Go Daddy Group, Inc, parent company of GoDaddy, a patent for “Turnkey reseller program for registering domain names”. The patent describes a system for both turnkey and API-based domain name reseller programs: A reseller program may be used to increase the number of Customer desired domain names that are registered by a Registrar. There are two main embodiments ... read more ...