Monthly Archives: February 2010

Tue 2nd February 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
What’s A Worse Use: A Parked Page Or A Spoofed Site? Guess Which One WIPO Picked? - In a WIPO decision today a sole panelist denied a trademark holders complaint to transfer a domain that matched its trademark , even through the domain was used to spoof the official site of the trademark holder with the same look and feel of the trademark’s holders page. The domain in question is Validas.com The trademark did not exist when the domain was registered but the domain was spoofing the trademark holders official site at myvalidas.com. The panel found that the domain owner: “Used ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Can A Company Selling PPC Ads Eliminate Liability For Click Fraud By Just Saying So? - In an interesting case which may have a long term impact on online advertising, Facebook filed a motion to dismiss in a case where several advertisers sued Facebook for click fraud last year. Facebook argues that the case should be dismissed because its contract with Advertisers states that advertisers have to pay for all clicks, regardless of whether they are valid or not. According to Facebook in its motion to dismiss “The contract does not require Facebook to police its website for all instances ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How Network Solutions Notifies Customers about Expiring Domain Names - Registrar explains its expiration notification policy. A lot of times domain name registrars get the blame when their customers forget to renew domain names. “I didn’t get the notice” is a common line. Of course, you can easily say the opposite. Really, how many emails does GoDaddy need to send me about my expiring domain names? It may seem like they trip all over themselves to get you to renew domain names. And that’s exactly the point. In the wake South ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Designer.co.uk Domain Name Sells for $120,000 - UK domain name leads sales chart. Sedo has brokered the sale of the domain name Designer.co.uk for 76,300 GBP, or about $120,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The second highest sale for the week was Lundi.fr for 50,000 EUR, or about $70,000 USD at current exchange rates. Lundi means Monday in French. A couple other notable sales include ISDB.com, a four letter domain that sold for $53,500, and GolfZone.com, which took in $50,000 — a nice sale for a brandable ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Answers to 3 Questions about a SnapNames Bidding Scandal - Answers to three commonly asked questions about the ‘halvarez’ scandal. The topic commonly known as ‘halvarez’ — the insider bidding scandal at SnapNames — wasn’t a major topic at DOMAINfest. I didn’t expect it to be, either. Within days of the scandal breaking I talked to several big SnapNames customers. They were disappointed about what happened, but also understanding. Most had accepted SnapNames’ compensation offer and moved on. But a number ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Dynadot Offers VeriSign’s Expired Domain Data Treasure Trove - Dynadot extends data use to customers. Last year VeriSign quietly started offering its Internet Profile Service (IPS) to domain name registrars. The service provides traffic data on pending delete domain names. Since VeriSign runs the DNS for .net and .com, it has access to data that most other sources don’t have. Now domain name registrars are beginning to make the same data available to their customers. One of the first is Dynadot, which offers IPS to bulk ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
How to Diagnose Domainer ADHD - by Peter Askew I’ve got it. And darn near every domainer I’ve met has some form of it. Good ole ADHD. Now, I ain’t horribly afflicted by it. But I can easily say that without it, I woulda failed at domaining 3-6 months in. Consider these traits: “Be easily distracted…frequently switch from one activity to another” Yup, that’s me. Simply replace the word ‘activity’ above with ‘domain name’. “Have difficulty focusing on one thing” Bingo. ... read more ...
Mon 1st February 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
CADNA Reports On Its Meeting In Support Of The Utah Cybersquatting Bill - While we were meeting and partying at Domainfest, The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), held a meeting on Friday in Washigton, featuring Keynote speaker,  Utah State Senate Stephen Urquhart who presented his “Utah E-Commerce Integrity Act“, “”which is considered a harbinger for changes to the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA).”” The Utah E-Commerce Integrity Act will be brought before Senator Urquhart’s committee tomorrow. “The Utah E-Commerce Integrity ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Want A Good .MX Domain? You Should Check Out Bido.com Today - At both the Ricklatona.com auction at TRAFFIC and the DomainFest live domain name auction last week, several .mx domains sold for high four to mid four figures. I noted that today on Bido.com there are quite a few one word, .mx (country code for Mexico) domains, many of which start at $28 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
New Software Makes it Easier to File UDRPs - Alias Encore releases software tool making it easy to construct UDRP cases. Typosquatting domain recovery company Alias Encore has opened a beta for its new Domain Enforcement and Management System. The system helps companies find out which of their domain names are being typosquatted, prioritize enforcement action, and even use a simple tool to create and file UDRP cases. As a first step, the system allows brand owners to find typos of their domain names, and then ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Estibot 2.0 Makes Finding and Contacting End Users Easy - End user lead generator is a game changer. End-users, end-users, blah, blah, blah. I get so tired of people talking about selling to end users, but expecting the domain exchanges to do all of the hard work for them. Until Estibot 2.0, contacting end users about buying your domain names was a lot of work. But the service has taken the grunt work out of the process, making it effortless to find potential buyers for your domains. Here’s how it works. For any given ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Estibot 2.0 is a Domainer’s Dream - Estibot 2.0 public beta offers better valuation algorithms and new tools. Frequent readers of Domain Name Wire know that I’m not always a fan of automated appraisals. It’s not the appraisals themselves that I dislike; it’s how domainers misuse the numbers. The best part of automated appraisals is less the final number, and more the data used to get to that final number. Consider the time I wrote about a big domain sale, and a reader promptly emailed me to ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Roche Loses Valium Domain Case - Case recognizes limitations of UDRP. F. Hoffmann-La Roche has lost a domain name dispute for the domain name ValiumNoPrescription.biz in a case that recognizes important limits of the Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution Process (UDRP). Roche filed more domain disputes under UDRP last year than any other company, and it usually wins without contest. But in this case, even though Valium is a trademark of Roche, UDRP panelist Dan Hunter noted that there’s no way ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Top 5 Domain Name Wire Stories of Jan 2010 - A look back at the month in domaining. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire from January, ranked in order of traffic. Google’s Brilliant Move: Not Buying NexusOne.com Domain Name – Why it makes sense that Google didn’t buy NexusOne.com prior to launching the “Google phone”. The Biggest Loser: Taco Bell Loses Case for DriveThroughDiet.com Domain – Taco Bell tries to get domain name for “correct” spelling of Drive Thru Diet. Fails. Why ... read more ...