Monthly Archives: March 2010

Mon 22nd March 2010
Written by The Domains in EN
Sendori Receives 2 Patents that Allows Domain Owners Of “Unused Domain” To Lease Their Domains To Bidding Advertisers - Sendori a announced today that is has been granted approval for two U.S. patents relating to its core web navigation redirect technology. Sendori’s patent applications to “an electronic marketplace which allows owners of unused domain names to lease their domains to bidding advertisers”. Advertisers receive visitors redirected from unused domains which match their keywords. “This creates an electronic marketplace where owners of Internet domain names can have multiple parties compete ... read more ...
 
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New Report: 1 NAF Panelist Out Of 141, Was Assigned To 10% of a Cases: What Is Going On? - A new study by DNattorney.com suggests that a handful of domain name arbitrators are appointed to decide a disproportionate amount of cases. The National Arbitration Forum, which is accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a Dispute Resolution Provider. The NAF has administered approximately 10,000 such cases since 1999. The NAF has about 141 Panelists on its roster. DNAttorney, after examining case-related data obtained directly from the National Arbitration ... read more ...
 
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Don’t Plan On Using .Co To Infringe On Trademarks: Registry Is First To Adopt Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) On Rollout. - .CO Internet,  the company that is operating the .CO (Colombia) registry, announced that they will be the first registry to adopt the IRT IP clearinghouse and Global protected markets list and Uniform Rapid Suspension, when the registry rolls out the extension. The IP clearinghouse  is a designated third party which assist brand owners by reviewing their trademarks to ensure that they meet the requirements of the ‘.co’ sunrise policy (at no additional costs). The Globally Protected Marks List ... read more ...
 
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Register.com: Baidu Can’t Sue Us for Negligence. Its In Our Contract. - Domain name registrar argues that you can’t sue it for negligence because it’s in the TOS. What happens if you register a domain name at Register.com and then Register.com screws up? Tough luck. That’s the message the company is sending by asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit Baidu brought against it for handing over the keys to its account to a criminal. In a motion to dismiss (pdf), Register.com’s representatives write: Asserting a laundry list of inflammatory ... read more ...
 
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Allegedly Stolen Domain Names Resold on Flippa - Thief resold domain names on Flippa to unsuspecting domain buyer. A National Arbitration Forum panel has refused to hand over the domain names Recent.net, Than.net, and They.net in a UDRP decision. I wrote about the case earlier this month, suggesting that the UDRP dispute must be over stolen domain names. UDRP is sometimes used to regain control of stolen domain names, but the complainant needs to be able to show trademark rights to the domain names. In this ... read more ...
 
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Sex.co Headed to Auction Block in May - Sex.co domain name to be auctioned off in May. That’s not a typo in the headline. Sex.com may be off the auction block, but the owner of the Colombian ccTLD Sex.co hopes to cash in this May. Mobile Entertainment Group of Colombia plans to auction off the domain name at Sedo. I talked to Mobile Entertainment Group founder Jan Leijnse by phone today. He explained that he’s not sure how much traffic the domain name gets as it was parked at Sedo only recently. You ... read more ...
 
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Study Shows Million Dollar Domain Arbitrators and UDRP Bias - Study sheds light on potentially biased appointment of UDRP arbitrators. For the past few weeks I’ve been working with an outside party to analyze the distribution of WIPO cases amongst arbitrators. Now attorney Zak Muscovitch has beaten me to it with National Arbitration Forum data. For those that follow NAF cases, you won’t be surprised to learn what Muscovitch discovered. But it’s still startling. One controversial panelist has heard about 10% of all cases: ... read more ...
 
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Olympic Committee Continues to Pester ICANN for Special Status - IOC to ICANN: just a friendly reminder that we’re important. The International Olympic Committee has sent another letter to ICANN requesting that it be given “holier-than-thou” trademark rights and special protections for the launch of new top level domain names. As you may recall, in April 2009 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sent a letter to ICANN stating that its trademarks receive special international protection, and that it was worried it would ... read more ...
 
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Domain Madness 2 Auction Ends Tuesday - Second annual “Domain Madness” auction runs through Tuesday. Domain Consultant’s Domain Madness 2 auction ends Tuesday afternoon. Live online bidding is available at DomainMadness2.com. Domain Consultant is giving away a free iPad to one lucky person who registers for the auction (no bidding is necessary). The quality of domains in the auction this year is substantially better than last year’s, with some uber-premium domain names to choose from. But you’ll ... read more ...
 
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.Africa Can Learn from .Asia, and WHOIS Behind Adrenaline TLD? - Will a continent TLD work, and the mystery of Adrenaline TLD. The number of firms coming out from the woodwork with plans to launch new TLDs is increasing. Some of these groups have been out in the open for a while but are just now revving up the PR machine. First, let’s take a look at .Africa. It certainly got some more visibility during ICANN’s meeting in Kenya. But haven’t we been here before? .Asia has been frequently dismissed as not making any sense. ... read more ...
Sun 21st March 2010
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Adrenaline TLD Announces Plans To Spend $1M+ To Get 5 New gTLD’s: .Ski, .Bike, .Surf, .Board and .Skate - You probably have never heard of Adrenaline TLD LLC, however the company is very public about their plans to go after 5 new gTLD’s. At the announced ICANN fee of $185K per, that almost $1M not counting all other fees and costs of becoming a registry for 5 gTLD’s. The company announced that they are going to apply for .Ski, .Bike, .Surf, .Board and .Skate. The company plans on having “250,000 domain names registered in the first year of operation across the five proposed extensions.” “As ... read more ...
 
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Domena .ru – chcesz się zarejestrować? Pokaż paszport - Rosja do tej pory była internetowym rajem dla botnetów, witryn hakerskich i wszelkiej maści internetowej ekstremy. Odpowiedzialne za administrowanie narodową domeną .ru, Centrum Koordynacji (www.ccTLD.ru) będzie wkrótce wymagać od osób fizycznych okazania kopii paszportu, natomiast w przypadku firm, kopii dokumentów potwierdzających prowadzenie działalności gospodarczej. Celem ... read more ...
 
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Altria Gets a Hit with Marijuana Domain Name Dispute - Tobacco company scores a hit with marijuana domains. In December I wrote about how Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, had filed a complaint to get the domain names AltriaCannabis.com and AltriaMarijuana.com. The company won the case at World Intellectual Property Forum against Daniel Cheng of Washington, D.C., and the domain names should be transferred to Altria’s possession shortly. As I noted in the earlier article, the domain names each had web sites ... read more ...
Sat 20th March 2010
Written by The Domains in EN
Former Oversee Employees and Executive Starts SecondPorch.com & Get $1M In Funding - Several former Oversee employees, including its Co-founder are involved in a startup which announced they secured $1,000,000 in funding this week. The site SecondPorch.com, offers vacation homeowners an easier way to generate and manage high-value rental inquiries. Investors include the former CO-founder of Oversee.net, Fred Hsu and the Oregon Angel Fund. Another former Snapnames employee, Kerry Kelly is a Co-founder of the company along with CEO Brent Hieggelke. Blake Biesecker formerly of SnapNames ... read more ...
 
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Verizon Sues DirectNIC for Parking Expired Domain Names - Suit claims registrar parked trademarked domain names for the period between expiration and deletion. Verizon has a filed a lawsuit (pdf) against domain name registrar DirectNIC and related companies, alleging that the defendants parked expired domain names infringing on Verizon’s trademarks in the period between expiration and deletion. The lawsuit also names directors of DirectNIC and related companies as defendants, and uses a gripe site and UDRP decisions as ... read more ...
Fri 19th March 2010
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D.TV & P.TV: How Did They Get Registered At Dynadot Last Night For Less Than $22 - Lost in the .TV talk today are two of the best possible .tv domains, single letter .tv domains that appearently got registered yesterday. Neither of these domains were on the list of premium .TV domains released by Enom last night. The domains, D.tv and P.tv are showing as being registered yesterday. The domains were registered by the same lucky person located in China using the registrar Dynadot. Sure is strange how these domain got registered outside of Enom and what looks like to be for just the ... read more ...
 
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$5.5 Million In .TV Domains Up For Grabs Today, Winners & Losers - As you know by now the .TV registry released over 22,000 previously reserved domains, last night just after midnight. Here are some early observations: Of the 16 highest price domains, 7 of them were trademarked terms: pdf.tv 4630 mac.tv 4500 bbc.tv 4310 ibm.tv 3750 gmc.tv 3560 nfl.tv 3500 dlp.tv 3440 bbc.tv is going to be trouble. same for nfl.tv and dlp.tv. Regardless of use I’m not sure any of these will hold up against actions which are sure to follow. The best domains in my opinion got registered ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
The Six Flags Approach to Domain Selling - Turn that small purchase into a bigger one. Yesterday I took my three-year-old daughter to Six Flags in San Antonio. She loves amusement rides, and probably can handle more thrill rides than most adults. There are a few things Six Flags does well, including cross sells and up sells. Using behavioral economics, Six Flags presents you with a number of “no-brainer” upgrades. -Buying a one day ticket for $35? Get a season pass for only $15 more. -Getting that season ... read more ...
 
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Mashable Duped by Fake News - Popular blog repeats bogus information without fact checking. Yesterday DomainGang, a sometimes satire/sometimes not domain web site, wrote a piece titled “BullWhip to Fight PETA over ownership of Sex.com!” It was based on real “news”, that PETA sent out a press release asking Sex.com’s creditors to give it the domain name so it could help get its message out. Of course PETA was joking and doing it for the publicity. But the story also mentioned a meat ... read more ...
 
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How to Buy Expired Domains Before they Get Auctioned - Do a little leg work and you can nab expiring domains for a fraction of the price. Competition for top expired domain names on NameJet and SnapNames is fierce, and auction prices go sky high. What if there was a way to usurp the auction process and buy premium expired domains at fixed prices? There is. It takes a little work, but your smarter domainer friends are already doing it. When a domain name expires, it gets added to the queue at partner expired domain ... read more ...
Thu 18th March 2010
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Kentucky Supreme Court Reverses The Appeals Court On The 141 Seized Domains - The Kentucky Supreme Court today reversed the Kentucky Appeals court’s decision that tossed out the seizure order issued on 141 gambling domain names. The 17 page ruling by the Supreme Court today (pdf) was really on a technical issue, that none of the parties that brought the suit against the Commonwealth had “standing”. Standing is a legal term that means in very simple terms the only one that can object to a law or join a suit are the parties effected by the law or suit. While non-parties ... read more ...
 
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ScreenSavers.com Sells For $335K - The domain name ScreenSavers.com sold for $335,000 as part of the SnapNames.com March showcase auction although the sale occurred hours after the auction closed with no bidders. John Mauriello of Moniker,  in a comment to our post for the results of this auction, let us know that this domain sold just hours after the auction closed. The reserve range was stated as between $250K-$500K so the Seller may have come off his initial reserve to get this deal done. The official results for this auction ... read more ...
 
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CADNA Heading To Congress To Get Laws Changed - From the Fairwinds blog today: “”CADNA has refocused its efforts on working with members of Congress on these issues and working more diligently toward developing legislation to help resolve the problems. Long term solutions to the Internet’s systemic problems that are within ICANN’s control are unlikely to emerge from within the ICANN community, but rather from the governments and its agencies who are ultimately responsible for defending the public interest.”” “Now more than ... read more ...
 
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No Sex.com Sale: we Hate To Tell You we Told You So, But we Did - As DomainNameWire.com reported tonight the auction of Sex.com has been postponed due to the filing of bankruptcy by the debtor Escom, LLC. At the root of the issue is going to be the amount owned by the debtor vs. the current value of the asset. It’s already public knowledge that payments to Domain Capital are at least a  year behind,  which at their standard 15% interest rate can really add up quickly especially adding in attorney’s fees and costs. I hate to say I told you so,  but I did ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Drops Prices on Premium .TV Domain Names - Cost to register premium .tv domains just dropped — including renewal fees. Since its beginning, .TV’s commercialization was anything but a hit with domain investors. With steep, registry-set prices for premium domain names, the potential for investment returns was essentially wiped out by the registry. Not to mention that you had to renew at premium prices each year. I just received an email from eNom — a partner of VeriSign’s with regards to .tv — saying ... read more ...