Monthly Archives: May 2010

Wed 12th May 2010
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Tucows’ OpenSRS Grows 9% Year-Over-Year - Domain name registrar reports first quarter earnings. Tucows (AMEX:TCX) reported first quarter earnings after the bell today and disclosed that its OpenSRS business grew 9% year-over-year in both transactions and revenue. OpenSRS includes the company’s domain registration business as well as e-mail services. The company hit a milestone of 10 million domains under management at the end of the quarter. Net income for Q1 was $0.6 million, but that was helped by ... read more ...
 
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You Should Go to TRAFFIC and You Should Register Today - Get a conference pass before the price increases tomorrow. I don’t always go around endorsing conferences. But if you’ve never been to a conference or if you’re on the fence about attending the Vancouver TRAFFIC conference next month, here’s my message: do it. But you should register today to take advantage of the $395 conference pass (the price goes up $200 tomorrow). This may be the least expensive domain conference you’ll ever attend if you’re in ... read more ...
 
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.Arab: “Sorry We’re Late, Please Change a Rules” - Another group asks for special consideration in new gTLD process. Now that three versions of the Draft Applicant Guidebook for new top level domain names have been released, a group backing .arab is asking ICANN to make special accommodations for it. In a letter dated May 4, International Telecommunication Union informs ICANN that it has been appointed by the League of Arab States (LAS) to help establish the .arab TLD and corresponding IDN gTLD. The letter asks ... read more ...
 
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Are Expired Domain Companies Selling You Out? - adam you really havent much of a clue…heres one example? eport: #439486 Report: SnapNames, Media Web Plus, Oversee.net, Moniker, Kjel Holmberg, Protondomains, Nidal Elkadri Reported By: (Brooklyn New York) Snapnames, Media Web Plus, Oversee.net, Moniker, Kjel Holmberg, Protondomains, And DirectISnapNames, Nidal Elkadri – Scam Company Shady Registrar Partners – Protondomains Media Web Plus Portland Oregon … 1 Author 0 Consumer 0 Employee Respond to this report! What’s ... read more ...
Tue 11th May 2010
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.ME Auction Closes On SnapNames Today: Over $46K In Bids - The .Me registry auction closes today on SnapNames.com at 3:15pm EST, and with 5 hours to go there is already over $46,000 in bids. All but 3 domain names, have bids on them although not all of the  domains with bids have met reserve. Click.Me is currently the highest priced domain at $3,200 followed closely by See.Me at $3,100 As of 10:15am EST, here is a complete list of the domains in the auction with the current high bids. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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11% of .Net Domains Aren’t Registered in .Com - This and other useful stats from HosterStats.com A few months ago I was introduced to HosterStats.com, a web site with a wealth of domain name data. The statistic in the headline of this post is somewhat surprising, but you’ll find it right here in HosterStats’ cross domain comparison. Over 1.4 million domain names that are registered in .net aren’t registered in .com. Over 20% of domains registered in .org aren’t registered in .com. Think about all the ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Files Trademarks, Tips Its Hand - Trademarks might show what domain name registrar is up to. GoDaddy has filed a number of trademarks in the past couple months — some of which may foreshadow new services from the company. First, the company filed a pair of trademark applications for its new slogan “Domains, websites, and everything* in between”. The company started using the new slogan back in March according to the applications. A few days later it filed an application for the graphic version ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Fights for Facebook.me Domain Name - Facebook files for arbitration to get Facebook.me domain name. Facebook has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name Facebook.me. The domain name is currently registered to a United Arab Emirates man. .Me is technically the country code domain name for Montenegro, but has been commercialized to be a personalized “me” domain name. This isn’t the first country code domain name the social networking behemoth has ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Sells BusinessTube.com for $25,000 - Registrar sells another five figure domain name through Go Daddy Auctions. GoDaddy has sold the domain name BusinessTube.com through its Go Daddy Auctions (aka TDNAM) platform for $25,000. The domain name was registered back in 2006 and just purchased by a California man. A visit to BusinessTube.com shows a logo with a message that the site will be going online this summer. Here are some other sales Go Daddy made in the past two weeks: PianoPlace.com $9,500 GarageBuilders.com ... read more ...
Mon 10th May 2010
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Quick Poll: Which Category Killer Domain Will Sell At DomainFest? - On Thursday  Moniker/SnapNames  will be holding a Live auction from the DomainFest show in Ft. Lauderdale. There is no doubt that they have lined up some catagory killer domains, so we thought we would take a quick poll for a few days letting you pick out the domain you think is most likely to sell out of this group. You can vote on the poll on the right and leave any comments below. The price stated in the poll is the low range of the reserve range. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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One Of The Best Set Of Law Domains To Hit The Markets Sold This Weekend On Sedo.com For $200K - One of the best group of law/legal related domains I’ve seen in recent years sold this weekend at Sedo.com without any fanfare or any special marketing. bankruptcylawyers.com trademarklawyer.com immigrationattorney.com criminalattorneys.com duilawyers.com taxattorneys.com bankruptcylawyers.net All the domains are owned by webdolphins.com. BankruptcyLawyers.com let the pack at $77K. DuiAttorneys.com came in at $55K TaxAttorneys.com sold for $20K Criminalattorneys.com sold for $16,500 ImmigrationAttorney.com ... read more ...
 
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The Top 1,000 Baby Names For 2009 Just Published, Every .com Is Taken - The Social Security Administration publishes an annual list of the 1,000 most popular baby names for boys and girls and just released its list for 2009. It may not surprise you to learn that every matching .com for each of the 1,000 most popular boys and 1,000 most popular girls is taken. The most recently registered domain, by creation date was Jazlynn.com, which has a creation date of March 10, 2010. Interesting to note that out of the 2,000 domains, only 52 have a creation date after 1/1/2005 ... read more ...
 
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Where to Get Best Prices for .Co Sunrise and Landrush Domain Names - Here’s a guide to getting .co at the lowest price. I have a feeling .co is going to be hot. It will have one of the best country code “relaunches” we’ve ever seen. .CO Internet has undertaken one of the most impressive “new TLD” pre-marketing campaigns that I can think of, and the buzz is mounting. I’ve had several non-domainer friends email me inquiring about the domain. The global sunrise period for trademark holders is going on until June 10, followed ... read more ...
 
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Let’s Bring Some Domain Apps to Android - Android rocks. Let’s bring some domain apps to it. At least one research firm is saying that the Android mobile operating system passed the iPhone in sales this past quarter. This really shouldn’t come as any surprise. We’re repeating history. Apple brings out a product but tightly controls distribution (ATT only) and what software can be used on the product (ask anyone who has had their app rejected). Android, on the other hand, is available on a number ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Vancouver Schedule Posted with $395 Admission - Details for Vancouver conference are posted, but is the price a typo? [Update: looks like I scooped Latona by a few minutes.] The Targeted TRAFFIC web site has been updated with the preliminary agenda for next month’s conference in Vancouver. There’s a nice surprise on the registration page for the web site — $395 admission. A typo? $395 would be a huge discount to normal pricing for TRAFFIC shows. But if you click through, you can indeed sign up for a ... read more ...
 
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AOL Buys Advisibility.com Domain Name — For What? - Media giant buys domain name for a grand. Last week AOL bought the domain name Advisibility.com for $1,000. I did some searching to see what AOL might be up to on the domain name but came up empty. A logical answer is something related to online advertising — Ad Visibility. As we all know by now, AOL owns Advertising.com (and claims to have rights to many variants of the word “Advertising”). Could AdVisibility.com be a new product for this group? We’ll ... read more ...
Sun 9th May 2010
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HappyMothersDay.com: Did It Just Sell? - Wishing all Mothers a wonderful and well deserved very special  day. On the domaining front, I couldn’t help but notice that the domain HappyMothersDay.com is owned by BuyDomains.com. The domain goes to a landing page which has a big link on the top that the domain is for sale, but when you click the link it goes to a page saying the domain is not for sale. So did the domain just sell? The whois record still shows Buydomain as the owner and says the domain is for sale, therefore its either a pending ... read more ...
 
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My 12 Picks for Thursday’s DOMAINfest Auction - Here are a dozen domains worth watching at Thursday’s domain auction. DomainSponsor’s first DOMAINfest Power Networking day is this Thursday in Fort Lauderdale. The day concludes with a live domain name auction featuring 120 domain names. Several of the domains in the auction are tied to Rob Monster’s Domain Strategies. Karate.com, a partnership between Domain Strategies and Live Current Media, is on the block for $500,000-$750,000. Wifi.com, an early partnership ... read more ...
Sat 8th May 2010
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Bob Parsons Interview “When You’re Born, You’ll Be Issued A Domain Name” - The Baltimore Sun just published an interview with Bob Parsons, CEO of Godaddy.com. The most interesting news from the interview: Godaddy.com now has 41 million domain names under management. The best question and answer from the Interview: “””Q: How important do you expect domain names will become? “”A: I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it’s going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business ... read more ...
Fri 7th May 2010
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Religious Group: Pray for Rod Beckstrom, Kill Porn Domain - Comment period for .xxx is getting out of control At first it was silly. Then it got annoying. Now it’s ridiculous. The comment period for what ICANN should do about an independent review board’s finding in favor of ICM Registry to operate .xxx has become a mockery. You can mostly thank conservative organizations for creating robo forms for their constituents to send mindless comments. If you see a comment like this: I support Option #3 of the March 26, 2010 ... read more ...
 
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Register.com IDN Sale Nets $5k in an Hour - IDN Newsletter gets strong start with Register.com domains. Register.com recently did a deal with IDN Newsletter to sell its portfolio of company-owned internationalized domains names. IDN Newsletter is similar to other domain sales newsletters except, well, it only includes IDNs. IDN Newsletter informs us that it sold over $5,000 worth of Register.com’s IDN names today within the first hour of its Register.com mailing. Top sales include: 整体.com $2,000 Body ... read more ...
 
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Another UDRP Panelist Considers Domain Valuation in Decision - UDRP panelists consider asking prices in decisions. In a highly publicized domain dispute for Hayward.com, a UDRP panelist decided he was an expert at domain valuation and that the price the domain owner wanted for the domain was too high for a city .com., indicating that he must have been targeting the complainant. Now we have another case where a panelist uses the respondent’s asking price in considering the case. Thankfully, the panelist still denied the transfer. In ... read more ...
 
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IDN Top Level Domain Names in a Nutshell - A simple primer to IDN top level domains, courtesy of ICANN. One of the reasons many people are “turned off” by internationalized domain names is that they don’t understand how they work. Admittedly, much of the information about IDNs to date has been described in a technical matter, turning people off even more. So I was delighted to see a blog post from ICANN’s Tina Dam titled “IDN Usability“. I highly recommend reading it, as is clearly explains IDN ... read more ...
Thu 6th May 2010
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Slots.Com Auction Is Live & With 2 Bids At $4 Million Dollars - The auction for Slots.com is live on SnapNames.com and already has 2 bids with a high bid of $4 Million Dollars. The reserve on this domain name is listed on the site as north of $5 Million. The auction ends in 6 days. Should be interesting and you still have time to vote on the poll on the right Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Sells Another $1.3 Million in Domain Names - Marchex beats analyst expectations for Q1 and sells more domain names. Local marketing company Marchex sold $1.3 million worth of non-strategic domain names during the first quarter of 2010. This is in line with previous quarters. In an earnings press release, the company continued to note that “There is still significant demand for high quality domains and Marchex believes that will remain the case for the foreseeable future”. Marchex is known for only responding ... read more ...