Monthly Archives: July 2010

Wed 21st July 2010
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.Music Initiative Says It Will Use Trademarks to Block Competitors - Andrew, You are right. I do not consider myself an insider. There are many reasons why. I have felt a bit excluded in many instances from the policy making or participation in things such as the Business Constituency. I was advised to join then was rejected on the basis of running a registry, which I have not yet. Other initiatives are part of the ICANN Business constituency, so why was I not allowed to join. Same with the Vertical Integration group. If I was such an insider I would ... read more ...
Tue 20th July 2010
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Yahoo Profits Up But Revenue Falls Short Of Expectations & Stock Sinks - Yahoo Inc reported earnings after the market closed today for the second quarter ending June 30, 2010 (2Q). Yahoo said its revenue in 2Q rose to $1.60 billion, a 2% increase from the 2Q of 2009 Yahoo’s net revenue, however was $1.13 billion, below the average analyst expectation of $1.16 billion. Yahoo’s search business declined 8%year-over-year.  Analysts had been expecting search to be in the range of flat to down no more than 5%. Yahoo said net income in the second quarter rose to $213.3 ... read more ...
 
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195,000 .Co Registrations - Just got an email from the .CO registry, claiming almost 195,000 registrations have been processed through today (194,576 to be exact). This number is being updated on the registry site from time to time, and includes prior registrations as well as domains applied for during Sunrise and Landrush. Apparently there were 90,000 registrations in the first 15 minutes. This would make the .Co launch the most successful in many years. I will keep you updated with any new info Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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What If You Held A Domain Auction & No One Showed Up: What Happened To The .ME Geo Auction? - An auction of some really good Geo .Me domains concluded yesterday on NameJet.com You probably didn’t know about it. Don’t feel bad, your not alone. Personally I saw no press releases, blog coverage, or even one story on the auction. There was a small box of domains on NameJet.com’ home page about it, but there was no way to click on any link to find out about all the domains in the auction you could only do it one at a time and only for the highlighted domains. I was going to write about the ... read more ...
 
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It Started With A Chat At A Cocktail Party, Overstock Buys O.Co For $350K - Internet S.A.S., the company which is operating the registry for the .Co  ccTLD announced today that Overstock.com, a member of the USA Today Internet 50 Index, purchased the domain name O.CO from it for $350,000 We told you a big announcement of a record setting sale for a .CO was coming this week, and it didn’t take long. I can give you a little background on the sale. I had a conversation with a representative of OverStock at at a cocktail party which was an official event at the ICANN meeting ... read more ...
 
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Did Overstock.com Pay More for o.biz Than o.co? - Both purchases were big when you add it all up. e.biz was the highest selling one letter .biz domain name at $66,001, right? And at $350,000, Overstock.com paid a lot more for o.co than o.biz, right? Don’t jump to that conclusion. Overstock was awarded o.biz, which it currently uses as a b2b commerce store, through a request for proposal from .biz registry Neustar. Although the RFP didn’t require Overstock to pay much money directly to the registry, it did ... read more ...
 
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Forbes Explains How Tucows’ CEO Plays Video Games to Become a Better Leader - Forbes published an article yesterday about how video games can teach better leadership, and the article prominently features Tucows CEO Elliot Noss. The article starts off: Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, has spent the past five years training to become a better leader. How? By playing “World of Warcraft” for six to seven hours a week. “‘You have these events [in “World of Warcraft”] that are very leadership-driven,” Noss ... read more ...
Mon 19th July 2010
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NexusOne Is Dead & Gone & we Guess So Are The Domains - Google announced through its blog that it’s Nexus One phone has stopped production and Google will stop selling the Nexus One, saying that the next shipment of the phones will be the last. “This week we received our last shipment of Nexus One phones. Once we sell these devices, the Nexus One will no longer be available online from Google. Customer support will still be available for current Nexus One customers.” The Announcement of the introduction of the Nexus One phone caused a stir in ... read more ...
 
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A Record Breaking, Six Figure .CO Domain Sale Will Be Announced This Week - You will be reading about a six figure sale of a .Co domain this week. The current record price paid for a .Co domain,  is E.CO which sold for $81K with the proceeds going to charity. This sale will blow that one away. Although I can’t reveal the domain, or the buyer, I can tell you its going to be a record setting sale for a .CO domain and the Buyer is not only a public company, but a member of the USA Today Internet 50 stock index. Its a major acquisition and a huge boost for the .CO extension ... read more ...
 
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Overstock.com Buys O.co For $350,000 - Internet retailer snaps up one character .co domains for big bucks. On the eve of the .co general availability launch comes news that Overstock.com purchased the o.co domain name for a whopping $350,000. This must be the sale that Michael Berkens alluded to. From the press release: Many visionary companies see the new .CO domains as an opportunity to extend their brand or expand their online offerings in a way that was not previously possible due to limited availability ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Releases Dates for SedoPro World Tour - Company gives more details about its world tour program. Following up to our story a couple weeks ago, Sedo has launched its SedoPro World Tour web site. It includes specific dates for the first three events: Boston, USA (Kick Off Event) When: August 31st to September 1st Seoul, Korea When: 10th September to 11th September Tuscany, Italy When: October 7th to 8th An event will be held in London in November and Cologne, Germany in February. Additional locations ... read more ...
 
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HostingCon Kicks Off in Austin - Web hosting conference kicks off in Austin, Texas. The annual HostingCon conference kicked off in Austin this morning, with organizers expecting 1,500 or more attendees. I count over 115 vendors who will be showing their wares on Tuesday and Wednesday. A number of exhibitors are domain name companies who want to get hosting companies to sell their products including domain name registrations. Among the domain name companies are: Afilias DotMobi (which is running ... read more ...
Sun 18th July 2010
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A Look Inside The 100,000+ Domain Portfolio That Mike Mann Lists For Sale At DomainMarket.com - It looks like after selling off BuyDomains.com to NameMedia, Mike Mann has built another portfolio in excess of 100,000 domain names, which  are registered under the name “Domain Admin”  or Domain Asset Holdings both showing a Potomac, Maryland Address. These domains are listed on the site, DomainMarket.com which is registered to “Domain Admin” in Rockville, Maryland. Mike Mann wrote on his Facebook page: “I have sold more premium domain names than any one in the world, I founded ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann Puts Up Some Top .CO For Sale: Health.Co For $175K, Advertising.co $150K; Gold.Co $100K - On the heals of the close of the Landrush application period for .CO which closed on Friday, Mike Mann has put up for sale some of the top .CO domains on his Facebook page. Some of the domains he is offering for sale include Health.co for $175K, Advertising.co for $150K and Gold.co for $100K. His Facebook posts says “.Co works exact same as .co but the domain is its your forever and you are the master…..” On the Domain, Advertising.co he says on his Facebook page: “”This one is $150,000 ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Ombudsman Fails to Hide Story About Air Canada Argument - ICANN Ombudsman tries to get name taken out of public record in air travel dispute. Earlier this year DNW wrote about ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie and a complaint he filed against Air Canada. A Canadian Transportation Panel found that Fowlie “engaged in abusive and offensive behaviour” on the flight. Needless to say, the complaint made Fowlie look bad. After granting an interview to the Ottawa Citizen and the media attention that ensued, Fowlie tried to get ... read more ...
 
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265 .Co Domains That Weren’t Registered in Landrush - Good keyword domains still available in .co. Now that the .co landrush has ended, I have compiled a list of 265 .co domain names that weren’t picked up in the period. That means they will be available on July 20. But many of these keyword domains will be in demand, meaning you need to pre-register them. For a list of registrars and pricing for pre-registering domains, see this guide. Please note that I haven’t checked any of these domains against trademarks, ... read more ...
Sat 17th July 2010
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After 22,500 Comments, It Looks Like We Need To Revisit Some Rules For Conduct & Commenting On TheDomains.com - In December we will be celebrating our 3rd anniversary of TheDomains.com. To date we have generated over 2,200 posts which have drawn over 22,500 published comments. Up until a few weeks ago I had deleted less than 20 comments (not counting spam). As an attorney I’m a huge believer in free speech and I hate censoring people’s expressions no matter how much I may disagree with them or how ridiculous I many think they are. At the end of the day I  don’t want to be the  comment police. Up until ... read more ...
 
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Trefis.com: CFIT Case Will “Pummel Verisign’s Stock Value” as Domain Names Prices Go Down - In an article by stock analysis site,  Trefis,  which bills itself as a site that “helps you understand how company’s products impact its stock price“, said today that VeriSign “is on the verge of losing an antitrust lawsuit filed by Coalition For ICANN Transparency (CFIT), a non-profit organization that represents website owners.” “A CFIT victory would attract new players to the market, creating competition and forcing domain name prices down. While good for domain name owners, ... read more ...
 
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Registrar Lets You Reserve a Spot during a Top of a .Co Queue - .Co registrar creates innovative way to increase odds of getting your .co domain on July 20. I’ve written about how various registrars are handling pre-registrations for .co domain names, which will become generally available July 20. None of the registrars has been explicit about how they’ll decide which domains to send to the registry first when registration becomes available. But one registrar has come up with a nifty idea to guarantee you a spot near the ... read more ...
 
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Some Advice to Education Site Taking on Marijuana Site - Education site worried about effect of corresponding .org domain name. This morning I came across a story about an education web site at NewsBowl.com that is worried that a marijuana site is at NewsBowl.org. The owner is worried that students will type .org after NewsBowl instead of .com and find themselves at a site about drugs. First, it’s kind of ironic that the owner of a .com would worry about what’s on the .org equivalent, since mostly it’s the other ... read more ...
Fri 16th July 2010
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A Pure Trademarked Generic TractorSupply.Mobi Taken In a WIPO - In a WIPO decision released yesterday a domain of generic term , TractorSupply.mobi, was given to the Trademark holder. Here are the facts of the case: “Complainant or its predecessors have operated a retail business under the TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY service mark since 1938.” It has adopted several versions of the service mark, including TRACTOR SUPPLY, TRACTOR SUPPLY CO. AND TSC. ” Complainant has a federally registered service mark for TRACTOR SUPPLY CO. ” Complainant has registered ... read more ...
 
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Google Releases Earnings Miss Profit Estimates; Revenue Up 25%; Cost Per Click Up 4%; Stock Down 4.5% - Google released its earnings for the 2nd Quarter ending June 30, 2010 (2Q) last night after the market closed and uncharacteristically missed Wall Street’s profit estimates, blaming a spike in expenses which offset a 24% revenue jump. Here are the highlights of the earnings report: Google reported revenues of $6.82 billion for 2Q 2010, an increase of 24% compared to the 2Q of 2009. Net income in the 2Q of 2010 was $1.84 billion, compared to $1.48 billion in the 2Q of ... read more ...
 
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.Co Receives Nearly 28,000 Landrush Applications - .Co landrush proves significant interest in securing .co domains. The .Co landrush application period has closed, and the domain name registry has received 27,905 applications during the period. That brings the total applications received to date (including sunrise) to 39,000. 2,523 domain names received more than one landrush application, which means they’ll be auctioned off on Pool. 70 domain names had 10 or more applicants. 451 applicants submitted more than ... read more ...
 
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Sarah Palin’s Lost Video About Domain Bloggers and Conferences - Domain Name Wire locates a long lost video of Sarah Palin talking about domainers. Well folks, the domain industry doesn’t get media attention like this every day. Check out this video of Sarah Palin talking with Larry King about the domain name industry. Hear about her love of Bob Parsons, what she thinks about Domain Name News, and more in this exclusive video. ... read more ...
Thu 15th July 2010
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Quick Poll: Which Domains Priced From $100K-$250K Will Sell At Domainfest - The live domain name auction at Domainfest which will be held in New York on August 18th features 44 domains priced over $100K and online prebidding is already opened on SnapNames.com With the auction just a little over a month away, I’m going to start a series of polls so you can predict which domain(s) you think will sell, if any. I’m starting with the 14 domains that have a reserve range of $100K-$250K. I’m going to let the poll run one week, then move on to ask about the 19 domains with ... read more ...