Monthly Archives: August 2010

Tue 3rd August 2010
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Newest Spam Hitting My Inbox: “Register A Trademark On Your New Domain Name Or Else” - The newest spam hitting my Inbox is coming from a company trying to get me to use them to register trademarks on domains I have registered: Here is how the email reads: “Dear Entrepreneur: “We are contacting you with the purpose of helping you avoid infringement problems with your new trademark or domain name!” “You might be starting a business, and as a responsible entrepreneur you should know whether the trademark you are using, or intend to use is identical or similar to trademarks already ... read more ...
 
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A Hyphenated .CO Sells For $1,200 and Sedo.com Records Another .Co Sale For $2,500 - A couple of .Co domain sold at Sedo in the last 24 hours. One had a hyphen and still sold for $1,200. The domain name Car-insurance.Co  bought for the keyword value was the hypenated domain that sold for $1,200. The other .CO domain sale from Sedo.com was Touchscreens.co which sold for $2,500, certainly a nice flip for the owner. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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WSJ: Clock Ticking For VeriSign To Choose Legal Option: Chance To Appeal CFIT Ruling Expires On Oct 18th - Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com) published an article tonight on Verisign and the CFIT case pending against it. The article quotes Mark McLaughli, Chief Executive of Verisign saying that the company “has 90 days following the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ July 9 decision to decide whether it will request further appellate review … at the Supreme Court level, or have the case remanded for trial in district court.” The article goes on to quote Bret Fausett, the attorney representing the Coalition ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign CEO: “PPC is a Dead Thing” - PPC no longer a driver of domain name registrations, says VeriSign CEO. When it comes to growth opportunities for the .com namespace, domain parking “is a dead thing”, VeriSign President and CEO Mark McLaughlin explained on an analyst conference call yesterday. McLaughlin was responding to a question from JP Morgan Chase Co analyst Sterling Auty, who asked: …on the 7.9 million new names that came in during the quarter, you mentioned international, but are there ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Wins Facebook.me Domain Name in Arbitration - Social networking site picks up domain name in arbitration. A World Intellectual Property Forum panelist has awarded the domain name Facebook.me to the giant social networking site. In what may be one of the longest WIPO UDRP decisions I’ve ever read, the panelist ruled against Amjad Abbas. Facebook claimed that Abbas had placed the domain name on a page with other domains that were for sale for a minimum of $2,000. Other domains listed for sale on the site included ... read more ...
 
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Wikileaks Could Put More Pressure on Whois Privacy Services - Could WikiLeaks backlash bring renewed attention to whois privacy services? The backlash against WikiLeaks over its release of thousands of secret U.S. government documents about the war in Afghanistan is building. It’s never pretty when your web site is blamed for death. And although the public now knows who is behind WikiLeaks, I think the situation may place more attention on the use of whois privacy and proxy services. WikiLeaks.org was registered in 2006 using ... read more ...
 
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DomainSponsor Doubles Revenue in Europe, Plans Two European Roundtables - Parking company sees results from new European operations. The two largest Google domain name parking partners have long known their turf — DomainSponsor was strongest in the U.S. while Sedo was strongest in Europe. Many years after Sedo set up an office in the U.S., DomainSponsor finally decided it needed a home base in Europe, opening an office last year. DomainSponsor said today that it’s getting results, doubling its revenues and customers since May 2010. ... read more ...
 
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Sharing Domain Parking Stats is Easy with DNW Certified Stats - Introducing an easier way to share domain name parking stats. I’m excited to announce the launch of DNW Certified Stats, a service that makes it easy to share domain name parking stats. Here’s how it works: 1. You fill out a simple form including your domain names you want to display stats for. 2. DNW Certified Stats fetches the stats from your parking company and creates an online certificate you can share. 3. You provide your unique certificate code to anyone ... read more ...
Mon 2nd August 2010
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250K Monthly Visitors For Just over $1K On Godaddy.com? - I notice the auction for the expired domain, challengesworld.com at Godaddy.com According to Godaddy.com the domain receives around 250,000 visits  a month. Wow Compete.com is only showing a high of 13K visitors and only a little over 3K for last month Alexa.com however shows the domain having a 3 month average ranking of 8,000. Most of the traffic appears to be non-US based but for a current high bid of just over $1K its an interesting domain. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Investors.com Covers The Domain Name Resale Market: “Domain Name Owners Are Multimillion-Dollar Companies” But Still Call Us Cybersquatters - An article yesterday about the domain name business appeared in Investors Business Daily which uses the domain Investors.com. Its amazing how clueless major publications are still when it comes to domains. The article focused around new businesses trying to obtain domains on the secondary market in this case a company called BlueGrass, which seemed to obtain the .com., .net and .org version for a total of just $17,500. However the three domains were owned by three different people causing them to ... read more ...
 
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.Com and .Net Base Tops 100 Million Domain Names - VeriSign reports growth over 100 million domain names. As forecasted, the total number of .com and .net domain names under management topped 100 million in the second quarter of 2010, reports VeriSign. The company ended the quarter with 101.5 million domains across the two top level domain names. VeriSign added 7.9 million new domain names in the quarter, representing 13% growth year-over-year. The naming services business grossed $164 million for the quarter, up ... read more ...
 
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Latona’s to Auction Off Remaining Zuccarini Domains during TRAFFIC - Domain names will be auctioned off at TRAFFIC in October if court approves. Assuming court approval, Rick Latona has scored a coup by getting rights to auction off the remaining domain names owned by John Zuccarini to satisfy a court judgment and U.S. tax lien. After losing a cybersquatting case to Office Depot, Zuccarini’s domain names were handed to a receiver. That receiver has had his share of challenges, including letting some of the domain names expire. ... read more ...
 
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Why We Know a Blackpad Will Suck - What’s in a product name? I predict that Research In Motion’s Blackpad will suck. Why? Because it’s a me-too device with a me-too domain. Research in Motion (RIM) acquired the domain name Blackpad.com, which set off a media tizzy of excitement over RIM’s new product last week But much like the many would be “iPhone killers” out there, this device seems destined to just try to copy the success of the iPad. The name really says it all. Why on earth would ... read more ...
 
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Panelist Blasts Credit Europe Bank for “Flagrant Abuse” of UDRP - Lawyer states that his client’s interests are more important than domain owner’s, so they should get the domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization domain arbitration panelist has some harsh words for Credit Europe Bank and lawyer Novagraaf Nederland after it brought a case against the owner of CreditEurope.com. The registrant of CreditEurope.com got the domain name in 2003, several years before Credit Europe Bank started trading under the Credit ... read more ...
 
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Dot VN Says It Needs to Raise Cash This Year - Dot VN looks for cash to continue operations. Dot VN, Inc., the sole provider of .vn domain names accredited by Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC), disclosed in its annual report Thursday that it must raise cash this year in order to execute on its business plan. At the end of the last financial year (ending April 30) the company had $135,664 cash and total current assets of $443,469. But it owes a lot of money, albeit much of it to the company’s ... read more ...
 
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Live Current Raises $370,000 Selling New Shares - Live Current places 3.7 million shares and hires COO. Live Current Media, which owns Perfume.com, has raised $370,000 selling additional shares to accredited investors. The company sold 74 units to six different investors, with each unit including 50,000 shares of stock and a warrant to purchase another 50,000 shares for 15 cents each within two years. Each unit cost $5,000. Currently, shares of Live Current sell for 10 cents over the counter. To put it in perspective, ... read more ...
Sun 1st August 2010
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A Look Inside Superstar Domainer Andrew Miller’s Portfolio For Sale At SimpleDomains.com - Andrew Miller should be well know to all domainers as Founder President of InternetRealEstate.com Over the years he has owned some gems of gems such as CreditCards.com, InsuranceQuotes.com, Luggage.com, Diamond.com, and beer.com, and still owns some of the best web properties like chocolate.com, Jeans.com, Patents.com, and Sweepstakes.com just to name a few. I had a chat with Andrew the other day about another one of his projects SimpleDomains.com a site that lists some premium domain names for ... read more ...
 
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Top Domain Name Wire Stories of Jul 2010 - A look back at July in the domain name industry. It’s hot outside here in Texas, and it was a hot month for domain name news. Here are the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire from July, ranked by views. 1. How to Maximize Chances of Getting .Co Domains, and at Lowest Prices – apparently a lot of people maximized their chances, snapping up hundreds of thousands of .co domain names. 2. Tucker Carlson Buys Keith Olbermann Domain Name – pundit Tucker Carlson knows ... read more ...