Monthly Archives: September 2010

Thu 9th September 2010
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Top 100 Brands Secure .Co Domains Through Special Program - .Co trademark program concludes. .Co announced today that 100% of the world’s top 100 brands have secured their .co domain name through the registry’s Specially Protected Marks Program, or “SPM.” SPM provided a way for companies on the Deloitte Brand List to get their .co domains without the traditional expense and time required. Among the companies securing their .co domain through SPM are Facebook, Ferrari, Blackberry, Siemens, Sanyo, Amazon, Honda, ... read more ...
 
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Domaining.com Launches Traffic Domains Marketplace - Marketplace deals exclusively with domains that receive traffic. Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com has launched a brand new marketplace for selling domains that get traffic. In keeping with Carrillo’s love of great domain names, the marketplace is aptly named TrafficDomains.com. Even more exciting for me is that Carrillo has chosen to use DNW Certified Stats to authenticate traffic stats on the site. One of the big challenges to buying domains with traffic is ... read more ...
 
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Latona’s Agrees to Auction Zuccarini Names Without TRAFFIC Backing - TRAFFIC is out, but auction house still plans to auction domain names. After TRAFFIC organizers said they wouldn’t let a collection of domains previously registered to John Zuccarini be auctioned at their show, Rick Latona’s auction house has decided to auction the domains on its own, according to a court filing. The domains are part of a cybersquatting judgment originally won by Office Depot but later transferred to DS Holdings. The receiver in the case planned ... read more ...
 
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Bed Bugs are In The News. You’d Be Surprised Who Owns BedBugs.com. - Who’s reaping the extra traffic from bed bug mania? On NPR this afternoon I listened to an interview about the resurgence of bed bugs. Over the past few months you’ve probably seen an increase in media attention to bed bugs thanks to some high profile store infestations in New York City. I figured some domainer owned BedBugs.com, and had my money on Schilling. So I was surprised when I typed the domain in and was forwarded to… Hasbro.com? The domain name was ... read more ...
Wed 8th September 2010
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Google Goes With GoogleInstant.Co, Doesn’t Own The .Com & Didn’t Bother Registering The .Me or .TV - Google announced  “Google Instant” feature on its search engine today but interestingly like Apple which only own iPad.co and not iPad.com, Google owns GoogleInstant.co but not the .com. The .Com is owned by a Doctor in Brooklyn since 1999 but the domain is going to a Godaddy type lander so is in jeopardy of a UDRP. In addition to the .Co, Google does own GoogleInstant.net and GoogleInstant.org. GoogleInstant.tv and GoogleInstant.me are available as of publication which may say at lot for the ... read more ...
 
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Google Launches Live Instant Real Time Search: Google Instant - Yesterday we told you Google might have a big announced today at its event, and now comes the official word that Google is rolling out an Instant live-updating search called Google Instant. The update already went into effect an hour before the announcement. When you do a search from Google’s home page the search box says: “Welcome to Google Instant,” “Feelings of weightlessness and euphoria are normal. Do not be alarmed.” From the Google Instant page: “”Google Instant is a new search ... read more ...
 
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Aspen.Co leads Another $250K in .Co Land Rush Auction Results - The domain name Aspen.Co lead the way in Land Rush .Co auction sales in the last couple of days selling for $22,500. The .Co registry reported more closed Land Rush auction sales in excess of $250K This list includes sales of other Colorado cities including breckenridge.co which sold for $8,500, state domains including illinois.co which sold for $2,200 to even misspells like jewellery.co which sold for $3,100. The best buy IMHO was fantasyfootball.co which went for a cheap $1,500. Still in ongoing ... read more ...
 
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With Google Instant Search, GoDaddy is More Popular than God - Google changes could be important. And I really mean it this time. There have been plenty of times where pundits have said changes at Google would turn the web on its head. They (and I) have been wrong. But this time may be different. When you start thinking about the implications of Instant Search your head starts to spin. Just think about it from the advertising perspective. Efficient Frontier did, and my head is spinning. Think about how many untargeted impressions ... read more ...
 
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Poster.com, Maid.com, and Downline.com To Be Auctioned Next Week - Epik releases list of domains for next week’s auction. Epik has released the list of domains and developed web sites to be auctioned at its Developer Conference next week in Seattle. The list is impressive, including: Downline.com – fantastic MLM domain, which is a big business Poster.com – like the plural better, but still good Maid.com – great lead gen possibilities Slideshow.com – currently a service that let’s you publish and share PowerPoint presentations ... read more ...
 
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.Org Prices to Increase in April - Wholesale cost for .org domain registrations increases next year. The wholesale price for registering a .org domain name will increase in April 2011. In a short letter to ICANN dated yesterday, .org registry Public Interest Registry said it will increase the annual price to $7.21 beginning April 1. This does not include ICANN fees. As a point of reference, GoDaddy’s retail price for .org is $14.99 plus the 18 cent ICANN fee each year. So a registrar with a healthy ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Application Filed for .Bank Top Level Domain Name - Application filed for .bank domain name. The same company that filed a service mark application for .Secure is at it again, this time filing an application for .Bank. Wisconsin-based Asif LLC filed application 85,120,345 on August 31 to cover “Domain name registration services”. In the U.S. you cannot trademark a top level domain name, although that hasn’t stopped people from trying. At least one applicant has said it will use its non-U.S. trademarks in an ... read more ...
 
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Arbitrator Refuses to Hand Over Generic .Org Domain to .Com Owner - Owning a generic .com doesn’t give you a monopoly on other top level domains. The owner of the descriptive and generic domain name IntlMovers.COM has failed to win the domain name IntlMovers.ORG from its owner in a UDRP case. Although IntlMovers.com existed before IntlMovers.org, and they offer similar services, panelist Tony Willoughby pointed out that owning a generic .com doesn’t give you an automatic monopoly on other top level domains: The Policy was designed ... read more ...
 
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OnlineCollegeDegrees.com and Net Selling for Big Bucks during Sedo - Online education domain name auction ending shortly. Separate auctions at Sedo for OnlineCollegeDegrees.com and OnlineCollegeDegrees.net will conclude overnight tonight and sell for at least $28,000 combined. The auction for the .com is currently at $18,000 and the auction for .net is $10,000. The .net domain name is an active web site with page rank. Compete.com shows it getting just over 1,000 uniques a month. There are a number of uncertainties in the online ... read more ...
Tue 7th September 2010
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PeoplesBank.com Sells For $44K On NameJet: Fair or Fowl? - Peoplesbank.com sold for $44K today on NameJet.com The domain has a good amount of traffic according to Compete and Alexa and why not, its the name of a major publicly traded bank. There is a trademark dated 2002 belonging to Peoples Bank, National Association Peoples Bancorp, Inc. of Ohio, on the term Peoples Bank, yet there are other banks in the US that incorporate the terms people and bank and are separate from the trademark holder, including  People’s United Bank which uses the domain peoples.com ... read more ...
 
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Will Google Make A Huge Announcement Tomorrow On Search? - Tomorrow on Wednesday September 8th, Google will be holding a by invitation only event they are calling; an inside look at the evolution of Google search. Some blogs and sites are claiming that BIG changes maybe announced at the event, even looking for a hint of what is to come on Google’s home page today, where a bunch of floating colorful dots whirl around the screen to for the word “Google”. While blogs like Fool.com are speculating that the event will announce a substantial change in how ... read more ...
 
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Brand-and-Jingles .Co Study: “There Is A Good Potential In The TLD” - In a blog post, BrandandJingles.com staff reported results from a study of .Co domains (pdf) traffic ranking and how they compare to the .Com counterpart. This is from their blog: “There have been many speculations of what to expect from .CO in the coming years. Here is an interesting study by Brands-and-Jingles. We looked on it a bit from a different angle while analysing top .me sites on Alexa. “To start with, there are currently 249 .co sites in the Alexa top million list. That’s not ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Voting Ends Wednesday Night - Cast your ballots now for TRAFFIC awards. Every year the organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name conference ask for nominations (and then a vote) to pick the best companies and people in the domain name industry. This year’s voting is due by Wednesday at 8 pm EDT. To participate, just make your selections from below and email to nominations@targetedtraffic.com. Winners will be announced at next month’s TRAFFIC conference in South Beach. Here are the nominees. ... read more ...
 
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Save a Date: Austin Domainer Weekend Nov 12-13 - Are you cool? Then plan to visit Austin this November. I’ve long talked about holding a domainer dinner in Austin. As I talked to others in the industry about it one common request kept coming up: hold it in conjunction with a University of Texas football game. So that’s what we’re doing November 12-13. Details are tentative, but plan on a dinner Friday, November 12 followed by a night out on Sixth Street. The game on November 13 is against conference rival ... read more ...
 
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Epik Takes Innovative Approach to Domain Trading - Epik pushes the envelop at next week’s Domain Swap. Domain lifecycle platform Epik likes to try new and innovative things. Next week’s Domain Swap event at Epik DevCon in Seattle is another example. The Domain Swap brings in much needed liquidity and a common currency to domain trading, something that has been absent from similar ideas in the past. Here’s how it works: 1. Send a list of domains you wish to sell to Epik 2. Epik will buy some of the domains ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panelists Still Can’t Agree on Decisions - Drug company loses dispute, but panelists disagree over key point. A recent UDRP brought by drug giant Sanofi-aventis is interesting on a couple counts. First, the company lost the case over the domain name ferrlecit.com. The respondent is a former licensee of Sanofi-aventis. It registered the domain name while it was a licensee. So it was registered in good faith. But when the drug company and licensee terminated their relationship through arbitration, there ... read more ...
 
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DNW Certified Stats Now Compatible with SmartName - Another domain name parking service added to stats sharing system. This past year has been a big one for domain name parking service SmartName. It has combined all of its parking brands into one as well as rolled out (or enhanced) both SmartName Shops and a content parking solution. Apparently a lot of people are using SmartName these days, as I’ve received lots of requests to add the service to DNW Certified Stats. The day has arrived — now you can use DNW ... read more ...
Mon 6th September 2010
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Bedding .Com’s Rock On NameJet.com Producing Over $70K in Sales - A couple of “bedding” .com domain names sold over at NameJet.com producing the highest sales on that auction platform in quite a while. (I know with all the discussion on .Co domains it may come as a shock that people are also still buying .com domains). BedSheets.com sold for a whopping $48K. Honestly I was in that auction up through around $25K. I was going to use the traffic from the domains to point to our DiscountBedding.com or LuxuryBedding.com sites, but I don’t think that domain was ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy.com Gets X.Co & Its Already Up & Running - The .Co registry just announced today that Godaddy.com has been awarded X.Co. This is the 4th single letter .co to be released E.co sold for $81,000 in a charity auction sponsored by the .Co registry. Twitter was granted T.Co to use as a shortener. OverStock paid $350,000 for O.Co X.Co is already up and running at Godaddy.com Here is the the official announcement: “”URL shortening services have become an integral part of online communications. Shortened URLs not only take less space (which ... read more ...
 
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Slots.com Purchase Leads To 100 New Jobs - Slots.com which was bought by  BodogBrand.com  for $5.5 Million at a SnapNames.com auction is now creating jobs. According to a press release: “”During the launch phase, the company is looking to recruit a minimum of 100 new employees in all areas of a gaming company from IT to Marketing and all points in between. Inevitably, beyond that initial stage we will require more talent as the company grows.”” Most of the jobs are expected to be created in London and Barcelona. Slots.co auction ... read more ...
 
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George Soros’ Open Society Institute Loses Domain Dispute - Foundation backed by George Soros loses arbitration for domain name. Open Society Institute, a think tank and foundation founded by billionaire George Soros, has lost a domain name dispute over the domain OpenSociety.org. The majority of the three person National Arbitration Forum found that the domain name wasn’t registered and used in bad faith. Two of the panelists found that the domain was confusingly similar to the Open Society Institute mark and that the ... read more ...