Monthly Archives: October 2010

Thu 14th October 2010
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Vertical Axis Beats Back WIPO Challenge on BabyEssentials.com Despite 8 Trademarks & A Parked Page - Vertical Axis Inc beat back a challenge, from a trademark holder to successfully defend a UDRP on BabyEssentials.com. Its an impressive win since the complainant seems to have mulitple trademarks on the term in several different classes and the domain name was parked. Here are the fact of the case as laid out by the 3 member panel: “The Complainant describes itself as a source of well-designed and priced products supplied to mass-merchandising retailers in the United States of America (“United ... read more ...
 
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QuickPoll: What Was The Best Buy From The DomainFest Auction? - Now that the DomainFest auction has concluded, its time for you to weigh in with your pick as to which domain name was the best buy. You can select from 12 of the domains that sold or “none of the above”. You can vote on the right and of course leave any comments below. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Zero.com Sells For $330K & DomainFest Prague Winds Up WIth Almost $1.8 Million In Sales - The extended auction for Domainfest ended yesterday on SnapNames, with several domains selling including Zip.com which was reported last night as selling for $1,058,830. Another great domain name, one we selected as a top pick, Zero.com sold for $329,420. Between the live and Extended (EXT) auction and the sale of ShortSale.com which occurred after the live auction, which we reported about a few days ago it bought the grand total to a very respectable total of $1,791,033. Here is a complete list ... read more ...
 
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ComScore.com: Google Increases Its Market Share Of Search With Google Instant In September - comScore, Inc. released its monthly qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google had a 66.1% share all searches, an increase of 0.7% from August 2010. Yahoo finished second with a 16.7% search share down from 17.4% in August while bing.com held steady with 11.2% Ask.com and Aol.com accounted for the balance of search share. The September 2010 qSearch figures reflect the impact of Google Instant Search. From comScore’s blog: “”As a part of comScore commitment to accurately represent ... read more ...
 
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AOL Owns Patch.com, But Can’t Win wwwPatch.com UDRP - AOL’s lawyers didn’t provide enough evidence of common law rights. AOL owns the web site Patch.com, yet it has failed to obtain the typo wwwPatch.com through a National Arbitration Forum proceeding. How is this possible? It seems that AOL’s lawyers may have taken this case for granted and not supplied enough evidence. The panel found that wwwPatch.com is confusingly similar to AOL’s PATCH mark, and that the respondent doesn’t have any rights or legitimate ... read more ...
 
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Reel.com Bankruptcy Auction Plan Submitted to Court - Domain name headed to auction block soon. Bankrupt entertainment company Movie Gallery has submitted its plan to the court to auction off intellectual property assets including Reel.com. Movie Gallery operated the Hollywood Video rental chain as well as Game Crazy. The intellectual property sale will be handled by StreamBank, LLC. According to StreamBank, LLC, the reel.com domain name: This domain and trademark originally served as a movie review site, online store, ... read more ...
 
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LMC.com Domain Dispute Will Have You ROFLMAO - Some of the dumbest logic you’ll ever read in a UDRP. A recent UDRP complaint brought by FTR of Bondues, France is so misguided that I have to use a juvenile messaging acronym to describe it. Yes, when you read FTR’s logic, you’ll be ROFLMAO. FTR is a holding company that owns a number of subsidiaries, and also a trademark for LMC. It appears to be in the business of selling kitchen cabinets, light fixtures, and window coverings. The respondent is Synopsys, ... read more ...
 
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Domainer Personal Portfolio Auctions during Sedo - There’s a personal portfolio auction going on right now with some great values. Here’s something I wasn’t aware of: Sedo will run a portfolio auction for you through it’s auction system. That is if you have good domains at a good reserve. For an example, take a look at the Richard Whitney Portfolio Auction going on right now. Look quickly, because it ends at 12:30 EDT today. Whitney’s auction has a number of good deals that are (currently) priced very ... read more ...
Wed 13th October 2010
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Domains To Take Center Stage At The Internet Summit As Godaddy’s Parsons is The Keynote Speaker - According to a press release today, the Internet Summit 2010 announced that  “Mr. Go Daddy,” Bob Parsons, will be the keynote speaker at the third annual conference scheduled for November 17-18th in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bob Parsons is CEO and Founder of Go Daddy, the world’s largest Web hosting provider and top domain name registrar. Go Daddy currently registers, renews or transfers more than one domain name every second of every day, serves more than 8.4 million customers worldwide, ... read more ...
 
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The Domain Name Auction List For The IDN New York Show Is Released - The IDN Event Auction show will be held in New York on October 3oth. The auction includes prime .COM terms in Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages. Elliot Silver, Patrick Carleton and Edmon Chung will be headlining the roster of speakers. To see the agenda for the event click here According to the organizers the show is being held at the largest private room in New York City,  Haru’s Restaurant. Admission to the event is only $99 until October 20th. As part of the show, there ... read more ...
 
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Nominet Takes .Co.Uk Gripe Site Domain Away, Gives It To The Trademark Holder But The Site Is Relaunched Hours Later As A .Org - Nominet is the registry for the .co.uk,  ccTLD. Nominet has its own procedures to arbitrate disputes between domain holders and trademark holders. In a 22 page decision today, Nominet awarded a domain name used primarily as a gripe site against Ryan Air, a huge carrier in Eurpoe. Robert Tyler, A disgruntled passenger set up a website called IHateRyanair.co.uk  “to share travel “horror stories” was ordered to hand over the domain name to the low-cost airline he hates. On the website Mr. Tyler ... read more ...
 
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.Ca Tops 1.5 Million Domains and Gets EPP - CIRA transitions registry system and hits a milestone. Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has had a big week. First, it transitioned its entire registry system to EPP. That’s welcome news for registrars carrying .ca, and it alleviates a lot of burdens on CIRA: With the new system and policies, CIRA is effectively able to remove itself from many day-to-day transactions. Most transactions will be handled solely by CIRA certified Registrars. To ensure ... read more ...
 
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You Probably Shouldn’t Brag About Registering a Trademark Domain Name - This isn’t a very smart thing to do. If you’re going to register a domain name including a famous trademark, you probably shouldn’t brag about it. Like this guy did [update: removed link. Guy took post down. He also has a new post up that says “I recently decided it was time to migrate my personal blog away from this business as my view points at times can be a bit controversial.”] after registering Starbucks.im. I recently picked up a few good .im ... read more ...
 
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Process, Not Technical Limitations, will Throttle New Top Level Domains - 200-1,000 new top level domains could be added in first year. ICANN has released two documents related to the number of new top level domain names that may be added to the web per year. The first document is technical in nature, covering how many gTLDs can be added to the root in any year. I previously wrote that it was determined 1,000 new TLDs could be added to the root in a year without problems. But after reading this report it’s clear that 1,000 was used ... read more ...
Tue 12th October 2010
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Generic Domain Taken In A WIPO Without A Trademark: ErgonomicDesigns.com - Well last week domain holders got 2 nice WIPO decisions but as we all know how inconsistent these decisions can be. Today come’s a sole panelist decision awarding a Generic domain name to a company that doesn’t even hold a trademark. The domain at issue is ErgonomicDesigns.com Here are the relevant facts as laid out by the panel: The Complainant is a company concerned with the selling of shower and bathroom faucets, much of which business is conducted over the Internet through its website “www.ergonomicdesigns.co.uk”. The ... read more ...
 
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SearchIgnite.com: PPC Advertising Up 6% For The Year - SearchIgnite.com, which claims to manage more than $600 million in pay-per-click (PPC) spending every year, just released its latest report on the paid search market in the US for the third quarter. According to the company, spending on PPC advertising increased 5.8%, year-over-year. Month-over-month figures also increased with July growing 4.9%, August 5.8% and September 6.7%. The company also says of all PPC spending Google has an 80% market share. The report tracked more than 55 billion impressions ... read more ...
 
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CNET Covers The New gTLDS: “It Completely Changes The Landscape Of The Internet “ - CNET.com just published a post on the new gTLD’s. In a pretty fair and balanced article, it presents both sides of the new gTLD argument quoting those who believe the new gTLD’s will be a game changer: “” “And even though companies might see opportunities in new GTLDs, they’d have to retrain Web users, reverse .com momentum, and potentially undermine existing brand investments, said Toby Southgate, managing director of The Brand Union, a branding firm. “Particularly with higher ... read more ...
 
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Moniker Prague auction Ends Wednesday, Monthly Auction Kicks Off - One big domain name auction ends and another begins. Moniker’s extended auction from DOMAINfest Prague ends Wednesday, and SnapNames’ October Showcase Auction is underway and includes 16 three letter .com domain names. The extended auction includes 890 domain names with starting bids and reserves ranging from $300 up to $6,470,590 for WorkatHome.com. A handful of domains have bids, most notably supplement.com for $61,330. AppetizerRecipes.com has a $3,050 ... read more ...
 
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CitizenHawk Nailed For Reverse Domain Hijacking, Chastised by Panelist - Typo recovery company embarrassed by TinyPrint.com case. For the second time, cybersquatting recovery company CitizenHawk has been chastised by a UDRP panelist for submitting a boilerplate complaint. This time the panelist threw in an added bonus, finding the company’s complainant guilty of reverse domain hijacking. CitizenHawk filed a complaint on behalf of Tiny Prints, Inc. for the domain name TinyPrint.com. Before discussing the merits of the case, panelist ... read more ...
 
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I’m Joining Directi’s Media Businesses - I’m joining Directi’s media businesses, but Domain Name Wire isn’t changing. Over the past several years I’ve been asked to join a number of established companies and startups. I’ve turned down these offers for various reasons. Until now. Today I’m announcing that in the very near future, I am going to start working with the following businesses – Media.Net, Skenzo BigJumbo. All three businesses are owned by the Directi Group (no introduction required) ... read more ...
Mon 11th October 2010
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DotAsia to Get Internationalized Domain Names - Non-latin characters coming to .asia. ICANN Senior Vice President of Services Kurt Pritz has notified (pdf) DotAsia Organisation LTD that it is granting permission to start offering internationalized domain names on .asia. In the letter, Pritz praised DotAsia for its “leadership in promoting the coordination of the domain-name system in the public interest.” Meant for residents and companies of Asian countries, the .asia sTLD hasn’t really caught on. Registrations ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Gets Into Local Advertising with AdSpace - Registrar launches new service to drive leads to local businesses. Local advertising companies such as Marchex and ReachLocal have a new heavyweight competitor: GoDaddy. The domain name registration giant today announced the launch of AdSpace, an online advertising service to help local businesses start generating leads online. AdSpace is similar to services offered by competitors in this space. Customers provide some information about their business including description, ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit Over Bing Domain Names - Microsoft goes after Bing cybersquatters. Microsoft has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against a California man and several John Does over their registration of domain names containing the “Bing” mark. The suit lists 21 allegedly infringing domain names ranging from aolbing.com to BingPornTube.com to Bing-Search.com. Microsoft says that over 1,500 domain names containing “bing” were registered each month in the two months following the announcement of its search ... read more ...
 
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Internet Explorer 13? Microsoft is Covering the Bases with Domain Registrations - Microsoft registers domain names for future versions of Internet Explorer. How many versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s market-leading web browser, will we see? Just in case, Microsoft has registered a handful of domain names up to version number 13. Through its domain name management company, Microsoft recently registered InternetExplorer12.com and InternetExplorer13.com. It also registered ie12beta.com and ie13beta.com. Microsoft is a slow learner. InternetExplorer8.com ... read more ...
Sun 10th October 2010
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DomainFest Updates: DayTrading.com Deal Falls Through; ShortSale.com Sells For $102K: Supplement.com Has $61K Bid - The deal on the  domain name DayTrading.com, which Moniker reported sold after the DomainFest auction closed, has appeartnly fallen apart as the domain is back in the extended auction. DayTrading.com is listed in the extended auction with a reserve price of $352,900. Moniker reported the domain sold for $200K right after the closing of the DomainFest Prague Auction.  My understanding the deal is off due to the buyer not the seller, although the Seller was appearently ready to let the domain go ... read more ...