Monthly Archives: December 2010

Tue 14th December 2010
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $640K In Domains - The weekly Afternic.com report is out for the week ending December 12, 2010. In all just under $640,000 of domains were sold in reportable .com sales priced $2,000 or more non .com’s priced $1,000 or more. This report shows 8 domains selling above the $10,000 mark and 22 domains selling above $5,000. Congratulations to Afternic.com on another successful week of sales, indicating the aftermarket will continue to be strong in 2011. Here is the full list…   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in HU and tagged
Óriási sikersztori a .info domain végződés - Az .INFO névtér alatt jelenleg mintegy 6.8 millió regisztrált domain név található. Ezzel az .INFO az internet hetedik legnagyobb TLD-je (legfelső szintű tartománya), valamint még mindig a legnagyobb olyan TLD, amelyet a nagy gTLD-k (általános legfelső szintű tartománynevek) után hoztak létre. "Az .INFO az új TLD-k regisztrációinak mintegy 44 százalékát fedi le és nagysága alapján kétszer akkora, mint bármely más újonnan indított TLD. Az .INFO sikereiből sokat ... read more ...
 
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In A Video Interview ICANN’s CEO & Chairman Says .XXX Extension Approval “Is Little More Than A Formality - ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush and CEO Rod Beckstrom indicated in a video tapped interview today ICANN will proceed with the registry contract over the GAC’s objections, if necessary The Video interview appears on the top of the ICANN site. Both the Chairman and the CEO indicated that Consultation with the GAC which is scheduled for February “is little more than a formality” Thrush went on to say: “We have to take the advice from governments very seriously” Under ICANN’s bylaws, ... read more ...
 
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WikiLeaks Finally Figures Out How to Change Its DNS - I thought these guys were tech savvy? A couple weeks after WikiLeaks.org’s DNS services provider cut if off, someone within the organization finally figured out how to log into the registrar account and change the DNS. Seriously, was this just a ploy to get more publicity? When EveryDNS cut of WikiLeaks, all the organization had to do was log in to its Dynadot account and change the nameservers to another DNS or hosting service. Instead the domain name sat there…not ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Sells Decide.com for $175,000 - Afternic and Sedo announce six figure sales. Afternic has sold the domain name Decide.com for $175,000. The buyer appears to be someone associated with Seattle based PriceYeti. PriceYeti launched last year, offering to send users an email alert when the price of an item they were tracking online dropped. However, it appears the service is now offline. The whois records for PriceYeti and Decide.com are different, but Decide.com is registered under PriceYeti. Elsewhere ... read more ...
 
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SedoMLS Beta Now Open to SedoPro Customers - Company expands beta for listing syndication and fulfillment service. SedoMLS, which syndicates your Sedo domain name listings across multiple sites and instantly transfers domain names upon purchase, is now available for select Sedo customers. Sedo launched the service last year but it has been closed to most domainers. The new beta phase permits SedoPro customers to list domains at the MLS level. Other Sedo customers with 5,000 or more domain names may request ... read more ...
 
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.XXX Domain Launches Founders Program - Companies can get premium domains if they host “meaningful content” on them. As ICANN gets closer and closer to approving the .xxx top level domain name, ICM Registry is gearing up by launching its Founders Program. Modeled after similar programs from other registries, the .XXX Founders Program allows qualified companies to get premium domain names if they agree to develop and promote them. The idea is to get actual web sites using the top level domain name to ... read more ...
 
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Can’t Spell Boutiques? Google (Sort of) Has You Covered. - Boutiques.com is hard to spell, and there are plenty of typos of the generic domain. Do you have trouble spelling the word “Boutiques”? You’re not the only one. That’s one of the challenges with Google’s new Boutiques.com store. So the company is trying to buy up a handful of typos of the generic term. For example, it bought botique.com from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration earlier this year. It also picked up butique.com and boutiqe.com. But ... read more ...
 
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After Losing UDRP, Complainant Sues to Get FirstQuote.com - Earlier this year a workers compensation insurance company that has a trademark for 1stQuote lost a UDRP for the domain name FirstQuote.com. On the balance, the panel found that the domain name owner registered it due to the generic nature of the domain name. Now the complainant is taking the matter to the courts, filing an in rem case (pdf) against the domain name FirstQuote.com. Interestingly, the UDRP was filed by Aspen Holdings, Inc, while the lawsuit was filed ... read more ...
Mon 13th December 2010
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Berryhill Wins Another UDRP Defending The Marchex Owned Generic Domain Havanna.com - Havanna S.A. of Argentina, bought a WIPO against Marchex the owner of the domain Havanna.com which was represented by John Berryhill. Amazingly the complainant made the argument that Havanna was not a generic term at all. “”””Complainant argues that Respondent’s use of the disputed domain name prior to the dispute is not connected to a bona fide offering of goods or services since Havanna has no generic meaning” But the domain name holder prevailed which is certainly good news in a forum ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Announces The .Co Super Bowl Commercial - In the press release by Godaddy today, the company  announced what we told you last week they would be announcing today, that they will be sharing a 30 second SuperBowl Commerical to “spotlight to tell the world about a new domain name extension — .CO”. “”We think this new commercial will do for the dotCO domain what our first Super Bowl commercial did for Go Daddy,’ said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons” Wow that’s strong. “Our team was brainstorming ways to ... read more ...
 
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Will ICANN Ever Approve New gTLD’s? Check Out The Language In This Resolution - One of the resolutions the ICANN Board made on Friday may indicate that new gTLD’s applicants may have a LONG time before getting their extension. The Resolution passed on Friday, entitled Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation, said: “Whereas, if and when new gTLDs have been in operation for one year, ICANN has committed to organize a review that will examine the extent to which the introduction or expansion of gTLDs has promoted competition, consumer trust and consumer choice.” If ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Thief Pleads Guilty, May Spend 5 Years in Jail - New Jersey man expected to serve about five years in jail for domain theft. The man accused of stealing the P2P.com domain name and selling it to NBA player Mark Madsen has entered a guilty plea in a New Jersey criminal case. Daniel Goncalves, 26, of Union Township, pleaded guilty to theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, and computer theft, all in the second degree, before Superior Court Judge Stuart L. Peim in Union County. As part of a plea bargain, prosecutors ... read more ...
 
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“It Would Take a Super Bowl Commercial for a New TLD to Stick” - Go Daddy releases details about Super Bowl commercial with .co It’s kind of funny, isn’t it? Whenever people doubt (including me) the potential for a new top level domain name to go mass market, we often say “it would take a Super Bowl commercial to make a new domain name go mainstream”. Today Go Daddy released details about its upcoming Super Bowl commercial featuring .co. While .co isn’t really a “new TLD”, it is being marketed as such. And this ... read more ...
 
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Video and Highlights from Go Daddy’s $4M Holiday Bash - Scenes from a four million dollar holiday party. Go Daddy held its annual holiday party at Chase Field in Phoenix on Saturday evening. In this video you’ll see some highlights from the night. You’ll also wonder if the event really took place at Chase Field. It looks more more like an amusement park to me. Here are some highlights from the video: GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons gave some interesting stats on what happens at Go Daddy every minute: -75 domain names are ... read more ...
 
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This is a 4,000th Post on Domain Name Wire - 4,000 and counting. Domain Name Wire launched in March of 2005, meaning it will turn six years old this March. At 4,000 posts, that’s about two posts for every day of the year, on average. The first three years were fairly slow, averaging one post a day. This year so far Domain Name Wire is approaching 1,100 posts, or an average of over 3 per day including weekends. If you’re new to the domain name industry and want to learn more about any particular topic, ... read more ...
Sun 12th December 2010
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ICANN Colombia Meeting: All Talk; No Action - As the ICANN meeting wrapped up with ICANN punting on making any meaningful decision after a 5 days of committee, subcommittees, working groups, advisory board meetings, public comment sessions and Board meetings, my feeling leaving Colombia is that the meeting amounted to All Talk and No Action. For those of you who have never attended an ICANN meeting (which is free to attend) there are typically 6 or more opened or closed sessions going on at the same time, for 5 days from 9am to 6pm. Moreover ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Its Dec 12th 2010: You Have Exactly 2 Years Before The End Of The World - According to the Mayan Calendar the world as we know it will end on December 12, 2012 exactly 2 years from now. There are thousands of website devoted to the subject and one major motion picture. You can see some of those sites here, here and here The basic premise is that the sun will scorch the earth with a force of 10 million bombs wiping out every living creature on earth; destroy every building, every structure; destroy all power and communication systems and make the earth’s surface inhabitable ... read more ...
 
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Sorry Domainers, But Groupon.com was a Better Name than Coupon.com - Company’s choice of a made up word was smart. I’ve read a lot of posts and comments on domain blogs over the past couple week about Groupon while the company was considering a buyout offer from Google. I don’t remember what I read where, but here is an amalgamation: it isn’t worth $6 billion (which it reportedly turned down), its technology is basic and easy to replicate, there’s little barrier to entry, and the name sucks compared to a good generic one. I ... read more ...
Sat 11th December 2010
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Venezuela Becomes The Latest Country To Want To Regulate The Internet: Adult Only After Midnight & Maybe No Twitter - According to Reuters Venezuela is the latest country that plans regulate the Internet. A bill presented to parliament on Thursday will place limits on content in “electronic media” according to the time of day, with adult content reserved for programing after midnight. The Reuters story does not say what time of day the Adult blocking would be turned back on and its quite unclear how the Government would block content based on time. The Venezuelan bill also proposes allowing the government ... read more ...
 
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The Statement By One Of The ICANN Board Members Indicates That .XXX Is A Done Deal - There were a LOT of articles published on the ICANN’s boards decision on .XXX yesterday and the opinions ranges from those who took it as a rejection of .XXX by ICANN to those who saw it as simply a delay. I reviewed the transcript of the board vote again today and found that they key to ICANN ultimate plans for this domain may have been spelled out in the comments of a board member George Sadowsky, who abstained, check it out: WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A SHORT STATEMENT NOW CONCERNING YOUR ABSTENTIONS? ... read more ...
Fri 10th December 2010
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ICM Registry Issues Press Release On ICANN Board Decision - The ICM Registry who is seeking the the .XXX extension just issued a press release to respond to the decision of the ICANN board this morning in which they said the “intend” to enter into a contract with ICM to run the registry, but just not yet Here is the press release: “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has stated that it intends to contract with ICM Registry for the use of .XXX as a top level domain name (TLD). ICM has been campaigning for .XXX to be recognized ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Board “INTENDS TO ENTER INTO A REGISTRY AGREEMENT WITH ICM REGISTRY FOR THE .XXX” But Punts On Final Approval - I a resolution that can be only regarded as confusing, the ICANN Board seemed to vote to enter into an registry agreement with the ICM extension to run the .XXX registry pending final approval and after consultation with the GAC to work out some unidentified issues. Here is the resolution that was passed today: “””WHEREAS ON 24 AUGUST 2010, ICANN POSTED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT A REVISED PROPOSED REGISTRY AGREEMENT SUBMITTED BY ICM REGISTRY FOLLOWING NEGOTIATIONS WITH ICANN STAFF, ALONG WITH ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Punts On The New gTLD’s - The ICANN board today Approved a resolution that would push off a vote on the approval of the the new gTLD program today in its meeting in Colombia to the San Fransisco ICANN Meeting in March. Under the resolution The ICANN board will hold an meeting sometime in February 2011 with the Government Advisory Council (the GAC) to hear their final thoughts on the Guidebook. Moreover under the resolution ICANN is directing its staff to put together a report and a summary of all the comments that were submitted ... read more ...
 
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RightHaven Sues To Gets The DrudgeReport.com Domain Name - According to Wired.com, the company RightHaven LLC which goes after blogs and publications for “unauthorized” use of copyrighted material has now filed suit against the DrudgeReport.com and seeks as part of the suit,  the domain name. If you want to read more about RightHaven checkout Elliotsblog.com article on the company. Righthaven file suit on Wednesday on behalf of MediaNews, and “demands a Nevada federal judge to “direct Network Solutions, and any successor domain name registrar ... read more ...