Monthly Archives: December 2010

Fri 3rd December 2010
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DynaDot Facing Pressure on WikiLeaks.org Domain Name - U.S.-based registrar has taken no action against WikiLeaks.org domain name, but is facing pressure from both sides. Amazon booted Wikileaks from its cloud hosting services. Everydns kicked out the site thanks to distributed denial of service attacks. But the domain name WikiLeaks.org remains in the hands of the underground organization as domain name registrar DynaDot has not taken any action on the domain. Earlier today I reached out to DynaDot founder and president ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Releases Another Economic Study on New TLDs - New study finds little chance for competition to .com, but some benefits from new TLDs. Just a day after the U.S. Department of Commerce chastised ICANN for not undertaking a full economic study of the costs and benefits of new top level domains, ICANN has released phase two of its latest study (pdf). A summary of the findings: “…we find that additional generic, unrestricted TLDs using the Latin alphabet would be unlikely to provide significant additional competition ... read more ...
 
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Google Adsense For Domains Now Makes Parking Easier - Company changes parking procedures for Adsense for Domains. Ever since Google released its direct-to-publisher Google Adsense for Domains program, one of the big complaints has been how difficult it is to point your domains to Google’s parking servers. You had to make a change to your A records and create CNAME records. Compare this to the typical parking service that lets you just change your name servers or forward the domain. Google has responded to the feedback. ... read more ...
 
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Bible Group Sins with UDRP, Loses Case for BSF.org - Time to go ask for forgiveness. A non-profit called Bible Study Fellowship based in San Antonio has lost a UDRP to get the domain name BSF.org. Maybe it didn’t pray hard enough, but now it will probably need to ask for forgiveness for some sins, too. In this case the panel declined to find reverse domain name hijacking, but also wrote: In the case at hand, the Panel finds that Complainant’s allegations have not been substantiated by relevant evidence and also ... read more ...
 
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WikiLeaks Domain Not Shut Down, Just DNS - Domain name not seized or shut down; DNS provider takes action. A story on Guardian.co.uk screams “WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name”. This headline is misleading and suggests that the WikiLeaks.org domain name has been shut down. This is incorrect. When you actually read the story, it says that Everydns took the site down. Everydns was only providing DNS services to Wikileaks. The WikiLeaks.org domain name is registered ... read more ...
Thu 2nd December 2010
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Soon You Can Own a Piece Of Forex.com - Certainly one of the most valuable financial domains on the Internet is Forex.com and soon you can one a piece of it. The company, Gain Capital, which owns the  domain name Forex.com, will have its IPO on the stock exchange on the week of December 13th. The stock price range is expected to be from $13 to $15. At the $14 price per share,  the valuation for the company would be around $536 million. Of course the company owns more than just the domain name. Gain Capital Holdings,  which provides ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy’s Bob Parsons Will Be Keynote Speaker At DomainFest - Oversee.net has just announced that Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy, will give the keynote presentation at DOMAINfest Global 2011 Conference. As you know, Parsons is CEO and Founder of Go Daddy, the world’s largest Web hosting provider and top domain name registrar. His presentation will be entitled, “Luck Perspective,” and promises to inspire attendees to improve their businesses and lives. The fifth annual DOMAINfest Global (DFG) event will be held on February 1-3, 2011, at the ... read more ...
 
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U.S. Government Calls for Delay to New Top Level Domain Names - Department of Commerce says ICANN board should not approve guidebook next week. In a scathing letter published today on ICANN’s web site, The United States Department of Commerce asked ICANN to not approve the launch of new TLDs during its meeting in Cartagena next week. The letter, signed by Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence Strickling, says that ICANN is not living up to its agreements in the Affirmation of Commitments. Strickling ... read more ...
 
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Soccer Hero Pele Gets Pele.com Domain Name - Pele’s licensing group wins Pele.com at arbitration. A group that manages licensing for Edison “Edson” Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pele, has won rights to the domain name Pele.com. Montag Divulgaçao Ltda filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Forum. It argued that the respondent registered the domain name in bad faith because the coming soon page at Pele.com read “website for sale” and redirected to valuate.com, an online domain name valuation ... read more ...
 
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Brilliant: Bob Parsons to Keynote DOMAINfest - Go Daddy founder to give keynote presentation at DOMAINfest. I didn’t see this coming, but it’s brilliant: Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons will keynote February’s DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica. DOMAINfest is run by Oversee.net, which owns Moniker. Go Daddy is certainly its #1 competitor for domain registration. Go Daddy is the biggest domain name registrar and manages perhaps 20 times as many domains as Moniker. But DOMAINfest is an industry ... read more ...
Wed 1st December 2010
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Why Hasn’t The Government Seized The Domain Name WikiLeaks.Org? - As you know the government seized 82 domain names for intellectual property violations over the weekend. Yet the site WikiLeaks.org is publishing on a daily basis top secret and classified documents of the US government. This information is by in large damaging the country, its relations with other countries and even many countries relationships with other countries. The US government has said on many occasions some of the information endangers the lives of US citizens and citizens of other countries ... read more ...
 
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The Supreme Court Lets The Ruling In Favor Of eBay For Selling Fake Tiffany Goods Stand - Last weekend we told you about the US government seizing over 70 domain names on which sites were allegedly  selling fake or counterfeit goods. The U.S. Supreme Court has now refused to hear an appeal filed by Tiffany over a 2008 court decision that found in favor of eBay in a trademark infringement lawsuit over the sale of fake Tiffany goods. By refusing to hear the appeal the Supreme Court is allowing a 2008 Federal court decision in to stand. eBay points out that they are not actually selling ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Gains $4.3M on Investments, War Chest Tops $60 Million - ICANN’s war chest continues to grow. ICANN released details of its FY 2010 financial year (which ran through June 2010) today. The non-profit had revenues of $65.8 million and expenses of $58.6 million. Revenues were up 9.2% from FY 2009 and expenses grew 14.3%. The revenue source is fairly evenly split between registrar and registry fees, although the registry fees are ultimately passed on from the registrant through both the registrar and registry. ICANN also ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net Launches CreditCards.org Web Site - Company launches another developed web site. Oversee.net continues to expand its network of lead generation and CPA portals, this time with CreditCards.org. The site includes information about using credit wisely and consumer news, but the main idea is to get people to apply for credit cards. There are a number of similar credit card comparison sites on the web, most notably CreditCards.com. Operators of credit card comparison sites typically earn money with each ... read more ...
 
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Um, ICANN Had Nothing to Do with Torrent Domain Seizures - You can blame ICANN, but not for this one. I was just looking at ICANN’s page for next week’s meeting in Colombia and noticed they show a twitter feed picking up comments on ICANN. Today it’s flooded with this tweet: @brokep: Hello all #isp of the world. We’re going to add a new competing root-server since we’re tired of #ICANN. Please contact me to help. This discussion stems from the U.S. government seizure of a number of domain names last week that were ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Domain Name News Stories of Nov 2010 - .Co and FB.com top stories for November. Here’s a look back at the top five stories on Domain Name Wire for November based on total page views. 1. GoDaddy Replaces .Com with .Co, Now Default Choice – there are some posts I write that I know are going to get a lot of traffic. There are others that I assume will just get a bit of traffic and then die. I thought this post was one of the latter, but it turned into the former. Apparently GoDaddy’s .co test caught ... read more ...