Monthly Archives: January 2011

Mon 31st January 2011
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Another Picture Clue For The New Godaddy.Co Girl Is Released - Godaddy has released another teaser picture of the new Godaddy.Co girl. Over the last weeks we got a teaser picture of her legs, then her butt, and now we have the chest. You know who out pick is. So let the guessing continue, but for those who picked Betty White, I think your out of luck. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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WorldWide Media, Inc. Launches Its Corporate Site At wwmi.com - I know your all familiar with this blog, Thedomains.com and our retail site,  MostWantedDomains.com, but many of you may not know that they are both owned by a Florida company, Worldwide Media, Inc.. Today my company is finally officially launched it corporate site at wwmi.com (WorldWide Media, Inc.) We actually have some pretty big plans for 2011,  some of which you will hear as early as tomorrow in a  press release scheduled for Tuesday AM. (You may get a hint if you check out the site) While ... read more ...
 
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History Does Repeat Itself: Historia.com Hits The Auction Block At NameJet 1 Year After It Sold For Over $40K - The domain name Historia.com is back in pre-release at NameJet.com just about one year after it sold on NameJet.com for over $40K. There is an old saying that history repeats itself, and that saying is proving to be correct. Historia is Spanish for History. It is also the name of a cable station in Canada There is also a Historia Magazine published in France. Although the domain backorder period for Historia.com doesn’t close for a week (Feb 7th) there are already 174 bidders. Historia.com sold ... read more ...
 
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New Study: Why The Yahoo-Bing “Search Alliance Is Paying Off for Paid Search” - According to a report published by Marin Software Wednesday. The report, “Why the Search Alliance Is Paying Off for Paid Search,” suggests the Microsoft and Yahoo search alliance increased the share of paid-search impressions by 4% and share of clicks by 2%, while Google’s share declined by the same percentage. Microsoft and Yahoo saw paid-search share of impressions rise from 19% to 23%, and paid clicks rise to from 19% to 21% in the first few months after the alliance went into ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Suggests Domain Sellers Use a Super Bowl Bump - Company touts Premium Listings ahead of Super Bowl commercials. On Super Bowl Sunday traffic will flood to GoDaddy.com as millions of guys decide they want to get teased by possibly naked pictures of Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels. Some of them will buy domain names, and that’s good news for you. Today the company put out a press release touting its Premium Listings and suggesting that Super Bowl traffic will drive more premium listing sales. I’m a fan of ... read more ...
 
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Action.com Looks Like It Sold for Big Bucks Again - Sedo sales feed reports a big sale. Action.com sold for $230,000 at a live Moniker auction back in 2008, and it looks like it may have just sold for big bucks once again. This morning Sedo’s domain sales feed shows a $270,000 sale for the domain name: Sedo’s RSS sales feed is known for randomly throwing up sales from many years ago, but given the difference in price this one looks to be legit. (Plus, Sedo wasn’t the seller back in 2008). The whois on the ... read more ...
 
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Person Files UDRP Against New Domain Owner After Letting Domain Expire - Former owner of domain claims cybersquatting after letting domain registration lapse. Imagine that a domain name expires and you pick it up in an expired domain auction. Then the previous owner files a UDRP against you claiming cybersquatting to get the domain name back. I’ve seen a few cases like this, including one just decided for PitRoad.com. In this case the complainant had a registered trademark for PitRoad.com*, which could have been harmful to the respondent. ... read more ...
Sun 30th January 2011
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IndianOil.Org Lost In A WIPO Decision: Is IndianOil.com Next? - The domain name Indianoil.org was award to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) in a WIPO decision . The decision seems to be unpublished but in a story appearing in  the hindustantimes.com, it appears a one member panel concluded that: “IOC has the exclusive right to use the domain name as it is a well-known company.” The trademark, ‘INDIAN OIL’, registered in 1986, while the domain holder registered the domain in 2005. The domain holder apparently did not file a response to the complaint. Of ... read more ...
 
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What Is Demand Media Worth? SeekingAlpha Says $5-$10 A Share - As you know Demand Media went public this week closing around $20 a share after getting to as high as $25 on its opening day. There is a lot of debate concerning what the proper valuation of Demand is from inside and outside the domain industry. SeekingAlpha, a site that focus on investing and the stock market in general, published a story on Thursday when Demand Stock was trading at $22.65 (closed Friday at $20.44), entitled “The Bubble is Back: Will Demand Media Go Below $10?” SeekingAlpha ... read more ...
 
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After Losing UDRP, New York Times Buys DealBook.com from Frank Schilling - Media behemoth buys Dealbook.com domain name after losing arbitration for the domain. In November I wrote about how Frank Schilling defeated New York Times Company in a landmark UDRP ruling for the domain name Dealbook.com. After losing the decision it appears New York Times ponied up and bought the domain name. The domain name has not yet been forwarded to the publication’s Dealbook site. Schilling’s Name Administration owned the domain name through early ... read more ...
Sat 29th January 2011
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We Should Find Out Next Week If UDRP Reform Is Coming: ICA Corwin Reacts - Next week on February 3 the GNSO (General Names Supporting Organization) of ICANN will take a vote on a motion that will determine whether ICANN will consider UDRP reform. The motion up for vote includes the following: “”RESOLVED #2, the GNSO Council requests an Issues Report on the current state of the UDRP. This effort should consider: How the UDRP has addressed the problem of cybersquatting to date, and any insufficiencies/inequalities associated with the process. Whether the definition of ... read more ...
 
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Julian Assange Now Owns WikiLeaks.com - Founder of controversial WikiLeaks organization now owns Wikileaks.com domain name. Last week I wrote about how the domain name wikileaks.com had expired. The domain name was registered by Wikia, Inc, the group behind Wikipedia, for defensive reasons after the official WikiLeaks site Wikileaks.org launched. Wikia was trying to hand the domain name over to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, but Assange failed to accept the transfer and the domain name expired ... read more ...
Fri 28th January 2011
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Florida Is Consider Legalizing Internet Poker - According to the Sun Sentinel, a South Florida newspaper, the State of Florida is considering legalizing Internet Poker. A Bill  introduced by Florida Rep. Joseph Abruzzo, would legalize Internet poker effective July 1,  2011. Mr. Abruzzo is quoted by the paper saying: “There are hundreds of thousands of players in Florida in unregulated and unprotected offshore sites. “Why not legalize, regulate and bring in revenue from something that’s already occurring?” According to the Sun-Sentinel: ... read more ...
 
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1717.com Already At $22K during SnapNames: How High Will it Go? - The domain name 1717.com is up at auction at Snapnames.com and the high bid is already $22,000. There are 195 people in the closed auction which ends on Sunday at 3:15 EST, in accordance with normal closing rules of Snap. This gem was a true drop domain and there were high prebids already in place at Namejet.com We know NNNN.com have a high value and are prized especially in the Asian market. There is currently 5 bidders at $15K or higher. So how high will this domain go? My prediction is $50K. What ... read more ...
 
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February Domain & Internet Calendar - Its going to be another busy month in the Domain and Internet world, top heavy with a bunch of events and shows in the first half of the month. The iGaming domain name auction ends on Feburary 1 on Snapnames.com. The auction includes such gems as Wagering.com, Poker.me and Roulette.ca. The most attended domain show of the year also kicks off on February 1st at DomainFest Global (DFG). DFG will be held from February 1st-4th at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica. Bob Parsons the founder and CEO of ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net Acquires ShopWiki - Oversee.net just announced in a press release that it has acquires ShopWiki “As Anchor Property in Retail Vertical Market” Here is the press release: “Oversee.net® has acquired ShopWiki Corp., parent of the multinational Internet shopping search engine, the companies said today. “The acquisition is the first in the consumer retail space for Oversee’s expanding Vertical Markets division, which is further developing the company’s contextual search and comparative results capabilities to ... read more ...
 
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Google Changes Algorithm to Address Sites with Unoriginal Content - Algorithm change went into effect earlier this week. Google web spam czar Matt Cutts blogged today about a recent algorithm change to Google’s rankings. The algorithm change is a follow up to Cutt’s post a week ago about addressing low level “content farms”. An algorithm change designed to address these concerns launched earlier this week. It specifically addresses “sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content”. I suspect ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Shares IDN Plans with Investors - Company updates investors on internationalized domain names. Yesterday VeriSign released fourth quarter results. On the investor conference call CEO Mark McLaughlin answered questions regarding the market opportunity for internationalized domain names, or IDNs. McLaughlin explained “You could expect us to bid on all of the transliterations for .com and .net” when the new gTLD process is opened up. Of course ‘all’ is a big number. I expect the company to ... read more ...
 
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Stars Aligning for .Nxt Conference - New gTLD conference timing might end up being perfect after all. Just days after .Nxt Conference organizer Kieren McCarthy lamented that some supporters were asking him to postpone his new gTLD conference, it looks like the timing is better than ever. Yesterday ICANN released documents showing that it is formally invoking the GAC-Board consultation process and intends to approve the final applicant guidebook for new TLDs in March. That makes .Nxt’s February timing ... read more ...
Thu 27th January 2011
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VeriSign Reports Earnings: 9% More .com & Nets: Revenue Up 13%: But Is That So Great When They Get A Guaranteed 7% Increase? - VeriSign, Inc a stock we follow in our Domain Stock Index,  reported earnings for the 4th quarter after the market closed today. And while the executives are busy patting themselves on the back for the great job they did to increase Verisign revenue 13% we can help but point out they VeriSign is guaranteed, like few companies on the planet, a 7% annual price increase in any 4 of 6 years they feel like increasing prices (this last year being one of them) without needing to show increased cost or ... read more ...
 
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Demand, VeriSign, Web.com and Neustar Added To Our Domain Stock Index - We added 4 companies to our Domain Stock Index which tracks some of the public companies that are heavily involved in domain names. As always stock prices are updated every 15 minutes through each trading day. The stock index is located on the bottom right of our main page. Demand Media owns Enom.com the 2nd largest registrar in the world, NameJet.com the auction house, and hundreds of thousands of domains. VeriSign as most of you know runs the .com and .net registries and also owns the .Tv registry.  ... read more ...
 
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Numeric Only Domains Coming to .Tel - 777.tel on its way. Soon you’ll be able to register .tel domain names existing solely of two or more digits. This week ICANN’s Board of Directors agreed to amend its registry agreement with Telnic to allow for the numeric domain names. Telnic requested the change through the Registry Service Evaluation Policy (RSEP) process, which opened up the proposal to public comments. Go Daddy filed comments opposed to Telnic’s plan. The registrar argued that the change ... read more ...
 
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India Gets 7 IDN County Code Domain Names - India gets seven IDN ccTLDS and more good news for IDN domain name supporters. One thing I learned on my trip to India earlier this month is that there are a lot of local languages. This week ICANN approved delegation of seven (yes, seven) internationalized county code domain names to National Internet Exchange of India. The delegated ccTLDs include भारत (“Bharat”), encoded as “xn--h2brj9c”; بھارت “Bharat”), encoded ... read more ...
 
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New TLD Guidebook May Be Approved in Mar After All - New TLD supporters received good news today. After what seemed like disappointing news last week, now things are looking up for potential new top level domain name applicants. ICANN just released resolutions from its board meeting on January 25 and they indicate that ICANN plans to go forward with approving the applicant guidebook during the March meeting in San Francisco. The group plans to “trigger the Bylaws mandated consultation” with the Governmental Advisory ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Loses Money (Sort Of) as .Com and .Net Top 105 Million - Excluding a one time charge VeriSign reports nice earnings for Q4. VeriSign reported a loss for the fourth quarter of 2010 in earnings just released. So how can the company that prints money with the .com and .net registry lose money? It was a one time charge related to contingent interest on a special dividend that swung the company to a loss. Ignore this one time event and VeriSign had a great quarter thanks to rising domain registrations. The company earned and ... read more ...