Monthly Archives: January 2011

Thu 20th January 2011
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Domain Names First Salvo in UAW vs. Toyota Fight - Toyota domains registered — a defensive move? The domain names EmployeesAgainstToyota.com and ToyotaTracker.com have been registered as the United Autoworkers Union prepares to do battle with Toyota. The domain names were registered on January 17 by DNStination, Inc., an affiliate of brand protection company Mark Monitor. DNStination was the same company that acquired FB.com on behalf of Facebook and recently registered disparaging domain names on behalf of Bank ... read more ...
Wed 19th January 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
BusinessInsider.com Asks: Will Dot.Com’s Become The Dinosaurs Of The Internet? - BusinessInsider.com just published an article entitled “Will Dot.com’s Eventually become the Dinosaurs of the Internet? “During the Internet bubble, you were an automatic millionaire if you owned a one-word domain name that matched your business (example: Car.com, Hotel.com and Sex.com etc). Now that all the good ones are taken, it seems to be more than popular to snatch up a domain name with a crazy extension.” “Ever heard of the Internet tool to shorten a URL called Bit.ly? Chances ... read more ...
 
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DomainAdvisors Partners with Linton Investments LLC - According to a Press Release we just received, DomainAdvisors announced today it has entered into “a strategic partnership with Los Angeles-based Linton Investments LLC. Linton Investments started in 2007 and has spent the last three years acquiring, developing and branding exact-match domains.” “I learned early-on that I could get onto the first page of Google and Bing by combining exact-match domains with an informative content site and good SEO,” said Morgan Linton, Founder of Linton ... read more ...
 
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AY.com Hits a Auction Block At Flippa With A Buy It Now Price of “Just $2 Million Dollars” - The domain name AY.com has just been listed at Flippa.com with a buy it now price of “just $2 Million Dollars” According to the press release tonight that cited the recently reported sale of FB.com to Facebook for over $8 Million: “As recently as a few months ago, Facebook purchased the domain name “FB.com” for $8.5 million.” “”2-letter “dot com” domain names are so rare, it’s hard to find any recent sales records for them.”” “Today there was an auction posted on Flippa.com ... read more ...
 
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Apple By The Numbers: $27 Billion In Sales, $6 Billion Profits; 7 Million iPads and 16 Million iPhones - When your talking about Apple your taking about numbers which are just, well before Apple pretty much unimaginable. Shares of Apple started the day off around 7% after Steve Jobs announcement yesterday that he was taking a medical leave but wound up trading higher after it released its earnings tonight. According to TechCrunch Apple market Cap had a one day swing of $20 BILLION. Yes the shares of Apple which fell as much as $20 a share earlier today at the open were up as much as $15 after hours ... read more ...
 
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Is “Rip-Off Report” a Same as “Report a Rip Off”? One UDRP Panelist Thinks So. - The never ending stretch of confusing similarity. National Arbitration Forum panelist Jonas Gulliksson has determined that the “Report a rip off” is confusingly similar to “Rip-Off Report”, and has ordered ReportaRipoff.net transferred to the owner of RipoffReport.com. Now, if what the complainant in this case states is true, it’s clear that the registrant of ReportaRipoff.net crossed some bounds that were sure to land him in hot water. But I have a hard ... read more ...
 
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Austin.com Goes Up for Sale - Big geo domain is looking for a new owner. The domain name and web site Austin.com is now officially for sale at Sedo. I caught wind a few months ago that the site was up for sale, which didn’t surprise me much. I met with one of Austin.com’s key employees a year or two ago and left feeling that the site owners were taking it in the wrong direction. They were investing a significant amount on creating timely content rather than focusing on building out the directory ... read more ...
 
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Left of a Dot Media Hires Frank Michlick as CTO - Familiar face joins startup domain name monetization company. A new monetization service for owners of premium domain names has hired domain consultant and writer Frank Michlick as Chief Technology Officer, Domain Name Wire has learned. Left of the Dot Media enables domain owners to sell subdomains (i.e. third level domain names) on their existing domains. The company is currently working on Villa.com. For example, a villa owner in Orlando could register orlando.villa.com. ... read more ...
 
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South Sudan Could Name Itself for Domain Name Profits - New country means a new country code. When Montenegro became independent from the former Yugoslavia (aka Serbia and Montenegro) it also picked up a nifty country code, ME. As the official country code in ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency’s list for the country it’s also what was delegated to the country as a country code top level domain name — .me. .Me has been marketed as a vanity top level domain name and has generated revenue for the country. Another country ... read more ...
Tue 18th January 2011
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Another LLLL.com Leads Afternic’s $500K Week As Maac.com Sells for $63K - Once again a LLLL.com domain stared in Afternic weekly sales list This week the domain name MAAC.com lead the sales chart with a $63K sale. Besides being pretty close to Mac.com ( I wonder how owns that?) MACC stands for a LOT of organizations and companies. $18K for brainwater.com? Hum I guess it is pretty close to Smartwater so I guess both will make you a better person. lolshirts.com for $6K Lol Seriously 5 other LLLL.com made the list as well Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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The Director of Operations of NameDrive (UK) James Tuplin Announces He is Moving On - One of our predictions for 2011 was that you would be seeing a lot of big names in the domain world moving Last week we wrote about Jeff Gabriel who resigned from Sedo, and today comes word that James Tuplin,  Director Of Operations UK for  NameDrive LLC is leaving the company. In a statement sent to customers James wrote: “”As some of you may know, this month will be my last working @ NameDrive.” “I would like to take this opportunity thank each and everyone of you for your friendship, ... read more ...
 
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The Entire Schedule of Parties For Domainfest is Released - Domainfest starts just 2 weeks from today in Santa Monica. Oversee just announced the schedule and details of parties for the show: Polynesian Paradise Party.  Tuesday evening’s event will be held in the conference hotel’s Pool Terrace and Miramar Gardens from 6:00-9:00 p.m.  Sponsored by .CO, this party will feature Polynesian music, dancers and cocktails.  There will also be a worst Hawaiian shirt contest. The Golden Era of Hollywood Party at SkyBar. will be held on Wednesday evening’s ... read more ...
 
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LEETU.COM To Sell For $260,000? - The Domain Name Leetu.com has a bid of 200,000 Euro’s on Sedo.com. The domain name has meet reserve and looks like its going to sell. At today’s exchange rate the bid is approximately $260,000. According to Sedo Tracker,  Leetu.com, has gotten 129,510 Unique Visitors and 184,410 page views over the last 32 days. Leetu.com appears to be a Spanish blog built on a Word Press site and has a worldwide Alexa Ranking of 77K. But has an Alexa Ranking of 10K or better in many Spanish speaking countries ... read more ...
 
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For Sale: A 1 Month Old Site; 253K Users; 4.9 Million Visitors; Oh Yeah Its A .Me - TechCrunch.com wrote tonight about a site that is for sale which boasts 253,000 users, 4.9 Million Visitors, 17 Million Page Views and is only around 30 days old. And if that doesn’t make you feel kind of sick to your stomach the webmaster is only 18 years old. And did I tell you the site is a .Me? Threewords.me is the site which is now for sale. The domain was hand registered on December 20th, 2010. Today is January 17th, 2011. However it only took 10 days for someone else to register the domain ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Sells MAAC.com for $63,000 and MLKonline.com for $42,500 - Domain name broker brings in big sales. Afternic had another strong sales week. In the top reportable sale, Mid-America Apartment Communities bought MAAC.com for a solid $63,000. The publicly traded REIT has over 45,000 apartment units. This is a nice domain upgrade for the company, which currently has its home at maac.NET. In a very timely sale, Afternic also sold MLKonline.com for $42,500 to a non-profit. Here are other notable reportable sales for the week: harmonie.com ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Panel Takes Away Demand Media’s PEP.mobi domain name - Demand Media’s Demand Domains loses three letter .mobi domain name. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Warwick A. Rothnie has awarded Demand Media’s PEP.mobi domain name to South African retailer Pepkor. Rothnie determined that the three letter generic domain name was registered in bad faith to target Pepkor’s “pep” mark because some of the ads on the parked pep.mobi page lead to ads targeted to South Africa — not necessarily because of ... read more ...
 
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The Biggest Party, err, Domain Conference, is Just a Couple Weeks Away - DOMAINfest quickly approaching. The biggest domain name conference and domainer party of the year is just around the corner. DOMAINfest Global 2011 kicks off Tuesday, February 1 at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, California. And although you’ll certainly learn a lot at the event, you have to admit a big draw happens each evening. On Tuesday night .Co Internet will host a Polynesian Paradise Party at the hotel’s Pool Terrace and Miramar Gardens. .Co tried ... read more ...
 
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The First Thing to Do When You Get an Offer on a Domain Name - Shift to syndicated buy-it-now domain listings changes what you do after receiving an offer on your domain names. In the “old days” when you received an offer on a domain name your first step would be to try to figure out who’s was making the offer. But now that many people are using buy-it-now syndicated listings with Go Daddy and Afternic, there’s a step that’s even more important: removing your buy-it-now listing before negotiating. For example, over ... read more ...
Mon 17th January 2011
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WTR: Trademark Owners Plan to A Big Push For More Protection Before ICANN Mar Meeting - According to the WorldTrademarkReview.com, trademark holders are planning on making a big push for more protections for them and less rights for domain name holders during the ICANN board meets with the Government Advisory Council (GAC) next month before the ICANN March meeting in SF. The GAC is an ICANN advisory group made up of representatives from many governments. As we reported from the ICANN Colombia meeting, the Government representatives which apparently were heavily and effective lobbied ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Panel Hands Over VAX.com Domain Name - Three letter domain won through UDRP. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist J. Nelson Landry has ordered the VAX.com domain name be transferred to floor care products company Vax Limited. Landry noted that the term VAX was a “coined term”, and didn’t consider the potential that it was a generic acronym. That said, the respondent didn’t do himself any favors. Not only did he fail to respond to the proceedings, but he’s also lost 11 UDRP decisions ... read more ...
Sun 16th January 2011
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Another .TV Empire Is Born: Prime.TV Including: Guys.TV, Medical.TV; Makeover.TV; Artist.TV; Executive.TV; WildLife.TV & Tons More - Prime.TV a company located in Oslo Norway seems to be building out a small empire of excellent .TV sites in various languages including English, German, and Norwegian and the company was just founded last year. Prime.TV internet properties include these gems: Guys.TV, Medical.TV; Modern.TV; Makeover.TV; Experience.TV, Inside.TV; Artist.TV; Executive.TV; WildLife.TV; DreamHome.TV; Bites.TV; User.TV; Decor.TV; Fabulous.TV; Hardcore.TV and Softcore.TV Teknologi.TV (Norwegian for Technology) Ferie.TV ... read more ...
Sat 15th January 2011
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Facebook Hits $70 BILLION Dollar Valuation Just 2 Weeks After Hitting $50 Billion - According to TechCrunch.com, a block of shares traded for Facebook.com at $28.26 a share yesterday on SecondMarket.com Based on that sale Facebook.com is now valued at $70 Billion dollars. Back On January 3rd we told you that Goldman Sachs invested $450 million into Facebook which gave it a $50 Billion dollar valuation. So in less than 2 weeks Facebook has gone from a $50Billion dollar valuation to a $70 Billion dollar valuation, and of course the shares are not even public yet. As a comparison, ... read more ...
Fri 14th January 2011
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RightHaven Is Now Coming After Comment Posters Not Just Websites - According to the LasVegasSun.com “the copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC is now suing individual message-board posters, not just website operators.” According to the story “Righthaven filed seven infringement lawsuits Tuesday and Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Nevada, lifting its lawsuit total since March to at least 203.” “Among the defendants sued Monday were message board posters identified as James Higgins and Wayne Hoehn.” “Higgins, according to Righthaven, posts ... read more ...
 
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The Worlds Longest TM Domain? Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com - Going through a drop list I came across this beauty which I’m just going to give the title to as the world’s longest trademark infringing domain. The domain which was registered in October 2008, is dropping in the next couple of days. Amazingly enough this domain actually even has a small Alexa Ranking. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Which Domain Parking Company is Best? - They all suck now, but it seems Parked.com is still the best, even after being cut off at the knees with a circular saw, shot in the face with a shotgun, and stabbed in the stomach by a pitchfork by the greedy, slimy, loser company named Bing. Sedo does okay on certain domains ; DomainAdvertising.com does okay on some domains also. But on a whole though Parked is still beating the competition, and that is sad b/c Parked is down around 50% since the migration. Whatever company though ... read more ...