Monthly Archives: March 2011

Thu 24th March 2011
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CNBC’s “Squawk On The Street” Covers New gTLD’s & .XXX Staring The Heads Of Central Nic & CADNA: “Has The Internet Out Grown .Com?” - CNBC Had a 5 minutes + segment on Squawk On The Street” on the new gTLD program and .XXX on Tuesday entitled “Has the Internet outgrown .Com” “The segment discussed whether adding more domains for websites will have big implications for both consumers and companies.” Ben Crawford of Central Nic and Dot Brand Solutions and Josh Bourne, the head of the The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA). “Josh I had no idea domain names were being abused.” said the host of the show Josh ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Picks Senegal for Oct Meeting - ICANN heads to western Africa this fall. ICANN’s October 2011 meeting will be held in Dakar, Senegal, the non-profit announced today. Dakar is Senegal’s capital and is home to two million people. The last meeting ICANN held in Africa was poorly attended due to security concerns. However, last year’s Nairobi, Kenya meeting concluded without any public incidents. ICANN has already moved one meeting location this year, moving a planned June meeting in Jordan ... read more ...
 
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Former Oversee.net Employee Plans Daily Deals Conference - The “Daily Deals” business is now big enough to have its own conference. You know “daily deals” such as Group are big. But big enough to support an dedicated conference? You bet. Jay Weintraub, who worked at Advertising.com before spending five years at domain industry powerhouse Oversee.net, is holding his first Daily Deal Summit April 6 in New York City. (You can tell he has a background in domain names; in addition to dailydealSummit.com he also owns ... read more ...
 
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India May Try to Block .XXX - Government may block access to .xxx. India’s government will block access to the .xxx top level domain name, according to an article in The Economic Times. A senior official at the ministry of IT said that the domain goes against the country’s IT Act and Indian laws. Other countries will certainly block the top level domain name, but this shouldn’t worry adult site operators. After all, many countries currently filter the web sites accessible within their borders. ... read more ...
 
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Sequoia and Bain Capital-Backed Startup Was $350,000 Color.com Buyer - Startup with big funding bought Color.com for $350,000 in December. In December I wrote about a GoDaddy-brokered sale of Color.com for $350,000. We now know the buyer — a hot photo sharing startup with $41 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank before it even launched. Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch describes it as a location-based twitter for photos. Here’s one scenario he describes: Say you walk into a restaurant with twenty ... read more ...
 
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Octane360 Domain Monetization Review (One Year Later) - An update to my review of geo domain monetization solution. It’s been over a year since I provided early results from monetizing domain names on Octane360. I titled my review “Octane360 Takes Domain Monetization Beyond PPC“. Although I’m still happy with my results on Octane360, a lot of things have changed since my original review — including the “beyond PPC”. As it turns out, over half of my revenue on the system is coming from PPC now. The big ... read more ...
Wed 23rd March 2011
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Yahoo Answers Google’s Instant By Rolling Out Search Direct: Guess Who Owns The Domain - According to TechCrunch.com, Yahoo has countered Google’s Instant Search Product with it’s own named “Search Direct” “It looks a lot like Google Instant: as you start typing a query into Yahoo Search, the site will begin populating results with each new character entered (in other words, you don’t have to hit the ‘return’ key). The feature is now live at search.yahoo.com.” “Yahoo says that Search Direct is looking to help match users with “answers, not links”. As you start ... read more ...
 
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Two Great Florida Domainer Events Coming Up: John Ferber Secret Millionaire Viewing Party & Domainer’s Spring Fling - There are two great networking opportunities coming up for all Florida Domainers are coming up. On This Sunday March 27th there is going to be a viewing party as John Ferber starts in ABC’s Hit TV show “Secret Millionaire”. The even will be held at Atlantique Cafe in Delray Beach, Florida (777 East Atlantic Avenue) from 7-10pm. The Show airs at 8pm EST. John will be in attendance, as well as many other domainers who have already committed to attend, including myself and my wife. A donation ... read more ...
 
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Tim Gordon Can Keep Gordons.com Despite Jeweler’s Complaint - Jewelry giant goes after guy’s last name. Tim Gordon registered Gordons.com back in 1995. It was an obvious domain name for him given his family’s last name. But in 2011, more than 15 years after he registered the domain name, a Zale Corporation subsidiary that runs Gordon’s Jewelers filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name. Tim Gordon just won the case. The single person panel ruled that Gordon has rights or legitimate interests ... read more ...
 
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Get Out a Vote with .Vote? - Utah company files trademark application for .vote. Will .vote be among the applications for new top level domain names filed later this year? A Utah company filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last Friday for .vote for “Domain name registration services”. [Update: this is a refiling of .vote. The USPTO refused an earlier application by the company.] The applicant is Pack Holdings, LLC, a company that has scarce record on the ... read more ...
 
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Domain Madness 3 Releases Auction Catalog - Will Domain Madness be as “mad” as last year? Domain Madness has just released the catalog for its third annual domain auction. The auction will start on March 29 with a live auction finale April 5 at 4pm CDT. The auction starts all domains out at their reserve price, with prices ranging from $1,000 to $200,000. Last year’s auction is best known for the sale of CamRoulette.com. The highest priced domain in the catalog is FinancialPlanners.com for $200,000. ... read more ...
Tue 22nd March 2011
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Afternic.com Sells Over $500K In Domains Led By Sincerely.com At $20k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday March 20th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $507,522. The top seller of the week was Sincerely.com at $20,000 followed by Tview.com at $19,550.   Here is the full list:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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The 20 Year Old Domain Name Pad.com Hits The Auction Block At Bido.com - The domain name Pad.com is going on the auction block in just a few days at Bido.com The domain Pad.com has an original creation date of December 5th 1990 making it over 20 years old. The domain is operated as Pad Business Solutions. According to the owner,  the domain receives 300 visitors a day. The domain has an Alexa ranking of 3M, and a Compete shows 1,700 visitors a month. I’m told there is a Buy it Now (BIN) price of $135,00o before the auction starts. The auction starts on March 26, 3:30 ... read more ...
 
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.XXX? Videoporno.com Sells for $17K on Sedo.com - Just days after the green light was given to the .XXX extension the domain name Videoporno.com sold on Sedo.com for $17,000 The domain which has an Alexa Rank of 3.3 Million is an indication that there is still plenty of interest in adult .com’s  despite the looming .XXX extension. Over at Worldwidemedia we have a pending sale which will be under an NDA, in the six figures for a set of adult domains as well.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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CrowdGather.com Acquires RapMusic.com & It’s 5 Million Monthly Page Views - According to a press release today, CrowdGather (OTCBB:CRWG), today announced that it has acquired the domain name, website, and assets related to Rapmusic.com. “According to Google Analytics, Rapmusic.com generates approximately 5 million monthly pageviews and 450,000 monthly unique visitors.” “As a result of this purchase and organic growth in traffic experienced by CrowdGather, network traffic is currently at approximately 100 million pageviews per month and over 10 million monthly ... read more ...
 
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Tuesday Evening Domain Name Thoughts - Domain name news and thoughts. It’s been a busy day, so I’m going to summarize some of the things I haven’t gotten to yet… – There were a lot of UDRP cases published today in which the domain owner won, including Fulltime.com, CanDoBetter.com, and intertekqeshm.com. There was also an interesting case about cult leader Christopher Marc Nemelka, who lost a claim for chrisnemelka.com. This case is interesting because the respondent managed to remain anonymous ... read more ...
 
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My First Afternic Premium Sale: $6,800 - Take advantage of one of the best domain sales channels. I was quick to jump on the bandwagon when Afternic announced its new instant transfer partners for Premium Promotion last year. With Premium Promotion you can list a domain name that you have at, say Moniker, directly in the sales path at other partner registrars such as eNom. When someone searches for the domain name at eNom they can add it to their shopping cart and buy it instantly. That’s exactly what ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Wants Patents for Announcing Domain Registrations on Facebook - Domain name registrar files two patent applications for promoting newly registered domain names. The Go Daddy Group, parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed a pair of patent applications related to announcing a new domain registration on social networking sites such as Facebook. The patent applications are 12/561408 for “Social Website Domain Registration Announcement” and 12/561439 for “Social Website Domain Registration Search Engine Feed”. The ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Holding Revenue Drops, Value of Domain Portfolio Falls - Company reports preliminary numbers for 2010. Sedo Holding, parent company of domain parking and sales company Sedo, saw its revenue drop significantly in the 2010 financial year. It also took an earnings hit thanks to a devaluation of its own domain portfolio. Revenue fell from EUR 135.3 to EUR 116.1 million in FY 2010. But this drop was expected because of a changed contractual relationship with a large affiliate marketing customer. (Sedo Holding has two main ... read more ...
Mon 21st March 2011
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Bill Clinton: The Internet; New gTLD’s and Why .XXX Should Have Been Approved - At a standing room only crowd at ICANN Bill Clinton chatted about the importance of technology, moving the Internet forward to create jobs and get the economy back on track Some of the important takeaways of the speech and Q A session that followed for me were the following: “Back when I came into office the average cell phone weighted 5 lbs and only 50 sites on the web, by the time I left office there were 36 million sites on the net.” “The country needs a a new source of economic activity ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Showable.com For $20K - The domain name Showable.com just sold for $20,000 It’s seems like a nice sale for the seller Another nice domain sale was  StreetArt.com which sold for $12K treatmentcentre.com also sold for $6,221 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.XXX Pre-Reservations Breaks The 300,000 Mark Adding 90,000 in Since Approval - According to ICM Registry site there are now over 300,000 pre-reservations for a .XXX domain. Prior to ICANN’s Approval of the .XXX extension on Friday which came about around 3pm EST, there were only 211,000 pre-reservations so that is 90,000 pre-reservations in less than 3 days since approval. Of course a pre-reservation does not require any payment but its a indication there is a lot interest in this extension. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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How most Will The Typo Ticketmater.com Sell For At Godaddy? Its Already Over $7k - The expired domain name Ticketmater.com an abvious Typo of TicketMaster.com is now at a Godaddy.com expired auction. With a Godaddy estimate of over 7,000 visitors a month, the domain name is already over $7K at Godaddy.com with 7 bidders who are battling it out (so far) with bids over $1K. The auction ends at 1pm today EST. Can’t wait to see where this one winds up although under privacy is a pretty sure bet. Also can’t wait for the UDRP that is sure to come shortly thereafter. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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72% of .TV Domains in Auction Have Bids - .TV auction is going strong with two days remaining. The .TV auction on SnapNames doesn’t end until Wednesday, but already 72% of the domains have bids. At the time of writing 121 of the 169 .tv domain names have bids. 108 of the domains have met their reserve and will definitely sell by Wednesday. So far the top bid is for MR.tv at $3,600. HI.tv isn’t far behind at $3,200. HI.tv is good because ‘hi’ is a word, but it is also the abbreviation for Hawaii. The ... read more ...
 
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DomainPeers.com Helps You CrowdSource Web Development - New site brings together basic building blocks of domain development. A new web site seeks to help domain name owners develop their domain names with the power of crowdsourcing. DomainPeers.com brings together logo and template design as well as web hosting for one site a week day. Domain owners can submit their domain for voting by the community. Once the community picks the weekly site, designers and hosting companies go to work. The community then selects the ... read more ...