Monthly Archives: March 2011

Mon 7th March 2011
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sedo Adds Three ccTLDs to Instant-Transfer Program - Instant transfer and listing syndication service adds three more TLDs. Sedo has added three additional top level domain names to its instant-transfer MLS program: .co, .it, and .nl. SedoMLS is similar to Afternic Premium and GoDaddy Premium Listings. They allow you to sell your domain names in the registration path at domain registrars. Buyers can add the domain to their shopping cart and purchase it immediately, getting the domain in their control within minutes. Sedo ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Advice for New Bloggers - Some tips for starting your own blog. I received an email from an Austin resident who came across my blog the other day. He said “I’m looking for a way to make a modest, full-time living as a blogger” and he wanted to know if I’d ever written any advice on doing this. I don’t think I have. I don’t pretend to be TechCrunch, HuffPo, or anything like that. But this blog does generate six figures in ad revenue a year, which is a nice goal. I’ll also preface ... read more ...
 
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iPad2.com Is Registered. So Is iPad25.com. - Just about every future iPad#.com domain is taken. The year is 2036. The media is buzzing as Apple’s latest CEO introduces the iPad 25. The wafer thin, flexible screen holographic device wows the crowd. Somewhere, an interested consumer types iPad25.com into his browser bar. But Apple doesn’t own it. (Although it owns iPad25.apple). I was looking for Ipad 2 information today only to find that, just like iPad.com, Apple doesn’t own iPad2.com. Many people ... read more ...
 
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1986 Domain Name Octopus.com Could Be Lost in UDRP - Ads on Octopus.com will shift burden to domain name owner. A travel company has filed a UDRP against Octopus.com, which was originally registered in 1986. OctopusTravel.com operator Octopustravel Group Limited filed the complaint against a Singapore man. Octopus.com was originally registered in 1986 but transferred to the current registrant no earlier than 2009. Octopustravel Group filed for a U.S. trademark for “OctopusTravel” in 2000 that was granted in 2002. In ... read more ...
Sun 6th March 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Quick Poll: What Was The Best Buy From The Domain Roundtable Aftermarket.com Auction? - Now that the DomainRountable show has come to an end its time for you to pick what you though was the best sale from the Aftermarket.com auction. You can vote on the poll on the right and place any comments below. Since you have 20 choices I will let you have 2 picks on the poll, but you have to make them at the same time. Here are your choices: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Tech World Comes to Austin This Week - Techies head to Austin for conferences. SXSW Interactive kicks off in Austin this Friday. Last year’s South By Southwest conference drew 14,251 “official” attendees interested in web technology, social media, and internet marketing. But probably just as many people attended events without getting a full conference pass. SXSW organizers estimate 33,200 attended the interactive/film trade show last year. A number of domain name companies also attended. SXSW ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Tells Governments Where it Stands - Chairman of ICANN Board sends email to GAC explaining where differences remain. Yesterday afternoon ICANN Chairman of the Board Peter Dengate Thrush sent an email to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) summarizing where ICANN stands on GAC’s “scorecard” of issues. Dengate Thrush suggests that the consultation process can be resolved at the San Francisco meeting later this month: The Board looks forward to continuing to collaborate with the GAC in ... read more ...
Sat 5th March 2011
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National Arbitration Forum Now Taking .Co Disputes - Two largest UDRP administrators now handling .co domain name disputes. [Update: Apparently NAF started offering .co disputes last fall. This is the first time I’ve seen a .co dispute there.] National Arbitration Forum has joined World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in offering dispute resolution services for .co domain name. When .co relaunched last year the only authorized UDRP provider was WIPO. Some companies were behind the ball and didn’t get ... read more ...
Fri 4th March 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Homeland Security Is Just Not Seizing Domains, But Is Now Arresting People - Over the last few months as you know Homeland Security, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been seizing domains that they claim were either selling fake or knockoff goods, or engaged in the transmission of copyrighted  material (including the 84,000 innocent domains that were returned). Yesterday  ICE announced the first arrest. Bryan McCarthy 32 from Texas, was arrested and has been charged with criminal copyright infringement for “reproduction and distribution” ... read more ...
 
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Is There a Buying Opportunity for Mid-Tier Domains? - There seem to be some good buying opportunities for mid-range domain names. In early 2005 I looked around a domain name aftermarket that was quickly heating up. I saw high prices paid for category killers and lots of people snapping up less expensive domains. But there seemed to be a sweet spot in the $2,000-$20,000 range in which values were still available. Looking over some recent auction sales I think that sweet spot may have returned. There have been lots of ... read more ...
Thu 3rd March 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Demand Media Buys CoverItLive.com Live Blogging System - Demand Media has just acquired CoverItLive.com an extensive tool one can use for liveblogging live events or other real-time stuff such as earnings calls and  press conferences. CoverItLive powered live blogs for the Oscar ceremonies on People, TMZ, Entertainment Weekly, Variety and Mashable uses it as well. Chairman and CEO of Demand Media Richard Rosenblatt said of the acquisition: “CoveritLive really reflects our mission as a company – publishing what the world wants to know and share. Consumers ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: Sony Announces The Development Of Move.Me But They Don’t Own The Domain, we Do - In what is turning into be one of the strangest domains stories it appears that Sony Launched a new product yesterday called Move.me Here is the post from Sony blog: You can check out the nice new logo right here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblog/5490006732/ “It lets folks develop Move applications for noncommercial use: academia and research and the like. It’ll be available in some time this spring.” “Sony says the development of Move.Me represents a chance for “PlayStation ... read more ...
 
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Facebook: We Will Replace Websites as “Likes” Outnumber Visitors By As Much As 100:1 - According to Cnet.com,  Stephen Haines, commercial director of Facebook’s U.K. operation, says companies using Facebook interact with their customers so much more than their own websites that eventually people will not need websites. Speaking at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising conference in London, “Haines showed statistics comparing how many times Facebook users have clicked a company’s “like” button with how many times per month people visited that company’s Web site.” “For ... read more ...
 
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China Company: Apple Is Infringing On iPad Trademark & It’s Good Should Be Seized - According to Mondaq.com, a Chinese company, Proview Technology  Co., Ltd says that Apple is infringing on the name “ipad”. The company has demanded that Apple to stop its trademark infringement immediately, otherwise it would work with 8 creditor banks including Bank of China to ask relevant authorities to seize Apple’s infringing goods. Proview International claims it  registered a trademark for  “ipad” in the EU, China, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and other countries from 2000 to 2004, ... read more ...
 
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French Word for Wedding Domain Name Gets $130,000 Bid - Six figure offer made for French language .com domain name. Mariage.com — a typo of Marriage but more importantly the French word for Wedding — has received a 92,000 EUR bid at Sedo. That’s about $130,000 USD. An auction for the domain name ends March 8. Elsewhere in the domain auction world SnapNames is running its March feature auction. It includes primarily domains related to travel and entertainment. A few domains already have bids but the auction ... read more ...
 
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A Landmark Showdown during World Intellectual Property Organization - Case represents a big victory against radical UDRP ideology. A World Intellectual Property Forum panel handed down a UDRP decision on March 1 that could reverberate for a while and finally put to rest some recent shenanigans with UDRP. If you aren’t a UDRP junkie you may not appreciate it. But if you are, read on… The Background The case pitted Xbridge Limited v. Marchex Sales, Inc. over the domain name simplybusiness.com. Xbridge operates business insurance ... read more ...
 
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The iPad 2 and The Multi-Screen Household - The increase in internet-connected screens is good for web site publishers. Before the original iPad was released I opined that it could be bad for domain name investors. The world seemed to be (slowly) shifting from web sites to Apps. But then I discovered that may not be the case. With all the hoopla around the iPad 2 I now realize that more internet connected devices can only be a good thing for web publishers (and thereby the importance of domain names). As ... read more ...
 
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GoTo.com. Those Were a Days - Fondly remembering the predecessor to Yahoo Search Marketing. I was writing something down yesterday when my pen ran out of ink. I tossed it into the trashcan when a logo on the side of it caught my eye: I think I was on a new features review panel as a GoTo customer and they sent this pen to me. This ten-year-old pen brought back memories… …memories of a simpler time when all that mattered was your bid price, not your click-through rate or the quality of your ... read more ...
Wed 2nd March 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Org Passes 9 Million Mark - The Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced today that .ORG has now surpassed over 9 million domain name registrations. .Org registrations grew at 10.3% in 2010. “Hitting the 9 million registration mark is a testament to both .ORG’s reputation and its impact within the Internet community,” said Brian Cute, CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry. “.ORG remains a community-driven platform and has become the domain of choice for organizations, individuals, and companies to channel their ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $355K in Domains Led By Another LLLL.com At $12K & A Typo At $5,400 - Afternic.com changed it up again this week and now is back to reporting .com sales of only $2K or more and changed to reporting non.com domains of only $2K or more. Afternic.com report also changed this week and put all off the domain into one list, no longer separating out the .com’s from the non-com’s: After all the changes there were just $355K in sales reported lead by esol.com at $12K. The strangest sale in this list is the typo, sociallite.com which shows as sold for $5,400, that a lot ... read more ...
 
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.Sport Trademark Application Games Continue - One applicant for .sport TLD continues to try to get related trademarks. I guess trademarks are just like any other sport — a big game. dotSport LLC, which wants to run a .sport top level domain name, has been aggressive in its hunt for .sport related trademarks. It just filed another application for registry.sport. It filed the first one in January 2009 but it’s now abandoned. It filed another one in May 2010. In August 2010 the U.S. Patent and Trademark ... read more ...
 
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When Domains Expire, Just Blame a Registrar - Registrars take the blame for forgetful customers. When you screw up and don’t renew your domain name, just blame the registrar when you talk to the press. I see that happen all the time. Here’s another example. Liberal blog RIfuture.org let its domain name expire on February 24. As is standard practice, domain registrar eNom replaced the DNS for the domain and pointed it to a parked page. But you wouldn’t blame the owner of the domain if you read this article ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Gets Biggest Traffic Lift of Top Super Bowl Advertisers - Registrar gets biggest lift among top 10 most watched advertisers. A new report from audience measurement firm Nielsen says that GoDaddy saw the biggest traffic surge of any of the top 10 most watched advertisers during the Super Bowl. Nielsen says the domain registrar’s traffic surged 41% compared to the week before the Super Bowl. The next highest traffic surge for an internet-only company was HomeAway.com at 27%. Groupon only saw a 3% lift. Ironically, both ... read more ...
 
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Survey: Domain Name Marketplaces - Major domain marketplaces continue to innovate and grow. The number of domain name sales venues is expanding. More importantly, the way these venues syndicate sales listings is leading to a more fluid domain aftermarket. Domainers use a number of domain marketplaces beyond the usual suspects. Still, the big three dominate: Sedo received the most votes in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey with 39% of the vote. Go Daddy and Afternic received 12% and 9% respectively. ... read more ...
Tue 1st March 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Interview With The New Owner Of The World Record Setting Domain Sex.com - The head of Clover Holdings, the buyer of the domain name, Sex.com agreed to do an email interview with TheDomains.com A couple of housekeeping issues. I’m obviously going to keep the person’s name confidential. I’m not going to give out hints as to the person’s identity. I don’t want the comments to this post to turn into a guessing game and therefore I will delete any comment where there is a  guess as to that person’s identity. Sex.com as you know holds the official Guinness World ... read more ...