Monthly Archives: May 2011

Sat 21st May 2011
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Get Your Popcorn Ready: The Navy Enters The TM Race Again This Time For “Navy Seals” - The Department of the Navy has filed a trademark attempting to take ownership of the term Navy Seals Earlier this week we reported that Disney just 2 days after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, filed for a Trademark on the term “Seal Team 6″ A couple of days ago Fusible.com reported that the Navy filed a trademark for the term “Seal Team” Now it appears that The Department of the Navy has filed a trademark for the term Navy Seals. This trademark application was made on March 13th. A ... read more ...
 
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WSJ: Google Warned On Selling Ads To Rogue Drug Sites & Feds Looking At Whether Company Should Be Charged Criminally - According to The Wall Street Journal, Regulators and industry watchdog groups repeatedly warned Google that it was taking ads from rogue online pharmacies in violation of federal law. Last week Google took a $500 million charge in its recent quarter to cover potential charges related to resolving an investigation by the Department of Justice. CNET is reporting at the same time Google was being praised by the White House for cracking down on illegal Internet pharmacies the Justice Department ... read more ...
 
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Physical.com Sells On Sedo.com For $42,500 As Eric Borgos Goes on A Shopping Spree - Eric Borgos of Impulse Communications, Inc, seems to be going on a domain name shopping spree. After buying Humidifiers.com for $50K yesterday it looks like he just purchased the domain name Physical.com for $42,500 on Sedo.com The domain has most recently been listed under privacy at Moniker.com Congrats to Eric on another nice pickup.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Google Launches Official Search Blog: Inside Search - Google has just launched its “offical Search blog” entitled Inside Search. Here is Google’s 1st post: “””The thirst for knowledge is as old as humanity. It’s only in the past decade that the Internet has made knowledge ubiquitous, and we want to help you find the answers you’re looking for, whether it’s the best price on a new microwave, where to find a great bike ride—or even information about the Internet itself. Generally, we help you answer questions by refining our algorithms, ... read more ...
Fri 20th May 2011
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California Bill Seeks To Regulate Social Networking Sites With Fines Up to $10K Per Violation - California state senator Ellen Corbett proposed an amended version of the Social Networking Privacy Act (SB 242). The Bill would require social networking websites to design by default,  privacy settings that prevent any information about a user (other than name and city) from being displayed to the public or other users without affirmative consent from the user. Social networking websites would also be required to: (1) create a process for new users to set their privacy settings before they ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Undergraduate.com & Sava.com For $22K; market.de Sells For $30K & The gameofthrones.com Sells But Not to HBO - A few nice sales at Sedo.com yesterday and today The domain Undergraduate.com sold for $22K, a nice education domain but also a possible social networking site. Sava.com was purhcase for $21,250 by SAVA Transmedia Inc o Montreal. There are quite a few companies using Sava in their name so this was a nice end user acquisition. Market.de sold for $30K, which considering that Television.de sold for only 3,300 euro’s or around $5K Finally, gameofthrones.com the name of a Tv series currently airing ... read more ...
 
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DomainAdvisors Completes Record Breaking Domain Sale With 33.com - Domain broker reports record two digit domain name. DomainAdvisors, a division of PPX International, just announced a record sales price for a two digit domain name. The group brokered the sale of 33.com for $358,000. I searched a couple databases and cannot find any two digit domains that have sold for more, although there are some two letter domains that have eclipsed this amount. Tessa Holcomb, Group General Manager for PPX International, says that the company ... read more ...
Thu 19th May 2011
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Shares Of Linked In More than Double In 1st Hour of Trading - Shares of Linked in, more than doubled from its IPO price of $40 and started trading at $83 a share. Currently shares are trading at $92 a share. Linked in is one of first of the new social networking companies to go public. Update: Linkedin just hit $100 a share Update2: Make that $110 a share   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Has Donated $4.2 Million To Charity Already This Year - Domain registrar tops last year’s donations, and it’s only May. Through just five months of 2011, domain name registrar Go Daddy has already donated more to charity than it did all of last year. Go Daddy’s philanthropic organization Go Daddy Cares has donated $4.2 million to charity so far this year, compared to $3.4 million all of last year, the company announced today. One of the biggest beneficiaries is Hope for Haiti, recipient of $1 million in donations ... read more ...
 
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LinkedIn IPO Domain Gets Its Day in a Spotlight - LinkedIn stock pops on open and related domain is surely getting a lot of traffic. The number one trending search on Google right now? “LinkedIn IPO”. And it’s no wonder, with the LNKD stock price doubling on its first day. The sign of a new tech bubble? Pent up demand for tech IPOs? I don’t know, but I’m not buying it. Curious about this hot search term, I noticed that LinkedInIPO.com is registered. It’s currently a parked page that seems to be forwarding ... read more ...
 
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CitizenHawk Gets Into Corporate Domain Management - Company expands beyond recovering typosquatted domain names. CitizenHawk is expanding from its roots as a typosquatting domain name recovery service. Today the company announced two new services: corporate domain management and online brand monitoring. The corporate domain management product puts it in competition with companies such as MarkMonitor and CSC. It includes an online domain management system, registration, and private registrations. The online monitoring ... read more ...
Wed 18th May 2011
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Sedo Sells Bills.Org For $70K and Humidifiers.com For $50,000 - Sedo.com has just sold two nice domains. Bills.org just sold for $70,000. The domain is still pending transfer in Sedo escrow but it looks like the seller is Lonnie Borck The domain name Humidifiers.com sold for $50,000. Eric Borgos of Impulse Communications, Inc. seems to be the buyer of Humidifiers.com and Blue Ridge Net Publishing, Inc. appears to be the Seller. Both are nice sales Congrats to both the Sellers and Buyers. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Holder On Milf Hunters Loses UDRP Bid For The Domain MilfHunters.com & Gives Domain Holders A Good Opinion To Use - RK Netmedia, Inc. represented by Randazza Legal Group, brought an UDRP for the domain name MilfHunters.com The domain holder beat back the challenge despite a trademark and use of the domain in a competitive manner to the trademark holder. More importantly there is some very good langage in the opinion for domain holders in general. Here are the facts: The Complainant has a United States trademark for MILFHUNTER in international class 41 for entertainment services in the nature of photographic images, ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $625k In Domains Led By CeramicTiles.com For $40k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday May 15th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $624,561. The top seller of the week was CeramicTiles.com at $40,000 followed by BollywoodLife.com at $34,000. Here is the full list:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
 
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Moniker.com Releases Partial List Of Domains For Live DomainFest Barcelona Domain Auction & Opens Up Pre-Bidding - Moniker.com tonight release a partial list of the domains to be auctioned at DomainFest Barcelona. SnapNames.com has also opened up pre-bidding on the DomainFest Barcelona live domain auction which will be held on June 8th at 1pm EST. I’m sure domains will be added to the list as the auction gets closer but for now there are just a handful of domains. Here are the domains Moniker.com announced tonight: Airports.com AutoRacing.com Bolt.com Data.com Fares.com HorseRacing.com Houses.co.uk Languages.com PreMed.com Renta.com ... read more ...
 
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New York Real Estate Agents Squabble Over Domain Names - Real estate agent explains his domain name strategy including six figure domain purchase. Here’s an interesting domain name story out of New York. Two competing real estate firms are fighting each other over domain names after one bought the name of the others’ principle. This story in Curbed Hamptons is quite insightful for a non-tech publication. It points out that Susan Breitenbach could have avoided having Saunders Real Estate register her name SusanBreitenbach.com ... read more ...
 
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Letting Your Domain Name Expire Could Lead to Identity Theft - …or other shenanigans. OK, the headline is a bit sensational. But the truth is if you let a domain name expire that is tied to any sort of online accounts, you’re putting yourself at extreme risk. Why the soapbox? I just finished reading this post from Ben Reyes about how he used an expired domain to get access to someone’s entire history of Gmail, Google calendar, contacts, etc., and this gave him a key to unlock the person’s other online accounts like ... read more ...
 
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How ICANN Will Spend $67 Million of Your Money - ICANN expects to spend $67 million in the year starting July 1. That’s if the new gTLD program doesn’t kick off. Since you, the readers of this blog, ultimately provide ICANN’s funding, it’s important to know how your money is being spent. So you should take some time to look through and comment on the FY12 Operating Plan and Budget (pdf). FY 2012 starts July 1, 2011. ICANN plans to spend $69.7 million in FY 2012 (including depreciation and bad debt expenses), ... read more ...
 
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The Onion Jokes About John Edwards and Domain Names - Gotta remember to register that domain name for future presidential run. Satirical news outlet The Onion recently published a joke tying politicians and domain names. The News in Brief article is titled “John Edwards Pays $30 To Register Edwards2016.com Just In Case“. It pokes fun at the disgraced politician, suggesting he registered a domain for the 2016 presidential race “just in case”. The blurb quotes Edwards as saying “It’s only 30 bucks, so I figured, ... read more ...
 
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A New VeriSign Slogan? - Company files two trademark applications. It looks like VeriSign might be working on a new slogan for its business. The company just filed two “intent to use” trademark applications for its domain name business: Connecting the World Between the Dots and The World Is Connecting Between the Dots. They’re both clever slogans and I’m guessing they haven’t chosen which one to go with. Of course as a domain person I wonder which dots are being connected. When ... read more ...
 
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DancePartner.com Fails to Find Dance Partner in UDRP - Company asks panel for domain registered in 1999 based on a generic mark it first used in commerce in 2003. The owner of DancePartner.com has failed to find a dancing mate in DancePartners.com through a UDRP. DancePartner.com owner Dancesoft filed the complaint on the basis of a trademark it filed in 2003, many years after the respondent’s 1999 registration of the DancePartners.com domain name. Beyond the fact that DancePartners.com is perfectly generic and can ... read more ...
Tue 17th May 2011
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FriendFinder Networks Almost 50% Off It’s IPO Price In Less Than A Week - Shares of FriendFinder Network, Inc, fell more than 20% today in trading and continued its slide in after hours trading. Shares of the company that own Penthouse, AdultFriendFinder.com and FacebookofSex.com closed down another $1.45 or over 20% to close at $5.75 a share. Shares traded as low as $5.35 The company just went public a week ago on May 11th at $10. I’m not a huge stock market watcher but I would say its pretty rare for a company to lose almost 50% market value in its first week of trading ... read more ...
 
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HorseRacing.com & AutoRacing.com To Hit The Auction Block At DomainFest? - According to a short story appearing in the thoroughbredtimes.com, it appears the domain names HorseRacing.com and AutoRacing.com may hit the auction block at the Domainfest auction in Barcelona in June. According to the article, the owner of both names is Gregory Paley. “‘Paley, a business lawyer who purchased the domain name in 1995, said he plans to offer horseracing.com at the Moniker’s Premiere Auction DOMAINfest Barcelona on June 8″ “Paley told the Wall Street Journal that the name ... read more ...
 
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.Tv Domains In The News: Blip.Tv Hits 3 BILLION Views & Bee.Tv Gets Another $1.5 In Funding - A couple of .Tv sites are in the news today In a press release,  Blip.tv announced it has relaunched its site. Blip.tv also announced today that it has reached more than three billion views to date, making it one of the Internet’s largest independently owned and operated video properties. Blip.tv is now on pace to reach one billion views per quarter. Wow Another .TV was in the news today is Bee.TV which just raised another $1.5 million in funding after receiving $8 Million in funding two years ... read more ...