Monthly Archives: June 2011

Sat 18th June 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
So Why Does a Name With One Backorder Make In On To NameJet.com “Top 50 Backorder List”? - I have talked to two general managers at Namejet.com about this and it still drives me crazy. and still hasn’t changed. If you backorder a domain at NameJet.com and you’re the only one to do so,  you still might very well make the NameJet.com ” Top 50 Name list” The list is then sent to every one on the NameJet system daily, thereby advertising it to world that the domain you have backordered, even though you’re the only one. I have argued for literally years that one backorder should ... read more ...
 
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USA Today Covers The New gTLD’s: “The Most Sweeping Transformation of a Domain Name System Since the Creation” - USA Today is just one of the many publications covering the ICANN meeting and the expected approval on Monday of the new gTLD program. In an article entitled: Internet braces for ‘.Vegas’ and other not-coms USA Today Notes that: Coming soon to the Internet: website addresses that end in “.bank,” “.Vegas” and “.Canon.” calling it “the most sweeping transformation of the Domain Name System since its creation in the 1980s.” Here are a few other quotes from the article: “The new ... read more ...
 
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LivingSocial Files Its First Domain Name Complaint - Daily deals company goes after Irish domain name. Groupon competitor LivingSocial has filed its first ever domain name arbitration complaint. But it’s not for a typo of its main LivingSocial.com domain name. Instead, the company is going after the Irish domain name LivingSocial.ie. The company started offering discounts for consumers in Ireland last fall using its main LivingSocial.com domain name. Perhaps LivingSocial is following the same tact as Groupon, ... read more ...
Fri 17th June 2011
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
La revolución de los dominios se acerca - LONDRES (Reuters) — Las empresas pronto podrían gestionar sus propias partes de Internet como .apple, .coke o .marlboro si se aprueba la mayor reorganización en la concesión de dominios. Tras años de preparación y discusiones, el ICANN, el organismo que coordina los nombres en Internet, espera aprobar el lunes la medida en una reunión especial de su junta directiva en Singapur. Hoy existen sólo 22 dominios genéricos (gTLDs) como .com, .org o .info, además de 250 dominios nacionales ... read more ...
 
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So What Should The Etiquette Be On Repeating Stories That Already Appeared On Domaining? - So over the last week I have written a couple of stories on subjects which were apparently written or covered by other domain blogs days  or even weeks before. I have gotten messages like “hey I wrote about that yesterday or two weeks ago.” On the other hand I see stories written by other’s in the domaining chain I wrote about days or weeks ago published like its big news breaking today. Personally I have never written to anyone with the “Hey I wrote about that First” line but maybe I’m ... read more ...
 
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Toronto Based Direct Media Technologies Which Owns 80K Domains, Gets $4.5 Million In Equity Financing - Direct Media Technologies Inc. today announced the closing of a US $4.2 million round of equity financing with a group of Canadian and foreign private investors. Raymond James Ltd. and Ubequity Capital Partners Inc., along with several others, assisted the financing. Toronto based Direct Media Technologies is an internet company that specializes in domain ownership, domain monetization and domain sales. The company owns over 80,000 Internet domains and derives revenue through advertisements. Direct ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Three Executives Leave Oversee.net in Realignment - Company changes up ranks at the top. Domain Name Wire has confirmed with Oversee.net spokesperson Mason Cole that four three executives have left Oversee.net as part of a realignment of the company. Jeff Kupietzky is still CEO of the company. Cole declined to comment about whether additional changes were in the works and would not comment on which executives left the company. The executive changes were first reported by Domain Name News this afternoon. Oversee.net ... read more ...
 
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Google Says “Get Online, America” - Google registers 100+ domain names related to getting more people online. UPDATE: Here’s what Google is up to. It looks like Google is working on a new campaign to help get more Americans online. Over the past week the company has registered over 100 domain names including various state names and variations of “Get Online”. The domains follow these patterns: AlaskaGetOnline.com GetAlaskaOnline.com GetOnlineAlaska.com The domains seem to cover all 50 states. This ... read more ...
 
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A Quarter Million Hits One Day After Registering a Domain Name? - Is is possible to snag a quarter million hits the day after you register a domain name with no marketing budget? Is it possible to get a quarter million hits from type-ins and referrals the day after you register a domain name? The owner of canucksriot2011.com says that’s how much traffic he’s gotten, according to a report by The Tri-City News. The site posts pictures of people involved in the Vancouver riots after the Canucks hockey team lost to Boston this week ... read more ...
 
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U.S. Antitrust: Halt Registrar-Registry Integration on Existing Top Level Domain Names - Department of Justice recommends disallowing integration on certain existing top level domain names. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has advised ICANN that it should halt its plans to allow some existing top level domain name registries to own registrars. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator Lawrence Strickling had asked the Department of Justice to review ICANN’s decision to allow registry-registrar ... read more ...
Thu 16th June 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
FunChat.com Purchased On Afternic For $40K Weeks Ago Is The Latest Edition To The FunMobility Empire - We reported the sale of the domain name Funchat.com back just a few weeks ago on May 24 for $40K on Afternic.com Today in a Press Release FunMobility, announced “the North American launch of FunChat™, the world’s first cross-platform chat, gaming and pranking smartphone app.” “FunChat seamlessly blends chat, multiplayer HTML5 games, FunGold™ virtual currency, rewards, and achievements into one free application that allows iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android users to play and interact ... read more ...
 
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Will The Coupon Craze End When The Economy Recovers? - Over the past few years there hasn’t been a much hotter sector than coupon sites. Last week we told you the Coupons.com just raised $200 Million giving it a billion dollar valuation and we all know Groupon.com turned down billions from Google to go public later this year, and those are only 2 of many sites dedicated to coupon type offers. However we are in the worse recession since the great depression and some stats I have been looking at would indicate that when the economy recovers (whenever ... read more ...
 
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BMW Files Cybersquatting Lawsuit - Company files federal court case over BMWrewards.com BMW has filed a lawsuit against Illinois company Prime Market Targeting, Inc. and Scott Duff for trademark infringement, false designation of origin, cybersquatting, and unfair competition over the domain name BMWREwards.com. The automaker is asking for the domain name, attorneys fees, $100,000 per anti-cybersquatting rules, and for the defendants to refrain from infringing on the company’s mark in the future. This ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Wants To Challenge Amazon and RackSpace in a Cloud - Web host and registrar to offer extensive cloud services. GoDaddy is rolling out a new cloud based served called Data Center on Demand, reports GigaOm. The service is squarely aimed at on demand services such as Amazon’s EC2. However, it will be sold more like hosting packages with various tiers of service rather than charging based on hourly use (a la Amazon). Go Daddy is also up front about users needing to have strong technical skills; this isn’t geared to ... read more ...
 
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My Favorite Domain Blogs For… - A few of my favorite blogs and what I learn from them. I read a number of domain blogs and get a different thing out of each one. Here are a few and the value they deliver to me. DomainIncite primarily for policy news and information. Kevin Murphy is a journalist who knows ICANN and internet policy inside and out. When it comes to new gTLDs and the ongoing battle over internet governance, Kevin definitely has you covered. Elliot’s Blog for practical tips for ... read more ...
 
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Could Google Be Getting Into a SSL Certificate Business? - Company could dominate by offering in-search seals. Earlier this week Google registered the domain name GoogleCert.com. The company could have many uses for this domain name, but one possibility is SSL certificates. This got me thinking — Google is the perfect player to capitalize on SSL certificates as well as various “trust” seals, which could help the company monetize its organic listings. There’s no shortage of companies offering SSL certificates and ... read more ...
Wed 15th June 2011
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As Your Reading This I’m On My Way To ICANN Singapore On The World’s Longest Non-Stop Flight (Really) - As the ICANN meeting in Singapore gets going Sunday night with a few receptions, I’m aboard Singapore Flight 21, which according to Wikipedia.org, is the longest non-stop flight in the world. The flight clocks in at 18 1/2 hours and travels some 10,000 miles. Add that to the time change that has Singapore 12 hours ahead from EST and I arrive some 30 hours on the clock after I take off. Once in Singapore I may have some slight jet lag for a month or so. We will be giving you a and on report from ... read more ...
 
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Moniker Auction Sells Another 5 Domains Plus Data.com - Houses.co.uk leads premium domain name auction. Moniker’s “make up” auction from last week’s Barcelona conference has found a home for five more domains on top of the multi-million dollar sale of Data.com to Salesforce.com. Data.com was pulled from the auction after Salesforce.com made a significant offer on the domain name. The sales included: Houses.co.uk $50,870 Gado.com $3,000 SEMexpert.com $600 SEOagencies.com $900 Pilsners.co.uk $300 It’s worth noting ... read more ...
 
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What we Think About Latona’s 5 Latest Web Sites for Sale - Opinions on Rick’s latest batch of web sites for sale. Rick Latona has posted his five latest web sites for sale, which he says his team hand picked from 1,000s of sites. I’m a big fan of buying and selling revenue-producing web sites and I’ve done it myself. Latona’s announcement asked for feedback, so here’s mine on the five sites. EasyToInsureMe.com – this property has approximate annual revenue of $100,000 and an asking price of $170,000. The description ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Sued for Sending Domain Renewal Notices - Does sending renewal reminders violate patents? This isn’t meant to be a shock headline. It’s true. WhitServe LLC has filed a patent infringement lawsuit (pdf) against GoDaddy.com based on the renewal notices it sends to customers. WhitServe says the method by which Go Daddy sends these notices and allows customers to renew their expiring domain names violates two of its patents: -US Patent 5,895,468 for System Automating Delivery Of Professional Services -US ... read more ...
 
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Rock Band Queen Lays Claim to WeWillRockYou.com Domain Name - Group wants to get the WeWillRockYou.com domain name. The rock group Queen has filed a case against the owner of WeWillRockYou.com at World Intellectual Property forum, asking an arbitration panel to hand the domain name over. We Will Rock You is one of Queen’s greatest hits. Combined with We Are the Champions, Queen still gets plenty of play time at sports arenas around the world. The song later became the name of a musical that still tours the globe to packed ... read more ...
Tue 14th June 2011
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Afternic.com Sells $700k In Domains Led By Chop.com For $60k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday June 12th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $701,219. The top seller of the week was Chop.com at $60,000 followed by Antonio.net at $11,000. Here is the complete list:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Game Changer? Here Comes Google Voice Search For Desktops (Laptops Too) - The WashingtonPost.com is reporting on the Google search event which was held today in which the big news is that  Google is about to roll out Google Voice Search, like you find on mobile devices, on desktops and laptops. “”Google also revealed a new feature in web search today—voice search for desktop. It’s unclear when this will launch, but basically the feature performs similarly to voice search on mobile. You click an audio microphone button in the search box, and speak your search ... read more ...
 
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1 Dissenting Panelist Calls Out Rest Of UDRP Panel On MyCVS.com For Not Recognizing Laches After 4.5 Years - A three member UDRP ruled in favor of CVS pharmacy against Top Investments, LLLP of Mesa, Arizona, who was represented by ESQwire.com, on the domain name Mycvs.com The domain holder claimed that the trademark holder waited too long to file a UDRP on the domain and one of the panelists agreed. However the other two panelist refused to acknowledge the passage of time, otherwise known as Laches, as a bar to the trademark holder. Here is the dissenting opinion of Neil Brown: “”I disagree with the ... read more ...
 
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PickyDomains.com Finds An Available Name For $50 & You Can Make 40%-60% of That By Suggesting It - I was just made aware of a service for those needing a unique domain or a slogan on a low budget;  PickyDomains.com Here is how it works. You  simply deposit $50 through paypal.com This starts a creative chain reaction as  hundreds of contributors start submitting their ideas. Once a  winning suggestion is found, the contributor who came up with it  gets 40% to 60% of the fee via PayPal (anyone can become a  contributor, registration is free). The exact  payout depends on contributors rank, ... read more ...