Monthly Archives: June 2011

Thu 2nd June 2011
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Quick Poll: Which Domain(s) Priced $100K+ Will Sell At DomainFest? - The Live DomainFest auction from Barcelona will be held a week from today, on June 8th at 1PM EST. Pre-bidding is opened on SnapNames.com. There are 18 domain names that have a reserve of $100K or more, so as we usually do we are opening up the poll so you can pick which domains you think will sell from this group. Since there are 18 domains, we are allowing you to pick up to 3 domains you think will sell, but you have to make ALL 3 picks at ONE time. You also can pick the “none will sell”. If ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Gets Into a Other Side of UDRP - Company files complaint to get eHow domain name. Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has been on the receiving end of plenty of UDRP cases for domain names. In fact, it may be barred from applying for new top level domain names because of its many losses (technically). But the company also finds itself on the other side of the table and just filed a case for eHowTravel.com. The web site appears to be a splog of travel information. Apparently Demand Media has registered ... read more ...
 
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USDA Gets Domain Names Half Right with “MyPlate” - Government agency registers .com domain, but still brands program with a domain name it doesn’t own. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) just launched a new campaign to replace the old food pyramid. At first glance I thought the USDA did a great job getting relevant domain names for the campaign. Even though the campaign’s URL is prominently displayed as ChooseMyPlate.GOV, they also hand registered ChooseMyPlate.COM. That’s a smart move as a lot of people ... read more ...
 
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Nationnal.com and Natiional.com – One is a Trademark Typo, a Other Isn’t - Two different panels come to different conclusions in essentially the same case. I’m frequently perplexed by UDRP decisions for similar domain names. Here’s another example. National Arbitration Forum has handed down decisions for nationnal.com and natiional.com literally within days of each other. Both domains are typos of “National”, and both are parked at HitFarm. The cases were brought by Vanguard Trademark Holdings, which owns the National Car Rental ... read more ...
 
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Lawsuits.com Goes Up For Sale - Premium legal domain name now for sale. Andrew Miller, well known in the domain name community for his role at Internet Real Estate Group, is brokering the sale of Lawsuits.com through his company ATM Holdings, Inc. The asking price seems reasonable at $275,000. The domain name is owned by a New Jersey man. Lawsuit.com (singular) is already a lead generation site for lawyers. In this case I’m not sure if the singular or plural is better. I’ve been keeping my ... read more ...
 
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Trademarkia Gets Into Domain Names - Trademarkia adds domain name searching to its lineup. Trademark search engine and online service Trademarkia has entered the domain name business with a unique service. The service allows you to search for domain names and then use the site’s trademark searching tools to find out if there are existing trademarks on the same terms. (Oddly, these don’t seem to be connected. If I search for VerizonWireless and start to register one of the available VerizonWireless.tld ... read more ...
 
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.Co Hits 1 Million Domains and More News Coming from Overstock - .Co makes a big announcement and Overstock says it will announce more .co news on June 6. .Co announced this morning that it has crossed the one million domain registrations mark. And I expect more “momentum news” to come. For example, Overstock.com president Jonathan Johnson said, “We have completely changed to O.co internationally. Look for another big O.co announcement domestically on June 6.” Hmmm. What could that be? If they’ve completely changed ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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XBiz Poll: 35% Of Adult Entertainment Sites Plan To Buy .XXX Domains To Develop or Defensive Registrations - According to a poll taken by adult industry publication xBiz.com, 35% of “adult entertainment industry professionals plan to buy .XXX domain names, either to defensively protect their existing brands/trademarks or to develop and market new websites” “The online poll, ran from May 1 to June 1, 2011, got nearly 400 responses from adult entertainment industry business operators who are registered members of XBIZ.net, the adult entertainment industry’s top social network. XBIZ asked, “Now ... read more ...
 
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DomainMonster.com Opens Pre-Registration For .XXX Domains - Domainmonster.com just announced they are accepting pre orders for all three stages of the upcoming .XXX Domain Name launch. Their wholesale platform Domainbox.com is now also accepting pre orders following full integration for .XXX domains into its comprehensive API (Application Programming Interface). .XXX domains start from $74.99 at Domainmonster.com, where orders can be placed online for Sunrise, Landrush and the General Availability stages. Orders placed for General Availability will not be ... read more ...
 
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WOW: 96% Of People In The US Under 50 Use Facebook? - According to AllFacebook.com, citing a survey by Bank of America a whopping 96% of people in America under the age of 50 now use Facebook. Other key findings from the Bank of America survey include: -82% of Facebook users have concerns about privacy -69% do not spend less time on other websites as a result of their Facebook use -48% have intentionally clicked on an ad on Facebook -48% frequently use the Like button -40% check Facebook multiple times each day -36% check Facebook multiple times a ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com Sells 4 More .Co Domains Totaling $85K - Mike Mann just posted on his Facebook page a few recent sales from DomainMarket.com and topping the list were 4  .Co domain names totaling $85,000 in sales. In all according to his Facebook, DomainMarket.com posted over $110K in sales in the last two weeks, including the 4 .Co domains “which were a package deal”. Congrats to Mike and his team Here are the domains Mike listed as recent sales:   finance.co $25,000.00 automotive.co $20,000.00 cigar.co $20,000.00 ski.co $20,000.00 greenbusiness.org ... read more ...
 
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WebsiteHosting.com Purchased For $190K In Jan Just Sold For $415,000 - A blogger, Mike Jackness, has just written a post about how he just sold the domain name WebSiteHosting.com which he purchased in just January of this year for $190,000 for a whopping $415,000. Since acquiring the domain, he turned down in a style that would make even the Domain King proud offers of $250K and $300K and $401,000 before agreeing to sell the domain for $415,000: “Shortly after I purchased WebSiteHosting.com I received an offer of $250,000 for the domain. ” “Then, about 2 weeks ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net Asks Court to Dismiss Monte Cahn’s Claims - Domain name company responds to lawsuit over incentive plan. Oversee.net has responded to a lawsuit by former employee Monte Cahn by asking the court to dismiss most of the lawsuit’s claims (pdf). Cahn sued Oversee.net last month over an incentive plan in which Cahn says he could have earned up to $13 million. Cahn alleges that he is owed money under the plan but was never paid. Oversee.net claims that the suit “is nothing more than an alleged breach of contract ... read more ...
 
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New Service Brings CPA To Domain Parking - Service from Media Breakaway seeks to monetize under performing domain traffic. A new domain name parking service says it will help domain owners monetize their high traffic but low revenue domain names better than traditional PPC parking. TheParkingPlace.com is a new service from Media Breakaway that monetizes domain names with CPA, CPC, CPV, and exit pop ups. The few examples I viewed (GasPrices.com, 032.com, Fork.com) offer surveys and giveaways to capture visitor ... read more ...
 
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Viking Office Products Tries to Take Sentimental Domain Name from Altavista Inventor’s Widow - Company goes after Viking.org in arbitration only to find out the real reason the owner didn’t want to sell it. Viking Office Products, Inc., an affiliate of Office Depot, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a bizarre case involving Viking.org. The office products company filed for arbitration with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name, and painted registrant Natasha Flaherty as a cybersquatter who would only consider selling the ... read more ...
 
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Ballot Stuffing Ahead: Google Introduces +1 Button - New button lets site visitors vote for content. Google has introduced a +1 Button (plus one button) that web publishers can add to their web sites. It’s an extension of the search giant’s +1 feature for search results that let’s people vote for search results and share that with their connections. As Google points out, the +1 button solves a big problem with the original underlying idea: why would you vote for a search result before you actually visit the site ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest Gets Ready to Return to Its Roots - Five years later, DOMAINfest returns to Barcelona. DOMAINfest returns to Barcelona next week, the home of its first ever conference in 2006. But the conference running June 7-9 will look very different from five years ago. After a series of successful conferences and a return to Europe last summer, DOMAINfest has grown into the most attended conference on the domain circuit. Its main event in L.A. each year draws 600-700 attendees. The European shows are a smaller, ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Wins UDRP for Surname Domain Hinkley.com - Registrar defends domain name from attack by lighting company. Domain name registrar Tucows has successfully defended the domain name hinkley.com, which is part of its expansive portfolio of surnames, from lighting company Hinkley Lighting, Inc in a UDRP. The domain name was registered in 1996 and came as part of Tucows’ acquisition of NetIdentity. The panel ruled that Hinkley Lighting failed to show that Tucows lacked rights or legitimate interests in the domain ... read more ...