Monthly Archives: July 2011

Sat 9th July 2011
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Yahoo Mail Changes TOS To Allow It To Reads Senders Mail & Send Ads Based On Email Content - Which.co.uk is reporting that Yahoo Mail, which is the world’s largest email provider, has changed its Additional Terms of Service (ATOS), to allow Yahoo to scan and analyse the content of all the emails you send and receive to “target relevant content and advertising” Section C. of the ATOS, states: “By using the Services, you consent to allow our automated systems to scan and analyse all incoming and outgoing communications content sent and received from your account (such as Mail and Messenger ... read more ...
 
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Disc Golf Associations Buys DiscGolf.com Domain Name - Company that “founded” disc golf buys DiscGolf.com. Go to any major park in Austin during the day and you’ll see people “throwing plastic”, a.k.a. playing disc golf. If not trademark attorneys are around you might also call it “frisbee golf”. It’s like golf but cheaper and less pretentious. Heck, the church down the street dedicated much of its green space to an 18 hole disc golf course designed by a famous course designer. So apparently God approves ... read more ...
Fri 8th July 2011
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While Murdoch Tries to Figure out What To Do With The Sunday Sun Someone Has The Domain Registered Since 2002 - As you maybe aware there are big problems in the Mr.  Murdoch empire with the News of the World Publication which was suddenly shut down after like over 100 years of publishing. While Mr. Murdoch is trying to decide whether to publish the “Sunday Sun” someone grabbed that domain name way back in 2002. Check out this article entitled: Well someone decided that would be a good idea about 10 years ago: Domain Name: SUNDAYSUN.COM Registrar: MONIKER S Jankovic san@izombie.com Ungarnsgade 8 Copenhagen DK Dk-2300 DK Record ... read more ...
 
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WSJ: ISP’s May Slow Down Connection Speed of File Sharers: Welcome To The “Copyright Alert System” - According to WSJ.com, Internet users who share pirated movies and music may soon be getting a warning from their ISP  that detail alleged copyright infringement and threaten to slow their Web connections if they don’t stop. This program already has a name: The Copyright Alert System (The Copyright Alert System is a 36 page memorandum which you can download here) Among the ISPs that have pledged to implement the new policy are Comcast Corp., ATT Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., Cablevision Systems ... read more ...
 
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The Former Head Of The CIA Says: The US Should “Built A New Internet”: .Secure - Michael Hayden, President George W. Bush’s CIA director is suggesting that The United States should create a new Internet infrastructure a “.secure” network for critical services such as banking that would be walled off from the public and which would reduce the threat of cyber attacks. A .Secure network would require visitors to use certified credentials for entry and would do away with users’ Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. Network operators in the financial sector, for example, would ... read more ...
 
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LivingSocial Gets Irish - Daily deals site gets LivingSocial.ie domain name. LivingSocial has a new home on the web in Ireland: LivingSocial.ie. .Ie is the country code domain name for Ireland. Last month the daily deals site filed for arbitration to get the domain name. Until now it has been offering deals in Ireland on its main LivingSocial.com web address. The case has been terminated and the owner transferred the domain name to LivingSocial’s parent company, Hungry Machine, Inc. Groupon ... read more ...
Thu 7th July 2011
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Sedo.com Sells Clouds.Me For $21K; Domains.in For $15K & More - Sedo has a few impressive non-.com’s sales in the last day or so. Clouds.me sold for 15,000 Euro’s or around $21K Domains.in sold for $15K. translations.co.uk sold for 26,000 GBP which is over $40K. girokonto.eu sold for 9,000 Euro’s or $13K whiplashcompensation.co  sold for $1,900 getreidemühlen.de sold for 8,925 Euro’s or around $13K In a pretty rare .Asia sale the domain name Pof.Asia sold for $8K rh.de sold for 13,900 Euro’s or $20K and what maybe the longest .Co to ever sell for ... read more ...
 
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Judge Refuses To Grant Apple An Injunction Against Amazon’s Use Of “App Store” - A judge has just rejected Apple’s claim for a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon from using the term App Store This comes out of the case where Apple suited Amazon for trademark infringement saying that Amazon improperly used Apple’s “App Store” name. Amazon argued that the term is generic and therefore not protectable. U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton did not agree that the term is purely generic, however ruled that Apple: “Has not established “a likelihood of confusion” with ... read more ...
 
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Technology Review Asks if New TLDs Will “End a Rent-Seeking of Domain Name Speculators” - Unsound analysis of what new TLDs will do to the value of .com. Christopher Mims has just penned a new article for MIT’s Technology Review asking “Will New Top Level Domains End the Rent-Seeking of Domain Name Speculators?” Let’s take a look at some of Mims’ reasons for why new top level domain names might reduce the amount domainers can charge for .com domains: Existing top level domains — .com, .org, etc. — have become crowded. You can make the argument ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView - Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registration trends. DomainView incorporates the same data from the tag cloud — keyword frequency in recently registered domain names — and brings it to multiple formats. It also adds domain suggestions so you can see available ... read more ...
 
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Domain Registrar Offers Social Login to Registrar Account - Australian domain register lets you login with your Facebook account. Domain name registrar Whois.com.au has enabled social login functions to access your registrar account. In other words, instead of logging in with your registrar credentials you can login with Facebook, Twitter, etc. I’m not aware of any other registrars that offer this, but I’m sure there are some off my radar. My first reaction was that this scares me. If your Facebook account is compromised ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign’s Pat Kane Discusses New TLDs and IDNs - With new TLDs approved, VeriSign gets ready to move forward. Domain name registries are getting down to business now that ICANN has finally approved the new top level domain name program. I recently caught up with Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Verisign Naming Services, to discuss what this means for .com and the domain name industry in general. “All boats will rise together with new gTLDs because this is about growing our industry through ... read more ...
Wed 6th July 2011
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WindowFilm.com Sells For $17K On NameJet.com - The domain name WindowFilm.com sold on NameJet.com for $17,100. The auction had 3 bidders over $10K. In some other auctions: 9091.com sold for $3,008 chafen.com sold for $4,509 wqv.com,  mxv.com and alf.net all had bids over $4K each but did not hit reserve and therefore did not sell       Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Fr.cc for $50K Wow - Maybe lost in the Sedo.com sales report this week was this stunner; FR.cc sold for $50,000. By far the largest .cc domain sale I can remember for a very, very long time. The domain is still pending transfer so its unclear who the buy is but its quite a price for a two letter .cc as two letter .net’s and org’s have sold for much less.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $1M+ In Domains Led By Jewel.com for $75k - Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday July 4th. All reportable domain sales totalled over 1 million US dollars. The top seller of the week was Jewel.com at $74,333 USD followed by fr.cc at $50,000 USD. The complete list is below: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Law Professors: PROTECT IP Will “Make it Difficult For Online Advertisers To Do Business on a Web - According to several stories out today a group law professors has come strongly out against the PROTECT IP bill, saying that the pending Senate bill “could make it difficult for online advertisers and credit card companies to continue doing business on the Web” The Protect IP Act provides for court orders forcing Google, Bing and other search engines to stop returning certain results. In addition, the proposed law would require credit-card companies and advertisers to stop doing business ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to a Public - VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScoreâ„¢ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NXD data — basically visit requests to non existent domain names — to calculate a score ranging from 1-10. The higher the score the higher the traffic to the domain. The score is for the last full week, the last 30 days, and last 60 days. Based on my experience ... read more ...
 
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French Company Wants to Cancel Adwords Trademark, Hit with UDRP - French company files to cancel one of Google’s trademarks, gets hit with UDRP over .mobi domain name. Google has filed a UDRP against the owner of a French trademark for “adwords” over his domain name ad-words.mobi. The domain owner, Francotel, LLC, has a French trademark for “adwords”, but Google has some as well. Francotel has also filed for cancellation of Google’s European Union trademark for “Adwords”, although it appears the company has filed ... read more ...
 
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DNForum Now Easier to Access on a Road - Forum releases mobile apps for quicker and better access away from the desktop. Earlier this week DNForum released apps for iPhone and iPad devices. A couple weeks ago it released an app for Android users. The app makes it easier to read and respond to posts and check personal messages from your mobile device. Apps for all platforms are priced around $5. Screenshots of the app from the Android market show that it is based on a mobile version of forum software vBulletin. Although ... read more ...
 
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Only $750k To Raise Awareness of New TLDs? Seriously? - Raising awareness about new TLDs on a microscopic budget. If you’re about to usher in what Peter Dengate Thrush calls “the biggest change I think we have seen on the Internet”, how much would you spend to raise awareness of a limited application window to take advantage of that change? Let’s also say applicants have to pay $185,000 and you expect $100 million in application fees. Surely you’d plan to spend a good chunk of change on advertising. Or not. As ... read more ...
 
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Company Behind Diapers.com and Soap.com Launches Wag.com - Another category-generic domain name site from Quidsi. Amazon.com-owned Quidsi, which has a habit of launching category stores on category specific generic domain names, has launched a pet store at Wag.com. Over the past few days I’ve been trying to figure out what Amazon was up to as it registered dozens of domain names related to pets that included “Wag” in the name. My guess was a new Amazon-branded product line, but I didn’t think to check the whois record ... read more ...
 
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WhyPark Continues to Diversify Revenue Streams with 2 New Apps - Company adds new apps to system including one that pays on a cost-per-action basis. Domain name content system WhyPark has released two new Domain Apps, one designed to boost traffic and the other to boost traffic while generating non-PPC revenue. The Photo Gallery Domain App displays photo galleries on your WhyPark sites based on a keyword. The Publications Domain App lets you offer visitors free publications including white papers, free magazine subscriptions, case ... read more ...
 
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For Oversee.net, ShopWiki Is Another Ill-Timed Acquisition - Latest big acquisition hit hard by Google algorithm updates. Oversee.net has made a few big acquisitions over the years, and something always seems to go wrong. There was Moniker, which the company bought at the peak of the domain name auction market. Then there was SnapNames, which lost its best source of domains names (Network Solutions) to a joint venture with eNom shortly thereafter. And who can forget about the Halvarez shill bidding scandal. It appears that ... read more ...
Tue 5th July 2011
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Afternic.com Sells $985k In Domains Led By rnjobs.com for $29k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday July 3rd. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $984,961. The top seller of the week was rnjobs.com at $28,800 followed by ramba.com at $25,000. Three of our domain sales made it into the top 10 – boatingindustry.com for $25,000, heattransfer.com for $20,000, and offering.org for $12,500   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Oh Great Now It Takes Zero Backorders To Make The Namejet Top 100 Backorder List - We have often complained that NameJet.com basically advertises domain names in auction with only one back order by  including them in their Top 50 or 100 Backordered list” published daily; one for general drop domains and one for exclusive pre-drop domains. Today however  its seems that it doesn’t even take one backorder to make the “Top 100″ backorder NameJet list From today’s list: “””Dear NameJet Customer: The following list of domain names contains the top 100 Pre-Release Names ... read more ...