Monthly Archives: August 2011

Thu 25th August 2011
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John Perry Barlow of a Electronic Frontier Foundation: “I Don’t Think Domain Names Are Necessary” - John Perry Barlow of the  Electronic Frontier foundation was the keynote speaker at the Dot Nxt show this morning and pretty much blasted the new gTLD program, ICANN and domain names in general. “”I can’t see how expanding the domain space its going to be to the benefit of the internet.” “ICANN is going to be sitting on a billion dollars from application fees, escrow fees, and I don’t see how that is going to anyone much good” “However I understand that the train may have already ... read more ...
 
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Rob Hall Of Pool.com on The Coming New gTLD’s : If we Was A Big Domain Holder we Would Start Dumping Domains - Today at opening session of the Dot Nxt conference entitled: Setting the Scene, a questions was asked what would you tell large domain holders in anticipation of hundreds or thousands of new gTLD’s Rob Hall of Pool.com made stated “if  I was an owner of a large amount of two, three and four word .com’s I would dump them as new gTLD generic terms will be worth more than the .com equivalent in the future.” “If I owned Shoes.com I would probably keep it, but if I owned Greatshoes.com, or  ... read more ...
 
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Judge Dismisses Verizon Lawsuit Against DirectNIC - Judge grants Motion to Dismiss against large domain name registrar and its parent company. The judge presiding over Verizon’s cybersquatting lawsuit has granted a Motion to Dismiss (pdf) filed by Intercosmos Media Group, Inc., directNIC, LLC and Domain Contender, LLC for lack of personal jurisdiction. Domain Contender is a subsidiary of directNIC and directNIC is a subsidiary of Intercosmos. Verizon argued that the entities had operations in Florida. The court found ... read more ...
 
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Overstock.com To Get Into Daily Deals or Flash Sales with SwarmShop.com? - Company goes to domain aftermarket to buy domain name SwarmShop.com. Overstock.com (or should I call it O.co?) is aggressive about entering new ecommerce markets. A recent domain purchase may be a clue to what’s next for the company: The company just bought the domain name SwarmShop.com from domain investor Mike Mann for $1,500 at Sedo. Mann appears to have registered the domain name earlier this year when it expired. What could it use SwarmShop.com for? There ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Files Patents for Domain Appraisals and Domain Spinning - Four patent applications provide method of domain name valuation and domain suggestions. Domain name registrar GoDaddy has filed four patent applications related to domain name appraisals and spinning. The applications list Paul Nicks, who is Director of Product Development for GoDaddy’s auction service, as inventor. They were filed in February 2010 and just published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today. The domain name appraisal portion (pdf) of the patents ... read more ...
 
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Moniker Privacy Services Named in Lawsuit Against Top Porn Site - More proof that providing whois proxy services isn’t free. Remember when a Miami blog suggested that Moniker provided child porn? Now Moniker is named in another porn lawsuit (pdf), and it appears the lawyers filing the case are confused. But it’s another example of why I say providing whois privacy isn’t free. Adult movie producer Fraserside, a division of publicly traded company Private Media Group Inc., sued “Moniker Privacy Services, dba DrTuber.com” ... read more ...
 
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City of Mumbai Says It Hasn’t Authorized .Mumbai - Letter of approval issued in error according to Mumbai’s IT department. A few months after Minds + Machines announced it was working with India TL Domain Pvt Ltd for the .Mumbai top level domain name, a city official is saying that ICANN should not allocate the .mumbai domain name. The letter from Y.S. Mahangade, Deputy Director (IT) of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), requests that ICANN “Not allocate any domain ending with .mumbai (dot Mumbai) ... read more ...
Wed 24th August 2011
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Don’t Hate The Extension, Hate The Lousy Domains; Godaddy’s .Expired Co Auction Shows You What Crap People Registered On Day 1 - Yesterday as many of you know was the day that the first day that .Co drop auctions closed on Godaddy. Thousand and thousands of non-renewed .Co domains dropped and were on Godaddy.com auction platform. What amazed me was these were registered on the 1st day of .Co availability. With an almost unlimited selection of domains people still registered crap. So many horrible domains. Domains I wouldn’t have registered in .Com much less .Co Typo’s, misspells, trademark infringing domains and domains ... read more ...
 
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Google To Pay U.S. $500 Million To Settle “illegal” Pharmacy Ads - According to the Wall Streeet Journal, Google has agreed  to pay $500 Million dollars to the US government to avoid prosecution over allegations that it knowingly accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in ads from rogue online pharmacies. “The pharmacies appearing in Google ads were operating outside the law, leading to a Department of Justice investigation into Google’s advertising practices – an investigation which decreased Google’s profits by 22%, reports the The New York Times.” “The ... read more ...
 
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United Domains Integrates SedoMLS Premium for Aftermarket Sales - United Domains pitches existing domain names to registration customers. United Domains has added SedoMLS Premium to its offerings, which means it now offers fixed price, instant transfer domain names to its customers. Here’s an example of what users see when they search for a domain that’s for sale: Sedo has two levels of SedoMLS that closely mirror a similar offering from Afternic. SedoMLS Premium includes syndication to more sites than regular MLS as well as ... read more ...
 
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A Kindle Wave? Amazon Registers Domain Name. - Kindle adds KindleWave.com to its stable of domain names. Amazon recently registered the domain name KindleScribe.com, sparking speculation that it could be the name of a future Amazon Kindle device. But there’s another domain name Amazon picked up at the same time: KindleWave.com. Could Amazon release a Kindle Wave? To be fair, both the Kindle Scribe domain names and Kindle Wave domain names could be merely defensive registrations by the company. KindleScribe.com ... read more ...
 
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The World Bank Buys 2 Domain Names Through Afternic, Plus Telemundo - Big names buy domain names in the aftermarket. The World Bank is one of the most notable groups to buy domain names on the aftermarket this week. The group bought two domain names through Afternic: GlobalPartnership.com for $4,588 and EducationPartners.org for $1,088. It already owns GlobalPartnership.org but hasn’t developed it yet. It doesn’t own EducationPartners.com. Television network Telemundo bought yPunto.com for $2,510. Another notable buyer is FriendFinder ... read more ...
 
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Left of a Dot Media Partners with Importers.com - Clients can now get subdomains on Importers.com. Left of the Dot Media Inc., which works with generic domain owners to offer subdomains, has launched its services on Importers.com. Live Current Media sold Importers.com for $165,000 last year. The new owner planned to merely park the page, according to Left of the Dot. Instead, the buyer and company partnered to keep the site and 400,000 members running. Among the options available thanks to the deal is for companies ... read more ...
Tue 23rd August 2011
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Afternic.com Sells $525K In Domains Led By YouPrint.com For $12k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday August 21st. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $524,472. The top seller of the week was YouPrint.com at $12,000 followed by Addressable.com at $10,800.   Here is the complete list: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $730K In Domains Led By ZY.com For $106K - Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday August 22nd. All reportable domain sales totalled $729,561 USD. The top seller of the week was ZY.com at $105,999 followed by Marketport.com for $19,000.   The complete sale list in US dollars is below: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Looks Like Bankrate.com Is A Huge Domainer Spending Over $90 Million In Domains - According to some SEC filings it appears Bankrate.com apparently is becoming a major domainer having spent over $90 million dollars in domain names. Actually the total amount spent was Over $170 million but $90 million is what they allocated to the cost of the domain names in acquisitions Here are some of the domain names they have acquired; carinsurancequotes.com — “Approximately $7.5 million was recorded as intangible asset, all of which, was for the domain name.” bargaineering.com –  ... read more ...
 
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.APP gTLD Project Launches & Is Pre-Selling Domains To Fund The Application Fee - A new group of App developers have stepped up and announced plans to apply for the .APP new gTLD and is going about raising the money for the application in a very unusual manner. According to the site to promote the application: “.app Project” is a community funded and executed project to obtain rights to the .app gTLD when ICANN makes them available in 2012.” “Our aim is to keep the .app gTLD open and accessible such that it becomes an entity that properly support the app software development ... read more ...
 
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Guy Who Registered AmywinehouseFoundation.com: “I’m Not A Dick Head” - Yesterday we wrote about Mitch Winehouse who announced plans for the Amy Winehouse Foundation before securing  domain name. Mitch called those who registered the domain a “dick head” for doing so Today Martin McCann, the man who allegedly registered the domain name, Amywinehousefoundation.com told a newspaper that: “I’m not exploiting anything yet. I’ve just bought some domain names. Anybody could have. It only takes the click of a mouse,” McCann told the Sun. “I’m not ashamed or ... read more ...
 
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Google Wants to Take Down Goggle.com Web Site - Google goes after another “survey” site. Google has filed a complaint with National Arbitration forum to get a hold of Goggle.com, Goggle.net, and Goggle.org. While the domain names could be considered “generic” for the term Google, it’s the use of the domain names that has the company up in arms. Similar to another recent complaint over YouTube.ph, these domains forward to a survey page that then entices users to complete a number of offers. The current ... read more ...
 
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Hover’s Implementation of Afternic Domains is Well Done - Simple and effective integration of domains for sale. A lot of large domain name registrars offer Afternic’s “Premium” inventory to customers. Each registrar integrates it differently and some do it better than others. I just checked out Hover.com’s integration and I really like it. Hover is owned by Tucows, which is Afternic’s latest top 10 domain registrar partner. Hover is known for its simplicity and this carries through to premium domains. It manages ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Close to Settling Long Running Dispute Over “FB” - Facebook and American Farm Bureau may be close to settling FB trademark dispute. Facebook is getting close to settling a trademark dispute with American Farm Bureau over the mark “FB”. It all comes down to one sentence. The intriguing dispute started when Facebook filed a trademark application for “FB”. American Farm Bureau, a lobbying group for the agriculture industry, initiating proceedings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to reject the trademark. During ... read more ...
Mon 22nd August 2011
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The Domainfest New York Meet Up Auction List Goes Live: End.com, Hot.com, Customs.com Up For Grabs - Tomorrow night is the Domainfest Meetup in New York. Part of the Meetup is a online domain name auction which starts tomorrow and concludes on September 20th at 3:15pm EST. SnapNames.com has just put up the 400 domain names that will be part of the auction. End.com, Hot.com and Customs.com are the domains that caught my eye. The Meetup will be held Tuesday night from 7-10Pm EST at Mad46 Rooftop, its a nice venue with great views of the city. Its $150 to attend and you can sign up here. Here is the ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Chats About Its Live Domain Name Auction & Changing The Game Up - The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference just sent out A notice regarding the live domain auction that will be held at the October Conference. They are definitely trying to change things up including:  “The only domains that we will accept directly are the ones that have a flat fee paid in advance for the listing or prime domains with a $25,000 minimum value…We expect more than 50% of the listings will be paid listings!” “”Every auction should be a contest. That is why we don’t care ... read more ...
 
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Vertical Axis Beats Back UDRP On WorldClassFireworks.com Despite Trademark - Jake’s Fireworks Inc. of Pittsburgh, Kansas, brought a UDRP against  Vertical Axis Inc on the domain name worldclassfireworks.com a term for which they held a US Trademark Here are the relevant facts found by the three member panel and the highlights of the decision: “The Complainant operates a business which distributes and sells fireworks throughout the United States of America under the name “Jake’s Fireworks”.” The Complainant owns nine distribution centers in Washington, Nebraska, ... read more ...
 
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Plans For The Amy Winehouse Foundation Announced Before Domains Are Secured & Now The Family Has A Problem - So shortly after Amy Winehouse’s death her father Mitch Winehouse announced that he would be setting up the Amy Winehouse Foundation to help young people struggling with addiction. However he failed to secure the domain name and guess what? amywinehousefoundation.com was registered on July 26th as was amywinehousefoundation.co.uk According to the BBC is was the same day that Amy’s father announced at her daughter’s funeral that he was going to set up the foundation. amywinehousefoundation.com ... read more ...