Monthly Archives: September 2011

Fri 30th September 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
MediaPost: Internet Advertising Grows To $15 Billion For 1st Half Of 2011 & Search Accounts For 1/2 - According to MediaPost.com citing stats from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Internet ad revenue rose 24.1% to $7.7 billion in the second quarter of 2011. Combined with the results of the 1st Q 2011, Internet ad revenue totaled $14.9 billion in the first half of the year. “For the first six months, display-related advertising revenue totaled $5.5 billion or 37% revenue, up 27% from the $4.4 billion reported in 2010. Search revenue for the first six months of 2011 ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Me Registry To Auction Off 150 Previously Unreleased Premium .Me Domain Names On Sedo - 222.me, 444.me, 555.me, 777.me, 800.me, 888.me, account.me, accountant.me, accounting.me, air.me, america.me, american.me, ant.me, apartments.me, arab.me, asian.me, astrology.me, bargain.me, baseball.me, basketball.me, beaver.me, beef.me, bike.me, bogota.me, brisbane.me, cab.me, calls.me, cam.me, camera.me, celeb.me, celebrity.me, cellphones.me, chatrooms.me, cheerleaders.me, chicago.me, chinese.me, christmas.me, commerce.me, communication.me, company.me, computer.me, computers.me, concert.me, concerttickets.me, ... read more ...
 
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Google Rollouts Real Time Stats On Google Analytics - According to a blog post on by Google, Google is upgrading its Google Analytics tool to give users real time information. Google’s free analytics tool offers a comprehensive data on websites but until now, it has  a 24-hour lag on full data reporting. The new Google Analytics Real-Time tool offers an instant look at a site’s active-visit count. It began rolling out Thursday to some users and will be available to all users in the next few weeks.: Today we’re very excited to bring real time ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Coming Soon: The .XXX Speedboat - ICM Registry to sponsor world champion powerboat racer Mike Seebold. ICM Registry, the company behind the new .xxx top level domain name, is entering world class powerboat racing with world champion driver Mike Seebold to compete at this year’s Offshore World Championships in Key West, Florida. We’ve already seen domain name company’s names plastered on the side of Nascar and F-1 race cars (Go Daddy), now we’ll get to see one on a powerboat. The race boat ... read more ...
 
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Company Sues Facebook Over New Timeline Feature, Says it Hijacked Its Username - Company claims trademark infringement and that Facebook hijacked its username. The Chicago company that owns Timelines.com and a federally registered trademark for “Timelines” has filed a trademark infringement suit (pdf) against Facebook over its new “Timeline” feature. According to the suit: Facebook has announced its intention to use and, indeed has already begun to re-direct Internet traffic, using Timelines’ federally registered “TIMELINES” ... read more ...
 
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Pre-Paid Legal Has Rebranding Problem with Domain Name - Controversial legal services company is rebranding but doesn’t have the domain name. Pre-Paid Legal Services is changing its name to LegalShield, but it has a big problem: it doesn’t own LegalShield.com. Just a short time after filing an intent to use trademark application for “LegalShield” the company filed a UDRP complaint for LegalShield.com. The respondent, represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com, won the case. What’s interesting to me is that Pre-Paid ... read more ...
 
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Don’t Mess With Texas’ Domain Names - Texas Department of Transportation wins domain name dispute over DontMessWithTexas.com. The Texas Department of Transportation has a message for domain name owners: Don’t Mess with Texas. The organization just won a National Arbitration Forum case over the domain name DontMessWithTexas.com. The owner of the domain name didn’t respond to the dispute. Barring any late legal action by the owner, the domain will be transferred to the state within 10 days. Don’t ... read more ...
 
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Google to Take on Woopra and ChartBeat - Google Analytics goes real-time. Web analytics companies already know they need to quickly adapt to survive. Remember when Google acquired Urchin and then offered its suite for free as Google Analytics? Yeah, that shook things up. Today Google announced real-time functionality in Google Analytics. This is a blow to two popular real time services: Woopra and ChartBeat. I’ve tried both paid services and personally like Woopra better. Real time analytics is important ... read more ...
Thu 29th September 2011
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
A Domain Name Vs. The Web Underclass - Using a web service instead of managing your own domain name opens you to risk. I just finished reading Adrian Short’s editorial about Facebook’s Open Graph and I think domainers will find it interesting. It’s a long and well argued editorial and I certainly don’t want to try summarizing it. But from a domain name perspective, Short argues the difference between a domain name and social networks. When you host your content and business on a domain name you ... read more ...
 
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Acorn.TV Battle Moves to a Courts - Parties to litigate over Acorn.tv ownership. Earlier this month I wrote about a very poor UDRP decision for Acorn.tv. The registrant lost the case. I later talked to the registrant and he informed me he was moving forward with a lawsuit against complainant Acorn Media Group. This would explain why Acorn Media Group is now suing to try to get the domain name since the UDRP transfer was halted. Right off the bat there seems to be a major problem with Acorn Media Group’s ... read more ...
 
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Automated Domain Selling Fail - Make sure your system works so you don’t embarrass yourself. If you’re going to use an automated or semi-automated system to reach out to potential buyers of your domain names, please make sure the system works. I’ve received several off base emails “I see you own this domain, would you be interested in also owning this (unrelated) domain? This one today takes the cake: Hello, I would like to know if you are interested in purchasing the domain name famouscharities.com. ... read more ...
Wed 28th September 2011
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US Department Of Commerce To ICANN: We wish “A Clear & Enforced Ethics & Conflict of Interest Policy” - In a September 21st letter sent by Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence Strickling to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) disclosed that it is “actively exploring how to best meet this requirement” for “a clear and enforced ethics and conflict of interest policy” in the next version of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract. The situation arising about conflicts of interest arose after the ... read more ...
 
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Domainfest Party Moves To House Of Blues & Early Bird $995 Rate Ends Friday -   DomainSponsor®, the domain traffic monetization division of Oversee.net® and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINfest® series of conferences, has confirmed the venues and themes for the evening networking activities at its 2012 DOMAINfest Global® Conference to be held from January 31 to February 2, 2012 at the luxurious Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. Tuesday Opening Night Reception and Dinner at Monsoon Restaurant DOMAINfest Global attendees will greet old friends and ... read more ...
 
 
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holding Sells Stepout.com For $30K To Ignighter, Inc A Group Dating Company - Mike Mann’s company Domain Asset Holding just sold the domain name Stepout.com for $30,000 through Sedo.com The buyer of the domain is a company called Ignighter, Inc out of New York which seems to be a pretty big company in the Group Dating space. The site is already up and running pretty much going to Ignighter.com main site As for what group dating is Let’s be honest, 90% of the time meeting someone one-on-one is more awkward than a junior high dance. You’re both too nervous thinking about ... read more ...
 
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What Domain KPMG, Clemson University, and Others Bought This Past WE - A weekly round up of end user domain name purchases. Here’s a look at domain names end users bought through Afternic last week. Entrepreneur.com bought ClubEntrepreneur.com for $5,000 one week after picking up EntrepreneurAwards.com for $2,088. KPMG Meijburg Co bought TaxControl.com for $2,388. You know how cute spellings of your name create confusion? It looks like Xpert Auto Repair Inc., which owns xpertauto.net, figured that out. It bought ExpertAuto.net for ... read more ...
 
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Amazon’s New Products and Its Domain Name Scorecard - Company gets key domains but misses some others. Amazon.com released a slew of new products today: a new basic Kindle, the Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Fire, and Amazon Silk. The company is known for aggressively registering variations and typos of its brand names. Let’s see how they did for this product launch: Kindle Fire – as I wrote about yesterday, Amazon bought this domain name. However, it appears someone else may have registered the typo wwwKindleFire.com. Kindle ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest Announces Party Venues for Next Year’s L.A. Conference - A trip to an automotive museum and House of Blues. Social events for next year’s DOMAINfest Global event in Los Angeles will be held at differenct locations than years’ past. The Wednesday dinner networking event will be at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The museum has a large collections of race cars, classic cars, hot rods, motorcycles, and celebrity cars. After three years at the Playboy Mansion, the farewell party will move to the House of Blues. This is ... read more ...
 
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Sex.co Gets Close to 11k Visits Per Month - Domain up for auction gets solid traffic. About a year ago the owners of Sex.co put the domain up for sale on Sedo and started parking it there, too. Now that the domain name is up for sale in next month’s TRAFFIC auction, I figured I’d check in on the domain to see what sort of traffic it gets. According to the Sedo listing page, the site got about 10,800 visits over the past 31 days. Given the number of visits to the Sedo listing page you have to wonder if some ... read more ...
 
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Shorter .Org Domain Names May Be On The Way - Public Interest Registry asks for permission to allocate one and two character .org domain names. .Org domain name registry Public Interest Registry is asking (pdf) ICANN to allow it to allocate certain one and two character .org domain names. PIR’s contract with ICANN currently prohibits registering these short .org domain names. PIR wants to allocate any such domains excluding ones that correspond to a country code. There’s a model for releasing these domains ... read more ...
Tue 27th September 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $790K In Domains Led By AskYourDoctor.com For $70K - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday September 25th. All reportable domain sales $1K and over totalled $790,175. The top seller of the week was AskYourDoctor.com at $70,000 followed by Kari.com at $63,000. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $1.3M In Domains Led By Republic.com For $200K - Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday September 26th. All reportable domain sales totalled $1,262,569 USD. The top sellers of the week were Republic.com at $200,000 followed by siteweb.com silvercoins.com, each for $100,000. The complete sale list in their respective currencies are below:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Internet tem 215 mi de domínios registrados - São Paulo - A web encerrou o primeiro semestre de 2011 com uma base de mais de 215 milhões de domínios registrados. De acordo com um relatório da Verisign, somente no segundo trimestre do período 5,2 milhões de novos domínios foram registrados, o que indica um crescimento de 2,5% em relação aos primeiros três meses do ano. Comparado com 2010, o crescimento é de 16,9 milhões de registros, ou 8,6%, comparado com o ano passado. A base de Domínios de Primeiro Nível com Códigos ... read more ...
 
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TheDomains.com On CNN - About 10 days ago we wrote a post about the domain name TeaParty.com which was owned by a band up in Canada, which went public saying they would consider selling the domain for an amount in the 7 figures. The story was picked up by CNN yesterday and TheDomains.com appeared on TV screens around the country as the background for the story. A good domainer friend was nice enough to take a picture of his TV when TheDomains.com was upon CNN and sent it to me Here you go:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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How Will ICANN Batch The New gTLD Applications? They Don’t Know, Yet - Kurt Pritz of ICANN, spoke today at the NewDomains.org conference when the question was asked; how will ICANN batch or process applications for the new gTLD’s? ICANN previously stated that if more than 500 application were received they would process them in batches,  and that no more than 1,000 extension would be delegated in any year, so how any application is batched may decide if a particular application comes out late in 2012 or maybe for not a year or more later. Many now expect over 1,000 ... read more ...