Monthly Archives: September 2011

Thu 15th September 2011
Written by DomainHack.er in CZ and tagged
TLD, Top Level Domain - Slovnk potaov informatiky a st                                                 RNDr. Petr ha, ing. Lubo Klaka Hledn ve slovnku domna nejvy rovn podle pravidel (vt. DNS). Pat sem kdy zem dle ISO 3166 (.cz, .de, .uk), domny sttn sprvy USA (.gov, .mil, .edu) a nadnrodn .com, .net, .org, int. V roce 2000 bylo ... read more ...
Wed 14th September 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Directi Merges BigJumbo Into DomainAdvertising - In a notice just sent out to customer Directi, is merging two of its companies. Bigjumbo is being merged into Domain Advertising Here is the email: BigJumbo.com is pleased to announce the merger of BigJumbo.com DomainAdvertising.com into a single Domain Parking Platform. The merged entity will function under the brand DomainAdvertising.com. This merger combines the best features from each of the platforms, further strengthens our position in the domain parking market. The move brings with it a gamut ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Demand Media is Down 55% from Its IPO, But It’s Not Alone - Majority of 2011 U.S. IPOs are under water. If you managed to buy Demand Media’s stock at the $17 offering price in January, you’ve taken a 55% hit. The stock closed today at $7.62. More likely if you bought on the first day you paid north of $20 for the stock. But is this fall because the company is weak or is it just a case of bad timing? (or good for those that got to sell there shares in January?) Data tracker Dealogic says 63% of U.S. initial public offerings ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
“Book” + Social Networking = Trademark Delay - Facebook asks trademark office for more time to oppose trademarks. If you want the U.S. Patent and Trademark office to approve a trademark for your social networking site that includes the word “book”, you can expect a challenge. That’s because Facebook is repeatedly filing requests with the trademark office to extend the time it has to oppose for good cause these trademark registrations. For example, there’s dart player social network Dartbook. Facebook filed ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Spotlight on 13 End User Domain Name Sales This Past Week - From Rediff to a company in Santa Claus, Indiana, end users bought a number of domain names this week. As I report every week, here’s a look at end users who recently bought domain names through Afternic. Ho Ho Holdings, which owns a number of properties and entertainment destinations in Santa Claus, Indiana, bought GiftfromSanta.com for $1,288. Rediff.com bought KnowledgeCentre.com for $4,388. Last week it bought GoodKnowledge.com for $1,488. GovDelivery, which ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Owner of Screams.com Sues to Halt Transfer - Haunted house files suit to stop transfer and asks that trademark be canceled. The owner of the domain name Screams.com has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to halt the imminent transfer of his domain name following an adverse UDRP ruling. Last week I wrote about how Screams.com owner Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth, Texas, lost a UDRP to another haunted house in the area. Cutting Edge registered the domain name 14 years before the UDRP case was filed. In addition to ... read more ...
Tue 13th September 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Sedo.com Sells $620K In Domains Led By daswetter.com For $30K - Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday September 12th. All reportable domain sales totalled approximately $618,708 USD. The top seller of the week was daswetter.com at $30,000 followed by gopost.com for $25,000 USD. Das Wetter is German for “the weather”. As previously posted, GoPost.com was one of our domain sales. The complete list of sales in their respective currency is below: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $500K In Domains Led By Sanatorium.com For $22k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday September 11th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $497,472. The top seller of the week was Sanatorium.com at $22,000 followed by whitewalls.com at $20,000. Below is the complete list of sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Twitter: T.Co Producing A 100 Million Clicks a Day - According to a story in cnet.com  today,  Twitter’s Director of Web Business Development,  April Underwood announced a new product for Twitter, called  Twitter Web Analytics. The  new analytics dashboard “focuses on Web sites, not just individual stories” In announcing the roll out Ms. Underwood said “T.co,” is driving 100 million clicks a day to Web sites, and the traffic from T.co is what the newweb analytics program is based on. 100 million clicks a DAY on an extension that didn’t ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Why Does General Electric Own The Domain Name UpYourButt.net? - The domain name UpYourButt.net is owned by GE. Yes the General Electric Company. The domain was once registered to Universal Studios which is owned by NBC, which in turn is owned by GE. The domain name does not resolve. The domain’s registrar is the corporate brand consultant cscglobal.com Its a pretty strange name to see under the control of a company in the Dow Jones average and under management at a corporate registrar. Wonder if they are going to apply for upyourbutt.xxx? Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
.XXX Sunrise Registrations “Comfortably Exceeded” Expectations - A long way to go but numbers already look strong for .xxx sunrise registrations. The .xxx sunrise registration period is less than a week old, but ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley told Domain Name Wire “I think it is safe to say that we have ‘comfortably exceeded’ our internal estimates” via email today. Lawley goes on to write: The response to the unprecedented media coverage last week was immediate and strong and we are surprised at the level of applications ... read more ...
 
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WTF? Acorn.tv mislaid in UDRP. - Hold on tight to your generic .tv domains! Sometimes I read UDRP decisions and just start shaking my head. That’s the case with Acorn.tv. Keep in mind that UDRP was created for clear cut cases of cybersquatting. Acorn.tv is not a clear cut case of cybersquatting and should have remained with the owner. Acorn Media Group, Inc, which filed the complaint, makes home video products. That apparently means that anything with “acorn” and the .tv extension belongs to ... read more ...
Mon 12th September 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Congrats To MobileWallet.net Who Just Posted The 50,000th Published Comment on The Domains 33 Months After Launch - Congrats goes out to MobileWallet.net who just posted the 50,000th published comment on TheDomains.com. The blog was first launched in December 2008. For the record to date there have been 3,176 published posts and for those who think we allow way too many comments to get through, there have been well over 220,000 comments either rejected as spam or deleted. Thanks to all the readers for the support and in reaching this milestone.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Gaz.com Sells for $55K on Sedo: Is The Russian Automaker The Buyer? - The domain name GAZ.com just sold on Sedo for 40,000 Euro’s or around $55,000 on one bid in an auction that just ended My pick as the buyer of the domain, but just a guess is Gaz automotive group out of Russia According to their site, “GAZ GROUP IS RUSSIA’S LARGEST AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING HOLDING” company. You can read more about this company here If it is the Russian automaker then its a steal. If not the Russian company than there are some gaming related uses for the term Gaz so it could ... read more ...
 
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Ari Goldberger Buys DomainLawyers.com & Pylon.com Sell For Over $10K On NameJet.com - Two domain names sold yesterday on NameJet.com for over $10K. DomainLawyers.com sold for $10,006 The domain appears to have been bought by the domain lawyer Ari Goldberger Its a nice brandable domain which can include UDRP’s, WIPO’s and IP issues. Ari already owns UDRP.com The domain Pylon.com sold for $10,302 Pylon among other things, seems to be a band, but you can see other possible users for this domain here and here   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Marchex Sells DasWetter.com For $30K On Sedo & We Sell GoPost.com For $25K - A couple of sales  hitting the Sedo wire tonight. The domain name Daswetter.com sold for $30K Das Wetter is German for “The Weather”. The domain name was Owned by Marchex. The domain is still in escrow at Sedo so we can’t be positive about the buyer,  but DasWetter.de is owned by Zdf.com/Zdf.de so they are the likely buyer. One of our domains, GoPost.com was sold by Sedo.com for $25K. That domain is also in escrow and we will have to see who the buyer is.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
ICANN’s Enron-esque Math Shows a Loss on New TLDs - Numbers don’t make a lot of sense to me. ICANN has released a projected cash flow and profit and loss statement from the new top level domain name program. It has me scratching my head. The non-profit presents two sets of numbers. First is an overall program cashflow statement. The program considers only 500 applications (which is near the low end of what most people are estimating). It also doesn’t show any revenue from auctions. To be fair, estimating auction ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Holders Go to 93-1 in .Co Disputes - .Co domain name disputes almost always found in favor of complainant. Filers of UDRP cases against .co domain names are now 93-1 at World Intellectual Property Organization. These cases have all been filed since .co was relaunched last year. I’ve counted “terminated” cases as wins for the complainant since an amicable transfer is the typical reason for a case to be terminated. This doesn’t include numbers for National Arbitration Forum cases since that group ... read more ...
 
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Dallas Mavericks Star Dirk Nowitzki Wins Dispute Over Domain Name - Dirk Nowitzki wins case against creator of icon of his likeness. Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki has won a dispute against a company that used DirkSwish.com to sell memorabilia of his likeness. Dallas based Happy Bulldawg Entertainment, which says it created the “Legendary Icon” of Dirk Nowitzki (seen here on a Sports Illustrated cover), registered DirkSwish.com on May 28, 2011. The company says it registered it to create a fan site in honor of Nowitzki. Yet ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Does Rugby Deserve WorldCup2011.com? - Is it fair to give this domain name to a Rugby organization despite its use? [Update: Rugby lost the cast for the reasons I suggested here.] Rugby World Cup Limited has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name WorldCup2011.com. Of course there are a lot of “World Cup” tournaments going on this year. There was the FIFA Women’s World Cup, ICC Cricket World Cup, and even the Federation of International Touch World ... read more ...
Sun 11th September 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Now You Can Tweet To Register A Domain Name: TweetName.com - Now it appears you can just Tweet to register a domain name. Tweetname.com, says Its the fastest way to register a domain name Just tweet a direct message to @tweetname with the domain you want. If it’s available, we’ll register it for you. The service is powered by Enom. How it works First, register with Tweetname and put a credit card on file. Then use Twitter to send a private direct message to @tweetname with the domain you want. If it’s available, we’ll register it for you. If it’s ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
10 Years Later - This isn’t a blog post about where I was and all of that stuff. We all have those stories. This is just another reminder to think about what’s important in life. After 9/11, people decided to spend more time with family and reconnecting with old friends. They went out of there way to help people, even complete strangers. This has worn off over the past decade. I was reminded of this when the Dow fell 300 points on Friday. It was painful to watch. But did it really ... read more ...
Sat 10th September 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Neustar: “The .Com Era Is Ending” - When the ad copy came in from Neustar’s new site dedicated to the new gTLD launch we couldn’t notice the statement on the site: “The .Com Era Is Ending” Neustar is a publicly traded company with a market cap of $1.7 Billion dollars,  that provides the back end for many extensions including .Co .Biz and is expected to be a big player in the new gTLD space and is part of our domain name parking index They just launched a site for to promote the new gTLD’s services at Dotyou.biz “”Welcome ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Another TLD Frontrunner Joins Game with .Hawaii, .Fish, and More - What Box? Holdings files four trademark applications for top level domains. I’ve written numerous times about people applying for trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for new top level domain names. Here’s the latest entrant into the frontrunning game: Beverly Hills company What Box? Holdings, LLC. The company just filed applications for .Hawaii, .Foundation, .Fish, and .Charter. Of course the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office won’t grant a trademark ... read more ...
Fri 9th September 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Will AOL & Yahoo Merge? - There are a few reports out today including one from Bloomberg that AOL and Yahoo, two struggling companies are  in merger talks. Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong of AOL is “talking with advisers to Yahoo! Inc. to gauge its interest in combining the companies after the ouster of CEO Carol Bartz” According to the story Armstrong was interested in a merger with Yahoo last year but Carol Bartz was not interested. Now that she is out as CEO of Yahoo,  AOL is resuming talks with Yahoo.   Google+Michael ... read more ...