Monthly Archives: September 2011

Tue 6th September 2011
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Dynadot.com Site Gets Makeover - It looks like the popular domain name registrar, Dynadot.com got a makeover during the labor day holiday. The new site sports sharper graphic’s, bolder colors and an jazzier interface. To me its carrying forward a style of makeover along the lines of Name.com a couple of months ago. I like the new design, what do you guys think. According to Webhosting.info,  Dynadot.com has just under 400K domain names under management. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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FindInsurance.com Sells For $50K on Sedo - Another really nice insurance domain has sold, this time by Sedo.com for $50,500. The domain name FindInsurance.com is owned by iEstates.com, LLC of Scottsdale. Guess we will find out who the buyer is when the whois updates. Its a nice domain in the sector that has produced some high sales. We should have the weekly Sedo report of all their sales later today Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Ready to Scream? After 14 Years, Guy Loses Screams.com in UDRP - Haunted house owner must transfer domain name to competitor. The owner of screams.com has lost his domain name thanks to a ruling by a National Arbitration Forum panelist. The owner of Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth, Texas registered Screams.com all the way back in 1997. The complainant has operated the Screams Halloween Theme Park, located in nearby Waxahachie, Texas, since 1996. Even though “screams” is generic, I can certainly understand how the ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Upset About X-Rated Flickr Sites - Company files complaint over sites that use its Flickr brand. Yahoo has turned to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to help it shut down two X-rated sites that use Flickr in their domain names. The company filed the complaint with WIPO over the domain names nastyflickr.com and nudeflickr.com, each of which lead to a web site containing adult photos. They each contain a logo that looks similar to the Flickr blue and red logo as well. They are owned ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Buys Typo of WeatherBug Web Site. Is AWS.com Next? - Company may be acquiring three letter domain name for its web services offering. Amazon.com has registered wwwaws.com, a common typo of aws.com. AWS is the acronym for the company’s popular Amazon Web Services platform. It’s unusual for a company to register a typo of a domain name it doesn’t own, and it makes me wonder if the company is working on acquiring the AWS.com domain name to redirect to aws.amazon.com. AWS.com is registered to AWS Convergence Technologies, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Releases Drastic Improvement to Domain Parking Stats Interface - New interface loads faster and is more usable. Domain marketplace and parking service Sedo has released a completely redesigned stats interface. The new interface is a huge improvement over the old one, which could only be describe as confusing and slow. Indeed, while the new interface is much easier to understand and manipulate, the biggest improvement in my mind is the speed at which it loads. The old interface was so clunky that it usually froze up my Firefox ... read more ...
 
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University of Michigan Needs to Go Back to Law School - University loses case against alleged phishing web site. The Regents of the University of Michigan have failed to take control of two domain names in a poorly argued UDRP case. The university filed the claim to get control of SurveyResearchCenter.com and SurveyClaim.com, the latter of which it alleged is a phishing web site. It claimed that it established the Survey Research Center in 1946. The panel granted that the SurveyResearchCenter.com domain name is confusingly ... read more ...
Sun 4th September 2011
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We Welcome Back College Football To Find Out Which School Has The Best Domain & Come To Some Shocking Findings - With the  college football season starting this weekend and we are looking to find which of the “top” football programs own the best domain name. Of course most schools own their .edu domain for the official site of the university, yet most of the major college sports programs have their own site for just the athletic programs and that’s what were looking at here. I’m going to start with my team the Florida Gators (winners of 2 of the last 5 BCS national championships). FloridaGators.com ... read more ...
 
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StumbleUpon Buys Stumblers.com for $6,000 - Hot social site buys domain name for the moniker of its users. Social sharing site StumbleUpon has purchased the domain name Stumblers.com for $6,000. StubleUpon users are called “stumblers”. The sale was on Afternic’s sales list from the past week, although at the time it wasn’t clear who bought the domain name since it was registered to brand protection company MarkMonitor. The seller was Baton Rouge, Louisiana based NameSeek.com. As of right now the domain ... read more ...
Sat 3rd September 2011
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gFLip.net Enters Website/Domain Marketplace As The “World’s First Completely Free Marketplace” - According to a press release, A new website marketplace launched yesterday  called gFlip.net. gFlip promises to allow their users to list and sell there websites completely free of charge. “Marketplaces like Flippa charge sellers listing fees and success fees, gFlip has eliminated all these fees making there services completely free of charge.” “gFlip is the worlds first completely free website marketplace which connects buyers and sellers from all around the world who are interested in buying ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: Which Domains With A Reserve Price of $100K+ Will Sell At The Domainfest/SnapNames Auction? - The Domainfest NY meetup auction ends on September 20th at 3:15pm EST so on this labor day weekend we thought we would put up a poll asking you which domain(s) with a reserve of  100K or more  will sell at the auction. There are 45 domain names with a reserve price of $100K or more, so we are giving you 5 picks but you must make all 5 at one time. Of course you can also vote that  “none will sell” Please vote on the poll on the right and place any comments below for bragging rights Here are ... read more ...
Fri 2nd September 2011
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.ORG Registry Joins Godaddy In NASCAR Sponsorship - According to a Press Release,  .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) has teamed up with Godaddy to sponsor a NASCAR car owned by  JR Motorsports and driven by Jamie McMurray. “In conjunction with GoDaddy.com, .ORG advertisements will run on McMurray’s No. 7 car during the following NASCAR races:” – Sunday, September 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET in Atlanta, Ga. – Sunday, October 2 at 2:00 p.m. ET in Dover, Del.” “Next to the .ORG logo on the No. 7 car, we are calling on the NASCAR community ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Resigns As Editor To Run $20M CrunchFund Without The .Com - The founder of TechCrunch.com Michael Arrington is resigning as editor of the popular technology blog, and will run a $20 million venture-capital fund backed by AOL Inc. and several venture-capital firms according to the WSJ.com which is called CrunchFund. “Mr. Arrington “will run the fund and will continue to write for TechCrunch, but will have no editorial oversight,” said an AOL spokesman. Erick Schonfeld, who has served as co-editor in New York, will become interim editor while AOL searches ... read more ...
 
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A Warning if You Use TrafficClub NameServers - Legacy nameservers no longer generating revenue for parking customers. Oversee.net shut down Moniker’s traffic monetization solution TrafficClub shortly after buying the company. TrafficClub accounts were transitioned to DomainSponsor and the trafficclub.com nameservers continued to work. But that changed back in March, apparently without notice as far as I can tell. Although the trafficclub.com nameservers continue to function and resolve to DomainSponsor parked ... read more ...
 
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Pssst… “Got Milk?” is a Trademark - Don’t mess around with the Got Milk slogan. Got Milk? This slogan has become such a cultural mainstay that we see variations of it all the time. But what many people don’t realize is that it’s trademarked. California Milk Processor Board has multiple trademarks to the slogan and related slogans. That’s a lesson that one punk rock band learned the hard way. The band called “GotMilk” needs to find a new name. The California Milk Processor Board just won ... read more ...
Thu 1st September 2011
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Are Micro-Payments The Next Big Thing For Adult Sites? - According to Xbiz.com, Today Corbin Fisher, a one of the largest porn producers, announced the launch of  its “CF Select Micro-Payment website where users can download individual scenes without becoming a member.” “Users will be able to create a free account then select and purchase individual scenes or collections from the site that include Corbin Fisher DVD collections, exclusive content, and classic scenes from the main Corbin Fisher site.” ICM Registry also has a micro-payment system ... read more ...
 
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Garry Chernoff Sells MoneyLender.com for $75,000 - Chernoff strikes again with MoneyLender.com. There are a number of people who are looking for money lenders these days. But not domainer Garry Chernoff. He just sold MoneyLender.com for a nice $75,000. The domain name has been transferred to a new owner who is using whois privacy to protect its identity. Chernoff, who’s wonderful story with domain names is chronicled in David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game book, frequently sells domain names in this price range. Some ... read more ...
 
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Instra Joins New TLD Services Field, Adds Competition to .Brand Services - New TLD consultant won’t charge application consulting fees to .brand owners that use its other services. Instra is the latest company to court potential new top level domain name applicants with a services and registry suite. The company, which owns a domain name registrar that caters to brand holders, is putting continued price pressure on services offered to .brand applicants. Instra will offer free application consulting to .brand applicants that manage their ... read more ...
 
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How to Blog While You’re on Vacation - How to keep your blog active when you’re on the road. I’ve been traveling a lot over the past month, some for pleasure and some for work. As a blogger this adds a bit of stress. My readers expect me to provide relevant and consistent domain name industry coverage. A week away from the blog would kill its momentum. While traveling sometimes means being away from the internet or not having time to blog as much, there are ways to keep the momentum going while you’re ... read more ...