Monthly Archives: October 2011

Fri 21st October 2011
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Cybersquatting May Become A Crime In Nigeria - According to a report in AllAfrica.com out today, Nigeria is considering criminalizing Cybersqautting. “”Cybersquatting is the registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.”” The bill also makes “Data interference” a criminal offense. Data Interference is the “damaging, deletion, alteration and suppression of data within computer systems or networks, including data transfer from a computer ... read more ...
 
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Lego Loses First UDRP - Lego finally loses a UDRP case. LEGO Juris A/S, makers of the popular legos toy, has filed nearly 300 UDRP cases to date. It hadn’t lost a single one — until now. In a decision dated October 1 (but for some reason just published this week), a single member panel found against Lego in its case for the domain name legoworkshop.com. The domain was just registered this year. When Lego looked at the site it still had the registrar’s coming soon page with parking ... read more ...
 
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Mitt Romney Buys CareerPolitician.com from Oversee.net - Oversee.net was previous owner of CareerPolitician.com. Mitt Romney’s campaign launched CareerPolitician.com this week to blast rival Rick Perry. The seller? Oversee.net. The domain name was originally registered at GoDaddy in 2007 by Tucson, Arizona company eFind. It landed in the portfolio of Oversee.net subsidiary Portfolio Brains the following year, and it held it until last month. In September it transferred back to GoDaddy under whois privacy. It doesn’t ... read more ...
 
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Friday Contest: TRAFFIC Picture Quiz - Identify these four pictures to win. It’s Friday so let’s have some fun. The first person to identify all of the items below will win a free copy of David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game Book. Put your answers in the comments. You must get all four correct to win. Picture 1 Who are these two old school domainers? Both got in the game early and battled each other in the drops. Picture 2 Now we’re going to make it harder. Who are the two people pictured here, trying ... read more ...
Thu 20th October 2011
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Sedo Gets Brokerage For Conventions.com, Directions. com, Exporters.com, BuildingSupplies.com & More - Dave Evanson a broker at Sedo.com has been lighting up his Facebook page today announcing one domain after the other than have been placed under exclusive brokerage at Sedo.com So far announced Conventions.com, Directions. com, Exporters.com, BuildingSupplies.com, DropShipper.com, Breath.com, Conduct.com, Babyfoods.com, StreamingVideo.com and Tabloid.com Last week Sedo.com announced it placed Teaparty.com under brokerage as well. The day is still young so we will update if any more domains hit his ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: HostExploit.com Names Oversee.net As Being The Worst On Its “Top 50 Bad Hosts & Networks” - HostExploit.com which publishes a quarterly list of the of the “Top 50 Bad Hosts Networks” just published its report for the  3rd Quarter of 2011 and of 39,056 servers they analyze they named Oversee.net the owner of DomainSponsor.com, as the worse in the world. “”The HostExploit Top 50 Bad Hosts Networks series and related quarterly reports is our way of contributing to the fight against cybercrime. Our aim is to raise awareness about where badness is being hosted and to provide a means ... read more ...
 
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Australian State Government To Apply For .Sydney, .Melbourne .Victoria and .NSW: “They Are Key Digital Assets” - According to a couple of stories out today State Governments in Australia announced that they are planning on applying for new Top Level internet Domains (gTLD’s). The NSW and Victorian governments say they are going to apply for  .sydney, .melbourne .victoria and .NSW The state government said both it and the Victorian government viewed the .sydney, .melbourne and .victoria — and .NSW — domains as “key digital assets” to be secured for use by respective government agencies and their communities. “NSW ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Hits All Time Low Today - Shares of Demand Media (DMD) went on a wild ride today hitting an all time low of $5.24 before recovering back to its closing price of $5.62 a loss of over 13%. Volume was almost 10X more today than the three month average of Demand  trading over 4,000,000 shares. Just a couple of weeks ago eHow announced they will be cutting back on the production of content. Late this afternoon Demand Media released a statement on eHow saying: “that its eHow.com website has recently experienced a decline in ... read more ...
 
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Garry Chernoff Scores Again with 2 More Domain Sales - Two strong five figure domain name sales. Garry Chernoff has just completed two domain name sales in his sweet spot — high five figures. First, Chernoff just completed the sale of Ripley.com for $78,000. The buyer is someone in Santiago, Chile. Chernoff sold the domain name through DomainNameSales.com, the domain sales system used by Frank Schilling and many of InternetAdvertising.com’s clients. Second, he sold callisto.com for 50,000 EUR. The domain name was ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Releases DomainFinder - Tool searches for available domain names. VeriSign has released a new beta tool called DomainFinder to help people find available domain names. On the surface the tool is just a basic domain name generator: enter a keyword and it shows you available domains you might want to register. But it’s integrated into VeriSign’s DomainScore system, so domains that receive NXD traffic are denoted with a special icon. Hovering over it shows you the 7, 30, and 60 day DomainScore. I ... read more ...
 
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HostExploit Names Oversee.net #1 Bad Host - Group releases its latest list of “bad” hosts. HostExploit, which previously put the heat on eNom, now says Oversee.net is the “#1 Bad Host”. The group compared data from 11 sources on a number of “bad” things that can be hosted, ranging from phishing servers to infected web sites. The group’s report for Q3 2011 ranks Oversee.net worst overall, up from 9 last quarter. Oversee.net rated worst for badware and infected web sites. The badware issue is interesting; ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Threatens to Shut Down Cheapies.com - Registrar failing to escrow whois information. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Cheapies.com, threatening to de-accredit the domain name registrar. Cheapies, which bills itself as “domain registrations for the cost conscious”, apparently hasn’t been escrowing its whois information. ICANN has communicated with the company about the escrow problem since January of this year, with the registrar finally telling ... read more ...
 
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Validus Holdings Says Former Contractor Used .Co Domains to Intercept Confidential Emails - Former contractor allegedly intercepted emails using .co domain names. Validus Holdings, a publicly traded (NYSE: VR) reinsurance and insurance company, has filed a lawsuit against the owner of several .co domain names. The company claims that the owner of some of the domains, Musa Kiana, previously was a third party contractor providing accounts services for Validus. In October of 2010 Validus discovered that Kiana had registered .co domain names including Validus’ ... read more ...
 
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Warner Bros Registers Reddit Movie Domains - Movie studio registers Reddit related domain names as it works on movie suggested by Reddit commentor. Reddit is certainly a powerful force on the internet. But is Warner Bros working on a movie about it? The company just registered a number of domain names with the term “Reddit” in them, including RedditFilm.com, reddit-the-movie.com, RedditMovie.com, and ReddittheMovie.com. It’s also possible (probable?) that the domains were registered as part of an interesting ... read more ...
Wed 19th October 2011
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There Must Have Been Two TRAFFIC Conferences This Week Because we Sure Attended A Different One Than Owen - When I woke up this morning I would never have thought I would have to write a post critical of another blogger. Having come off the high of winning the blogger of the year award and accepting on behalf of all domain bloggers recognizing the time, work, commitment and criticism we voluntarily subject ourselves too, the LAST thing I wanted to do, especially today, is call another blogger out. Oh well. So I read Owen Frager’s post this morning about his experience at the TRAFFIC conference entitled ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Reports Earnings & Beats The Street Estimates & Stocks Up Over 5% - Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO ) reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011 after the market closed yesterday and for the first time in a long time actually beat the street numbers and reported better than expected results. Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (“revenue ex-TAC”) was $1,072 million for the third quarter of 2011, a 5% decrease from the third quarter of 2010. Income from operations decreased 6% to $177 million in the third quarter of 2011, compared to $189 million ... read more ...
 
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Thanks To All, As TheDomains.com Wins The Best Blog Award At TRAFFIC - Just a quick note to thank all of you our readers; the commentators; and all of you that voted  TheDomains.com as the Best Domain Blog at TRAFFIC yesterday. Both Judi and I are quite touched to receive the honor. Special thanks to the organizers of the TRAFFIC show Rick, Howard and to Barbara and Alina, Ray and Kim without whose very hard work the TRAFFIC show would not be possible. Also a special shout out to Adam Matuzich and Ray Neu, who keep the blog up and running and all of our advertisers ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: TRAFFIC Auction Nets $240K As .XXX Accounts For $77K - UPDATE:  I was informed by the owner of the domain names that sold “conditionally” at the auction, MovieTheater.com and MovieTheatre.com for $45,000 that he did NOT accept the lower sales price and therefore these domain did NOT sell and have been removed and the sales figures adjusted. The live domain name Auction from the TRAFFIC show just concluded with about $240,000 in sales of which $77K were for .XXX domains. I think the lack of online bidding hurt the overall sales figures. Several of ... read more ...
 
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5 Questions Answered during TRAFFIC - TRAFFIC is over. Here’s how it stacked up. Last Friday I asked five questions that would be answered at this week’s TRAFFIC conference. We now have answers: 1. How will the auction perform? I’m going to give some credit to Rick on this one. The overall sales numbers were low, but there were a couple things I liked. First, Rick allowed people to pay to get their domains into the auction. I’m not sure if this is the right model but I do think there’s room ... read more ...
Tue 18th October 2011
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Sedo.com Sells $1.7 Million In Domain Names Led By Lik.com For $65K - Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday October 17th. In all Sedo.com sold  935 domain names through their marketplace, totaling $1.74 million. All reportable domain sales totaled approximately $726,930 USD. The top seller of the week was Lik.com for $65,000 followed by Reconnect.com for $45,000. The complete sale list in their respective currencies are below: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $540K In Domains Led By KnockOnWood.com For $26K - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday October 16th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $541,356. The top seller of the week was KnockOnWood.com for $26,088 followed by rnp.net at $14,888. Below is the complete list of sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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DomainMonster.com 25,000 Pre-orders For .XXX General Availability Already - DomainMonster an ICANN accredited registrar in a press release today say it has already taken 25,000 pre-orders for .XXX domain names when they become available for registration to the public. Since DomainMonster is just one of over 70 domain name registrars that are selling .XXX domains, its a pretty impressive number especially considering the rollout of the .XXX registry is still in Sunrise and still has a few weeks away from opening up the Land Rush period. I know a lot of people typically wait ... read more ...
 
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Washington Post: “Campaign 2012, Websites Are The New Real Estate” - The Washington Post published a story today entitled “Campaign 2012, Websites Are The New Real Estate” which talks about how candates are spending thousands of dollar buying up domain names, both for their campaign and defensively. “On Sept. 2, with Texas Gov. Rick Perry surging in the polls, someone purchased the Web addresses stickittorick.com, rickperrynot. com and buryperry.com.” and all were registered at Godaddy.com That same day, “Mitt Romney’s campaign spent $2,851 buying the ... read more ...
 
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SEX.co Hits The Auction Block Today & OMG.CO, LAWN.CO, INTERACTIVE.CO, COMICBOOKS.CO, DOGFOOD.CO, ENGAGE.CO, FORMS.CO, FUNERALS.CO Are Coming Up - According to a Press release by the .Co Registry today the re-auctions of previous Land Rush auction domain names will start on October 31st on Pool.com ending on November 7th at Noon EST. Included in the list of re-auction domains are OMG.CO, ASSETS.CO, ENGAGE.CO, INJURYLAWYERS.CO, COSMETICDENTIST.CO, LAWN.CO, INTERACTIVE.CO, ETC.CO, ACCIDENTLAWYERS.CO, COMICBOOKS.CO, DOGFOOD.CO, ENGAGE.CO, FORMS.CO, FUNERALS.CO, HIVE.CO, HUB.CO, INTERACTIVE.CO, and OFFROAD.CO “”While the original Landrush auctions ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domains for a Ultra Wealthy? - Do the 1% need their own top level domain name? Just when you thought you’d seen it all… A new offering from CentralNic called dotFamilyName proposes that the ultra rich should get their own top level domain name. .Buffet, anyone? The company pitches: For as little as $500,000, prominent families will have access to the most prestigious and technologically advanced address located at the apex of the internet. Hey, what else would you do with a spare half million ... read more ...