Monthly Archives: October 2011

Wed 12th October 2011
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Would Domaining.com Have Been Seized Or Cancelled Today By VeriSign If The Proposed Policy Was In Effect - Ever since Kevin Murphy broke the news today on TheRegister.co.uk, that VeriSign is asking for take down powers without court orders, the domain blog world has been a buzz with posts about the proposed policy. Verisign wants the power to “be able to enforce the “denial, cancellation or transfer of any registration” where a domain is deemed to be “abusive”. Included in the laundry list of reasons for taking down a domain or even cancelling the registration is: “(e) to respond to or protect ... read more ...
 
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I Am Not Ted Olson - Just to clarify… T.R.A.F.F.I.C. kicks off Sunday in Fort Lauderdale. In advance of the conference, I’d like to make something perfectly clear: I am not Ted Olson. For those that don’t know, Ted Olson works for NameMedia. He’s pictured on the right above. I’m on the left. Clearly we’re not the same people, but we are sometimes mistaken for each other. Who could make that mistake? Certainly not the other person in the picture (ahem). Now I do see the similarities. ... read more ...
 
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End User Domain Sales for a Past Week - Small businesses buy relevant domains through Afternic. Afternic sold 406 domain names in the past week, including MagicMoments.com for a strong $50,000. Here’s a look at some of the end user purchases for the week. Built in Chicago, a group that promotes digital innovation in Chicago, bought Builtin.org for $1,200. It currently owns BuildinChicago.org. CRYSTAL Media Shops bought CristalMedia.com for $1,500 to complement CrystalMedia.com. Sandhills Publishing, ... read more ...
Tue 11th October 2011
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Breaking: Cheese.com; Prague.com; MexicoCity.com & Sailboats.com/Motorboats.com Added To TRAFFIC Auction - TRAFFIC has just added 4 great domain names to its auction line up for next Tuesday. 2 huge Geo domains were added; MexicoCity.com with a Reserve under $800,000 Mexico City’s metropolitan population is over 20 Million making it the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere. Prague.com with a Reserve under $800,000. Prague is the largest city in the Czech Republic and a very popular tourist city. The June ICANN meeting next year will be held in Prague. Cheese.com has been added with a ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $900K In Reportable Domain Name Sales & Over $2 Million For The Week - Sedo.com just reported its sales for the week with just under $900,000 in reportable sales and a total of $2.18 Million in sales on 869 domain names. The reportable sales were led by DataStore.com another “cloud” type domain name, while for non.com sales Watch.me sold for around $28,000 and cable.tv which last sold for $4,000 on Sedo in April of 2010,  sold for $20,000 producing a nice 5x return in 1 1/2 years in a horrible economy. Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $520K In Domains Led By MagicMoments.com For $50K - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday October 9th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totaled $520,243. The top seller of the week was MagicMoments.com at $50,000 followed by PsychicToday.com at $6,400. Here is the complete list of published sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Zynga Announces Latest Game Castleville, But Did They Secure The Domain Castleville.com? - According to TechCrunch.com the gaming company Zynga just announced their latest game and its called Castleville. Castleville.com is under privacy at Godaddy.com and the domain doesn’t really resolve at the moment. The domain was registered to someone in Shangha China using Tucows.com until August 8th when it went under privacy at Godaddy.com So if one had to place a bet, it looks like Zynga may have acquired the domain prior to the announcement. Of course I think they should have went with Hotelville ... read more ...
 
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4 Biggest UK ISP Will Make You Opt In If You Want To View Porn Sites - According to the guardian.co.uk the four biggest internet service providers (ISP’s) in the UK is going to require users to have to “opt in” if they want to view sexually explicit websites. The service providers involved are BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin. Customers who do not opt in to adult content will be unable to access pornographic websites. This has nothing to do with .XXX. domain names. This would apply to any “pornographic website” using any TLD. According to another report on the ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: Which Domains Will Sell At TRAFFIC? - The TRAFFIC live domain name auction will be held on Tuesday October 18th at 2PM EST Unlike previous years instead of the higher priced domains having a reserve range this year they are stated as being under a certain price. We are looking at domains that have a stated reserve of Under $500K. Of course that could mean the domain has a reserve of $499,000 or $50,000 we just don’t know. But with that in Mind we are putting up a poll on which domain name you think will sell at the auction. We are ... read more ...
 
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Domaining.com Now Blocked On FireFox Too - Last night Elliotsblog.com reported that Domaining was being show on the Chrome browser as a possible web forgery and blocked by the browser. This morning I got the same thing when I tried to get to the site on FireFox.com. The domain still seems to be resolving fine on Safari. You can still access the site on Firefox if you click on ignore this warning which is on the bottom right of the screen and then confirm on the popup that appears that the site is not a forgery. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Twitter Close To Getting Trademark, Tweet - According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter is about to get the trademark of the word Tweet by  settling a suit with Twittad which currently holds the trademark to Tweet “”On Monday, James Eliason, CEO of Twittad, said in an interview that Twitter would drop a lawsuit it filed against his company last month that sought to nix Twittad’s registered trademark of the word “tweet.” In return, Des Moines-based Twittad would transfer its registered trademark of “tweet” to Twitter, he said.’”” You ... read more ...
 
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Who is RiversideDomain.com & Why Do They Keep Trying To Sell Domains We Own? - If you’re a domainer you probably have gotten an email from RiversideDomain.com telling you about a domain that is soon to drop promising you that they can obtain it for you Here is how the emails typically read: My name is ___________ (name changes a lot)  I came across your website while looking for potential interested parties for the domain name _____________ that will be placed sale in the next few days. The domain name will be sold to the highest bidder and we thought this might be of interest ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells $2.18 Million in Domains - A whopper of a week for Sedo. Domain name marketplace Sedo had a banner week, completing $2.18 million worth of domain name sales. Over $1M of the sales amount is in undisclosed domain names. The top reported sale is Datastore.com at 50,000 EUR. A couple domains that play off their top level domain should also turn heads: watch.me for 20,000 EUR and Cable.tv for $20,000. I think Cable.tv is brilliant. It looks like marketing company Red Ventures bought it. The buyer ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Premium Listings Back Up to 30% - Temporary 20% commission now back up to 30%. Go Daddy’s experimentation with commission rates for Premium Listings is over (at least for now). The commission charge is back to the original 30% on any new Premium listings or if you edit existing ones. For the past couple months the commission was reduced to 20% on any new listings or if you made changes to existing ones. Although 30% is the highest commission in the industry, the reach of Premium Listings is hard ... read more ...
 
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Ping Golf Considers .Ping Top Level Domain Name - Company behind Ping golf brand applies for .ping trademark, but it might be just a defensive play. Companies continue to file trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office despite ICANN saying it will give no weight to .TLD trademarks (and the USPTO not permitting such trademarks). One of the latest may be a .brand play, with Karsten Manufacturing Corp., otherwise known as PING Golf, filing an application for .ping and “ping” for “Domain name ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Proposes Takedown Procedures and Malware Scanning for .Com - New registry service seeks to eliminate sites knowingly spreading malware. VeriSign is asking ICANN to approve a new Verisign Anti-Abuse Domain Use Policy. The policy (pdf) would allow VeriSign to run malware scanning of .com, .net, and .name domain names, as well as create a suspension system for domain names that knowingly host malware. The malware scanning would occur quarterly. Domain name registrars would be able to opt out of the malware scans. The suspension ... read more ...
Mon 10th October 2011
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WIPO Boss: “The Web Would Have Been Better Off If It Was Patented & Every User Had To Pay A License Fee To Use It” - According to a story in The Blog,  boingboing, Francis Gurry, the Director General of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) chatted last week about who much better off the Internet would have been “if it had been locked away in patents, and if every user of the Web had needed to pay a license fee to use it ” Of course WIPO is one of the groups which administer domain name disputes and to see the head of it take such a pro-IP stance as to wish the entire Internet was protected ... read more ...
 
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Domains On Fire Finds Available Domains with Google Rankings - Service finds domains ranked in Google that you can register today. I received a pitch for a new domain search service today. Domains On Fire says it helps you find domain names ranked in Google that are either freely available or are dropping soon. It also helps you find high page rank domains, too (if anyone still pays attention to that). I took the system for a test drive. Indeed, I did find a few domains you could register today that are still ranked in Google. ... read more ...
 
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After Losing UDRP, Save The Children Federation Sues to Get Domain Name - Non-profit sues after losing UDRP. Save the Children Federation is suing the owner of MySaveTheChildren.org after failing to win the same domain name in a UDRP proceeding. The non-profit filed a UDRP case against the domain owner ProServices in April. ProServices forwards the MySaveTheChildren.org domain name to its zulufamily.net web site, which collects donations. Save the Children Federation lost the UDRP, apparently hinging on whether or not ProServices knew ... read more ...
 
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Qwikster Typosquatters Lose Out As Netflix Drops Plans - Qwikster brand is already dead. Typosquatters of Netflix’s new Qwikster brand are about to lose out. The company announced today that it’s abandoning plans to split into two divisions with a separate Qwikster brand for DVD rental. I hated the name Qwikster, anyway. Typosquatters jumped on the news immediately after the new brand was announced. Consider wwwQwikster.com, which forwards to one of those phoney survey sites and shows a “movies” logo similar to ... read more ...
Sun 9th October 2011
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Gay.Co Sells For $25K As HuntingMoon.com Adult Domain Auction Nets $148K - The Huntingmoon.com organizers just released the results of the adult domain name auction they held last week. In all $148,274 of domain names sold, led by Matures.com for $30K and Gay.Co for $25,000 Gay.co is an interesting sale since Gay.XXX just sold last week for $500,000. That means  the .XXX version sold for 20X as much as the .co in the same week. Like I said interesting. Congrats to all buyers and sellers and the full results are below: Matures.com    $30,000 Gay.co    $25,000 BlackCock.com   ... read more ...
Sat 8th October 2011
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Demand Media’s eHow Sends Letter To Writers & Editors Telling Then They Are Cutting Back Production Of Articles - According to BusinessInsider.com Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has sent out a letter to it current writers and editiors telling them they are going to cut back on production of “content”. “We will have fewer eHow.com assignments for the foreseeable future.” Demand also stated that we need to make sure of a few things including “That every article is written and copy edited by a qualified professional with background, knowledge or experience in the topic.” I thought that rule would have been ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Customers Register 600 Steve Jobs Domains in 36 Hours - People try to make a quick buck off Steve Jobs’ death. When news happens, domains get registered. People registered 1,517 domain names related to Osama bin Laden being killed in the 15 hours after news of his death broke — at GoDaddy alone. Over a hundred hurricane domain names were registered in the wake of Hurricane Irene. And now comes Steve Jobs and the (mostly) tasteless registrations of 600 related domain names in the 36 hours after news of his death broke. ... read more ...
 
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What Box? Adds 3 More TLDs to Trademark List - Mystery company files trademarks for .wedding, .club, and .discount. California’s What Box? Holdings, LLC has applied for three more top level domain name trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The three applications are: .Wedding – filed September 27 .Club – filed October 3 .Discount – filed October 3 Little is know about the company other than its lawyer being Thomas A. Brackey, II. The company was formed September 1. My guess is this is not ... read more ...
Fri 7th October 2011
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OnlineCasino.Co Sells For $100K In Record Setting Sale - The domain name OnlineCasino.co has just sold for $100,000 certainly setting a record for the highest reported Sale of a two word .Co. At $100,000 this domain  becomes tied for the 4th largest ccTLD sale of the year according to DnJournal.com To date other than single character .Co domain names which have been sold directly through the registry, this appears to be the highest reported sale of a .Co domain again according to DnJournal.com Business.Co sold for $80,000 back in May and Finance.Co Sold ... read more ...