Monthly Archives: November 2011

Wed 30th November 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Clear Channel Registers More iHeart Domains & Is Gearing Up To Take On Pandora & Sirius - Clear Channel Communications it one of the largest owners of over the broadcast radio stations in the US, maybe the largest with 850 channels. This year they held the iHeart Radio concert in Las Vegas, a two day affair in which some of the most popular music performers appeared including Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Alica Keys and Coldplay just to name a few. The I Heart Radio Facebook page has almost 1.8 million likes. They acquired the domain name iHeart.com in February of this year, ... read more ...
 
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Arbitration row gives Noah Cyrus domain name - Youngest Cyrus gets domain name. Noah Cyrus, the eleven year old sister of Miley Cyrus and sondaughter (oops) of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, has won rights to the domain name NoahCyrus.com. The domain name was registered in 2006 just as Cyrus became a household name thanks to the Disney channel’s Hannah Montana TV show. But she got her start in acting with a role in the TV show Doc when she was just three years old. She had the lead role in the film Ponyo in ... read more ...
 
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Ndamukong Suh might not be on a margin though he’s still winning - Suspended football player wins rights to domain name. Detroit Lions star defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh may have to sit out a couple games because of his stomping incident last week, but he’s still winning off the field. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded him his namesake — NdamukongSuh.com. The domain name was registered to Tim Evans of Athlete Web Design. He registered the domain name in 2009. According to the complaint, he offered ... read more ...
 
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ANA to ICANN: Your attention accord explain is a lie - Group cites widespread opposition as proof of lack of consensus. I’m going to rip off the title of this post from a video released yesterday by Association of National Advertisers (ANA). (embedded below) In the video, ANA says ICANN’s claims that the new TLD program was the result of many years of consensus building is “absolutely false”. Its proof? 103 organizations have “signed on” with ANA to oppose new TLDs. Now, it’s true that there are a lot of ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 domain name handle news stories of Nov 2011 - Four porn posts and a saviour. 4 posts about porn and one about religion grabbed the most attention at Domain Name Wire this month. I think I need to change the focus of this blog. 1. Apple gets control over porn domain names – Owner of domains agrees to transfer them to Apple (see #3). iPhone4s.com now forwards to apple.com web site. 2. .XXX launches national TV campaign and www.Buy.xxx – ICM Registry’s multi-million dollar ad campaign goes into high gear ... read more ...
 
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Panelist: UDRP is not a sword - A well reasoned opinion on registration in bad faith. A recent UDRP decision for scrubology.com includes an excellent analysis of the registration in bad faith element of UDRP. Here are the facts: – Respondent registered scrubology.com in 2005 – Complainant RXGear, LLC filed a trademark for scrubology claiming a first use in commerce date in 2010 This case looks dead on arrival, doesn’t it? But RXGear’s attorneys, Wolf, Greenfield Sacks, P.C. (an intellectual ... read more ...
 
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8 engaging finish user domain sales - Eight domain names that sold to end users last week. Here are eight end user domain name purchases completed over the past week. All sales were at Afternic except for GameTraining.com, which sold at Sedo. Anytime Fitness president David Mortensen.com now owns DavidMortensen.com after dropping $1,788. Internet marketing firm Adventure Marketing upgraded its URL from AdventureMarketingLLC.com to AdventureMarketing.com for $1,000. Telecom networking company Dynamic Network ... read more ...
 
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www.Buy.xxx – One week until launch - www.Buy.xxx making a big splash as registry gears up for general availability. With just a week to go until general availability of the .xxx domain name, ICM Registry’s commercials are making quite a splash. The company’s site www.buy.xxx (sometimes promoted as go.buy.xxx) has received millions of visitors as a result of the aggressive advertising. Make no mistake. .XXX is the most aggressive (and perhaps expensive) new top level domain marketing push to date. General ... read more ...
Tue 29th November 2011
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Afternic.com Sells Over $1.5 Million In Domain Names - Afternic.com just posted its sales for the week ending Sunday November 27th and sold $1,545,572 in domain names, led by Looky.com for $37,000. The next highest sale was babychangingstation.com which sold for a very respectable $17,775 With Sedo.com’s weekly report there was almost $3 Million in domain names on a holiday week in the United States. Impressive. Here are the reportable sales by Afternic.com     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells $1.43 Million In Domain Names - Sedo.com just announced its sales figures for the holiday week and once again they are impressive In all 807 domain sold, totaling $1.43 Million Dollars. Maybe more impressively 31% of all sales where through its “buy it now” listings. Of the reportable sales the unterwaesche.de led the way selling for 39,500 Euro’s or about $52K qcloud.com sold for $39K We sold tradeouts.com for $23K Here is a list of the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Buy.XXX Traffic Update: 3.7 Million Visitors; 1.2 Million Type In’s & Alexa Rank Of Close To Top 1,000 - It was just a few days ago that we reported on visitor numbers to Buy.xxx.  At that time they had recorded over 500,000 visitors. According to Google Analytics which ICM shared with me as of yesterday, total visitors to date, to Buy.XXX is right over 3.7 Million. Of the 3.7 million, the online ad campaign, which is actually directed to the URL; go.buy.xxx,  got 2.5 Million visitors meaning that over 1.2 million visitors were generated from traditional offline media including television, billboards ... read more ...
 
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CheapYellowPages.com Sells Orangefield.com For $75,000 - CheapYellowPages.com, owned by Brian Wick, a domain developer that owns about 6,000 .com, just completed the sale of Orangefield.com for $75K in a private transaction. The buyer did not identify themselves to the Seller as it pretty common and since the DNS has not updated,  we can only guess as to the identity of the buyer There is an Orangefield, Texas, USA but it seems like a very small town with a population of only around 1,000 people. My money is on a company called OrangefieldTrust.com which ... read more ...
 
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Marijuana.com Sold For $4.2 Million - According to TechCrunch.com the domain name Marijuana.com was just purchased by General Cannabis Inc. which owns the popular site WeedMaps, for $4.2 Million dollars. According to TechCrunch,  WeedMaps did over $1 million in gross revenues in July. “”The acquisition includes both the valuable Marijuana.com domain name and the existing site/content, which currently consists of a bulletin forum that centers on cannabis discussion and generates 3.5 million page views per month. “” Also according ... read more ...
 
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Bands.com to launch Wednesday - Domain investor unveils new site for bands. A new service for music bands formally launches in beta tomorrow at a killer web address. Bands.com is billed as a one stop shop for a bands’ web presence. Bands.com offers web sites, music and merchandise sales, social network integration, show calendar integration, and other must haves for music groups. Bands can either use a bands.com URL or their own domain name with the service. The site is being launched by Emerge ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net says Moniker projections “horribly wrong” - Moniker acquisition fell short of expectations. Yesterday Oversee.net filed a heavily redacted document in support of its motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit with former employee Monte Cahn. The motion is to dismiss a claim that Oversee.net owes Cahn money as part of a $13 million Management Incentive Plan (MIP). Oversee.net makes a couple claims (pdf) about the plan in its latest filing. First, it says that Cahn was supposed to identify the plan’s participants ... read more ...
 
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Republicans register ObamaVsObama.com to opposite Mitt vs. Mitt commercials - Domain names could be used to call into question President Barack Obama’s record. The democrats just launched an attack ad on republican front runner Mitt Romney called Mitt vs. Mitt. It calls him a flip flopper. But the republicans have a similar trick up their sleeves. Someone affiliated with the republican party registered ObamaVsObama.com and ObamaVsObama.net yesterday. Both domain names use a whois privacy service to protect the registrant’s identity, but ... read more ...
 
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Video orator companies to face off in court - Company files lawsuit against competitor over trademark and domain name. You know those annoying pop up video spokespeople that walk across your screen on certain web sites? Apparently competition to sell web site publishers a video spokesperson is rather intense. Live Face On Web, LLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. District Court against WebsiteTalkingHeads.com, a competitor, claiming trademark infringement and cybersquatting. The defendant allegedly registered ... read more ...
 
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Apple starts forwarding iPhone4s.com to the web site - Company forwards domain name after recovering it from cybersquatter. Apple has started forwarding iPhone4s.com — a domain name it recovered from a cybersquatter that showed porn — to the iPhone page on Apple.com. The domain name started forwarding to Apple’s web site yesterday. Earlier this month Apple filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Forum to get the domain name and six others, all of which forwarded to mobile porn sites. Just before Thanksgiving ... read more ...
Mon 28th November 2011
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Reinvent.com To Launch Proto Domain Optimization & Monetization Platform Next Year - Reinvent.com a/k/a HitFarm.com is planning to launch a new domain optimization and monetization platform called Proto, next year. According to their site Proto goals are to: “Improve returns by providing better monetization through innovative optimization and precisely targeted PPC advertising; Analyze the aggregated traffic for valuable trend data to share with clients and inform R D; Leverage the massive network traffic to incubate new and accelerate existing businesses. Leveraging the cloud ... read more ...
 
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Proactiv wants to be still about the product recall - Company does its best to keep recall out of the press and out of the search engines. Last month I wrote about how the company behind Proactiv, the skin care product pitched by Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, had registered multiple domain names hinting at a recall of its product. Although I couldn’t find information about the recall on Guthy-Renker’s web site, I noticed a steady and increasing stream of web site visitors hitting the article who were searching for ... read more ...
 
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National A-1 fights to redeem supports paid for stolen Walk.com domain name - Company blames domain name registrar that received proceeds of transaction in its bank account. National A-1, a large buyer of premium domain names, is fighting in court to recover $35,000 it paid to buy the Walk.com domain name. After it paid for the domain name it found out the name was stolen. According to National A-1’s complaint, it was contacted by the supposed owner of the domain name in April of this year. It struck a deal to purchase the domain for $35,000 ... read more ...
 
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It’s CyberMonday. How is your domain traffic? - Traffic to product related domains should swell today. Today is CyberMonday, a name coined by the National Retail Federation to promote online buying for the holiday season. The idea is that everyone is back at work after Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and that means they’ll do a lot of online shopping. In 2006 comScore measured $610 million in online commerce on CyberMonday. Last year it measured over a billion dollars. This means that your “product” domain ... read more ...
 
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Google genuine time analytics won’t kill ChartBeat and Woopra (Yet) - Google Analytics real time is nice feature but no replacement for dedicated services. Remember when people used to pay six figures to get web site analytics like what Google now offers for free? That shook up the industry. Now Google’s real time analytics threatens to destroy a couple startups including ChartBeat and Woopra. Google just rolled out real-time analytics to the masses and I played around with it a bit last week. My conclusion: tt’s a nice addition ... read more ...
Sun 27th November 2011
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101Domain.com Suffers Securty Breach - 101Domain.com has apparently suffered a security breach which “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.” According to Webhosting.info, 101domain.com has around 10,000 domain names under management. Here is the full message received by 101Domain.com customers: “We are writing to you as a primary contact on your account with 101domain.com. We need to make you aware of a security breach that may potentially have affected your account. We ... read more ...
Sat 26th November 2011
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Online Shopping Is Up Big This Shopping Season According to comScore, IBM & Buy.com - Three reports out today indicate that online shopping is up big so far this holiday season. comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), reported that holiday sales season-to-date, are $9.7 billion 14% increase versus the corresponding days last year which was $8.4 Billion in sales during the same time frame. “The official comScore 2011 holiday season forecast is that online retail spending for the November – December period will reach $37.6 billion, representing a 15%t gain versus year ago. ” “This strong ... read more ...