Monthly Archives: November 2011

Sat 26th November 2011
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What Does A Weekend of Media Get You? In The Case Of Buy.XXX: 500,000+ Visitors - I reached out to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry the company that operates the .XXX registry about how much response they received to the big media push this weekend. As of today over the weekend 500,000 visitors have gone to Buy.xxx,  the URL used in all the TV commercials for the .XXX registry. Alexa.com is reporting the same type of results. From the chart below you can see that Buy.XXX went from having basically zero traffic last week to ranking into the top 17K+ of all sites in just a ... read more ...
 
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Protrada adds integrated lapsed domain catching - Expired domain catching starts at $15. In October I wrote about Protrada, which is like a dashboard for domain name buyers to find and purchase domain names. It works with a lot of major expired domain services including NameJet, SnapNames, and GoDaddy, and isn’t limited to expired domains. Now the service has its own integrated backordering system for domains that go through the complete deletion process and are dropped by the registry. The service is effectively ... read more ...
 
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eBay lays explain to Dominican Republic domain names - A rare case over .do domain names. eBay has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization for four domain names that use the Dominican Republic top level domain .do. The four domains are: ebay.com.do ebay.do paypal.com.do paypal.do What I find interesting about this case is what you see if you visit any of the domains: DOMAIN FOR SALE info@ebay.do We have adquire this domain in a bulk domain purchase and due to the nature of the domain name it is ... read more ...
Fri 25th November 2011
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Another Thanksgiving & Another 131 Domain Names Seized By Homeland Security - Last year we wrote a post right after Thanksgiving entitled: “While You Were Eating You’re Turkey Homeland Security Was Seizing 9 Domains“. Well I could have repeated the headline today except the number would be 131 domains rather than just 9. Looks like Homeland Security is going to make domain seizures on Thanksgiving as common in the US as Turkey and Stuffing. Here are the domain names seized yesterday. Most of the seized domain names look like they were allegedly selling sports jerseys ... read more ...
Thu 24th November 2011
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Court of Justice of a European Union: “EU Cannot Order ISP’s To Prevent bootleg Dowloading Of Files” - “In the present case, the injunction requiring the installation of a filtering system involves monitoring, in the interests of copyright holders, all electronic communications made through the network of the internet service provider concerned. That monitoring, moreover, is not limited in time. Such an injunction would thus result in a serious infringement of Scarlet’s freedom to conduct its business as it would require Scarlet to install a complicated, costly, permanent computer system at its ... read more ...
 
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Buy.XXX Media Blitz Starts Tonight - ICM Registry is starting to run a huge Media Blitz for .XXX tonight using the domain name BUY.XXX Television Ads will be running in heavy rotation starting tonight on ESPN, AE, Comedy Central, FX, SYFY, Spike TV, Discovery, History Channel, TNT, AMC, National Geographic Channel, Fox Sports and that seems to be just for starters. TV ads will also be starting in Germany and the UK. The full on Blitz will be going for at least 5 weeks according to ICM which will restart another ad campaign in the new ... read more ...
Wed 23rd November 2011
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Will End Users Buy New gTLD Domains? New Survey Says Yes - According to new research out today which asked end users if they would have interest in registering generic new gTLD’s found there is a lot of interest in end users to register domain names in a new gTLD that matches their vertical such as  .shop for stores or .law for lawyers. Commissioned by ARI Registry Services, the new study was led by Dr. David Neal, director of Empirica Research, and aimed to identify whether small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) will buy into the new program. Dr. Neal ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $1.92MM In Domains Led By Fab.de At $50K - Sedo.com reported $1.92MM in domain sales for the week ending November 21st. In all 990 domains were sold. The publicly reportable sales included in the total above were approximately $800K USD and led by Fad.de at $50,000K, followed by Fab.eu at €35,000. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Monte Cahn files third ammended censure opposite Oversee.net - 1, 2, 3, and now… Moniker founder Monte Cahn has filed a third amended complaint against his former employer Oversee.net. The third amended complaint (so that’s four in total) is in response to the judge dismissing several claims against Oversee.net and on Cahn’s depositions of current and former Oversee.net employees. He reinserts claims for accounting, fraud, and conversion. He essentially says that Oversee.net conspired from the beginning to not have to pay ... read more ...
 
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SkullCandy, L.A. Clippers, McKesson buy domain names - Big companies by domain names in the aftermarket. Wow! What a busy week for end users buying domain names. Here are some highlights: (all sales via Afternic unless otherwise noted) Headphone company SkullCandy bought SupremeSound.com for $1,375. Pastebin.com, which says it’s the “#1 paste tool since 2002″, bought pastebin.net for $2,500. FutureDontics, the company behind 1800Dentist.com, picked up DentalSaver.com, DentalSavers.com and DentalSaver.net for a grant ... read more ...
 
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French tech discussion LeWeb loses plea for LeWeb.com domain name - Large European tech conference fails to obtain ideal domain name. French tech conference LeWeb has lost a domain dispute with the owner of LeWeb.com. The conference, which attracts 3,000 people, uses the domain name LeWeb.net. Conference organizers claimed that many of its attendees reported confusion when they visited LeWeb.com by mistake. This is no surprise — typing .com instead of any other top level domain name is a common mistake. The World Intellectual Property ... read more ...
Tue 22nd November 2011
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Afternic.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By Constant.com At $90K - Afternic.com reported $1,210,767 in domain sales for the week ending November 20th. The publicly reportable sales, included in the total, were $774,714 and led by Constant.com at $90,000 followed by FloridaCancer.com at $10,500. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy to offer $5.00 .com domain names on Black Friday - Company repeats $5.00 offer starting this Friday. Domain Name Registrar GoDaddy.com will be offering $5.00 .com domain names starting on Black Friday and running through CyberMonday (the following Monday). The company ran a similar promotion last year. The deal appears to be an affiliate only offer, so I’m going to have to use an affiliate link to send you to it. The link will not give you the $5.00 price until Friday. The price does not include ICANN’s 18 cent ... read more ...
 
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Apple gets control over porn domain names - Owner of domain names agrees to give domain names to Apple after company filed complaint. Apple is now the proud owner of iphonesex4s.com and six other (mostly) explicit domain names. The company filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Forum against the owner of the seven domain names last month. All of the domain names forwarded to a mobile porn site when visited on a mobile device. Apple terminated the case after the owner of the domains agreed to turn ... read more ...
 
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.XXX launches inhabitant TV debate and www.Buy.xxx - Ads promote new .xxx domain name option. .XXX registry ICM Registry has launched a five week national TV ad campaign to promote the new domain name option. The ads will start running this week and feature Gavin and his assistants, who go on quests to find out who is buying .xxx domain names. You can see one of the ad spots here. (Update: here’s a link to more commercials.) ICM Registry also launched buy.xxx, a site to connect people to domain name registrars offering ... read more ...
 
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Above.com adds 3 new parking companies - Three additional parking companies added to domain rotation system. Domain name parking optimization system Above.com has integrated three new parking companies into its platform: Voodoo, ParkingCrew, and TheParkingPlace. It’s certainly interesting to see new parking companies pop up on the radar given all of the turmoil in industry; you could argue that these companies are appearing because of the challenges domainers face. Voodoo and ParkingCrew use standard pay-per-click ... read more ...
Mon 21st November 2011
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Televangelist Kenneth Copeland loses quarrel opposite critique site - Arbitration panel determines KennethCopelandBlog.com can remain with current owner. Televangelist Kenneth Copeland has lost a domain name dispute with KennethCopelandBlog.com, a criticism site. Kenneth Copeland is a televangelist who preaches the so-called prosperity gospel. The message is that the more money people give to the church, the more they’ll get out of God. (A beautiful business model if you ask me.) The critical site is maintained Rich Vermillion, who ... read more ...
 
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Affiliate selling propels expansion during Sedo - Affiliate marketing grows while domain business stagnates. Sedo Holding, parent company of domain name marketplace and parking company Sedo, reported growth in Q3 compared to the same quarter in 2011. The growth was driven by the company’s affilinet affiliate marketing business. Q3 sales were EUR 29.1M compared to EUR 27.3M in the same quarter last year. For the first nine months of the year sales in the affiliate marketing division increased 20.7% compared to ... read more ...
 
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Jelly Belly and Original Gourmet Foods not being so sweet - Companies head to court over “original gourmet” name. This trademark dispute has little to do with domain names but does involve my favorite candy company, Jelly Belly. Original Gourmet Food Company, Inc., has filed a dispute (pdf) in U.S. District Court for declaratory judgment over the “original gourmet” name. The food fight started when Original Gourmet tried to extend the use of its “Original Gourmet” name to cookies with a trademark filing. Jelly ... read more ...
 
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Kudos to this UDRP panelist for giving it thought - Initially, this seemed to this Panel to be a simple and straightforward case of abusive domain name registration, the Respondent having registered the Domain Name well after the registration of the Trademarks, redirecting it to its own website under a different domain name, where it sells competing products and not having responded to letters of summons from Complainant, nor having filed a response and apparently having another, similar domain name transferred to a third party after receiving a letter ... read more ...
 
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SAP Continues to Struggle with UDRP - Company has lost 5 of last 15 decided cases. Software giant SAP continues to struggle with its efforts to corral domain names through the UDRP Process. Although it has won two thirds of its cases, as far as big complainants go SAP may as well have a failing record. Sure, it wins most of the UDRP cases it files. But it loses more than most complainants. The latest loss: SAPApps.com. What makes this case (and some of the other losses) interesting is that the respondent ... read more ...
Sun 20th November 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Last Night Our Best Friend In The World Died - After a short 13 1/2 years our best friend in the world, Bandit died last night. He died like most of us would like to,  at home next to his loved one’s, Judi and I. He went quickly and painlessly. While most would point to the most incredible life he had, the places he went and how lucky he was to have a great life, we think we were the lucky ones. Certainly he was a rare and precious gift from God. We named him Bandit because when we saw him he stole our heart and we soon found out he had the ... read more ...
Sat 19th November 2011
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4gTurbo Is Coming To Verizon & T-Mobile But Neither Owns The Bang On Domains 4gTurbo.com Or Turbo4g.com - According to some recent registrations by Mark Monitor it seems a product known as 4gTurbo is coming to at least two carriers, ATT and T-Mobile. Some recent domain name registrations include: 4gturbo.info 4gturbo.net 4gturbo.org tmobile4gturbo.com t-mobile4gturbo.com tmobile4gturbo.info tmobile4gturbo.net t-mobile4gturbo.info 4gTurbo.com is owned by a company in Boca Raton and goes to a parked page. Turbo4g.com is owned by someone in Sweden and registered in 2009. It current goes to a Godaddy.com ... read more ...
Fri 18th November 2011
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MoneyTalk.com Sells For $15,000 On Another Busy Day On NameJet.com - The domain name MoneyTalk.com just sold for $15,000 on Namejet.com There were 5 bidders on MoneyTalk.com willing to pay $10K or more. Here are some other sales from NameJet.com today:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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After Network Problems Last Month Research In Motion (RIM) Gets The Domain Name BlackberryProblems.com - Last month, Research in Motion (RIM) who makes the blackberry devices had a huge service outage effecting millions of users in five continents for up to four days in which users were unable to access their email, Internet or messaging services. Today it the company is the new owner of  the domain name BlackberryProblems.com. If you Google the term “Blackberry Problems” you will see some 360,000 direct results and a PPC ad on the top for Blackberry.com/support. The URL BlackberryProblems.com ... read more ...