Monthly Archives: November 2011

Fri 18th November 2011
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Stocked.com Sells For $11K On NameJet.com & SkiBoats.com Sells For Less Than AsianChat.com + More - Quite a few single word domains sold on Namejet.com this week and non of the prices seemed to high. Stocked.com led the way off of our sheet selling for just $11K. Looks like the recession maybe starting to  hit the wholesale aftermarket in a big way. Here are some of the domain name sales we tracked: Stocked.com $11,005 AsianChat.com $10,600 SkiBoats.com $9,300 organicfruit.com $8,999 Ocan.com $5,100 OperatingSystem $5,099 FirstPrize.com $3,800 obedient.com $3,789 installments.com $3,401 Recommends.com ... read more ...
 
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My First Post On CircleId.com Is Up: “Why a Lawsuit Against .XXX Maybe a Best Sales Tool Ever For New gTLD Applicants” - Just a quick note to let you know that my first post is up on CircleId.com CircleID.com is a great publication with contributions from many different people throughout the domain space but typically not domainers. The publication chats a lot about ICANN and public policy issues and has a large readership. I have had it in my RSS feed for quite a while and was asked to write a post on it  a while back. Yesterday I though of a perfect post for that audience entitled ” Why the Lawsuit Against .XXX ... read more ...
Thu 17th November 2011
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EU Adopts Resolution Against Stop Online Piracy Act & Seizing Of Domain Names - The European Parliament has adopted a resolution which criticizes domain name seizures of “infringing” websites by US authorities and seems to opposes the passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act. According to the resolution these measures need to be countered as they endanger “the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communication.” “”In preparation for the joint summit “United States – European Union” othe European Parliament today adopted a resolution including the freedom ... read more ...
 
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Owners Of YouPorn.com & DigitalPlayground.com Sues ICM & ICANN Over .XXX For Anti-Trust - Manwin the company which owns some high traffic adult sites including YouPorn.com, and PornHub.com and operates Playboy.com under license of Playboy, along with another large adult operator, and DigitalPlayground.com just filed a  Federal Lawsuit against ICM the company that operates the .XXX Registry and ICANN over the .XXX Top Level Domain (“TLD”). The 44 page suit was filed in the United State District Court for the Central District of California alleging “monopolistic conduct, price gouging, ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net: We Don’t Owe Monte Cahn Anything for $13M Management Incentive Plan - Oversee.net requests summary judgment on claim it owes Moniker founder money under incentive plan. It’s been a busy week full of filings in the case of Monte Cahn v. Oversee.net. Monte is suing his former employer on a number of counts, including alleging that he’s owed money under a $13 million Management Incentive Plan (MIP). The most notable filing is Oversee.net’s request yesterday for summary judgment on Monte’s claim of breach of contract under the $13 ... read more ...
 
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9 Domains Hit Reserve with 4 Hours to Go in Moniker Auction - Moniker’s Year End Auction ends today. At least nine domain names will sell in Moniker’s Year End Auction, which ends at 12:15 PM PST today. Nine domains have hit their reserve, ranging from MosquitoWipes.com at $300 up to PaternityTest.com at $21,500. The latter has six bidders. A number of other domains are active and close to hitting reserves. QX.com is at $82,500 and has a reserve of up to $100,000. APW.com is up to $12,999 with a reserve range of $10,000-$25000. Altogether ... read more ...
Wed 16th November 2011
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Breaking: Owner Of YouPorn.com Plans To File Suit Against ICM & ICANN Over .XXX For Anti-Trust - The ICM Registry has just issued a statement indicating that an anti-trust lawsuit will be filed by Manwin against both ICM Registry and ICANN in conjunction with the .XXX domain Top Level Domain. Manwin is the company which owns many highly visited adult sites including, YouPorn.com, Brazzers.com,  PornHub.com and Xtube.com The statement reads: “Our public relations company alerted us to the probable filing today of an anti-trust lawsuit by Manwin against both ICM Registry and ICANN in conjunction ... read more ...
 
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CE.com Gets A $1 Million Dollar Bid As Moniker’s End of Year Auction Closes Tomorrow - Moniker.com “End of Year” auction closes tomorrow at 3:15pm EST on SnapNames.com and the domain name CE.com has $1,000,000 bid. The domains reserve range is listed as between $1M-$5M and the $1M bid hasn’t hit the reserve. Another two letter.com domain name, QX.com, has a bid of $80,000.  The reserve range of that domain is stated at $50K-$100K and the $80K bid has not hit the reserve. The most active domain name so far is paternitytest.com which has 4 bidders and has met reserve with a current ... read more ...
 
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Visa Launches V.Me - Visa just launched a site under V.Me and it looks like their “Wallet” solution “”V.me is a new service from Visa that lets you shop without sharing your card account information with the seller when you pay.”” “”Shop online or on your mobile device.” “Get timely alerts for your Visa card. ” “With one secure account and password, you can shop with confidence.”” So using V.me you can according to the site: “Make payments without sharing your card account information with ... read more ...
 
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Death, Victory & Acceptance: My Weekend Watching The .XXX Boat Race In The World Championship - This past weekend I took a quick trip down to Key West Florida to see the .XXX race boat the Miss .XXX race in the World Championship. While the weekend was capped off with the .XXX boat winning there class in a thrilling final World Championship race, but they had mechanical problems in the 2 earlier qualifying races in the week and lost on points. Yet and way more importantly, the whole weekend was marred by the tragic death of 3 participants  in two accidents earlier in the week. On Wednesday, ... read more ...
 
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Manwin’s Attack on .XXX is Really an Attack on New TLDs - Arguments and antitrust lawsuit could be made against many top level domain names. Manwin Licensing, the company behind YouPorn, has sued .xxx registry ICM Registry for violating the Sherman Act (i.e. monopoly). If you read the complaint against ICM you could substitute other top level domains for .xxx and the suit would still make sense. Manwin says .xxx wasn’t put out to competitive bid, has no price caps, and ICM Registry gets presumptive renewal. It also complains ... read more ...
 
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“New TLD” Becomes an Expensive Keyword on Google - Companies bid each other up for top spots on Google Adwords. Companies offering new top level domain name services are getting into a pay-per-click bidding war on Google. According to Google Adwords’ keyword tool, the average CPC for “new top level domain” is $7.41 and “new tld” is $4.91. Of course the keyword tool is notoriously inaccurate when it comes to the what people are actually paying because it depends on your landing page, visitor location, etc. But ... read more ...
 
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CRIDO Says Battle Against New TLDs Won’t End Jan 12 - Lawyer says it will battle on even after application window opens. Coalition for Responsible Internet Domain Oversight (CRIDO), a new group formed to try to stall or can ICANN’s new top level domain name program, says it has more than two months to make a difference. The application window for new top level domains opens January 12. But Doug Wood, Association of National Advertisers counsel, told World Trademark Review that it plans to battle the program even after ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Releases Updated IDNX with Other TLDs - Domain price index now includes data for ten top level domain names. Today Sedo and its research partner (now an employee) released an updated version of the IDNX, a price index for domain names. Included in the latest refresh are sub-indices for 10 different top level domain names. Top level domain options now include .com, .net, .org, .biz., .info, .mobi, .eu, .de, .co.uk, and .es. With the TLD analysis, Sedo draws two key conclusions that are relevant to companies ... read more ...
 
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Why we No Longer Include Affiliate Links on Domain Name Wire - No more affiliate links. I used to include affiliate links on Domain Name Wire, but I took them off a few weeks ago. Here’s why: 1. Everyone has conflicts of interest. But the affiliate links made it easy for people to question if I was writing about a particular auction or product because I wanted to make money off of it. So, problem solved. (Of course I still accept paid advertising. But with a wait list, I don’t have a need to promote companies on the blog ... read more ...
Tue 15th November 2011
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After Passing On Flowers.Mobi, 1-800-Flowers Grabs Flowers.Me - In the Sedo.com report for the week the domain name Flowers.Me sold for $9K Thanks to the quick eye of a reader to theDomains.com 1-800-Flowers.com which passed on buying Flowers.mobi when it was at the TRAFFIC auction just picked up Flowers.Me for $9K when it was put up for sale on the .Me registry auction that ended last week. Great end user purchase. Congrats to the buyer and registry that sold the domain Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Almost $2 Million In Domains Led By Talk.Tv At $40K - Sedo just released its sales for the week ending November 13th 2011 selling almost $2 million in domains. In all 979 sales domain names sold. The reportable sales, which totaled over $700K were led by a non-.com Talk.tv sold at $40K Top .com’s of the week were Roller.com and Amati.com which both at $20k.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $1,080,850 In Domains Led By IronWorkers.com At $17K - Afternic.com reported total sales of $1,080,000 for the week with $570K in reportable sales The reportable sales were led by IronWorkers.com  $17K and SwingTown.com $12K   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Friend Finder Network Report, Shares Sink Another 22% & They Reorganize Into 14 Divisions - FriendFinder Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFN) reported its earnings today and they can only be described as brutal. Revenue for the quarter ending September 30, 2011 was $82.7 million, 5% off third-quarter figures a year ago. Income from operations for the third quarter was $14.7 million, a 32% drop from third-quarter figures a year ago. The company had loss for the third quarter of $5.4 million. The big news out of the report and the earnings conference call that followed is that the company is going ... read more ...
 
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Here Is Godaddy’s Statement In Support Of The Stop Online Privacy Act House Hearing Tomorrow - Here is the statement Godaddy filed with the House: Background First, let me thank Chairman Smith for the opportunity to provide a written statement in support of the Stop Online Piracy Act and on the critical issue of combating illegal activity on the Internet.  I would also like to extend my appreciation to Ranking Member Conyers, Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Watt, as well as the other bi-partisan co-sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) for all of your efforts in addressing ... read more ...
 
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: “Odds Are Greater Than 50% Chance Of A Recession In Early in 2012″ - Well if your a believer in the recession is over and the economy if on the way to recovery, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in a post disagrees saying that the “Odds Are Greater Than 50% Chance Of A Recession In Early in 2012″ In its Economic Letter the two co-authors, one Travis J. Berge is an economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City the other Early Elias is a research associate in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of ... read more ...
 
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Media Post: PPC Is On A Tear: 88% Increase In Ad Spend & 43% Rise in Click Through Rates - According to a story in Media Post today, the data firm Performics,  a company that tracks PPC ad buyers for the Retail industry says according to its data the is 88% increase in spend and 43% rise in click-through rates between Oct. 30 and Nov. 15 compared with the same time period a year ago. “Retailers and consumer product goods companies will continue to invest in technology, driving up competition and prices for specific keywords.” “The cost per click for the first week in November rose ... read more ...
 
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What Domains American Express and Others Bought this Week - AMEX and The Georgia Department of Agriculture buy domain names. Here’s a look at end user domain purchases from Afternic over the past week. Switzerland’s Deesse AG, which operates web sites at Deesse.de and Deesse.com, bought Deesse.net for $1,688. The Broadway Consortium, which produces and invests in a variety of theater projects, bought BroadwayRecords.com for $1,200. Sevier County Electric System bought SCES.net, its acronym, for $1,316. Salt River Materials ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Shares Down 40% In 3 Months - Marchex gets smacked around in the stock market. The stock market isn’t showing any love to Marchex, one of the world’s largest holders of domain names. Shares closed today at just $6.38, down nearly 40% from their $10.57 opening price on August 15. This is despite the company topping both earnings and revenue estimates for the third quarter in earnings released November 2. The company is focusing heavily on its pay-per-call services. Here’s how some other ... read more ...
 
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Is Proactiv Being Proactive About a Recall? - Handful of domain name registrations point to defensive registrations for “Proactiv Recall”. [Update: yes, there’s a recall.] Proactiv — the acne control company that apparently keeps Justin Beiber’s skin clear — may be making some “proactive” domain name acquisitions. Yesterday a client of brand protection company MarkMonitor registered a number of domain names related to “Proactiv Recall”, including ProactivRecall.com, proactivrecall.org, proactivrecall.info, ... read more ...