Monthly Archives: November 2011

Wed 9th November 2011
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Sedo.com Sells 835 Domain Names For $1.32 million - Sedo.com just reported its sales for the week. In all 835 domain names sold for $1.32 million led by edublogs.com and Lanyard.com both at $18K. Here are the reportable sales of these: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Many Land Rush Apps Will .XXX Get - The Land Rush for .XXX opened yesterday allowing you to order your .XXX domain at a premium price before General Availability begins in December. So the question is how many Land Rush Apps will be submitted for a .XXX domain name? The Sunrise period of .XXX generated over 80,000 Applications. For the record the last ccTLD launch of .Co generates less than 20K Sunrise apps. Land Rush in .Co was under 30K. You can make your picks on the right and for bragging rights you can place the exact picks below. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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PayPal Charity or Micro-giving Program Coming? They Register PayPalCharitable.com & PayPalGiving.com Yesterday - MarkMonitor.com registered a few domain name yesterday that indicate a paypal charitable product is in the works. The registrar, TM protection firm registered several domain names yesterday including paypalcharitable.com and paypalgiving.com. Here are the complete list of domains  registered yesterday. Its interesting to note that .biz and .info were registered in addition to the .com. .net’s and .org’s Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Local.ly Sold For $100,000 To Set a Record Price For A .ly domain - According to TechCrunch.com the domain name Local.ly just Sold For $100,000. Unofficially I think its a record for a .ly domain but we will leave it to Ron Jackson to call it. According to TechCrunch.com the seller of the domain is “Hadi Naser of domain name registration and professional services company Libyan Spider, apparently owns several hundred such ‘premium’ .ly domains and  runs a domain name brokerage service at domains.ly.”” Certainly a nice sale congrats to the buyer and seller Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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QuinStreet Misses & Stock Sinks Over 17% - QuinStreet, Inc. (Nasdaq:QNST) a member of our domain name parking index announced its financial results for its fiscal Third Quarter today and missed. Shares sank over 17% to 9.20 a share. The Company reported total revenue of $101.2 million, a decrease of 2% over the same quarter last year. The Company reported GAAP net income of $5.5 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, for the quarter. Adjusted net income for the quarter was $11.6 million, or $0.24 per diluted share. Adjusted net income excludes ... read more ...
 
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Feds Bust $14M Click Hijacking Scheme - Group hijacked computers to earn advertising revenue. Call it click fraud on steroids. The U.S. government has busted six Estonian nationals and one Russian national for what they call a massive click hijacking ring. The group allegedly used “rogue” Domain Name System servers and malware to alter the DNS server settings on infected computers. They infected over four million computers including 500,000 in the United States. By controlling the DNS the criminals ... read more ...
 
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Domains New York Life and Others Bought This Week - New York Life and art college make domain name purchases. It’s time for he weekly end user domain sales report. It’s a little short this week, which gives me the chance to discuss one crazy sale at Afternic this past week: dam.com. This domain sold for just $6,500. Is it just me, or is that crazy cheap for a good three letter dot com? OK, on with the end user sales at Afternic… Business broker BizMatch, Inc., which owns biz-match.com, bought BizMatch.net for ... read more ...
 
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Governments Shouldn’t Let Domains Expire - Bad things happen to former government owned domain names. I just finished reading a story form The Ottawa Citizen about how Canada’s 100th anniversary of flight web site expired and (at least briefly) showed ads for escorts. For the Canadian government it got the worst possible outcome. The domain name wasn’t just a parked domain; someone actively tried to take advantage of its prior use. The new owner apparently left a notice on the page: “To previous domain ... read more ...
 
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.Me and .TV Court Bloggers - .Me and .TV pitch their brands to bloggers and social media experts. Two commercialized ccTLDs tried to court bloggers at the BlogWorld Expo in Los Angeles November 3-5. .Me and .TV, country code domain names for Montenegro and Tuvalu respectively, each had a booth at the expo (pictures below). These domains make sense for bloggers. .Me is great for personal bloggers. .TV makes sense for video bloggers or maybe even podcasters (where was .fm?). The .me booth had a ... read more ...
Tue 8th November 2011
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National A-1 Shuts Down Sextoys.com & ToySales.com - According to xBiz.com,  National A-1 Internet has discontinued the operations of its adult novelty retail website SexToys.com and affiliate program ToySales.com, (however I’m still getting a resolving site at sextoys.com) This comes off of the announcement a week ago that National A-1 forfeited the domain Escorts.com (and presumable escort.com) to the Feds. Sextoys.com is another strong six or seven figure domain name that National A-1 owned. While Sex Toys are legal in many parts of the country, ... read more ...
 
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BankSimple Acquires & Changes Its Name to Simple.com - BankSimple.com has been getting some nice press recently as an alternative to the “big banks”. You can read about them here, and here, and here. Today in their blog  Bank Simple announced they were changing their domain name to simple.com The domain name simple.com was owned by Walter Holdings Ltd. of Barbados. In July of this year, Jamie Dotweekly.com, noticed that the whois changed to privacy. Now it’s clear that the domain is now owned by Bank Simple. Its another sale that we didn’t hear ... read more ...
 
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Registry Behind .Pro Says It Used .Law, .Med Back in 2004 - RegistryPro wants to trademark .med and .law domain names. There’s something sneaky going on with RegistryPro, the registry for the .pro top level domain name. First, the company filed trademark applications for the second level domains .med.pro and .law.pro. But it has taken it a step further, also applying for trademarks for .med, dotmed, .law, and dotlaw. Even more peculiar? It claims a first use in commerce date of 2004. It is relying on its offering of third ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Demands Focus on Its Registrar Business - Stock investors need to pay less attention to Demand Media’s content business and more to its domain business. If you ask most stock watchers, they’ll tell you Demand Media is a content company. The company, they’ll say, relies on driving eyeballs to its ad laden pages. But underneath this is the truth: the “rock” of Demand Media is the domain name registrar and its huge portfolio of parked domain names. When it announced quarterly earnings yesterday, the ... read more ...
 
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P&G and HP Say They Won’t Register Their Own TLDs - …but these companies have a good reason not to. Bloomberg BusinessWeek just published an article that says representatives from PG and HP have confirmed the companies don’t plan to apply for new top level domain names. A couple observations: 1. One of the reasons these companies are less likely to apply is because their natural extensions are ineligible. .PG and .HP are only two letters; they must be three. HP has already complained about this to ICANN. Oh, and ... read more ...
Mon 7th November 2011
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Demand Media Reports: Revenue UP 25%; Registrar Revenue Up 20%; Shares Rise 17% - Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE:DMD),  reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2011 after the market closed today. Shares of Demand Media which fell over 9% in trading today are back up over 17% in after market trading since the earnings were released at $8.30 a share. Demand has a 52 week low of  $5.24 and closed today at $7.06 Here are the highlights: Q311 Financial Summary: GAAP Revenue increased 25% to $81.5 million, compared with $65.4 million in Q310. Loss from operations ... read more ...
 
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I Found a Group That Loves a E-Parasite-Bill: Trademark Lawyers - I found a group today that loves the E-Parasite-Bill as well as the Protect IP bill. Trademark Lawyers. In a session on counterfeiting websites at the IP Law Institute today,  the panelists and the IP lawyer filed conference chatted about the E-Parasite-Bill as well as the Protect IP bill. Seems that they love both. “what of the two bills give the brandowners more protection?” a lawyer in the audience asked “Well The E-Parasite Bill does because it gives brand owners a private right of action ... read more ...
 
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Afilias To Apply For IDN gTLD’s For Simplified and Traditional Chinese Language Equivalents of .INFO - ICANN will only accept applications for new gTLDs between January 12, 2012, and April 12, 2012. Since it will likely be several years before anyone can again apply for an IDN version of a gTLD, we’re pleased to lead the way for IDN use and adoption.” “Given the global presence of Afilias, Internationalized Domain Names — informally known as IDNs — have always been of great interest to us. We were the first company to launch IDN email, and believe that having IDN equivalents of .INFO for ... read more ...
 
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.Co Land Rush Re-Auction Nets $65K on Pool - The re-auction of .CO former land rush auction domains that did not complete a over a year ago just ended with $65,000 in sales. The auction was led by InjuryLawyers.co which sold for $18K.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED With 1 Hour To Go .Co Land Rush Re-Auctions Now Sit during $50K - Here are the current high bids on the .Co auction on Pool.com which closes in less than an hour:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.CO Land Rush Re-Auctions End Today On Pool - Later today the .CO land rush re-auctions close on Pool.com. All the auctions close around 3PM EST. These are the domain names that were originally in a land rush auction for the launch of .Co but did not close. As of publication there are about $25K in bids with around 9 hours to go. OMG.co is leading the bidding at over $2K OMG.com was sold in 2009 for $80K. Here are the current high bids for each of the domains:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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The Gap Sues TheGap.com - Apparel company wants control of TheGap.com. The Gap, Inc. has sued TheGap.com under U.S. anti-cybersquatting laws. This action should come as no surprise. Despite being registered way back in 1994, the domain recently started forwarding to affiliate offers including free Gap gift cards: The Gap says that TheGap.com forwards to one of two web sites offering gift cards if people submit their personal information and complete sponsor offers. If the user tries to leave ... read more ...
 
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Where to Find a Cheapest .XXX Landrush Pricing - Comparison of .xxx landrush pricing. Just like I did for sunrise, I’ve compiled pricing for the .xxx landrush. The landrush period runs November 8-November 25. During this period adult companies can apply for any .xxx domain they want that wasn’t reserved during sunrise or blocked by the registry. If more than one company or person applies for the same domain it will be sent to an auction. There’s no benefit to applying early on in the period; it’s not first-come-first-served. Finding ... read more ...
 
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Wireless Company Files UDRP Over AEE.com After Losing Domain - Wireless products company in China loses domain in suspicious circumstances; files UDRP to get it back. Wireless company Shenzhen AEE Technology Co., Ltd has filed a UDRP for the domain name AEE.com. But before you question this filing for a three letter domain name, there are some interesting circumstances surrounding this domain name. You can discover them with the help of DomainTools’ historical whois. Shenzhen AEE Technology Co., Ltd owned the domain name until ... read more ...
 
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Hustler Finally Hears About .Co Domains - Company files complaint over Hustler.co domain name. The company behind the Hustler adult entertainment enterprise has finally heard about the .co domain name. LFP, IP, LLC has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) over the domain name Hustler.co. The domain is, of course, just one missing ‘m’ away from the company’s flagship web site. Hustler.co forwards to rival Vivid.com, although this may be through an affiliate relationship. ... read more ...
Sun 6th November 2011
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StumbleUpon Buys Stumbled.com - Social sharing web site buys another variation of “stumble”. First StumbleUpon bought Stumblers.com, now it has picked up Stumbled.com. Stumbled.com currently has MarkMonitor company DNStinations as its owner in whois. This was the same company that helped the social sharing site purchase Stumblers.com for $6,000 back in September, so it’s highly likely that StumbleUpon is the buyer. The domain name is currently listed for sale on Sedo for $8,000, so I suspect ... read more ...