Monthly Archives: November 2011

Sun 6th November 2011
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Former Sedo attorney Frank Aiello Joins Domain Holdings - Domain Holdings adds another broker from Sedo. Domain Name Wire has learned that former Sedo domain name broker Frank Aiello has joined Domain Holdings. Aiello left Sedo at the end of September. His LinkedIn page still shows that he was at Sedo for 1 year and two months. Domain Holdings and PPX have hired a number of former Sedo brokers lately. Most recently, Domain Holdings hired former Sedo broker Ryan Colby as SVP of Product Management. Domain Holdings was co-founded ... read more ...
Sat 5th November 2011
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Godaddy Claims To Have Invented “Private Domain Registrations” - In an article published in the azcentral.com, Godaddy.com is claiming they invented the idea of a “Private Domain Registrations.” “Go Daddy has vaulted to the top of the domain-registrar heap with the help of several innovations, perhaps the most significant among them being “private” domain registration.” “Go Daddy invented and launched the concept of private registration in 2002 with the formation of an affiliate company called Domains By Proxy Inc. It has been hugely successful, ... read more ...
 
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Will Chevy’s Newest Car Be Called “The Spin” ? As Chevy Registers ChevySpin.com & ChevroletSpin.com - Looks like Chevy is going to name its newest car the Chevy Spin. MarkMonitor.com registered the domain names ChevySpin.com and ChevroletSpin.com. I couldn’t find a word on the Chevy Spin anywhere else on Google but may guess it will be some sort of hybrid.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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What Do The BIG Brands Really Think About The New gTLD’s? Guess I’ll Find Out As we Speak At The IP Law & Management Institute - This weekend I will be speaking at the IP Law Management Institute in Palm Springs on the only panel dedicated to the new gTLD program. entitled “Seizing the Opportunity of Securing gTLDs for your Organization and your Industry in my role as Director of RightoftheDot.com. I’ll be on the panel with representatives of Verisign as we present to attorney’s representing some of the biggest brands on earth including DuPont, Procter Gamble, Google, LG Electronics, Pfizer, Chevron,  Broadcom, Dow, ... read more ...
Fri 4th November 2011
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Penicillin.com Sells For $30K; Codeine.com For $19K, Amphetamine.com For $14K ON NameJet All By 1 Bidder - Earlier today we wrote a post about generic drug domain name up for auction at NameJet.com and asked if any would sell. Well three of the four did in fact sell. And one bidder bought them all. The bidder with the id of “goldmine” walked off with a virtual goldmine of generic drug domains. Codeine.com Sold For $19K Amphetamine.com sold for $14K and penicillin.com which sold just over reserve at $30,300. Tucows.com was the seller of all the domains.         Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: Which Of These Domains Priced $50K Or More Will Sell In The Moniker “End of Year Auction” - Moniker.com is holding its end of year action which closes on November 17th at 3:15PM EST and yesterday it released the final list for the online auction. Here are the domain names that are priced with a stated reserve of $50K or more. You can pick any three but you need to do so at the same time, and you also have the choice “None will Sell” As always you can make your predictions below for bragging rights:       Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Penicillin.com; Amphetamine.com’ Codeine.com: Each Over $10K At NameJet.com: Will Any of Them Sell? - There are at least 4 really good generic drug domain names all in auction closing today on Namejet.com All the domains are owned by Tucows.com; penicillin.com current high bid of Over $10K amphetamine.com current high bid Over $10K codeine.com current high bid over $10K diuretic.com  Current high bid $717 However none have reached reserve. Will they sell? How much are the reserves? More importantly how much are the domains worth? All the auctions are closed to those who back ordered the domains. We ... read more ...
 
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WSJ.com GroupOn.com To Go Public Tomorrow during $20 Per Share - According to the Wall Street Journal, Groupon.com is going public tomorrow on the Nasdaq and is expected to be priced at $20 a share. At $20 a share the company will carry a valuation of Groupon at nearly $13 billion. The company plans on trading under the symbol; GRPN Groupon is offering up to 34.5 million shares in its IPO, representing just 5.4% of the entire company’s 637.3 million shares outstanding. Cnet.com is reporting that the IPO is oversubscribed at the $20 per share figure which is ... read more ...
 
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Court Rules Pothead Can’t Change Name to a Domain Name - I won’t be changing my personal name to DomainNameWire.com anytime soon. Here’s an interesting court decision handed down by the Court of Appeal in California. Robert Edward Forchion, Jr., a self proclaimed “dedicated marijuana lover”, wanted to change his statutory name to NJWeedman.com. He has gone by the name NJWeedman for a while and operates a web site at NJWeedman.com. The appeal court affirmed that Forchion can’t change his name to NJWeedman.com. ... read more ...
 
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BlogWorld Expo Kicks Off in Los Angeles - Blogging and social media experts converge in Los Angeles. BlogWorld Expo kicked off in Los Angeles yesterday and runs through Saturday evening. I’m attending the conference but not as a blogger. We’re here promoting our Media.net advertising product to bloggers. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see what sort of products are pitched to the blogger world. The term “BlogWorld” is somewhat of a misnomer; the conference has rolled with the times into more ... read more ...
 
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Australian Domain Market Sees Volume from Yield Media Sales - Some big ticket sales in .com.au. The Australian domain name market is seeing some sales volume lately thanks to a 1,500 domain portfolio being put on the market. The portfolio belonged to Yield Media, owned by the same company that owns domain name registrar Fabulous. It’s being brokered by Ned O’Meara of DNTrade.com.au. Thanks to marketing on his forum he’s managed to sell 384 of the domain names over the past few weeks. The top sale: MoneyBuddy.com.au at ... read more ...
Thu 3rd November 2011
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IRA.com Sells For Seven Figures - Michael Jackness reports on his blog today that he has purchased the domain name IRA.com for any amount into the seven figures. Michael writes on his blog today: “”Our agreement prohibits us from talking about the exact deal points of our arrangement. The best I can say is take a look at estibot.com. This is one instance where I think their valuation is at least in the right ballpark. It’s unquestionably a 7 figure domain name.” According to Esibot.com the domain name IRA.com has a value ... read more ...
 
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Google Changes Search Algorithm That Will Impact 35% of Web Searches - According to a new post of Google’s blog today, it announced a change to its search algorithm that the company says will impact 35% of Web searches. The change builds on top of its previous “Caffeine” update in order to deliver more up-to-date and relevant search results, specifically those in areas where freshness matters. This includes things like recent events, breaking news and hot topics. Here is the full blog post: Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing ... read more ...
 
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Left Of The Dot Media Adds Domain Veterans Xavier Buck and Slavik Viner To Its Board - Left of the Dot Media Inc. announced today the appointment of Xavier Buck and Slavik Viner to the company’s Board of Directors. Both are well known in the Domain Industry and have extremely successful track records. Xavier Buck is the Founder, Executive Director, and CEO of the DCL Group, which is the umbrella organization of EuroDNS, voipGATE and the Datacenter Luxembourg. His current Directorships also include AsiaDNS, DomainTools, and eBrandServices. In 2008 he co-founded Domain Invest SA, a ... read more ...
 
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BMC’s Former Domain Name Identify.com Is In Development - Owner of Identify.com files trademark applications. A recent trademark filing tipped me off to an unannounced sale of a great domain name: identify.com. Brand Enforcement Services Limited of Hong Kong just filed two “intent to use” trademarks for Identify and Identify.com with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The trademark is for “Providing a website featuring information about the management of intellectual property; Advertising; Business management; Business ... read more ...
 
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Apple Fights for iPhone Porn Domain Names Including iphone4s.com - Company files complaint over seven domain names that forward to mobile porn site. If you really want to piss off a large company, just put some porn up on domain names that include its brands. Apple has just filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Forum over seven domain names that include the term “iPhone” and forward to a mobile porn service. The seven domains (NSFW): iphonecamforce.com iphonecam4s.com iphoneporn4s.com iphonesex4s.com iphonexxxforce.com iphone4s.com porn4iphones.com I ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Registers Generic Black Friday Domains - Online retailer gets set for holidays with new domain names. Amazon.com makes a lot of domain name registrations to protect its brands such as Kindle, IMDB, MyHabit, and Zappos. But the company also registers generic domain names that don’t include any of its brands. And with the Black Friday holiday shopping frenzy just a couple weeks away, Amazon has registered a handful of Black Friday and other generic shopping domain names: blackfridaydealsclothing.com blackfridaydealsmovies.com blackfridaydealstools.com blackfridaydealswatches.com amazonholidaytoylist.com giftideasbooks.com giftideascameras.com giftideasgames.com giftideaskitchen.com giftideasmovies.com giftideasmusic.com giftideastoys.com holidaytoylistelectronics.com holidaytoylistgames.com holidaytoylistmovies.com holidaytoylistmusic.com holidaytoylistsports.com holidaytoylisttoys.com holidaytoylistvideos.com I ... read more ...
Wed 2nd November 2011
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CADNA Goes From Opposing New gTLD Program To Demanding A Time Frame For Opening The 2nd Round - The Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) has appearently gone from being a vocal opponent of the new gTLD program to demanding a timeline for opening of the second round. In a press release it sent out today,  Josh Bourne President of CADNA in his closing remarks at the “What’s at Stake: The Reality of ICANN’s New gTLD Program for Brands” conference at the Institute of International Education’s Edgar J. Kaufman Conference Center in New York City said: “ICANN has an image problem,” “Businesses ... read more ...
 
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InternetTraffic.com Just Months After Launch Breaks The Million Domain Mark - Frank Schilling’s InternetTraffic.com monetization program which just started a few months just crossed the 1,000,000 domain name mark today according to DailyChanges.com InternetTraffic.com is now hosting 1,025,000 domains after gaining over 28,000 domain names yesterday,  more domain gained than any other server in the world. Congrats to Frank and his team.       Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Releases 3Q Sales & Reports Over $19 Million In Sales, But 93% of All Sales Were Under $5K - Sedo issued its 3rd quater report today ending on September 30, 2011. In all almost 10K domain sold through their market place for over $19 Million in sales with the median price just under $2K. 86% of all sales were under $2,500 and 93% of all transactions were under $5,000. 50% of the almost 10K domain that sold were .com domain names 21% were .de 7% were .net’s 6% were .co.uk Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Google Promises Greater Transparency For Targeted Ads & To Give Users More Control Including Blocking Them - According to Google’s Blog, Google is going to  provide “greater transparency and choice regarding the ads you see on Google search and Gmail”. Basically Google is talking about targeted ads that Users get based on Google’s algorithm which tries to predict what ads you would like to see. “Soon, you’ll be able to learn more about these ads by clicking the “Why these ads” link next to ads on Google search results and Gmail.” “Why these ads” gives you transparency” “The perfect ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells $1.3 In Domains; Over $700K in Reportable Sales Led By Solo.com At $133K & Frage.de during 50K - Sedo released their sale for the week and they sold a total of 754 domain names sales totaling $1.31 million. Out of those over $700K were reportable led by Solo.com which sold for $133,000 and Frage.de at 35,000 Euro’s which is about $50K. Here is a list of all the reportable domains for the week:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Sells $2.5 Million in Domains in Q3 - Company continues to sell non-strategic domain names. Marchex reported earnings after the bell today, including the sale of $2.5 million of “non-strategic” domain names during the third quarter. Revenue was $39.9 million for the third quarter of 2011, compared to $24.2 million for the same quarter in 2010. Marchex credits its burgeoning pay-per-call business for driving its growth. GAAP net income was $1.2 million for Q3 2011 compared to a loss of $547,000 in ... read more ...
 
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122 .Me Domains Have Bids in Sedo Auction - Sedo auction for .me domain names is seeing a lot of action. Sedo’s latest .me domain name auction ends tomorrow and is seeing a lot of action. 122 domain names have bids as of right now. I count 23 that have met their reserve with about 24 hours to go. The most active domains are VIP.me and Job.me, each with 16 bids. VIP.me is at $2,450 and Job.me is $1,499. Both domains have met their reserve prices. Detox.me leads with a $2,500 bid but has not met its reserve. The ... read more ...
 
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Offers.com Owner Jumps in to Crowded Market with DailyDeals.com - Vertive may have a solution to a crowded market: a great domain name. It’s hard to get attention in the daily deals business these days. You need a killer domain name to have a chance. Enter Vertive and Steve Schaffer, which already operates discount site Offers.com (and owns Offer.com). The company just launched DailyDeals.com. The site will offer discounts to online stores, which is a natural extension from the company’s background on Offers.com. Schaffer, who ... read more ...