Monthly Archives: December 2011

Mon 12th December 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Morality in Media Wants Congress To Make It A Crime To Register A .XXX Domain Matching Any Domain In Any Extension - Morality in Media (MIM) has called for Congress to make it a crime for anyone to register a domain name on the .xxx site that is registered on another domain without the consent of the owner of the other domain name. In a statement, MIM President Patrick Trueman said, “Nearly every company in the world, every blogger, and the holders of any domain name must fear that the ICM Registry will allow their good name to be trashed on the .XXX domain unless they pay this ‘protection money’ to ICM Registry ... read more ...
 
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The Washington Post Says After 6 Years ICANN Is Still Moving Too Fast On New gTLD’s - In an editorial published by The Washington Post entitled “What’s The .Rush”, the Post says that ICANN is moving too fast on the new gTLD program despite acknowledged that the program has been under consideration for 6 years. The Post’s editorial concludes; “Although the plan has been six years in the making, it is not ready for prime time” Here is the full editorial: “””For two decades, .com, .org and some 20 other “generic top-level domain names” have served as calling cards ... read more ...
 
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Varios grupos se disputan el derecho de operar el dominio de internet .africa - (CNN) — La propuesta del nuevo nombre .africa para un dominio de internet le dará una identidad más fuerte que la de los dominios actuales de países poco conocidos. Al mismo tiempo evitará que los ingresos por registros fluyan al extranjero, según los partidarios de la propuesta. DotConnectAfrica, una organización sin fines de lucro registrada en Mauricio, es uno de los grupos que compiten por establecer y operar el nombre de dot africa para empresas y personas en todo el continente. La ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells Makassar.com For $40K & HeartOfLove.com For 30,000 Euro’s - A couple of sales hitting the Sedo.com wire this morning. Makassar.com sold for $40,000 Makassar is Geo domain. According to Wikipedia, Makassar, is “the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island”.  It has a population of over 1 million. Heartoflove.com sold for 30,000 Euro’s or around $40K as well. A nice price for this domain IMHO. Another domain name topoilfield.com sold for $10,825 today as well Congrats to the buyers and sellers. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Mobilní operátoři nasazují DNSSEC - Historie DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) v ČR má dva nové milníky: 24. listopadu 2011 ohlásil podporu této  technologie tuzemský Vodafone, a v těchto dnech (nejspíše právě dnes) ji ohlásí i česká Telefónica. Třetí do party, T-Mobile, je zatím ve fázi testování technologie DNSSEC, ale o termínu jejího nasazení zatím nemá konkrétní informace. Vzhledem k rozvoji poskytování firemního řešení ProfiNet ale prý o nasazení DNSSEC vážně uvažuje. UPC ... read more ...
 
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Businessweek’s Advice On Domain Names REALLY Sucks - In an article published by Businessweek.com today on domain names, they gave pretty some bad advice to business owners on a domain name strategies and their importance. The article quotes several sources including a Michael Weiss, partner at Imagistic.com, “Being able to have santabarbaraloans.com would be great for your branding and name recognition, there’s no doubt about it,” he says. “But sbloans.com is not bad, and neither is sbmrtge.com.” Really? sbloans.com, well I think Small Business ... read more ...
 
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Want to be ICANN’s subsequent CEO? - Non-profit publishes profile of desired CEO. Want to be the CEO of an organization launching a highly controversial expansion of the internet namespace and seeing its budget double or triple your first year on the job? ICANN has a job for you. Today ICANN announced it has selected search firm Odgers Berndtson of Brussels to help it find a new CEO to replace Rod Beckstrom. ICANN has used the same firm previously. It also published a candidate profile (pdf). Among the ... read more ...
 
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Company manages to get .secure trademark - Company going after .bank and .secure domain names gets a (weak) trademark. A company hoping to offer .bank and .secure domain names has managed to get a trademark for .secure from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — albeit on the supplement register. How did it do this, since the USPTO won’t grant trademarks on top level domains? First, Asif LLC didn’t tell the USPTO the trademark was for a top level domain name. Instead, it says it’s for “Domain name ... read more ...
 
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Huffington Post Gets Sexsquatted - California man registers HuffingtonPost.xxx. [Update 5 PM CST 12/12/11: That was quick. AOL is now the owner of the domain. Now the only one of the top 20 web sites on the web that may be sexsquatted is WordPress.xxx.] .XXX domain names opened up for registration last week, but it looks like one big brand may have missed the message. HuffingtonPost.xxx was registered by a California man shortly after the registry opened for business. I can’t find anything that ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
With 1 month to go, new TLD module still full of uncertainties - New TLD investors face a big challenge: uncertainty. The application window for new top level domain names opens one month from today. It’s kind of funny to think about it. The internet community has been working on new TLDs for so many years, and now the hard work is about to begin. Yet even after all these years there’s still a lot of uncertainty. With just one month to go… 1. We still don’t know the details of a newly approved program to reduce the application ... read more ...
Sat 10th December 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Our Exclusive Interview With The New Co-President Of Oversee.net Debra Domeyer - We reached out to Debra Domeyer the new Co-President and Chief Technology Officer of Oversee.net who took over a leadership roll once former CEO Jeff Kupietzky left at the end of August. Special Thanks to Gregg McNair who was instrumental to introducing me to Debra and was very supportive of the interview. We sent Debra and set of questions that appear below and left her answers as she wrote them unedited. Q.  Debra can you start by giving me your background, your education, previous positions; ... read more ...
Fri 9th December 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Citibank: Online Advertising To Grow 21% This Year - According to a story in MediaPost.com,  Citigroup estimates online advertising will grow 21% this year, up from 15% in 2010. Citibank estimates online advertising will grow 17% in 2012 and 14% in 2013. “Search will grow more rapidly than online advertising, taking share during the next few years, he said. Growth in display will follow behind search advertising and come from social and digital video ads.” “If more TV advertising comes online, the 14% and 17% growth estimates for the next two ... read more ...
 
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Here Come The .XXX Sunrise/LandRush Auctions & It Looks Like They Don’t Start Until January - Just getting a bunch of notices on some Sunrise/LandRush .XXX domain name applications we filed for domain names that had more than 1 application. So far the earliest start date I have for any auction is January 3, 2012 which will end on January 10th 2012. The latest date I have so far is January 11th ending January 18th but the notices are still coming in. In all I’m in 92 auctions which should be a good sample of how these auction are going. Of course I will let you know in January as bidding ... read more ...
 
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Amazon.com buys SmartIsBeautiful.com — a new brand? - What does company plan to do with domain? Is being smart beautiful? And if so, are you smart enough to figure out why Amazon.com just bought SmartIsBeautiful.com? The domain name was owned by BuyDomains until July 21, 2011, according to historical whois records. Richard Law Group of Dallas, Texas bought the domain name. Afternic didn’t report the sale, and that’s probably because it was for under $1,000. It looks like the domain name was listed with a “buy now” ... read more ...
 
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8 probable headlines for yesterday’s New TLD hearing - How do you describe an uneventful congressional hearing? Yesterday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about the introduction of new top level domains. The session, lightly attended by senators, was a bit bland. But here are 8 possible headlines I could think of after watching yesterday. Cybersquatters: they’re like pedophiles Disney sues Congress over use of Mickey Mouse image in congressional hearing New TLD hearing confused with whois policy discussion ICANN ... read more ...
Thu 8th December 2011
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Its Time For ICM & Registrars To Start Selling .XXX On Its Merits Rather Than For Protection - A few weeks ago DomainShane.com wrote a piece on the sales pitch many of the registrars and even ICM the registry for .XXX was using to sell .XXX domain names. Today I’m going to agree with Shane. At the time Shane Cultra wrote the piece the Sunrise period just ended and the Land Rush period was underway. As the Sunrise Period as in any new extension is largely for Trademark holders to get first rights to register their TM domain names I wasn’t overly concerned at the time But now that General ... read more ...
 
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ICA Letter To The House Against SOPA: “”Potentially Devastating For ICANN Registrars & Others in Domain Name Industry - Phil Corwin on behalf of The Internet Commerce Association sent a letter to today to the senior members of the House Judiciary Committee “regarding the likely unintended but potentially devastating impact of H.R. 3261 (”SOPA”) as introduced upon ICANN-accredited registrars and other participants in the broad domain name industry”, as well as upon the domain registrants who use those services.” Below is what Phil had to say about this law and we have reprinted the letter he sent to the House ... read more ...
 
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How Hall.com picked the name and bought it for $20,000 - Company founder has great message about the importance of (domain) names. Brett Hellman of chat and collaboration company Hall.com today posted an intriguing insight into the company’s naming process. It explains how the company’s initial ideas for names, such as medium.com and foundation.com, were just too expensive. The owners wanted $300k+. Then they decided on Hall.com but couldn’t get in touch with the owner. They settled on halleo.com, but then came to ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign releases DomainCountdown for lapsed domains - .Com and .net registry released more data on expiring domain names. VeriSign has just released a beta of DomainCountdown, a source of data on expiring domain names. DomainCountdown provides a wealth of information about domain names in pending delete status, and some of them are quite fascinating. The baseline data for each domain has to do with NXD data — basically queries to non-existent/non-resolving domain names. VeriSign is in a unique position to capture this ... read more ...
 
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What a infamous UDRP decision - UDRP makes it hard for entrepreneur to start his consulting business. UDRP mostly gets it right. It sometimes gets it wrong. Other times it gets it absolutely, disgracefully wrong. Consider the case of a Minnesota man who wants to set up a consulting firm. He comes up with the reasonable name Fresh Look Consulting, LLC. So he files for his company name with the state on October 3 of this year. Then he registers the domain name FreshLookConsultingLLC.net on October ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling and John Berryhill group adult to get RDNH decision - Company files dispute for UDRP in bad faith. Frank Schilling, with the help of attorney John Berryhill, has convinced a UDRP panel that AINS, INC is guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over eCase.com. AINS, Inc has a trademark for “ecase” for its software for workflow and case management. It claimed a first use in commerce date of 2009 on its trademark application. Schilling acquired the domain name eCase.com in 2002, so the case had no chance ... read more ...
 
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New program will bond dots between “rogue web sites” - Company says it will help legal efforts against counterfeit goods sales. As congress debates the Stop Online Piracy Act (STOP) and companies file dozens of lawsuits against counterfeiters, a New York company claims to be developing software to aid in the fight. RogueFinder, LLC is a new company, having just registered its domain name RogueFinder.com a week ago and filing a trademark application around the same time. But its software looks interesting if it achieves ... read more ...
Wed 7th December 2011
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ICM: .XXX 1st 24 Hours OF GA; 56,000 Registrations; A Total Of 160K Domain Names Registered - According to the ICM Registry sponsor of the .XXX TLD, in the first 24 hours of General Availability there were 55,367 .XXX new domain name registrations. Including the Founders Program, Sunrise and Land Rush there are a total of 159,351 .XXX domain names registered as of Noon Today. This number of registrations for the 1st day of General Availability is well below what .Co did on its 1st day, which saw almost 200,000 registrations. However, its appears there were some 100,000 .XXX domain names grabbed ... read more ...
 
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FTC Chairman Comes Out Swinging Against ICANN’s New gTLD Plan - According to several reports,  the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Jon Leibowitz said said today that a proposal to allow for an unlimited number of new Internet addresses could be a “disaster” for consumers and businesses. The proposal would allow for almost any new top-level domain name, which is the suffix that comes to the right of the dot, such as .Law or .coke or .NYC. In comments made to House Judiciary Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman hearing on antitrust enforcement ... read more ...
 
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RickPerry.com now forwards to RonPaul2012.com - Right wingers may end up on libertarian’s web site. As if Rick Perry doesn’t have enough problems in his quest for the white house: RickPerry.com has recently started forwarding to RonPaul2012.com. Rick Perry’s official web site is RickPerry.org. The sad thing for the Perry campaign is that Rick Perry could have easily acquired the .com version for little money. It expired in 2010. I even wrote about how it had expired. Someone from Perry’s office read my ... read more ...