Monthly Archives: December 2011

Wed 7th December 2011
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
New TLD module has dual hearings on Capitol Hill within one week - Get ready for representatives to pretend like they know about domain names. ICANN and its new top level domain name program will be put under the microscope in Washington, D.C. twice over the next 7 days. Tomorrow morning the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will hold a hearing called “ICANN’s Expansion of Top Level Domains”. As usual, the deck is stacked against ICANN. Three of the five witnesses will be against the program in ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
55,367 .xxx domain names purebred in initial 24 hours - Big numbers in latest top level domain release. I just got an email from ICM Registry about .xxx registration results in the first 24 hours. 55,367 new .xxx domain names were registered. That brings total registrations (including sunrise and landrush) to 159,351 as of noon EST today. Many of these domains won’t resolve, of course — they were registered by non adult companies wishing to block their brands from becoming porn sites. High registration prices of around ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Single number .co.uk domains underneath attack - Four single digit .co.uk domain names subject to arbitration. I officially nominate 9.co.uk as the most fascinating domain arbitration of 2011. You may recall that .uk registry Nominet auctioned of its one and two character domain names a couple months ago, bringing in a over 3m. One of the active buyers was XYZ Invest LLC. Shortly after winning the domain name at auction XYZ Invest was hit with a DRS — the .UK equivalent of a UDRP. Apparently similar cases have ... read more ...
 
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LiveDrive buys LiveCloud.com for $92,000 and 10 other domain sales - An online storage company makes a big splash in the domain market. This week’s top (reported) end user domain name purchase comes courtesy of cloud storage company LiveDrive. It bought LiveCloud.com for $92,000 via Sedo from Seattle based Groupee, Inc. Here’s a look at ten other end user domain purchases over the past week. All sales occurred at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Barrett Distribution bought a perfect domain in FulfillmentCenters.com for $1,500. Cypress ... read more ...
 
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.Jobs foes to ICANN: Hurry up, open up, and get a spine - Coalition calls out ICANN for apparent lack of progress in dealing with Employ Media. The .Jobs Charter Compliance Coalition, a group of job boards opposed to expansion of the .jobs namespace, has sent a letter (pdf) to ICANN’s CEO and Board of Directors asking it to hurry up, open up, and get a spine. Hurry Up The letter admonishes ICANN for an apparent lack of progress in its arbitration proceedings with .jobs registry Employ Media, or at least not updating the ... read more ...
Tue 6th December 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo.com Sells $1.67 Million in Domain Names Led By LiveCloud.com For $92K - Sedo.com just announced it weekly sales  and in all sold 865 domain names for $1.67 Million dollars led by yet another cloud domain, LiveCloud.com for a nice $92K. In non.com sales krant.nl led the way selling for 35,000 Euro’s or around $40K Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $1.3MM In Domains Led By BonnieAndClyde.com At $13K - Afternic.com reported $1,263,330 in domain sales for the week ending December 4th. The publicly reportable sales included in the total above were $675,785 and led by BonnieAndClyde.com at $13,000 followed by ParkModelHomes.com at $12,696. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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iOwn.XXX Becomes 1st .XXX Domain Name To Be Registered in Go Live - Go Live for .XXX is officially opened and according to a Tweet from the ICM Registry the 1st domain name registered during the go live or general availability period was iOwn.XXX a pretty appropriate domain. Expect plenty of updates throughout the day on the launch of the 22nd Top Level Domain (TLD) Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: .XXX Go Live Delayed One Hour - Getting word that the Go Live or General Availability for .XXX domains has been pushed back one hour to noon EST. We are not sure of the reason for the delay but we are assuming technical issues. Registrars have been notified. We will keep you updated as we get more info. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Sites com TLD .xxx entram no ar hoje - Depois de mais de uma década de debates intensos, os primeiros sites verdadeiros com os domínios .xxx – os endereços porn.xxx e sex.xxx, serviram apenas como teste – deverão entrar no ar às 14 horas (horário de Brasília). A “zona da luz vermelha” da internet foi idealizada em meados da década de 90 por uma empresa chamada ICM Registry, que depois de anos de negociações com o ICANN conseguiu autorização para comercializar endereços com as três letras da discórdia pela web. A ... read more ...
 
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Buyer of Rick Schwartz Property.com & Properties.com Buys Location.com - According to a Press Release today, the same company that recently purchased Rick Schwartz domain name Property.com and Properties.com  just purchased another great domain name, Location.com The company, eReal Estate Holdings, LLC, is also the owner and operator of Condo.com, and Houses.com The domain was acquired from domainer Shai Neubauer, who apparently like Schwartz will have some continuing interest in the deal saying: “I am happy to have the opportunity to remain in the deal as a partner.” There ... read more ...
 
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.XXX Launch Makes Front Page of CNN.com - .XXX which goes live today at 11am EST is on the front page of CNN under “featured” , top column third on the right. Here is a screenshot:                               Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
 
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Secure.Me Bought For $7K Covered by TechCrunch.com - Yet again another startup using a .Me domain name got covered by TechCrunch.com tonight; Secure.me Secure.me was bought through Afternic.com in August for $7k. According to Techcrunch.com Secure.me is “an online service that analyzes your Facebook profile for any data that’s putting your privacy at risk”. The Techcrunch article details the service in depth and is another nice showcase for a verb .Me domain. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
DomainTools gives spotlight to screenshots with Screenshots.com - Company launches dedicated site for historical screenshots. We all know that DomainTools is a domain name treasure trove. But few people know how extensive the data is. Sometimes the company highlights it with a dedicated site such as DailyChanges.com for nameserver changes. Today it launched Screenshots.com, a standalone site to highlight its historical screenshots of millions of domain names. Any domainer should give the company credit for the great domain name. ... read more ...
 
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Whois privacy. Even a Fortune 500 use it. - It’s hypocritical for large companies to lobby against whois privacy services when they use them as well. Why do so many large companies argue against whois privacy and whois proxy services when they use the same tools themselves? It’s a frequently asked question, one that Kevin Murphy asked again today: Sure, a lot of people hide their whois information for nefarious purposes. But for companies to label all whois privacy as “bad” when they do it themselves ... read more ...
 
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It’s go-time for .xxx as www.Buy.xxx commercials make a buzz - .XXX opens for registration today. At the time of writing the .xxx domain name launch is just two hours away and the internet is buzzing thanks to an aggressive TV ad campaign. The ads tell visitors to visit www.Buy.xxx, where you’ll find a list of accredited registrars who will sell you a .xxx domain name. But many of those registrars have already closed their queues for the first few hours of today’s launch. Some of them had a deadline of yesterday to pre-order ... read more ...
Mon 5th December 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Touch.com Bought For $100K By App Developer In One Of 2011 Best Buys - According to AllthingsD.com the domain name Touch.com was recently purchased for $100,000 by an App developer called Enflick The App formerly known as PingChat has now been renamed Touch. I looks like the domain name was purchased somewhere around June according to DomainTools.com and was formerly owned by a Douglas Beardshaw of Toronto. There has been a lot of sessions held at conferences and chatter of what the effect Apps will have on domain names. I have argued on thedomains.com that Apps are ... read more ...
 
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NAF Announces Its Rapid Evaluation Service To Handle .XXX Disputes, Like The UDRP But Faster - In a press release today The National Arbitration Forum (NAF), announced that it has launched two new processes for those wanting to challege a .XXX domain name registration, the Rapid Evaluation Service (“RES”) and the Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy (“CEDRP”). “””Like the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”), the RES is designed to protect trademarks from online infringement. The RES provided by the NAF allows performers and entertainers an avenue ... read more ...
 
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ICM: Buy.XXX; 10 Days 10 Million Visitors & Ads On Howard Stern’s Show Starts Monday - Just got some updated Google Analytics stats for Buy.xxx from ICM Registry. Since it was launched 10 days ago with a major media buy online and offline behind it, Buy.XXX has hit the 10 million visitor mark. 10 days, 10 Million visitors. Out of the 10 million visitors, 3.6 million are from direct type in traffic to buy.xxx and the other 6.3 million are from various ads online ads. Alexa once again is showing Buy.XXX as being a top 2,500 site in the last 7 days in the US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
The “got milk” loophole - You can own GotMilk domains if… I’ve written before about how “got milk” is a trademark and actively protected by the California Milk Processor Board. Yet the owner of GotMilke.com just handed the group its first ever uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) loss. How did he do it? Well, his last name was Milke. Surely the California Milk Processor Board noticed this when it originally sent him a cease desist letter? Just because the registrant’s ... read more ...
 
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Tim Schumacher announces depart from Sedo - Longtime domain industry vet Tim Schumacher is moving on. Sedo announced today that co-founder and CEO Tim Schumacher will be stepping down from the company at the end of January. He will transition to the company’s Board of Directors. Schumacher founded Sedo with three others in 2001 and grew it into a domain sales and parking powerhouse with 1.3 million registered users. In 2007, he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst Young Germany. In 2009 ... read more ...
 
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Wave59 guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Arbitration panel says software company changed dates in UDRP. Stock trading software company Wave59 has been found guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking by a National Arbitration Forum panelist over the domain name W59.com. Wave59 originally said that it started using the abbreviated W59 mark in 2009. It has a design trademark that includes W59 in it. After the owner of the domain name pointed out that he registered the domain nearly six years before ... read more ...
 
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.Co to lapse to Super Bowl in GoDaddy commercial - .Co to be featured in GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial. The .co top level domain name will get heavy exposure at the Super Bowl for a second year in a row. Today domain name registrar GoDaddy announced that one of its two commercials in next year’s Super Bowl will feature .co. Last year’s .co/GoDaddy commercial tempted viewers to visit GoDaddy.com to find out who the new .co girl was. Despite the young Tabitha Taylor’s body in the commercial, the .co girl turned ... read more ...
Sun 4th December 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
The 4 Worst Things About Writing a Blog on Our 4th Anniversary - Today marks TheDomains.com 4 year anniversary So as I do every year, I have to once again start off by blaming my friend and fellow domainer Sahar who told me to start blogging. Thanks. I would say more but its a family show. With that out of the way, I thought to celebrate my 4 years blogging, I would recount the worst things about writing a blog to celebrate the journey (that’s what they always call it on reality TV, a journey) 1. Every conversation I have starts with this phrase: “You can’t ... read more ...