Monthly Archives: January 2012

Fri 27th January 2012
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DOMAINfest “Dine with an expert” slots stuffing adult quickly - Opportunity to dine with DOMAINfest speakers quickly disappearing. Want some quality time with Brook Schaaf, John Morris, Lisa Box, Jay Weintraub, or Paul Nicks during DOMAINfest next week? Your easiest opportunity is no longer available. These are among the people who already have full tables for their “Dine with an Expert” session during the conference. Although I’m sure there will be other opportunities to chat with these experts, there are still a number ... read more ...
Thu 26th January 2012
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Pool.com “Top Deleting Domain List For Friday”: 26 Out of 30 Are Facebook.com Typo’s - We just got our list of “Top Deleting Domains For Friday January 27th” from Pool.com and as you can see 26 out of the 30 domain names listed are typo’s of Facebook.com I know these lists are auto generated based on the number of back orders placed for a certain day but come on guys, can’t someone just eyeball it over at Pool.com before sending it out to everyone in the mailing list? And before we lay too much blame at Pool.com lets not forget they wouldn’t be on the list if no one back ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: 113 Million .com/net Domains & $1.35 Billion In a Bank - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN,  announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011 and year ended Dec. 31, 2011 after the market closed today Verisign Registry Services ended the quarter (December 31) with approximately 113.8 million active domain names in the adjusted zone for .com and .net, representing an 8% increase year-over-year. In the fourth quarter, Verisign added 7.9 million new domain name registrations, representing a 4% increase year-over-year. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue ... read more ...
 
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Airline.com Sells For $125K - DomainHoldings.com has just brokered the sale of the domain Airline.com for $125,000. The seller appears to be Airline Information Research Inc, a North Carolina based company who also owns and operates AirlineInfo.com. The new owner is listed as Intercontinental Domain Inc. We would like to congratulate all parties involved in this sale. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Joins Afternic.com’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Premium Promotion Network - According to a press release today, oronto-based Tucows, a top 3 ICANN- accredited registrar with over 11 million domains under management will join Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Premium Promotion network. “”This exclusive agreement will allow registrants to sell their domains across the entire Afternic DLS reseller network—the largest domain reseller network in the world with the highest sales velocity in the industry. “We strongly believe selling premium names increases customer ... read more ...
 
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Honda Should Have Bought Leaplist.com Before Launching Its Huge Ad Campaign - If you have watched any NFL playoff football on TV this year you have undoubted seen ads for Honda using its Leap List Campaign. They have been running several commercials in heavy rotation no doubt spending into the tens of millions of dollars on TV ads all based on the term Leap List. The official site for the campaign is leaplist.honda.com Now comes word that the Honda has bought time on the Superbowl at a reported $4 Million a pop to run more ads centered around its Leap List campaign. Simply ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign skeleton to request for about 12 new tip turn domain names - Company will apply for about a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com. VeriSign plans to apply for “about 12″ top level domain names this year, Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Naming Services, said on VeriSign’s investor conference call this evening. Most of these will be transliterations of .com. In other words, internationalized domain names (IDNs). Although he did not elaborate on what those domains would be, Kane previously ... read more ...
 
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2011 was record violation year for .com and .net domain registrations - Over 32 million new domain registrations in .com and .net last year. 2011 set a record for new .com/.net domain registrations with over 32 million registration, VeriSign announced on its investor conference call this afternoon: In the fourth quarter, we added 1.9 million net names to the domain name base, and we processed 7.9 million new registrations, which is about a 4% increase over the same period a year ago. The fourth quarter was our strongest Q4 for new registrations ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy reveals Super Bowl blurb featuring a Pussycat Dolls - You won’t have to wait until the Super Bowl to see this year’s commercials. It’s likely you’ve already seen GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercial featuring .co. GoDaddy has linked to it from its home page for about a week. Now the company is releasing its second half commercial on the web, too. The spot, dubbed “CLOUD”, features the new Pussycat Dolls. It also stars Danica Patrick. Patrick has officially been in more Super Bowl ads than any other celebrity, ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign expected to announce 100M .com miracle today - DomainTools claims milestone reached; VeriSign earnings call on tap for today. At the end of October VeriSign was very, very close to hitting the 100 million .com domain name milestone. Now, according to DomainTools, there are officially 100 million .com domain names registered, not including those going through the redemption process or pending delete. Given that VeriSign has its earnings call today at 4:30 PM EST, I’m betting the company will announce this milestone ... read more ...
 
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LeadRefs.com helps we find buyers for your domains - Free service finds potential buyers for your domain names. Sure, you can sit on your domain portfolio and wait for the right buyer to come along. But you’ll sell a lot more domains if you actually try to sell them. The big challenge is finding qualified buyers for your domains. That’s a problem that LeadRefs.com is trying to solve. Just plug in a domain name and it searches for potential buyers of your domain name. For example, plug in TradingDerivatives.com and ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy .Co Super Bowl blurb indication Natalia Velez to attend DOMAINfest - Colombian model to attend dinner party on February 1. DOMAINfest organizers have just announced that Columbian model Natalia Velez, who stars along with Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels in a GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial this year, will attend the conference taking place in Santa Monica next week. Velez will be in person at the Petersen Automotive Museum for the conference’s SuperCars dinner party sponsored by .Co on February 1. Velez was recently unveiled as ... read more ...
 
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WIPO gives Twitter renouned typo Twittr.com - Twitter gets typo of its Twitter.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded Twitter the domain name Twittr.com in a uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) proceeding. Twittr.com was originally registered before Twitter’s “first use in commerce” date on its trademark for “Twitter”. Although Twitter says it actually started the service prior to this first use date, it was a moot point in this case because the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo clarifies inventory levels and a cost comparison with Afternic - Sedo publishes fact sheet about its promotion and pricing levels. I have to admit I’ve been a bit confused by the various listing levels now offered at Sedo, especially when it comes to the SedoMLS system. Sedo has published a new fact sheet that compares the levels, and it makes more sense to me now. Here’s the basic gist. There are three levels: Sedo, SedoMLS Basic, and SedoMLS Premium. If you list your domains on Sedo, regardless of the options you choose the ... read more ...
 
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Tucows business can now list domains in AfternicDLS Premium - Potential inventory boon for Afternic. Customers of Tucows can now list their domains for sale on AfternicDLS at the Premium level, Afternic announced this morning. This means customers can list their domains with “buy now” prices and they can be sold through AfternicDLS’ instant transfer process. Tucows had previously offered the ability to buy domains from AfternicDLS on its platform, which includes OpenSRS and Hover. But they couldn’t sell their domains ... read more ...
Wed 25th January 2012
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Hate SOPA: Check Out The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); The US Has Already Signed It - Forbes.com just covered the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ) (ACTA) which is an Agreement or treaty if you will, which contains some provisions “which are similar to – and more expansive than – anything we saw in SOPA.” The ACTA is being treated as by the US as an Executive Agreement rather than a treaty.  A treaty would have to be approved by the Senate, while an Executive Agreement can just be signed by the President. President Obama signed the ACTA a few months ago. According to ... read more ...
 
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Is Marchex deliberation offered the domain name portfolio? - Company considering what to do with its domain name portfolio. Marchex is often cited as starting a wave of acquisitions of domain portfolios when it announced the purchase of Ultimate Search from Yun Ye in 2004 for $164 million. Now it is looking at “strategic alternatives” for its domain name portfolio. From a press release issued today announcing preliminary earnings for Q4: Marchex is also announcing that it is evaluating potential strategic alternatives for ... read more ...
 
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Best Buy buys PhoneFreedom.com and other finish user domain sales - A big retailer makes a small domain purchase. Electronics retailer Best Buy is the biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report. The company paid $2,588 for PhoneFreedom.com through Sedo. This domain is intuitive for one of the largest mobile phone sellers. The rest of this week’s end user domain sales took place through Afternic: Skydex, which makes materials to mitigate shock and blasts (think military uses), bought BlastMitigation.com for $2,500. PowerSoak, ... read more ...
 
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115 Top turn domain trademarks and their stream status - I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But after an exhaustive analysis of 115 trademark applications, I’ve actually found that the U.S.P.T.O. is mostly on top of things when it comes to this trademarking game. In almost all cases, the trademark examiner has sent an office action to the applicant ... read more ...
Tue 24th January 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $1 Million In Domain Names - Afternic.com just reported its sales for the previous week and sold $1,008,482 As far as the reportable sales go, they were led by ClubClass.com which sold for $16K and AMSE.com which sold for $12,888.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Reports Earnings - Yahoo Inc. reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter of 2011 after the market closed today and posted a quarterly profit of $296 million, or 24 cents a share, compared with earnings of $312 million, in the same period a year ago. Net revenue, excluding costs associated with acquiring traffic, came in at $1.17 billion, down 3% from the 4th quarter of 2010 of $1.2 billion. Still the earnings and revenue where pretty much in line with expectations and shares of Yahoo are trading basically unchanged ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $1.36 Million In Domains Led By NeoMobile.com For $58K - Sedo Just released its weekly sales report and sold 861 domain name for a total of $1.36 Million Dollars The reportable sales were led by NeoMobile.com for $58,500 The buyer of Neomobile.com is most likely  NeoMobile Commerce Company out of Italy.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedari Working On .Moscow Application - According to a press release we were sent today, Sedari,  a consulting and technology company focusing on TLD Business Management has been engaged by the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development (FAITID), a not-for-profit Russian foundation which is preparing  applications for the .MOSCOW and .MOCKBA (in Cyrillic) top-level domain names. The implementation of the new top-level domains will make possible websites with addresses such as WWW.COMPANY.MOSCOW ... read more ...
 
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DistanceLearning.com Hits a Sales Block - According to a Press Release tonight the domain name DistanceLearning.com is on the sales block. It certainly is a huge category in the education field. According to Steven Kennedy, President of SK Creations, Inc., which owns the name: “The generic domain name DistanceLearning.com can help position any company as a market leader with the unique branding opportunity it provides along with its thousands of targeted visitors,” “According to Google’s numbers, there are more than 800,000 online ... read more ...
 
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Doh! AARP counsel forgets to insert screenshot, loses case - AARP wins two cases for similar domain names but loses third. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) just received determinations in three cases it filed for aarpdiscounts.info, aarpdiscounts.net, aarpdiscount.org, and AARPdiscounts.org. It won rights to all of the domains except AARPdiscounts.info. You may be asking yourself how three different panelists looked at very similar domains, all of which allegedly forward to monetization pages, and one disagreed ... read more ...