Monthly Archives: January 2012

Mon 16th January 2012
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The Honest Company Is The Buyer Of Honest.com Whose Co-Founder is Jessica Alba - The Honest Company which is located in Santa Monica, California is the buyer of Honest.com which sold through Godaddy In December for $180,000 The company has some big names behind it including actress Jessica Alba and Brian Lee who also co-founded LegalZoom.com and ShoeDazzle.com Our friends at Anything.com Ltd seem to sold the domain. If you don’t know Anything.com, well they have one of the best domain portfolios in the world including domains like xxx.com. You can check out a story the Honest ... read more ...
 
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Telepathy Beats Back UDRP On Libertad.com But Doesn’t Find Reverse Hijacking Or Latches After 12 Years - Telepathy, Inc. represented by ESQwire.com Law Firm just beat back a UDRP on the domain name libertad.com. The three member panel found that the term is generic, the Spanish word for liberty. There is an interesting discussion on the topic of latches as the complainant waited some 12 years to bring this complaint and also a dissenting opinion by the Honorable Neil Brown who thought like I do, that the complainant certainly waited too long to bring the complaint. Here are the relevant facts and discussion. The ... read more ...
 
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.Pro Special Godaddy Auction Ends Tuesday & Over 100 Domains Have Bids - Tomorrow the .Pro auction of registry owned domain names closes on Godaddy.com. The auction closes at 9PM PST on Tuesday January 17th I would bet this is the 1st time most of you are even hearing about the auction which hasn’t received a whole lot of promotion However out of the 160 or so domains in the auction over 100 have a least one bid. App.Pro is leading the way so far with 75 bids and a high bid of around $1,800 as of publication. Included in the auction are some one letter .Pro domains ... read more ...
 
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Shot.com Hits The Market Looking For $500K Or More - According to a press release this morning the domain name Shot.com is now up for sale. Counter to the most companies, the company that owned this domain, decided to lengthen its domain from Shot.com to TechShot.com The company hired not a domain name broker to sell the domain but a lead Gen company LeadJen ( www.leadjen.com ) “”More than 60,000 online searches a month contain the keyword “shot,”  LeadJen will be targeting companies in industries including sports, weapons and gaming.” “Techshot ... read more ...
 
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For sale on eBay: list of 25M companies that haven’t purebred .xxx - A good way to waste a lot of money and get sued. eBay seller priccut88 wants to help you land in legal hot water — all for a one time payment of just $2,000. The user is selling a list that apparently has 25 million companies that haven’t yet registered their domain in .xxx. Here’s the seller’s description: This is your opportunity to cash in on billion dollar companies that are scrambling to register their domain names that end in .xxx. A recent court ruling ... read more ...
 
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Ari Goldberger wins Libertad.com domain case - Nat Cohen’s Telepathy can keep Libertad.com domain name. Ari Goldberger’s ESQwire.com law firm has successfully defended Nat Cohen’s libertad.com domain name in a UDRP case. “Libertad” means freedom or liberty in Spanish. The case was brought by Libertad Servicios Financieros, S.A., a Mexican financial services company. Playing in Cohen’s favor was the generic nature of the domain name, and that he registered 29 other generic Spanish language domain names ... read more ...
 
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After UDRP and lawsuit, FirstQuote.com given to word company - VeriSign transferred domain last week as result of court order. In June 2010 a UDRP panel found in favor of the respondent for the domain name FirstQuote.com. The owner, who lives in China, paid thousands of dollars for the domain and thousands to defend it in the UDRP. But then in December 2010, the complainant decided to take the matter to court. Because the owner was in China, Aspen Holdings, Inc decided to file an en rem case against the domain name itself. Aspen ... read more ...
 
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jp.net: another instance because brands might need to change their domain name strategy - Brand owners may need to rethink why and when to defensively register domain names. Last week I wrote an article suggesting that trademark holders many need to change the way they defensively register domains for their brands in light of the new top level domain launch. One of the issues I discussed was third level domains and how brands can’t do much about them, except for certain country code top level domains. But an example of an exception to this rule — which ... read more ...
 
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MyVault.com: Inside a UDRP - MyVault.com owner fights back against UDRP complainant. [Update: the complainant withdrew the case.] Over the holidays I noticed a UDRP was filed against MyVault.com at National Arbitration Forum. I was immediately curious as to the backstory on this given how this domain seems generic (and a good domain at that). Since National Arbitration Forum doesn’t publish the name of the complainant until a case is decided, I was left to guessing who filed the case. But I’ve ... read more ...
Sat 14th January 2012
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Less Than A Year After Its IPO, FriendFinder Recevies Notice That It Faces Delisting Off NASDAQ - FriendFinder Networks Inc., (FFN) which went public in 2011 at $10 a share, has received a notice of non-compliance from NASDAQ that could lead to its delisting from the stock exchange The company in a SEC filing said: “On January 10, 2012, the Company received a notice of non-compliance from Nasdaq stating that the minimum bid price of its common stock had fallen below $1.00 per share for the last 30 consecutive business days.” “Nasdaq Rule 5450(a)(1) requires a $1.00 minimum bid for continued ... read more ...
 
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WhiteHouse Issues 1st Statement On SOPA & PIPA: “We Will Not Support Legislation That Reduces Freedom of Expression” -                         Photo Courtesy of BigStockPhoto.com   Today The Whitehouse for the 1st time has issued a statement regarding SOPA and PIPA saying that; “”We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” Here is the full statement: “Right now, Congress is debating a few pieces of legislation concerning the very real issue of online piracy, including the Stop Online ... read more ...
 
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Issa: Flawed SOPA Bill Not Headed to House Floor: SOPA Hearing For Wednesday Cancelled - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today announced that a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, which was to examine the impact of Domain Name Service (DNS) and search engine blocking on the Internet, has been postponed following assurances that anti-piracy legislation will not move to the House floor this Congress without a consensus. “While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by ... read more ...
 
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1st Six Figure Domain From .XXX Landrush/Sunrise Auctions - According to Stuart Lawley the CEO of the ICM registry the company that operates the .XXX TLD, there has been a sale in a Sunrise or Landrush auction for a .XXX domain name into the six figures According to Mr. Lawley comment made on thedomains.com to a post, the landrush or Sunrise auction wound up at $121K. Although Mr. Lawley did not identify the domain name, he gave a clue: “”First wave of auctions closed , highest auction figure for closed auction was yesterday , eight character name for ... read more ...
 
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6 Republican Senators Tell Reid Not To Bring PIPA To The Floor For A Vote On Jan 24th. - In a letter sent today by 6 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which unanimously reported PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) last spring, sent a letter to Senator Reid stating that they do not believe it is ready to be brought to the Senate floor on January 24th. The 6 Senators sending the letter today include bill cosponsors Chuck Grassley, the current Ranking Member of the Committee, and Orrin Hatch, a former Chairman. The Senators also ask in the letter that: The White House and Executive ... read more ...
Fri 13th January 2012
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TRAFFIC Opens For Registration & 1st 35 People Get $995 Rate - Just got a email from Rick Schwartz one of the organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference announcing that he has opened registration for the show for $995 for the 1st 35 people that register. It is the domain name show I have regularly attended since its inception and I already bought one of the 35 discounted tickets. Here is the entire announcement:   “”””T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 is coming in October!  If you presently don’t plan to attend, give me 5 minutes to possibly change your mind ... read more ...
 
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Has .XXX Caused The Value Of Non.com Adult Domain To Decline? Shocker as Sexy.org Sells for $7,500 - Yesterday I saw the sale of the domain name Sexy.org cross the Sedo.com wire for a mere $7,500. Ouch. Sexy is without a doubt a great word for an adult or semi adult site. Its right below words like sex and porn and certainly well above 2% of the value of those words. It was just a few years ago that both sex.net and porn.net sold well into the six figures $425K and $350K if memory serves. At $7,500 Sexy.org well to say the least was a good buy, unless the existence of the .XXX extension has taken ... read more ...
 
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While You Are Watching SOPA, Leahy Presses On With Protect IP (PIPA) - Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, (D-Vermont) the leading sponsor of “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011″ otherwise known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) said today that he will study the issue of the domain name blocking while pressing ahead with the rest of the Bill. It doesn’t sound like the Senator is dropping the domain blocking provision but recognizes it is a hugely complicated issues which has many groups concerned ... read more ...
 
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Search spend to grow 15%-20% in 2012 though CPC down - Rise of mobile has big affect on CPCs. I just reviewed Efficient Frontier’s Q4 report for online advertising, which includes predictions for 2012. The good news? The company predicts search spend will increase 15%-20% in 2012. On the downside for domain parkers, CPC will decrease 4% on top of 5% Quarter-over-quarter that they reported in Q4. To be fair, this isn’t an across the board drop in CPC. A lot of it is attributed to an increase in mobile ad clicks, which ... read more ...
 
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Windows Phone site forced to give domain to Salesforce.com - Salesforce.com awarded hyphenated version of popular AppExchange.com web site. A service that helps app creators submit their wares to the Windows Phone marketplace must give its domain name to Salesforce.com, an arbitration panel has ruled. Singapore based App Port LLP hosts its web site at App-Exchange.com. The problem? Salesforce.com owns the popular AppExchange.com and has international trademarks for the term “AppExchange”, including in Singapore. While App ... read more ...
 
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How to import your Parked comment into DomainApps - Manage your old Parked.com and WhyPark accounts in one interface. Earlier this month WhyPark announced it was changing its name to DomainApps. The name change made since, especially since the company had been acquired by Parked.com a couple years ago. WhyPark is kind of a derogatory term to parking companies, after all. But Parked.com clients were surprised to see Parked.com basically disappear yesterday. Sure, the face of the company — Donny Simonton — had left. ... read more ...
Thu 12th January 2012
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Tucows: Why We Don’t Like SOPA & Joins Reddit Blackout On Jan 18th - Tucows.com just published a post its site entitled “Why We Don’t Like SOPA and promises to follow Reddit lead and blackout its site on January 18th The story is written by Elliot Noss the CEO of Tucows.com Tucows.com is the 3rd largest registrar in the world with almost 9 Million domains under management according to registrarStats.com We congratulate Tucows for taking a strong stance on this and joining the black out which will cost them a day of revenue. Here is the full post: “”The proposed ... read more ...
 
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In A Newly Unsealed Order, A New York Court Allows Klipsch Headphones To Disable Websites Selling Counterfeit Goods - According to a story in the Indianapolis Business Journal today, “Klipsch Group Inc. who makes  speakers headphones, won a temporary restraining order against numerous Chinese companies it accused of using the Klipsch name to sell counterfeit headphones.” “The order, unsealed by a federal judge in New York on Tuesday, enables Klipsch to disable websites where the suspected knockoffs are sold and allows it to restrain the funds of the accused.” “Klipsch also can seek up to $2 million per ... read more ...
 
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BerryHill Beats Back UDRP on BMA.com - John Berryhill has won yet another UDRP this time successfully defending the domain holder SearchMachine on the domain name BMA.com Here are the relevant findings of facts: “The Complainant Braunschweiger Maschinenanstalt AG of Braunschweig, Germany, is the owner of registered trademarks for the letters BMA in China in class 7 (covering mechanical control fittings, filters, pumps, conveyers, agitators, centrifuges, vapor separators, valves and the like); class 37 (machinery installation, maintenance ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines To Submit Its “First Batch” Of Applications For 20 New gTLD Strings - According to a press release today Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L) “will shortly be purchasing its first batch of twenty application slots for new gTLDs on behalf of itself and clients of Minds + Machines.” “This first tranche will include slots for client applications for geographic-based gTLDs and generic words.” “The Company expects to submit multiple batches for application slots during the application window.” So to be clear here what the company is saying is they ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New gTLD Registration Site Is Now Live & Open For Business - You want to register for a new gTLD? The TLD Application System (TAS), the online system for submission of new gTLD applications is now live. Check out it out here. Once you fill out that form, you just have to send in your $5K which will allow you to submit your application and the $180,000 balance that goes with. Applications as of 7PM EST are now being accepted The deadline to get your application in is April 12, 2012. Don’t’ forget you have to have your online TAS registration complete and ... read more ...