Monthly Archives: March 2012

Thu 22nd March 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Facebook registers a garland of domains though a plan creates no sense - Company appears to be registering previously expired domains, but isn’t picking up some obvious domains. Facebook registered at least 22 domain names yesterday, many of them typos of Facebook. But the strategy is perplexing. Here’s the list: betafacebook.info facboox.com facebocke.com facebof.com facebokcasino.com facebookcredets.com facebookkcredits.com facebooklinker.com facebookpeople.info facebooksight.com facebooon.com facebooor.com faceebot.com faicbooc.com faseboox.com faxcebool.com faxehook.com feook.com photosonfacebook.info wwwfaceboil.com wwwfacebppk.com wwwfeibook.com So ... read more ...
Wed 21st March 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
New York Said To Be Guaranteed $3.6 Million For .NYC TLD - According to an article in the New York Times, the city of New York is on the verge of making a deal with a “Virgina based company” that would apply for and operate the gTLD .NYC. According to the story the city would be guaranteed a to received $3.6 Million over the first 5 years. “The Virgina based company would pay all costs of the application and the operation of the registry.” The .NYC registry for the city of New York would be in my opinion a very popular extension and should depending ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Zynga Acquires OMGPOP Developer of Draw Something - Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), just announced that it acquired the developer of the hottest gaming app Draw Something. We wrote about Draw Something last week and the domain name DrawSomething.com According to a Press release issued minutes ago, Zynga just acquired “New York-based social game developer OMGPOP, makers of the popular cultural hit mobile game, Draw Something, and over 35 additional social games.” “As a part of the Zynga family, OMGPOP will focus on building new mobile IP and strengthening ... read more ...
 
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Ari Goldberger Beats Back UDRP On UTV.com - Ari Goldberger beat back a UDRP on the domain name UTV.com brought by UTV Limited of Belfast Here are the relevant facts and findings of the three member panel: The Complainant was formed in November 1958 as Programme Contractor for Northern Ireland and was incorporated as Ulster Television in 1959. It has been broadcasting television and radio in Northern Ireland since October 1959. As such the Complainant is the TV arm of UTV Media plc, which is a media company in United Kingdom and Ireland incorporating ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
DNS.be gaat ook .vlaanderen beheren - De Vlaamse overheid heeft DNS.be aangewezen als beheerder van de internetextensie .vlaanderen. Het domein zal in 2013 beschikbaar zijn. DNS.be is vandaag vooral bekend als beheerder van de .be-domeinnamen maar mag nu ook het aanvraagdossier bij ICANN opstellen en indienen. Die laatste wijst wereldwijd de verschillende internetextensies toe. De Vlaamse regering besliste op 23 december 2011 al dat het zijn eigen gTLD (generic toplevel domain) wil aanvragen en heeft nu beslist wie dat precies ... read more ...
 
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DNS.be gaat ook .vlaanderen beheren - De Vlaamse overheid heeft DNS.be aangewezen als beheerder van de internetextensie .vlaanderen. Het domein zal in 2013 beschikbaar zijn. DNS.be is vandaag vooral bekend als beheerder van de .be-domeinnamen maar mag nu ook het aanvraagdossier bij ICANN opstellen en indienen. Die laatste wijst wereldwijd de verschillende internetextensies toe. De Vlaamse regering besliste op 23 december 2011 al dat het zijn eigen gTLD (generic toplevel domain) wil aanvragen en heeft nu beslist wie dat precies mag ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Comment Google traite-t-il les nouvelles extensions ? - Matt Cutts explique dans une nouvelle vidéo que si des informations peuvent être extraites du choix d'une extension (TLD) pour un site web, Google peut s'en servir pour délivrer une réponse plus pertinente à l'utilisateur... Matt Cutts nous gratifie aujourd'hui d'une nouvelle vidéo intitulée "How will Google treat new TLDs?" (1'31) qui nous indique (dans son langage toujours très diplomatique...) que Google traitera les nouvelles extensions (TLDs) comme www.officiel.nomdecompagnie ou ... read more ...
 
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Hot gossip: media association final GossipGirl.com domain name - Alloy Entertainment wants the GossipGirl.com domain name. Alloy Entertainment, the company behind the Gossip Girl books and TV show on CW, has filed a complaint to get the domain name GossipGirl.com. The complaint was filed with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) under the uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP). The domain name was originally registered in 2004 1998. It expired earlier this year, and was then registered by someone in Greenville, ... read more ...
 
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Abbott Labs registers over 500 domains for AbbVie spinoff, palm registers code domain - Abbott Labs paid the normal registration fee for its new brand domain, but gets defensive with hundreds of registrations. How much did Abbott Labs, a $95 billion market cap company, pay to get the domain name for its spinoff pharmaceuticals unit? About $10. The company was able to freely register AbbVie.com on February 28. So it paid whatever CSC charges for a standard domain registration. This is unusual — large companies usually have to buy existing domains for ... read more ...
 
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Company files category movement lawsuit opposite GoDaddy over “Free” remoteness use rebilling - Company says it should not have been charged to renew whois privacy services that were initially free. [Updated with comment from GoDaddy.] A Florida company has initiated a lawsuit seeking class action status against domain name registrar GoDaddy for its practice of rebilling for whois proxy services that were initially offered for free. WineStyles, Inc. took advantage of GoDaddy’s offer of free private registration when you register five or more domain names at ... read more ...
Tue 20th March 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Sedo.com Sells $1.5MM In Domains Led By Channel.com At $125K - Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending March 19th. In all $1.5MM of domains were sold. The top reportable sale was Channel.com at $125,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were sportbekleidung.de at €25,000 followed by onlinepoker.co for $22,000. In all 1,015 domains were sold. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $1.09MM In Domains Led By OnTime.com At $25K - Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,087,415 for the week ending March 18th. The publically reportable sales were led by OnTime.com at $25,000 followed by CostumesForHalloween.com at $16,500. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Matt Cutts publishes video about new tip turn domains and Google hunt results - Likely to be a “transition period” where Google figures out how to index new top level domains. Today’s Google webmaster video is about new top level domains. Google engineer Matt Cutts already grabbed some headlines when talking about new top level domains and search results last week. I’m not sure if Cutts answered the user’s question, which had to do more with rankings and Page Rank. Instead, he responded to the question of if domains on these new TLDs ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
5 new tip turn domain pricing models - How should registries price their new domain registrations? We’ve seen many new top level domains (and some commercialized country code domains) hit the market over the past decade. They’ve taken various pricing strategies — from sell-if-for-a-low-price-to-boost-registrations to .com equivalent pricing to premium pricing. We’ve even seen variable annual pricing on premium domains. How should you price your typical domain registration fee? Here are several ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com taps in to DomainTools API - Escrow.com uses DomainTools’ API for faster and better escrow processing. Escrow.com has integrated DomainTools into its security and process systems using its API, the two companies announced today. DomainTools announced the formal release its API last July. Escrow.com’s integration, where it can tap into DomainTools database of whois records and other domain data, is a great example of how this can be leveraged: “Prior to partnering with DomainTools and leveraging ... read more ...
 
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Tucows batch is on a tear - Stock up over 40% in past month. Shares of Tucows (TCX) have been on a tear over the past month. After trading in a fairly narrow band since August, shares have popped 41% since February 16. Shares opened February 16 at $.76 and closed at $.88. The stock had another nice pop on March 13, when shares jumped from $.95 to $1.05. Tucows owns the OpenSRS domain reseller platform, retail domain registrar Hover, a large domain portfolio, and software download and computer ... read more ...
Mon 19th March 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
The Hottest Gaming App In The World W/ 20M Users & BuyDomains Just Sold DrawSomething.com For $3K - Seems like one of the hottest games in the world is Draw Something. It seems some 20 million people have already downloaded the App. Yes 20 Million in only 5 weeks. BusinessInsider.com has published two stories on the game today alone. One highlighting that over 4.5 million people played the game in the same hour the previous night, and one showing the growth of the popularity of the game Vs. Zynga’s “Words with Friends”. The name Draw Something sounded very familiar to me domain name wise, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Gamechanger? Marketpage Allows Anyone To Set Up A Store on Their Facebook Page & Snoop Dog Is The 1st - There was an interesting press release from MarketPage a system that “allows anyone to have a shop on their Facebook Page and invite others to sell there.” Its seems like a natural. You have a fanbase that wants to connect with you and you allow people to sell merchandise on your page your fans would be interested in. The first one out of the block is none other than Snoop Dog. Melvin Tercan, the CEO of Tinypay, Inc. the  start-up behind MarketPage is quoted as saying: “We’ve quickly discovered ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Sweet16.com. Sadly, only sitting there. - Someone needs to buy and develop this domain. With the NCAA basketball tournament heading to the “sweet 16″, I was curious who owned Sweet16.com. Of course the obvious use would have nothing to do with basketball. It would have to do with 16 year old birthday parties. Perhaps MTV would use the domain for “My Super Sweet 16″, the show about ridiculously spoiled kids turning 16. But if you type Sweet16.com into your browser you won’t end up anywhere. It’s ... read more ...
 
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Facebook complains about developer domain - Company asks for FacebookDeveloper.com domain to be transferred to it. Facebook has filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum about the domain name FacebookDeveloper.com. The domain name was registered back in August 2006, so it’s interesting that Facebook waited until now to file a complaint in an effort to get the domain. However, the domain’s ownership did just change hands — transferring from “Jeeves Media Group” in the Netherlands to “macausite” ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
The predestine of .travel, .aero, .pro, .museum and more - A look at domain registrations for some of the less well known top level domains. A lot of people point to the results of .aero, .museum, etc. as proof that new top level domains will be failures. This isn’t a fair comparison as most of these domains were hampered with restrictions (sponsored TLDs) from the get-go, making it almost impossible they’d succeed. But since people want to talk about numbers, here’s the latest official data on some of the more obscure ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
What are your tip 3 domain names? - Here are the three in my portfolio that I like the most. Causal acquaintances often ask me what my “best” domain is. It’s a tough question. I’m sure if you looked at my portfolio you’d come up with different domains than I would. That said, here are the three from my portfolio that I’d probably ask the most money to part with. ExecutivePay.com/net/org – mainstream talk about executive pay peaked in the years after the economic meltdown. But executive ... read more ...
Sun 18th March 2012
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Cnet: Google Plans to Penalize ‘Overly Optimized’ Sites - According to Cnet.com, Google is planning to penalize sites that overuse search-engine-optimization techniques. Google engineer Matt Cutts discussed the plan at South by Southwest (SXSW) and Search Engine Land posted an audio clip from a panel discussion. “Google wants to “level the playing field” regarding “all those people doing, for lack of a better word, over optimization or overly SEO–versus those making great content and great sites”. “We are trying to make GoogleBot smarter, ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Applications Will Be Submitted? - We are now less than one month from April 12th, the last day an application for a new gTLD can be submitted. We now know that 294 people have paid $5K to put in an App of course each registered user can file 49 apps so the number of actually apps submitted to ICANN is higher but ICANN for some reason refuses to release the number of apps received just the number of registered users. With the App period coming to a close we thought we should run a poll. To be clear applications will be submitted for ... read more ...
Sat 17th March 2012
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Hey Rick Maybe You Should Re-Join The ICA - Rick Schwartz has ferociously been on the attack since getting hit with a UDRP on the domain name Saveme.com. As I’m sure all of you have read by now, Rick registered the domain name Saveme.com in 1996 and now based on a domain name registered in 2010, SaveMe.com.br, owned by Márcio Mello Chaves, and Heitor Chaves filed a UDRP with WIPO to take the .com domain name away. Of course its outrageous that someone can register a ccTLD 15 years after the .com is registered and try to take to the .com. Yet ... read more ...