Monthly Archives: March 2012

Thu 8th March 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Google files obvious app for organisation buying - Application for “online marketplace” describes group buying system. Long before Groupon took the idea of group buying of services and gift certificates mainstream, many people have tried group buying for physical goods. Remember Mercata, which shut down in the .com bust? Now Google has filed a patent application for an “online marketplace”, which is effectively a group buying marketplace. The application (12/876725) was filed in 2010 but just published by ... read more ...
 
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Elk.com and INW.com strike with UDRPs - Two three letter .com domains have been hit with UDRP filings. Australian fashion accessories company ELK Accessories Pty Ltd. has filed a UDRP case in an effort to get the domain name Elk.com. The company’s web site is elkaccessories.com.au. Since this seems like such a long shot attempt to snag a three letter domain name (that is also a word), I assumed the whois history for this domain would show that perhaps the company used to own it and it was stolen. But ... read more ...
 
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Warner Bros registers domains for Journey 3 movie - More proof that a three-peat is in the works. With Journey 2 already grossing $270 million world wide at the box office, rumors have been swirling that the studio is planning Journey 3. Here’s some more evidence that a third installment is in the works: Warner Bros, which owns Journey studio New Line Cinema, has registered a handful of domains for the next sequel: Journey-3.com Journey3Movie.com JourneyMovie3.com JourneyPart3.com JourneyThree.com The studio is ... read more ...
Wed 7th March 2012
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USA: wszystko co kończy się ".com" jest nasze - Refurbished to słowo dla wielu sprzedawców zakazane. Zastępują je najczęściej takimi określeniami i sformułowaniami, jak: powystawowy, może mieć drobne ryski, leżak magazynowy, delikatne ślady użytkowania, po prezentacjach na konferencjach, a najchętniej wyprzedaż, albo wręcz promocja. To fachowe określenie produktu, który z jakiegoś powodu wrócił do producenta lub autoryzowanego serwisu, gdzie został odnowiony. Może to być laptop, który nabywcy po prostu się nie spodobał, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Mike Mann Book Makes iTunes Top 20 List - Mike Mann’s Book Make Millions Make Change has made Apple’s iTunes top 20 list for a free book under the Top Business and Personal Finance Free Books Category as of time of publication. Actually the book is sitting as number 19 on iTunes under this category Congrats to Mike. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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iPad series names are unexpected value less - iPad3.com will still get a lot of traffic, but Apple just threw out that naming convention. Apple was supposed to announce the iPad 3 today. But it didn’t. Instead, it launched the “new iPad”. No number after it. No other designation, like iPad HD. What people will end up calling it is still up in the air, but the value of the domain iPad3.com just went down. So did the other iPad#.com domain names. One year ago today I wrote about how squatters had picked ... read more ...
 
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Company behind ProTrada releases web site growth apparatus DevName.com - DevName helps domainers develop their domain names. Winged Media, the company behind domain auction and expired domain tool ProTrada, has released a new domain development system called DevName.com. Like many auto-web site developers, DevName takes the theme of your domain name and pulls in related content to create a web site. The company claims to have a superior semantic engine to better target this content. [Update: DevName tells me that, while automatic technology ... read more ...
 
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16 good finish user domain sales, including WebmasterWorld - From WebmasterWorld to (RED), here are some end user domain sales from the past week. Here’s a look at 16 end user domain sales from the past week. All sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Health Partners of Philadelphia bought ActiveHealthPartners.com for $3,088. AquaWaterEau Corporation paid $X for WebAqua.com for $1,150. (RED), an organization trying to eliminate AIDS, paid $X for RedRush.com for $2,000. Senior care company Great Lakes Caring ... read more ...
 
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Paul Keating gets solitary win in Auto-Owners cases - Panel rules that AutoOwner.com registrant can keep domain name. In January I wrote about how Auto-Owners Insurance filed four UDRP cases against owners of domain names it said infringed its mark. The first two decided cases went in favor of the insurance company, but domain attorney Paul Keating has reversed that trend. Keating successfully defended the registrant of AutoOwner.com. The panel found that the insurance company didn’t show registration and use in bad ... read more ...
 
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.Co goes large during SXSW - .Co will be in your face at SXSW interactive. Say what you will about .co (and I know a lot of you will), but you have to give the TLD credit for doing more than anyone else to create a brand around a TLD. It’s a model for anyone who wants to launch a new top level domain next year. Case in point: the company’s presence at SXSW later this week. SXSW Interactive is the perfect venue for a company trying to court startups, entrepreneurs, and tech companies. And ... read more ...
Tue 6th March 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million In Domain Names - Afternic.com just published it weekly report of domain name sales reporting $ 1,223,938 in sales. The weekly sales were led by CityCompass.com selling for $13,654 Here are the reportable sales:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells $1.8 Million In Domain Names - Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data for the week ending March 5th. In all $1.8MM of domains were sold. The top reportable sale was onlinecasinos.de at €65000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were kredittkort.com at $45K and scubadiver.com for $35k. In all 1,048 domains were sold. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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British Court Says ISP Have To Pay 25% Of Costs Identifying & Running Appeals Board For File Sharers - According to the  guardian.co.uk,  A U.K. Court of Appeals has held that ISPs will need to pay 25% of costs associated with establishing and running an appeals body for alleged file sharers. “ISPs will now be forced to pay 25 percent of all “qualifying” costs related to establishing and operating an appeals body for alleged file sharers and pay 25% of costs related to identifying alleged file sharers. “Ofcom, a U.K.-based communications regulator, will pay the remaining 75 percent of the ... read more ...
 
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A Customer Say Sedo Allows Users To Edit Listings Of Domains They Don’t Own - This morning I logged in to sedo and was surprised to notice that I had access to somebody ELSE’s domain listings in addition to some of my own. While sedo was in the middle of assuring me that these were only “pending listings”, I changed the price of Ability.info (not my domain) from over $6,000 to just $100 and proceeded to buy it. However, since Ability.info was “mine” (it isn’t, remember), Sedo wouldn’t allow the transaction to proceed. Sedo didn’t seem to understand why this ... read more ...
 
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Would A New gTLD Operator Have a Marketing Advantage Over .com. .net., org & Others If They Were Offshore? - Wired.com published a story today entitled “Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable”. The story goes on to talk about what all of us in the domain industry already know, that if a domain registry is a US corporation, domain names under the extension can be seized by the US government. Those include .com, .net. org, biz, .us, .tv .name and .cc  all of which are operated by Registries located in the United States “”EasyDNS, an internet infrastructure company, protested that the “ramifications ... read more ...
 
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UDRP cybersquatting complaints fall, rate during all time low - Number of cybersquatting arbitration cases fall in 2011. Earlier today Kevin Murphy opined about WIPO’s arbitration numbers from last year, basically saying that the data don’t prove an increase in cybersquatting. In fact, it turns out anyone who wants to use UDRP numbers to talk about cybersquatting needs to say that they show the practice is waning. That’s for a couple reasons. The big one is that in absolute numbers the number of UDRP cases fell last year. ... read more ...
 
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What was your biggest domain niche mistake? - Have you flushed money down the toilet on themed domain registrations? Yesterday I wrote about how there’s still a sliver of hope for the prefab domain names I registered many years ago. I thought the registrations would pay off, but now I realize it’s going to be a long time (if ever). I’ve made other mistakes with things I thought would be hot but they didn’t pan out. I bought a bunch of Wimax.com domains, only to see Wimax lose out to LTE as a standard. ... read more ...
 
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DomainTools is “most valuable” apparatus for investigate and domain management - Survey respondents vote for best domain tools…and choose the aptly named DomainTools. DomainTools is the most valuable tool in the domain business for research and management, according to a survey of over 1,000 people in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. Survey takers were asked “Which software or hosted application is most valuable to your domain name business for research and management?” 28% of respondents selected DomainTools. That’s more than double ... read more ...
Mon 5th March 2012
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Sells Almost $300,000 In Domain Names In February - It looks like Mike Mann who founded then sold BuyDomains.com has done it all over again with DomainMarket.com He started Domain Asset Holdings from scratch at the time most thought all the good domains were gone, accumulated over 300,000 domain names again and has built a sales team that sells hundreds of thousands of dollars of domain names a month. Mike Mann has been posting sales data reporting strong sales consistently on his Facebook page for his company Domain Asset Holdings (DAH) I reached ... read more ...
 
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US Wants To Extradite Kim Dotcom - According to nzherald.co.nz, The United States Government has filed its application to have Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three associates extradited to face charges. The four face charges of conspiring to commit racketeering, conspiring to commit money-laundering, copyright infringement and aiding and abetting copyright infringement. A date for the extradition hearing has been for August. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Set To Layoff “Thousands Of People” & Restructure - According to AllthingsD.com, “Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson is preparing a massive restructuring of the company, including layoffs that are likely to number in the thousands.” The report goes on to say the changes and layoff will be announced by the end of March. “Also among those being considered for targeting: Public relations and marketing, research, marginal businesses and weaker regional efforts.” “Some parts will be cut away, leaving resources to go to better efforts,” said one person ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign compelling .net domain names - Refreshed web site promotes .net to small businesses. VeriSign has owned the domain name GetYour.net for a while, but today is the first time I saw an online ad promoting the site. I saw the ad (pictured) on the BizJournals.com web site. It’s a video ad promoting businesses to register .net domain names and sends them to GetYour.net. Screenshots.com shows that GetYour.net has been refreshed in the past couple months. The site includes links to .net accredited domain ... read more ...
 
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Prefab domain investments competence compensate off someday - So you’re saying there’s a chance… In numerous interviews I’ve discussed my investment in domain names related to prefab housing. I’m not talking about cheap prefab; instead I’ve gone long on modern prefab housing. But the housing boom hurt the modern prefab industry pretty hard. Financing a prefab home can prove challenging and alternative financing got hit hard in the mortgage crises. Another drawback is that prefab housing still generally costs a lot ... read more ...
 
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WIPO creates critical and argumentative preference on acronym domains - Majority of panel rules that CEAT.com should be transferred to tire company. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has handed down a decision over CEAT.com, and it is sure to be controversial. The complainant is a tire company in India, and the respondent was Kevin Ham’s Vertical Axis. As one of the larger domain portfolio holders, Vertical axis registers many two, three, and four character domain names. And although a simple search for “CEAT” ... read more ...
 
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Domain investors bullish on domain values - 66% think values will rise in 2012. 66% of domain name investors think values will increase in 2012 compared to 2011, according to Domain Name Wire’s 7th annual industry survey. That’s the highest percentage since 2008, when 75% were bullish. This year, 25% think values will be roughly the same as last year while 9% think they will fall. What domainers think isn’t necessary a good predictor, however. Much like the stock market, it seems that investor sentiment ... read more ...