Monthly Archives: April 2012

Wed 18th April 2012
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In A Case That Looks A Lot Like Saveme.com; UDRP Denied On RentFaster.com - In a case that bears some resemblance to the Saveme.com UDRP, a one member panel just denied the claim of a trademark holder for the generic domain name RentFaster.com In this case like Saveme.com a domain holder registration predated the trademark holders registration and that simply carried the day for the one member panel. Here are some quick facts and findings: The domain holder registered the domain name RentFaster.com on July 23, 2000. The Complainant registered several  trademarks  on the ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann Registered 11,000 New Domain Names Yesterday - I’ve been following Mike Mann’s Facebook page where yesterday he said he wound  up registering almost 11,000 domain names. The Facebook post started off by saying that Mike registered 4,793 domain names, at the next update the number of registrations hit 6,640 and by the end of yesterday Mike had registered “almost 11,000 domains” The 11,000 domain names were compiled from an ongoing list of domain names he has been working on for a while: “Almost 11,000 names registered Tuesday from pending ... read more ...
 
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DomainHoldings.com Brokers The Sale Of Mergers.com For $50K + 140K In Other Domains - Domain Holdings made a few announcements today including that it brokered or co-brokered around $200,000 in domain names. The sales were led by WirelessPhones.com for $70,000 which was co-broked  with Afternic, which is why you saw it on the Afternic.com list as well Domain Holdings also brokered the sale of  Mergers.com for $50,000. StreamGroup.com, another co-brokerage effort with Moniker, sold for $20,000 Actual.com and Nurseries.com were sold for $18,000 and $16,500 respectively. Rounding out ... read more ...
 
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Footloose Drinking Ban Comes To FL; ICANN Fails; GSA Pisses Your Tax $ Away & Hookers In Colombia? - I took a couple of days off to celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary so I thought I would catch up on a few stories I wasn’t around to cover. The “big” news is that ICANN once again pushed back the re-opening of the TAS system last night when it issued a statement telling the world that the system was fixed, being tested and ICANN would update us again on Friday on when the system would be re-opened. They haven’t moved the “Big Revel” Date still set for around April 29th. Originally  ... read more ...
 
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Huffington Post Union of Bloggers loses domain name - The man sticks it to group that was trying to stick it to the man. A group that bills itself as a union for current an former Huffington Post bloggers has lost its main domain name. Huffington Post Union of Bloggers (HPUB) just lost a dispute brought by Huffington Post parent AOL under the uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP). Basically, AOL said HPUB was cybersquatting. While HPUB says it’s a union, it’s site is actually a news site very similar ... read more ...
 
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Jackpot.com domain sells for $500,000 - Jackpot! Moniker sells Jackpot.com for a big payout. A British Virgin Islands company has purchased the domain name Jackpot.com for $500,000. The sale was brokered by Moniker. The domain name has been listed in multiple Moniker live auctions, but the sale occurred after the most recent live auction at DOMAINfest. The updated whois record for the domain shows Palek International Ltd as the new owner. The company appears to have been set up just for this web site. However, ... read more ...
 
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WirelessPhone.com sole for $355k in 2006. WirelessPhones.com only sole for $70k. - A good deal or a reality check of the domain market? Afternic just brokered the sale of WirelessPhones.com for $70,000. The name rang a bell, so I started searching around. As it turns out, I wrote about an auction for WirelessPhone.com (singular) back in 2006. The domain sold for $355,000 to a domain investor back then. So let’s be honest, here. WirelessPhones.com is a better domain than the singular version. And it just sold for 1/5th of what the singular version ... read more ...
 
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18 finish user domain sales including IAC and McKinsey - Web giant and consulting firm buy aftermarket domains. Here are 18 notable domain sales over the past week involving end users. All sales are at Afternic unless otherwise noted. A DNW reader wrote it to to me they sold GetCube.com for $2,500 to point-of-sale-on-an-iPad startup Cube. Future Mobility Healthcare Inc, which owns Future-Mobility.com, dropped the hyphen for $1,500. Nautilus Marine Corp also shortened its URL, going from nautilusmarinecorp.com to NautilusCorp.com ... read more ...
 
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Dissecting Deloitte’s .deloitte press release - Deloitte’s benefits from .deloitte seem murky at best. Global consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited put out a press release today announcing its application for the .deloitte top level domain. (That the company was applying for .deloitte had been known for a long time already.) I’m still somewhat skeptical about .brand, so I want to go in and dissect the benefits that Deloitte claims it will get from owning .deloitte. I welcome differing opinions. One ... read more ...
Tue 17th April 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By WirelessPhones.com At $70K - Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,034,065 for the week ending April 15th. The publicly reportable sales were led by WirelessPhones.com at $70,000 followed by Cyclist.com at $35,000. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $1.3MM In Domains - Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending April 16th. In all $1.3MM of domains were sold. The big seller was a package of .TV domains – film.tv, filmy.tv and filme.tv for $65,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were autovita.com polling.com each at $15K. In all 796 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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Yahoo Reports: Revenue Up 1%; Search Revenue Up 8%; Earnings Per Share Up 38% - After the market closed today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs was $1 Billion for the first quarter of 2012, a 1% increase from the first quarter of 2011. Income from operations decreased 11 % to $169 million in the first quarter of 2012, compared to $190 million in the first quarter of 2011. Net earnings per diluted share increased 38% to $0.23 in the first quarter of 2012, compared to $0.17 in the first ... read more ...
 
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SideTrack.com Becomes Latest Generic To Get Hit With A UDRP - A UDRP has been filed on the domain name Sidetrack.com. The domain name is parked but with reference to pretty general stuff including a lot of links to travel sites. Side track is a common expression and a dictionary word. According to wikipedia.org “Side Track is  railroad track that is auxiliary to the main track”. According to thefreedictionary.com, Side Track means: 1. To divert from a main issue or course: I was sidetracked from my work by an unexpected visitor. 2. To delay or block the ... read more ...
 
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Business Insider Becomes Last To Start A Paid Service For Content; Is This The Future Of Blogging? - Businessinsider.com is a publication I check out several times a day since it usually publishes 100+ articles on every topic from Tech to Sports. BusinessInsider.com is starting BI Intelligence a paid subscription service that will require a membership to view certain articles. In the case of BI Intelligence cost range from $199 a month (intro Price) all the way up to $3,999 (intro Price) which will wind up being $499 a month and $4,999 a year once the intro pricing ends. In the domain name space ... read more ...
 
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Code.co.uk Sells For £18K Making it The Highest Priced .Co.UK Sale of a Year - Code.co.uk just sold privately for £18,000 making it the  highest .co.uk domain name sale in 2012. The current DnJournal.com report shows CouponCodes.co.uk selling for $22,000 which was the previous highest sale for this year. £18,000 converts to almost $28K USD The seller of the domain is Richard Kershaw  and his company Qualitynonsense.com. In addition to being a domainer, Mr. Kershaw is a developer whose current project is wish.co.uk Nice sale congrats to the buyer and seller. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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California Toyota play guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Hooman Toyota of Long Beach chastised by National Arbitration Forum. A California Toyota dealer has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a National Arbitration Forum panel. Hooman Toyota of Long Beach, also known as HTL Automotive, Inc, filed a dispute against the owner of Hooman.com. Not only is the domain name registered to a guy named Hooman, but he also registered the domain four years prior to HTL using the name in commerce, according to the ... read more ...
 
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A fascinating demeanour during Go Daddy’s information centers - How the company manages 52 million domains and hosts 5 million web sites. Data Center Knowledge has an interesting story today about Go Daddy’s data center operations. The most amusing part: when the company started it was running servers at founder Bob Parsons’ ranch. It quickly outgrew that. Here are some interesting stats from the story: 52 million domain names 10 billion DNS queries a day Hosts 5 million web sites on 35,000 servers in its data centers More ... read more ...
 
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25 aged (and good) domain names to backorder now on NameJet - These good domains are currently in pre-release. I was just looking through some “old” domains currently available for pre-release backordering at NameJet. Here are some worth backordering. I haven’t checked any of these domains for trademarks, though. You should carefully consider trademark issues before buying any domain. Squiggles.com – registered 14 years ago and every other major TLD is registered. A great brandable name. There are a few products with ... read more ...
Mon 16th April 2012
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Blogspot.com fait des redirections 302 vers ses ccTLD, bonne idée … - Par Olivier Duffez, Lundi 16 avril 2012 Si vous avez hébergé votre blog Blogger sur blogspot.com, vous avez sans doute remarqué que votre blog est redirigé depuis peu vers blogspot.fr (si vous êtes en France). Quel est l'impact pour votre référencement ? Blogspot.com redirige en 302 vers blogspot.fr : impact pour le référencement ? Mon analyse du choix de Google Je l'ai vu d'abord en allant sur les blogs officiels de Google qui sont tous sur une adresse de type *.blogspot.com : ... read more ...
 
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Internet : Maurice veut pouvoir contrôler le nom de domaine .mu - La gestion du nom de domaine permettra à Maurice d'améliorer sa visibilité du pays, d'assurer son identité dans le cyber espace et de faire en sorte que les aspects légaux et autres procédures administratives comme l'enregistrement, le renouvellement et la suspension de noms de domaines soient régis par les lois du pays. L'État mauricien avait signifié son intention, à travers la signature d'un accord en avril 2009 avec Internet Direct Ltd, de gérer localement le ccTLD (country ... read more ...
 
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Aura Capital Spends Over $133K On Two .Com.Au Domain Names Last Week & One Was A Drop - According to a story just published in  smartcompany.com.au, Aura Capital described as a “private equity firm” spend over $133K last week in purchasing two .Com.Au domain name Aura paid over $133,000 for the homeloan.com.au” and $33,000 for homeloancalculator.com.au Homeloancalculator.com.au, was a drop domain name, and according to the story is the “second-highest price ever paid for a URL (.com.au) bought after a name lapse. “Aura Capital director Calvin Ng told SmartCompany both purchases ... read more ...
 
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ICANN delays new tip turn domain focus timeline again - TAS won’t open up tomorrow, and that means the application deadline may be extended again. Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping… ICANN announced this afternoon that it will not reopen the TLD application system (TAS) tomorrow as planned. It thinks it has “fixed the glitch”. But before it reopens TAS it wants to perform more testing and inform all applicants who may have been affected by the bug. [Any applicants or consultants who may be aware of effected ... read more ...
 
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Google files UDRP censure opposite domain purebred in 1991 - Google files complaint against two decade old domain. Google has filed a UDRP against a 21 year old domain name: Gmai.com. How could Google do such a thing? After all, the company was founded in 1998 and Gmail (of which this domain could be considered a typo) wasn’t created until 2004. Well, have a look at the page you’re forwarded to when you type gmai.com into your browser: This misuse of the domain wouldn’t be enough to make the case a slam dunk if it weren’t ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s new TLD focus snafu: best stories and tweets from around a web - What the web is saying about the ICANN TAS applicant security problem. ICANN has spent quite a bit on PR to get the word out about new top level domains. So it also got quite a bit of attention when it admitted last week that there was a serious security problem with its online application system. Here’s what the web was saying about the misstep: Best headline: “.Oops”: Glitch forces extension for new suffixes (Associated Press) Best tweets: Courtesy of @BerryhillJ. Best ... read more ...
 
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From $10 domain registration to $4,050 sale in dual weeks; a 400x return - There are still opportunities for hand registering domain names. Getting a 400x return on anything is pretty sweet. Especially when it’s within two weeks. So don’t tell domain investor Duane Higgins that “all the good domains are taken”. Because he just sold a domain he registered on March 31 for $4,050. Last Friday I wrote about the auction for DigitalArchery.com at Sedo. At that time it had one bidder for $1,000. It closed on Saturday for $4,050, thanks ... read more ...