Monthly Archives: April 2012

Wed 11th April 2012
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Jim Grace jumps from DomainSponsor to Domain Holdings - Long time DomainSponsor account manager moves to Domain Holdings. A well known face (and mustache) in the domain industry is changing jobs. Jim Grace has left Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, after over seven years. He will be joining Domain Holdings as Director of Monetization. Grace will be responsible for growing the company’s Domain Power monetization platform. Domain Holdings was founded by long time domainer Chad Folkening as well as John Ferber, ... read more ...
 
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14 finish user domain buys from a past week - Wyndham Hotels among end users to buy domains last week. Here are 14 end user domain purchases from the past week. All sales are at Afternic unless otherwise noted. A California company, iBots LLC, bought iBots.com for $5,000. The soon-to-launch company will offer marketing automation software. Wyndham Hotels, which owns a chain called Night Hotels, bought NightHotels.com for $1,500 at Sedo. A company called International Gaming Solutions in Romania bought IGSonline.com ... read more ...
 
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Spotify final Spotify ripping site be taken down - Spotify files complaint over SpotifyRip.com. Online music phenomenon Spotify has filed a complaint in an effort to take down a web site that explains how to rip music from its service. The company filed the complaint against SpotifyRip.com with World Intellectual Property Organization under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). UDRP is a policy for handling cybersquatting complaints, but it’s probably the fastest route for the company to take ... read more ...
 
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Facebook not holding on to all recovered typo domains - Company lets domain expire that was recovered in lawsuit. Facebook has been on the hunt over the past year to capture typos of its domain names. But it’s not holding on to all of them. For example, last year the company filed a massive cybersquatting lawsuit covering hundreds of domains. One of the domains was Facebbbook.com. According to historical whois records, the domain was once controlled by Kevin Ham’s Vertical Axis. After the suit was filed, the domain ... read more ...
Tue 10th April 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $920K in Domains Led By UnitedCare.com during $25K & ManagementSolutions.com At $24K - Afternic.com just published its weekly sales report and in all sold $922K in domain names. The reportable sales were led by two of domainers Gregg Ostrick names UnitedCare.com at $25,650 and ManagementSolutions.com which he sold for $23K. Congrats to Gregg Here are all the reported sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells $1.4 Million in Domain Names - Sedo just released its weekly sales report In all 703 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $1.4 million. 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: livedoc.com at 55,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: klik.pl at 10,500 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: assurancevie.net at 25,000 USD   Here are all the reported sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Says Responding To An Offer To Sell, Doesn’t Indicate Bad Faith If The Offer Is Started By The Complainant - In a pretty interesting recent UDRP decision a one member panel concluded that it is not bad faith when domain owner responds to an offer to sell that is initiated by the Complainant. You know the game. You own a domain you believe is generic, someone sends you an offer wanting to buy the domain from you and when you respond to the offer the person who made the offer files a UDRP citing that you tried to sell them the domain as bad faith. The UDRP was over the domain name inclusivehealth.com and ... read more ...
 
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AB.Org Sells For $12K Heading Our Catching Up With NameJet List - The domain name AB.org sold yesterday on NameJet.com for $11,822 There were 223 people in the auction but only 8 that were willing to bid $5K or more. 9455.com sold for $3,334 Heavylift.com sold for $3,300 Choirs.com sold for $2,845 CashBackCards.com $2,700 impms.com sold for $2,101 hummels.com $1,950 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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On The Day AT&T Sells Its Interest In The Yellow Pages For $950 Million, An Application For .Yellow Is Announced - On the same day that ATT sold a majority stake in the Yellow Pages for $950 Million dollars, Techworld.com.au, is reporting that a Melbourne based company is going to apply for the new gTLD of .yellow. “The startup plans to offer brand oriented listing pages for small to medium businesses (SMBs) who may not have an online presence.” “It aims to target SMBs who are dissatisfied with traditional directory style listings and provides the transition to an online presence. The service is to go live ... read more ...
 
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In A Case That Can Change The PPC Industry, A Federal Appeals Court Allows Rosetta Stone’s TM Case Against Google To Move Forward - In what might be a ground breaking case that could shake up the entire PPC industry, the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Monday reversed a lower court’s ruling allowing Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement suit against Google to continue. Rosetta Stone filed suit in 2009 accusing Google of committing trademark infringement by selling ads under keywords of Rosetta Stone Trademarks  to third-party advertisers. A Virginia district court dismissed the case in 2010, finding that sale of ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy sole 42,321 aftermarket domains final month - Company continues to churn out aftermarket sales including a couple for six figures. I’m a bit behind checking in on GoDaddy’s auction sales report for last month. But it was a great month for the service. In total it sold 42,321 domains, headlined by the developed site psoriasis.com at $350,000. In second was AFW.com for $125,000, setting a pretty sturdy bar for a good three letter .com domain. App.me sold for $50,000 as well. As usual, sales were split fairly ... read more ...
 
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Event planner sues ICANN over San Francisco gala - Company says it had a contract with ICANN to plan gala. San Francisco event planning company Corporate Concepts (warning: music on home page) has sued ICANN (pdf), saying the non-profit breached a contract to run the gala at its San Francisco meeting last March. Corporate Concepts alleges that it had a contract with ICANN to run the gala, for which it was to receive a $40,000 event management fee. The company had been working with a representative of The San Francisco ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy gets obvious for “Tools for redirecting to a book website” - Go Daddy gets another patent. Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC has been granted U.S. patent number 8,156,180 for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”. I wrote about this patent application when it was published last year. It describes a number of methods that someone could be redirected to a web site specific to a book, such as entering the ISBN for the book. Go Daddy’s interest in the idea is that it could sell more domain names and services to authors. ... read more ...
 
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Neustar launches new .US branding debate “Kickstart America” - Company pitches .US domains to small businesses. Neustar, the registry for the .us country code domain name, has launched a new marketing strategy today aimed at small businesses. As part of the new branding the company has relaunched About.us and created a new URL at KickstartAmerica.us (which just forwards to a campaign page on About.us). The campaign page explains how small businesses can “Get online easier” with the .US Small Business Toolkit, which is really ... read more ...
Mon 9th April 2012
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The Miami Marlins Start The Season With A New Name & New Stadium But Without The Domain Names For Either - Its a new baseball season and the Miami Marlins, formerly the Florida Marlins have a new name, a new $600 Million stadium, but don’t own the domain MiamiMarlins.com The domain name MiamiMarlins.com was first registered way back in 1997 and looks to be control of the same person/company that originally registered the domain. The domain name isn’t parked, there are no ads on the site, just a statement that “this site is privately owned” and the Alexa ranking with an email address. The baseball ... read more ...
 
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The Verisign Owned .Tv Registry Takes Back Another Expired .Tv Domain Name, This Time Auctions.Tv - Last year,  we wrote about how the .TV registry which is owned by Verisign took back a expired .Tv domain placing it back on the registry reserve list rather than letting the domain name drop. In that instance the domain name was G.TV and when we reached a representative about the take back of the domain we were told the registry had no plans to take back other expired .tv domain name other than the one character domain. In the last few days another expired .tv domain was set to drop, but instead ... read more ...
 
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JustinTV.com sole for $32,500 on eBay and only got strike with a UDRP - Buyer may learn an expensive lesson. In February a Chile man bought the domain name JustinTV.com for $32,500 on eBay. JustinTV.com is, of course, often mistakenly typed in by people looking for the popular live TV site Justin.tv. This wasn’t a problem for the seller of the domain. In his eBay listing he said his name was Justin and he registered the domain in 1999. But he also noted that the domain receives 64,000 unique visitors per week. There’s a simple explanation ... read more ...
 
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Bain & Company takes quarrel with BainConsultingGroup.com owners to court - Consulting firm sues man for copyright and trademark infringement of Bain name. Bain Company, one of the world’s most prestigious management consulting firms and a former employer of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is taking a Colorado man to court over his use of the “Bain Consulting” name and the domain name BainConsultingGroup.com. According to Bain (pdf), it became aware of Jim Woods’ registration of BainConsultingGroup.com in February. The domain ... read more ...
Sun 8th April 2012
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No .Facebook and .Pepsi? - Spokesperson tells AdAge that the company isn’t apply for .Facebook TLD. According to an article just published by AdAge, you shouldn’t expect Facebook to apply for .Facebook nor should you expect to navigate to .pepsi any time soon. Of course, it’s entirely possible that AdAge just didn’t talk to the right person within the companies. A Facebook spokesperson told AdAge that the company wasn’t apply for .Facebook, but you never know. Pepsi shed some light ... read more ...
Sat 7th April 2012
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Did Rick Schwartz Just Buy The Next Category Killer Domain For Under $4k? - Rick Schwartz may have just bought the next category killer domain name for under $4k within the last month. This week the Internet has been buzzing about what is broadly called “Smart Glasses” Google’s own smart glasses product has been the subject of hundreds or stories in this past week Google’s smart glasses project has been referred to as Google Glasses or Project Glass. Smart Glasses maybe wind up being the new broad term for a product like cell phones or tablets as there seem to be ... read more ...
Fri 6th April 2012
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100K Twitter Mentions This Month Alone & Domainer Gregg Ostrick Knew About PinkSlime.com Back In 2007 - Well unless your have been living under the proverbial rock you have no doubt have heard, read or seen stories on the “Pink Slime” contained in ground beef in the last month or so. I have seen a lot of stories on the national news, and the internet is buzzing about the topic. WSJ.com is reporting that the term pink slime was mentioned almost 100,000 times on Twitter alone last month. We had to take notice that a long time domainer, Gregg Ostrick took note and registered this domain pinkslime.com, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Launches Hashlink For Domains - Verisign has just launched a new product called Verisign Domain Hashlink Here is the info from their site: “Verisign Domain Hashlink makes URLs shorter, easy-to-remember and friendlier to your users.” “You’ve worked hard to secure a web address – and keep its site content up-to-date, relevant and useful for its visitors. Now there’s a new way to help make it work even harder: by making things easier for everyone. And the best part is, it preserves – and empowers – your web address, ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD hopefuls play heading games in EU, too - French lawyer with ICANN, NAF, and WIPO connections helps new TLD applicants file trademarks for prospective top level domains. I’ve chronicled many of the attempts by new gTLD hopefuls to “frontrun” trademarks for new TLDs in the United States. Here are 115 examples. But that’s just in the U.S. system. And it’s not a huge threat since the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is rejecting these applications. Yet there’s some trademarking activity in the European ... read more ...
 
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Domain Tools files preemptive lawsuit over copyright claims and the trademark - Domain Tools files lawsuit for declaratory relief on copyright and trademark issues. Domain Tools, LLC has filed suit (pdf) against a New Jersey man after he threatened to file a lawsuit against it and try to get its trademark for “Domain Tools” overturned. The suit was filed against Russ Smith, owner of Consumer.net and Network-Tools.com, in U.S. District Court in Washington late last month. According to the suit, Smith had sent a draft lawsuit to DomainTools ... read more ...
Thu 5th April 2012
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ICANN Report For Dec Is Out & 106,500 .XXX Domain Names Got Registered - The monthly ICANN Registry reports are now live for December and it shows that ICM registry the owners of the .XXX extension registered 106,549 domain names in its first month of operation. This 106,549 does NOT include those domain names registered by trademark holders under the “block” program (Sunrise B). I reached out to ICM yesterday once the report came out for some more recent numbers. ICM told me as of yesterday, April 3rd, there are currently 132,859 paid .XXX (normal) registrations ... read more ...