Monthly Archives: May 2012

Wed 30th May 2012
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Go Daddy relates for .home and .casa tip turn domains - Go Daddy applies for .home, .casa, and .godaddy top level domains. Domain name registrar Go Daddy has applied for the .home and .casa top level domains, CEO Warren Adelman disclosed to Domain Name Wire. These two domains are in addition to .GoDaddy. Adelman said the domains were chosen in part because they have multiple meanings with big market opportunities: they can be used in both a real estate context and personal context. From a real estate perspective, Go Daddy ... read more ...
 
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John Berryhill’s Farmville gets bigger with Elk.com victory - Pigs, ants, elephants, and elk. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has an animal fetish. When it comes to UDRPs, anyway. Berryhill has successfully defended Pig.com, Ant.com, and Elephant.com. Now you can add Elk.com to that list. I first wrote about this nonsense case back in March. Now the decision has been handed down in favor of the domain owner — with a finding of reverse domain name hijacking. The case was brought by is ELK Accesories Pty Ltd., which has ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net’s fifth worker earnings to DomainSponsor role - Mike Song, an early Oversee.net employee, has returned to the company as an account manager. Song was hired by the company in 2003 after it launched the DomainSponsor domain parking service. He was the fifth employee of the company. He later held positions in operations and portfolio acquisitions with DomainSponsor. Song left Oversee.net in 2008 to join MediaTrust, according to his LinkedIn profile. At MediaTrust he was a manager of business development. He will report ... read more ...
 
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What domains Taco Bell, Overstock.com, Enterprise, and others bought this week - Big companies make domain name purchases. This past week has been a great one for end user sales. I’ve identified 23 end user sales (there are of course more, but these are the ones that stuck out). There are big name brands in this report, so read on… Sedo McGraw-Hill Companies bought WorkforceAccess.com for $2,500. The name of a new publication? Raw TV Ltd, which owns RawTelevision.co.uk, bought Raw.co.uk for GBP 15,000 Enterprise Holdings, Inc., which owns ... read more ...
 
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Domain bonds doing really good this year - Tucows more than doubles and other domain stocks also on a tear. It has been a decent year for the NASDAQ so far. But returns on domain stocks have been exceptional. Consider Tucows (TCX), which opened the year at 75 cents. It has more than doubled to $1.52 at today’s open. The company continues to buy back stock, but I also think there’s overall enthusiasm for its domain business and the prospects of its mobile phone offering Ting. Demand Media, which owns eNom, ... read more ...
 
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Monte Cahn invests in and joins DomainHoldings - Another familiar face turns up at Domain Holdings. Monte Cahn, best known in the domain industry for founding domain registrar Moniker, has invested in Domain Holdings and taken a role with the company. Cahn has joined Domain Holdings as an Executive in Residence and Advisor to the Board. As Executive in residence, Cahn will work with the company on a day-by-day basis. He will become involved in overall strategy as well as domain brokerage/sales and domain monetization. Cahn ... read more ...
Tue 29th May 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $1,040K in Domains Led By BathroomIdeas.com For $29,400 - Afternic just published its weekly report of sales. Total sales summed to $ 1,037,139 The high sale for the week was bathroomideas.com At $29,400, The domain was sold by BuyDomains.com own inventory and the buyer appears to be Nokta.com Here are all the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $1.29MM In Domains Led By Set.tv for $29K & One Of Ours DailyBreak.com For $25K - Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending May 28th, 2012. In all over $1.29MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Set.tv at $29,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were DailyBreak.com one of our domains that sold for $25,000 followed by sdfc.com and immobilien.tv each for $20,000. In all 679 domains were sold. 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. DailyBreak.com was not one of those Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective ... read more ...
 
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Broward County Loses UDRP To Gain Generic Domains: Fortlauderdaleconvention.com, Ftlauderdaleconvention.com - We alerted you to a UDRP filed on three generic Geographic domain names and today, a three member UDRP panel decided in favor to the domain holder on the domain names fortlauderdaleconvention.com, ftlauderdaleconvention.com, and browardconventioncenter.com Here are the relevant facts and findings from the panel: Complainant has registered the GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) (Reg. No. 2,642,822 filed February 6, 2002 and registered October ... read more ...
 
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Bad Complaint Allows CraftmaticBeds.org To Stay With Domain Owner Who Didn’t Even Respond - A one member panel just denied the UDRP complaint of  Elevation Bed, LLC,  on the domain name Craftmaticbeds.org If you watch any television at all over the last many years you have undoubtedly seen ads for Craftmatic beds. The complainant has a trademark for Craftmatic since 1985 and they make beds so this should have been a no-brainier decision in favor of the complainant. Especially when the domain holder didn’t even respond to the complaint. However the panel found that: “”Complainant ... read more ...
 
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ICANN announces new TLD exhibit date, digital archery schedule, 500 unprepared applications - Dates are finalized and a lot of applicants have work to do before tomorrow. ICANN just provided a timeline for the new top level domain application process going forward. The “big reveal” date, when ICANN releases the full list of applicants and the strings they applied for, will be June 13. Digital Archery, which will be used for slotting which batch an application falls into, will run June 8 to June 28. Additionally, ICANN says there are over 500 incomplete ... read more ...
 
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China reopens .cn to individuals, though registrars might be delayed to follow - Individuals can now register .cn domains, but domain registrars may still be cautious about offering the domains. After clamping down on .cn domain registrations a few years ago, China is beginning to open up its country code top level domain again. Yesterday China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the registry for .cn domain names, announced that registration would again be available to individuals instead of just businesses. CNNIC announced restrictions ... read more ...
 
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A registrar’s take on law coercion wish list for domain registrations - Michele Neylon opines about registrar accreditation negotiations. Earlier this month I wrote about what various law enforcement agencies would like you to do before registering a domain. Although well intentioned, the requirements would wreak havoc on the domain name ecosystem. Michele Neylon, who runs Irish domain registrar Blacknight, just posted a blog entry about what he thinks the changes would mean for domain registrants. The title is spot on: Don’t Make Us ... read more ...
 
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Arbitration association loses domain settlement case - JAMS can’t have domain name, WIPO rules. Oh, the irony. An arbitration company has lost a UDRP arbitration case. JAMS, a.k.a. Jams/Endispute, LLC filed an arbitration case with World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name jamsarbitration.com. The registrant of the domain was upset over a decision JAMS came to in a case and created the web site to voice his opinion on the matter. He didn’t respond to the complaint, but wrote to WIPO arguing that ... read more ...
 
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Tumblr picks adult Tumblr.co.uk in dispute - Company turns to dispute resolution service to get control of key UK domain name. Blogging service Tumblr has obtained the United Kingdom country code domain name Tumblr.co.uk through a dispute. Tumblr filed the dispute with registry Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service against Paul Guerin of France. Guerin did not respond to the complaint, and the arbitration panelist issued a summary decision. With .uk disputes, unlike .com and .net, arbitration panels can issue ... read more ...
Mon 28th May 2012
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Cnet.com: Facebook In Negoitations To Buy Face.com for $80 Million To $100 Million - According to CNET.COM, Facebook.com is in deep negotiations to buy Face.com for $80 Million To $100 Million Dollars. Now before any domainer gets too wound up lets just say right away that Face.com is not only a full developed sit, its a facial-recognition technology company. “”The technology made a splash in 2009 when it released Photo Tagger, a free third-party application for Facebook that uses facial recognition technology to automatically tag photos of people, as well as a recognition-based ... read more ...
Fri 25th May 2012
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Hipsters.com for sale: Afternic teams adult with SnapNames for auction and .Me kicks off during Sedo - Where are my black framed glasses? SnapNames just started its “Summer Kick-Off Auction“, run in conjunction with Afternic. Although most of the domains in the auction are owned by Afternic or an affiliate company, some of the domains appear to be owned by the company’s larger clients. Compared to recent auction lists, this one looks to be a winner. My personal favorite: Hipsters.com for under $10,000. That’s a great domain. Ambitious.com $10k-$25k Authorization.com ... read more ...
 
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Groupon registers domains for remuneration complement and POS - Local deals company registers three domain names for retailer payment systems. Groupon registered the domain names GrouponPayments.com, GrouponPOS.com, and GrouponTerminal.com on May 22. Now we know why. VentureBeat reports that the company is testing a payments solution to competed with Square and PayPal. Apparently the company is offering an iPod Touch with the card reader to merchants free of charge, and the service is priced very competitively compared to competitors. The ... read more ...
 
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What domains Kanye West and others bought this week - Kanye West buys domain name for new short film. Kanye West has made some interesting naming decisions in the past. So let’s give him credit for buying CruelSummer.com for $3,000. Cruel Summer is the name of his new short film. Here are some other end user domain buys from the past week. All sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Forbes writer Rich Karlgaard, who has written about the “Power of Pairs”, paid $1,595 for PowerPairs.com. I wrote about ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC sets dates for Las Vegas show - It’s a year away, but dates are finalized. For a while there were too many domainer-targeted domain conferences. Then the pendulum swung the other way. TRAFFIC is adding an additional show in 2013, and today it announced the final dates. The show will begin Wednesday, May 29th in the evening. It will conclude with breakfast on Saturday, June 1 2013. The event was originally planned to start earlier in the week, but organizers received concerns about its proximity ... read more ...
 
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Olympic Committee sues man it won UDRP against - USOC claims person continues to infringe on its trademarks. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against Alan Bachand, an individual with whom the organization has a history when it comes to domain names. Back in 2009 the USOC objected to Bachand’s use of the domain name OlympicsBestHotels.com to pitch hotels for the Vancouver Olympics. It ended up filing a UDRP against Bachand and won control of the domain. Now the USOC is objecting ... read more ...
Thu 24th May 2012
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LegalSupply.com Lost To eLegalSupply.com: “The Transfer Of A Domain Is Equivalent To A New Registration” - A few weeks ago told you about a UDRP had been filed on the domain name legalsupply.com. At the time there was no indication who filed the UDRP seeking control of the domain, but the decision has just been issued and the complainant is  eLegalsupply.com, LLC. And guess what? eLegalSupply.com just took the generic domain name LegalSupply.com away from the domain holder based off a Trademark for eLEGALSUPPLY.COM which was filed years after the original registration. Moreover in the wild, wild west ... read more ...
 
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BusinessWeek Covers Godaddy.com: “The Challenge of Classing Up GoDaddy” - BusinessWeek.com has just covered the Godaddy.com in an article entitled “The Challenge of Classing Up Go Daddy” Here are a few highlights but you should checkout the original article: “In the 15 years since its founding, Go Daddy has earned more than its fair share of press, much of it acid-tongued.” “There were the Super Bowl ads full of scantily clad women which brought charges of sexism. In 2011, video surfaced of founder Bob Parsons killing an African elephant, part of a regular series ... read more ...
 
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Apple Does It Again, Files Patent For A New Product, iPen Without Securing The Domain iPen.com 1st - Looks like Apple has done it again. The company know for evolutionary products is also notoriously known for not obtaining the matching domain names to the product sometimes until well after the product has launched. According to Patentlyapple.com, Apple has filed at lease two Patents on what is calling the iPen. iPen.com is owned by someone in Istanbul Turkey. The domain name iPen.com was first registered in 2005 The domain is currently going to a Godaddy.com placeholder and already has an Alexa ... read more ...
 
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GossipGirl.com A Domain Purchased At A Drop Auction In Febuary For $6K, Is Lost In A UDRP - The domain GossipGirl.com dropped in February of this year and went to a drop auction where it eventually sold for and even $6,000. Today a UDRP panel awarded the domain to the complainant Alloy Entertainment LLC the producer of the hit TV show GossipGirl.com It would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the buyer put up a TMZ or Perez Hilton type of Gossip site but unfortunately it went to a parked page (according to Screenshots). Although it did have any keyword in the ad copy ... read more ...