Monthly Archives: May 2012

Thu 24th May 2012
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Google Promises More Transparency For Advertisers - Google has just promised more transparency for advertisers on its blog.  (Still nothing for publishers) The new report promisses to: Provides Impression Share at the keyword level A new Auction Insights Report which will provide competitor data. In-depth is the Top of page rate. Here is the post: A key component of developing a search ads strategy is understanding what other advertisers are doing, and using this intelligence to optimize campaigns for top performance. To empower advertisers to make ... read more ...
 
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Chicago Tribune wants to take down “Occupy” sites - Sites claim to be news for the 99%. [Update: the naysayers in the comments were correct: The Tribune Company lost the case.] The Chicago Tribune Company has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization over “occupy” web sites using its brand. The complaint targets occupiedchicagotribune.org and occupychicagotribune.org, the former of which is a web site that states “We’re proud to have no affiliation whatsoever with the 1% Chicago Tribune ... read more ...
 
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Jeweler sues Oversee.net for cybersquatting - Jeweler files claim over six domain registrations. Jewelry company Tacori Enterprises has sued Oversee.net in U.S. District Court for cybersquatting. Tacori alleges (pdf) that Oversee.net is cybersquatting with at least six domain names: Taccori.com Tacorri.com Tacoriiv.com TacoriRings.com Tacoti.com Tracori.com Tacori alleges that Oversee.net “is a serial cybersquatter who registers, uses, and traffics in domain names that are confusingly similar to famous or distinctive ... read more ...
 
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Mayor arrested after illegally accessing GoDaddy comment and cancelling domain - Mayor and his son accused of hacking into email and then illegally accessing GoDaddy account to cancel domain name registration. West New York mayor Felix Roque and his son were arrested after allegedly working together to hack into an email account to gain access to a GoDaddy account and take down a domain name related to a recall effort against the mayor. The complaint alleges that Roque’s son, Joseph Roque, was first able to compromise the email address for the ... read more ...
 
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Warner Bros buys Injustice.com for $7500 – a new online game? - Movie studio buys domain Injustice.com — for a new online game or movie? Movie studio Warner Bros. has purchased the domain name Injustice.com for $7,500 through Afternic. This is one of those domains with many uses, but that the owner must have known could end up being the title of a movie or game. It’s kind of like Invasion.com, which is in Sedo’s Great Domains auction this week. However, Injustice.com has a lot more commercial uses than Invasion.com. It ... read more ...
Wed 23rd May 2012
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Breaking: Dot-Nxt Conference Postponed - The Dot-Nxt conference organizers have just announced that it is postponing is conference, that was schedule for June 20th-22nd in London until the 3rd or 4th. The conference was suppose to be held the week prior to the ICANN Conference in Prague. The delay was blamed on ICANN and delay on the TAS system and the date for the “Big Reveal” which still has not been set by ICANN. In an email today Kieren McCarthy said about the postponement of the conference: “The reason is quite simple: the TAS ... read more ...
 
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ICM Launches A Directory For Developed .XXX Sites: XXX.XXX - ICM has just launched a directory for developed .XXX sites under XXX.XXX The site features 145 sites each getting a small banner with a click through to each site. The directory is also accepting additional sites for listing. If you own a developed .XXX site you can submit it to the registry through a form located on the 1st page of the xxx.xxx site Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Generic IDN Gets Hit With A UDRP: Cabañas.com - With over 44,000,000 reference in Google the term cabañas.com seems pretty generic. Yet A URDP has been filed over the IDN by Marco Rafael Sanfilippo. I found that the complainant owns the domain name cabanias.com and the ownership of that domain could be the basis for the complaint. Domain name: cabanias.com Registrant Contact: Marco Rafael Sanfilippo If you check out Mr. Snaflippo’s site you will see on the top left he uses the words cabanias.com, cabañas.com interchangeably The domain ... read more ...
 
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Wednesday morning domain thoughts - A few thoughts about the domain industry. I’ll be at a conference all day, so I’m going to kick today off with some recent thoughts about the domain name business. I have other posts in queue for today. …ICANN will be under intense pressure to hit its deadlines now that it’s sitting on $350 million + of applicant fees. Before it could just say “hey, it’s the process”. But now people have real money on the line. …My guess is Frank Schilling either ... read more ...
 
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The mobile web might be growing, though how “mobile” is it? - Tablet traffic is very different from mobile phone traffic. I recently looked through the my Google Analytics account to understand how visitors access Domain Name Wire. 96% of visits come from a traditional computer such as a laptop or desktop. That leaves a relatively small number coming from mobile platforms. But more shocking to me is how the mobile number breaks down. Almost all mobile visits come from the iPad. To me, iPad traffic isn’t truly mobile. Sure, ... read more ...
 
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Where in a universe are Domain Name Wire readers? - Most visits are from the U.S., but almost half from other countries. Most visits to Domain Name Wire come from the U.S. — but it only represents 52% of the total. Here are the top 10 countries in terms of visits to Domain Name Wire through the end of April: 1. United States 2. India 3. Canada 4. United Kingdom 5. Australia 6. Germany 7. Pakistan 8. Egypt 9. China 10. France India represents just 6% of visits, so you can see that there’s quite a long tale of locations. Big ... read more ...
Tue 22nd May 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $942K in Domain Names - Afternic.com just released it weekly report, selling $942,375 in domain names. Sales where lead by Summon.com which went for a very reasonable (IMHO) $17K Also like Adopted.com which sold for $15,500 On the other hand Instantly.net for almost $17K seems less of a bargain. Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: After The TAS Mess Only 2 Request for Refunds - A few weeks ago during the TAS outage, ICANN issued a statement saying that anyone who applied for a new gTLD or paid to enter the TAS system could pull their application or authorization and get a full refund of any money paid. Today in a Twitter chat, I asked ICANN how many people requested a refund under this program. The answer I got was: “As of last night we had received two new requests for refund since full refund offer, one for $185k one for $5K” I’m personally not surprised there ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $2.2 Million In Domains - Sedo has just published it weekly report of sales and in all, 877 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.2 million. 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: kindred.com at 50,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: interest.me at 80,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: amara.org at 25,000 USD Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Judge Dismisses Facebook Vs Faceporn Case - Back in October 2010 we told you about a lawsuit for trademark infringement that Facebook filed against the site Faceporn.com Yesterday a federal court affirmed a lower courts order throwing the case out for “lack of personal jurisdiction” against the owner of Faceporn.com The owner of Faceporn  is Thomas Pedersen of Bergen, Norway. According to federal law for a nonresident defendant to be sued in the US they must be found commit an intentional act expressly aimed at the forum state and that ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Re-Opens TAS System For New gTLD’s - In a statement in the middle of the night EST ICANN annoucned that they have as promissed re-opened the TAS system after taking it off line for almost 6 weeks. ” The TLD Application System, or TAS, has reopened. All registered applicants can now log in, review and submit their applications. The system will remain open until 23:59 GMT/UTC on 30 May 2012. Consistent with our previous practice and to allow the application window to open as soon as possible, two-hour maintenance windows have been scheduled ... read more ...
 
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Les incidences du programme des nouveaux gTLD pour les titulaires de droits … - Les gTLDs : quésaco ? Un domaine de premier niveau correspond à la dernière partie du nom de domaine, soit la partie suivant le dernier point (par exemple http://www.marccuspartners.com). Parmi ces domaines de premier niveau, les domaines de premier niveau générique (ou gTLD) sont composés de trois caractères ou plus et ne sont ni réservés, ni rattachés à une zone géographique ou un pays. Actuellement, l’espace de nommage se compose de 22 gTLDs (chacun d’eux géré par ... read more ...
 
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Republicans emanate Cory Booker web sites - Republican National Committee registers Cory Booker domains and creates petition sites. Ever since Newark, New Jersey mayor and super-hero Cory Booker kinda-sorta-maybe got on the Obama campaign’s case for attacking Mitt Romney on his Bain record, Republicans everywhere have been rejoicing. That includes the Republican National Committee, which just registered the domain names IStandWithCory.com and IStandwithCoryBooker.com and has created a web site for them. ... read more ...
 
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How large is a new TLD opportunity? TLDH valued during $60 million - Publicly traded new TLD company has a solid market value. Top Level Domain Holdings, a pure play company focused on new top level domains, has a market cap of around £ 39 million. That’s over $60 million USD. We’re talking about a company that basically has no revenue. So far it has just been spending on the new TLD process. As of last February the company had about £ 15 million in cash. A lot of that has surely been spent since then. But to be conservative, ... read more ...
 
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Why we switched to GoDaddy hosting - Domain Name Wire is now hosted by GoDaddy.com A couple weeks ago I changed web hosts to GoDaddy.com. Several people have asked why I decided to change hosts in the first place and why I chose GoDaddy. Why I changed hosts When I started Domain Name Wire I hosted it with the same host I’d been using for my other sites for 5 years. I’m not going to mention the host by name because they’ve really been pretty good to me for the better part of a decade. It’s a ... read more ...
Mon 21st May 2012
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Berryhill Beats Back UDRP On The Dictionary Word Masai.com - A three member UDRP panel had held in favor of the domain holder on the domain name Masai.com which was represented by John Berryhill. The complaint was brought by Masai Clothing Company of Copenhagen, Denmark which holds several community trademarks from “several European countries”  on the term Masai. Masai is also a dictionary word for the name of an African Tribe. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel: The domain name was originally registered on May 15, 2000. It currently ... read more ...
 
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Zumu.Co Running National Ads On ESPN - Since Overstock I haven’t seen a national ad on TV for a .Co site until today. I just saw an ad for a site Zumu.Co running nationally on ESPN. No Zumu.co does not own Zumu.com nor does it own Zumo.co or Zumo.com Zumu.Co is a way to sell your used Games, Dvd’s and Cd’s for cash or they will contribute the funds to a charity. The company is headquartered out of Detroit.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Domaining’s Francois Launches New Domain Registrar That Includes FREE “UDRP Insurance”: DONA.com - Francois Carrillo the man behind Domaining.com and other sites in the domain industry just launched a new domain name registrar, DONA.com which is offering what its calling “UDRP Insurance” with every registration, plus is contributing 30% of all profits to the Internet Commerce Association (ICA). Here is what Francois had to say about the new registrar: “As you know each day, we are hit by more and more abusive UDRPs from people that try to steal our names. “It costs a lot of money to defend ... read more ...
 
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Viacom association buys Film.com - NextMovie picks up Film.com. MTV Networks site NextMovie has acquired Film.com, the company announced last week. MTV Networks is part of publicly traded Viacom. This was not a domain name purchase; it was a full fledged web business. Film.com has a U.S. Quantcast rank of about 15,000. Still, it’s always noteworthy to see web sites built on fantastic domains like this change hands. I searched Viacom’s SEC filings and can’t find any information about the acquisition. ... read more ...
 
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Baylor Sucks (again) with BaylorSucks.com - Baylor University gets “sucks” domain back after letting it expire. It’s pretty easy to sit down here in Austin and say that Baylor sucks. You can get on its case for yanking a gay student’s scholarship. And for waiting until the 90s to lift a ban on dancing on campus. There’s also that little fact that the school is in Waco. (The one thing we can’t do any more is say that its sports programs suck.) But now the university is claiming a bit of suckiness ... read more ...