Monthly Archives: May 2012

Wed 16th May 2012
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UK insurer initial to remove .xxx dispute - Request for .xxx domain name denied. United Kingdom insurance company BGL Group Limited, better known as CompareTheMarket.com, is the first complainant to lose a UDRP for a .xxx domain name. The company filed the complaint against UK resident Jon Watkins, who registered the domain back in December when .xxx became generally available. But as I’ve argued previously, it can be rather difficult to prove bad faith in the registration of a .xxx domain name. Most complainants ... read more ...
Tue 15th May 2012
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Petrobras adia início do TLD de Sapinhoá–executivo - Economia RIO DE JANEIRO, 15 Mai (Reuters) - O início do Teste de Longa Duração (TLD) do megacampo de petróleo de Sapinhoá Norte, no pré-sal da bacia de Santos, foi adiado por um problema na plataforma que realizaria a operação, disse nesta terça-feira o gerente executivo da Petrobras, Osmond Coelho Júnior.Segundo ele, o teste previsto para maio deverá ser realizado a partir de outubro.O adiamento ocorreu por conta de um problema no navio FPSO Dynamic Producer, que seria ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By FitnessGuru.com For $45K - Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,209,356 for the week ending May 13, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by FitnessGuru.com at $45K, followed by Mara.com at $28K. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $2.1MM In Domains - Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending May 14th, 2012. In all over $2.1MM of domains were sold. The top seller was ahha.com at $112,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were onlinefreegames.com for $90,000 followed by w.to for $53,000. In all 947 domains were sold. 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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StocktonGolf.com Lost In A UDRP Based Off A Common Law Trademark To Golfer Dave Stockton - A one member UDRP panel has just awarded a pretty generic domain name StocktonGolf.com to  StocktonEnterprises, Inc. a company owned and operated by  professional golfer, Dave Stockton, a 10-time PGA Tour winner and a 14-time Champions Tour winner. The panel rejected that the domain represented the city of Stockton and terms related to Golf. The panel found that the ““Stockton” name is, and has been, synonymous with professional golf since at least the early 1970s and awarded the domain to ... read more ...
 
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On The Same Week of Its IPO, Facebook Files a UDRP To Gain Control Of Facebook.info - Facebook, Inc. has just filed a UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  to gain control of the domain name Facebook.info The domain Facebook.info was 1st registered in 2004. The domain is not parked, but rather has a choice of taking you to its Twitter account or to something its calls Forum.Facebook.info Many of the posts on the “forum” have such titles as “Copy Breitling Emergency Watch For Sale”, download Friends With Benefits, and “Watch Bad Teacher Online” ... read more ...
 
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Domainer Alton Flanders Beats Back UDRP ON CondomWorld.com -   Alton Flanders represented by John Berryhill, just beat back a UDRP on his domain name CondomWorld.com The complaint was bought by Nicholas Perez who claimed he owned an US Trademark on the term CONDOM WORLD and common law rights to the term. The complaint said he uses the term as the name of retail stores that sell condoms and other adult-oriented products in Puerto Rico. Here are the relevant facts and findings from the one man Panel said: “”There can be no bad faith registration of the ... read more ...
 
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Intellectual Property Constituency Asks ICANN to Reconsider Digital Archery Batching - TO: ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee FROM: Steve Metalitz, IPC President RE: “Digital Archery” batching method DT: May 9, 2012 I write at the direction of the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC), to urge ICANN to reconsider use of the “digital archery” method for batching new gTLD applications for evaluations. On May 4, ICANN announced that over 2000 new gTLD applications have been received. Since the evaluation system is only designed to handle about 500 applications at once, ... read more ...
 
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Zimbabwe.com seller takes outrageous loss - Zimbabwe.com sells for a fraction of what it sold for in 2007. We always hear stories about people who bought domains and flipped them for many times their purchase price. But the opposite also happens. Take the case of Zimbabwe.com, which just sold for $42,500 at Sedo. The last time this domain (reported) sold was in 2007. Purchase price: $130,000. It’s possible the domain also changed hands in 2008. Regardless of if it has changed hands since 2007, the domain ... read more ...
 
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Here’s what law coercion wants we to do before induction a domain… - Registering a domain name might become a lot more time intensive in the future. Negotiations between ICANN and registrars to amend the registrar accreditation agreement are ongoing, and law enforcement agencies are asking for some pretty big changes to how domains are registered today. Law enforcement proposals relate to verifying whois information and tracking more information about registrants. Law enforcement agencies that have been involved in consultations include: Australian ... read more ...
 
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Bari Meyerson latest to change jobs within domain industry - Meyerson lands at eNom. Once people discover the domain industry and all it has to offer, it’s hard to move to any other industry. The latest move comes courtesy of Bari Meyerson. Meyerson left her long-time post at Moniker as it was being sold to Key Drive. Today eNom announced that it has hired Meyerson to work with domainers. Here are some other people who have recently (some more recently than others) changed jobs within the industry: Jim Grace – from DomainSponsor ... read more ...
 
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Review: Twitter self use promotion tool - A great way to boost your social presence, but light on analytics. I have a confession to make: I’ve been buying Twitter followers. 87 of them to date. It all started when I saw a promotional tweet from American Express offering $100 in Twitter advertising credits to small business owners that wanted to try out Twitter’s new self-serve tool. Never one to turn down free advertising, I followed Amex and responded to the offer. Twitter’s self serve advertising ... read more ...
 
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Like we said, TAS problems doom Digital Archery - IPC questions ICANN’s ability to execute digital archery. Digital archery is doomed. The clever way ICANN plans to “batch” applications for new top level domains will either be killed, or it will be subject to accusations and lawsuits. Shortly after the bug in ICANN’s new TLD application system was revealed I wrote about how this was going to cast a shadow of doubt on digital archery. Then, as the number of applications slowly trickled out and delays mounted, ... read more ...
Mon 14th May 2012
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Purchased For Less Than 4K Last Year, FreeBookings.com To Become The US Arm Of A Company That Raised $62M - TechCrunch.com just covered the site Live Bookings which TechCrunch referred to as the Opentable.com of Europe. The company just picked up $24 Million more in funding bringing it total capital raised by the company to $62 Million dollars. The London based company, in a Press Release clearly laid out its plans to use the domain name FreeBookings.com in the US for its online reservation system or the equivalent of its Live Bookings site in the Europe Live Bookings bought the domain name FreeBookings.com ... read more ...
 
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SHA.com Becomes Lastest 3 Letter Domain To Have UDRP Filed Against It - A UDRP has been filed for another three letter .com domain name The UDRP was filed by Albir Hills Resort, S.A. against the domain SHA.com SHA.com is owned by Telepathy, Inc. The complainant does own a federal US Trademark on the term SHA with a filing date of July 27, 2007 and a registration date of August 26, 2008 According to DomainTools.com, Telepathy has owned the domain name since October 22, 2001 which is the oldest record they have on file for the domain. Although the domain name is parked ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Resigns - The CEO of Yahoo Scott Thompson resigned tonight according to a  report in the Wall Steet Journal.  He told the company  that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Ross Levinsohn was named as interim Chief Executive Officer. Here is the press release: “”Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced that the Board of Directors has named Fred Amoroso as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Ross Levinsohn as interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. . Mr. Amoroso replaces Roy ... read more ...
 
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The inside story of Mama.com - Mamma.com owner selling Mama.com. I was originally a bit surprised to see mama.com in Moniker’s Spring Auction ending this week. Then I realized the domain on auction is actually a typo of the once popular search engine Mamma.com — not the search engine itself. Well, sort of a typo, as I later found out. I reached out to the founder of Mama.com owner Empresario, Omar Solis. As it turns out, his company bought the Mamma.com search engine in a deal completed in ... read more ...
 
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Now this is a artistic UDRP argument - You violated someone’s rights when you registered the domain, even if it wasn’t our rights. Think you’ve seen them all? Here’s a very creative argument from Stabilus GmbH, maker of electronic tailgate openers, on why a UDRP panel should give it the domain powerise.com. Stabilus started using the “Powerise” term in commerce back in 2008. But the domain was been registered in 2002. Under the guidelines of UDRP, the registrant couldn’t have registered the ... read more ...
 
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10,000 many renouned topics in domains - Cloud, tech, and tv are popular topics in domain names. LeanDomainSearch has just published a list of the 10,000 most popular topics found in .com domain names. The site used research from its list of top prefixes and suffixes for domain names to figure out which topics show up most often in domain names. Here’s how the site describes the methodology: So how do you do it? Several weeks ago I published a list of the 5,000 Most Frequently Used Domain Name Prefixes ... read more ...
 
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I systematic a new permit plate… - What do you think? Texas now allows you to order a dot on personalized license plates. It only works on some of the designs, though. This is technically just a six character license plate since the dot doesn’t really count. But if you have a three letter .com to promote, why not? Here are some other Texas license plates designs for domain investors: Texas occasionally makes seven character domains available, so you could potentially snag “Domains” as well. Unfortunately, ... read more ...
Fri 11th May 2012
 
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BusinessWeek Asks “When Should Domain Names Match Company Names” & You Will Hate What George Tierney Has To Say - Businessweek.comjust publish an post  entitled: “When Should Domain Names Match Company Names?” The post is actually an answer to a question posed by a reader: “When is it necessary or advisable for a startup to have a matching dot-com domain name?” “What should take priority, the brand name or the domain name?” The author went out and got some answers from “branding professionals” and here are a few: “For most companies, achieving domain name alignment is not as important as coining ... read more ...
 
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CIRA CEO Says Half Of All New gTLD’s Will Fail - In an article published by itbusiness.ca, the CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), Byron Holland said that 50 percent of all new gTLD’s will go out of business in 2-3 years. “It’s going to dramatically impact the Canadian domain space one way or the other” “We assume if you add 500 or 1,000 new TLDs to the Internet landscape, we will definitely be up against a more competitive environment.” “Just like any other private business starting up, all these new TLDs ... read more ...
 
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Bing Redesign Is On The Way - According to a story in MediaPost.com today, Bing.com has been redesigned and new ad models are on the way “Microsoft introduced a new version of the search engine with a three-column design combining traditional Web search and social. The product will soon roll out in the U.S.” “The combination of search and social signals will produce a clear and clean vision of user intent. Derrick Connell, corporate VP of search program management, said the right rail paid-search ads will remain in place ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Wins UDRP On Norcross.com - A few weeks ago we told you a UDRP had been filed on the domain name Norcross.com. Norcross is a city in Georgia Today Marchex the domain holder represented by John Berryhill won a three member panel UDRP decision on the domain name. At the time we didn’t know who filed the UDRP but it was the Norcross Corporation who had a Trademark on the term Norcross since 1969 The decision contains a sentence all domainers should love: ““A domain name registrant is always permitted to sell a domain name ... read more ...