Monthly Archives: May 2012

Wed 9th May 2012
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Jay-Z files domain dispute - Entertainer files complaint about JayZGroup.com. Rapper and producer Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) over the domain name JayZGroup.com. The domain name is currently registered to someone in Hazel Park, Michigan. The current registration dates to 2009, but the domain was previously registered and then expired. Oddly, the web site features the works of various unrelated artists. This is ... read more ...
Tue 8th May 2012
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Afternic Sells $1Million In Domain Names Led By REITS.com For $30K - Afternic just reported its weekly sales reporting $1,010.00 in sales The reportable sales were led by REITS.com a really nice name for $30K REIT stands for Real Estate Investment Trusts and back before the real estate crash I would say would have sold for a few times more. SmartCamera.com was the 2nd highest sale of the week selling for almost $30K and then one of ours HireaNanny.com sold for $15K Congrats to all Sellers and Buyers.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Reports: Beats Expectations Sends Stock Soaring & Spends $18M On New gTLD’s - Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD)  just reported its earnings for the 1st Q of 2012 beating expectations and sending the stock soaring in aftermarket trading up almost 20% Some interesting stuff in this report including that Demand invested $18 Million in new gTLD’s. Previously Demand reported it was allocating $5 Million for new gTLD’s meaning that they were going to apply for some 25 new gTLD’s but now at $18 Million Demand is going to be one of the biggest players for new gTLD program as this ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells $1.6 Million In Domains - Sedo just issued its weekly report. In all 845 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $1.6 million. 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: drill.com at 50,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: lampa.pl at 12,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: hotspot.net at 9,000 EUR Here are all the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Reports Revenue Up 22% & YummyNames Sells $1.9 Million In Domains - Tucows.com (AMEX: TCX) reported its earnings for the 1st quarter of 2012 after the market closed today. “Net revenue for the first quarter of 2012 increased 22% to a record $27.5 million from $22.6 million.” “Net income for the first quarter of 2012 was $1.7 million, or $0.04 per share, compared with net income for the first quarter of 2011 of $0.7 million, or $0.01 per share.  Net income for the first quarter of 2012 benefitted from other income of $0.5 million resulting from the sale of ... read more ...
 
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eLeader.Eu Files UDRP Against eLeader.com - The owner of the domain name name eLeader.eu has just filed a UDRP against the owner of the domain name eLeader.com According to eLeader’s site, it is: “one of the world’s top mobile innovators in the smartphone business software market, with experience from the beginning of the smartphone industry.” “eLeader’s state-of-the-art mobile enterprise solutions and associated cloud services are used today by global and national companies in over 50 countries worldwide.” The corporation filing ... read more ...
 
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The Buyer Of Marchex Sold Domain GameGlobe.com Is Gaming Company Bigpoint - About 3 weeks ago,  we wrote about the sale of the domain name GameGlobe.com by Marchex for $50,000. Today the buyer emerged and it is in fact a gaming company who has HUGE plans for the domain. The buyer is German online games company Bigpoint, who laid out its plans for GameGlobe to Gamasutra.com “Gameglobe, a brand new free-to-play game platform that throws players into “limitless game worlds” directly through their web browser”. “Gameglobe is an action adventure game first, and a set ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Sells OnlineFreeGames.com For $90K At Sedo - Frank Schilling’s company NameAdminstration just sold the domain name OnlineFreeGames.com for $90,000 on Sedo. The buyer is Sergey Eliseev of Switzerland. It’s another in a long line of sales for Frank who has dominating the week sales chart over at DNjournal.com. Its also another big sale of a gaming domain. This three word name will become tied for the 22nd highest domain name sale of the year based off of last week’s DNjournal.com year to date chart Congrats to Frank and the buyer. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Offers Full Refund To Any Applicant For A New gTLD Which Pulls Its App Before The Big Reveal - In an Announcement tonight, ICANN is offering to refund any applicant who has submitted and paid its fee for a new gTLD if they pull their application prior to the Big Reveal. “”In recognition of the inconvenience caused by the temporary suspension of the TLD application system, ICANN will provide a full refund of the application fees paid by any new gTLD applicant that wishes to withdraw its application prior to publication of the list of applied-for new top-level domain names.” “A resolution ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media invests $18 million in new TLDs - That’s a whole lotta top level domains. [Updated with comment from Demand Media and from investor call] Demand Media, parent company of eNom, announced today that it has invested $18 million into new top level domain names. It’s not clear if this is for application fees only: In April 2012, Demand Media invested $18 million in pursuit of its generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) initiative, which it believes represents a complementary strategic growth opportunity ... read more ...
 
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.Us whois remoteness is alive and good if we use Mark Monitor - Mark Monitor helps keep .us domain registration records private. It’s been years since the average consumer could register a .us domain name using whois privacy, thanks to a decision by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. But apparently if you’re a big brand you can still do it. A company recently registered a slew of domain names related to dairy products, including BadDairy.com, DairyBad.com, and Bad-Dairy.com. Whomever registered ... read more ...
 
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.Nxt discussion heads to London subsequent month - .Nxt moves across the pond. The third .Nxt conference covering issues related to new top level domains takes place June 20-22 at Victoria Park Plaza in London. I caught up with show founder Kieren McCarthy yesterday to discuss his latest show. After holding two conferences in San Francisco, McCarthy said a number of interested attendees asked him to hold a show in Europe. With ICANN holding a meeting in Prague starting June 24, McCarthy felt that a stop of in London ... read more ...
Mon 7th May 2012
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Six 17 Year Old “Cyber” Domain Names Are Dropping Tomorrow - Six 17 year old domain names all starting with the word “Cyber” are dropping tomorrow. The domain names are: cyberbank.com cyberbooks.com cyberdirect.com cyberexpo.com cyberprint.com cybertrip.com All six appear to have owned by ACTON International Ltd out of Lincoln Nebraska. Each already have multiple back orders at Namejet.com with CyberBank.com leading the way with 55 back orders. Its pretty unusual to see six domains this old,  all drop on the same day that were owned by the same party. Good ... read more ...
 
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Beckstrom: ICANN May Deny New gTLD Applications If They Got An Unfair Advantage In Seeing Others Info - Rod Beckstrom the CEO of ICANN just told theHill.com, that applicants who looks at other applicants info in an attempt  “to gain an unfair edge over their competitors” may have their own application denied. In an interview with The Hill, he noted that ICANN has “ultimate authority” over approving all applications and said the organization will examine whether any groups used a recent system glitch to look at the applications of their rivals. “If we were concerned with any parties’ actions, ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: How Many Unique New gTLD’s Will Be Applied For? - With ICANN’s announcement on Friday that 2,091 applications have been submitted with another 214 pending awaiting payment, the question now becomes how many Unique applications will there be for new gTLD? There are many strings which have publicly announced multiple applicants including .music and .eco. Even a brand application could have multiple applications which would be if two or more brands having a matching trademark in the world apply. Even a Geo could have multiple application. The frequently ... read more ...
 
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How Hot Are .Me Domains? This Company Covered By TechCrunch Goes With A Typo Of a Hack - A Techcrunch story last week passed through the domain name community without comment but it caught my eye since the story was about a tec company not only building their brand around a .Me domain but a Web 2.0 misspell or hack of what other call a true hack So the domain at question is Recmnd.Me which of course is a misspell of recommend.me, a Flickr.com type of domain if you will It wouldn’t all be that surprising except that as you might have guessed already the Recmnd.Me folks don’t own recommend.me Nor ... read more ...
 
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Google’s Penguin Update Has WebMasterWorld’s Forum On Fire - Google’s Penguin update to its algorithm, has a lot of people on the WebmasterWorld.com Forum chatting about its effect Most comments are detecting changes to their own sites and pages. As usually it was one comment that started off the conversation that is currently over 30 pages and here it is: “””After over 10 years of consistently ranking between position #1 and #3 on page one for a single four letter word search term, the month of March (starting on the 10th) has resulted in falling ... read more ...
 
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Why BuyDomains’ lawsuit over FACI.com creates sense - Lawsuit over FACI.com is about more than just a single domain name. In April I wrote about how a WIPO panel “stole” FACI.com from BuyDomains (NameMedia) in a faulty UDRP decision. I also mentioned that I hoped BuyDomains would turn to the courts to over the issue. On Friday George Kirikos noticed that the company did indeed turn to the courts, filing a lawsuit in Massachusetts. The suit is fairly bread-and-butter for declaratory and injunctive relief. NameMedia ... read more ...
 
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Another 3 minute .xxx domain name mislaid in UDRP - BGZ.xxx given to bank in Poland. .xxx UDRP cases present some interesting scenarios that are not common amongst other top level domains. For example, if the .xxx domain name at issue is just three letters and it doesn’t resolve, how do you prove that it was registered in bad faith? How can the complainant prove that it was the intended “victim” of the registration? This was first brought up in a case for HEB.xxx. HEB.xxx didn’t resolve, so it would have been ... read more ...
 
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Owner of Despair.net sues to retard send to Despair, Inc. - Now that’s demotivating. The owner of the domain name Despair.net has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against Despair, Inc., maker of “demotivational” products, to block a UDRP decision on the domain name. Despair, Inc. filed a UDRP against the despair.net domain name on March 20. The case was weak, but the registrant (Darren L. Dittrich) of the domain name apparently didn’t receive notice of the dispute until after the decision was handed down. Since Dittrich didn’t ... read more ...
 
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Donuts and Minds + Machines updates on TAS and new TLDs - Interesting posts from the perspective of new TLD applicants. The new TLD delay continues and ICANN just released the total number of applications received so far (over 2,000). So what does this mean for new TLD applicants? Two of the largest recently published blog posts that shed some light on it. First, eNom founder Paul Stahura (now with new TLD applicant Donuts Inc) wrote about the application glitch and how it could affect applications. Donuts saw one other ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com rigourously launches attorney tool - Broker tool released to all Escrow.com customers. I’m a bit behind because of a hosting change at the end of last week, but the latest news from Escrow.com is worth writing about even a couple days late. Escrow.com formally launched its broker tool last week. I wrote about this tool back in January when it was in limited release. The new offering allows brokers to be involved with transactions at Escrow.com. The broker can set up the escrow transaction and also ... read more ...
Sun 6th May 2012
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Namecheap.com Hits The 3 Million Mark - Namecheap.com just hit the 3 million domain under management milestone. The countdown on the site is as of publication 3,001,439 domain names. In celebration of the 3 millionth domain name, NameCheap.com gave away $3,000 to the 3 millionth domain registration/transfer and I guess they will be making an announcement shortly on who won the cash and what the domain name was. Namecheap.com’s domain numbers are under the Enom umbrella and accounts for approximately 25% of all domains under management ... read more ...
 
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.XXX Adds Only 12,500 Registrations In January - The ICANN monthly reports are out for January and .XXX now has 119K registered domain names. In December, the ICANN report showed .XXX 106,500 registrations. In the January report the total number of pure registered .XXX domain names is 119,029. These figures do NOT include those domain names registered by trademark holders under the “block” program (Sunrise B) The block program was whereby Trademark holders could apply to pay a one time fee to block a domain for 10 year. These figures also do ... read more ...
Sat 5th May 2012
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GirlsGoneWild Loses Its 1st UDRP On GirlsGoneWild.name & The Domain Holder Didn’t Even Defend It - Path Media Holdings, LLC (“Complainant”) just suffered what appears to be its 1st loss on a UDRP on its Girls Gone Wild Trademark on the domain name girlsgonewild.name And here’s the most amazing part, the domain holder did not even respond to the complaint. At the end of the day, the domain name at issue was registered a year before the trademark was filed and the pre-registration of the domain to the trademark carried the day. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel: Complainant ... read more ...