Monthly Archives: June 2012

Fri 29th June 2012
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Hottest New Idea Out Of ICANN Meeting, Private Auctions Where Losing Applicants, Not ICANN Gets The Money - So as we discussed over at CircleID.com today, over the last week arguably best idea coming out of the ICANN meeting is the concept that applicants for new gTLD strings with more than one application, hold a private auction amongst themselves with the winning amount going to the other losing applicants instead of to ICANN. As a backdrop, under the Guidebook multiple applicants for a new gTLD extension are encouraged to work together and come to an agreement to resolve the conflict. Under the Guidebook, ... read more ...
 
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1886.com Sells for $9,100 On NameJet.com and 15 More Three Letter .Com’s Sell - The domain name 1886.com sold for $9,100 on Namejet.com and 15 more  three letter .com domain name auctions  15 domain names selling between $3,400 and $4,600. Here are the sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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L’Afnic reste le gestionnaire du .fr pour cinq ans - L'Etat poursuit l'accroissement de son influence sur « ses » extensions nationales. L'arrêté du 25 juin 2012 renouvelle pour cinq ans le mandat de l'Afnic. Nouveauté toutefois : des conditions ont été imposées au gestionnaire. L'Etat peut-il s'immiscer dans la gestion de « ses » ccTLDS ? Les noms de domaine « nationaux » sont, en France, plus régulés qu'ailleurs. Le cadre juridique est ainsi défini par les articles L. 45, L. 45-1 à 6 ... read more ...
 
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WAN.com closes on GoDaddy for $670,005 - Sale would be highest ever on Go Daddy’s auction platform. [Update: sale didn’t go through.] An auction on GoDaddy.com for the domain name WAN.com closed overnight for a whopping $670,005. Of course, one of the first questions asked after an auction like this is “will the sale go through”? The seller is definitely legitimate. Shane Cultra has a story on the seller who lives near him. If the deal closes then the seller will be able to buy Cultra a very nice ... read more ...
 
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Apple final iPad3.com domain name - Apple files complaint over iPad3.com domain name. [Update: the registrant of iPad3.com has turned the domain over to Apple.] Apple didn’t name its third generation iPad the “iPad 3″, but that hasn’t stopped most people from calling it that anyway. The company doesn’t own the domain name iPad3.com, but that might change soon. The company has asked an arbitration panel to transfer the domain name to it. Apple filed a case with World Intellectual Property Organization ... read more ...
 
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Google to let users “mute” remarketed ads - “Mute This Ad” on the way. Google is rolling out a new system to allow users to block certain ads from showing up as they surf the web, and it’s a very welcome feature. Over the past year the number of “remarketing” ads has exploded. These ads are served to you based on web sites you’ve previously visited. It may seem a bit creepy to some people to see ads for web sites they’ve visited show up on unrelated sites. I personally don’t mind — it’s ... read more ...
Thu 28th June 2012
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ICANN On Excess Funds From Fees & Auctions: “We’re Not Going To Give You The Money Back” - In the public forum at the ICANN Meeting, Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker told the crowd that when it comes to excess funds coming from application fees and auction proceeds, they don’t know what they are going to do with the money, only that the excess money will will not be coming back to the applicants that paid the money. “On the subject of application funds received, we heard it’s not ICANN’s money.” “We have been asked “when will applicants get their money back? What will happen ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Officially Kills Digital Archery - ICANN has officially killed off the Digital Archery program in an announcement today. “”Resolved the New gTLD Program Committee directs the President and CEO to terminate the Digital Archery process as approved in Resolutions 2011.12.08.04-2011.12.08.07.” Rationale for Resolution: “To remain accountable to the ICANN community, after careful consideration of the objections raised to the digital archery process, and following the suspension of the process after identification of a technical ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Releases New Tool: “Domain Value Indicators”: Quantitative Analysis of Domains Listed for Sale - Sedo.com just send out a press release announcing “the launch of a new feature that provides quantitative analysis of domains listed for sale on Sedo’s marketplace.” “This new feature—Domain Value Indicators—offers buyers valuable insight into any domain’s worth by presenting a selection of core statistics on the individual domain name, and how these values compare to other domains listed at Sedo.” “These values include: ·         Global monthly searches: the number of ... read more ...
 
 
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Marchex Sells MyDeals.com To MindWork Labs A Company That Just Raised $750k - According to a Press Release, Mindwork Labs bought the the domain name MyDeals.com, for an undisclosed amount from Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX) The release goes on to say that Mindwork, also just got an investment of £500,000($750,000)  “from leading UK entrepreneur Mark Pearson to develop a global deals website and marketing platform.” “The partnership will reunite Pearson with Tom Packer – Founder and CEO of Mindwork Labs; the two worked together for several years previously on MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, ... read more ...
 
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Conan O’ Brien Launches Conan.XXX - On his TSB show on Tuesday night, late night host, Conan O’Brien announced the launch of  Conan.XXX . Conan O’Brien on why he launched a site on a .XXX domain name said “I wanna finally bust loose.” Currently the site only has a few videos and none of them contain adult material. However, its a nice and unexpected boost for the .XXX extension. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Patents.com Back On The Market Starting At $2.5 Million - ICAP Patent Brokerage, a division of ICAP PLC, who claims to be the the “world’s largest intellectual property brokerage firm” is offering for auction the domain name patents.com. The lot being sold by Patents.com LLC will be included in the 16th ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction on July 26, 2012, at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, California. The starting bid will be $2,500,000 “We are excited to be offering this portfolio to our global base of buyers,” says Dean Becker, CEO ICAP ... read more ...
 
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Some .mobi owners endangered about .mobile domain applications - Competition? Confusion? It remains to be seen. Some owners of .mobi domain names are concerned about confusion and competition if one of the applicants for a .mobile domain name should be approved. Indeed, the strings mobi and mobile are very similar. ICANN’s String Similarity Assessment Tool assigns a similarity score of 72, which is quite high. My take is .mobi owners don’t have to worry much about .mobile. Two of the three applications for .mobile were filed ... read more ...
 
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Twitter finally gets Twiter.com domain it won in dispute - Over a half year later, Twitter finally gets high traffic typo. Last year Twitter filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of the Twiter.com domain name. Twitter was rightfully upset about the high traffic typo domain as it forward to a “survey” that mimicked the look and feel of Twitter’s own web site. Twitter dropped the case only to refile it shortly thereafter. A UDRP arbitration panel finally ruled in Twitter’s favor in November 2011. But that’s ... read more ...
 
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Sayonara, Digital Archery - We hardly knew ye. Resolved (2012.06.27.NG06), the New gTLD Program Committee directs the President and CEO to terminate the Digital Archery process as approved in Resolutions 2011.12.08.04-2011.12.08.07. Rationale for Resolution 2012.06.27.NG06 To remain accountable to the ICANN community, after careful consideration of the objections raised to the digital archery process, and following the suspension of the process after identification of a technical issue, the ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames strikes deals with dual Chinese domain marketplaces - Deals with Dnbiz and NameRich give company access to Chinese domain buyers and sellers. It seems that the big domain aftermarket players are setting their sights on China. SnapNames announced two partnerships this morning with Chinese domain name marketplaces. A deal with Dnbiz will give the company access to the Yumi.com distribution network. The Yumi.com network has over five million domain names. The other deal is with NameRich, another Chinese domain marketplace. Other ... read more ...
Wed 27th June 2012
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Elizabeth Taylor Trust Gets Awarded LizTaylor.com, .Net & .Org In A UDRP Over Objection Of Planned Sex Change Domain Holder - This is not your typical UDRP. The case involves alleged common law trademark rights, transgendered alter ego’s, and planned sexual reassignment surgery and one very famous deceased actress, Elizabeth Taylor. A one member UDRP panel awarded the domain names, LizTaylor.com, .net and .org to the The Elizabeth Taylor Trust, Interplanet Productions Limited and The Elizabeth Taylor Cosmetics Company . The Complainant is three entities related to the well-known late actress Elizabeth Taylor, who was ... read more ...
 
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Neue Adressen im Internet erschweren Markenschutz - 1400 neue generische Top-Level-Domains kommenBisher gab es nur länderspezifische Top-Level-Domains, wie .at oder .de, und nur 22 generische Top-Level-Domains, wie .com oder .net. Demnächst wird es ca. 1400 neue generische Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs) geben - z. B. .tirol, .apple, .nike oder .blog -, was die Anzahl von Domains weltweit drastisch erhöhen wird. Dieser Beschluss der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) ist umstritten, da er das System von Domain-Namen in technischer ... read more ...
 
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What domains FC Barcelona and 22 other finish users bought final week - Weekly report of end user domain sales: 23 on tap this week. Gooooal! Football (that’s soccer for us Americans) team FC Barcelona bought a domain on the aftermarket this week. Read on to find out which domain they bought. Afternic FC Barcelona (Futbol Club Barcelona) bought OABonline.com for $2,000. OAB is the name for the FC Barcelona Supporter Services Office. FilmFunds, which helps budding filmmakers get financing for their projects, bought FilmFans.com for $4,188. GivingCredit, ... read more ...
 
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.Nxt discussion rescheduled for August - London top level domain conference moved due to program delays. Kieren McCarthy’s .Nxt conference about new top level domain names has been rescheduled for August 29-31. The event was originally scheduled for last week, but became of a victim of ICANN’s delayed announcement of new top level domain applicants. Canceling or moving the dates of a conference can be a death knell, but given the circumstances this was probably a smart move by McCarthy. Now that the ... read more ...
 
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Lawyers fire customer in feet in dothekindthing.com UDRP - Not so kind. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled that the registrant of DoTheKindThing.com can keep her domain name. The case was brought by Kind, LLC f/k/a Peaceworks Holding LLC, which sells Kind snacks. The case is notable for two reasons: 1. Kind’s lawyers, McCarter English, LLP, made some poor decisions in advancing its case. 2. The UDRP panelist recognized the limits of domain arbitration as opposed to courts. First, for the legal ... read more ...
 
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IDN village reacts to Verisign’s .com transliteration selections - The good, the bad, and the ugly of Verisign’s IDN plans. Verisign applied for 12 internationalized top level domain names as part of the new TLD program. These domain names are transliterations of .com and .net. A transliteration is different from a translation. Transliteration maps the sounds of one language to the best matching script of another. For example, コム when said aloud will sound like “com”, and is only possible because those two characters ... read more ...
Tue 26th June 2012
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Zynga’s New Game Is The Ville though TheVille.com is Owned By MargaritaStation.com - According to Cnet.com, Zynga is calling its new game The Ville. Cnet is casual game, users can now have virtual sex in the company’s new title, The Ville. It will be available tomorrow. According to Cnet.com “The Ville,  is the most realistic game yet in the Ville series of games that includes FarmVille, CityVille, and CastleVille.” which includes the opportunity to have virtual sex in The Ville. On the domain name front Zynga doesn’t own TheVille.com. That honor belongs to another Ville, ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $1 Million In Domain Names - Afternic.com just  reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 6/18/12 – 6/24/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,003,830.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...