Monthly Archives: June 2012

Mon 4th June 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Quick Poll: If You Applied For The New gTLD .LOL, Would You Ask For A Full Refund? - Well over a month into the delay on the new gTLD’s due to issues with the TAS system, ICANN offered a 100% refund for any applicant who pulled or withdrew their application before ICANN publicly revealed all applications and applicants, otherwise known as the “Big Reveal” ICANN said June 13th will be the day of the Big Reveal but as we know last week several applicants came forward on their own account and released the new gTLD’s they had applied for and none got more news than Google’s ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Opens Up Affiliate Program - Namejet.com affiliate program which has been in Beta testing for the past month is now opened. The program pays 10% of the Gross selling price of the domain on NameJet.com to the affiliate which sent the customer to Namejet.com. The affiliate program places a cookie on the customer’s browser and gives the affiliate credit for 90 Days out on New Customer Referrals, meaning a someone who was not a customer of Namejet.com before the referral, and 1 Day on Existing Customer Referral, someone who was ... read more ...
 
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Google creates domain corroboration easier with eNom and Go Daddy - eNom and Go Daddy customers can verify ownership from web based interface. Google has just introduced a speedier way to verify your domain ownership for use with certain Google tools. You have to verify that you own a particular domain name in order to use some Google services with the domain, e.g. seeing search queries for your web site in Webmaster Tools. Until now the process has been kind of difficult for people without technical skills. The new service allows ... read more ...
 
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ICANN releases new tip turn domain applicant guidebook - Latest and greatest version of applicant guidebook just released. About 2,000 new top level domain applications have been submitted. But we’re not done yet, folks. Today ICANN released another version of its gTLD Applicant Guidebook. With the application period closed, the latest version turns the focus to the objection period. Changes mostly related to the Governmental Advisory Committee. It strikes language “The ICANN Board is also expected to provide a rationale ... read more ...
 
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It’s Craig Newmark vs. “Craig Solomon” in this humorous domain dispute - CraigsList or CraigsLists? Craigslist has filed a domain name dispute against the owner of CraigsLists.com (notice the extra ‘s’), a site purportedly run by one Craig Solomon. Whereas Craig Newmark’s Craigslist offers classified ads, Craig Solomon’s CraigsLists.com says: “To see Craig Solomon’s lists of the best online resources, just click on the links below. My information is updated daily to give you the best results possible. Yours truly, Craig” But ... read more ...
 
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More sum about changes to Go Daddy’s 60 day lock - Why the new policy is in place and what it means for you. Last Friday I wrote about how Go Daddy had put into place a way to remove the dreaded 60 day transfer lock activated when you make a change to the registrant name on a domain name at the registrar. Over the weekend I looked at comments on that post and re-read ICANN’s new inter-registrar transfer policy. Here’s what the policy has to say about this sort of transfer lock (3.6): Express objection to the transfer ... read more ...
 
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Obama debate sues web site over Barack Obama merchandise - Obama campaign files lawsuit over Obama merchandise featuring “rising sun” logo. Obama for America has filed a second lawsuit against DemStore.com and Washington Promotions Printing, Inc., which allegedly sell merchandise including the campaign’s “rising sun” trademark. (A quick look at DemStore.com confirms this.) The suit (pdf) was filed in U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, on June 1. Obama for American previously filed a suit against the defendants ... read more ...
 
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Angie’s List sues ServiceMagic over Google ads - Company sues lead generation firm over competitive AdWords ads. Angie’s List (NASDAQ: ANGI), the subscription based service to find contractors, has filed a lawsuit against lead generation company ServiceMagic over ads it purchased on Google Adwords. According to the complaint, ServiceMagic is buying Google AdWords ads for the term “Angie’s List”. Here’s an ad I saw when searching today. Angie’s List is on top, followed by a witty ad from ServiceMagic: The ... read more ...
 
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Wow: new TLD conflict already hits UDRP - Complaint filed against a .med backer. Here’s an interesting UDRP case that attacks an applicant for the .med top domain name. The domains in this dispute are aboutdotmed.com, supportdotmed.com, and thedotmed.com. The complaint was filed by DotMed.com, Inc. I wrote about DotMed.com back in January when I revealed 115 trademark applications for potential top level domains. The respondent is HEXAP, which is working with AFNIC to secure the .med domain name. What ... read more ...
Sun 3rd June 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
This Week We Got The Twitter Handle @TheDomains Under An “Brand Impersonation” Claim - About a month ago Abdu from Domainsville.com alerted me that the twitter handle @thedomains was controlled by a third party who was not using it. I was using @berkens as my twitter handle for the blog, but once he said it, it made perfect sense that my Twitter handle for the blog should match the name of the blog so following Abdu instructions and filed a claim with Twitter for Brand Impersonation and after about two week I was awarded the handle of @thedomains early last week. I switched the Twitter ... read more ...
Sat 2nd June 2012
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EZQ.com Gets Hit With UDRP; Is This Another Domain Owner Trying To Get A Stolen Domain Back? - A UDRP has just been filed on the three letter domain name EZQ.com EZQ.com is owned by someone in China. The whois only pulls up a name of the registrant: “baorui” The domain is currently being forwarded to another domain nnol.com Using domain tools I see that the current domain registrant is just listed with a vague address in China and that the domain moved over to the current owner in March. The previous owner was  EZQuest, Inc of  Anaheim, California (Hence the EZQ) who seemed to have  ... read more ...
 
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A .xxx után érkezhet .lol domain - Wiezner István 2012. június 2. 16:00 Meglepő módon a Google vetette fel az ötletet. Pár napja érdekes bejegyzéssel gazdagodott a Google hivatalos blogja, amely szerint a keresőcég újabb általános felső szintű tartománynevek (gTLD-k, mint például a .hu, vagy a .com) bejegyzését kérte az ügyben illetékes ICANN-től. Ennek célja többek közt a domének sokszínűségének növelése, az előrejelzések szerint ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Google Is The Buyer Of Chrome.com - Three months ago we asked whether Google just bought the domain name Chrome.com and today the answer is YES. The domain which was the home of Chrome Systems Inc/DealerTrack, Inc. which notified customers in March that as of  September 1, 2012 they will stop using the domain name Chrome.com and use the domain name Chromedata.com instead. Shortly thereafter the domain registration went to privacy at Godaddy. Well not only did DealerTrack, Inc stop using the domain name by June 1, 2012, but it already ... read more ...
Fri 1st June 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Revolutionary? Leap Motion Now In Pre-order Promises To Replace Your Keyboard & Mouse - A new product promises to let you replace your mouse and keyboard with your fingers. The product is called Leap Motion and its coming very soon “Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. ” “It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen.” “For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.” “This isn’t a game system that roughly maps your hand ... read more ...
 
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Top Level Domain Holdings Becomes Largest New gTLD Applicant To Date Applying For 68 Strings - According to a press release sent this morning, Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) applied for 68 new gTLD’s on its on behalf and a submitted total of 92 applications. In addition to 68 application it filed on its own behalf, the company submitted 5 gTLD geographic applications for or in association with the cities of London, Miami, and Budapest, together with the German States of Bayern and Nord-Rhein Westfalen, all with the backing of each city or region’s governing body. The company also filed ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy creates routine to discharge 60 day send lock - GoDaddy.com offers way to remove 60 day lock on domain transfers after certain registrant changes. Update: Read more about Go Daddy’s new transfer lock policy here. Ah, the dreaded 60 day lock. Go Daddy has taken quite a bit of flack over the years for rejecting transfers to other registrars if you changed certain registrant information within the previous 60 days. But under a new policy, customers will have a formal way to request the sixty day hold be removed. ... read more ...
 
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Flippa adds accurate Google Adsense revenue - Web site buyers can gain more confidence in revenue numbers. Flippa, a marketplace for web sites and domain names, has added a tool to verify Google Adsense revenue numbers for web sites. We all see sites for sale that claim huge Adsense revenue numbers. But how do you know if the person is telling the truth? It’s easy to fake stats. (That was the point behind DNWStats, by the way.) The new tool allows Flippa sellers to authorize Flippa to snag the numbers through ... read more ...
 
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Amercia.com domain, featured on Mashable, adult for auction during Flippa - Amercia, land of the free. There’s an amusing story over at Mashable about the Chinese owner of the domain name Amercia.com, a typo of America.com. His story of why he bought the domain is heartwarming, but it’s worth noting that he owns at least 39 domain names. So think what you want. The owner bought the domain in 2009 for $100. He received an occasional offer on the domain. But then recently he claims he received four inquiries about the domain within 24 hours, ... read more ...
 
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DNW’s new TLD roundup: a good, a bad and a funny - From brands to portfolio players, here’s a look at what we know so far. The “big reveal” of who applied for what top level domains isn’t until June 13. But that didn’t stop a lot of companies from making their own announcements over the 36 hours since the application window closed. Here’s my roundup and analysis: Google Google announced four domains it is applying for, but AdAge reports the company is applying for upwards of 50 domain names. The announcement ... read more ...
 
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New TLD Battle: .Eco vs. .Green - TLDH hedges its bets with .green bid. On May 7 I tweeted: The answer is “yes”. Top Level Domain Holdings, one of the companies embroiled in a battle over .eco, has applied for .green. It could merely be a calculated bet by TLDH given the potential for a hold up on .eco. .Eco has long been contested, has a trademark fight, and is now in court. I don’t know with certainty that this is an attempt to “hold off” the most visible .green applicant, DotGreen ... read more ...
 
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Here are TLDH’s 68 tip turn domain applications - TLDH applies for 68 top level domains on its own behalf. Top Level Domain Holdings has submitted 92 applications for top level domains. It submitted 68 applications on its own behalf and an additional 24 with partners or for others. TLDH is the company that picked up Peter Dengate Thrush after he left ICANN’s board. It owns Minds + Machines. Here are the company’s own 68 applications. 1. abogado 2. .app 3. .art 4. .baby 5. .beauty 6. .beer 7. .blog 8. .book 9. ... read more ...