Monthly Archives: June 2012

Mon 11th June 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
New TLD updates: Neustar 358, Key-Systems 31 - Neustar signs up boatloads of new TLD applicants and news from Key-Systems. New top level domain news stories are coming fast and furious today. Here are a couple more updates: Nuestar (NYSE: NSR) said it has been selected as the backend registry services provider for 358 top level domain applications. The actual number the company will end up supporting will likely be smaller since some of the applicants will drop or or be contested. Key-Systems announced that 31 ... read more ...
 
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TLDH: Digital archery might have technical bugs - Big new top level domain applicant finds odd results with digital archery system. Digital archery, which creates a secondary timestamp for new TLD applications that will determine how they are batched, is run through ICANN’s TLD Application System (TAS). This is the same system that was taken offline for over a month due to a security glitch that allowed some competing applicants to see limited data from other applicants. So you don’t suppose there could be problems ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media releases some-more sum about the gTLD skeleton and understanding with Donuts - Demand Media applies for 26 TLDs outright and has rights to up to 107 applied for by partner Donuts, Inc. Demand Media announced today that it has applied for 26 top level domains on its own, and also can obtain rights to 107 gTLDs being applied for by Donuts, Inc. In May it announced that it had invested $18 million in new top level domains, which led many to suspect that the company had applied for close to 100 new top level domains. (At $185,000 a piece for the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN pays tighten to $1 million for CEO in 2011. Here’s remuneration for 18 other ICANN employees. - Rod Beckstrom’s total compensation and benefits nearly $1 million last fiscal year; many other highly paid employees at non-profit. ICANN has published its Form 990 tax return for the financial year ending June, 2011. Here’s what top employees earned (including non-taxable benefits): Rod Beckstrom, CEO $998,230 Akram Atallah, COO $133,812 Doug Brent, COO $348,628 John Jeffrey General Counsel Secretary $338,475 Kurt Pritz, SVP Services $399,747 Kevin Wilson, CFO ... read more ...
Sun 10th June 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Frank Schilling Unveils His New gTLD Company: Uniregistry.com - Frank Schilling one of the largest private domain name portfolio owners in the world through Name Administration, is getting into the new gTLD space, as a registry, making application for some new gTLD’s and today officially launched his new gTLD company called Uniregistry “We are building the next wave of destinations for businesses to exist on the Internet.” “What happens when you take a team of experts, at the top of the naming industry, and unite them behind a single, high-minded purpose? ... read more ...
 
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Today You Can Be The Proud Owner Of Sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com - Today the domain name Sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com is dropping. While that might not surprise you, what might surprise you is to find out that domain has been registered for 12 years. Yes the domain was created in 2000 and ever since someone has been paying renewal fees on this domain. If you don’t like that domain you can try to get another 12 year old domain dropping today: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com. If you miss out ... read more ...
 
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Quinstreet acquires OnlineEducation.com - Quinstreet picks up online education lead gen site. Lead generation company Quinstreet (NASDAQ: QNST) has acquired the web site and domain name OnlineEducation.com. I can’t find any mention — nor a price — for the acquisition in Quinstreet’s SEC filings. But the seller was BigLeads.com, which bought the domain name on eBay for $100,000 back in 2009. The whois record for OnlineEducation.com changed between May 19 and June 2, according to historical whois records ... read more ...
Sat 9th June 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
ComScore: Facebook Advertising Works & They Will Publish The Paper To Prove It - comScore thinks Facebook advertising works and going to publish a white paper and its findings next week. comScore writes on its site: “comScore is preparing to publish new findings about the effectiveness of paid and earned media exposure on Facebook next week at the ARF Audience Measurement 7.0 conference in New York, along with our release of a new white paper, The Power of Like 2: How Social Marketing Works.” “Through our research, which examines the impact on consumer behavior as a result ... read more ...
Fri 8th June 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Google Answers WSJ Guest Editorial & Defends Its Search Algorithms - Google has answered  The Wall Street Journal guest editorial written by Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz in which he said in part: “Google has ballooned into a monopoly, pegging its closest competition — at least in the search space — as one that has no hope of competing. ” “Google has become a brand killer. If Google pushes a merchant or company to page three of its search results, let alone page 40, it is life-altering.” “This “cloak of invisibility” for less-favored brands flies in the ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann’s Domain Market Sells The Domain Name MobileWorkforce.com For $30,000 - According to a post on his Facebook page Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com,  has just sold another nice domain, for a nice price The domain name is MobileWorkForce.com and he just sold it for $30,000. The whois record has not updated yet but we will continue to monitor it and let you know when it updates as to whom the buyer is. In the meantime congrats to Mike and his team and the buyer.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Name Adminstration Sells voiceworks.com For $40K On Sedo - Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has just sold the domain name VoiceWorks.com for $40,000 on Sedo.com The buyer  is a company by the same name that uses voiceworks.nl as its main site and the recently purchased .com forward to the .Nl site. .NL  is the country code for the Netherlands. In another sale just crossing the Sedo sales wire, the domain name software.com.mx sold for 30,000 Euro’s or about $37K. The domain is currently being forwarded to targetware.com.mx     Congrats to Frank ... read more ...
 
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Telepathy Represented By Ari Goldberger Beats Another UDRP, This Time On INW.com - Instrumentation Northwest, Inc. of Seattle, Washington, brought a UDRP on the three letter domain name INW.COM which is owned by Telepathy, Inc. of Washington, and who was  represented by ESQwire.com. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: “Complainant is a supplier of water monitoring and sampling systems in the environmental field. Complainant has used the mark INW since 1986 in connection with its offerings.” “Complainant registered the mark INW on the Principal ... read more ...
 
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Republican Jack Abramoff Files UDRP On His Matching Domain, JackAbramoff.com Owned By The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Republican Jack Abramoff has just filed a  UDRP On His Matching Domain name, JackAbramoff.com which is Owned By The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Jack Abramoff, has had a colorful past and his story is the subject of a movie Casino Jack. The domain JackAbramoff.com, actually forwards to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee site at  dccc.org/pages/JackAbramoff. The site has on the front page: “””Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a key player in convicted ... read more ...
 
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Moniker e SnapNames rendono noto il catalogo d’asta per i nomi a dominio … - POMPANO BEACH, Florida, 08/06/2012 (informazione.it - comunicati stampa - istruzione e formazione) Moniker ® e SnapNames®, entrambe società controllate di KeyDrive S.A., hanno pubblicato il catalogo definitivo e aperto il bando per la propria asta per i nomi a dominio premium internazionale e ccTLD. Le offerte potranno essere inserite online a partire da questo momento fino alle 12:15 del fuso orario del Pacifico (15:15 del fuso orario ... read more ...
 
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.Physio New gTLD Applicant Revealed - Smartcompany.com.au,  just covered the story of Glenn Ruscoe, who applied for the .physio domain, which he plans to sell to physiotherapists worldwide. “Ruscoe told SmartCompany “I was reading the newspaper one morning when I heard about the ICANN initiative and I thought, ‘That’s fantastic’, I want one of those for my practice website.   I thought no one would do it in our profession and I thought if they wouldn’t I would.” “As I read the newspaper article I was thinking what is ... read more ...
 
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Gamble.net Sells For $46,125 On Sedo - The domain name Gamble.net just sold for $46,125 On Sedo The new owner is a Chris Brown of  Yorkshire UK The Seller appears to be The Gamblers’ Network of the US. I would be shocked not to see at lease a couple of gambling related new gTLD’s applied for when ICANN releases it list of applicants on June 13th Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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DataGenetics’ fascinating demeanour during domain name data - Slicing and dicing domain name data. This in-depth post from DataGenetics is a couple months old, but a reader just sent it to me today. It’s a fascinating look at domain names. Some of the findings help you draw conclusions about the domain market while others are purely interesting. Did you know… * Of the 102.8 million names in .com space, only 12.54% of these same names are also registered in .net namespace. Of the 15 million registered .net domains, 86% are ... read more ...
 
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Economist on Digital Archery: “Frankly, anything is improved than this” - Thies Lindenthal finds fault with ICANN’s digital archery. Plenty of people have come out against ICANN’s digital archery plan for new top level domains. Digital archery will determine the batch in which a new TLD application is reviewed and ultimately will have correlation to when they come online. See: Fate of new TLD order determined by click of a button and location Some of those opposed want a different method for picking the order while others want to ... read more ...
 
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Instrumentation Northwest should ask the counsel for the income back - It just wasted money filing a frivolous complaint over INW.com. The results are in on Instrumentation Northwest’s case against Nat Cohen’s Telepathy for the domain INW.com. No surprise here. With the help of domain attorney Ari Goldberger, Telepathy won the case. But the complainant should really ask its lawyer to give back whatever he or she charged to represent it. This case was dead from the beginning, and any good lawyer would have told their client this. ... read more ...
 
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5 some-more experts import in: what do new TLDs meant for domainers? - What domainers should think about as the new TLD launch approaches. Yesterday I published the comments of seven domain experts on what they think new TLDs will mean for domainers. Today I’ve rounded up five more experts from various parts of the industry. Bob MountainSenior Vice President, Business Development at NameMedia The introduction of new TLDs is probably the biggest change to the domain name space since the browser. Over the next 2-3 years users will be ... read more ...
Thu 7th June 2012
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Moniker/SnapNames.com Release Final Catalog For Premium International & ccTLD Auction - Moniker® and SnapNames®, both KeyDrive S. A. companies, just  published the final catalog and opened bidding for their Premium International ccTLD Auction  which closes on July 19, 2012, at 3:15 p.m. EST. To view the auction catalog click here “Given the consistent growth of domain registrations and internet adoption globally in developed and emerging regions of the world, the names selected for this auction catalog possess both e-commerce and international appeal,” said Craig Snyder, CEO ... read more ...
 
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Searchmetrics Study on SEO: Keyword Domains Attract Top Results & Social Media & Backlinks Are Important - Searchmetrics just released a study today on SEO coming to the conclusion that Keyword Domain names still attract top results and that Social Media and Backlinks are very important in SEO results. “The biggest unknown in SEO is always the algorithm. Many myths and rumors surround the “what” and “how” of Google results. Although SEO experts won’t be able to know the specific algorithm used, by examining the data you can figure out how best to influence results.””At Searchmetrics, ... read more ...
 
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Fifth Annual Registrar Summit Kicks Off Today - Godaddy.com is hosting the Fifth Annual Registrar Summit which is being held today and tomorrow, June 7th and 8th at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. Here is the agenda: Thursday, June 7   Friday, June 8   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Owner Of LegalSupply.com Appeals UDRP Loss To eLegalSupply.com - Kevin Daste the owner of the domain name LegalSupply.com has appealed the UDRP decision in which the panel awarded the domain name over to eLegalSupply.com The case was filed in the Louisiana Eastern Federal District Court. The case is Daste v. Elegalsupply.com LLC We called out the panel for what we thought was a bad decision and its good to see the domain owner appeal the decision. The complaint asks the court for a declaratory judgment that Plaintiff’s registration and use of the domain name ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Winners: The Kentucky Derby, Red Bull, Jay-Z, Apple, Google, McDonald’s, Holiday Inn & Gucci - In a bunch of UDRP cases either decided, withdrawn or terminated in the past few days, The Kentucky Derby, Red Bull, Jay-Z, Apple, Google, McDonald’s, Swarovski, Dolce Gabbana, TD Bank, Holiday Inn, Betsey Johnson, DrMarten, Fandango Gucci all got domain names awarded to them. KentuckyDerby.info was awarded to Churchill Downs Incorporated (case # D2012-0769) BetseyJohnson-outlet.com was awarded to the clothing designer’s company. (case # D2012-0755) RedBullFacts.com was awarded to Red Bull. ... read more ...