Monthly Archives: July 2012

Thu 26th July 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Forbes: The Second Internet Bubble Is Over - Forbes just published a story entitled With Facebook’s Earnings, The Second Internet Bubble Is Over. “Facebook shares “are slated to open on Friday at their lowest level yet and will likely end up being valued about 1/3rd less than they were at IPO time. It’s a stunning fall that will have massive consequences from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.” “The disappointment, of course, is not just contained to Facebook. Many of the hottest tech companies touting social networking attributes and ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports: Revenue Up 13%: 118.5 Million .com/.net Domains & Has A 50% Profit Margin - VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the company that has the contract to run the .com and .net registries, reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 after the market closed. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $214 million for the second quarter of 2012, up 13% from the same quarter in 2011. “Verisign reported net income of $68 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.42 for the second quarter of 2012, compared to a net loss of $(11) million and diluted net loss per share ... read more ...
 
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Maybe Justin Should Have Applied For .Music Instead Of Myspace.com - A BusinessInsider.com article today reminded me its been one year since Justin Timberlake’s invested into MySpace.com At the time I thought Justin would have been better served if he simply applied for the new gTLD of .Music. I can’t exactly tell you how, but through representatives very close to Justin I made him aware of the opportunity that a .Music application would have provided, especially since his investment in MySpace.com was really all about music. He passed. The article goes on to ... read more ...
 
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Thomson Reuters Acquires MarkMonitor.com - “The acquisition of MarkMonitor, headquartered in San Francisco, will strengthen the broad portfolio of intellectual property solutions from Thomson Reuters.” “The addition of MarkMonitor, with its innovative online brand protection technology, to Thomson Reuters best-in-class intellectual property solutions, will result in a suite of efficient and effective end-to-end brand protection solutions to assist customers in securing revenue and reputation. With over 400 employees in five countries, ... read more ...
 
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Citizen Hawk “Automates” The Filing Of A UDRP With Its New Product HawkUDRP - CitizenHawk,in a press release this morning has introduced “a cloud-based software tool that automates the process of filing a UDRP thus enabling companies to recover domains from typosquatters and other domain infringers at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods”. “HawkUDRP™ collects relevant evidence, generates the necessary UDRP documentation and completes the entire process quickly and cost effectively. HawkUDRP can generate filing packages compliant with National Arbitration Forum ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy.com New Commercials: “The New Campaign Is Not Conservative” - Go Daddy has released all three of its upcoming Olympic ads. According to Godaddy PR deptartment despite what you have heard the “new campaign is not conservative, it’s a wink to the past as we move to talking more about what we do on the INSIDE of Go Daddy”. BERRIES, BUBBLE BATH OTTER are set to air on NBC during the Olympics. Video: Go Daddy “Inside Out – Bubble Bath” – Commercial Video: Go Daddy “Inside Out – Berries” – Commercial Video: Go Daddy “Inside Out – Otter” ... read more ...
 
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Brusel chystá další regulace internetu, na řadě jsou domény - Jak již to bývá, vše začalo poměrně nenápadně – v rámci revize Směrnice o elektronickém obchodu, kdy v lednu 2012 uveřejnila Evropská komise (EK) pracovní dokument s názvem On-line služby, včetně e-commerce, na jednotném trhu (PDF). V úvodních ustanoveních se můžeme dočíst, že cílem dokumentu má být (mj. v souvislosti se strategií Digitální agenda pro Evropu) urychlit vybudování tzv. Jednotného digitálního trhu, pod kterým si EK představuje např. ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign blames domain monetization for reduce renovation rate - Lower than usual renewal rate blamed on search engine changes. Verisign had its second best quarter ever for new domain name registrations last quarter, but its renewal rate was lower than usual. The company cites two reasons. First, there were large promotions by domain registrars a year ago (apparently mostly from one large registrar) that led to an uptick in new registrations that came up for renewal last quarter. Second, and more interesting, Verisign blames “search ... read more ...
 
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Fire your UDRP lawyer, Thursday edition - I could have saved this complainant some money. Here’s an easy way to waste a few thousand bucks: file a UDRP against infringement on a subdomain. This is easily one of the weirdest claims I’ve seen in a while and it involved the domain names windoows.net and windooows.com. The domains are clearly typos of the term “windows”, although they are used as lead gen sites for house windows, not Microsoft Windows. And it wasn’t Microsoft that filed the complaint; ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy releases the 3 Olympic ads - Three ads explain that Go Daddy is about more than just attractive women. Go Daddy has released the three television commercials it will run during the Olympics. You may have seen the first one a few weeks ago, called “Inside Out – Otter”. The basics of Otter are the same as the other two commercials, “Bubble Bath” and “Berries”. In each one, a narrator explain that Go Daddy has two sides — the attractive models it uses in ads and the techies who actually ... read more ...
 
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20 finish user domain sales from a past week - Fox Broadcasting Company among end user buyers this past week. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly wrap of end user domain name purchases from Afternic and Sedo. Afternic Fox Broadcasting Company bought MidnightBlack.com for $3,588. Any ideas what it’s for? The owner of IrishCityTours.com bought eatplaystay.com for $1,350. This is a great domain and I see variations on this “slogan” from time to time. The only challenge is remembering the word order. Machines ... read more ...
Wed 25th July 2012
Written by DomainHack.er in CZ and tagged
Správa linuxového serveru: Úvod do DNS - Rychlokurz DNS K čemu slouží DNS? Většina z vás to asi bude vědět, ale přesto si neodpustím malé opakování. Komunikace mezi jednotlivými dvěma uzly na internetu (např. mezi klientem a serverem) je řešena protokolem IP – každý z uzlů má přidělenou IP adresu, která jej jednoznačně identifikuje (pokud není z privátního rozsahu, ale to je úplně jiný problém pro samostatný traktát) a umožní pomocí směrovačů mezi oběma uzly doručovat data z jednoho uzlu na ... read more ...
 
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Expecting.com Sold For $50K On Sedo - The domain name Expecting.com just crossed the Sedo sales wire at $49,999. The domain was owned by Kron Studio of  Miami Beach, Florida who seems to have owned the domain since at least 2001, although the original registration date is May 1996. The domain is still in escrow at Sedo so we don’t know who the buyer is yet, but it certainly would be a great domain for a site for soon to be mothers. If you love the idea but just missed this domain,  it looks like expectingmoms.com is for sale over ... read more ...
 
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Google & Amazon, Two Of The Largest gTLD Applicants Team Up To Form A New Lobbying Group - Google and Amazon, two of biggest applicants for new gTLD’s just teamed up to form the InternetAssociation.org a new lobbying group. According to the Washington Post other founding members include eBay and Facebook. According the Internet Association’s website: “The Internet Association is the unified voice of the Internet economy, representing the interests of America’s leading Internet companies and their global community of users. ” “The Internet Association is dedicated to advancing ... read more ...
 
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DomainSponsor Teams Up With Internet Security Experts Cymru to Combat Malware - According to a press release just out, Oversee.net, which owns and operates DomainSponsor.com which receives “over 250 million unique visitors per month”, announced today that it has entered into an agreement involving its DomainSponsor business unit and Team Cymru, a specialized Internet security research firm and non-profit dedicated to making the Internet more secure by helping organizations identify and eradicate problems in their network”. “Given the size and scope of Oversee’s DomainSponsor ... read more ...
 
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Name.com Asks “What New gTLD’s Are You Waiting For” - Unlike some other registrars that are taking “pre-orders” or expressions of interest in domain name registrations for certain hand selected new gTLD’s, Name.com is going from it at a whole different angle asking users: “What new gTLDs are you waiting for?” Name.com is asking users to tell then what new gTLD’s they are most interest in. The page put up by Name.com starts with an important question: “”What the heck is a gTLD?” “”TLDs are the endings that follow the string in a ... read more ...
 
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Google loses brawl with oogle.com owner - Google fails to win arbitration case over high traffic typo. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has ruled that the owner of Oogle.com can keep his domain name despite Google’s claims that the registration of the domain name amounts to cybersquatting. Google was upset that the domain name forwarded to porn and scammy survey sites. The first issue of contention between the parties was when the current owner registered the domain name. Google claimed it was 2004; ... read more ...
 
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.Tickets applicant files heading applications for new tip turn domain - Company files trademark applications for .tickets and dottickets. .Tickets is up there on the list of most contested top level domain applications. Five companies have applied for the name. Applicant Shubert Internet last week filed two intent-to-use trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The applications are for “.tickets” and “dottickets”. In addition to goods and services related to event ticketing, the company says the names ... read more ...
 
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Alarm.com raises $136 million - Company with a fantastic domain gets a big round of equity financing. Alarm.com, which offers wireless home security solutions and home automation, has raised $136 million in an equity round. I’m not going to get on my high horse talking about how the company’s fantastic domain name must have helped it surge to one million customers. But it certainly helped the company with credibility when it launched in 2000. It also helps the company rank #3 on Google for “Alarm”, ... read more ...
Tue 24th July 2012
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The Generic Domain Name MedicalPark.com Lost In A UDRP - The domain name MedicalPark.com was just awarded to a trademark holder Freiberger Holding GmbH (“Complainant”) in a UDRP. The domain holder didn’t respond to the complaint yet the one member panel did some very broad over reaching in my opinion and not even consider the fact that the term “medical park” is a term often used by thousands if not tens of thousands of business and centers around the world. Instead of looking at the case and the term the panel took the word of the complainant ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $925K In Domains Led By ShenYun.com For $16,475 - Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $994,964 for the week ending July 22nd, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by ShenYun.com for $16,475, followed by SelfTanning.com for $12,000. ShenYun.com is now directing to the website for Shen Yun Performing Arts – an entertainment and performing arts company based in New York. They previously used the url shenyunperformingarts.org. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $1.5MM In Domains Led By Metal.com for $140K - Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending July 23rd, 2012. In all over $1.5MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Metal.com at $140,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were ChargePoint.com for $80,000 Sugar.co for $30,000. In all 834 domains were sold. 43% 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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The Top Policy Mistakes ICANN Made In The New gTLD Program - Now that everyone has had time to fully digest the big reveal of the new gTLD applicants and the strings applied for, its time to look at the biggest issues ICANN has created for the domain name system. We are not going to look at mistakes ICANN made in the implementation of the program (such as the TAS debacle) just the fundamental policy mistakes ICANN made in our opinion which are have potential to cause a lot of problems, for the program, for ICANN and ultimately the applicants. 1.  Allowing ... read more ...
 
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UN (still) seeking for IGO exclusions in new tip turn domain program - Wait, you mean the application period has closed? The Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) of the United Nations has sent a letter to ICANN asking for restrictions on applying for Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) names and acronyms as top level domains. Now, I realize things move slowly at the United Nations. But this letter is dated July 11, well after the full list of applied-for names has already been released. The author of the letter is clearly not ... read more ...
 
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Recruiter Harry Joiner strikes again with dual some-more domain buys - Recruiter finds strong value in descriptive domain names. I’ve written about headhunter Harry Joiner and his domain name purchases many times. That’s because he’s amassed a great portfolio of quality descriptive domain names for his business. He’s back again… Joiner just completed purchases of ContentJobs.com and CIOsearch.com. I also wrote recently about his purchase of eTailJobs.com through Afternic. Joiner has been acquiring top quality job recruiting ... read more ...