Monthly Archives: July 2012

Tue 10th July 2012
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What Afternic’s stretched understanding with Go Daddy means for domainers - More eyeballs and more sales. This morning Afternic announced an expanded deal with Go Daddy to distribute its non-fixed price domain sales listings through the registrar. Here’s what this means for you… The Afternic deal will help you get more of your domain names on to the most valuable end user shelf space in the world: Go Daddy’s registration path. “Registration path” basically refers to the search results page when you search for a domain at GoDaddy.com. Before ... read more ...
 
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Plans for Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry go approach back - Uniregistry.com registered back in 2006, original trademark application in 2010. Last month Uniregistry Corp., Frank Schilling’s new top level domain venture, filed trademark applications for the mark “Uniregistry” as well as its stylized “U” logo. But this isn’t the first time the company has applied for a trademark. Back in 2010 the corporation filed an intent to use application on “Uniregistry” using its Cayman address. So Schilling has been working ... read more ...
Mon 9th July 2012
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NameJet.com Reports $500K In Sales In June - Namejet.com just released it reportable sales $2K and over for June and they totaled just under $511,000 in sales lead by SportsPicks.com $25,660 Here are the domains: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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It’s Domaining 6.0 & It’s Is All About Branding - I promised I would be writing a few post this week about the new gTLD’s, the current state of the domain industry where its has been and where it’s going. As far as I can see we are now in the age of Domaining 6.0 Before trying to figure out where we are going, lets do a quick recap of where we have been. Domaining 1.0 This goes way back, before ICANN, before Google, back to the day when domain names were free. It wasn’t until 1995 that Network Solutions was allowed to charge to register or ... read more ...
 
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Lance Armstrong’s quarrel opposite USADA reminds me a lot of a arguments opposite UDRP - Not enough time to respond to “kangaroo court”. Lance Armstrong is fighting hard to not have to defend himself against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which he calls a “Kangaroo court”. Armstrong wants nothing to do with the USADA process, so he’s trying to short circuit it by going to the courts. A lot of domain name owners have had it with UDRP, so they do the same thing. His arguments sound a lot like the arguments made against the uniform domain ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy.com adds dual cause authentication - New security option available to customers with a U.S. mobile phone number. GoDaddy.com has added two factor authentication capabilities for U.S. customers. The feature appears to have been added within the past couple days. The added security layer, also known as two step authentication, means that someone who gets control of your username and password will be unable to log in to your account. In addition to the usual login credentials, Go Daddy will send a one time ... read more ...
 
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Verisign “Domain Exchange” obvious focus says use would be useful for typosquatters - Application filed shortly after pulling ICANN request admits a domain exchange service could be a boon for typosquatters. In April 2010 Verisign asked ICANN to allow it to introduce a “Domain Name Exchange” service. The service would have allowed registrars to exchange one domain name for another. The use case VeriSign proffered was that a web host that offers short term packages could swap out a domain if a customer canceled their account. The new service request ... read more ...
 
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At slightest 23 domain companies streamer to HostingCon subsequent week - Web hosting industry (and lots of domain name companies) head to Boston. In many ways the domain industry and web hosting industry are one. The world’s largest domain name registrar is also the world’s largest shared web hosting provider, and that’s not by coincidence. Next week the web hosting industry has its big annual conference, HostingCon 2012, in Boston. I’ve spotted 23 domain name related companies that will attending. I’m kind of surprised that ... read more ...
 
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My initial Amazon.com squeeze with sales tax - Amazon.com starts charging sales tax in Texas. That won’t hope local retailers much. Last week I made a purchase on Amazon.com that had a new line item: sales tax. A week ago Sunday Amazon.com started collecting sales tax in Texas. Local retailers are rejoicing. To be fair to the retailers, it’s only right that Amazon collect sales tax on purchases made by Texas residents. But if they’re hoping that this will suddenly send shoppers back to their shops, they’ll ... read more ...
Sun 8th July 2012
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Sorry Acro we have To Disagree European Domainers Especially Bloggers Are At A Huge Disadvantage - Acro.net made a post yesterday talking about a “huge advantage” he says European domainers have over their US counterparts. Sorry my fellow blogger, I have to disagree with you. Although not my first trip to Europe to cover an ICANN event I find it a huge disadvantage being 5 or 6 hours ahead of EST. When I wake up at 8am its 2AM or 3Am back home, completely dead news wise or otherwise, Wall Street won’t even open for another 7 hours. By the time I’m going to dinner at 8pm its smack in the ... read more ...
Sat 7th July 2012
 
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You Might Not Have An Internet Connection On Monday - According to many new sources hundreds of thousands of people are going to lose their internet connection. On Monday, July 9th, the FBI is pulling the plug on internet access to hundreds of thousands of computers infected with a malware Trojan known as DNSChanger. The FBI is shutting down the Internet servers it temporarily set up to support those affected back in November which will knock all those still infected offline. Companies that have compromised systems in their network will be taken offline ... read more ...
 
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One Surprising Finding From A Trip To The UK: A Lot of People Are Using .Com Too - I had never been to the United Kingdom until I had a chance to visit it for the Dot-Nxt conference which was then postponed until August. I have always heard, and was under the impression, that when you look around London and the UK, you will see ads mostly using a .co.uk address, however I found plenty of companies big and small using .com domain names, as much, if not more than .co.uk. On television, on signs, on buildings, Taxi’s and buses there were an awful  lot of .co.uk domain names for ... read more ...
Fri 6th July 2012
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Even Without Filing A Response, The Domain Holders of SMA.com Wins The UDRP - A three member panel has just ruled in favor of the domain holder on the UDRP brought by SMA Solar Technology of Germany, on the domain name SMA.com. We noted back on May 1st when the UDRP was just filed that the domain holder was not a domainers, and actually a company whose names initials where SMA, Specialized Micro Architects. The panel denied the complaint despite the fact that the domain holder did not even file a response and that the domain had not be actiely used in years and that the company ... read more ...
 
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Inside and Outside of Domaining, Times They Are A Changing - The World continues to change. As I found myself in Ireland, clearly blowing past the Independence Day celebrations and any signs of fireworks only to find myself in a large pub on July 5th with all the staff and most of the patrons celebrating Christmas, complete with Hats, a Christmas Tree and plenty Santa outfits. Yes it was the Christmas in July party and the place was rocking to the live music. In this case it was a rather good cover band who performed everything from Classic rock to hip hop, ... read more ...
 
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SMA.com spared in UDRP case - Panel rules domain not registered in bad faith. In May I wrote about how the owner of SMA.de — SMA Solar Technology AG — had filed a UDRP to get the domain name SMA.com. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel just handed down the verdict: the owner of SMA.com can keep the domain name. The current owner registered the domain name in 1995. SMA Solar Technology became interested in the domain and tried contacting the owner in 2005. It was rebuffed. ... read more ...
 
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NCC skeleton to deposit $9.4 million in .secure (if it can get a domain) - Company hopeful it can prevail over Amazon.com. The CEO of United Kingdom security company NCC Group (NCC.LN) told Dow Jones Newswires that it plans to invest 6 million pounds ($9.4 million) in the top level domain name .secure, with over half of that in the next twelve months. CEO Rob Cotton also told Dow Jones Newswires that he thinks his company will prevail in getting the domain name despite it being contested by Amazon.com. Like all of Amazon.com’s domains, ... read more ...
 
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Rawlings sues Wilson over Brandon Phillips Gold Glove - There’s gold in them there gloves. Just in time for the Major League Baseball All Start Game comes this lawsuit between two baseball equipment manufacturers. Rawlings Sporting Goods, which has given the “Gold Glove” award since 1957, is a bit peeved that one of its rivals has produced a glove with gold on it. The lawsuit (pdf) claims that Wilson Sporting Goods has produced an infringing baseball glove that is being used by Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Auctions Jun sales down (but that doesn’t meant a downturn in a market) - Aftermarket domain sales robust despite lower numbers on Go Daddy Auctions. Last month Go Daddy Auctions sold 31,896 domain names. That’s down from 35,094 in May. The number of domains sold on the platform has been on a downward trend for several months. I reached out to Paul Nicks, Director – Domain Name Aftermarket at Go Daddy, to find out what’s behind the decline: Seasonality is a factor during summer months. We’ve also seen a direct correlation with an ... read more ...
Thu 5th July 2012
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The UDRP Should, Or Should Not Be The Forum To Recover Stolen Domains, How About Some Consistency Boys - As DomainNameWire.com just reminded me I have noted in past UDRP decisions that panels have been reluctant to allow domain holders to recoup ownership of their domain name through the UDRP process. But in the case Andrew wrote about today, as he pointed out a UDRP panel did just that allow a allegedly stolen domain to be returned to the former owner via the UDRP process. I have stated that there should be some process by which the victim of a stolen domain should be able to recover it as cheaply ... read more ...
 
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UDRP row orders stolen 3 minute domain name returned to owner - EZQ.com should belong to EZQuest, rules panel. Last month Michael Berkens wrote about how a UDRP panel affirmed that UDRP is not a forum for recovery stolen domain names. I agree that’s the case — most of the time. Yet over history some complainants have successfully used UDRP to recover stolen three letter domain names. That’s the case with EZQ.com, which was just awarded to EZQUEST, INC. EZQuest says the domain name was stolen earlier this year when the thief ... read more ...
 
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Vanity.com files lawsuit to retard send of domain name - Lawsuit filed in Arizona to stop transfer of domain name after adverse UDRP determination. Last month a National Arbitration Forum panel handed down a shockingly bad decision over the domain name Vanity.com, ordering the domain transferred to Vanity Shop of Grand Forks, Inc. Now Vanity.com, Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) to halt the transfer. Vanity.com had already filed suit in the Northern District of California prior to the UDRP decision. But in order to ... read more ...
 
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Wow: check out this panelist’s sardonic anticipating of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Panelist goes the extra mile in explanation of reverse domain name hijacking. UDRP panelists are usually reluctant to affirm that a complainant attempted reverse domain name hijacking. But in some cases the facts are so damning that the panelist goes the extra mile to explain why the case is so egregious. This usually happens when the panelist believes he or she was lied to. That’s the case with Houston Putnam Lowry’s decision for MamaMayI.com. The case was brought ... read more ...
Wed 4th July 2012
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Meatloaf Files Suit Over Meatloaf.org Under ACPA & Asks For Domain + $100K - According to TMZ, the pop singer Meatloaf, whose real name is Michael Aday, filed suit against a “Dean Torkington in L.A. County Superior Court, claiming Torkington registered MeatLoaf.org in “bad faith,” and has since exploited the domain name to mislead and confuse Meat Loaf fans into thinking he’s the real singer.” “Torkington uses the website to promote his act — called “To Hell and Back: A Tribute to Meat Loaf.” “Meat Loaf claims Torkington — who’s based in the UK — ... read more ...
 
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ICM Registry Operator of .XXX, Ask Court To Dismiss Manwin, Operator of YouPorn.com 2nd Amended Complaint - ICM Registry (ICM) , operator of the .XXX extension asked the court to dismiss the suit (pdf) brought by Manwin LICENSING, INTERNATIONAL, Operator of YouPorn.com against ICM and ICANN on antitrust grounds. In a “response memorandum in support of its motion to dismiss the case” filed last Friday, ICM  asked the court to dismiss the case against Mainwin based on “glaring factual differences” between this case and an appellate court ruling involving VeriSign. In its 2nd amended complaint Manwin’s ... read more ...