Monthly Archives: July 2012

Tue 3rd July 2012
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Sedo.com Sells $1.4MM In Domains Led By Connect.to for $16,500 - Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending July 2nd, 2012. In all over $1.4MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Connect.to at $16,500. Other domains topping the list of public sales were Vision247.com for $13,000 Iles.com for €10,090. In all 780 domains were sold. 41% 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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Microsoft Could Have Bought The Domain Industry For Less, Instead It Bought aQuantive & Lost Over 6 Billion - Back in 2008 we made the suggestion that Microsoft (MSFT) which was then sitting on $46 Billion should spent what we estimated would be less than $5 Billion and buy out all the top domain name portfolio’s, thereby shifting percentages of traffic away from Google for its own search engine. Unfortunately Microsoft didn’t follow our advice. However a few months Microsoft blew $6.3 Billion by buying  aQuantive,  an ad agency which was seen as a DoubleClick competitor. I say they blew the $6.3 Billion ... read more ...
 
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Apple Wins UDRP On Applestor.com, wwwitune.com - A one member UDRP panel awarded Apple two domain names that are pretty obviously typo’s The domain names are applestor.com and wwwitune.com and considering that the domain holder didn’t even respond to the complaint and that the domains were going to parked pages full of links to Apple products the only surprising part of the decision  is how long it was. These types of cases typically have a very short discussion followed by a ruling however, panelist Alessandra Ferreri cited by my count 18 ... read more ...
 
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Founder of Full Tilt Poker Arrested At JFK Airport & Faces 145 Years In Prision - According to cnet.com, Raymond Bitar, founder and CEO of Full Tilt Poker, was arrested yesterday as he arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York  and charged with running a Ponzi scheme, gambling, bank fraud, and money laundering offenses, faces up to 145 years in prison, if convicted of all the charges. “Full Tilt owed $350 million to players around the world while holding only $60 million to $70 million to cover payments, authorities allege. More than $430 million in ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Awarded Renewal Of IANA Contract By US Department of Commerce - Thought Domainincite.com broke the news last night, here is the official press release by ICANN that its contract with IANA has been renewed with the US Department of Commerce.” Apparently the outgoing CEO Rd Beckstrom signed off on it on his last day on the job. “ICANN will continue to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions following the awarding of a new contract by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration(NTIA). The ... read more ...
 
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Patent postulated for programmed web site gratefulness method - Patent describes system for generating automated appraisals of web sites. There are a lot of automated web site valuation and appraisal tools out there. Now the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent covering a method of automatically valuing a web site. U.S. Patent 8,214,272 (pdf), issued today, covers “Web Site Valuation”. The patent’s abstract reads: According to the invention, a method for automatically determining an appraisal value of a web ... read more ...
 
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Waiter.com sues GoWaiter.com for heading infringement - Does GoWaiter.com infringe Waiter.com’s mark? Here’s an interesting lawsuit that shows the challenges of building a business on a descriptive (aka ‘generic’) domain name. Waiter.com, a food delivery web site started in 1995, has sued GoWaiter.com, a similar service apparently started in 2010. Waiter.com has a trademark for “Waiter.com”, which it bases its complaint on. The plaintiff might have a case here (pdf). If the plaintiff’s name was FoodDelivery.com, ... read more ...
 
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Entrepreneur Media continues to sue entrepreneurs who use a word entrepreneur - Got ‘entrepreneur’ in your name? If you publish information to help entrepreneurs, you might be sued. Entrepreneur Media (EMI), the company that publishes Entrepreneur magazine, continues to file lawsuits against people that use the term entrepreneur in their name or domain name. The latest lawsuit was filed July 2 against JMD Entertainment Group, a Maryland company that owns the domain name entrepreneursedge.tv. You’re not alone if you find the company’s ... read more ...
Mon 2nd July 2012
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RBC Report On New gTLD’s “Could Be A Game-Changer For The Domain Registry & Registrar Businesses” - The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)  published a fascinating report (pdf) today on the gTLD business. The report is entitled: “Say .anything – Opening Up the gTLD Landscape” and subtitled: “Examining the potential value the new gTLD initiative creates for Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) and Web.com (WWWW)” Its a 17 page report which you of course should check out in its entirety since it is a very interesting look into the business of domain name registrar and registries and offers some huge estimates ... read more ...
 
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So Now That Apple Paid $60 Million To Settle The TM Dispute Over iPad In China, Tell Me Domains Are Expensive - News out this morning here in Europe is that Apple just paid $60 Million dollars to settle the claim of a Chinese company over a trademark for the term iPad. Yes Apple bought the Trademark rights from a Taiwanese company, but a Chinese company claimed the rights purchased did not include mainland China. So Apple just paid  $60 Million to settle a trademark dispute really for only mainland China. Now tell me how expensive domain names are. Go ahead. Tell me how crazy it was for Facebook to shell ... read more ...
 
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Facebook says genuine estate organisation is cybersquatting on 30 domain names - 30 domains include “facebook” in them. Facebook has filed a cybersquatting complaint against a San Diego area realty company, claiming that the company is cybersquatting on its famous mark. The complaint with National Arbitration Forum lists thirty total domain names that include the Facebook name andrew are registered to Pellegrino Realty in La Mesa, California: facebookbroker.com facebookclothes.com facebookcupid.com facebookdating.net facebookdirectbuy.com facebookevites.com facebookexchange.com facebookexchange.net facebookgreeting.com facebookgreetings.com facebookhub.com facebookjukebox.com facebooklayoutpimp.com facebooklayoutpro.com facebookmusicstore.com facebookperfectmatch.com facebookpoked.com facebookpokers.com facebookpoking.com facebookpress.com facebookringtones.net facebookshop.net facebooksingles.net facebooksticker.com facebookstickers.net facebookstuff.net facebookthreads.net facebooktones.com pimpmyfacebook.net shopfacebook.net I ... read more ...
 
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Academy Sports sues Blackwater over the new name Academi - Sports store not happy about private military company’s new name. Academy Ltd., which operates the Academy Sports + Outdoors retail chain, has sued Academi, formally known as Blackwater, for trademark infringement. Yes, that Blackwater. Academy is concerned that Academi’s negative image could tarnish its brand and that there could be consumer confusion. According to the suit (pdf), Given the corporate history of Defendant and the negative media coverage stemming ... read more ...
 
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One domainer’s fascinating 15 year income statement - The ups and downs of the domain name business. Domain investor and web site creator Eric Borgos just published a list of the domains he has sold in the first half of the year. It’s quite interesting and worth a read. But I want to draw domainers’ attention to another page on Borgos’ site that has always fascinated me. He publishes his revenue and net profit by year dating back to 1997. To be clear, Borgos develops web sites on many of the domains he owns. But ... read more ...
Sun 1st July 2012
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The New York Times Covers Juan Calle The CEO of .CO Internet - The New York Times just covered Juan Diego Calle the CEO of .CO Internet SAS. Here are just a few out takes for the rest you will have to check out the whole story. One thing not in the story is that Straat Investments has applied for 13 new gTLD’s so as impressive as Juan’s rags to riches story is as told by the NYT its just starting and the guy is only 34. “My light-bulb moment came in 2007, when a colleague mentioned that Colombia’s government was exploring how to commercialize ... read more ...