Monthly Archives: August 2012

Tue 28th August 2012
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New Study: Nearly 50% Of All UDRP Cases Decided By NAF Are Decided By 7 Panelists - A new study comissioned by attorney Zak Muscovitch shows that of all the UDRP cases decided by the National Arbitration Forum one of the two organizations that decide almost all UDRP cases, 7 panelist account for 50% of the decisions. The NAF has administered approximately 17,000 disputes since 1999 The study published this morning by DNattorney.com This study is really an update to one done by  in 2010. “In March, 2010, DNattorney.com released a comprehensive study (the Original Study) on the ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings Hires Michael Feeley Formerly With Kanoodle & Sendori - According to a press release today, Domain Holdings announced the hiring of former Kanoodle Co-Founder Michael Feeley as its Vice President of Sales for  DomainPower. “Feeley’s role will include driving and maximizing revenue for DomainPower publishers, as well developing opportunities for expansion into new monetization channels.” “Michael knows this industry. He knows where it is, where it is heading and how we can reach across multiple channels to service the evolution,” Domain Holdings ... read more ...
 
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Dear Alexander, a macros on your domain spam aren’t working! - Dear Alexander, I feel like I know you so much even though we’ve never met in person. You’ve been such a helpful friend all these years. You email me whenever a domain name similar to one I own is expiring and going up for auction. Sure, you don’t actually own the domain name and will just put in a backorder if I “express an interest” in the domain name. Yet keeping me informed about all of these domain names available at Domain Names International (DBA ... read more ...
 
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Royal Bank of Scotland files 34 UDRPs - Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services goes into overdrive with large client. Royal Bank of Scotland and its National Westminster Bank Plc have decided to go bulk in cracking down on cybersquatters. The company just filed 34 UDRP cases covering 35 domain names in one fell swoop. This is hardly the bank’s first foray into UDRP. UDRPSearch.com lists 133 cases (including the new ones) filed by Royal Bank of Scotland and 116 filed by National Westminster Bank plc. Based ... read more ...
 
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Learning a tough way: RNC orator slammed in satire web site - Speaker’s company name registered for parody web site. Tonight at the Republican National Convention, small business owner and Delaware Lt. Governor candidate Sher Valenzuela will address the crowd. The theme of the day is “We Built It”, playing off of Barack Obama’s remarks about how the government plays a role in society. Valenzuela helped build her business First State Manufacturing into a successful small business. The company proudly displays its accomplishments ... read more ...
 
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National Arbitration Forum continues to palm infancy of cases to name panelists - Seven panelists hear nearly half of all NAF UDRP cases. Zak Muscovitch has updated his National Arbitration Forum (NAF) panelist study originally released in 2010. The results published on DNAttorney.com have basically the same conclusion as his original report: the National Arbitration Forum hands most of its caseload to a select group of panelists. Just seven American panelists heard nearly half of all of NAF’s caseload from March 5, 2010 – July 4, 2012. It’s ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings continues to sinecure a whole domain name industry - Michael Feeley latest to join Domain Holdings. If you’ve been in the domain name industry for a long time and are thinking about making a move, I suggest you give Domain Holdings a call. The company’s latest addition is Michael Feeley as vice president of sales. To say Feeley has been in the industry for a while is an understatement. I still remember at the turn of the century when Feeley would call me to pitch me on Kanoodle, a pay-per-click company he co-founded. ... read more ...
Mon 27th August 2012
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Apple Does It Again: Names Its new Product The iPad Mini Without Securing The Domain Name iPadMini.com 1st - Apple, Inc. (AAPL)  just named its smaller iPad,  the iPad Mini which is suppose to be released in October. The domain name iPadMini.com is owned by Elie Berreby of Paris. The domain was registered in 2005 well before the iPad was named, but after the iPod was a best seller. The iPhone wasn’t released until 2007. The domain name iPadMini.com goes to a page that says in part: “IP Ad Mini is a geo advertising project (beta). We serve geo targeted ads based on the IP address of users. With precise ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Awards Voting Closes Tonight At 9PM EST - The ballots for the TRAFFIC awards went out this morning and voting closes tonight at 9pm EST. If you got a ballot in your email and want to vote you have to do it today. Congrats to all nominees Here is the info: “T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 AWARDS BALLOT” “TODAY is the day for voting. Please indicate your choices below and return this ballot by 9PM EDT TODAY” BEST NEW MONETIZING SOLUTIONS (Vote for one) __BankAds.com __DomainNameSales.com __DomainPower.com __InternetTraffic.com __JuiceCow.com __ParkLogic.com __Protrada.com __Rook ... read more ...
 
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Nederlandse consultatie nieuwe internetnamen van start - Nieuwsbericht | 27-08-2012 Het ministerie van Economische Zaken, Landbouw Innovatie (ElI) biedt bedrijven, organisaties en particulieren de mogelijkheid om tot en met 21 september 2012 te reageren op de voorgenomen uitbreiding van het internet met 1.930 nieuwe topleveldomeinnamen (TLDs), zoals .overheidnl, .sport,.love, .media, .amsterdam en .bank. ICANN ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), de organisatie die wereldwijd internetadressen ... read more ...
 
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MobileApps.com For $1 Million+ we Don’t Get It - TechCrunch.com published a post today on the domain name MobileApps.com which the owner is selling for a cool million plus. According to the story the owner already has a possible buy which is ” a big company (and I mean big)”. The Seller went on to say ““One broker is speaking to [redacted] and they have expressed interest despite us telling them it is a 7-figure offer that we are looking for” Now sfgate.com has picked up on the story as well. So let me be the 1st to say as a domain name ... read more ...
 
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Oops, we entrusted my domain name to a little island nation! - Company using .st domain name learns a hard lesson. The world takes .com’s uptime, along with that of many other TLDs run by large registries, for granted. Consider the story of registration site Voost!, which uses the “clever” domain name voo.st. In a post titled “Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name”, one of the founders details how its site became unavailable thanks to problems with the .st top level domain name. You mean something can go ... read more ...
 
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Your domain names are value reduction than we think - You probably want more money for your domain names than they’re worth. This weekend I was at the mall waiting “about an hour” for my new eyeglasses. With time to kill, I turned to Twitter and saw this tweet from Elliot Silver: Elliot is not one to be over critical, so I had to click through to see what all of the fuss was about. Here’s the background. Recently Elliot started doing a weekly post with a handful of top listings from various domain brokers. ... read more ...
 
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Four domain name panels on a list for SXSW - Topics range from new TLDs to government interference. SXSW 2013 is more than six months away, but there are just a few days left to vote for which panels you want to see. The SXSW Panel Picker closes August 31. I discovered four domain name related panels in the panel picker. Here they are, along with a link to their full description. New Domains Have Landed – Now What!? Speaker: Jeremiah Johnston, Sedo Jeremiah Johnston gave a “Future 15″ presentation on new ... read more ...
Fri 24th August 2012
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UDRP On CloudProvider.com Rejected Even Without A Response By The Domain Holder - A UDRP claim was rejected today on the domain name CloudProvider.com The claim was so bad the one person panel rejected it even in absence of a response by the domain holder. The complainant was XXL Webhosting B.V of Leeuwarden, Netherlands. The complainant didn’t have a registered trademark on the generic term, but they did own several similar domains; cloudprovider.nl, cloudprovider.eu and cloudproviderusa.com The panel rejected the complainant’s claim that they were entitled to the domain ... read more ...
 
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Federal Judge Rules Poker Is a Game Of Skill & Doesn’t Violate Gambling Laws - A federal Court has just ruled that Poker is a game of skill rather than luck opening the door to a huge change in the treatment of Internet gambling in the US The case UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Vs. LAWRENCE DICRISTINA was decided by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York The case seemed to turn on the testimony of Randal D. Heeb, “a respected economist, statistician, and player in national poker tournaments”, who testified as an expert on game theory. The opinion ... read more ...
 
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UK Study: Paid Search (PPC) Accounts For Only 6% of Total Clicks - According to research from GroupM UK carried out with Nielsen which was published by econsultancy.com,  “paid search only accounts for 6% of total clicks from search engines versus natural search at 94% of clicks”. “The research, based on 28m people in the UK, making a total of 1.4bn search queries during June 2011, is the first in the UK to reveal click through rate (CTR) by natural search position for both brand and non-brand search terms and how these CTRs change by vertical.” This ... read more ...
 
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No, I’m not going to mislay your couple from my web site - Google’s rhetoric about unnatural linking has created quite a hassle. I have a number of old web sites I haven’t touch in a while. Many of these are directory type sites I set up nearly a decade ago. That mostly get a few hundred visitors a month. Lately people have started contacting me about them. Here are a couple example emails: To whom it may concern, It has come to our attention that your websites or the websites hosted by your company contains links to ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Wire’s posting frequency - It’s been fairly steady since 2008. Occasionally I’ll run into someone at a conference who says “I’ve noticed you don’t post nearly as much ever since you started doing work for Media.net” or something to that effect. I’ve kind of brushed these comments off because I feet like I post just as much as I used to. But after the third person said that I decided I’d just run the numbers to see if I was right. Behold, the numbers… Here’s my monthly posting ... read more ...
Thu 23rd August 2012
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Google Ads Planner Changes Go Into Effect On Sep 5th & They Don’t Sound Good - According to SearchEngineWatch.com, Google Ad Planner customers have been receiving email notifications that changes are coming to the tool September 5. Including that  users will no longer be able to research domains or ad placements that are not part of the Google Display Network. Demographic data is being reduced. Users will no longer have access to Keywords Searched For, Videos Also Watched, Household Income or Education. The Publisher Center, which allows users to claim their own sites, will ... read more ...
 
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Class Action Lawfirm “Investigating” Demand Media, Inc. To See If It “Violated Securities Laws” - According to a press release,  a class action lawfirm, Branham Law, LLP, “announced today it is investigating Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD) to determine whether it has violated securities laws by issuing false and misleading statements to its shareholders.” “This investigation is a result of disclosures made about changes to Google’s search engine methodologies that have significantly reduced the references to the Company’s websites. References to the Company’s websites are a substantial ... read more ...
 
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Google Granted Patent To Modify SEO Results Based On “Spamming Techniques” - According to a post in seobythesea.com, Google was granted a patent last week, which describes several ways how search results might be reordered based upon “rank-modifying spamming techniques,” may involve techniques such as: Keyword stuffing, Invisible text, Tiny text, Page redirects, Meta tags stuffing, and Link-based manipulation. The patent is: Ranking documents Invented by Ross Koningstein Assigned to Google US Patent 8,244,722 Granted August 14, 2012 Filed: January 5, 2010 Abstract “A ... read more ...
 
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Cosm.Com & Cosm.Net Bought For “Over $55K” Saved In A UDRP - Mithral Communications Design, Inc. brought a UDRP Complaint against the domain names cosm.com, and cosm.net, which the domain holder bought for “over $55,000″. The three member panel ruled in favor of the domain holder despite a Trademark and desipte cosm.net doesn’t even resolve, based of a planned use of the domain name by the holder. Here are the relevant facts and findings: “Complainant claims that it owns rights in its COSM mark by having registered the mark with the USPTO (Reg. No. ... read more ...
 
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Possible.com Sells On Afternic.com For $150K - A reader sent me a screen shot showing that the domain name Possible.com sold back on August 6th for $150,000. Afternic.com has not yet reported the sale in its weekly report. DomainTools.com confirms the changed in ownership.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.Nxt discussion is .gone - New top level domain name conference scheduled for next week is cancelled. A conference can survive one cancellation if there are extenuating circumstances. That may have been the case with the .Nxt conference previously scheduled for June in London. ICANN had postponed the release of the list of new top level domain name applications, which was a big milestone scheduled for ahead of the conference. But a conference will not survive a second cancellation, especially ... read more ...