Monthly Archives: August 2012

Wed 15th August 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
EdibleArrangements.com Acquires Edible.com - Another single word .Com is off the market probably forever as EdibleArrangements.com just acquired the domain name Edible.com. The domain transferred over according to DomainTools.com in late June of this year. The domain name Edible.com is being forwarded to their site so they are not re-branding to the shorter domain which I think is a good idea in this case. The previous owner was listed as Todd Dalton of  London UK. The domain has an original registration date as best as I can tell of 1998. So ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Refuses To Hand Over Newmd.com to Owner of TM For NueMd - A one member UDRP panel just rejected the claim of the trademark holder of NeuMd seeking to take away the domain name NewMd.com” “Complainant filed for registration of its NUEMD mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on August 16, 2000.” ” The registration was accepted on January 29, 2002 and was effective as of August 16, 2000. ” “The Complainant has used its mark in connection with marketing healthcare management software.  Moreover, Complainant owns nuesoft.com and ... read more ...
 
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If Your Co-Branding Your Site With FriendFinder You Might Be in Trouble - According to a post in xBiz.com,  “FriendFinder Networks Inc. has begun the process of shutting 5,000 co-branded websites, calling them ” too cumbersome and cost prohibitive” to continue operating”. “The move, announced today during a conference call on 2nd quarter financial numbers, shifts the focus of an affiliate network strategy to one that supports the further development of primary brands, which number about 100.” “Previte noted that the company still operates about 28,000 websites, ... read more ...
 
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FastCompany: If we Own More Than 300 Domain Names You Suffer From Domain Name Addiction - In what seems like an Article published by Domaingang.com,  FastCompany.com, just published an article asking  “Have You Registered 300 Domain Names?” “If so, you may be suffering from “domain name addiction”–the tendency to register many URLs without following through on one strong idea, says recovering addict Lea Woodward.” Yep Ms. Woodward went on to say: “At one stage I had about 90, which is apparently nothing. A lot of online entrepreneurs have 150, 200, as many as 300 domains ... read more ...
 
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Nem kér a .gay, .sex és .virgin doménekből Szaúd-Arábia - Felszólalt Szaúd-Arábia az olyan doménvégződések tervezett bevezetése ellen, mint a .gay, .sex és .virgin. Az ország infokommunikációjáért felelős szervezete, a Hírközlési és Informatikai Bizottság (CITC) szerint az efféle címek bizonyos közösségekben és kultúrákban megbotránkoztatóak lehetnek. A hatóság a hivatalos kifogását a .com, .net és hasonló végződéseket kiegészítő, általános felsőszintű domének (gTLD-k) szabályozásáért és bevezetéséért felelős ... read more ...
 
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Court Uses Case Of CFIT Vs. Verisign To Hammer ICM’s & ICANN’s Motion To Dismiss Manwin Claims - A federal court made a ruling in the case involving Manwin, the owner of YouPorn.com, brought against ICM, the operator of the .XXX extension, and ICANN the non-profit organization which gave ICM the contract to operate the .XXX TLD ICM. The ruling involved ICM ICANN’s motion to dismiss the case. Bottom line ICM ICANN got two of the 2 of the 6 cause of actions thrown out but the court let the case continue on 4 of the 6 claims. The court cited time and time again throughout its ruling the federal ... read more ...
 
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In The Biggest Reported .Co Sale of 2012, Cruises.co Sold For $82,500 - In what appears to be the biggest .Co sale of 2012, I received an a copy of an escrow transaction from the seller showing they sold the domain name Cruises.co for $82,500. The buyer seems to be the same buyer who bought Cruise.co from one of  Mike Mann’s company’s  Codom Holdings, LLC, in 2010 for $25K, Cruise.Co.Uk Ltd. Cruise.co has the same logo Cruise.co.uk but a clearly different format. The domain name Cruises.co is going to a registrar holding page for DomainMonster.com at the moment, ... read more ...
 
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Citibank: New gTLD .Citi Is Not Confusing to Applications For .City or .CITIC - Citibank today filed two comments with ICANN stating that theie application for .Citi should not be found to be confusing similar to either the 3 applications for .City (although the are pronounced exactly the same) or for the brand application for .CITIC filed by .CITIC Group Corporation. Citibank filed the comment pro-actively as I don’t see any objections to .Citi filed by anyone else based off of confusion. On the applications for .City, Brian J. Winterfeldt Counsel on behalf of Citigroup ... read more ...
 
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The beauty of .llc, .inc, etc. - A steady stream of free leads makes corporate identifiers a compelling top level domain business. A number of companies want to sell domain names ending in company type indicators such as .llc and .inc. At first I wasn’t very warm to this idea. But there’s something unique about these corporate identifiers that may make them a good business for the registry: free lead lists. If you’ve ever set up a corporate entity, at least in United States, you probably got ... read more ...
Tue 14th August 2012
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Sedo Reports $1.9 Million in Domains Led By Bra.com For $165K - Sedo just reported  782 transactions took place on its marketplace for last week and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.9 million. 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: bra.com at 165,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: msg.me at 25,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: included.org at 4,513 EUR Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $1.1MM in Domains Led By ZenSocial.com At $15K - Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totaling $1,108,957 for the week ending August 12th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by ZenSocial.com for $15,000, followed by CupOfCoffee.com for $12,000. Personally I like thedownlow.com which sold for $1,566. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Lish.com Bought For $45k on Sedo in Jun By Payvment Launches & Gets Covered By TechCrunch.com - The domain name Lish.com sold on Sedo.com in June for $45,000. Today according to a press release, the buyer of the domain is  Payvment, which calls itself “the number one Facebook ecommerce platform”, launched a site on the domain. Payvment has raised $7.75 Million in funding. Lish.com also got some love from TechCrunch.com which ran a story on it today. Back to the press release: “Lish.com, is a “new product discovery destination that lets people shop what’s trending across the social ... read more ...
 
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Buy, Register or Renew A .SY Domain & You May Go To Jail For 20 Years - An interesting story in Slate.com last night highlighting the site Art.sy,  but more generally the problem buying, registering 0r renewing an domain name with the .Sy extension, if your subject to US law. .Sy is the ccTLD for  Syria which is run by an agency of the Syrian government, NANS. “On Aug. 10, 2011, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the U.S. Treasury Department designated the Commercial Bank of Syria a Specially Designated National (SDN) and froze all property and assets ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s Just Posted the Webinar it Held Last Week on The New gTLD Program - ICANN just posted its Webinar it held last week on the new gTLD program You can listen to it by clicking here According to ICANN “here is an overview of what was covered during last week’s webinar”: “Initial Evaluation Is Underway All applications have now been assigned to the relevant geographic, string similarity, and DNS stability evaluation panels. Of the 1927 applications, 342 have been allocated to both the financial capability and the technical and operational capability panels. Clarification ... read more ...
 
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The Internet Map Shows You Where Your Site Ranks: a Bi-dimensional Presentation of Links Between Sites - I came across the map of the Internet today. You can try it for one of your developed sites or for site you visit like TheDomains.com Here is the info from the author: “The Internet map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites ... read more ...
 
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Sedo says domain parking stability to decline, writes off EUR 57.1 million - Company says intense competition and overall decline in domain parking are hurting its business. Sedo Holding, which runs Sedo and affiliate marketing company Affilinet, recently released first half financial results. Last month I wrote about how Sedo had lowered expectations for domain parking. Now the company says its domain parking business trajectory is worse than expected. The Sedo segment of Sedo Holding declined 17.9% in the first half of 2012 compared to 2011. ... read more ...
 
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Tucows sells $1.1 million in domains, credits improved classification for increasing sales - Categorization leads to strong aftermarket domain name sales. Last night Tucows reported earnings for the second quarter including $1.1 million in domain name sales from its own portfolio. Revenue from domain sales and parking totaled $1.6 million. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss credits two marketing initiatives for the strong aftermarket domain sales, but it can be summarized in one word: organization. Here’s how he explained it on the investor conference call last night: In ... read more ...
Mon 13th August 2012
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Tucows Reports: Revenue Up 22% & YummyNames.com Sells $1.6 Million In Domains - Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX) (TC.TO), reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 after the market closed today. Net revenue for the second quarter of 2012 increased 22% to a record $28.2 million from $23.0 million for the second quarter of 2011 and was driven by growth in each of the Company’s three service categories. Tucows sold just about $1.6 million in domains for the three months ending June 30, 2012 Net income for the second quarter of 2012 was $0.7 million, ... read more ...
 
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Communication & Information Technology Commission of Saudi Arabia Objects To .Baby, Thinks Its Like .XXX - An interesting objection appeared today in the new ICANN  comment section from the  Communication and Information Technology Commission, Kindom of Saudi Arabia, who is objecting to the new gTLD application for .Baby “”We consider there is a risk that this string is used in the same way as .XXX to host pornographic websites. “Many individuals and societies may find this string offensive on religious and/or cultural grounds. We oppose the introduction of this gTLD string on both of these grounds, ... read more ...
 
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Google Makes 86 Algorithm Changes In June/July Including Better Detection of Adult Material - According to a blog post, Google has made 86 changes to its Algorithm in June and July. We placed in black the one we think are the most important. Here they are: Here’s the list for June: uefa-euro1. [project codename “Answers”] Addition of a live result showing schedule and scores of the EURO 2012 games (European championship of national soccer teams). #82293. [project codename “Answers”] Improved dictionary search feature by adding support for more natural language searches. Better HTML5 ... read more ...
 
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Founder Of Buffer & OnePage on How To Name Your Start Up : “Domain Names Don’t Really Matter” - In a blog post by the founder of Buffer and One Page,  Joel Gascoigne, which uses the domain bufferapp.com and MyOnePage.com, entitled “How to Name Your Startup”, he tells readers that “domain names don’t really matter” I see many, many founders limiting themselves with the domain name. ” “One thing I’ve learned and embraced with naming my own startups is that the domain name doesn’t matter at all.” “The name itself matters much more than having the same domain name. ” “Pick ... read more ...
 
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Generic DietCenters.com Hit With UDRP - The generic domain name DietCenters.com just got hit with a UDRP filing. The domain name with an original registration date of 1997. The domain goes to a directory of called the Diet Centers Directory Directory, which has links to some site and some  PPC type of links but is not a traditional parked page. The complainant is a company named Diet Center Worldwide, Inc. which seems to hold, in addition to others several trademarks on the term “Diet Center” but which does not appear to have a trademark ... read more ...
 
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Did A Internet Company Without A Domain Name Just Raise $3.5 Million? - This week, AwesomenessTV, a media company that operates a YouTube channel with programming closed a $3.5 million Series A investment round led by MK Capital. Greycroft Ventures Partners, New World Ventures, Machinima CEO Allen DeBevoise, UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer and MediaLink CEO Michael Kassan are among the other investors. The company’s YouTube channel, which launched in June, boasts more than 75,000 subscribers. “It’s been a great five weeks. We went from 0 views to 12 million in 5 weeks and ... read more ...
 
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Company turns to courts to save stolen EZQ.com domain name - Even after winning UDRP, company has to turn to courts to save stolen domain name. Last month I wrote about how EZQUEST, INC had won back control of its domain name EZQ.com through a UDRP decision. The company said the domain name had been stolen from its Go Daddy account. A Domain Name Wire reader sent me a link to an article showing that the battle is far from over. Apparently the alleged thief of the EZQ.com domain name filed some sort of lawsuit in China over ... read more ...
 
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Six months in, Tobias Flaitz on a domain name industry - Sedo’s new CEO opines on opportunity in the domain name industry. Editor’s note: Tobias Flaitz has been CEO of Sedo for about six months now. I recently reached out to him to get his thoughts on opportunities in the domain name industry, both for his company and the industry as a whole. Six months into my new role as CEO of Sedo, I’ve had the great opportunity to get to know my colleagues and many of our partners and to get diverse and big-picture insight into ... read more ...