Monthly Archives: August 2012

Sat 11th August 2012
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ComputerRepairs.com Sells For $25K On NameJet.com - The domain name ComputerRepairs.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for $25,655. There were 235 bidders in the auction. There were 3 bidders willing to pay $10k or more for the domain. The winning bidder goes by the bidder Id of  “22twos”. In some other sales this week on Namejet.com,  43.net sold for $8,800; Certification.net sold for $7,5o1 which seems to be a nice price; cush.com sold for $5K and Sendo.com for $3,811 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 10th August 2012
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ICANN Extends Comment Period For New gTLD’s 45 Days Until Sep 26th - After requests of many groups, ICANN has officially extended the comment period on the new gTLD’s for an additional 45 days. The new end date is now 26 September 2012. Its a good move by ICANN, which by eliminating digital archery and going with a one batch application processing system, is basically out to at least June before much else happens. Many trade groups including the Business Constituency (BC) to ICANN requested an extended comment period and granting this extension allows more comments ... read more ...
 
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With Just Under Two Weeks To Go, Over Half of a Domains In a SnapNames/Dotster Auction Have Bids - We have all seen showcase auctions where there were just a handful of domains that wound up with bids, but it looks like SnapNames.com is on to something with their Dotster Showcase Auction. The auction which doesn’t end until Thursday August 23rd at 3:15pm EST already has more than half the domain names with a bid. While there are no big numbers yet, its a welcome sight to see an auction with bidders. Out of the 81 domain names in the auction as of publication 41 have bids. Pretty good with almost ... read more ...
 
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Generic Domain Name Buff.com Hit With A UDRP From Owner Of Buff.eu - The domain name Buff.com has just been hit with a UDRP The complainant is Original Buff, S.A. which owns a Trademark on the term Buff in many countries but seems like the main one is spain. In the US it looks like the trademark was just filed in 2011. It looks like Buff’s offical site is at buff.eu Looks like Buff makes scarves and buffs like you see on Survivor. The domain is owned by Buff Blog with a current creation date of 1997. The domain is not active and goes to a 404 page. According to ... read more ...
 
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Forbes Shines The Light On .Me Domains Including Meet.me - Forbes.com just told the world about .Me domains and highlighted Meet.me as one of the top 10 sites using a .Me domain that people should keep an eye on. “After you’ve found the guts to start your own venture, have assembled the right team, and have an initial product, you start brainstorming company names. As you’re brainstorming company names, you cross them with available domain names. You quickly realize the only decent length “.com”s left are “apsoif.com”. ” “Sadly, even if ... read more ...
 
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Wow: Craigslist loses Craigslists.com domain dispute - UDRP panel doesn’t understand that page is just an automated parked page. Online classifieds site Craigslist has lost a case against one Craig Solomon for the domain name CraigsLists.com (note the extra ‘s’ at the end). The National Arbitration Forum panel relied heavily on laches — Craigslist’s delay in filing the dispute — in coming to its determination. Although that’s great news for domain investors, at the end of the day I think the panel was duped. The ... read more ...
 
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Whitserv says it’s entrance after domain registrars for promulgation renovation notices - Company claims it has patents related to sending renewal notices. Whitserv, a company suing Go Daddy for alleged patent infringement related to sending renewal reminder notices, says it has put other domain registrars “on notice” as well. Last year Whitserv filed suit against Go Daddy for how it sends reminder notices to renew domain names. The company apparently got a victory related to the same patents against another company, so it just sent out a press release: [Whitserv ... read more ...
 
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X Factor 2 spoiler? Show registers domain names of some contestants - Names of some X Factor 2 contestants are registered. A number of personal names were recently registered by brand protection company DNStinations/Mark Monitor. It took me a while to figure out what they were up to. But it appears all of the names are those of X Factor 2 contestants. I’ve never watched the show before, but it appears the second season (for the U.S.) is ready to kick off on TV this fall. I’m not sure why the show’s producers selected these particular ... read more ...
Thu 9th August 2012
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Vertical Axis Loses UDRP On Tytan.com But Gets A LONG Dissenting Opinion - Vertical Axis after a nice string of wins, just lost a UDRP on the domain name tytan.com The three member panel voted 2-1 in favor of the trademark holder but the honorable Neil Brown in well reasoned dissent made the argument of why the case should have went for the domain holder. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the panel: “Since at least 1997, Complainant has produced and marketed foam and sealant products used in the construction of buildings and houses.  B “Beginning in 1997, ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED: Bill Hartzer.com Reports Front Running By Godaddy.com - In a story published a couple of days ago blogger BillHartzer.com citing another report,  says Godaddy.com maybe front running domain registrations. “Godaddy, the domain name registrar, has apparently been caught registering domain names after someone has looked up the availability of a domain name. ” “This guy claims that he looked up a domain name to see if that domain name was available. The domain name was available, but apparently he did not register the domain name that day. He came ... read more ...
 
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In The Last Of A Trio Of Cases Already In Federal Court, A UDRP Panel Finally Refuses To Rule - In the last couple of weeks we have cited two UDRP cases in which they domain holder had already filed a federal court action for declaratory judgement and the UDRP panel decided the case anyway. Today a UDRP panel finally did the right thing and passed on ruling on the UDRP based on the pending federal court case in a UDRP on the domain name Triba.com The previous two cases involved the domain name Vanity.com, which ruled in favor of the “trademark holder” despite a federal lawsuit, while  ... read more ...
 
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Amazing! If we hunt for duck in a hunt box, you’ll get duck associated results - Lawyer manipulates parked page links in UDRP. Here’s a fun fact: if you search for “chicken” in the search box of a parked page, you’ll get search results related to chicken. And if you are a complainant basing your allegations of targeted infringement on said search results, you’re probably not going to win your case. That’s what just happened with a case brought by Raising Cane’s USA, LLC. The company owns chicken finger restaurants and apparently ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com: domain and web site exchange adult 21% - Escrow.com sees transaction growth yet again. How’s the domain name market doing? Quite well, thank you very much. I reached out to Brandon Abbey, president of Escrow.com, to find out how business is this year. Abbey says that Escrow.com’s transaction volume for domain names and web sites was up 15% in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. The dollar volume for these transactions was up a whopping 21%. Keep in mind that 2011 was also a record ... read more ...
 
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Interview: Kieren McCarthy on .Nxt conference - Kieren McCarthy discusses the upcoming .Nxt conference. The .Nxt conference on new top level domain names is August 29-31 in London. I reached out to show organizer Kieren McCarthy for details. 1. You postponed the London conference to August. Why? Quite simply, the ICANN TAS software “glitch”. The conference was planned with a seven-week lead time between the applicant information being published and opening the doors. We figured that would give everyone enough ... read more ...
Wed 8th August 2012
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Seminole Tribe of Florida Loses UDRP On SeminoleCasino.com & SeminoleGaming.com - The Seminole Tribe of Florida which operates in conjunction with Hard Rock, the Hard Rock Seminole Casino’s in Hollywood Florida and in Tampa, Florida just lost a UDRP on three domain names, seminolecasino.com, seminolegaming.com and casinoseminole.com. The domain holder is M.M.Commerce of  Florida  which seems to be the original registrants of the domain going back to 2004. The official site for the Hollywood casino is Seminolehardrockhollywood.com and for Tampa its, Seminolehardrocktampa.com The ... read more ...
 
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April’s ICANN Registry Reports Are Out & .XXX Adds 30,000 Registrations Since December - The Registry reports are out for April 2012, and it looks like ICM registry the owner of .XXX extension is up to 134,884 registrations. As of December 2011, the month .XXX launched, they reported 106K registrations, so they have added almost 30K domain registrations in 4 months. (Even though we are in August we are talking about the most recent Registry reports which are for April) Godaddy is the has almost 25% of all registrations. Neither of these numbers include the ten year blocks offered by ... read more ...
 
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Report: New York Times Selling About.com To Answers.com For $270 Million - According to a AllthingsD.com, the New York Times is selling About.com to Answers.com for $270 Million dollars. “”AllthingsD goes on to say, the deal hasn’t closed yet, and I’m told that Answers’ backers — PE firms Summit Partners and TA Associates — are trying to line up financing.” “The Times bought About, the precursor to “content farms” like Demand Media, for $410 million in 2005. ” “Last month, the Times took a $195 million goodwill write-down on the unit, which is ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells XINJIANG.COM For $55K & MSG.Me For $25K - Two sales just crossed the Sedo sales wire, XINJIANG.COM For $55K and MSG.Me For $25K. MSG.me was owned by StartNow International Limited of Great Britain. I’m going to say the buyer was the owner of message.me, although the domain is still in escrow at Sedo.com Message.me just sold at Sedo in June for $20K. Message.me is a partially developed site which is also showing as Sedo as owner at the moment. Here is what Message.me says on their site: “”What is message.me? message.me allows you to ... read more ...
 
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Google Enters The “Bad Hosts & Networks” List As #27; Oversee Drops To # 50 & MOMENTOUS Makes A Sublist - Google a new gTLD applicant has entered the “Bad Hosts Networks List” for the 2nd Quarter of 2012 as number 27 while Oversee.net improved to number 50. The list which is complied and published HostExploit.com Oversee.net which was number one on the top 50 list in the third quarter of 2011 improved all the way to just make the list as number 50. In the indivdual reports Oversee.net is number 3 on the “Badware List”: “Badware fundamentally disregards how users might choose to employ ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media’s White Paper On New gTLD’s - Demand Media, Inc. published a white paper (pdf) on the new gTLD’s today and I found it an interesting read. The paper is entitled: “The Opportunity for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Some of the highlights: “After years of planning and debate, a big change is coming to the way organizations and individuals identify themselves online. The characters to the right of the last dot — known in the industry as the Top Level Domain (TLD) — are being opened up to accommodate a new way of thinking. ... read more ...
 
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What domains Princeton and others bought this week - Princeton and others make end user domain purchases. Before jumping in to the regular report, Jason Davis brought my attention to a sale that recently closed at GoDaddy. Jobing.com, which owns Recruiting.com, bought Onboarding.com for $20,000. The sale took place at GoDaddy. Afternic Concierge Auctions, LLC bought RanchAuctions.com for $2,088. K. Simon Construction, a roofing company, bought DallasRoofingContractors.com for $2,488. All Generations Home Care dropped ... read more ...
Tue 7th August 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $921K in Domains Led By GlobalCareer.com At $29,600 - Afternic.com just posted it results for the week ending August 5th and totaled $921K in sales. Sales were led by globalcareer.com for $29,600 which was an owned and operated domain of Buydomains.com as was the second highest sale of gobstopper.com for $16,500. Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Caesars World Loses UDRP Bid For CaesarsEntertainment.com To A Massage Parlor in Thailand - Caesars World, Inc the company that owns Caesars Palace, just lost a UDRP on the domain name caesarsentertainment.com. The domain is owned by P.T.Complex Co.,Ltd (“Respondent”) which operates a massage parlor by the same name in Thailand. I knew that would get your attention. So the UDRP panel recognizing that parties were already in litigation, passed on making a ruling on the UDRP leaving the courts to decide. This is markedly different from the panel in Vanity.com UDRP, which despite pending ... read more ...
 
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Demand Reports: Revenue Up 17%; Registrar Revenue Up 13% & Swings to A Profit - After the market closed today Demand Media, Inc, (NYSE: DMD) reported earnings for the quarter ending June 30, 2012. Revenues were up and the company swung to a profit. Shares after hours are trading at $12 a share up around 3%. More importantly they up their guidance for the third quarter and 2012 in general. For the quarter ending June 30th, Revenue Grew 17% and Revenue ex-TAC (Traffic Acquisition Cost) was Up 16% Year-over-Year Adjusted EBITDA Increased 20% Year-over-Year Cash Flow from Operations ... read more ...
 
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Michael Blend Named President and COO of Demand Media - According to a Press release just out Michael Blend was named president and chief operating officer (COO) of Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), effective August 16. “Michael’s leadership will be instrumental as we continue to build upon our successful growth in content and media, as well as embark on a new era of internet domain expansion” “As president and COO, Blend will add to his current role the operational management and oversight of the company’s registrar services and the launch of ... read more ...