Monthly Archives: August 2012

Tue 7th August 2012
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Sedo.com Reports $1.4 Million In Transactions - Sedo.com just issued its weekly report. In all 763 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.4 million. 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: designers.com at 118,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: hoteles.es at 275,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: teh.org at 4,000 USD Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Ari Goldberger Beats Back UDRP on Costa.com - In a UDRP decision just handed down, the domain holder beat back a challenge on the domain name Costa.com The Complainant wound up being Cross Optical Group, Inc. (“Complainant”), the domain holder, Electric Online, Inc. (“Respondent”), was represented by Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com Law Firm, New Jersey. Another good decision for domain holders as Costa is a generic term and means Coast in Spanish. Here are the facts and findings by the three member panel: “Complainant alleges that it ... read more ...
 
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AFNIC Awarded New Contract To Run .FR Registry But Only After Open Bidding Results In Reduced Prices - I know that a lot of American’s complain about the French, but in this case they got it right and we got it wrong. Like Verisign which operates the .com/.net registry under contract, AFNIC is the company that run’s the .FR registry for France under contract from the government and has done so since 1998. Due to complaints, France opened up bidding for the contract to run the registry. There were over a dozen bidders for the contract including FRNIC which PCWorld.fr named “as favorite to take ... read more ...
 
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Ukrainian Registrar Ukrnames Has Joined a SedoMLS Premium Network - Sedo announced this morning that Ukrainian registrar Ukrnames has joined the SedoMLS Premium network. “Full SedoMLS Premium partners like Ukrnames offer their customers the ability to purchase premium domains directly at their website, and to list their own names for sale in the SedoMLS network.” “Joining the SedoMLS Premium network helps us give our customers the greatest choice in domain services,” said Alexander Loboda, CEO of Ukrnames. “Adding the ability for customers to buy premium ... read more ...
 
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With An Original Registration Date Of 2007 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.com Can Soon Be Yours - As I go through the drop lists every day once in a while a name catches my eye. In this case I’m highlighting the domain name mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.com Yes the letter M repeated 24 times. The letter M repeated 23x .com is available but the letter m repeated 22x is taken since 2006 and the letter M repeated 25x is taken as well. So in the next couple of days you will have your chance to get the domain name, the letter M repeated 24X. If that domain doesn’t turn you on there is always myrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrresource.com ... read more ...
 
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233 millions de noms de domaine déposés - Selon Verisign qui gère les .com et les .net sur la planète, à la fin du premier trimestre, on compte 233 millions noms de domaine déposés ! Un nombre assez impressionnant, mais finalement pas si énorme que ça, même si l’organisme assure qu’il y a quasiment autant de sites.Sur le premier trimestre 2012, plus de 7,5 millions de noms de domaine ont été ajoutés, soit une croissance de 3,3% par rapport au quatrième trimestre de 2011. Il y a environ 116,7 millions de domaines actifs de ... read more ...
 
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A One Person UDRP Panel Comes To A Spilt Decision On 106 Domains Brought By Match.com - Match.com just won a UDRP on 104 of 106 domain names owned by one party,  by a “split decision”. A split decision might be easy to understand if it was a three member panel, but in this case it wasn’t. A one member panel came to a split decision by giving 104 of the 106 domain name sort under the UDRP to the trademark holder, strangely finding that two of the domains could mean something else other than being a typo of Chemistry.com or Match.com both owned by IAC. The complaint was brought ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy sells 32,766 domains led by JustWink.com during $65,000 - Go Daddy Auctions sales from July include a big end user sale. Last month Go Daddy sold 32,766 domain names through its Go Daddy Auctions platform. That’s about the same number as it sold in the previous month. The top sale was for JustWink.com at $65,000, and it had a big name buyer: it was purchased by American Greetings. Here are other top sales on the site in July: lasvegasbailbonds.com $22,005 naq.com $20,000 reducereadmissions.com $20,000 oversite.com $19,000 ... read more ...
 
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Wednesday domain news roundup - I’m on vacation for a couple weeks. I’ve got posts queued up for each day, but WordPress often “misses schedule” on posts. Anyhow, I’ll be a little slow on approving comments that get caught in moderation. I’ll also miss a story here and there. Here are some interesting domain news stories from around the web the past couple days, in condensed form. Michael Blend has been promoted at Demand Media. Michael has a long history in the domain industry and is ... read more ...
 
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Living Social finally goes after LivingSocal.com, though owners has a good defense - LivingSocal.com — a typo of LivingSocial.com or short for Living SoCal? Last year Living Social started to go after a number of typo domain names through UDRP. I expressed concern about the domain name LivingSocal.com. Unfortunately, I called this one. LivingSocial just filed a UDRP against LivingSoCal.com. (The complainant’s identity hasn’t been unveiled, but it’s a good bet.) Is it a typo of LivingSocial.com? Sure, it’s off by one letter. But SoCal is ... read more ...
 
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Why domain parking companies get named on “bad host” lists - Old data leads to parking companies landing on malware lists. Last October Oversee.net was named the “#1 Bad Host” by HostExploit, a group that compiles data about malware and other nefarious things on the web. It’s not the first time a domain parking company or registrar has been called out by HostExploit. So why is it that domain parking companies land on these bad lists? At a high level, it’s all about old data. “There’s a big misunderstanding about ... read more ...
Mon 6th August 2012
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Of.org Sells For $7,600 On NameJet.com; FacebookMobile.com Sells for $4K - Of.org sold for a pretty low price for a two letter .org which spells a word The closing auction price was only $7,603 on NameJet.com. There were almost 200 people in the auction but only 14 bid $1K or more for the domain. On the other hand a Trademark infringing type of domain, FacebookMobile.com sold for $4k In general the prices are NameJet.com seem to be in the $x,xxx area for the better domains with most selling in the $xxx range Here are a few sale we tracked since the beginning of the month:         Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Resumen de la industria de nombres de dominio en internet - Como operador del registro global de .com y .net, Verisign analiza el estado de la industria de nombres de dominio mediante diversas investigaciones estadísticas y analíticas y presenta el resumen de la industria de nombres de dominio de internet de Julio 2012.     El primer trimestre de 2012 finalizó con una base de más de 233 millones de nombres de dominio registrados entre todos los dominios de nivel superior (TLD), lo que representa un aumento de 7.5 millones de nombres de dominio, ... read more ...
 
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Turner Broadcasting Buys Bleacher Report for a Reported $175 Million - The BleacherReport.com has been sold to Turner Broadcasting for $175 Million dollars. The site was started just 6 years ago by four high school friends . The Wall Street Journal reported the price as “about $175 million.” TimeWarner owns Turner which own some other great properties including Golf.com and manages other sports sites like NBA.com and PGA.com The site had 10.1 million unique visitors in June, up from 7.9 million a year earlier, according to comScore. That places the site in the top ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Opens Up Submissions For The Live Domains Auction Including Pay For Submission Domains - According an email sent out by the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference they are formally opening up submission for the live domain name auction that will be held at the conference. Like last year there are several ways to get you domain submitted into the auction. Either have one of the most saleable domain based on reserve pricing or use the “Guaranteed Placement Program” IN announcing the opening of submissions, Mr,. Schwartz made it clear the type of domains he was looking for the auction: “I ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Rejects Claim On Navista.com, Owned By The Same Company That Owns UDRPSearch.com - A One person UDRP panel rejected the claim of Navista S.A. of Perpignan, France on the domain name Navista against the domain holder/Respondent, Virtual Point Inc. dba CrossPath, who was represented by Mike Rodenbaugh. Virtual Point, Inc. says it has been involved in the development of several sites including UDRPSearch.com The domain holder has already filed a federal lawsuit in the District Court to halt any transfer ordered by the Panel and to recover certain compensation from the Complainant, ... read more ...
 
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Vikings’ Adrian Peterson fights for adrianpeterson.com - NFL running back chases domain name. [Update: Adrian Peterson lost, mostly because his lawyer screwed up.] A domain name arbitration case for adrianpeterson.com has been filed with National Arbitration Forum. Although National Arbitration Forum doesn’t publish the name of the complainant until a dispute is decided, you can bet the case was filed by Minnesota Vikings player Adrian Peterson. Historical screenshots of the page show that it used to resolve to some ... read more ...
 
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NameMedia launches ignored domain marketplace DirectDomains.com - NameMedia tries segmenting the buyer market with new domain sales site. NameMedia has launched a new domain name marketplace dedicated solely to lower cost domains. The marketplace, DirectDomains.com, is targeted to domain name investors. Domain names on the marketplace are all under $3,000 and have been discounted between 35%-80% from their original price. Right now the inventory only includes NameMedia’s own domain name portfolio. If the site is successful then ... read more ...
Sat 4th August 2012
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Over 200 New Domain Registrations Point To A Las Vegas Sands Owned Casino In Canada - Over 200 new domain name registrations yesterday certainly indicate that Las Vegas Sands Corporation is looking to place a casino in Canada and it looks like Toronto is the target. Not only did Sands register domains for a casino with alternative names such as the sands, the Venetian and the Palazzo but they registered some corporate names and some charitable domain such as ontariosandsfoundation.com and some names warning players about playing too much like ontariosandsplayresponsibly.com Here are ... read more ...
Fri 3rd August 2012
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2 UDRP Panels Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Today on Mindo.com & SHA.com - In what be a record day, a two separate UDRP panels have found complainant’s guilt of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH). The  first case involved the domain name Mindo.com The second case involved the three letter domain name SHA.com The more interesting of the two cases is the Mindo.com case. The panel found RDNH even though the complainant had a trademark in the US and other countries which pre-dated the domain holders registration and despite the fact that the domain was parked. The complainants ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holder of The IDN, Cabañas.Com Beats Back A UDRP Challenge By The Owner of Cabanias.com - A three member UDRP panel just ruled in favor of the domain holder  of the IDN domain name which means CABAÑAS.COM The Complainant was Marco Rafael Sanfilippo of Buenos Aires, the owner of the domain name cabanias.com and the owner of a trademark for the term CABAÑAS in several countries. The domain holder is Estudio Indigo of Buenos Aires, who was represented by  Zac Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm, Canada.  The UDRP involved a IDN which officially is listed as xn--cabaas-zwa.com, but ... read more ...
 
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Nat Cohen wins retreat domain name hijacking assign opposite sauna for SHA.com - Spanish spa and wellness center brought UDRP in bad faith. Nat Cohen’s Telepathy has successfully defended the domain name Sha.com from an attack by Albir Hills Resort, S.A., known as SHA Wellness Clinic. The panel also determined that SHA Wellness Clinic was guilty of attempting reverse domain name hijacking. I’ve got to say, this was a no brainer for the three person panel. First, SHA’s attorney said the resort had been “operating in the market for 15 years”. ... read more ...
 
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Guy insane about CentralNic domains sues ICANN and Network Solutions - Hi Andrew: Quick work … I’ve not even received my ‘official’ AO440 forms, that need mailing to the above mentioned; and here thank’s to your effective journalistic efforts, they now know that my aggrieved plodding is moving forward. FYI ~ I DID NOT withdraw from the UDRP “Expert” services of Nominet! Nominet … DID NOT … do the work contracted, ample documents were presented to Visa for a charge back; and they conceded, now I’m moving forward, then back. I’m well ... read more ...
Thu 2nd August 2012
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YouTube’s Investigative News Channel Named iFiles; The Matching .Com Is A Huge Torrent Search Engine: iFiles.com - TechCrunch.com broke the news today that Google owned YouTube.com is helping to launch a new channel with the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). The name they picked out for the project is “I Files”. Like CNN’s ireport, ifiles looks like its going to be driven by consumer reporting. The domain name ifiles.com is a huge Torrent search engine site where people search for and find copyrighted material to view and download. Even worse YouTube’s ifiles is being partially funded by an ... read more ...
 
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Vertical Axis Beats Back A UDRP On “A Misspelling of a Common Dictionary Word” Detur.com: By A 2-1 Decision - Vertical Axis Inc represented by Ari Goldberger, beat back a UDRP on the domain name Detur.com, which was described by the panel as being “A Misspelling of a Common Dictionary Word.” The domain was parked and available for sale. The Complaint was brought by  Detur International B.V. (“Complainant1”) of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Tatil Seyahat Turizm Anonim Şirketi (“Complainant2”) of Istanbul, Turkey. The decision was decided by a three member panel which voted 2-1 in favor of the domain ... read more ...