Monthly Archives: August 2012

Thu 2nd August 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
How Can ICANN “Meter” The Roll out Of New gTLD’s When It Couldn’t Decide Which Applications To Process 1st - ICANN in announcing that it would process all new gTLD applications in one batch, did so after abandoning its Digital Archery service which was its last attempt to figure out which applications to process first. Quite a while ago ICANN rejected a first filed, first processed application approach which left them to figure out another method for selecting which applications got processed first, second, third and so on. ICANN felt a purely random selection could be viewed as an illegal lottery since ... read more ...
 
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Marchex sells record $3.3 million in domains on Q2 - Not much else to smile about in its quarterly report. Marchex just released earnings for its second quarter. Most notable to the domain name industry is that the company had a record quarter for domain name sales — $3.3 million. There’s no additional insight into the sales in the company press release, but perhaps we’ll get more from its conference call. Marchex typically sells $1M-2.5M in domain names each quarter from its portfolio. Last time I checked the ... read more ...
 
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UDRP row orders VS4.com transferred - Three character domain name lost in UDRP. A single member UDRP panel has ordered the domain name VS4.com be transferred to adult entertainment company VS Media, Inc. The company claims trademark rights to the term VS. It also owns the domain names VS1.com, VS2.com, and VS3.com. The owner of the domain name didn’t respond to the accusations. From what I can tell, the whois record for the domain name changed shortly before the case was filed. At that time, the email ... read more ...
 
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Meet a lady who bought a domain name instead of a house - Business founder spent house deposit on a domain name. I got a kick out of an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today. The story features Posse.com founder Rebekah Campbell. Campbell bought the Posse.com domain name with $28,000 of her savings. “My mother was upset with me about that,” says Campbell. “She had found me a house to buy and I told her: ‘I can’t buy it. I just bought a domain name.'” The domain name, normally a very cheap purchase, was ... read more ...
 
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Ari Goldberger gets another UDRP win for Kevin Ham - Vertical Axis can keep Detur.com domain name. Kevin Ham’s Vertical Axis has won a UDRP over the domain name Detur.com with the help of domain name attorney Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com. The complaint was brought by Detur International B.V., a tourism company that started in Turkey. Among Detur’s complaints: that the domain name linked to travel sites and that it forwarded to snog.com, which it characterized as a site with “sexy photos”. Vertical Axis claimed ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire posts of Jul 2012 - CEO shuffle, G.me, and oogle.com among the most read stories on DNW last month. July’s big news came in at the end of the month: Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman stepping down from the CEO post he took in December. Here’s a quick run down of the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month: 1. Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman steps down – in a move that surprised many in the industry, long time Go Daddy executive Warren Adelman stepped down from the CEO post about ... read more ...
Wed 1st August 2012
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SIX Group AG Files UDRP On Six.com - A UDRP on the Generic domain name Six.com has just been filed. The domain is owned by Xedoc Holding SA, of Luxembourg. The domain name is not parked but forwards to an adult site, sexvideo.com The complainant is SIX Group AG, whose official site is six-group.com. You can read more about the SIX Group here It’s another UDRP against a generic domain, in what’s becoming a long line of cases where a complainant can take a shot, buy a lottery ticket if you will, to get a six figure domain name for ... read more ...
 
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One chairman submits 467 comments on new tip turn domain applications - That’s a whole lot of work. If you visit the new top level domain comments site today, you’re going to be doing quite a big of pagination before you see any unique comments. That’s because one person — a trademark manager at Sunkist Growers, Inc. — has submitted a whopping 467 comments on individual applications. They’re all the same comment. But this must have taken some serious time given how cumbersome it apparently is to submit comments. The comments ... read more ...
 
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End user sales news and a warning to TED - End user domain purchases from the past week. Before we jump in with this week’s end user sales report, I have a warning for the famous TED conferences: be careful with your new domain. TED bought xNetwork.org for $1,788. I’m not sure what it plans to use it for, but it should think twice before using this domain. The problem is that xNetwork.com is owned by an adult entertainment company offering “free legal images” for webmasters. Although the site’s homepage ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media and Donuts respond to lawyer’s accusations about TLD eligibility - Companies respond to allegations about their eligibility to run top level domain names. This morning I (and a handful of other bloggers) received a copy of a letter written by McCarter English partner Jeffrey Stoler calling into question Demand Media’s and Donut’s eligibility for applying for new top level domains. The crux of the issue that Stoler brings up (pdf) is ICANN’s three strikes rule. The rule says that if you’ve been on the losing end of three ... read more ...