Monthly Archives: September 2012

Sun 30th September 2012
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The CEO Of Name Media Chats About NameFind & The New Afternic & How it Compares To Sedo - I had a chance to chat Kelly Conlin the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Name Media last week about the “new Afternic”, its new NameFind.com product and how its DLS compares to Sedo.com and its MLS product “Afternic.com is all about broadening the market for the purchase and sale of domain names” “We are concentrating on  increasing our distribution market. We have assembled a distribution of  channel resulting in 75 Million searches  each month coming to our network primary ... read more ...
Sat 29th September 2012
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Search.XXX On The 2nd Day: 344,000 Visitors, 2M Page Views, Since Launch: 677K Visitors, 3.6 Million Page Views - On The second day after the launch of Search.XXX according to ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX TLD, the site has logged over 344,000 unique visitors with almost 2M page views. After two days 677,000 Unique visitors and 3.6 Million Page views. Maybe the most impressive stats on the second day is how long surfers are spending on the site. As you can see from the chart below the average person is spending over 4:30 minutes on the site, and each visitor is on average looking at over 5 pages. Here ... read more ...
 
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ANA Warns Commerce Department About “Top-Level Domain Tsunami” - According to marketingvox.com, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) urged the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to work within the Internet stakeholder processes of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to advocate for a “Do Not Sell registry” at the upcoming ICANN Board meeting next month in Toronto. The letter went on to note that “it would be a disaster for its competitors if L’Oreal snapped up generic domains like .hair, .makeup, and .beauty; but that ... read more ...
Fri 28th September 2012
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.Com/.Net Total Registrations Slows To A Crawl - According to Verisign’s Zone File Information site the total amount of .com/.net registered as of today is 119,700,000 million As of March 31st the amount of .com/.net domains stood at 116.7 million domain names. As of the March Verisign State of the Domain Report  “.com/.net registrations grew 8.1 % over the first quarter of 2011″ or 8.9 million during the first quarter of 2012″ So we have at basically 6 months later an increase of just 3 million domains. At that rate the total annual increase ... read more ...
 
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Goog Grief: UDRP Filed On Grief.Net and Grief-Recovery.com - A UDRP has just been filed against the generic terms Grief.net and Grief-Recovery.com. The two domains are owned by the Grief Recovery Institute of California Grief.com goes to a site offering a Grief Recovery Program while Grief-Recovery.com seem to go a page reported as have malware or other issues found to be not sale by the browsers. In any event but terms are highly generic and of course Grief is a dictionary word. The complainant is not yet listed but we will keep an eye on this one.     Google+Michael ... read more ...
Thu 27th September 2012
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Buy.me Sells For $150K on Sedo.com; Bought In 2008 For $17,500 - Buy.Me just sold on Sedo for 115,000 Euro’s or almost $150,000 Its another great verb.me domain and a nice price. .Me continues to be a highly brandable domain especially with a great verb in front of it The buyer according to the whois record is a Denis Antsiferov of Russia. The domain sold in the Moniker.com TRAFFIC auction in 2008 by the .Me registry for $17,500. It was the same auction where we bought date.me, marry.me and of course meet.me which we sold for $450,000 last year. ‘   Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Radix Responds To Attack Letter on New gTLD Applications By Publishing Threat Letters From Attorneys - We wrote earlier today about the comment filed by the global law firm of Winston Strawn LLP to ICANN saying that Radix’s applications for new gTLD should be denied by ICANN based on the activity of Directi. I just received this response from Radix, which applied for 31 new gTLD’s including .Ping, to the comment posted by the law firm, which represents the Ping golf equipment maker, Karsten: This is in response to the comments submitted to ICANN questioning our eligibility to participate in ICANN’s ... read more ...
 
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Directi’s Media.net Teams Up With Yahoo To Launch Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads - Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO)  and Media.net announced today “a long-term agreement to launch Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads, powered by Media.net.” “The program aims to provide web publishers with a powerful and effective new solution for earning advertising revenue.” “Publishers can now use the Media.net platform to create and customize ad units that display relevant text ads from across the Yahoo! Bing Network.” “Since its inception, Media.net has invested tremendous resources – people, ... read more ...
 
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Inc.com: Inside The New Domain Gold Rush - Inc.com published an interesting story last night entitled Inside the New Domain-Suffix Gold Rush. The story starts out by saying: “Before 2005, who’d ever heard of an “etsy?” Etsy, Tumblr, and Pinterest are just a few examples of the curious and previously unheard names that have cropped up in recent years. Those names weren’t necessarily the entrepreneurs’ first choice, but rather, their first choice of an available URL. On the Web, business-branding decisions are driven as much by ... read more ...
 
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Lawyers Attack Directi (Radix) New gTLD Applications: “They Should Be Disqualified” - We told you the other day about a Boston Law Firm filing comments with ICANN asking them to disqualify Donuts and Demand Media application for new gTLD’s Today another law firm Winston Strawn LLP which has offices in North America, Europe and Asia, in a comment written by Paul McGrady, Esq, to ICANN said that Directi should be disqualified as an applicant under the new gTLD program. Unlike the Boston law firm whose motives are unclear, this law firm represents the golf club manufacture PING and ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Launches “Last Chance Auctions” Starting At “Under $99″ - Sedo.com announced today a new auction offering, Sedo’s Last Chance Auctions Sedo’s Last Chance Auctions, “offer domain owners a perfect venue to sell domain names that would otherwise be sitting idle in their portfolios. Domains listed in Sedo’s Last Chance Auctions start under $99, and all names have low reserve prices”. Liesbeth Mack-de Boer, Sedo’s Chief Sales Officer. “Our Last Chance Auctions provide valuable Sedo customers with the means to auction domains to our user base of ... read more ...
 
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One of The Best Domains In The World Goes Up For Sale: Music.com - According to a press release out this morning, the domain name Music.com is up for sale exclusively with DomainAdvisors.com Beyond being in what is in my opinion one of the top 10 generic .com domain names, there are 8 applicants for the new gTLD .Music, including Google and Amazon. According to the press release , Music.com gets “approximately One Million visits per month”. Here is what Google had to say about Music in its application for the new gTLD .Music: There is a significant audience ... read more ...
 
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Wall Street Journal names new TLD association Donuts to Top 50 Startups - WSJ ranks Donuts #14 on list of top startups. The Wall Street Journal just released its rankings of the top 50 venture-capital-backed companies, and new top level domain name company Donuts made the cut. It actually did better than just make the cut, landing at #14 on the list. It’s also the youngest company on the list. The company has just eight employees but has raised $100 million. It’s the biggest top level domain applicant by far, throwing its hat (and money) ... read more ...
 
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People like porn: search.xxx gets 500k searches in a day - New search engine for sites on .xxx domains get lots of traffic within first 24 hours. Yesterday at about this time ICM Registry switched on its new .xxx search engine, search.xxx. Now, about 24 hours later, the company says it has already served 500,000 searches to 100,000 unique visitors. The site was certainly helped by lots of media coverage, but this is an impressive number any way you look at it. Search.xxx has indexed more than 21 million pages of content ... read more ...
 
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Sedo boosts domain auctions with “Last Call” - New auction option will increase activity in Sedo’s auctions. Sedo announced a new auction option this morning called “Last Chance Auctions”. The more I learn about it, the more I like the idea. Last Chance Auctions allow Sedo users to start a domain auction at a reserve of 99 USD/GBP/EUR. This is a good way for customers to get added exposure for domains they perhaps want to cull out of their portfolio. Currently, you must be a SedoPro customer to list domains ... read more ...
 
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EU organisation calls due Whois changes “unlawful” - EU data protection group says law enforcement’s wish list would be unlawful in European Union. In May I wrote about some of the requests law enforcement agencies were making for the new ICANN registrar accreditation agreement. Some of the requests included verifying phone numbers, annual whois updates, and retaining IP addresses. Now the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has chimed in, stating that these requirements are likely unlawful in the European Union. In ... read more ...
 
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Kate Spade files complaints over .co and .xxx domains - Company upset over Kate Spade domain names. Fashion brand Kate Spade, LLC has filed UDRP complaints at World Intellectual Property Organization against the owners of two domain names: KateSpade.co and KateSpade.xxx. KateSpade.co resolves to a page announcing that the domain name is for sale; the .xxx domain goes to a domain name registrar “coming soon” page. Kate Spade has filed UDRP complaints before — but these are the first two since 2008. That makes me think ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
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Search.XXX The First 100% Adult Search Engine Goes Live - ICM announced that its search engine, Search.XXX is now live. According to a Press release sent to us tonight, ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain name (TLD) for online adult entertainment, “launched a search engine dedicated to making millions of pages of adult content accessible, organized, and more enjoyable”. Search.XXX bills itself as “the search engine for porn.” Search.xxx works just like popular search engines, except while some search engines reportedly ... read more ...
 
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CADNA Reports: 27% of U.S. Congressional Members’ Domain Names Used in Identity Squatting: What A Bunch Of Crap - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) published a report today concluding that 27%  of congressional members’ domain names are used in identity squatting. I don’t know what the difference is between cybersquatting and identity squatting other than trying to label the same conduct in a new fashion which makes it sound worse. As In, Oh last year we had cybersquatting and now look we have identity squatting. Anyway first to the report: “Overall, CADNA found that members of Congress ... read more ...
 
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Over 3K Comments Posted Today & 11,000 Overall As Today Is The Last Day To Comment On New gTLD Program - The ICANN comment section for the new gTLD program has logged over 3,000 comments today and now totals over 11,000 comments We are trying to keep up with the more important and interesting comments posted by groups, company’s and individual’s from all over the world on the new gTLD program. Many organizations seem to be weighing in at the last moment including the, The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), The American Hospital Association, Company’s ... read more ...
 
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World Trade Center Association Tells ICANN, .WTF is Too Vulgar & To Deny The Application - In a comment submitted by Mike Rodenbaugh on behalf of  the World Trade Center Association (WTCA), they think the .WTF extension should not be approved by ICANN for being  “Too Vulgar”. “WTCA is a leading trade association in the promotion of international trade. The WTCA’s licensed members operate the well-known World Trade Center facilities around the world. WTCA is concerned about the application of a Donuts, Inc. company (Hidden Way, LLC) to register the .WTF gTLD. ” “In response ... read more ...
 
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The American Hospital Association Files Objection to New gTLD .Health - “Since 1898, the AHA has worked to advance the health of individuals and communities, and to lead, represent and serve hospitals, health systems and other related organizations that are accountable to the public and committed to the improvement of our health care system. ” “The AHA is an established and respected leader of the health care community, and the AHA’s members are clearly intended to be the users of the applied-for .health gTLD.” “For the reasons below, the AHA believes that ... read more ...
 
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eBay Loves Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Trademark Rights Protection Mechanisms For New gTLD’s & Hates TLDH - eBay filed several comments this afternoon with ICANN in support of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry applications for new gTLD’s. While praising Uniregistry eBay bashes Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) policy. In its comments praised Uniregistry’s trademark rights protection mechanisms contained in their application. eBay writes: “”eBay Inc. supports Uniregistry’s proposed trademark rights protection mechanisms, including a 60-day Sunrise period during which a trademark owner can obtain ... read more ...
 
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Manwin Owner of YouPorn.com Files Comment To ICANN Objecting To ICM’s Application for .Sex, .Porn & .Adult - Manwin owner of YouPorn.com just filed a comment with ICANN Objecting To ICM’s Application to operate the new gTLD’s  .Sex, .Porn .Adult. ICM is the operator of the .XXX TLD. Like the FSC yesterday,  Manwin objected just to the applications filed by ICM not the application to operate .Sex filed by Internet Marketing Solutions Limited. In its comment, Manwin Licensing International S.à.r.l. writes they own and license trademarks and domain names used for many popular adult websites, including ... read more ...
 
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American Medical Colleges Files Comments In Objection To a New gTLD .Health, .Medical, .Hospital .Doctor, .Healthcare & More - The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) “a nonprofit association representing all 138 accredited US and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems; and 90 academic and scientific societies” filed an objection today with ICANN against the application for the new gTLD .Health, .Medical, .Hospital, .Healthcare., .Doctor, .College, .Degree, .School, .Education and .University The comments letters are all the same except that the new ... read more ...