Monthly Archives: September 2012

Wed 26th September 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
MegaUpload Founder Looks To New Service Mega Box: Does He Aleady Own The Domain Megabox.com? - Cnet.com is reporting that MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom  is showing off a new music called Megabox. The domain name MegaBox.com has been owned under privavy for many years now at Moniker.com The last time an owner appeared on the domain name was back in 2008 where someone in Korea owned the domain name Megabox.com currently does not resolve but with the history of MegaUpload one things for sure, either Kim DotCom has this domain owned under privavy at Moniker.com or another domain owner is about ... read more ...
 
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ARI Registry Services Publishes A White Paper Calling An Alternative Model To Trademark Clearing House - ARI Registry Services, working in consultation with Neustar, Verisign and Demand Media , published today three white papers that outline concerns with ICANN’s current Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) proposal and “provide an alternative model that addresses those concerns whilst meeting all the requirements outlined in the Applicant Guidebook and those further stipulated by ICANN”. The proposed ICANN model can be found at the following link” In the cover sheet on the white papers the author ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Posts $1,085,000 In Domain Name Sales, Led By CESC.com during $36,720 - Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 9/17/12 – 9/23/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,085,972 Please note that the sale of PentHouseSuites.com ($3000) was brokered by Moniker/Snapnames during our joint auction. .TV investors should note the sale of seniorcare.tv which sold for a very nice $6,590 The top sale of the week was a domain owned by BuyDomains.com and was sold to China Exchanges Services Company ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Adds “Make Offer” Domains To Godaddy.com Through Its MLS Program - According to a press release we received today, Sedo.com is adding “Make Offer” domain names to its MLS system with Godaddy.com “Go Daddy joined the SedoMLS network in January 2012, offering all Buy Now names from Sedo’s inventory of more than 16 million premium domains to millions of new buyers.  ” “The expanded partnership adds Make Offer names to this distribution channel, which means that end users worldwide can now place bids on premium domains listed at Sedo, and negotiate a purchase ... read more ...
 
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Blacknight to ICANN: “The Registration of Generic Key Word TLDs Should Be Available to All People” - According to a press release we received today,  Irish registrar and hosting company Blacknight sent an objection letter to ICANN concerning several new gTLD applications, which may seek to operate non-trademarked generic word TLDs in a “closed” manner. “”Blacknight have drafted a letter to ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) seeking clarification on pending gTLD applications for generic term TLDs, which intend to operate in a “closed” (not open to the public ... read more ...
 
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I domini .it ed altri ccTLDs in vendita nelle aste GreatDomains di Sedo - Sedo, il più grande ed unico marketplace globale di nomi a dominio con un inventario di 16 milioni di domini messi in vendita, si preoccupa di fornire le migliori opportunità ottimizzando i propri servizi sia per aiutare i compratori a trovare il dominio appropriato sia per dare ai proprietari di domini le migliori opzioni di vendita.Basandosi sulla propria esperienza nel mercato globale dei domini, Sedo  ha notato che alcuni paesi si stanno sviluppando costantemente e le relative estensioni sono ... read more ...
 
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National Golf Foundation loses domain brawl for NGF.com - Group tries to upgrade its domain name to .com. A three person National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled against National Golf Foundation, Inc. in its bid to snag the NGF.com domain name. The foundation, a non-profit that conducts research about golf, uses the domain name NGF.org. The panel ruled that domain registrant Mediablue was making a bona fide offering of goods or services with the domain name. Although it’s merely parked, it was registered due to the generic/multiple ... read more ...
 
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21 finish user domain sales (including some large buyers) - 21 end user domain name sales from the past week. This week’s end user domain sales report includes a shop that’s probably at your local mall, a big online university, and cosmetics giant Loreal. Afternic Thomson Reuters bought SJNK.com for $4,200. I’m not sure what it stands for. Used Gym Equipment, LLC paid $1,988 for UsedGymEquipment.org to accompany its dot.com. Harris Research, Inc., owner of the ChemDry franchise, bought ChemDry.net for $1,277. Personal ... read more ...
 
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Sedo expands placement partnership with Go Daddy - “Make Offer” domains now distributed to Go Daddy through SedoMLS. Sedo announced today that it has expanded its distribution partnership with Go Daddy to include “make offer” domain names. In January Go Daddy joined the SedoMLS network. That meant that fixed priced domains at Sedo that were opted into SedoMLS would show up in the registration path at GoDaddy.com. Go Daddy customers could purchase the domains by following a link to Go Daddy Auctions. The expanded ... read more ...
 
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ESQwire.com wins UDRP for customer with minority anticipating of RDNH - A RNDH opinion worth reading. Ari Goldberger’s ESQwire has helped its client PortMedia defend the domain name Altom.com in a UDRP. One of the panelists determined that the case was reverse domain name hijacking, and his point of view is worth reading. The domain name was registered in 2002. Although it was protected by whois privacy for much of the time, I have good reason to believe that the current registrant is the one that registered the domain name back in ... read more ...
 
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NameMedia launches NameFind.com to assistance businesses find a name - NameFind makes finding a company or product identity much easier. NameMedia, the company behind Afternic and BuyDomains, today launched a new name finding service called NameFind. There are a bunch of sites out there that help entrepreneurs find available domain names based on topics or keywords. NameFind goes several steps further and has a key component that makes if valuable to domain name investors. In addition to finding unregistered and for sale domain names, ... read more ...
Tue 25th September 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Donuts and Demand New gTLD Applications Should Be Denied Says Boston Law Firm - Jeffrey Stoler, Esq.  on behalf of the Boston law firm of McCarter English LLP has posted a second round of comments today telling ICANN that Donuts and Demand Media should be disqualified from owning new gTLD’s. The first round of comments were posted on July to ICANN’s site. Here is the new comment: “”In our letter dated July 28, 2012 (the “July 28 Letter”), we sought to bring to ICANN’s attention[2] information detailing why the 333 gTLD applications filed by Demand Media and Donuts ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions For The Week Total $1.3 Million - Sedo just posted it weekly report. In all, 858 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 million. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: relation.com at 26,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: gratis.pl at 16,850 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: preisvergleich.net at 16,000 EUR Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Washington Post Blast Donuts & Its Bid For 307 New gTLD’s: “Raises Fears of Fraud” - The WasingtonPost.com, published a story this morning on the front page of its print edition, about Donuts, Inc and its application to operate 307 new gTLD’s entitled: Donuts Inc.’s major play for new Web domain names raises fears of fraud The story throws around some serious allegations about Donuts including that they have “close ties to a company with a well-documented history of providing services to spammers and other perpetrators of Internet abuses. “ “Donuts Inc.  $57 million play ... read more ...
 
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Exclusive: Registrars Price Certain Dropping Domains At Namejet.com As High As $12,688 Instead Of $69 - A reader first alerted us to certain dropping domain names having a “reserve price” well above the general minimum back order over at Namejet.com which is generally $69 for Pre-release domains. Certain registrars have for year been releasing its dropping domain inventory on an exclusive basis to NameJet.com (other registrars do this with SnapNames.com).  Included in the NameJet.com list of exclusive drop registrars are two of the biggest, NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com, which are now ... read more ...
 
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Rockies.com domain name goes adult for sale - Whether it’s for the baseball team for tourism, Rockies.com is now available for purchsae. Major League Baseball may yet be able to get its hands on the Rockies.com domain name. Domain Name Wire has confirmed that the owner of the site is trying to sell it. The sales process is being managed by an outfit called Venture Capital Group Ltd, which tells Domain Name Wire that the domain name will officially be put up for sale later this week. Venture Capital Group’s ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a amicable website” - Patent describes way to announce your latest domain name registration. Last year I wrote about Go Daddy’s patent applications related to announcing a domain name registration on a social network. Today the United States Patent and Trademark office granted the domain name registrar a patent for “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”. U.S. patent number 8,276,057 (pdf) describes a way in which a domain name registrar account could be connected ... read more ...
 
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USPS on Donuts: You’re undercapitalized - USPS fears Donuts won’t deliver on .delivery. Well, this is amusing. The United State Postal Service has just filed a comment on Donuts’ application for the .delivery top level domain name. What’s the USPS concerned about? That Donuts is undercapitalized to run its domain names. Here’s what @thereforeicann has to say about that: The comments were submitted by USPS lawyers Lewis and Roca LLP for the Financial Capability Evaluation Panel. Subject line: “Insufficient ... read more ...
 
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Rare bird .jobs domain speckled in a wild - A fashion brand actually uses the rare .jobs domain name. I went to the mall with my daughter this past weekend when something suddenly stopped me in my tracks. I pulled out my smartphone and snapped a picture. My six-year-old daughter looked at me with a confused expression and asked, “What, dad? What is it?” “Something rarer than a unicorn,” I told her. Indeed, this is what I saw: Yes, that’s a .jobs domain. It’s the first time I think I’ve seen one ... read more ...
 
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Sedo GreatDomains auction ends Thursday. Here’s a look. - 17 domains have already met their reserves with a couple days to go. Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends Thursday. So far 17 of the 217 domain names have met their reserves. The highest domain name to have met its reserve is PTZ.com at $5,000. Another three letter .com attracting attention is OAL.com at $14,000, although its reserve of up to $25,000 hasn’t been met. Leah.com leads the list with a $26,000 bid but that’s below the reserve as well. The auction ... read more ...
Mon 24th September 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
The Free Speech Coalition Weights In On New gTLD’s For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult - “My name is Diane Duke, and I am the Executive Director of the Free Speech Coalition (FSC). FSC is the trade association for the adult entertainment industry, representing thousands of businesses and individuals involved in producing and disseminating sexually oriented expression and products. Virtually all of them rely upon the Internet in their work, most of them quite heavily. We thus have a vital interest in the sound functioning, open availability, and continued vitality of the Internet. ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Files Patent On “Method & System For Leasing & Purchasing Of Domains” - Our esteemed colleague John Berryhill, Esq. just spotted this patent Amazon Filed on a ‘Method Sytem For leasing Purchasing of Domains I don’t know if this has anything to do with Amazon’s new gTLD application but this is how Amazon is describing what many of us have been doing in the domain business for over 10 years purchasing and selling of domain names. “Methods and systems are described that enable a domain name owner (i.e., a “lessor”) to grant a third party (i.e., a “lessee”) ... read more ...
 
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Shares of Google Hits All Time High - Shares of Google (Goog) traded as high as $748.99 today passing the previous all time high of $747 back in 2007. It was just a couple of weeks ago we posted that Google shares had hit $700 an amount not seen since 2007. So Google is on a tear up over 6% just since our post on September 7th. At the time of publication Google is up over $12 a share at $746.76     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Only 2 More Days To Comment To ICANN On The New gTLD Program - September 26th is the last day to file a comment on the new gTLD program, any of the applicants or strings. As of publication there are almost 8,000 posted comments. If you would like to comment you will need to create a user account with ICANN which you can do here. You can view all the submitted comments here.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Yeni gTLD tescilinde yapılan başvuruların derinliği - Konuk yazarımız Berrin Kalenderli, Deriş Marka ve Patent Acentalığı‘nda Marka Vekili olarak çalışmaktadır. Hatırlarsanız 2012 yılının başında ICANN tarafından markalara özel alan adı uzantıları kayda açılmıştı. Ve bu yenilik 2013 yılında internet tarihinin en büyük alan adı patlamasını yaşamamıza neden olabilir. 13 Haziran’da ICANN (Uluslararası İnternet Tahsisli Sayılar ve İsimler Kurumu) 60 ülkeden 1155 başvuru sahibi tarafından yeni gTLD (genel ... read more ...