Monthly Archives: September 2012

Mon 24th September 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Publishes Schedule For ICANN 45 Toronto Meeting - ICANN has just published the full schedule for its Meeting in Toronto and as usual its jammed packed with sessions and meetings many going on at the same time in different rooms. If you have never gone to an ICANN meeting and live in North America this is going to be your last chance for a while as the next two meetings in 2013 are already set for China and South Africa. The conference is being held on October 14-18th and starts the weekend right after TRAFFIC ends, and yes I will be heading to both ... read more ...
 
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Drop Domains Lead The Sales On NameJet.com: DML.com Sells For $13k TPW.com $10,655, MB.net $7,100 - A busy weekend over at NameJet.com, saw a few “better” LLL.com domain names sell this weekend and a 2 letter .net as a good call to action type of domain. What did all four domain names have in common? They were all drop domain names. The domain name DML.com sold for $13,100. The auction which had 102 bidders saw 7 willing to pay $5K or more for the domain name. The domain DML.com was a dropping domains from Network Solutions whose previous owner was Digital Magic Labs, Inc. out of Japan Another ... read more ...
 
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Apple: Is The Boom Period Over? - Although admitted not much to do with domain names, the domain industry is closely aligned with the overall tech sector and we could help but notice a few negative stories out this morning on Apple, a company which you typically can’t find one negative story. Sales of the iPhone 5 came in at a disappointing 5 Million this weekend, 1 million higher than the iPhone 4s but well under expectations of 6 Million- 10 Million. Over the weekend about 2,000 workers rioted at the notorious FoxCom plant in ... read more ...
 
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CrossFit Blows (and CrossFit isn’t happy about that) - Florida training center upsets CrossFit. CrossFit may be good at kicking peoples’ butts into shape at the gym, but now it’s doing burpees in front of an arbitration panel. A UDRP case was just filed at National Arbitration Froum for the domain name CrossfitBlows.com. What’s interesting is that the domain name is owned by an apparent rival to the CrossFit program called Monsters Training Center in Florida. If you go to CrossFitBlows.com you’ll see an unfriendly ... read more ...
 
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The Atlantic buys QZ.com for new publication - Company forks out cash for two letter domain — which is a truncation of a six letter word. The Atlantic today launched Quartz, a publication targeted to upscale readers. What does this have to do with domain names, other than the decidedly upscale audience that reads Domain Name Wire? The company bought QZ.com for the site. Atlantic Media Incorporated bought the domain name around April this year according to historical whois records. It sold for $76,000 at a Moniker/TRAFFIC ... read more ...
 
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790 .com permit plates in Virginia - Virginia residents can promote their internet coolness on special .com license plates. You might be saying “no, not another license plate story!”, but this was too cool to not pass on. A Domain Name Wire reader commented on my last post about .com license plates and noted that Virginia offers a .com specific license plate. The plate is called “Internet Capital” and has .com printed on the right side of each plate. The .com isn’t part of the actual license ... read more ...
Sun 23rd September 2012
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New gTLD Applicants Donuts, Uniregistry & .Green Tells ICANN To Keep Dotless Domains An Option - You may have missed the ICANN comment period currently open on the topic of dotless domains. While there are not a lot of comments submitted on the subject, new gTLD applicants Donuts, Inc., Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry and .Green  have posted comments saying they would like to see Dotless Domain names remain an option on the table. So what are Dotless Domains and why did ICANN open up a comment period on the issue? Dotless domains are domains that consist of a single label (e.g. http://example ... read more ...
Fri 21st September 2012
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yStats.com: Half of All Brick & Mortar Stores In The UK To Close By 2020 Losing Their Business To The Net - According to the “UK B2C E-Commerce Report 2012″  out today by yStats.com, 50% of all brick and mortar stores are expected to close by 2020 in the UK as the shopping and commerce continue to move online. While the report concentrates on the UK, there its only logical that the stats, reasoning and conclusions contained in the report are equally applicable to the US. “Aside from trends, revenue figures and market shares, the report covers the most successful product categories, Internet user ... read more ...
 
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Medicare.com Another Category Killer Domain Is Turned Into A Multi-Million Dollar Business - The Nashville Business Journal, had a feature story on how another catgeorgy killer domain has become a mulitmillion dollar business. In this case the domain is Medicare.com and the owner, Bill Kimberlin “has led his company to nearly 900 percent growth over the past three years. “We’re just getting started,” he is quoted as saying. “”The online Medicare information group had 2011 revenue of $2.3 million, representing explosive 892 percent three-year growth that landed Medicare.com as ... read more ...
 
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Domain Bought In 2007 For $875 Sells For $67,000 - Smartcompany.com.au, tells the story tonight about an Australian domain name investor which sold the domain sold Hobart.com.au for $67,000  after purchasing the website for just $875 back in 2007. However, the domain seller suggests it may actually be a bargain price, given the problems of developing geographic domains. “Publishing Australia owner David Lye, who also runs the registrar NetFleet, told SmartCompany this morning the domain is one of several the company picked up back in 2007. “You ... read more ...
 
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CA Technologies sells Platinum.com domain name for $250,000 - Domain name appears to have been sold to pet food company. It looks like CA (aka Computer Associates) has sold one of its prime domain names, Platinum.com. Moniker has confirmed that it brokered the transaction and the sales price was $250,000. The domain name was featured in Moniker’s DOMAINfest and Spring Auctions with a reserve range of $500,000 to $1,000,000. The whois record for the domain name just changed to show that the domain now belongs to the German ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC heads to Fort Lauderdale - Domain name conference just two weeks away. The Targeted TRAFFIC conference kicks off at the Ritz Carlton in Fort Lauderdale October 7. Before the show even begins there are plenty of activities for early arrivers. On Saturday October 5 you can go deep sea fishing, scuba diving, golfing…you get the idea. You can see a full list of Saturday’s activities here. The cabanas are open on Sunday from 10-5 as well. The show officially kicks off Sunday evening with the ... read more ...
Thu 20th September 2012
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UPDATE: SnapNames.com Auction For Hobby.com Cancelled - Less than 2 hours after we wrote about the domain name auction for Hobby.com on SnapNames.com we got notice the auction was cancelled. The auction which had a high bid of $26,000 when we wrote our post. Here is the notice we received as a bidder in the auction: “”I am sending this email today to you because you were a bidder in an auction on Snapnames.com for the domain hobby.com.  ” “Unfortunately, this auction has been canceled.  ” “This domain entered our system thru one of our partners ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: Hobby.com At Auction At SnapNames.com, Bidding Hits $26K With 3 Days To Go, How Much Will It Sell For? - The category killer domain name Hobby.com is currently in a closed auction at SnapNames.com There are 172 bidders in the closed auction and the current high bid is $26,000 as of time of publication. The domain seems to have been put up for auction without reserve so someone with some big chops took the risk. The domain isn’t even part of a highlighted auction but it seems well on its way to a nice sale price. The question is what will the domain sell for?   You can vote on the poll on the right ... read more ...
 
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BusinessInsider Covers EarPods.com: Domain May Sell For $2 Million - We posted about the domain name Earpods.com and how Apple failed to secure the domain prior to the last Apple event where the product was publicly announced last week. Now BusinessInsider.com has picked up on the story (unfortunately without giving us any credit) and  is talking about a $2 Million dollars purchase price for the domain. “Want to feel super jealous of someone who struck gold with a super lucky domain name purchase? is how the article starts. “”How much would it go for? Hard ... read more ...
 
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Domain Industry Veteran Scott Richter Joins Advisory Board Of CPX Interactive - Digital advertising company CPX Interactive today announced the formation of a corporate advisory board and named as one of the six members domain industry Veteran Scott Richter. “Scott Richter is CEO of Media Breakaway, LLC, a leader in online performance marketing, delivering full service, results-oriented solutions through the company’s divisions: Affiliate.com, TheParkingPlace.com and DataOverdrive.com.” TheParkingPlace.com was nominated to receive the Best New Monetization Marketing Solution ... read more ...
 
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Salesforce.com: Rypple Becomes Work.com today - Away from the office, Facebook and other social apps have transformed the way we connect and share information. Yet the systems most companies use to manage work were designed for the hierarchical, siloed, slow-moving workplace of the past. They automate needless bureaucracy and painful reviews instead of improving productivity and results. And they often feel like work on top of work – completely disconnected from employees’ daily jobs. “The way we work has changed, but the technology most ... read more ...
 
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Consumer Watchdog Tell Senator Rockefeller To Block Google & Amazon’s New gTLD Applications - Consumer Watchdog today urged Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D –W.VA) to block attempts by Google and Amazon to acquire the new gTLD’s they applied for through Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In a letter to Sen. Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project director wrote: “If these applications are granted, large parts of the Internet would be privatized. ” “It is one thing ... read more ...
 
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So.com Sells For “Millions” of Dollars To Chinese Search Engine Qihoo 360 - According to a story appearing in techinasia.com , a Chinese search engine, Qihoo 360 spent “millions” to buy the domain name So.com. According to the story, the the company  shell out the millions for the domain because its “more than a short pronounceable word ,‘S’ stand for “safe” and ‘O’ stands for “open” in English. That’s in line with what Qihoo, which started out in the anti-virus business, is mainly selling and promoting: security”. “When 360 Search launched, ... read more ...
 
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Yeni gTLD uzantılarında markanızı nasıl korursunuz? - Konuk yazarımız Berrin Kalenderli, Deriş Marka ve Patent Acentalığı‘nda Marka Vekili olarak çalışmaktadır. ICANN tarafından yürütülen ve 30 Mayıs 2012 tarihinde başvuru süresi dolan yeni genel üst seviye alan adı uzantısı (gTLD) tescil programının markalara neler kazandıracağı veya kaybettireceği Türkiye’deki marka sahipleri tarafından bilinmiyor. 2008 yılından beri ICANN tarafından tartışmaya açılan yeni tescil programı ile, ICANN dünyada 22 adet olan ... read more ...
 
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Salesforce finally puts Work.com to work - Salesforce is now using work.com, a domain name it bought earlier this year. Earlier this year I discovered that Salesforce had purchased Work.com. It has now put the domain name to work. The company is using the domain name for Rypple, a “social performance” platform it acquired last year. Salesforce has a habit of buying companies and then relaunching them on great domain names. For example Jigsaw.com, which was already a good domain name, is now Data.com. It ... read more ...
 
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Sedo changes domain inventory routine and adds “Big Data Pricer” - New process includes “Big Data Pricer”. Sedo has updated the process of listing domain names for sale with the service. There’s a pretty slick wizard that walks you through the process. The new process includes the company’s “Big Data Pricer”, which provides price suggestions for your domain names based on the same methodology used for theIDNX. You can choose to accept the price as a listing price if you want. The suggested prices calculate fairly quickly. The ... read more ...
 
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Ashley Furniture files cybersquatting lawsuit opposite owners of 123 domain names - Company says defendant used to work at ad agency that catered to home furnishings companies. Ashley Furniture is a pretty aggressive UDRP filer. It usually goes after clear cut cases of cybersquatting, save for one egregious case for Ashley.com filed in 2008. Now the company is turning to the courts in a dispute against a Maryland man. The company just filed suit (pdf) against Jon Parks, who the company alleges violated the Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act by registering ... read more ...
 
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Class movement lawsuit filed over Go Daddy downtime - Lawsuit claims seeks damages for downtime on September 10. Well, that was quick. The first federal lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed against GoDaddy for its downtime on September 10 (pdf). The outage affected GoDaddy.com and many people who used the company’s DNS and web hosting services. The suit was filed by Eric Mitchell, who runs the web site StatedIncomeIsBack.com. He claims Go Daddy failed to “satisfy its guaranteed upload (sic) times for ... read more ...
Wed 19th September 2012
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Industry Veteran Jodi Chamberlain Launches 32Events.com & The Executive Network - Jodi Chamberlain launched 32events.com today an event management company dedicated to providing seamless event coordination for everything from social parties to industry trade shows and business engagements. Jodi has been involved in the domain space for a while, serving as President of TeamLauncher.com, worked with Rick Latona when he was putting on TRAFFIC conferences in 2009 and 2010 and was the Director of Sales for Offshoring.com. As part of 32Events.com, Jodi is also launching The Executive ... read more ...