Monthly Archives: September 2012

Wed 19th September 2012
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After 10 Years Of Registration, Oxford University Press Wins The Domain Name OxfordDictionary.com In A UDRP - Back in July we told you that a UDRP was filed on the domain name oxforddictionary.com, which is going to a parked page. Today a one person panel awarded the domain name to the Oxford University Press of Oxford, United Kingdom. The only surprise, is that it took the Oxford University Press 10 years to file the UDRP. “The Complainant owns many trademark registrations around the world for the mark OXFORD in association with publishing, books and electronic products and services, including the following ... read more ...
 
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William & Kate Dance The Night Away On Tuvalu,The .TV Island - William Kate have been all over the in the news this week, but In what maybe the biggest missed story, was that Prince Prince William and Kate the Duchess of Cambridge, showed off their dance skills on the island of Tuvalu last night. Of course most people have never heard of the island nation, but those in the domain industry know (or should know) that Tuvalu is the country whose ccTLD is .TV. The only thing I have ever heard about the island is that its really small and sinking. Everyone seems ... read more ...
 
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ICM Sells $650,000 In .XXX Domain Names - According to a Press Release we just received, ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) for online adult entertainment, today announced that is has sold 40 .XXX domain names for $650,000. All of the domain names sold today were reserved and owned by the Registry. The Buyer is IRIS SARL, “based in Luxembourg and backed by a number of investors and entrepreneurs, has secured over 40 .XXX Premium names and has plans to make a major impact in the adult entertainment space.” “The ... read more ...
 
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Name.com Joins Sedo MLS Program - Sedo, today announced that Name.com expanded their SedoMLS partnership, enabling them to provide their customers access to millions of premium domains that are listed on Sedo’s domain marketplace. As one of the world’s leading domain registrars, Name.com offers customers the ability to register domain names for the first time. By joining SedoMLS as a Premium partner, they have made it even easier and more convenient for customers to find the right name, even if it is already registered, directly ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest set for Feb 5-8, 2013 - Dates finally set for big domain industry conference. Oversee.net has set the dates for its annual DOMAINfest Global conference. Next year’s shindig will take place February 5-8. The show will return to the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. The entire hotel will be reserved for DOMAINfest guests. Moniker will be holding an auction in conjunction with the event. DOMAINfest is typically the domain investing community’s largest event in terms of attendance. ... read more ...
 
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What domains a Kickstarter success, Christie’s and University of Oklahoma bought this week - Company that raised $70k on Kickstart buys its company domain name. This week’s end user domain name sales report includes some big names. Auction house Christie’s bought an Andy Warhol domain name, University of Oklahoma bought a four letter acronym, and a Kickstart success story bought its company domain name. Afternic Auction house Christie’s bought WarholArt.com for $6,457. It is selling some of Warhol’s works. MasterGuides.com was purchased by someone ... read more ...
 
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Moniker usurpation auction submissions for DOMAINfest 2013 - Moniker and SnapNames will run an auction in conjunction with DOMAINfest next year. It looks like Moniker and SnapNames will hold an auction in conjunction with Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest Global 2013 conference next year. SnapNames.com has a submission form for the auction. It’s currently listed as an online auction. Both Moniker and SnapNames were owned by Oversee.net until their sale earlier this year to KeyDrive. They provided the auction platform at DOMAINfest ... read more ...
 
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Afternic auction on SnapNames ends tomorrow - Auction features 176 domain names. Afternic’s first auction on SnapNames earlier this year was a big success. It focused light on some good domain names such as Hipsters.com. That domain sold for $28,500 (which I suspect is a lot more than the original fixed asking price!). The two companies have teamed up again for an 176 domain auction ending Thursday. At the time of writing nine domains have bids and five have hit their reserves. The current top domain is PoolandPatio.com, ... read more ...
Tue 18th September 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $975,000 In Domains Led By CashLady.com $36K & OptionTrade.com during $30K - Afternic just posted it sale for the week ending on September 16, 2012 and sold $$973,508 in domain names There are some pretty nice sales in this list including CashLady.com which sold for $36K and Optiontrade.com which sold for $30K and ChinaIndustry.com sold for $20,540 PayitForward.org led the non-.com sales at $7,500   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Over $2.7MM In Domains Led By NewOne.org for $30K - Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending September 17th, 2012. In all over $2.7MM of domains were sold. The top seller was NewOne.org at $30,000 followed by preisvergleich.net for 16,000 EUR. In all 776 domains were sold. 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ICANN New CEO Interview With WSJ: “Beauty of a Process Is That ICANN Is Not Deciding a Outcome Of Objected Strings” - WSJ.com just published an interview with the new CEO of ICANN Akram Atallah, on how the new gTLD program was going. There were a few QA’s that caught my eye “”WSJ: You have had a lot of complaints and objections. Was this expected, and how are you dealing with it?” “AA: Let me first separate comments from objections. There have been zero objections so far. There have been over 6,000 comments. “To apply for an objection you have to have standing, you have to pay a fee, and it goes to a ... read more ...
 
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Twitter Rolls Out Design Enhancements To Profile Pages Including Header Images - According to a post on their Blog, Twitter.com today announced, “design enhancement to profile pages that will give all Twitter users a richer canvas to showcase themselves and drive stronger engagement across platforms.” Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: The Lawsuit On The $1.4 M Ad.com TRAFFIC Auction Purchase Is Over: AOL.com Is The New Owner - The long running dispute over the domain name Ad.com is over and AOL.com has possession of the domain. It was back in April 2009 when the domain name ad.com was bought at the Moniker.com TRAFFIC domain auction for $1.4 Million dollars by Directi. However in August 2009, the then owner of the domain name, Marcos Guillen filed a lawsuit against Directi and Skenzo for refusing to close on the purchase of the domain name. AOL.com sent Directi a claim that it held a trademark on the term advertising.com ... read more ...
 
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.Eu Domain Names Pass 3.6 Million Registrations & Has An 85% Renewal Rate - .Eu’s domain name registrations grew 7.6% in the 2nd Quarter of of 2012 compared with one year ago, according to the latest progress report from the .eu top-level domain registry, EURid .Eu passed 3.6 million registrations during the quarter and had a 85% renewal rate which is higher than .com which traditionally has a renewal rate of around 73% EURid’s Q2 2012 report shows that Lithuania had the highest annual growth, with a 30% increase of .eu registrations compared with Q2 2011, followed ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy gets obvious for SEO and hunt engine submission - Patent covers method and systems for SEO suggestions and search engine submission. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent (pdf) to Go Daddy for “method for improving a web site’s ranking with search engines”. U.S. patent number 8,271,488 describes a system for helping web site owners edit their web pages for better search results and then automatically submitting the sites to multiple search engines. If some of this seems outdated, ... read more ...
 
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YouGov research: many UK businesses wakeful of new tip turn domains? - Really? .uk registry Nominet recently worked with YouGov to poll businesses in the UK about new top level domain names. The press release headline read “British businesses largely unprepared for new gTLDs”. The headline number: 41% of British businesses surveyed are currently unaware of the new domains. Wait a minute. That means close to 60% of businesses surveyed are aware of new top level domain names coming online. That’s a staggeringly high number to me. ... read more ...
 
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Two some-more .com permit plates - X13.com from Colorado and ATU2COM from Washington state. I’ve previously written about two .com license plates in Texas, one of which is mine. A couple readers sent in their own license plates from different states. First is X13.com from Scott Galvin in Colorado. Colorado, like Texas, allows you to get a dot on your license plate. But Galvin has a funny story about that. He says he was pulled over in Boulder and given grief for altering his license plate, but ... read more ...
Mon 17th September 2012
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Catching Up With NameJet.com: DramaQueen.com Sells For $9,500 + 8 LLL.com Domain Sales - We haven’t caught up with some Namejet.com sales in a few weeks. Here are some of the auctions we were watching, including DramaQueen.com, AdForce.com and 8 LLL.com’s     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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WallStreet.com: The UDRP Decision Is In & The Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - The three member UDRP WIPO panel decision on the domain name WallStreet.com is out and not only was the complaint by Wall-Street.com, LLC rejected but the panel found the complainant engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). As to the issue of RDNH the panel said: “It is a close question whether the Complaint was brought in bad faith for purposes of the Rules, paragraph 15(e). The post-Complaint emails included in the Respondent’s Supplemental Filing strongly suggest that the Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Someone In China Just Registered The Domain Of Box’s New Product, BoxAccelerator.com - Today Box.com announced on their blog a new major release product called Box Accelerator. As we often point out, the company made the announcement without securing the matching domain name and  someone in China registered the domain today and the domain is already parked. There are several news stories out today on the product already including Slashgear.com, Zdnet.com, FastCompany, and TechCrunch Here is the domain name registration info: Domain Name: boxaccelerator.com Created On: 2012-09-17 Expiration ... read more ...
 
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The Afternic SnapNames Auction CLoses On Thursday - Over 150 Afternic.com domain names are at auction SnapNames.com which ends on Thursday September 20th at 3:15PM EST As of publication only a few names have bids but there are some pretty good domain names in the auction and most domain names in the auction have a reserve range of $1K-$2,500.  There are also a number of no reserve domain names.   Domain Name Current Bid ReserveRange acnehelp.com 1000 $1,001 – $2,500 localpubs.com 1000 $1,001 – $2,500 bostonblog.com 555 $501 – $1,000 grasscare.com 500 $201 ... read more ...
 
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Patrick Carleton and Josh Metnick devise discussion for geo TLD applicants - Conference aims to help .city and .country operators hit the ground running. Two familiar faces in the geodomaining world have teamed up to create a new conference catering to GeoTLD and Geodomain owners. Patrick Carleton and Josh Metnick just announced the GEO.FUTR conference, which will occur sometime in Fall 2013. Carleton was previously executive director of Associated Cities, LLC, a trade group representing geo domain owners (i.e. cityname.com). While with Associated ... read more ...
 
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WallStreet.com: row manners retreat domain name hijacking - Wall-Street.com blasted for its attempt to hijack WallStreet.com domain name. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Wall-Street.com, LLC guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name WallStreet.com. Wall-Street.com based much of its UDRP case against WallStreet.com on some relatively recent transfers of the domain name, which it said were new registrations. However, it turns out the domain name has essentially been ... read more ...
 
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City of Paris systematic to compensate $100k for retreat domain name hijacking - Paris guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, ordered to pay over $100,000. A U.S. federal district court has ordered Ville de Paris (City of Paris) to pay $100,000 for reverse domain name hijacking and tortious interference. Judge Melinda Harmon also ordered the city to pay $26,830 in attorney’s fees and costs. The judgment stems from a UDRP the city of Paris filed against the owner of Parvi.org in 2009. In that case, panelist Andrew Christie decided to give ... read more ...
 
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Warner Bros registers domains for Magic Mike 2 sequel - Studio registers domain names after writer and star start talking. A sequel to the male stripper movie Magic Mike is rumored to be in the works. Here’s some fuel to add to the fire: Warner Brothers has registered a few domain names related to a possible sequel. MagicMike2Movie.com MagicMikeMovie2.com MagicMikePart2.com It could be that Warner Bros is just defensively registering these domain names after the movie’s writer and star starting talking about what they’d ... read more ...