Monthly Archives: September 2012

Mon 17th September 2012
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Details of $528,000 sale of Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk - Pixel Capital buys domain names to enter online travel market. Australian company Pixel Capital Pty Ltd announced last week that it had acquired Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk for a combined $528,000 USD. Both domain names were owned by a British company and were developed at one point. Although the transaction is finalized, Pixel founder Roland Bleyer told Domain Name Wire that the deal is owner financed over multiple years. In other words, Pixel is still ... read more ...
Sun 16th September 2012
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Blackberry New Domain Name Registrations May Tip New Products: Flow, Flick, Timeshift, Playon - Blackberry registered quite a few domain names yesterday many of which indicate the names of some future products, including the Blackberry Flick, Blackberry Flow, Blackberry Hub, Blackberry Peak and Blackberry Playon and Blackberry Timeshift     The company also registered this domains, all for their BBM product which is known as BlackBerry Messenger bbmvideo.com bbmvideo.net bbmvideo.org Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sat 15th September 2012
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Despite Long Dissenting Opinion, Youi.com Saved In UDRP Against Claim Of TM Holder, Youi Of Australia - A three member UDRP panel ruled by 2-1 in favor of the domain holder of Youi.com against  Youi Pty Ltd. of Queensland, Australia, which was represented by Melbourne IT. The domain name was parked and was acquired by the domain holder after the Australia company registered its trademark but a majority of the panel did not find bad faith in the registration as the domain holder was located in Europe and would not have knowledge of the Australian Trademark but the panel noted that “this case is a ... read more ...
Fri 14th September 2012
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Directi Powers 6.5 Million Domains Has 1,000 Employees & Is Valued At $350 Million - Some interesting facts were released by Directi, in an interview Bhavin Turakhia CEO with TechCircle.in. “What is Directi’s current valuation?” “We haven’t done a recent valuation exercise, but we currently quote that the group as a whole is valued around $350 million.” What has been your Y-o-Y growth rate? Name the top three businesses of Directi in terms of revenue generation? “Directi as a whole has always seen a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in upwards of 30 per cent.” “Some ... read more ...
 
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Looks Like DreamWorks Animation’s New Movie Will Be Called Mumbai Musical - According to some new domain name registrations yesterday it looks like DreamWorks Animation’s (Nasdaq: DWA) new movie is going to be named Mumbai Musical. The company registered MumbaiMusical.com, MumbaiMusical.net, MumbaiMusical.org and MumbaiMusical.info. Interestingly the company did not register MumbaiMusical.in (the country code for India) and the domain appears to still be available. None of the domain name resolve yet. DreamWorks is responsible for some of the largest gross animated movies ... read more ...
 
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Netbank Inc Tries To Get Bancanet.com Based Off Its Trademark, But Guess What It Doesn’t Have One - A UDRP panel just ruled against Netbank Inc. of Phoenix, Arizona, on the domain name Bancanet.com which is owned by  Banco Nacional de Mexico of Mexico. Netbank claimed it has a federally registered trademark on the term but they didn’t. We often chat about UDRP reform. Here the panel found that the complainant brought the UDRP, that the domain holder has to spent money to defend, based largely on a non existent filed trademark. Certain WIPO could check to make sure a complainant that alleges ... read more ...
 
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Did “Netbank” lie, or was it only unhandy in this UDRP? - A quick look at archives disproves a UDRP complainant’s statement. UDRP complainants and their lawyers make all sorts of claims when filing UDRPs. Sometimes they make assertions that are false, and sometimes these are honest mistakes. But at what point does it become deliberate? And at what point does not using freely available tools to verify complaints become problematic? Take the decision just handed down by WIPO against NetBank for the domain name bancanet.com. (I ... read more ...
Thu 13th September 2012
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i.TV Teams Up With Nintendo to emanate Nintendo TVii - i.TV today announced a partnership with Nintendo to create Nintendo TVii, a built-in service on the Wii U console that redefines how consumers find, watch and engage with their favorite video entertainment. Nintendo TVii will debut when Wii U becomes available in North America on 11/18/2012. “Nintendo TVii combines show discovery, remote control, and social interaction, all in one experience. There’s nothing like it on the market,” said i.TV CEO, Brad Pelo. “We are thrilled that Nintendo ... read more ...
 
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Apple Misses Securing The Domain Of Another New Product: Ear Pod & Maybe Infringing On TM For HearPod - According to PatentlyApple.com, Apple, Inc, rushed to get a trademark application filed in Europe last night for a new product it announced yesterday at its Apple Event, the Ear Pod. As we have discussed before Apple has been awful about obtaining domain names that match their products prior to announcing them and this is just other case. The domain name Earpod.com has been registered since 2008 and is being forwarded to a hearing clinic site at: myhearpod.com. The company that owns the domain name ... read more ...
 
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Amazon’s Quidsi to launch Afterschool.com charity apparatus for after propagandize activities. - Latest niche store to offer equipment for afterschool activities. In June I scooped that Amazon.com subsidiary Quidsi was working on a new site call Afterschool.com. This is the second Quidsi site I’ve scooped thanks to domain registrations. Afterschool.com now resolves to a coming soon launch page, Quidsi started social media outreach yesterday, and it recently started sending notices to merchandising partners. So what will the store be about? Equipment for kids ... read more ...
 
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UDRP row gets LivingSocal.com preference correct - Socal may be a typo of social.com, but it also means something. I frequently write about when UDRP panels make the wrong decision, and sometimes that’s the case even when they find for the respondent. Some domainers give me grief for it, but I call it how I see it. Last night Michael Berkens wrote about the decision for LivingSocal.com, which LivingSocial.com said was a typo, and how he thought the decision in favor of the respondent would get trademark holders ... read more ...
Wed 12th September 2012
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Living Social Loses UDRP On LivingSocal.com: You Got To Read This One - LivingSocial, Inc.  just lost a UDRP on the domain name LivingSocal.com. The panel found in a pretty strange decision, which will have Trademark groups screaming for UDRP reform, that the domain name stands for a “common term”  and means, as the domain holder suggested “living in SoCal.” The domain also resolved differently whether it was typed in the URL with the www. before it or not. One way, it went to a landing page with links but the domain owner said he didn’t know anything about ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Rules in Favor of Domain Holder On Gripe Site: SelectQuoteReview.com - A one person UDRP panel rejected the claim of SelectQuote Insurance Services on the domain name selectquotereview.com Of course the complainant owns a trademark on the term SelectQuote but the domain which was used in a site critical of the insurance comparison site, was found to be fair and legitimate use of the domain. Here are the relevant facts and findings: “The Complainant is a company offering price comparisons of insurance quotes since 1985. Due to extensive promotion and advertisement ... read more ...
 
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RightoftheDot.com Is The Exclusive Broker For Sale.com - According to a press release out today, Right Of The Dot™, LLC announced it is the exclusive broker for Sale.com, the most popular word in retail and e-commerce. This premium domain name is now for SALE and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder above the reserve set by Right of The Dot™, the domain name expert brokers. ” “This is likely to go down in history as one of the biggest domain name sales in history along with the likes of other historic domain name sales like Sex.com, Fund.com, ... read more ...
 
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Homeland Securty Sells Another Seized Domain Name: GoFactoryOutlet.com - Over the Labor day weekend we told you that several gambling domain names were sold to a private firm. As of Yesterday the domain name, GoFactoryOutlet.com which was seized by HomelandSecurty back in December 2010 with over 75 other domain names they said were engaged in the sale of counterfeit goods, has a new owner. The domain is currently registered to: New Ventures Services, Corp Domain Registrar PO BOX 459 Drums, PA 18222 US The domain name is going to a parked page at InternetTraffic.com with ... read more ...
 
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Why Sale.com has all to do with “Right of a Dot” - It’s left of the dot, but it’s going to benefit from the right of the dot. When I first saw the press release today about Right of the Dot brokering Sale.com, I had a chuckle. What is a company named “right of the dot” doing selling a domain name that has everything to do with what’s left of the dot? But really the press release buries the lead: five companies have applied for the .sale top level domain, and you can bet a lot of traffic will go to sale.com ... read more ...
 
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On day of iPhone 5 announcement, iPhone5.com sits dark - Apple owns the domain name but does nothing with it. Back in May Apple did something smart: it went after the iPhone5.com domain name well in advance of the launch of the new device. A week after Apple filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization, the owner of the domain name relinquished control. The domain name is now owned by Apple and pointing to the apple.com nameservers. Thanks to Apple’s advance work it was primed and ready for today’s ... read more ...
 
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Some large names make domain purchases - Fortune 500 Yum! Brands among this week’s domain buyers. This week’s end user sales list is a little shorter than usual, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there were fewer end user buys last week. I generate this list by looking through bulk whois records, and some weeks more sales pop out as end user buys than others. Here’s an interesting one. CeeJay Software Limited says it offers data backup service called CrashPlan PROe. So it bought CrashPlan.co.uk for ... read more ...
Tue 11th September 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $970K In Domain Names Led By GarageDoorRepairs.com & MyEyes.com - Afternic.com just reported it’s weekly domain sales for the week of 9/3/12 – 9/9/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, totaled $ 969,143 Sales were led by GarageDoorRepairs.com which sold for $21,250 MyEyes.com which sold for $19,777 My personal favorite is AVN.Org which sold for just over $1K. AVN.com is a huge adult site. Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Gets Hit With A UDRP On A 4 Letter .Com: LSDA.com - A domain owned by Frank Schilling’s company, Name Administration Inc. just got hit with a UDRP over the 4 letter domain name LSDA.com The domain name is currently parked but with pretty broad links: Related Searches I found one trademark in the US trademark database for the term LSDA and it goes to a locksmith company. The trademark is was granted in 2010. The domain name LSDA.com original date of registration was 2001.  According to Domaintools.com Frank’s company has owned the domain name ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions For The Week Total $1.1 Million - Sedo just reported that  754 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.1 million for last week. 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: ecapital.com at 30,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: portalinmobiliario.pe at 7,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: saintfrancis.org at 11,000 USD Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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So Godaddy.com Wasn’t Attacked But Why Did They Wait Almost 24 Hours Before Letting Anyone Know? - Godaddy.com announced a short time ago they were not attacked or hacked yesterday but had internal network issues which caused widespread outage to millions of customer’s sites, domain names and email accounts. According to the statement, all services were restored by 4pm PDT. So why did we first get word that there was no attack or hack especially when hundreds of major media stories were reporting the outage as due to an attack or hack? In the case of millions of sites, email accounts and domain ... read more ...
 
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DomainHoldings.com On A Tear Selling Domains In Sep Is Hiring Domain Brokers - Domainholdings.com announced on its blog today that they are hiring. With unemployment especially those long term unemployed or underemployed its great to see a company in the domain industry still adding staff. DomainHoldings.com according to various Facebook postings has been on a tear in September selling domains, unfortunately all are under NDA but here are some sales: 8 character .com domain for $30,000. 4 letter (non-word) .com sold — $8,500 3 word .com out the door for $17k Woot Woot, another ... read more ...
 
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Hacker Who Allegedly Took Godaddy.com Down Yesterday Says He Can Take Google Down Too - According to a Tweet by @AnonymousOwn3r the person (group) who took claimed responsibility for the DNS attack and take down of Godaddy.com and millions of client sites,  said today that he has already taken down Facebook and can take down Google as well: “I already bring down Facebook once just read it http://www.hiperfree.com/blog/2012/urgente-facebook-passa-por-problemas/ … and about Google yes I can bring it down too” Pretty scary stuff. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Business Constituency Asks ICANN To Extend Objection Period On New gTLD’s Until June/July 2013 - “ICANN made a commitment in the new gTLD Program to provide robust processes to assure that the community as a whole – with particular opportunities for governments and rights holders – have the opportunity to raise objections that could lead to the rejection of applications.” “This communication to ICANN, and to the full ICANN Board raises an objection to a recent [informal]  statement by ICANN that implies a material change in a process established as part of the final Guidebook.  This ... read more ...