Monthly Archives: October 2012

Tue 9th October 2012
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Al Jazeera TV Covers Donuts & Its New gTLD Applications - Donuts new gTLD applications and its relationship (or lack therefor) to Demand Media, Inc, has made it all the way to the Middle East as the news network AlJazeera just covered the company. The video of the AlJazeera report by Tarek Bazley is on YouTube.com The video includes a interview and a Akram Atallah appears as the representative for ICANN, Richard Tindal appears for Donuts and Intellectual property attorney David Weslow of Washington DC is also interviewed for the piece. To see the video ... read more ...
 
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Persona.com survives second UDRP from opposite complainant - Persona.com successfully defended — for the second time. If two completely different complainants file a UDRP against the same domain name, doesn’t that kind of show that it’s a common generic domain? Persona.com was first hit with a UDRP back in 2006 by The Eye Academy of America Ltd. and Total Vision Eye Care Group, P.C. It won the case as the panel determined: The Panel finds that common generic words are open for registration, and thus, Respondent has rights ... read more ...
 
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Doh! Melbourne IT incidentally close down Twitter’s t.co couple shortener - Company placed domain status on hold thanks to phishing complaint. Yesterday Twitter’s t.co link shortener, which it wraps all outgoing links in, went down. Was the culprit some self-proclaimed anonymous user? Or a DDoS? Nope. Domain name registrar Melbourne IT has fessed up to causing the problem. The company, which is the registrar for t.co, admitted to CNET that one of its employees had temporarily taken the t.co domain name offline in response to a phishing ... read more ...
 
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Software association guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking opposite Frank Schilling - WIPO panel rules company filed UDRP “to obtain the disputed domain name at any cost”. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found a software company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP filed against one of Frank Schilling’s domain names. The UDRP was filed by MetaQuotes Software Corp. for the domain name MetaTrader.com. Schilling’s company registered the domain prior to MetaQuotes filing for a trademark registration or even copyright ... read more ...
Mon 8th October 2012
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Endurance International Group Owner Of Dotster.com & Domain.com Selects Afternic.com as Its Exclusive Aftermarket Partner - Afternic.com today announced an Exclusive Partnership with Endurance International Group, a top ICANN-accredited registrar, incorporating Afternic’s inventory of the largest collection of fast transfer-enabled domains in the world for sale on several Endurance brands including Domain.com.” Endurance manages 2.9 million unique Web hosting accounts and close to 10 million domain names and owns HostGator.com, Dotster and Domain.com and 30 more registrars. “Since it was founded in 1997, this Massachusetts-based ... read more ...
 
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Endurance Owner Of Dotster.com & Domain.com Buys Intuit Websites - Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Intuit Websites to Endurance International Group. Endurance International Group, which manages 2.9 million unique Web hosting accounts and 10 million domain names and owns Dotster.com and Domain.com. Intuit Websites, which includes Homestead Technologies, and is part of Intuit’s Small Business Group, provides solutions that enable small businesses to create and enhance their online presence.”The way small businesses ... read more ...
 
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Cuba.com, Cali.com, BuenosAires.com, Geneva.com, Uruguay.com Hit The Market At DomainHoldings.com - Domain Holdings announced Monday that they will be the broker of record for Domains New Media LLC’s domain portfolio which is owned by Skip  Hoagland. “The portfolio, comprised of more than 1,700 names, is publicly available for the first time, with names like Cuba.com, Cali.com, BuenosAires.com, Geneva.com, Uruguay.com and more Hoagland approached Domain Holdings’ Premium Domain Brokerage team about exclusively brokering part of his portfolio, which in addition to major geo names offers some ... read more ...
 
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FAHRRAD.COM (Bicycle In German) Sells for $117K - The domain name Fahrrad.com just sold on Sedo.com for 90,000 Euro’s or about $117,000 Fahrrad is the German word for bicycle. I would not be surprised at all if the buyer of the domain winds up being the owner of  fahrrad.de     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Schilling & Berryhill Win Another UDRP On a Domain Name DataServ.com; Despite A State Registered Trademark Since 1994 - Frank Schilling’s Name Administration represented by John Berryhill just won another UDRP this time on the domain name dataserv.com. The Complaint was brought by  DataServ, L.L.C. of St. Louis which had a trademark on the term since 1994 The disputed domain name was registered on October 24, 2003. You may ask how could the panel rejected the Trademark Holders claim? It wasn’t a federally registered trademark but was only registered in state of Missouri. Here are the relevant facts and findings ... read more ...
 
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Directi To Launch The .PW “The Professional Web” ccTLD At ICANN Toronto -       Directi has just announced that it will be launching the ccTLD .pw – “the Professional Web, as a generic and open TLD, during ICANN’s Toronto summit”. .PW is the ccTLD for the island country of Palau Bhavin Turakhia, Directi’s CEO is quoted the press release: “The top generics are running in a depleted state. ” “In over 70% of the cases, consumers are unable to obtain a name of first choice, and must settle for longer, less memorable names. Moreover, for these unattractive ... read more ...
 
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TheMiddleEast.com Can Be Had For “Just” $2.5 Million: “The Internet is Still Only in a 2nd Inning of a 9 Inning Game” - According to an article in kippreport.com, the domain name TheMiddleEast.com is on the market for $2.5M dollars. The article features an interview with Keith Shanahan, “a dot com investor and owner of 600 valuable domain names including TheMiddleEast.com”. “There are many wealthy individuals out there who either haven’t come to terms with it or simply don’t realize the value of investment that comes with owning popular domain names,” he says. “If we were playing American baseball, the ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling wins UDRP for DataServ.com - Company files UDRP after $20,000 offer rejected. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended the domain name DataServ.com in a UDRP filed by St. Louis company DataServ, L.L.C. DataServ made offers of $10,000, $15,000 and finally of $20,000, but couldn’t get Shilling to sell. After that it decided to try its hand at UDRP. The offer of $20,000 certainly seems to indicate that DataServ knew it had little basis for filing a UDRP. Here’s how ... read more ...
 
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New TLD row during TRAFFIC - Panel discusses opportunities for domain investors with new top level domains. The second panel at TRAFFIC in Fort Lauderdale this morning was a session on new TLDs and how they will affect domainers. Panelists were: Michael Berkens and Monte Cahn of Right Of The Dot Mike Mann of Domain Marketplace Dan Schindler of Donuts I thought this was a good mix of panelists. Berkens and Cahn are both .com investors but are betting on the success of new TLDs. Mann is a bit .com ... read more ...
 
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Directi to relaunch .pw as “professional web” - Country code domain name .pw to be relaunched as generic domain. Directi (see disclosure) today announced plans to rebrand and relaunch the country code domain name .pw to stand for “professional web”. .Pw is the country code for the island country of Palau. Kevin Murphy has some of the backstory including an interview with Directi co-founder Bhavin Turakhia. The domain will be released similar to a traditional top level domain, including a sunrise period for ... read more ...
 
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Tucows’ Bill Sweetman “uses a force” to lapse DarthVader.com to LucasFilm - Sweetman facilitates LucasFilm getting DarthVader.com domain name. Last month Fusible noticed that LucasFilm was the new owner of DarthVader.com. This morning the story of how that came to be has been released. Tucows vice president Bill Sweetman rescued the domain after it expired and gave it to LucasFilm. I normally don’t reprint press releases, but the humor in this joint release by Tucows and LucasFilm will give you a good chuckle this morning. Here’s the ... read more ...
 
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Afternic scores outrageous domain sales partner with Endurance - Endurance joins Afternic domain sales network. Afternic officially announced today that Endurance International Group has joined the company’s AfternicDLS program. That means customers of Endurance’s various businesses will now see AfternicDLS domain inventory when they search for domains. They’ll also be able to list their domains in Afternic’s system. Endurance is one of the biggest shared hosting and domain registration companies in the world, but it’s ... read more ...
Fri 5th October 2012
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Larry Fischer Teams Up With Coffee.Org To Launch HerbalTea.com - Larry Fischer and Bill McClure announced the launch of HerbalTea.com today. It’s a domain name Larry has owned since the 1990′s. Conceived as a joint venture between veteran domainers, the site was developed with a singular purpose – selling and serving the most widely consumed beverage in the world to at home and office consumers. The owners believe that due to an increasing consumption of tea in the United States, the tea time was right for a premier online store.  According to the Tea ... read more ...
 
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See The Video On How The InternetTraffic, DomainNameSales.com App Works (it’s Cool) - InternetTraffic.com just posted a 2 Minute video on how their new patented DomainNameSales App works. To see the video click here. The product looks very cool, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it to try it out. Basically it lets you in a very simple App format Sell domains, handle offers, negotiate price without the hassle of emails. The App will send the emails to the buyer for you. The App also lets you select one of several brokers if you want them to handle the sale for you. Sales can be ... read more ...
 
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Search.XXX 1st Week Totals: 1.4 Million Visits; Almost 8 Million Page Views - ICM the operator of the .XXX TLD just release stats for the first full week of operation of Search.XXX, the registry owned search engine for .XXX sites. The totals are pretty impressive: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Vessio.com Plans Release Of Domain Development Service - According to a press release we just received Vessio, LLC, a web development company operating out of Houston, Texas has announced their soon to be released Domain Development service which will provide a new level of sophistication and revenue possibilities to Domain Name owners. “Since 2006, Vessio has deployed hundreds of websites and dynamic components for a global list of companies and organizations large and small that fuse seamless design with smooth functionality.” “Domain names, undoubtedly, ... read more ...
 
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LeftOfTheDot.com Partners With Christmas.com: “We Own Christmas.com” - Just in time for the holiday shopping seasons, our friends at LeftoftheDot.com  have partnered up with the owners of Christmas.com to operate the site. This is according to a story in the Mapleridgenews.com. LeftoftheDot.com in partnership with the original domain owner, “is bringing the address alive and hoping this Christmas will be a boost to the company that matches small companies with marketable website domain names”. “We own Christmas.com,” said Luke Stibbs, media and public relations ... read more ...
 
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WIPO Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, Without Domain Holder Asking For It - A one member panel just found Pick Enterprises, Inc. of Yarmouth, Maine, guilt of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name womantowomanhealthcenter.com And the best part is the domain holder didn’t even ask for a RDNH finding. The panel found the Complainant case conduct was poor especially in light of its pre-filing discussion with the domain holder , it made a finding of RDNH on its own initiative. “This Panel firmly believes a UDRP panel may make this inquiry in an appropriate ... read more ...
 
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New Afternic tries to emanate a clarity of community - Completely revamped Afternic.com brings back the sense of community and marketplace. Remember Afternic back in the day? I mean way back in the day. Like around 2000, when the site served as both a marketplace and a popular chat room for domainers (even though they weren’t called that then)? It was a community. An active marketplace. In recent years Afternic became more of a utilitarian device; a tool to list your domains for sale to get them syndicated on other ... read more ...
 
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FacebookIsLikeaChair.com - Facebook registers domain names related to video commemorating 1 billion active user mark. Yesterday Facebook celebrated reaching one billion active monthly users by launching a brand campaign. The first part of the campaign is a video about “things that connect us”. The key prop in the video is chairs. Not a chair as in an empty chair, but how chairs apparently connect us. Other examples in the video are doorbells, airplanes, and bridges. The day before it introduced ... read more ...
 
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Verisign files obvious focus for approach of transfering hosting on DNSSEC Domains - Application describes way to change hosting on DNSSEC enabled domains without any downtime. Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) bring all sorts of security benefits, but it can make changing hosting providers more challenging. Verisign has filed a patent for systems and methods for making the process of changing web hosts on a DNSSEC-enabled domain easier (pdf). Here’s the challenge, as the company describes in its application named “Transfer of ... read more ...