Monthly Archives: November 2012

Tue 27th November 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $825,000 In Domain Names Led By Styles.com For $60,000 - Afternic.com just released its weekly sales list for the short holiday week (in the US) and sold almost $825,000 in domain names The sales were led by Styles.com for $60,000 which was sold by Tucows.com to MING XU of Beijing. I would say that was a really good buy by Mr. Xu   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Na světě je 240 milionů domén - Napadlo vás někdy popřemýšlet nad otázkou, kolik je na světě vlastně internetových domén? Abychom na to dokázali odpovědět, je třeba se nejdříve vyznat v terminologii, používáme totiž několik druhů domén.Dva základní typy doménTou nejdůležitější doménou je samozřejmě doména prvního řádu, neboli TLD (Top-Level Domain). Počítač čte webovou adresu pozpátku, takže v případě adresy www.zive.cz, jde ve skutečnosti o posloupnost tří domén ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transaction Total Just Under $1.6 Million For The Holiday Week - Sedo.com just released its weekly sales report for the shortened holiday week (in the US). In all  951 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling just under $1.6 million. Over 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: juegos-gratis.com at 20,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: deutschland-bewegt-sich-de at 9,900 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: banque.net at 12,000 EUR Here ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Files Federal Lawsuit Over PriceShoes.com UDRP Decision - Marchex (MRCX) just filed a federal lawsuit over the UDRP decision in PriceShoes.com. You might recall a three member panel awarded the domain name to the trademark holder of “Price Shoes” Administradora de Marcas y Franquicias, S.A. de C.V desipte a strong dissenting opinion. The case is important to all domainers since the majority of the panel placed an additional burden on Marchex who the panel described as being “professional registrants who are engaged in the business of domain name monetization” ... read more ...
 
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ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 To Match .Net & Limit Increases To CPI - In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin  the Internet Commerce Association (ICA)  to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), the ICA urges the DOC the DOJ not to approve the renewal of the Verisign contract to operate the .com registry unless Verisign rolls back wholesale prices of .com domain names to the same price it charges for .net domain registrations and to limit price increases in the future to the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Verisign ... read more ...
 
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800.com “sells” again - The domain name 800.com has changed hands…sort of. The world of penny stocks has always been a bit odd to me. Such is the case with Quamtel, Inc., which recently sold the domain name 800.com to its former sole shareholder, Steven Ivester. George Kirikos spotted this in one of the company’s SEC filings from June: Effective June 21, 2012, the Company sold the 800.com domain and all of its assets to Steven Ivester, the Company’s former sole shareholder, who is ... read more ...
 
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Have we enabled two-factor authentication on GoDaddy.com yet? - Two-factor authentication reduces changes of being phished. Last week a “small number” of Go Daddy customers were affected by a DNS attack. The company suspects the affected accounts were subject to phishing accounts or the users’ computers were infected. The simple solution to avoiding this from happening in the future is to use Go Daddy’s two-factor authentication. With two-factor authentication, when you sign in to your account you’ll get a temporary ... read more ...
 
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Lean Domain Search integrates Sedo domain listings - Aftermarket domains debut on Lean Domain Search. I’m a fan of Lean Domain Search, which I think is one of the best domain name generators out there. Until now I’ve had one main beef with the site, and that is that it focused solely on available domain names and didn’t promote that often times the ideal domain name can be purchased for $1,000 or so. So I’m happy to report that the site has now integrated Sedo domain name listings into its search results. The ... read more ...
 
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Book review: Domain Names Rewired - New book discusses the potential of more top level domain names. Before reading Domain Names Rewired, a new book by Jennifer Wolfe and Anne Chasser, I knew I was going to have two challenges with the book. First, I knew I’d disagree with many of the supposed benefits of new top level domains that the authors would espouse. Second, since the new TLD program is such a moving target, I couldn’t imagine how a book on the topic could remain relevant through the publishing ... read more ...
Mon 26th November 2012
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GED.net Hit With UDRP & Its Not A Parked Page - A UDRP has just been filed on the domain name GED.net, by the  American Council on Education GED Testing Service LLC whose official site is Acenet.edu. According to its site, The American Council on Education (ACE) develops and delivers the GED test. The domain name GED.net is an informational site about the exam which says its been copyrighted since 2005 however the whois record is showing as a record creation date of 2011 for the domain. According to DomainTools.com the domain was first registered ... read more ...
 
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ICE Seizes 132 Domains & This Time Its Global, Not Just .Com & .Net - ICE today announced that 132 domain names were seized for selling counterfeit products. However not only were .com’s and .net’s targeted this time. While 101 of the domain names were with a registry located in the United States, 31 ccTLD’s domain names were seized as well. Domain names ending in  .eu, .be, .dk, .fr, .ro and .uk were all seized. “This operation is a great example of the tremendous cooperation between ICE and our international partners at the IPR Center,” said ICE Director ... read more ...
 
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DotFood Starts Its Own Pre-Registration Site For .Food: FoodDomainia.com - According to a press release we received, Dot Food, LLC an applicant for the new gTLD .Food, launched “FoodDomainia.com, a pre- registration and awareness solution for the new .FOOD gTLD”. “By pre-registering for a .FOOD domain name on FoodDomainia, food retailers and service providers can secure a better, more professional domain name for their business, product, or service. Registrants will be instantly identified as relevant and valuable members of the food industry, will stand out among ... read more ...
 
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Audi Loses UDRP On AudiCity.com - A one person UDRP panel just ruled against Audi AG of Germany on the domain name audicity.com The case seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name was “registered for over 10 years, and there is no evidence that the Respondent has ever attempted to sell the Domain Name”. “Furthermore, when asked by the Complainant to transfer the Domain Name, the Respondent refused without making a counter-offer, citing the costs that the transfer would impose on him in changing his various email addresses.” The ... read more ...
 
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The Biggest Domain Sale Of The Year? 25.Com Gets A $1.5 Million Dollar Bid At CAX.com - The domain name 25.com in auction at CAX.com has a $1.5 Million dollar bid and has met reserve. I wrote to Francois Carrillo who owns and operates CAX.com who confirmed that the bidder has bought on the auction system before. Therefore it looks like this domain name will sell. If the sale completes it will rank as the highest reported domain name sale of the year, according to DnJournal.com, which currently is showing PersonalLoans.com as the highest sale at $1 Million. The auction closes in 6 days ... read more ...
 
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Single Letter & Number Registry Owned .Tk Domain Names Hit SnapNames.com Starting At $500 - The fast growing ccTLD is .Tk which is also according to the latest Verisign Report is the second largest ccTLD in the world in terms of numbers of registration. SnapNames.com is holding a premium.TK domain name auction featuring registry owned .TK domains. There are single letter .Tk, single number .Tk as well as 2 letter and great keyword domains. It will be interesting to see how much these domain fetch. The auction closes on December 19 at 3:15pm EST. .Tk is the country code for Tokelau. You ... read more ...
 
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Audi loses quarrel for AudiCity.com domain name - Audi will have to stick with audi-microsites.com for now. Car company Audi has lost a dispute at World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name AudiCity.com. Earlier this year Audi launched its first “Audi City” showroom in London and it wants to open 20 more Audi City showrooms by 2015. But the domain name AudiCity.com was registered by a California man in 2001. The registrant argued that he registered the domain name because it is a play on “audacity”. ... read more ...
 
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37 finish user domain sales - 37 end user domain name sales at Afternic and Sedo. My turkey hangover is gone, so I’m catching up from last week’s end user domain name sales report. Enjoy. Afternic Agito Medical, seller of used medical equipment, bought MovingMedicine.com for $2,977. Here’s an interesting one. BlackCow.co.uk sold for $1,899; it’s for a milk vodka. Lolly Wolly Doodle, a children’s clothing company, bought LollyLane.com for $2,595. Its web site is LollyWollyDoodle.com. Class ... read more ...
 
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Domain name Cyber Monday deals - A collection of Cyber Monday deals for domainers. Earlier today I wrote about a 50% off deal at Best of the Web. Here are some of the more domainer-specific deals out there today. Feel free to comment with additional ones and I’ll add them to the list. Flippa – half price listings today. Listing must go live before 10 PM PST. Go Daddy – 32% off your order (affiliate link). Also a number of half off deals for services such as web site builder and hosted exchange. Name.com ... read more ...
 
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Best of a Web Cyber Monday deal: 50% off - A good Cyber Monday deal for web site publishers. I’m sure there’s a lot of debate in SEO circles these days about the benefits of submitting your web sites to paid directories. Two that I’ve always considered for my new sites are Yahoo! Directory and Best of the Web. Both charge submission fees. The theory is that, in the eyes of search engines, these submission fees indicate that sites in these directories are “real”. After all, you’re not going to spend ... read more ...
Sun 25th November 2012
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G.Co Hits Times Square By Letting You Put Your Pictures & Message In Times Square -                         G.co has hit New York’s Times Square and now so can your pictures. Google is using the domain name G.co as a branded marketing shortcut. The campaign is called  “For Everyone” and is part of their ad campaign for Google’s Chrome Book product. “There’s no bigger stage than Times Square in New York. That’s why we figured it would be the perfect place to show the world what For Everyone looks like.” “Want to see your contribution on the big screens? ... read more ...
Sat 24th November 2012
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Just Because Your gTLD Application Escaped GAC Early Warning, It Doesn’t Mean The GAC Won’t Object To It - This week the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) issued 242 early warnings on new gTLD applications. There seems to be a belief held in the domainer community that if an application didn’t receive a GAC early warning, the GAC will can’t or won’t object to a string or an application. Wrong. This is what the latest ICANN Applicant Guidebook (dated June 4, 2012)  has to say about GAC early warnings: “”1.1.2.4 GAC Early Warning Concurrent with the 60-day comment period, ICANN’s Governmental ... read more ...
Fri 23rd November 2012
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How many new gTLDs Applications Will Not Be Approved? Dirk Krischenowski of DotBerlin Says More Than 700 - In a story posted by Netnames.com, DotBerlin promoter Dirk Krischenowski gave his analysis on how many gTLD applications might not make it. As we know there are over 1,900 applications still alive after several have been withdrawn for around 1,400 different strings. Mr. Krischenowski concluded that that 521 would drop out because they are in direct contention sets and another 80 would be in indirect contention with another string (strings that are similar enough to risk causing Internet user confusion, ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Panel Turns Back Ireland Governmental Agency Bid To Grab DrivingLicence.ie - A UDRP rejected the complaint of the Irish Road Safety Authority Act, which :has sole authority and competence in Ireland for oversight of the driving licensing system, including management of the driving test, development of driver licensing policy and drafting licensing legislation” on the domain name drivinglicence.ie. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel: The disputed domain name was registered by the Registrant on September 23, 2011. On March 29, 2012, the Complainant ... read more ...
Thu 22nd November 2012
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Brasil e Peru entram na disputa pelo domínio .amazon - Não será tão fácil para os forasteiros da empresa estadunidense Amazon conseguir a terminação de domínio (gTLD) .amazon junto ao ICANN, órgão máximo para distribuição de nomes de domínios. Os governos do Brasil e do Peru entraram com reclamações junto à entidade responsável por delegar gTLDs solicitando que o .amazon fique reservado para páginas relacionadas à Amazônia. Para os governos brasileiro e peruano, há perigo de a empresa Amazon assumir o .amazon e não permitir ... read more ...
Wed 21st November 2012
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ICANN Issues Details On New gTLD Prioritization Draw For Dec 17th -                 ICANN just released details on the Prioritization Draw (“Draw”) that will be held on 17 December 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications including the place that the draw will take place. Each application will be assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used to determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released. Only those Applicants who purchase a ticket will be able to participate ... read more ...