Monthly Archives: November 2012

Wed 14th November 2012
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31 finish user domain name sales - Allstate, Batteries Plus among end user buyers. Let’s get right into it…here’s a list of end user domain sales from the past week via Afternic and Sedo. Afternic Asian Colour Coated ISPAT LTd (ACCIL) owns ACCIL.info and picked up ACCIL.com for $1,200. Australian entertainment agency Entertainment Management bought EntertainmentCasting.com for $1,450. Marlen Research owns Marlen.com but added Marlen.net for $2,588. Carolina Weddings and Events paid $1,477 for ... read more ...
 
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OrderInn.com sues Google Ventures-backed Ordr.in over name - Company claims trademark infringement. Las Vegas company Order Inn, Inc., which uses the domain name OrderInn.com, has sued startup Ordr.in for trademark infringement. Order Inn is a food service provider that connects hotels without their own room service to nearby restaurants — hence the “Inn” instead of “In” in its name. (I give branding credit to the company; it also owns OrderIn.com.) Ordr.in is a Google Ventures-backed company that helps restaurants ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft registers domains for Karaoke web standard - Is Microsoft working on a new web standard? Every once in a while I come across domain name registrations that leave me puzzled. [Update: now we know why Microsoft registered the Karaoke Web Standard domains.] Microsoft registered six domain names yesterday related to “Karaoke Web Standard”. I’ve searched the web and can’t find anything related to Microsoft and a new web standard by the karaoke name. The only thing that comes up is karaoke software. So that ... read more ...
 
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Tucows: 14.1 million domains and Ting has 5,000+ accounts - Tucows continues to grow domain business while mobile phone service Ting gets bigger. Tucows’ total domains under management hit 14.1 million at the end of last quarter, the company announced on its investor conference call last evening. That’s up 21% from the same time last year. New registrations declined by 12%, which the company blames on “general industry softness in North America and Europe and some one-time events”. The ratio of transfers-in to transfers-out ... read more ...
Tue 13th November 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $1.04MM In Domains Led By NationLine.com At $11.3K - Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,043,592 for the week ending November 11th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by NationLine.com for $11,375 followed by YaThink.com at $10,000. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions For The Week Total $2.2 Million - Sedo just posted its weekly report for the period ending November 12th, 2012. In all, 919 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totalling over $2.2 million. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .com: paste.com at 100,000 USD - Top ccTLD: find.se at 40,000 EUR - Top “other” TLD: cv.org at 30,000 USD Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Reports: Revenue adult 17% & Sells $1.4 Million In Domains & Announces Tender Offer To Buy Back More Stock - Tucows.com (TCX) reported its financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2012, after the market closed today and also announced a tender offer to re-purchase up to 6.5 Million shares of its own stock at prices ranging from $1.35 to $1.50 Tucows shares closed at $1.12 during trading so it should get a nice pop on the open tomorrow Net revenue for the third quarter of 2012 increased 17% to a record $29.3 million from $25.1 million for the third quarter of 2011. Net income for the ... read more ...
 
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After 5 years French Court Finds Registrar EuroDNS & Registry AFNIC Not Responsible For TM Infringing Domain Registrations - Back in 2008, 13 French companies filed suit against the registrar EuroDNS and the French Association for Internet Naming in Cooperation (hereinafter: AFNIC), which runs the .Fr ccTLD The suit alleged that EuroDNS and AFNIC were at fault for allowing third parties to register 129 domain names infringing on their respective Trademarks. They sued EuroDNS for € 2.9 million and demanded that AFNIC be ordered to  freeze or block of the domain names. The Court of Appeal upheld the ruling of the lower ... read more ...
 
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Tess Diaz Formerly With Godaddy.com Joins Media Options - Tess Diaz, one of Go Daddy’s most tenured and trusted Executive Account Managers for the past 6 1/2 years, has accepted a new Coordinator of Business Development position with the Domain Name Brokerage Firm Media Options. Media Options CEO Andrew Rosener said, “I couldn’t be happier to have the opportunity to work even more closely with Tess. For the past 6 years Tess has been a critical advisor and assistant to our business in her role at Go Daddy as our Executive Account Manager, but now ... read more ...
 
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ConsumerBrands.com: “Developer of High Quality Domains & Brands” Gets Multimillion Dollar Financing with Black Diamond Ventures - According to a press release out today Consumer Brands, LLC announced the completion of a multimillion dollar financing with Black Diamond Ventures, a well-known and long established private investment group. “Consumer Brands is a highly innovative company, leading the development of premier high-quality internet domain assets and brands”. Some of the domain names owned by Consumer Brands highlighted on their site include: Work.org, Hearing.com, BackSurgeons.com, AddictionTreatment.org, Anxiety.org, ... read more ...
 
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Domainindex.com Downgrades .Co.uk From AA To B: Introduction of .uk TLD “Would Massively Destroy a Value of Existing .co.uk Domains - Domainindex.com, downgraded  its rating for .co.uk from AA to B. The step has been taken after the release on October 1, 2012 of a three-month consultation by Nominet, the not-for-profit manager of the .uk infrastructure, into a scheme that would introduce .uk as a top-level domain (TLD). After getting feedback from Nominet meetings held in London on Nov.7and 9 Domainindex.com decided to change the .uk rating Currently, over ten million UK domains are structured as anybusiness.co.uk; under the proposal, ... read more ...
 
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Key-System Rolls Out Totally Re-designed DomainDiscount24.com - According to a press release we received today DomainDiscount24.com (dd24), “the retail service of the international registrar Key-Systems GmbH, has rolled out a totally redesigned website with new design, even more customer-oriented structure and more comprehensive content”. In addition to a refreshed layout with a more clear website composition, many new features have been implemented to simplify the domain registration. Domaindiscount24.com has already been available in the languages English, ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy masks lapsed domain whois to forestall auction circumvention - Contact information made private after domain expires. GoDaddy.com has started masking contact information in whois records of expired domains in an effort to prevent people from circumventing auctions and bothering domain owners. The move, which the company announced today, is aimed at cutting down on email domain investors send to owners of expired domains. Domain investors see an expired domain auction for a domain they want and then contact the owner directly ... read more ...
 
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Moniker SnapNames year-end auction ends Thursday - Bidders active with two days left. The Moniker SnapNames premium year-end auction ends Thursday, and already 26 of 185 domain names have bids. Of those, 14 have met their reserves. 71 domain names have no reserve at all. The top domain so far is White.net at $7,650 with one bidder. VZG.com has attracted the most bidders with 14 people vying for the domain name. It has met its reserve and the top bid is currently $3,452. QRP.com has a $5,500 bid but hasn’t met its ... read more ...
 
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Major League Baseball and Miami Heat make domain purchases — and we won’t trust a prices - NBA team with team salary of $88 million buys a domain for $1,358. Last week’s end user domain sales report is a week late because I was traveling this week. Two sports domains traded hands this week at stunningly low prices given who the buyers were. Major League Baseball paid just $900 for TopOfTheOrder.com and while the Miami Heat paid just $1,358 for TheHeatStore.com. TheHeatStore.com isn’t a great domain, so it wasn’t necessarily worth more. It’s possible ... read more ...
 
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The Domain Venture Partners new TLD representation deck - New TLD applicant hoped to raise up to £100 million, targeted 40%+ annual returns. In August a Florida man filed a lawsuit claiming he invested $123,000 into a business to run the .bim new top level domain that didn’t get off the ground. The suit names Domain Venture Partners PCC Limited, which is an applicant for 60 top level domain names. Domain Venture Partners’ (DVP) applications were all filed in conjunction with Famous Four Media but through various subsidiary ... read more ...
Mon 12th November 2012
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Find.Se Sells For $50,000 - The domain name Find.Se just sold for 40,000 Euro’s on Sedo.com or about $50,000. .Se is the country code (ccTLD) for Sweden. It will be interesting to see where this sale falls on the all time high sale list for the .Se extension which Ron Jackson covers it for DNjournal.com On DNjournal.com, year to date chart of the top ccTLD sales none of them are the .Se extension. This sale will tie for #18 on the top 100 ccTLD sales of the year.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Coming soon: heading applications tip off new products - Ready to Go Mobile? What about using domainIQ? Before even launching a product, many companies will file “intent to use” trademark applications to protect their new brands and slogans. A couple domain related companies have filed such applications recently, which may indicate new products they’re working on. First up is Go Daddy, which submitted an application for “Go Mobile”. It’s a fairly broad application covering domain registration, auctions, hosting, ... read more ...
 
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MyICANN is a large step brazen for clarity during ICANN - System notifies users about new content on ICANN.org. ICANN launched a beta of MyICANN during last month’s meeting in Toronto. The site, hosted at MyICANN.org, provides notifications about new documents published to ICANN’s web site. It sounds simple and it is. It also only alerts you to documents that have been published, and these same documents have always been published to the site. Despite this, I believe MyICANN is a huge boost for transparency at ICANN. Even ... read more ...
Sun 11th November 2012
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Domain Registrar 1and1 Running TV Commercials Promoting “Domain Days” Without Owning DomainDays.com - The domain name registrar, 1and1.com is is running televisions commercial in some heavy rotation today during NFL games touting its domain name registration sale its calling “Domain Days” for November. Not only doesn’t 1and1.com own the domain name DomainDays.com, but to add insult to injury the domain is not even registered at 1and1.com its registered at Moniker.com You can watch the domain days commercial here The domain name was just registered a few months ago by a company NOMITION LTD ... read more ...
Sat 10th November 2012
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Bandit Foundation Update: TriCountry Gets The Love & The Bandit Rescue Van Has Already Helped Save Over 70 Dogs -                                   Its been almost a year since we lost our little Boy Bandit Berkens. With the help of Jenna Wehner and John Ferber Microgiving.com set up a fund and friends, domainers and readers of thedomains.com generously contributed over $6,000 to the Bandit Share the Love Foundation. The money was donated to he TriCounty Humane Society,  a No-kill shelter located in Boca Raton, Florida. TriCountry rescue animals mainly around the Tri County area of Palm Beach, ... read more ...
Fri 9th November 2012
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Will FiscalCliff.com Become a Best Hand Registered Domain of 2012? - If you turn on your television and watch any news, financial or stock program, you’re bound to hear about the Fiscal Cliff the US is facing. Both the President and the Speaker of the House held separate press conferences today on the Fiscal Cliff and President Obama just announced he will have another press conference next Wednesday on the Fiscal Cliff. Believe it or not the domain FiscalCliff.com was just hand registered on April 25th of this year. The domain is owned by a Kenneth Carey of Site ... read more ...
 
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Takeout.com Wins UDRP & Gets A Finding Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - A three member UDRP panel just rejected the complaint brought by Tarheel Take-Out, LLC of Chapel Hill, North Carolina against  Versimedia, Inc. of Wilton, Connecticut, on the domain name takeout.com and found the complainant was guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. “In its trademark application, filed roughly six years after Respondent registered the generic or commonly descriptive term “takeout” as a domain name, Complainant alleges that its first use of TAKEOUT.COM occurred in 2010. “Given ... read more ...
 
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After Turning Down Google’s Offer To Buy It For $6 Billion, Groupon.com Finds Itself Having a Value of Under $2 Billion - Less than  two years ago Groupon.com turned down an offer of $6 Billion dollars from Google. It was just over a year ago that Groupon.com went public at $20 a share, given it an implied valuation of $13 Billion. After reporting declining revenue yesterday shares of Groupon sank below $3 a share today down some 30% from the previous close, giving the company a $1.8 Billion dollar valuation. So the company went from a $6 Billion dollar offer from Google which if it would have taken all Google stock ... read more ...
 
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Anything.com Sells Paste.com For $100,000 on Sedo - The domain name Paste.com just sold on Sedo.com for $100,000 The domain was owned by Anything.com Ltd of Grand Cayman, which has one of the best domain portfolio’s in the world but doesn’t, at least publicly sell many of its domains The domain was purchased by Paste Magazine whose current URL is Pastemagazine.com The domain industry continues to be about branding and shorter more memorable and brandable domains. Congrats to the buyer and seller Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...