Monthly Archives: November 2012

Mon 5th November 2012
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 38% - Neustar (NSR) announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 and updated its guidance for full-year 2012. after the market closed today. Neustar provides the back end of many TLD including .biz, .US and .Co and is the back end provider for many of the new gTLD applications.   GAAP Results for Third Quarter 2012 Compared to Third Quarter 2011 Revenue increased 38% to $211.2 million Income from continuing operations increased 21% to $45.8 million. Income from continuing operations for ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Reports & Beats Estimates: eHow #13 US Web Property: Registrar Grows 11% - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) reported its earnings for the third quarter ending September 30, 2012 after the market closed. Demand Media, Inc. owns Enom.com, part of NameJet.com and is the back end provider of Donuts new gTLD’s application. Demand also applied for over 20 new gTLDs and owns part of over 100 new gTLD filed by Donuts. According to the earnings report, revenue Increased 20%  Year-over-Year, at $98.1 million, and well above the $91.4 million expected Adjusted EBITDA was Up 28% Year-over-Year Free ... read more ...
 
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BusinessWeek Becomes Lastest Publication To Raise Concern Over Donuts & Demand - Donuts, Inc.,  the largest applicant under ICANN’s new gTLD program has just been covered again by a major publication, this time by  BusinessWeek.com in a story entitled: “Donuts’ Grab for Domains Raises Fears of Cybersquatting” “Stoler, the McCarter English lawyer, said in his July letter to Icann that Donuts has clear links to Demand Media and its subsidiaries, which have received more than two dozen “bad- faith” rulings from Icann-recognized dispute panels.” “”Examples ... read more ...
 
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FreeWebsite.com Sold In Jan For $500,000 - According to a press release out this morning, the domain name FreeWebsite.com was purchased in January of this year for $500,000. The buyer of the domain is Freewebsite, LLC whose CEO Jeff Spicheris quoted as saying: “Our domain reflects our company’s mission to remove barriers to website ownership by providing high-quality, content-ready websites that don’t break the bank.” “As part of the company’s commitment to removing barriers to website ownership, FreeWebsite.com strives to make ... read more ...
 
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Sedo 3Q Report: Market Slows To $15.1M In Sales; Less Transactions; 46% All Sales Under $500; 40% $500-$2,500 - Sedo.com released its Market Report for the 3rd Quarter ending September 30, 2012 (pdf), this morning and reported its slowest quarter in terms of the number of transaction for domain names in 2012 and including the 4th quarter of 2011. Here are the highlights of the report: The third quarter of the year accounted for a total of 8,181 transactions In the 2nd Q of 2012 there were 9,049  transactions in the 1st Q of 2012 there were 10,133 transactions and going be to the 4th Q of 2011 there were 8,915 ... read more ...
 
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Marchex finish user sales, partial 2: Disney, EA, GE, and Google - More Marchex end user sales. Here’s the second round of end user sales courtesy of Marchex. See more Marchex end user sales here. I’ve tried my best to verify the actual buyer using DomainTools’ historical whois records. In some cases it’s tricky because domains may have been purchased through brokers or the whois records had privacy. Disney bought two domain names from Marchex in the 2006 to 2007 timeframe: GameKingdom.com for $40,000 and PiratesOnline.com ... read more ...
 
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Marchex finish user sales, partial one - 20 big end user domain sales courtesy of Marchex. Marchex’ release of a list of its top 500 domain names sales of all time last week gave data junkies like me fresh data to sort through. I do a weekly end user sales report, and I thought it would be interesting to check which of Marchex’ sales were to end users. I checked all 500 domains and found close to 70 with end users. I suspect the total number of end user purchases was much higher, but I ignored ones I ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s Q3 sales down 22% compared to final year - Another slow quarter, but a rebound might be in sight. Sedo’s domain name sales continue to fall short of last year. Today the company released its Q3 domain market study, showing sales of $15,147,216 in the quarter ended this September. Last year in the same quarter the company turned in $19,303,083 in sales, so sales this year in Q3 were 22% lower. Its sales performance in Q2 this year showed a similar 29% drop compared to the same quarter in 2011. However, Q2 ... read more ...
Sun 4th November 2012
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Another Federal Courts Says Purchasing Trademarked Keywords For PPC Ads Is OK - A story appearing in Lexology.com, today discssed the case of CollegeSource, Inc. v. AcademyOne, Inc.,. which was decided by The Federal Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in the case of . The Court dismissed the plaintiff’s claim for trademark infringement and unfair competition holding that the plaintiff failed to demonstrate that the defendant’s purchasing trademark terms of its competitor in keyword advertising was unlikely to result in consumer confusion. In this case the defendant ... read more ...
Sat 3rd November 2012
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Charged By The EPA For Overstating Gas Mileage, Hyundai and Kia Register Over 1,700 Defensive Domains Yesterday - Yesterday the  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) charged that automakers Hyundai and Kia overstated the fuel economy on nearly a million late model vehicles Well the car makers were very aggressive on the domain name front yesterday registering over 1,700 domain names related to the overstated mileage claims and grabbed up all domains names that could be used to attack the companies, including a lot of “class action” type of domain names, which they obviously think will be filed against ... read more ...
Fri 2nd November 2012
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Wow: Google Loses UDRP On Woogle.com & Domain Holder Didn’t Even Respond - In what could be the strangest decision of the year, Google Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name woogle.com and the domain holder didn’t even respond. The decision was handed down by the National Arbitration Forum The one member panel found that Woogle.com was not confusingly similar to Google.com “”” Typosquatting (without more) does not appear in the UDRP as a ground for transferring or cancelling a domain name. ” “Even if typosquatting were in the UDRP, it is difficult to see how ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Sells 32,000 Domain Names in Oct Led By BackSplash.com For $30K - Godaddy.com just posted its October sales information and in all sold 32,177 domain names about 800 more than in September. Those sales were generated from:   The top domain sales for October were: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Marchex’s Sales Prove It: Estibot Appraisals Are Worthless - As a domain owner there is nothing more frustrating than having someone argue that the asking price of your domain is too high because its over “Estibot Appraisal” (unless your price is lower) then they hit you with the “its only worth what someone willing to pay for it” line. Estibot.com for those who don’t know is a tool that attempts to appraise domain name on a bunch of statistical information. For years I have argued that since the tool is not intuitive and only relies on statistical ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed Against ManhattanCenter.com - A UDRP has been filed against the domain name manhattancenter.com A quick check of Google finds a lot of places in Manhattan that are called the Mahattan Center, including manhattan center high school manhattan center hotel Manhattan Center Adelphi University Manhattan Center Restaurant Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics But the granddaddy of them all is the Manhattan Center building, which was build in 1906 and is currently the home of a recording studio, television studio, post production ... read more ...
 
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Coach Wins $267 Million Dollar Verdict & Is Awarded More Than 570 Domain Names in Counterfeiting Law Suit - According to SecuringIndustry.com, the hand bag manufacturer Coach was awarded by anIllinois Federal Court, $267 mimmion judgment against hundreds of Internet sites selling counterfeit versions of its products. The US company also got ownership of more than 570 domain names used by counterfeiters to sell handbags, purses, shoes and other accessories falsely claiming to be authentic Coach products. All of the domains used the word ‘Coach’ in the domain name. The company’s general counsel Todd ... read more ...
 
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ICANN publishes 29 change requests to new tip turn domains - VeriSign, DotConnectAfrica among applicants requesting changes. A lot of new top level domain name applicants have requested changes to their new top level domain applications. As of 29 October, ICANN has received 138 change requests and approved and posted 29. You can now see which applications have posted change requests by going to the current application status web page. Scroll to the right and there’s a column labeled “application updates”. Some of the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy and AOL sued over email patents - Ziplink claims companies’ email services infringe its patents. A Connecticut company sued domain name registrar and hosting company Go Daddy yesterday in federal district court. Ziplink, Inc. alleges that Go Daddy’s email services infringe two of its patents. Go Daddy is in good company on this one. Ziplink also sued AOL yesterday. Its first patent infringement target was Microsoft, in which Ziplink argued that Hotmail violated its patents. The two patents in ... read more ...
 
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Interview: Marchex CEO Russell Horowitz on Archeo - Marchex will finally focus on its domain name business. Yesterday Marchex announced it was splitting the company in two, forming a new domain-centric business called Archeo. Archeo will manage a portfolio of over 200,000 domain names, many of which were acquired when Marchex bought Yun Ye’s domain portfolio for $164 million back in 2005. Despite its big domain purchase, the company has largely neglected its domain business until now. Yesterday I talked with Marchex ... read more ...
Thu 1st November 2012
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$24 Million In Domain Sales To Be Added To DnJournal.com - In its announcement splitting Marchex into two separate companies and releasing over 500 domain name sales previously not reported, we reached out to Ron Jackson of DnJournal.com who has served as the “official” record keeper of domain sales to see how he would be handling these sales. In all we count over $24 million dollars in domain sales which took place between 2008-2012 by Marchex. In  answer to our question of whether and how Ron Jackson would be reporting these sales of Marchex on DnJournal, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Makes Statement On .Com Contract & Shares Are Up 10%: “Verisign Expects to Continue to Run The .com Registry” - The .com Registry Agreement was approved by Verisign’s Board of Directors on June 16, 2012, ICANN’s Board of Directors on June 23, 2012, and tendered by Verisign to the Commerce Department for its review and approval on June 26, 2012. The Commerce Department is reviewing the .com Registry Agreement as required by the Cooperative Agreement (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/verisign-cooperative-agreement) between the Commerce Department and Verisign. While the authority to approve the renewal rests ... read more ...
 
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Right Of The Dot™ Teams adult with Escrow.com™ To Provide Neutral Auction & Mediation Resolution for gTLD String Contention - “”Hot on the heels of ICANN’s welcome announcement of the drawing process, Right Of The Dot is launching a private auction and mediation service to accelerate the process of settling claims between applicants for the same new gTLD string, in turn reducing the time it takes for new gTLDs to go live. Right Of The Dot has been granted a special Auction License, which specifically allows them to conduct TLD Auction Services for new gTLDs. To further support new gTLD applicants in their auction ... read more ...
 
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Marchex’ tip 500 domain sales of all time - Marchex releases a sales data treasure trove. With Marchex’ announcement today that it is spinning off its domain business into Archeo, the company released a treasure trove of data about its domain operations. The biggie: a list of its top 500 domain sales of all time. Many of this (most?) have never been reported. Which means Ron Jackson might be very busy, should he decide to go back and figure out when these domains were sold so he can add them to the charts. Here’s ... read more ...
 
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So like we was saying…Marchex splits in two, forms Archeo - Finally, Marchex is getting serious about its vast domain name portfolio. On Tuesday I wrote about how Marchex had filed a trademark application for Archeo, and wondered if it was a rebranding. It is…sort of. Marchex announced today that it is splitting in two: 1. Marchex will be focused purely on mobile and call advertising. 2. Archeo will hold the company’s domain portfolio of 200,000+ domains and handle pay-per-click advertising. With the split, the company ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign shares burst $4 in 15 mins, association issues matter about .com contract - VeriSign details .com contract renewal and its current status. Last week VeriSign made the surprising announcement that The Department of Commerce was evaluating the pricing in its .com registry contract renewal. Its shares plunged from $46 to around $36. Shares have jumped up about $4 in the past 15 minutes or so (around 2 pm EDT), shortly after the company just put out a statement about the renewal, reiterating that its role as the .com registry provider is not ... read more ...
 
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Adam Dicker’s video blog is value checking out - A great resource for new and old domainers alike. I’m not a big fan of video, especially when the message can be conveyed in writing. It’s why I always read the transcripts at DomainSherpa instead of watching the videos. It’s a lot faster. That said, I think Adam Dicker’s new video blog is worth checking out. Dicker has a long history in the domain industry. He’s best known as the owner of DNForum. But he also worked at iREIT and Go Daddy. Each video covers ... read more ...