Monthly Archives: December 2012

Mon 10th December 2012
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2012 Impact Stories: new TLD field revealed - June 13 was a big day for the domain name industry. It’s the time of year to review what has transpired in the domain name industry over the past year and look forward to 2012. We’ll start with one of the most anticipated dates in the domain industry this year: June 13, 2012. That was the day ICANN officially revealed the 1,930 applications for new top level domain names covering 1,409 unique strings. This is more than many industry players — including the registries ... read more ...
 
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Video: Go Daddy holiday celebration featuring B-52s - Go Daddy distributes millions in donations and prizes at annual holiday party. Go Daddy held its annual holiday party in Phoenix this weekend. As usual, it was a bit over the top. It opened with a Psy impersonator who’s Gangnam Style performance was apparently good enough to fool some in the audience. The headline band this year was the B-52s. Go Daddy and The Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation presented the Semper Fi Fund with checks totaling $2 million, some of ... read more ...
 
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CNN too “distracted” to strengthen the brands’ domain names - Company doesn’t register domains for popular segment. Remember how CNN started iReport, and then only when it became very popular paid dearly for the domain name? To the tune of $750,000? It may have done it again, as one DNW reader pointed out to me today. CNN has a segment called CNN Distraction that’s getting a lot of attention. It features videos it describes this way: “CNN may have built its reputation by covering the news, but this stuff is definitely ... read more ...
Sun 9th December 2012
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Reuters: ITU: Russia Backed By China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan and a UAE Wants To Take Control Away From ICANN - Reuters, is reporting that Russian is backing a proposal with the support of China, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates at the ITU is calling for sweeping new  powers to regulate cyberspace. The United States, Europe and other allies including Australia and Japan insist the treaty should continue to apply only to traditional telecommunications such as international wireline and wireless calls. A leaked draft of the Russia-led proposals would give countries “equal rights to ... read more ...
Sat 8th December 2012
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Google Blacklists Mike Mann’s MakeMillions.com Site Forcing Him To Abandon $10K Domain - Domain investor and serial entrepreneur Mike Mann published his book Make Millions Make Change in 2009 and has been giving it away for free on MakeMillions.com Last week Google blacklisted the domain. Mike Mann pulled the plug on MakeMillions.com in response and the domain name now does not resolve. The domain MakeMillions.com cost Mike $10,000 and now lays dead due to Google’s arbitrary action. Mike switched all the content that was on MakeMillions.com to MakeMillionsandmakechange.com Mike posted ... read more ...
Fri 7th December 2012
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Noms de domaines français : un cocorico de l’AFNIC peu justifié – Réseaux - Dernier dossier Le software-defined security (SDS) convient aux environnements virtualisés Avec le SDS (software-defined security), la détection d'intrusion, la segmentation du réseau, les contrôles d'accès sont automatisés et contrôlés par le logiciel. Le SDS convient plus particulièrement aux environnements informatiques dépendants du cloud computing et des infrastructures virtualisées. ... read more ...
 
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What kind of domains are offered for underneath $1,000? - Some are obvious — but the delineation between under $1,000 and $3,000 is quite small. When Afternic sends its weekly sales reports it omits domains that sold for under $1,000. Yet understanding which types of domains are selling for three figures can be valuable for domain investors. Thankfully, Afternic’s updated web site shares a selection of domain sales from all price ranges. Here are some observations after sorting through some of the sub-$1,000 domains. 1. ... read more ...
Thu 6th December 2012
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Frank Schilling’s NameAdministration Hit With A UDRP On ColdFront.com - Another day and another complaint filed against a generic term. In this case its the NameAdministration owned domain name ColdFront.com that was hit with a UDRP complaint filed with The National Arbitration forum (NAB). According to DomainTools.com, the domain name  has been owned by Name Administration since at least 2003. The domain name is generic of course and even has its own Wikipedia entry. There are 9 live trademarks for the term “cold front” in the USPTO including by Land O’Lakes, ... read more ...
 
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GUO.com Sells for $50,000 On NameJet.com, Capping Two Weeks of Sales Totaling Over $200K For FindYourDomain.com - The domain name Guo.com sold today on NameJet.com for $50,000 The auction had 301 bidders and 11 bidders willing to pay $10,000 or more. Guo is one of the most popular surnames in China. “The Guo family is one of the well known Hui clans around Quanzhou in Fujian, the other being the Ding family, they are examples of these Hui who identify as Muslim by nationality but do not practice Islam. Due to more people of these clans identifying as Hui the population of Hui as grown.” You can read more ... read more ...
 
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Fairwinds Study: 74% Of Internet Users Are Entirely Unaware of New gTLD Program: 44% Says It Will Cause Confusion - Fairwinds Partners just published a white paper on the new gTLD’s entitled “2013: The Year of the Address Bar” including results from a survey of 2,008 Internet users between the ages of 13 and 64 about their awareness of and attitudes toward new gTLDs “2013 will be the year that Internet users wake up to the world of Internet addresses and start thinking more about what they put into their address bars.” “Starting next year, the top level of domain names, or the space to the right of ... read more ...
 
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.Glean Becomes 7th Officially Withdrawn New gTLD Application - ICANN has just posted a 7th withdrawn application on its website. The application for .Glean filed by Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. of Knoxville Tn has been formally withdrawn and now reflected on ICANN’s website. The owner of Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc. appears to be Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc still has 12 active new gTLD applications including one’s for .food, .hgtv, home, .living, .travelchannel and .diy According to the application, the  .Glean ... read more ...
 
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United/Contential Sues Owner Of Untied.com Used As A Gripe Site After 15 Years - According to the ChicagoTribune.com, United and Continental airlines, filed suit on Nov. 19, in both the Federal Court of Canada and Superior Court of Quebec. against the owner of Untied.com. The domain name Untied.com, has been owned by a Canadian professor  for 15 years and airs complaints from disgruntled United Airlines passengers and employees. The filed allege the complaint site violates the airline’s copyright and trademarks. It also alleges the site violates the privacy of senior airline ... read more ...
 
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SSL.com Hits The Market Including Operating Business, Trademarks & Patents Pending - The category killer domain name SSL.com has just hit the market. But the SSL.com is not just a domain sale. It includes a profitable business, federal trademarks and patents pending” The domain name is being brokered by MediaOptions.com Here are some interesting facts from the Press Release: “The domain is being sold by SSL Corp, the profitable business running SSL.com for the past 12 years” “SSL’s across the industry are sold with hefty margins, averaging a whopping 70% profit, with most ... read more ...
 
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.Eu 3Q 2012 Report is Out & Registrations Increase By Over 7% To 3.67 Million; Renewal Rate 81%; 16K Domains Traded - EURID the company that manages the .Eu ccTLD issued its report this morning for the third quarter of 2012. Here are the relevant numbers: “The number of registered .eu domain names rose by 7.4% to 3.67 million when compared with Q3 2011.” “This year-over-year growth is very much in line with Q2’s result of 7.6%”. “There were 8% more new .eu registrations in Q3 than during the same months last year.” “The countries showing the highest Annual growth rate where: “Malta 35.1% Slovakia ... read more ...
 
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Brand Protection Companies Need To Do Better Job Protecting Their Clients On TM Dropping Domains - We have written many times about instances where Brand Protection companies fail to protect their clients by not registering or acquiring domain names before the launch of a new product or service. Today we are calling them out for not even attempting to re-register dropping domains which have TM implications. We have been watching some potential Trademark infringing dropping domains for some time now and are pretty shocked to see that none of the usual brand protection companies have even attempted ... read more ...
 
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Support a gift by renewing the domain name - A unique gift this holiday season: renewing a domain name. Domain name registrar Hover has come up with a creative promotion to help charities. The registrar is asking people to support charities by renewing the charities’ domain names for them. You can see a list of charities that have their domains at Hover here. All you have to do is click the charity link, add how many years you want to renew its domain for, and then go through the checkout. You’ll also be ... read more ...
 
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Domain upgraders: 2 forms of ridiculously competent buyers for your domain names - “Upgraders” are prime targets to buy your domain names — and relatively easy to find. Since I create a list of end user domain names sales each week, I notice some pretty strong patterns amongst end user buyers. One of the biggest categories of buyers are the “upgrade” buyers. The domain name they buy is almost exactly like the one they already own, only better in one of two ways. The first is a better top level domain. Buyers will often buy a .com domain ... read more ...
 
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Citigroup sues to get CityCard.com, a domain it won in UDRP - South Korean court blocked transfer of domain after UDRP; Citi files suit in the United States. Last September a National Arbitration Forum panel ruled that Citigroup should get the domain name CityCard.com. [Update: the court entered a default judgment for Citigroup and the domain has been transferred.] But the owner of the domain name sued in South Korea court to block the transfer. Now Citigroup has filed an in rem action against the CityCard.com domain name in ... read more ...
 
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Not a win-win: FranklinCovey sued for behest on Franklin.com on Google Adwords - Seven Habits company faces lawsuit over Adwords bidding. Perhaps the eighth habit of highly effective people should be “not bidding on competitors domain names in Adwords”. Franklin Electronic Publishers has filed a federal lawsuit against FranklinCovey because the Seven Habits-based time management company is bidding on the term “Franklin.com” on Google Adwords. Franklin.com is owned by the plaintiff, which sells products somewhat related to what Franklin ... read more ...
Wed 5th December 2012
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Congress Passes A Resolution Unanimously 397-0 Calling On The US To Oppose UN Control of a Internet - The House of representatives voted today unanimously to pass Senate resolution S.Con.Res. 50 that calls on the U.S. government to oppose United Nations control of the Internet. The Senate approved the resolution  unanimously in September so the total Congressional vote was 397-0. The resolution, says it is the sense of Congress that the U.S. government should “continue working to implement the position of the United States on Internet governance that clearly articulates the consistent and unequivocal ... read more ...
 
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If Your In Contention For a New gTLD Your Draw Number Is Only As Good As The Worst Number Picked By A Competing Applicant - As the ICANN draw of December 17th is less than two weeks away, one issue that has been debated on Facebook is the importance of the draw for those new gTLD’s strings in contention. Today ICANN settled one issue giving IDN applications preference, but not giving preference to any other applicant including Geographic applicants which had lobbied ICANN for priority as well. So now with all issues settled all eyes turn towards the Draw where applicants are hopping to get a good number. Certainly for ... read more ...
 
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The NBA’s New Orleans Hornets To Become The New Orleans Pelicans & A Cover Band May Strike It Rich - According to an ESPN report the New Orleans Hornets are going to become the New Orleans Pelicans, meaning that someone just won the domain name lottery with Pelicans.com The domain name Pelicans.com as fellow south Floridan Scott Ross points out on his Facebook page, is owned by a “little known San Diego cover band, The Fabulous Pelicans” who appears to be in a position to get a “money windfall” by selling its domain to the NBA or “instant Internet traffic surge” to its own site. As of ... read more ...
 
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Registration For Domaining Spain 2013 Is Now Opened: Here’s How You Can Save 50% Off The Registration Fee - The 2nd Domaining Spain conference is going to be held from April 25-27, 2013 in Valencia, Spain and follows on the heels of what was a very well received initial conference held earlier this year. The conference will be centered around ccTLD and the New gTLD The confernce will be held at the Sorolla Palace Hotel with rooms starting at a extremely reasonable 70 euro’s per night (about $85) The cost of the conference which includes all sessions plus food and drinks is 600 Euros. The first 10 readers ... read more ...
 
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Confirmed: IDNs will be prioritized in new TLD queue - IDN backers get their wish. Applicants for internationalized domain names will get prioritized to the front of the new top level domain name queue, ICANN confirmed today. ICANN confirmed this information in a webinar about the gTLD prioritization draw. The prioritization draw, which will determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released, as well as the priority applications go through other stages of the process, takes place in Los Angeles on December ... read more ...
 
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28 finish user domain sales - 28 end user sales from Afternic and Sedo this past week. Below is a selection of end user domain name sales from Afternic and Sedo last week. Afternic I’m curious who paid $50,000 for Snipes.com. The domain is still in escrow, but I imagine it’s an end user. Outdoor products company Firmly Planted dropped the hyphen in its domain, picking up FirmlyPlanted.com for $2,319. (Check out their web site, they sell some really cool outdoor stuff.) Law firm Loeb Loeb ... read more ...