Monthly Archives: December 2012

Wed 5th December 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
A untrustworthy domain attorney practice - Telling a domain owner you have a buyer for their domain when you don’t is unethical. I want to highlight a domain broker practice that gives the industry a bad name. I’ll call it the “phantom buyer”. Here’s how it works. A domain broker contacts a domain owner and says they have a buyer interested in their specific domain name. The broker doesn’t really have a buyer for the specific domain, but wants to get the domain owner to agree to have the broker ... read more ...
 
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Good domain strategy: eBay DealMint - Service runs on eBayDealMint.com, but eBay bought DealMint.com too. I’m a bit confused about eBay’s new DealMint service, but I give the comapny props for locking in the necessary domain names. eBay switched the DNS on DealMint.com and eBayDealmint.com to its new daily deals offering sometime in the past 4-5 weeks. I can’t find much news about the service, but was alerted to a nameserver change on these domains from markmonitor.com to eBay’s DNS. Even stranger, ... read more ...
Tue 4th December 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $1.15MM In Domains Led By Snipes.com For $50K - Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,146,186 for the week ending December 2nd, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by Snipes.com at $50,000, followed by Calorease.com at $20,000. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.7 Million For The Week Led By HotelsGuide.com For $60K - Sedo.com just issued its weekly report and in all 928 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.7 million. Over 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: hotelsguide.com at 60,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: verzuimmanagement.nl at 12,100 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: roulette.biz at 6,750 EUR   Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Did Another Domain Parking Company Just Buy Internet-Traffic.com For $1K? Fair or Foul? - I just noticed an interesting domain name cross the Sedo.com sales wire today. The domain name is Internet-Traffic.com which is identical to Frank Schilling’s monetization company, InternetTraffic.com with the addition of a hyphen. The domain name Internet-Traffic.com, which is just a landing page at this moment, was under privacy, but the whois has been update to show the information of the new owner which appears on closer examination to have a relationship with another domain name parking company, ... read more ...
 
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.Info Premium Auction Under Way On Godaddy.com - A premium 10 day .info domain name auction just got underway at Godaddy.com All of the domains start at $100 bidding and include some nice one word .info domains including: bank.info doctor.info finance.info legal.info tax.info broadway.info cancer.info airline.info City.info You can see all the 106 .info domain in this special auction  here Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Which Would You Rather Have, A Left of The Dot .Christmas Sub Domains Or A Right Of The Dot gTLD .Christmas Domain? - Yesterday Left of the Dot, the company that took over management of Christmas.com in October, rolled out free sub-domains called Christmas Family Pages. Christmas Family Pages “are free for families and allow for real-time sharing of photos, recipes, Christmas traditions, wish lists, and memories. “Every family who creates an account gets their own part of Christmas.com (e.g., SmithFamily.Christmas.com) which they can share by inviting the people they care about.” “The functionality of Christmas.com ... read more ...
 
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Goldman Sachs Downgrades Demand Media Citing Google - Goldman Sachs just downgraded Demand Media Inc ((NYSE: DMD) from Neutral to Sell and cut its price target from $12 to $9. Goldman Sachs commented,: “Demand Media has proven vulnerable to changes made by Google in the past, the Panda algorithm change in 3Q11 being the most significant example as it drove owned and operated content revenue down 3% yoy in 1Q12. “In 3Q12 and more significantly in 4Q, DMD began a traffic-driving strategy to eHow search pages, which could yield a near-term increase ... read more ...
 
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After Over 1 Million Submissions, Enom Releases The 5 Most Requested new gTLD Extensions & Categories - eNom, Inc., a top 5 ICANN accredited registrar, has been taking “expressions of interest” in new gTLD domain names from consumers since June. eNom has received over one million submissions worldwide. The top five new gTLD domain extensions people are most interested in are: There are 9 applicants for .Shop, 7 applicants for  .Web and .Hotel, 6 for .Tech while .Family only has 3 applicants, Google, Donuts and Frank Schillings Uniregstry. In addition to tracking registration interest for each ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
.com, .net gibi uzantılarla bitme zorunluluğu kalkıyor - İNTERNET adreslerinin ‘.com’, ‘.net’ ya da ‘.gov’ gibi uzantılarla bitme zorunluluğu 2013 yılından itibaren kalkıyor. Dünyanın önde gelen şirketleri .’dan sonra kendi ismini koymak için mücadele ederken, Türkiye’den tek başvuru İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nden geldi. Belediye, ‘.ist’ ve ‘.istanbul’ uzantılarını 370 bin dolara satın aldı.Günaydın Et Lokantaları’nın ortağı muhabir kaçırdıİnternet adreslerinde kullanılan .com, .net gibi ... read more ...
 
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.com dönemi bitiyor - İnternet adreslerinde kullanılan .com, .net gibi uzantıların yerine artık, ‘.’dan sonra istenilen isim kullanılabilecek. gTLD olarak tanımlanan .com, .gov ve .info gibi uzantıların sadece 22 seçeneğe sahip olması nedeniyle, hızla büyüyen internet ortamının artık talebe cevap vermekte zorlanacağını düşünen İnternet Tahsisli Sayılar ve İsimler Kurumu (ICANN), üst seviye alan adı uzantısına 1930 yeni seçenek daha ekleyecek. 2013 yılının ikinci yarısından ... read more ...
 
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When it creates clarity to sell a domain name we indeed use - You might want more money, but there’s usually a price at which it makes sense. Domainers typically sell domain names they aren’t using. They’re parked or have a minisite, but no real business. But sometimes domain name owners are approached about selling a domain name they’re already using. I’m not talking about someone wanting to buy a web site you’ve created; instead someone wants to buy a domain name you’re using but the buyer wants to use it for ... read more ...
 
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New API allows registrars to bond to Google Apps most some-more easily - Updated API now available to all domain name registrars. Google has long partnered with GoDaddy and eNom to make registering a domain and connecting it to Google Apps easy. Google is working to expand the number of registrars with this functionality and is introducing a new API to make it much easier. The API is available to all registrars. It has reduced the number of steps required to verify and transfer email from 10 down to 3 steps and users are no longer required ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
An open minute to contractors - Get some sort of online presence. And return phone calls. I’ll be first to admit, I have no idea what the life of a contractor is like. By contractor, I mean people who build and repair stuff. Like fences, landscapes, and windows. I’m in the final stages of building my new house, and there are a number of things I need to take care of. Like getting a fence installed. Yet it’s harder than it needs to be. So I’m writing this letter to give you, dear contractor, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Top 5 domain name stories of November - From karaoke to Marchex, here are the top 5stories on Domain Name Wire last month. I typically send an advance version of my top 5 stories list to newsletter subscribers toward the end of the month. I always include the caveat that the results, which are ranked by article views, are subject to change in the last couple days of the month. Usually a change has to do with a big domain name story that comes out on the last day. But this past month it was a story from ... read more ...
 
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ICANN asks justice to boot Name.Space lawsuit over tip turn domains - ICANN claims Name.Space released ICANN from claims when it applied for top level domains in 2000. ICANN has (not surprisingly) filed a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit brought by Name.Space against ICANN for its new top level domain program. Name.Space runs an alternative root with a number of its own top level domains, such as .art and .book. Back in 2000 Name.Space applied to ICANN to run 118 of these top level domains in the main root. ICANN’s starting defense: ... read more ...
Mon 3rd December 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Parody Site ChickFilaFoundation.com Wins UDRP Challenge By Chick-fil-A - C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith 1. Parody as a UDRP Defense Respondent has claimed to be using the disputed domain name as a parody. Parody is a curious migrant from the law of copyright to the law of trademarks. Parody has existed in literature from time immemorial. One author, songwriter, artist, etc. has chosen to copy certain elements of the work of another in order to make fun of the style or content of the other’s expression. In the context of the law of copyright which protects the ... read more ...
 
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Leading Integrated Brand Agency Digitas reliable to pronounce during Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress - According to a press release we just received, “The Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress today announced Carl Fremont, Executive Vice President, Global Media Director, Digitas will address an audience of brand managers and domain industry insiders on March 11, 2013 at the Dream Downtown Hotel in New York City”. TheDomains.com is one of the sponsors of the conference and I will be attending it on behalf of the blog and Monte Cahn will be representing RightoftheDot.com. “Carl oversees all ... read more ...
 
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SearchEngineJournal.com: 17 Ways To Get De-indexed by Google - SearchEngineJournal.com just published a post entitled “17 Ways to Get De-indexed by Google” Here are some of the 17 ways,  but you should check out the post which details each of the 17 in-depth: Cloaking Duplicate Content Writing Content with a Machine Add Unrelated Keywords to Your Content Joining Link Exchanges and Bad Neighborhoods Point 100 URLs to One URL Sending Automated Queries to Google Scraping Content Sneaky Redirects Building Water-thin Affiliate Sites Duplicate Sites Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
easyDNS Releases “Hot Swappable Proactive Nameservers” Guaranteeing 100% Uptime - easyDNS Technologies Inc. announced today “Hot Swappable Nameservers” under the solution they call Proactive Nameservers, “the world’s first name server delegation optimization platform which actively responds to conditions affecting your domain’s DNS availability and performance in real-time.” “Denial of Service attacks or technology errors (such as “corrupted router data tables”) can bring down even the most advanced DNS infrastructure or the largest internet vendor.” “There ... read more ...
 
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Programs.com At $68K & PriceMatch.com Is At $21K At NameJet.com: Will Either Sell? - A couple of interesting domain name auctions over at NameJet.com Programs.com has a high bid of $65,100. The domain has not hit the reserve yet. The domain name PriceMatch.com closes in two days and is at $21,000 Reserve has not been hit in that domain name either. I assume Programs.com reserve to be around $100K PriceMatch.com is probably around $25K but those are just my guesses. I case you wondering Estibot.com has the domain programs.com appriased at $189K and PriceMatch.com at $3,300   Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Auctions sells 32,151 domains in November - MyModa.com and Funlife.com lead the way. Go Daddy has updated its Auctions Domain Market Report with results from last month. Last month Go Daddy auctions sold sold 32,151 domain names, which is down just slightly from the month before. Monthly domain sales in the low 30,000 range seems to be the new norm on the site. The top 10 sales last month were: MyModa.com $50,000 Funlife.com $50,000 – currently in escrow with Afternic Brilliant.org $25,000 LowRates.com ... read more ...
 
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Sony sells Connect.com to businessman Ryan Allis for new venture - Domain name was used for Sony’s now shuttered online music store. Sony has sold the domain name Connect.com to entrepreneur Ryan Allis for his new venture Connect. Sony used the domain name for its Connect Music Store. The entertainment company closed down the online music store in 2008. Allis was co-founder of email marketing company iContact.com, which was acquired by Vocus earlier this year. On his LinkedIn profile, Allis describes Connect as “Mobile technology ... read more ...
 
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Marc Randazza wins UDRP opposite lady he sued final week - Lawyer wins UDRP over his personal names, but battle still looms over family domain names. Last week I wrote about how first amendment attorney Marc J. Randazza had filed a lawsuit against detractor Crystal Cox over a number of domain names she registered. In addition to registering domain names including Marc Randazza’s name, she also registered domain names referring to Randazza’s wife and three-year-old child. Randazza alleges that Cox registered the domain ... read more ...
Sun 2nd December 2012
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On Eve Of Start of The ITU Meeting In Dubai, The US Makes Issues A Statement In Support of ICANN - The ITU meeting gets underway in Dubai tomorrow and the United States has issued the following statement in support of the ICANN multistakeholder holder model of governance. The statement is signed by Lawrence E. Strickling, Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Phillip L. Verveer, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, State Department: The Necessity ... read more ...