Monthly Archives: January 2013

Thu 24th January 2013
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Verisign: Revenue Up 13%; 121 Million .Com/Net’s; Profit Margin 59%; $1.6 Billion In a Bank - VeriSign, Inc. ( NASDAQ : VRSN ), announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012 and year ended Dec. 31, 2012 today after the market closed and had a very nice year. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $230 million for the fourth quarter of 2012, up 13 % from the same quarter in 2011. Verisign reported net income of $106 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.65 for the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to net income of $54 million and diluted EPS of $0.34 for the same quarter ... read more ...
 
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Tucows.com Tops $2 A Share - Share of Tucows.com (TCX) topped $2 a share in intraday trading for the first time since 2001. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.05 before falling back to $2 where its is trading as of time of publication. Shares of Tucows traded at $1.50 just a couple of weeks ago as their Dutch tender ended.  Shares started 2013 at $1.45 so the stock is now up over 30% since the start of the year. Volume today is already over 800,000 shares or over 6x the three month average daily volume. Tucows.com is ... read more ...
 
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Back To The Future: Namesco Rebrands Back To Its URL Names.co.uk - Namesco, “one of the UK’s top domain name, web hosting and website builder providers” has going back to its registered .co.uk roots and rebranded the company using its URL, highlighting to customers the importance of choosing the right domain name from day one. Namesco has relaunched as Names.co.uk by going  back to its original roots 16 years ago, according to a press release it sent to TheDomains.com today. In the 16 years the company’s URL did not change but the branding did. Now the ... read more ...
 
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DomainMarket’s SnapNames Auction Ends Today & All That Is Missing Are Bidders - Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com is holding an auction of some really good domains over at SnapNames.com, including HappyBirthday.com, Bailout.com, Crime.org and Females.com to name a few. The auction ends at 3:15PM EST today and while there are some really good names at auction the one thing that seems to be missing are bidders. With 34 domain names, with reserve ranges starting at $1,000 not one domain has garnered a bid yet Here is a full list of the domain name at auction with the reserve ranges: table ... read more ...
 
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Oversee Should Have Secured The Domain Webfest.com Before Changing The Name Of Its Conference - When Oversee.net announced a few months ago it was changing its name from Domainfest to Webfest you would have thought they would have at least secured the right to use the domain Webfest.com Afterall, Oversee.net is in the domain business and even though they have switched gears by broadening the old Domainfest into Webfest it doesn’t change the fact that Oversee is a major player in the domain business and that most of their revenue was and is still generated in the domain business Although the ... read more ...
 
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What? Kim Kardashian Is The KeyNote Speaker for Webfest Global - Kim Kardashian has been named as the KeyNote Speaker for Webfest Global. I know, read it again. Yes I have the same look on my face when I got the email from Oversee.net this evening. “‘As you know, Kim is a highly successful entrepreneur. ” Oversee wrote “We are looking forward to her sharing insights and perspective related to how she has leveraged her brand to build many successful businesses, including ShoeDazzle.com, and to help many charities, like the Dream Foundation.  In addition, ... read more ...
 
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Ally Financial sues cybersquatter who forked domains to Chase.com - Bank files anti-cybersquatting lawsuit after domain owner refused to hand over domain names. Ally Financial (GMAC) has filed a lawsuit against a Scottsdale man who allegedly registered domains including the Ally brand and forwarded the to its rival Chase.com. According to the suit (pdf), Donald Jones registered a handful of domain names including AllyBankLoans.com, AllyBancShares.com, and AllyNationalBank.com. Ally alleges that he then forwarded these domain names ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy revamps Executive Accounts, splits into 2 tiers - Registrar renames Executive Accounts as Premier Services and makes program more exclusive. Go Daddy’s Executive Accounts program is getting a makeover. The department will be renamed Premier Services while setting new minimum guidelines and managing customers on a tiered system. Previously, customers with about 300 domain names were part of the Executive Accounts program. These customers were assigned a dedicated account manager and given other benefits, such as ... read more ...
 
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Should domain marketplaces boost smallest bid requirements? - Is $60 or $250 too low for a minimum offer? Should you be forced to set something higher? It seems that Go Daddy’s inclusion of non-priced domains from Sedo set off the latest round of discussions about minimum offer prices, but it’s a discussion that’s been going on for years. Sedo has a minimum offer price of $60. The minimum commission is $50, but may be waived if you park your domain with them. Afternic has a minimum offer price of $250. Its minimum commission ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2013
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Register.com Is Offering $.50 New Domains Registrations On .Com, .Net .Org + - Register.com is offering new registrations for just $.50 for any .com, .net., .org, .info .biz or .us domain name. The offer is being advertised on Google. Here is the offer. Here is the fine print: “LIMITED TIME OFFER. Offer valid for new customers in the US and Canada only, limited to a total of three domains. Upon expiration, all products will be renewed at the then current price”. During the checkout process you can decline auto renew. However the system defaults for privacy and another service ... read more ...
 
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Panama.com Hits The Market With A $1.6 Million Asking Price - TobyClements.com just sent out his daily domain newsletter and topping the list today is the domain name Panama.com The asking price is $1,600,000. Panama.com is obviously a great domain and one which I haven’t seen on the market before and one which Toby says has “never been available on the aftermarket and is still owned by the original registrant’. Panama has a booming economy and is the financial center of Latin America. Panama has a population of around 3.6 million and has a GDP of $36 ... read more ...
 
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DomainMongrel.com Launches New Domain Appraisal Tool: Here’s Some Comparisons - If your a frequent reader of TheDomains.com you know we are not great fans on domain name appraisal tools so we might be surprised to see us announce yet another one,  DomainMongrel.com I will go through some results we got today but first this is how the developers described the appraisal tool in their press release today: “This new tool—Domain Name Estimator—offers domainers a rough indication of a domain’s worth by making use of advanced statistical analysis based on a number of factors. These ... read more ...
 
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Kim Kardashian, a domainer - Webfest goes celeb for this year’s keynote. [Update: read about her keynote here.] Oversee.net announced this evening that Kim Kardashian will keynote next months’ Webfest conference in Santa Monica. The first question on many domainers’ minds: what the heck does Kardashian have to do with the domain name industry? Let’s take a step back. Webfest, formerly known as DOMAINfest, doesn’t always select keynoters that have a direct connection to the domain industry. ... read more ...
 
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What domains Target, CareerBuilder, and others bought on Afternic this week - Target, CareerBuilder, and the franchisor for TCBY stores make domain purchases. As promised, here’s the Afternic sales report for the past week. Some big name buyers picked up domains through the Afternic network. Retail giant Target bought TargetScholarships.com and TargetScholarship.com for $1,477 each. Nationwide Structured Cabling bought NationwideSupport.com for $1,500. Sales consulting company Cohen Brown Management Group bought the killer domain CrossSelling.com ... read more ...
 
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Sedo finish user sales: SocialismSucks.com, Torrents.com, and more - Sedo’s end user sales include Torrents.com at 84,700 EUR. This week I’m trying something a little different with my end user sales lists: I’m breaking Sedo and Afternic into two separate posts. Keep in mind that these end user reports have only a subset of the end user sales for the week, even a subset of what each marketplace sold that is public. In order to be included it has to be an obvious end user sale. Many sales are still in escrow or protected by whois ... read more ...
 
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Guy files UDRP opposite his brother - Something tells me these guys didn’t get together for Christmas this year. You know familial relations have hit a new low when you filed a UDRP against your brother. That’s what happened in a recent case filed with National Arbitration Forum. Reed Bousada owns an interior design company. According to his complaint for the domain name Bousada.com, it looks like his brother Jay registered Bousada.com and let him use it for his business for a while. Something happened ... read more ...
 
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A protected approach to offload your infringing domain names? - Lawyer lets you offload your trademark-infringing domain names. About five years ago I was talking to a domainer who had some trademark-infringing domains in his portfolio. He didn’t want them. He just wanted to get rid of them. “What if there was a service where you could push your infringing domains to and they’d take care of it?” he asked. “You just transfer your domains and they put up a notice on the domain that the trademark owner can claim their domain ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2013
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Yahoo Acquires Snip.it For The “Ten’s of Millions of Dollars” - According to a post on the company blog, Snip.it has been acquired by Yahoo for what Cnet.com is reporting to be in the “ten’s of millions of dollars” Here is the company blog post: “We are thrilled at the opportunity to bring Snip.it’s vision to a larger scale at Yahoo!. While we can’t share the specifics of what we’ll be building, we are excited about the opportunity to take social news to new, exciting heights at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! team is passionate about inspiring and entertaining ... read more ...
 
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Capitol Music Wins UDRP & Gets Back The Domain It Lost in 2010: CapitolMusicGroup.com - Complainant Capitol Records, LLC d/b/a Capitol Music Group (“Complainant”),  gained control of the domain name capitolmusicgroup.com in a UDRP that is owned until 2010 when it was “inadvertently deleted.” The opinion doesn’t discuss how one of the largest music company’s on earth just “inadvertently deleted” the domain name of its company, but the panel seemed to award the domain name not due to the domain holder parking the domain, but for not using the domain name. Here are the ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Sells $1 Million In Domain Led By Everclear.com For $18K - Afternic.com just released it sales for the week  of 1/14/12 – 1/20/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,014,103. Here are the reportable sales led by Everclear.com for $18K If you think you have heard that term before, you have, and you can refresh you alcohol saturated brain over at Wikipedia, to recollect why you heard of it. We don’t know who they buyer is as the domain is under privacy and going to a Godaddy Placeholder Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Google Reports: Revenues Up 36%; Paid Clicks Up 24%; Cost Per Click Down 6% - After the stock market closed today Google reported its earnings for the quarter and fiscal year ending December 31, 2012 which we better than expected sending shares of Google up over 3% in after hours trading. Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $14.42 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2012, an increase of 36% compared to the fourth quarter of 2011. Google’s fourth-quarter profit improved 6.7%. Google posted a quarterly profit of $2.89 billion, or $8.62 a share, up from $2.71 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.6 Million - Over the past week, 1076 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling just under $1.6m. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: torrents.com at 84,700 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: compare.to at 17,650 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: eir.org at 9,888 USD   Here is a list of the reportable sales:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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IDNX/Sedo: Number Crunching Shows, Domains Sell Faster With “Charm Prices” - This is a Guest Post by Thies Lindenthal, Sedo.com’s product manager for domain pricing, and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Real Estate. Mr. Lindenthal holds a PhD in Real Estate Finance from Maastricht University, and frequently publishes on both housing markets and on Internet domain names as a form of ‘virtual land’. Dr. Lindenthal developed IDNX, the first scientific grade price index for Internet domain names. Here is the Dr. Lindenthal ... read more ...
 
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2013 and domain parking: who’s best? - Will newcomers or long time parking favorites top this year’s list? The domain name parking industry has seen incredible upheaval over the past five years. 2012 was no different, with a surprising number of recently-launched parking companies making a big name for themselves. So which domain parking company is best? Answer that question in Domain Name Wire’s eighth annual Domain Name Wire Survey. You’ll also be asked these other questions about domain parking: – ... read more ...
 
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Bali.com, JF.com, and Message.com combined to Webfest live auction - Big names added to live Moniker domain name auction. The list of domains for next month’s live auction during Webfest is growing. Bali.com has been added with a reserve range of $750,000 to $1,000,000. The site is owned by a Bali travel company. According to it’s about page, it has been operating as Bali.com since 2000. There are two 2 letter .com domains in the auction: xu.com and jf.com. The former has a reserve of $100,000-$250,000 and the latter has a reserve ... read more ...