Monthly Archives: January 2013

Tue 22nd January 2013
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Estibot launches new lapsed domain finder Dropping.com - A new expired domain service from the creators of Estibot. Estibot has launched a new expired domain search service called Dropping.com. Dropping.com aggregates expiring domain data from backorder services, marketplaces, and registrars and then provides 100 data points on them. It has over 7.5 million domains in its active inventory. Data points on domains include search counts, CPC, backlinks, etc. A couple nice features include historical whois information on ... read more ...
Mon 21st January 2013
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SelectHealth Loses UDRP On Parked Domain SelectHealth.com - SelectHealth, Inc. of Murray, Utah just lost a UDRP on a direct match domain of its trademark SelectHealth.com The one member panel noted that the domain name was registered long before the trademark was filed, however the panel also noted that for at least some time the domain was used in bad faith, as the domain name was parked, the domain holder offered to sell it to the trademark holder for $30K and appeared for a time that the domain holder may have lifted some copyrighted material off the complainant ... read more ...
 
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SeekingAlpha: “Get Ready To Profit From The ‘Dot-Com Boom 2.0′” - SeekingAlpha.com a publication that goes out to stock investors.  In a post entitled “Get Ready To Profit From The ‘Dot-Com Boom 2.0″ The article starts out with the subtitle: “”Dot-com is so 1990s” “Starting March 23, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will increase the availability of Web addresses by assigning some 1,900 domain suffixes, the part of a website address that ends in .com, .org or .net. The project has been five years in the making, but ... read more ...
 
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Fred Mercaldo/CitiesPlanet.com Lauches Osaka.com - According to a press release Fred Mercaldo/CitiesPlanet.com has Launched the website Osaka.com. “”Osaka.com has been developed by CitiesPlanet.com, the largest network of City.com brands in the industry along with Allan Hsu a Japan-fanatic who has a passion for everything Japan, especially Osaka.” “Osaka.com CEO Allan Hsu stated “It has been a great pleasure to see the launch of Osaka.com. We have spent many months of hard work in planning and refining Osaka.com. I have full confidence ... read more ...
 
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Two cases uncover a craziness of RDNH - Two cases, three different view of reverse domain name hijacking. Two recent UDRP cases show the inconsistency of how reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) is applied. In the first case, Intelligentsia Coffee Tea, Inc. v. Ashantiplc Ltd, the panel found against the complainant in a dispute over Intelligentsia.com. In this decision, two of the three panelists said it is the Respondent’s job to prove RDNH. The majority write: A majority of the Panel notes that Complainant ... read more ...
Sun 20th January 2013
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Register.com/Netsol Must Have A Different Defination Of A “Premium” Domains Than we Have - I got this email a few days ago from Register.com/NetworkSolutions Its certainly by no means the first of these type of emails I get from registrars.com trying to get you to register domains, typically something close to another domain I have registered. I have no idea how they pull their data, as we have very few domains with either and all caught on the drop, however lets just say that Register.com/NetworkSolutions.com and I have quite a different definition of a premium domain. I don’t know ... read more ...
Sat 19th January 2013
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Top 50 Most Requested New gTLD’s Domain Names: The One With The Most Apps Is 49th - United Domains announced this week that it has pre-registered over 1,000,000 new gTLD’s domain names. Below are the top 50 new gTLD’s extensions and the number of pre-registrations for each new gTLD. As we always do we point out that there is no cost to pre-register a new gTLD, no obligation to actually register it even if you do pre-register it and pre-registering obviously doesn’t guarantee in anyway you will get the domain. Interestingly the new gTLD with the most number of applications ... read more ...
Fri 18th January 2013
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Who Are Simonas Balnys & Bill Everett & Why Do They Keep Sending Offers & Never Respond? - As a large domain portfolio owner I get lots of offers and lots of spam. Most the spam I can get rid of by marking it Junk and all future emails that follow will go to the junk file. I don’t take moving someone to Junk lightly as I expect once I place them in that folder they will have no further access to me and I to them. So apart from obvious spam and phishing I don’t assume anything is Junk until it proves itself to be Junk. One of the quickest ways to get on my Junk list is to send me offers, ... read more ...
 
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Berryhill Wins His 2nd UDRP Of The Day & Almost Another RDNH Finding - John Berryhill has won his second UDRP of the day this time beating back the Complaint was brought Intelligentsia Coffee Tea, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois, against the domain holder, Ashantiplc Ltd of New York, New York,  who was represented by John Berryhill, PhD Esq and NamingRights.Com, LLC of Hong Kong, China. The three member panel found that the complainant did not prove its case and one of the three panelists filed a Concurring Opinion saying he would have made a finding of Reverse Domain Name ... read more ...
 
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Government Of Monaco Files UDRP Against MonteCarloVodka.com Made In France - Here’s an interesting UDRP filing, the Government of Monaco, officially; Gouvernement de la Principauté de Monaco SAM Marques de l’Etat de Monaco has just filed a UDRP against the domain name MonteCarloVodka.com. Monte Carlo is the capital of Monaco Monte Carlo Vodka is made in Cognac France and the Owners of the brand state that the inspiration for the Monte Carlo name came from the famous city of Monte Carlo in Monaco. Monaco seems to be not impressed or amused  and has filed a UDRP with ... read more ...
 
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Finally A UDRP Panel Gets The Domain Aftermarket Finding RDNH On ColdFront.com - Mr Schwartz feel free to add Personally Cool Inc. of New York, USA to your list of companies found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ColdFront.com The domain, as indicted in the title to the post, is owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. which was as always represented by John Berryhill, Pennsylvania, USA. Here are the only two takeaways you need to know from this case. Personally Cool, Inc, get a trademark in 2009, Name Administration registers the ... read more ...
Thu 17th January 2013
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EU Tells Google To Change It’s Search Results In Europe Or Face Anti-trust Charges - According to FT.com, The EU competition chief Joaquín Almunia told Google today  is going to have to change its presents it search results in Europe or face anti-trust charges in the EU for diverting traffic to its own services. We are still investigating, but my conviction is [Google] are diverting traffic,” Mr Almunia told the Financial Times.       Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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You’re Not Going To Believe This One: Buy.com To Change Its Name to Rakuten.com -     On Jan. 31 Buy.com is changing its name to Rakuten.com No its not April’s fools day. In May 2010 a Japanese company Rakuten bought Buy.com for $250 million.  Now that company is going to rebrand Buy.com as Rakuten.com Shopping. If you go to Buy.com today you will see the name “Rakuten” right above Buy.com The Buy.com URL will remain, but consumers who go to the site will be redirected to Rakuten.com starting Jan. 31. The company’s vast holdings have since expanded to include e-commerce ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Files Memorandum In Support Of Dismissing Suit Over .Web - ICANN filed this  memorandum in support (pdf) of its motion to dismiss over lawsuit that IMAGE ONLINE DESIGN, INC a previously applicant for .Web filed against ICANN last year. Here are the highlights of the ICANN filing: In 2000, IOD executed a release in favor of ICANN so that ICANN would consider IOD’s application to operate a .WEB TLD. IOD knew that ICANN might decline to award IOD the requested TLD, or might award the TLD to a different entity, but IOD specifically released ICANN from ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Goes Brick & Mortar Teaming Up With OfficeMax - Go Daddy has teamed up with OfficeMax to Provide Exclusive Website Service Bundles for Small Business Customers Marking the first time websites and domain names Are delivered through a traditional brick Mortar retail channel. According to a press release out today, “OfficeMax® (NYSE:OMX), it’s teaming up with Go Daddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, to bring Go Daddy’s Web services to a wider small business audience through OfficeMax stores nationwide.” “The move makes OfficeMax ... read more ...
 
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Insurance Company W/ 30 Billion In Policies Loses UDRP For MidlandInsurance.com - Midland National Life Insurance Company brought this URDP on the domain name midlandinsurance.com which was owned by ItemWire / Edwin Sherman (and represented by Zak Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm. Its a pretty interesting case which seemed to turn on that the domain holder actually owned a couple of hundred domains just like the at issue. Trademark holder have tried on numerous occasions to use the number of domains registered by the domain holder against them asking panels to find consider ... read more ...
 
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Domain registrar powers Kim Dotcom’s new Mega - Instra has partnered with Kim Dotcom to power the new Mega. Last February I stumbled into the lobby of the Fairmont Santa Monica after a DomainFest party. It was about 3 in the morning and it had been a long night. I ran into Tony Lentino, founder of domain name registrar Instra. We chatted for a few minutes and the conversation turned to Kim Dotcom and Megaupload, the file sharing service that was shut down by U.S. and New Zealand authorities a few months later. ... read more ...
 
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Sign.com owners threatens Signs.com - Company sends cease desist letter, claiming Signs.com violates Sign.com service mark. This one is so crazy it’s almost funny — although I’m sure it’s not funny for the owner of Signs.com. SA International, the owner of Sign.com, has sent a cease and desist letter (pdf) to the owner of Signs.com, claiming that Signs.com infringes its service mark for Sign.com. The cease and desist claims that SA International has been using the domain and service mark Sign.com ... read more ...
 
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Trailers.net gets $15k bid and Great Domain Auction starts - Plenty of action at Sedo this month and a wide range of TLDs in Great Domains auction. Sedo’s monthly Great Domains auction has started and will run through January 24. The auction includes 199 domain names and all but 8 have reserves under $/EUR/GBP 10,000. This month’s auction includes a number of country code domain names and .nets — a lot more than I’m used to seeing. Some of the ccTLDs are crisis.co.uk, wireless.co.uk, gay.es, and the ironic Russia.it. While ... read more ...
Wed 16th January 2013
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Sean Sullivan Rolls Out Monetization Solutions For: Auto insurance, Mortgage and Incorporation On BankAds.com - According to his Facebook page Sean Sullivan has rolled out a domain monetization solution for auto insurance, mortgage and incorporation services at BankAds.com Here is what Sean had to say on Facebook: “”Domain Investors Web Publishers: BankAds is pleased to announce that we are expanding our domain monetization solution significantly and we now offer domain owners high paying CPC based solutions for auto insurance, mortgage and incorporation services. In fact BankAds is the only company in ... read more ...
 
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Another UDRP “Win”: TM Holder Failed To Register The Domain Of It New Product: xboxfitness.com - A couple of days ago we wrote about several UDRP decisions all involving famous trademarks and or common typo’s of them and I blamed the trademark holder for the problem. Today comes another UDRP decision that points out what I was talking about. This case involved the domain names xboxfitness.com and xboxfitness.net Here is part of the opinion of the one member panel that awarded the domains to Microsoft: “”Complainant contends that it announced its newest motion controller for the XBOX at ... read more ...
 
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Alexander Schubert Of .Gay “The Only Good Domainer Is A Dead Domainer” -                   If you have attended any TRAFFIC conferences or Domainfest conferences you have probably have run into Alexander Schubert who was a self admitted domainer from 1997-2004. Alexander was one of the first who went to ICANN and asked for what has become the new gTLD program to be opened when he was petitioning for a .Berlin TLD. Fast forward a few years and Alexander is out of .Berlin, but heavily involved as one of the applicants for .Gay, DotGay LLC, which has a community ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: a initial loyal laches UDRP decision - National Arbitration Forum panel finds case should be barred based on laches. The doctrine of laches bars bringing a claim after an unreasonable delay in a way that unduly hurts the opposing party. Laches started creeping into UDRP cases over the past couple years. But panels usually mention it as part of what led them to their conclusion. Now a three person panel has decided a case based entirely on laches. This is a big deal as there is now a big precedent to point ... read more ...
 
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Rachael Ray buys her husband’s name and 28 some-more engaging domain purchases - 29 end user domain sales including some big names. Memo to Rachael Ray’s husband: she owns you. This week’s end user domain sales report includes Rachael Ray buying her husband’s (domain) name, Hubspot, Taser, and more. Afternic Better Bathrooms UK Limited paid $3,388 for BetterLights.com. Animal Finders, a new service designed to help connect lost animals with their owners, bought PetsReunited.com for $1,600. It operates in the UK at AnimalFinders.co.uk; I ... read more ...
 
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3 questions and 3 things I’m looking brazen to during Webfest - Will Webfest deliver under its new name? After so many years of calling it DOMAINfest, it’s kind of strange to type Webfest. But that’s the new name of DomainSponsor’s annual conference. I don’t mind, especially since there’s no more funky capitalization. (I always had double check if it was DOMAINfest or DomainFEST.) This year’s conference takes place February 5-7 at the usual location: the beautiful Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica. The focus is shifting ... read more ...