Monthly Archives: January 2013

Mon 7th January 2013
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Despite Attempted Sale For $57K, General Motors Loses UDRP Bid To Get MyCadillac.com - General Motors just lost a UDRP on the domain name mycadillac.com desipte the domain holder offering to sell the domain to GM for as much as almost $57,000 Here is what the domain holder contended: -The Disputed Domain Name is not confusingly similar to the CADILLAC Trademark because “[t]he only similarity that I can find between my domain name and the Complainant’s is the last name of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, and ultimately who the City of Cadillac, Michigan, was ... read more ...
 
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Purchased for Less Than $5K In May, SnapChat.com Is The “2013′s Billion Dollar Startup” - BusinessInsider.com just covered SnapChat.com which it just calls “2013′s Billion Dollar Startup” What the article didn’t tell you is that the domain name SnapChat.com was just purchased in May of 2012 for less than $5,000 at Sedo.com The domain, SnapChat.com was acquired for just $4,900 according to the Sedo.com weekly report that we published on May 8th 2012 The SnapChat App is the 5th most downloaded free app in the Apple App Store according to the current Apple App Store charts. Already ... read more ...
 
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IAC Acquires Tutor.com - IAC (NASDAQ: IACI) today announced the company has completed the acquisition of Tutor.com, an online tutoring solution. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Founded in 1998, Tutor.com connects students anytime, anywhere with more than 2,500 screened and qualified tutors for immediate one-to-one sessions. “Historically focused on core K-12 subjects, Tutor.com has more recently expanded into AP courses, test prep, college-level curriculum, and real-time writing help.” “Tutor.com has done ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Demand Media Acquires Name.com - Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) , announced the acquisition of Denver-based Name.com an ICANN accredited registrar with almost 1.5 Million domains under registration “The acquisition is intended to expand Demand Media’s platform as it prepares for the historic release of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) this year”. Demand Media applied for 26 new gTLD’s itself, and is a partner with Donuts, Inc. in another 100 of its new gTLD applications.  Demand Media, Inc. is also the backend provider for all of ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Spends Over $6.1M Buying Over 4 Million Of the Owns Shares At $1.50 - Tucows, Inc., (AMEX: TCX) (TSX:TC), announced today the preliminary results of its modified “Dutch auction” tender offer, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 4, 2013. Tucows expects to purchase up to 4,114,437 shares of its Common Stock at a purchase price of $1.50 per share, for a total of $6,173,155. “The price per share is preliminary and subject to verification by Registrar and Transfer Company, the depositary for the tender offer. “ “The actual price per share ... read more ...
 
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Introducing a 2013 Domain Name Wire Survey - The Domain Name Wire Survey returns for its 8th year. It’s that time of year again. Time for the annual Domain Name Wire Survey. This is the eighth year Domain Name Wire has run this survey, which gives a good databank of data to compare trends in domaining over the years. The survey answers questions such as: 1. Why do people choose a particular domain name registrar? 2. What’s the best domain parking company? 3. How much are people making from domain parking? 4. ... read more ...
 
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Texas to auction some-more personalized permit plates - Record price paid for Texas vanity plate is $15,000, a far cry from the UAE. I know several domainers were interested in license plate auctions in the United Arab Emirates. Who wouldn’t be shocked to see license plates sell for millions of dollars? It turns out the state of Texas has been doing the same thing — although it’s not nearly as lucrative. The record sale to date is “Ferrari”, which sold for $15,000. This month’s vanity license plate auction ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media acquires Name.com as registrar converging continues - Name.com the latest domain name registrar to be snapped up. Domain name registrar consolidations continues as Demand Media, parent company of eNom, has acquired Name.com. The Denver based domain name registrar is known for its good social media presence and humorous videos featuring its employees. It frequently positions itself as an alternative to Go Daddy whenever Go Daddy runs into technical problems or controversy. Name.com has also had its fair share of controversy ... read more ...
Sun 6th January 2013
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Generische Internetdomains fordern Markeninhaber heraus - Innsbruck/Wien. Nun wird es ernst mit dem „New gTLD Program“ der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), die die Vergabe neuer Internetdomainnamen koordiniert. Bis zur Deadline am 30. Mai 2012 gingen für neue generische Top-Level-Domains („gTLDs“ nach dem Muster „.marke“, „.stadt“ oder „.allgemeinbegriff“) rund 2000 Bewerbungen bei der ICANN ein, die derzeit geprüft werden. Darunter sind auch drei österreichische Bewerbungen („.wien“, „.tirol“ und ... read more ...
 
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After Filing Over 500 UDRP’s & 15 Years, Lego Finally Wins Rights To Lego.net - Anyone who follows UDRP files will tell you that the toy maker Lego is one of the most prolific filers of UDRP’s I count over 500 UDRP’s on domain names filed containing the term “lego” and many cases contain more than one domain. However despite all the filings and wins by the toy maker the it has finally won a UDRP on the bang on matching domain of its trademark Lego.net. The domain name has an original filing date of 1997. The WIPO case is number D2012-2133 and has a decision date of December ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed On Generic kinder-chocolate.com By Owner Of kinderchocolate.com Which Doesn’t Resolve - A UDRP has just been filed by Ferrero S.p.A. on the Generic domain name kinder-chocolate.com If you don’t know “kinder” is German for “children”. Here is the interesting part, the same company owns the domain name kinderchocolate.com which they just registered in August 2012. The domain name kinder-chocolate.com was registered back in 2009. The domain kinderchocolate.com which is owned by the company that just filed the UDRP doesn’t even resolve. It takes a lot of nerve to file a UDRP ... read more ...
Sat 5th January 2013
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Barron’s: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End” - Barron’s, the weekly publication that has changed the fate of public companies and the direction of markets for over 50 years just covered the new gTLD’s in a story entitled: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End” Like many accuse me of, the headline is more provocative than the story. Baron’s is not predicting that .Com will be replaced by the new gTLD’s but rather discusses the new gTLD program the opportunity it will brings to come company’s it mentions like Donuts and Top Level ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com “Pausing” Affiliate Program Effective Jan 12th - We just received this notice from Essociate.com, the company administrating the NameJet.com affiliate program. According to the notice “”On Friday January 12th the NameJet links will Pause tracking referrals” “Payouts for all referrals made prior to January 12th 2013 will be tracked and commissioned as normal”. Sounds like the affiliate program is stopping, effective January 12, 2013 with them giving a weeks notice. The program started back in June of 2012. Since there is no date for restart ... read more ...
Fri 4th January 2013
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ICM & Lawley Makes XBIZ Top 100 List of NewsMakers of 2012 - Xbiz.com a publication on the adult industry  issued its top 100 list of news makers of 2012 and ICM Registry, the company that operates the .XXX TLD made the list. Regarding ICM, Xbiz said: “ICM REGISTRY “XXX.com operator ICM Registry launched a directory for developed .XXX sites,  XXX.XXX in 2012 along with a “Look Who Is Using .XXX” website directory listing nearly 130 .XXX sites with rotating linkable large and small banner ads. “ICM also announced the release of more than 1,000 premium ... read more ...
 
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After Buying IRA.com, Jackness Hits Gold Again With Purchase Of Treadmill.com For 80K - He maybe the best domainer you never heard of Michael Jackness. In May 2011 we reported on how who Mr. Jackness who had just purchased the domain name WebSiteHosting.com in January 2011 for $190,000 had flipped the domain for $415,000 Then in July of of 2011 Mr. Jackness purchased OnlineDegree.com for $120,000. A few weeks later Mr. Jackness company, Terran Marketing  bought another killer domain name GraphicDesign.com for just $120,000 In November 2011 Terran Marketing purchased the domain name ... read more ...
 
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Bidding Opens On DomainMarket’s Snapnames Auction Including HappyBirthday.com - Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com Showcase auction on SnapNames just opened today for bidding. The auction features some great domain names including HappyBirthday.com;Bailout.com; and Crime.org which Mike has mentioned quite often on this Facebook page. The auction ends at January 24th 2013 at 3:15PM EST in accordance with SnapNames.com closing rules. Here are all the domain names in the auction along with the reserve ranges:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Sells Over $1.8 Million In Domains Led By TreadMill.com $81K & WeWatch.com $65K - Afternic.com published a combined weekly report for sales from 12/17/12 – 12/30/12 today reporting total sales of $ 1,815,304, led by Treadmill.com at $81,250 and WeWatch.com at $65,000. The owner of WeWatch.com is uncertain at this point but the domain is registered to Brand Protection company MarkMonitor.com bitcoin.us led all non-com sales at $17,500 $7,500 for ahhhhhhh.com seemed like a nice price Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Berryhill Gets Finding Of Reverse Domain Hijacking For Marchex On PetExpress.com - Marchex represented by John Berryhill got a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name petexpress.com, in what could be the longest complaint and certainly the longest response to a complaint I have ever read. The domain name was acquired by Marchex back in 2004 as part of the $165 million dollar acquisition of Ultimate Search.  The domain was registered in 2001 by Ultimate Search The complaint was brought by Airpet Animal Transport, Inc which said it got a federally registered ... read more ...
 
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New TLD startup Donuts one of a tip 15 try collateral deals of 2012 - Company lands on list of top fundings for 2012. After the holiday VentureBeat posted a story with the 15 biggest venture capital funding rounds of 2012. Coming in at #10 is new top level domain startup Donuts with its $100 million raise: Sweetly named startup Donuts has a lofty goal of being a new registry for generic top-level domains that go beyond staples like .com, .net, and .org. Since it will be bidding on new — and most likely expensive — domains, it needs ... read more ...
 
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Over 50 finish user domain sales including Paramount Pictures’ $65k purchase - End users close deals before the new year. A lot of small businesses buy domain names toward the end of the year. One reason is they want to get the purchase on this year’s books. That’s what one buyer told me the last week of December — “I’ll do it for this price if you can complete the sale by the end of the year for tax reasons”. That’s great for domainers but bad for my fingers. They’re about to fall off after doing this end user sales report for ... read more ...
 
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First demeanour during Webfest auction, and Mike Mann auction on SnapNames - First dozen domains from Webfest auction released and Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com teams up with SnapNames. Pre-bidding has opened for the Webfest Live Auction taking place next month at Webfest Global (formerly DOMAINfest). Only a dozen of the domains have been listed so far, but that list will grow between now and February. Thin.com, Twin.com, and Wrestlers.com are among the domains on auction. One domain – briskets.com – already has a bidder. In other SnapNames ... read more ...
 
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Model and .me user Bar Refaeli to star in Go Daddy commercial - Israeli model is also a .me fan. Israeli model Bar Refaeli will star alongside Danica Patrick in one of Go Daddy’s Super Bowl Commercials this year, the company announced today. A press release from the company doesn’t mention a connection Refaeli has to Go Daddy: she’s a .me user. Go Daddy is a partner in the registry that runs .me. In 2011 Refaeli teamed up with former model Dudi Balsar to launch under.me, a line of underwear sold online. (That’s where ... read more ...
Thu 3rd January 2013
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.Co Registry Lands On ABC/Univision: “The Americas: 13 to Watch in 2013″ List - In a story just out by ABCNews/Univision entitled “The Americas: 13 to Watch in 2013” sitting among people and topics like the President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto,  Hugo Chavez and President Barack Obama, the .CO domain name registry came on at number 11 on the list: “This year we saw some major changes in the Americas in regards to business, technology and politics. 2013 should be all the more interesting. Here are thirteen people and things to keep an eye on this year.” 11. .CO: This ... read more ...
 
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1st .XXX Domain Sale Of The Year Turns Out To Defensive As Well: Loft.com Buys Loft.XXX - Yesterday we wrote about what looks to be the 1st .XXX domain sale of the year, coming across Sedo.com sales wire at very respectable $17,000 Yesterday when we wrote about the sale the whois was showing the domain still being in escrow at Sedo.com but today the new owners information is showing and once again a .XXX sale looks like a defensive purchase The domain was bought by Annco Inc whose administrative contact is generalcounsel@anntaylor.com Any Taylor is large chain of women stores that has ... read more ...
 
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SmartRecovery.com Lost In UDRP - A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name smartrecovery.com to the Complainant; Alcohol Drug Abuse Self-Help Network, Inc., d/b/a SMART The domain owner did not submit a formal response. The complainant owned a trademark on the term dated 1996. The registration date of the domain name was not discussed by the panel. Complainant is the owner of the SMART RECOVERY mark that it uses in providing its addiction related programs and services. Complainant owns the SMART RECOVERY mark with the ... read more ...