Monthly Archives: February 2013

Mon 4th February 2013
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Godaddy.com Commercial Is Last On The USA Today’s Ad Meter, But Might Have Won The Night - USA Today published the results of its Super Bowl Ad Meter which tracks which ads that aired during the Super Bowl voters liked the most and disliked the most. On the bottom of the list sits the Godaddy.com commercial featuring model Bar Refeali making out with a “nerd”. However based on the online and offline buzz the commercial generated, it might well be the most successful commercial of the night. If the goal of a television commercial is to be memorable, talked about and generating t “Buzz” ... read more ...
 
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Now We Know Why Apple Didn’t Apply For .App As They Open AppStore.com For Vanity Domains - When the applicants  for new gTLD’s were announced by ICANN in what was called the “big reveal” one of the biggest surprises we noted was the absence of an Apple application for .App. Now it  seems we know why Apple passed on applying for the new gTLD .App, the are going to let developers use Vanity Domains off of its AppStore.com According to Cnet.com and Techcrunch.com, Apple’s plan was revealed in a Super Bowl for the new Star Trek: “”At the end of the commercial for the upcoming ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames picks adult Host Europe lapsed domain stream - Deal gives company a strong partner in Europe. SnapNames has picked up a new partner to bolster its expired domain name inventory. The company has gone live with Host Europe, a top three domain registrar in Europe and the largest registrar based in the United Kingdom. Host Europe includes 123 Reg, DomainMonster, and Heart Internet. Host Europe acquired DomainMonster last year. The announcement comes as Webfest kicks off in Los Angeles. Domain companies typically ... read more ...
 
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.Co says best Super Bowl ad yet - .Co happy with Super Bowl ad results. Last night was the third Super Bowl ad .co has run in conjunction with Go Daddy (or should I say GoDaddy.co). I reached out to .Co Internet founder Juan Diego Calle to ask how it went: “Sweet! Much better for “our” brand than all of the previous ads.” This commercial was very different than the previous GoDaddy.co commercials. The commercial itself was actually about registering domains instead of strip teases. It was ... read more ...
 
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My conflict with a Google Malware warning - The past 15 hours haven’t been fun for me. It all started around 8 pm last night when I started getting emails like this: “Hey, when I try to visit Domain Name Wire I get a warning that your site is infected with malware.” If you tried to access the site last night via Chrome or Firefox, you probably saw such a message. You also saw a warning in Google search results. The timing was pretty bad. Super Bowl Sunday is usually a high traffic day on Domain Name Wire ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Auctions sells 35,156 in January - Go Daddy has a good month for aftermarket sales. Go Daddy Auctions saw an uptick in sales last month, completing 35,156 domain sales. That’s higher than previous months by about 2,000 domain names. The top 10 sales were: numotion.com $45,750 – purchased by an advertising agency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. discountloans.com $39,000 washingtondcrealestate.com $28,500 – sold by Frank Schilling, hasn’t transferred yet. topapps.com $25,000 – bought by the owner ... read more ...
Sun 3rd February 2013
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Chicago.com To Auction Off 100-300 Subdomains & 1 Is Outranking Established Site - We have been following the selling of dotChicago(sm) domain names, since Josh Metnick  the owner of Chicago.com first started chatting about selling subdomains off of Chicago.com Today Josh let us know that he plans on auctioning off 100-300 Chicago.com subdomains this spring. What is the value of hotels.chicago.com? sushi.chicago.com? lawyer.chicago.com? cars.chicago.com? softwaredevelopment.chicago.com? accounting.chicago.com? business.chicago.com?, lasik.chicago.com? venturecapital.chicago.com?” “”We ... read more ...
Fri 1st February 2013
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Search.XXX Ad Program Launches Mar 31, Current Holders Get Credit - The Search.XXX Ad Program is scheduled to launch by March 31, 2013. Search.XXX launched last year as a search engine for .XXX sites but it looks like ICM, company that is the registry of .XXX, is gearing up to sell ads on its network. According to an email we got today, current .XXX domain holders are going to get credit towards the program. The credit seems to be based on the number of .XXX domain names you have registered. This is from the Search.XXX site: If you registered or renewed any .XXX ... read more ...
 
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Are The .Net Costumes Domains At Webfest The Best In The Auction? Here’s The Numbers - When we published our poll a few days ago asking what domain name at Webfest, with a reserve price of $100K or more would sell, we notice 3 of the domain names were .Net’s; Halloweencostumes.net, Costumes.net and Costumes.net. We reached out to Moniker.com to get more information on these domain and asked why they were priced into the six figures. The short answer is each of the domains make quite a bit of money. Here are the details:Halloweencostumes.net Includes Rev producing website, that averages ... read more ...
 
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Fairwinds Chat About What Brands Are Going To Do With Their gTLD’s - There has been a lot of speculation in the domain channel on what exactly big brands are going to do with their new gTLD’s. While many think that brands just applied for their TLD’s as defensive registrations or to point to their .com, according to Phil Lodico, managing partner for FairWinds Partners which handled more than 100 .Brand new gTLD’scompanies such as Calvin Klein, Nike, Staples, Gap, and Walmart say big brands have big plans for their new gTLD’s The quotes first appeared in prweekus.com: “Client ... read more ...
 
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Manwin Hit With UDRP On The Domain Name Xart.com - Manwin International the owner of some of the most visited adult sites on the net, including Youporn.com and PornHub.com, which has filed a couple of  UDRP of their own as a complainant, has just been hit with a UDRP on a domain name they own, Xart.com While the complainant of the UDRP is not showing up yet,  I found one trademark on the term Xart in the US Trademark database, and it was just filed in November 2012, by Click Here LLC of  Malibu, California for use as Adult entertainment. The domain ... read more ...
 
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Wow: a Bar Refaeli Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial - People will be talking about this commercial Monday morning. Wow. I have a feeling this commercial will be more talked about than many of Go Daddy’s previous Super Bowl commercials. That’s despite this ad not having any nudity or suggestions that you can “see more” if you go to GoDaddy.com. It’s got enough of that “ewww” factor and chock value that people will react to the commercial. I’ve got to wonder how much they paid Bar Refaeli for this one. ... read more ...
 
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If ICANN and WIPO can’t approve with WHOIS, who can? - Technically ICANN and WIPO’s whois records aren’t compliant. Since the meltdown of Registerfly.com several years ago, ICANN has continued to promise to better police compliance with the registrar accreditation agreement (RAA), including the WHOIS provisions of the RAA. I have recently heard that one of the clauses of the RAA which ICANN Compliance is looking at is this one: 3.7.7.1 The Registered Name Holder shall provide to Registrar accurate and reliable contact ... read more ...
 
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SnipesShop.de was $50,000 customer of Snipes.com - Company shrinks URL and gets a .com for its online store. In December Afternic reported that it had brokered the sale of Snipes.com for $50,000. I’ve patiently watched the domain as it sat in escrow for a loooong time. The whois record on the domain name just changed to reveal the buyer: Snipes GmbH. The company sells sportswear and skate clothing at SnipesShop.de. It already owned Snipes.de, which it forwarded to SnipesShop.de. Getting Snipes.com is even better ... read more ...