Monthly Archives: March 2013

Mon 11th March 2013
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Pepsi’s engaging $8,000 domain purchase - Pepsi buys a hyphenated domain for $8,000 and it won’t be easy to by the unhyphenated version. As I was going through Sedo’s sales report from last week, one domain caught my eye — mostly because of the buyer. PepsiCo bought Green-Label.com for a solid $8,000. I can see a number of uses for this domain, but I’m not sure I’d go with this brand or marketing name if I were Pepsi. Why? GreenLabel.com is owned by an unrelated clothing company. Here are other ... read more ...
 
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So most antithesis to a sealed .cloud, nonetheless nothing of these companies bought Cloud.com? - Companies that are worried about competitive advantage should reexamine their own domain name strategies. An awful lot of big brands are speaking out against the prospect of “closed generic” top level domains, such as .cloud and .book. That may be good news for owners of high quality second level domains, if or when these complaining companies “get” domain names. They’re spending a lot of time fighting the prospect of companies getting a competitive advantage ... read more ...
 
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Procter & Gamble guilty of retreat domain name hijacking - Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the domain name since 2004. PG launched a new brand called Swash several years later. In its complaint, PG originally stated that it had generated more than $40 million in Swash sales over the past four years. It also claimed some ... read more ...
 
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What domains T. Rowe Price and others bought - Financial firm makes shrewd domain purchase. T. Rowe Price didn’t become an investment giant by overpaying for assets. So it’s fitting that it paid just $1,495 for the domain name MoneyConfident.com. Here are other end user domain sales from Afternic two weeks ago. (I’m a bit behind due to travel and events.) Hazelrigg Claims Management Services bought Hazelrigg.com for $1,400. Batteries Plus, a battery store franchise, made another purchase with BatteriesBulbs.com ... read more ...
Sun 10th March 2013
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TIP: NNNNN.com’s Are Getting Hot & Getting A Lot of Interest From Asian Buyers - We own over 100 NNNNN.com domain names. All happen to be zip codes as well. Over the last few years we haven’t gotten of any offers or interest on any of those domain names, but over the past couple of months interest in NNNNN.com domains have really picked up to the point where almost not a day goes by without an email of interest on one or more of these domains. All the offers are coming in from Asia, and while their love of numerical domains is nothing news but the interest in 5 numbered domain ... read more ...
Sat 9th March 2013
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Meetme.com Buyers Of Meet.me, Reports & Stock Rises 15% - Meetme.com (MEET) reported it earnings for the quarter and fiscal year ending December 31, 2012 after the market closed on Thursday night and the earnings report send the stock up over 15% in regular trading on Friday. You may remember that Meetme.com is the company that bought the domain name Meet.me for $450,000 “Total revenues from continuing operations for the fourth quarter 2012 were approximately $11.6 million, an increase of approximately $5.7 million or 96% compared to approximately $5.9 ... read more ...
Fri 8th March 2013
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Another Brand New gTLD Drops Out as .Olympus Withdraws it’s Application - Olympus Corporation has become the latest company to withdraw it new gTLD application for its .brand application .Olympus which had a Prioritization number of  1,861. .Olympus becomes the 22nd new gTLD application to be withdrawn not including the withdrawal of .home and .casa which it announced this week by Godaddy.com, which is not yet reflected on ICANN’s site. According to the application the new gTLD .Olympus would have: “Enabled the Olympus Corporation  to communicate more easily and ... read more ...
 
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Legacy Fund Sells SS.tv for $30,000 - On the heels of OO.tv sale, Legacy Fund has sold another double letter .TV domain name this time,  SS.tv, for $30,000 The sale was brokered by MostWantedDomains.com The domain name has some history. The domain sold in the past for $21,500 in 2008, and then the buyer let it drop as it had a premium renewal fee of $1,000 per year. The domain was then picked up by Legacy Fund on the drop in December 2010, and now it just has been sold for $30,000 to an end user in the UK. Legacy Fund held the name ... read more ...
 
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Marchex & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP On uHealth.com - University of Miami just lost a UDRP on the domain name uHealth.com owned by Marchex Sales, Inc. who was a usual represented by John Berryhill. Complainant has owned the trademark UHEALTH UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEALTH SYSTEM in the United States of America since June 2, 2009. A lthough Complainant argues to have used the expression UHEALTH as a trademark since 2007, there is no evidence of such use. After a review of the Exhibit B to the Complaint where, according to Complainant, there would be examples ... read more ...
 
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.Pw Gets Its 100th & 101st Registrar: NetworkSolutions & Register.com - Network Solutions and Register.com, Web.com brands, 2 of the world’s top 10 registrars became .PW Registry’s 100th and 101st accredited partners respectively today. According to a press release that we received today, “.PW – the Professional Web, has partnered with industry giants like eNom, Key-Systems, ResellerClub, Gandi, Name.com, Ascio and many more. With 100 registrars aggressively promoting the namespace, .PW is expected to attract a large volume of first-time domain name registrants” “Many ... read more ...
 
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The New Name For Big East? America12 & Oversee.net Owns The .Com - According to several reports the Big East Conference is going to change their name to the America 12 Conference. The Domain name America12.com is owned by Oversee.net which has owned the domain name since 2010. The domain name america12conference.com was registered by brand protection company MarkMonitor.com definitely indicating that America12 will in fact be the name of the new conference meaning Oversee just won the domain lottery. Another suggested name for the new conference was Big Metro Athletic ... read more ...
 
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Registrars miffed about new accreditation agreement. Will it check new TLDs? - Fighting over new agreement continues and threatens new TLD timeline. The team of registrars negotiating with ICANN for the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) issued a stern statement today saying ICANN is making some unreasonable requests and is trying to hold new TLDs hostage to a new agreement. Last night ICANN published its proposed 2013 RAA. Where the registrars disagreed with ICANN it also published the registrars take. The main sticking point is the ... read more ...
 
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The chairman you’d many like to have cooking with will substantially buy we dinner - And you don’t even have to fly to the Caymans. I asked a light-hearted question on this year’s domain name survey: What one person in the domain industry would you most like to have dinner with? The funny thing is that the #1 guy on the list is also the person most likely to literally buy you dinner at the next domain conference: Frank Schilling. In fact, at Webfest last month he bought a bunch of domain brokers dinner. He’s the kind of person that if you bump ... read more ...
Thu 7th March 2013
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GotMilf.com Saved in UDRP By Ari Goldberger - The California Milk Processor which has a trademark on the term “got milk”  lost its bid to get the adult domain name GotMilf.com, as the majority of three member panel found that the domain is not confusingly similar to the trademark. If you don’t know what the term Milf means, I will go with the definition the panel found: “A MILF may be defined as a mother – not one’s own, for there does not appear to be any Oedipal connotation – with whom one would fancy a carnal encounter.” The ... read more ...
 
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Google says it will make .app, .blog, .cloud, and .search TLDs “open” - Company plans to change some new TLD applications after pressure over “closed generics”. Google plans to update four of its new top level domain applications to make the domains more open to registration outside of Google. In comments submitted to ICANN regarding the concept of “closed generic” TLDs, the company said it will work to change its applications for .app, .blog, .cloud, and .search: These terms have been identified by governments (via Early Warning) ... read more ...
 
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Competitive Advantage vs. Anti-Competitive and a sealed TLD debate - There’s a big difference between gaining competitive advantage and being anti-competitive. This morning I read Technology Policy Institute’s opinion on “closed” top level domains. A closed domain is one in which the applicant doesn’t plan to offer second level domain names to the public, including its competitors. My belief about closed generics is quite similar to TPI’s. This paragraph sums up much of my view: Several commentators have expressed concern ... read more ...
 
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What to do during SXSW if you’re a domainer - Three domain companies and events to hit while in Austin. SXSW Interactive in Austin is an overwhelming event. There are hundreds of sessions to choose from, and just finding their locations can be a challenge. So let me break down for you some essentials for SXSW Interactive 2013 if you’re in the domain business. I know of three domain companies that will be at SXSW in some way this year. (There will likely be many more next year as new TLDs roll out.) 1. .Co .Co ... read more ...
Wed 6th March 2013
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Godaddy By The Numbers: 55 Million Domains Under Management - Some really interesting numbers are coming out of the Godaddy Registry Days conference in Arizona today. The numbers are just huge all around for the company that was started in 1997 didn’t sell its first domain until 2000 Almost 55 Million domains are under management, which is more than the next 10 largest registrars combined. 68% of registrations are .Com Selling 70+ extensions today. Godaddy.com registers 50,000 domain names per day 1.6-1.8 domains are registrations every second. 80 million ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Dropping New gTLD Applications for .Home & .Casa - At the Godaddy new gTLD Registry Days event today it announced it would be withdrawing its applications for .home and .casa. We want to concentrate and be just a registrar for all new gTLD’s so we are withdrawing our applications for the new gTLD’s for .Home .Casa. Another big move by Godaddy.com but one which makes a lot of  sense for the company which doesn’t want to potentially go into an auction with companies it hopes to do business with as a registrar for other strings. After the applications ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: GoDaddy To Drop .Com From Logo -                 At the Godaddy Registry Days conference, Godaddy.com announced that they will be dropping the .com off their logo over a period to time just to read “Godaddy”. “10 years from now we will look back at a world where every domain name ended in a .com like our kids look at record players” said Blake Irving the CEO of Godaddy. As the world is moving away from a .com world, we are changing our logo to remove the .com and make it just Godaddy. Having listened to Mr. Irving ... read more ...
 
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ICANN’s “Geographic Names Panel” Says .Vegas Is Not A Geo - .Vegas apparently is not a Geo, so  says the ICANN Geographic Names Panel. The panel “has determined that the string .Vegas does not fall within the criteria for a geographic name contained in the Applicant Guidebook Section 2.2.1.4.” The .Vegas application says: “Dot Vegas, Inc. (herein referred to as “Dot Vegas”, “Dot Vegas, Inc.ʺ, the ʺCompanyʺ or “Applicantʺ), in cooperation with and under the express endorsement and direction of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada (as described ... read more ...
 
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Killer .Au Sites & Domains Hit The Market: Sydney.com.au, Melbourne.com.au, Auction.com.au - According to a press release we jusrt received some killer .com.au sites and domain name have just hit the market. “The websites sydney.com.au, melbourne.com.au, brisbane.com.au, adelaide.com.au and the domain name auction.com.au are for sale on the website namesell.com.”  “The sale is being brokered by Brisbane-based company Domain Guardians.”  “Mike Robertson from Domain Guardians said the sale presents an opportunity for a major player to own the commercial domain names mirroring four ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy to remove a .com - World’s largest domain registrar will drop .com from its logo. That iconic GoDaddy.com logo? It’s going to get a bit shorter. Today at its Registry Days conference in Phoenix, Go Daddy CEO Blake Irving announced that the company is going to drop the .com ending from its logo. That announcement was met with a round of applause by the audience, which is made up of companies that hope to chip away at the .com empire. Irving said the branding change will occur over ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Go Daddy to repel applications for .Home and .Casa tip turn domains - Domain registrar abandons plans for its own top level domains. Go Daddy is abandoning its applications for the .home and .casa top level domains, the company announced today. Go Daddy CEO Blake Irving announced the news at its Registry Days conference in Phoenix today. The event is designed to start a dialogue with new top level domain applicants that may wish to sell their domains through Go Daddy — including applicants that have rival bids for the .home and .casa ... read more ...