Monthly Archives: March 2013

Thu 14th March 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domaining Spain heads to Valencia subsequent month - The Domaining Spain conference is just over a month away. Domaining Spain will take place in Valencia, Spain on April 25-27. The focus of the event is on ccTLDs (especially given its European location) and new TLDs. Although the title includes “domaining”, the event looks like it will be a good opportunity for brand owners and new TLD applicants. The first day is mostly devoted to new top level domains, and the first session is a presentation by the Trademark ... read more ...
 
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What domains a NBA and 15 others bought this week - The NBA is among the end user buyers on Sedo last week. Sedo had a pretty good week last week for selling domains to end users. A key highlight is the NBA, which bought a .in domain for just shy of $5,000. Here’s the list: Swiss company PUBLICS bought Publics.ch for EUR 850. Its main web site is PublicsPartner.ch, so this is a big improvement. I wonder if it’s also the company that paid EUR 15,000 for Partners.eu, which is still in escrow. UK ISP Onwave bought ... read more ...
Wed 13th March 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Pope Domains: Godaddy Reports Almost 500 Domain Registrations Within 1st Hour - Godaddy is reporting that the election of Pope Francis is causing 100′s of new domain name registration within the 1st hour of the election. “Keywords such as Pope, Francis, Bergoglio and Habemus Papam were used in identifying the new domain names registered with Go Daddy.” “In the first hour 479 domains were registered with Go Daddy” At TheDomains.com we already reported on some of the domain name registrations that took place just minutes after the renouncement.   Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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PopeDomain Name Scramble: PopeFrancis.co; PopeFrancis.Tv PopeFrancis.Me All Registered Within Minutes - Within minutes of Jorge Bergoglio named the new pope and taking on the name Pope Francis a bunch of domain names were registered. The domain name PopeFrancis.com as pointed out was registered in 2010 by DomainNameWire.com was registered back in 2010, however in just within minutes, probably seconds of taking the name Pope Francis the domain names  Popefrancis.co and PopeFranics.tv, PopeFrancis.me and PopeFrancis.co.uk were all registered. However the domain names PopeFrancis are as of publication ... read more ...
 
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The New Pope Is Jorge Bergoglio & a Domain Was Registered Just a Month Ago - A new pope has been elected and its Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires Argentina I’m told by the bookmakers in Europe that the election of the new Pope is one of the most wagered on events. Of course there is more ways to “bet” on the new pope other than placing a wager in your local book, there is the domain name way of playing the lottery. So the new Pope is Jorge Bergoglio and the domain name JorgeBergoglio.com was just registered back on February 11th by Romir Melo of Barboursville, Virginia. So ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Vegas Opens Up Auction Submissions & Eliminates Paid Submissions -             According to a press release we received today  T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is taking submissions for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction in Las Vegas which will be held May 29th- June 1st at the Bellagio Hotel. The submission period opens today and will be “ending next Wednesday” which is March 20th 2013,  (or sooner). “We had an exciting auction last year but this year we are going to ratchet it up a bit.” say Rich Schwartz. According to the announcement the auction will not accept ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Rolls Out Automated Finance System On DomainNameSales.com - Frank has rolled out a what he calls an Automated Finance System DomainNameSales.com which sounds like a lease to own system where buyers make a down payment and monthly payments thereafter which would result if all payments are made with the buyer getting ownership of the domain name. All on their credit card. Of course like all such programs, ownership of the domain stays with Name Adminstration pending completion of the final lease payment. Upon making the last payment the buyer will get ownership ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Denies Financial Assistance For 2 New gTLD’s & Their Applications Fail - Two new gTLD applications have been rejected by ICANN that were submitted under the SARP financial Assistance program after ICANN decided that they did not meet the criteria for financial assistance. The new gTLD applications were for;  .IDN submitted by NameShop and .UMMAH which was applied for by Ummah Digital. In all three new gTLD financial assistance requests were submitted to ICANN by applicants to the New gTLD Program. “Each of these requests were carefully considered and extensively reviewed ... read more ...
 
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Braden Pollock/Morgan Linton Headline LeadsCon Las Vegas 2013 - It looks like some familar faces will be headlining the LeadsCon conference in Las Vegas which is being held March 19-20, 2013 at The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. According to a press release I received from Jay Weintraub of  NextCustomer, Inc. the Creators and Producers of LeadsCon LoCo SummitWebFest Global at least a couple of sessions will feature some star domainers and chatting about using domain names to create leads “LeadsCon Las Vegas 2013 will mark “its sixth year of showcasing ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Von .bayern über .gmbh bis .sport: Die neuen Domainendungen kommen - Im Internet vollzieht sich derzeit eine kleine Revolution: In diesem Jahr gehen die ersten der sogenannten neuen Top Level Domains (nTLDs) an den Start. Neben klassischen Domainendungen wie .de und .com wird es damit in Zukunft eine Vielzahl weiterer Endungen geben - insgesamt wurden bei der Internetverwaltung ICANN 1930 Bewerbungen für eine neue TLD eingereicht. Voraussichtlich werden die ersten Domainendungen der neuesten Generation im Herbst 2013 zur Registrierung bereitstehen. Eine kostenlose ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells Medicine.Org For $75,000 - The domain name Medicine.Org for $75,000 on Sedo tonight. The domain was sold after the Sedo weekly report was issued and therefore not included. The domain has an original registration date of 1995. The domain was sold by Eric Shannon of LatPro, Inc. who seems to have owned the domain since late 2006. Congrats to the buyer and seller Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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What the…? Google to kill Google Reader - Popular RSS reader will be shut down. I had to check my calendar to make sure it wasn’t April Fools’ day after hearing this news: Google is shutting down Google Reader. I’ve been using the popular RSS reader for many years to read domain blogs and other news sources, and transitioning to another RSS reader will be painful. The only Google services I use more than Reader are search and Gmail. Worse, as a blogger, it could mean a number of lost subscribers. As ... read more ...
 
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Joe Alagna joins 101Domain.com - Alagna will lead registrar’s channel development efforts. A long time fixture in the domain name industry has joined 101Domain.com. The registrar announced today that Joe Alagna is now its Vice President, Channel Development. Prior to joining 101Domain.com, Alagna spent over a decade at CentralNic, including as GM, North American Markets. Centralnic is best known for selling third level domains such as domains under us.com and de.com, but it’s also supporting ... read more ...
 
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Company that owns Entertainment.com files for bankruptcy - Company enters chapter 7 liquidation. Entertainment Publications LLC, the company that owns Entertainment.com, has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. You probably know the company for its coupon books, which offered buy-one-get-one (BOGO) offers before Groupon, Living Social, and everyone else got into the game. The catch is that you have to pay upfront for an Entertainment book and then use the coupons throughout the year. So will Entertainment.com go up ... read more ...
 
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Chicago male owns PopeFrancis.com - He’s owned it since 2010, but someone else quickly snapped up PopeFrancisI.com today. Last month I suggested several possible names for the next pope and listed who owned the corresponding domain names. One I didn’t have on the list was Pope Francis. But that’s the name of the new pope just elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church. So who owns the domain name? Christopher Connors, a Chicago man, registered the domain name in 2010. It currently points to a GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
 
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Want to sell your new TLD by Go Daddy? KISS. - A uniform registration process is key to selling your new TLD through Go Daddy. Last week representatives of about 800 of the unique strings applied for as new top level domains gathered in Phoenix for Go Daddy Registry Days. The event was designed to start a dialogue between the world’s largest domain name registrar and the many registries that hope to get shelf space at GoDaddy.com for their new TLDs. At a high level, the message was pretty basic: KISS, or Keep ... read more ...
 
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CDN.net, purchased for $185k final year, launches - $185,000 domain name goes live as a new service. About a year ago OnApp bought the domain name CDN.net for $185,000. For awhile it just forwarded the domain to its main web site. But now it has launched a new service at the domain. GigaOm reports that CDN.net has launched a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. CDN.net is one of those domains that “makes sense” as a .net domain. CDN.com is not owned by a content delivery network company. It belongs to Computer ... read more ...
 
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Here’s a biggest emanate confronting a domain marketplace in 2013 - How new TLDs will affect domain market is a top concern. Ask people in the domain industry what the “biggest issue facing the domain name market in 2013″ is, and a lot of them will tell you its new top level domain names. 30% of people who responded to the question on this year’s Domain Name Wire survey cited new TLDs as the biggest issue facing the market this year. With some of the new domains hitting market in 2013, we’ll start to see what impact these ... read more ...
Tue 12th March 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million In Domains Led By B88.com For $20K - Afternic.com just released its weekly report for the week of March 4th-10th 2013. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,182,278. 11000.com which sold for $3K, follows my story the other day about 5 numbered .com domain names. Here are the reportable sales: <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.7 Million - Sedo.com just reported that 837 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.7m last week Over 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: lovoo.com at 19,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: gayforum.de at 35,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: tori.net at 9,000 USD Here are the reportable sales: <![CDATA[]]>Domain name  Price  Currency .COMs lovoo.com  19,000   ... read more ...
 
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After Cybersquatter’s Loses UDRP On Trump Domains He Sues & Loses ACPA Case - In a one of the stupidest cases I have ever read,  the District Court for the Eastern District Of New York just denied a suit bought by a self described domainer, who sued Donald Trump seeking a declaratory judgement that he was entitled to use 4 .com domain names that included the “trump” brand . The case is was filed by the domain holder who lost a UDRP on the domain names trumpabudhabi.com, trumpbeijing.com, trumpindia.com and trumpmumbai.com back in March 2011. Instead of going away, the ... read more ...
 
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Orbitz Loses UDRP On Orbbitz.com & The Domain Holder Didn’t Even Respond - A one member panel just denied Orbitz USRP on the domain name orbbitz.com Orbitz was represented by CitizenHawk, Inc and according to the panel they did a poor job of pleading its case in which case the respondent didn’t even both to respond. The domain name was registered since January 31, 2002 and appears to never have resolved. However the complainant only argued that since the domain resolved to an inactive site (or didn’t resolve) that fact alone is bad faith and should carry the day for ... read more ...
 
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African domain-name registrars have mixed reaction to ICANN push - African domain-name registrars responded with mixed reactions to details of ICANN's initiative on the continent, saying that while they should now have increased access to the Internet governance organization, increasing the number of registrars isn't all that needs to be done. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will immediately go ahead with plans to have six new representatives on the African continent as part of its Africa strategy, it ... read more ...
 
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African domain-name registrars have mixed reaction to ICANN push - African domain-name registrars responded with mixed reactions to details of ICANN's initiative on the continent, saying that while they should now have increased access to the Internet governance organization, increasing the number of registrars isn't all that needs to be done. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will immediately go ahead with plans to have six new representatives on the African continent as part of its Africa strategy, it announced during ... read more ...
 
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Bezwaar tegen aanvraag domeinnamen .book, .author en .read - The Authors Guild en The Association of American Publishers vinden dat de aanvragen  van Amazon (het Luxemburgse Amazon EU S.à r.l.) voor de generic toplevel domeinnamen (gTLDs) ".book", ".author" en ".read" moeten  worden afgewezen. Een toewijzing van die domeinnamen zou de eerlijke concurrentie bedreigen, stellen beide Amerikaanse brancheorganisaties. De eerste is de belangenorganisatie van schrijvers, vertalers en auteurs. De andere van de uitgevers. Ook de bekende Amerikaanse boekenketen ... read more ...