Monthly Archives: May 2013

Thu 9th May 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Want to pattern Domain Name Wire’s new logo? - Submit a design at 99Designs. I’m working on a redesign of Domain Name Wire, and part of that is a refreshed logo. The logo is essentially unchanged since I started this site in 2005. I designed the original logo with a $50 do-it-yourself logo creator software package. What, you can’t tell? A lot has happened since 2005, including the creation of crowd design sites like 99Designs. So I decided to ask lots of people for help designing the new logo by starting ... read more ...
 
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Stupid, incompetent, or both? - A Generally Atrocious Communiqué. I’ve learned a lot over the years while writing about the domain industry. In the past three years I’ve learned that if there’s a laborious article I need to research and write that has to do with new TLDs, I can just wait a little while and Kevin Murphy will do it instead. That’s what he’s done with “This is how stupid the GAC’s new gTLDs advice is“. The GAC’s “advice” about new top level domains coming out ... read more ...
 
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887,000 .vn IDN domains registered - Vietnam sees rapid IDN registration growth. There were 887,000 .vn internationalized domain names registered as of the end of March, Dot VN, Inc. disclosed this month. Dot VN, Inc. markets Vietnam’s .vn namespace in an agreement with Vietnamese Internet Network Information Center. Some (or perhaps most) of the success with IDNs is because Dot VN convinced VNNIC not to charge registration fees for IDN domains. Dot VN provides free web site creation tools to owners ... read more ...
 
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Domain name change leads to 20% dump during HomeAdvisor - Switch from ServiceMagic.com to HomeAdvisor.com leads to organic search traffic drop. IAC’s HomeAdvisor business saw a 20% drop in leads after switching domain names.IAC underestimated the challenge from switching its ServiceMagic business to a new domain name, the company disclosed with its first quarter results. The company renamed the business HomeAdvisor, and switched from ServiceMagic.com to HomeAdvisor.com. It was forewarned that the move would be difficult, ... read more ...
Wed 8th May 2013
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Vertical Axis Gets Hit With UDRP On ParaJumpers.com - Vertical Axis just got his with a UDRP on the domain name ParaJumpers.com The UDRp was filed by PJS International SA whose official site seems to be parajumpers.it The complainant does own a trademark which appears to have been filed in 2006 for Eyeglasses, sunglasses, frames and cases for eyeglasses and sunglasses. It seems Vertical Axis has owned the domain under privacy since at least 2007 and possibly longer. The domain name ParaJumpers.com is currently going to a very generic landing page, but ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Formally Names Scott Wagner COO & CFO - According to a press release by GoDaddy, it is formally announcing as “its new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Scott Wagner, effective immediately.” “Wagner was a KKR Capstone Member and the leader of KKR’s portfolio operations team in North America, who stepped in as GoDaddy’s interim CEO last summer. ” “Wagner began working with GoDaddy a short time after KKR, Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures made strategic investments in the company in 2011.     ... read more ...
 
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Network Solutions Seizes Over 700 Domain Names & Sites Associated To Syrian President - According to krebsonsecurity.com, Network Solutions has seized more than 700 domain names “belonging to various Syrian entities, including a prominent Syrian hacker group and sites associated with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad”. According to the story the seizures all occurred within a three- to four-day period in mid-April. “The apparently coordinated action ended with each of the site’s registration records being changed to include Web.com’s Florida address, as well as ... read more ...
 
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Will the New Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Really Influence Internet … - This was one of the topics of discussion during the gTLD program at the International Trademark Association annual meeting today and it is no small question for brand owners.  Companies who have applied for various generic gTLDs are betting that it will.  Donuts, for example, has applied for over 300 new gTLDs.   They believe that domain name space is the “fulcrum of commercial online navigation” and, I suspect, that internet users will tend to either look for or prefer websites at TLDs ... read more ...
 
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New gTLDs: Money Maker – CircleID - There are fascinating ideas about how, when and more than everything: who is going to earn money from gTLDs? I think back-end registry providers will earn money, some applicants will earn money too but my experience launching Eurid, the registry for .EU, reminded me one thing: these days, just before launching, until the (first) Sunrise period is launched. These days are special because the entire team is prepared, has been trained, and knows what to do. So why were these days special and ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Name.com Tells Customers To Change Password Due To Breach - Name.com sent an email to customers today regarding a potential security breach. The compromised data was said to potentially include usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and encrypted credit card data. The official notice read: Name.com recently discovered a security breach where customer account information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card account information may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals. It appears that ... read more ...
 
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How To Use The New Trademark Clearinghouse - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn   Law360, New York (May 08, 2013, 11:56 AM ET) -- By now, most people are aware that the Internet will soon undergo its biggest makeover yet with the launch of hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs) that will vastly expand the greater domain name system (DNS). Branded, generic and geographic domains such as .Microsoft, .beauty and .nyc will begin to appear alongside already established domains such as .com, .org and .edu. ... read more ...
 
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DomainAgents.com Helps Startup Acquire Dream Domain Radius.com For $100K - DomainAgents.com just helped serial  Entrepreneur Darian Shirazi  company Radius to acquire the domain name Radius.com. “”Radius aggregates small business data on over 23 million companies to help businesses prospect and find targeted leads and was started in 2009 and has more than 2 billion pieces of information about the smallest businesses in the US.” “Radius has become one of the most comprehensive data sets about SMBs available today.” Through the help of  DomainAgents.com negotiation ... read more ...
 
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InterNetX belegt mit DomainShop den ersten Platz beim HOSTING- UND … - Die von InterNetX entwickelte White-Label E-Commerce-Lösung für Domain-Registrierungen und Hosting-Produkte setzt sich gegen mehrere Nominierte beim HOSTING- UND SERVICE PROVIDER SUMMIT durch. (Frankfurt, 08. Mai 2013) - Der InterNetX DomainShop wurde auf dem HOSTING- UND SERVICE PROVIDER SUMMIT 2013 vor weiteren Nominierten mit dem Award für den ersten Platz in der Kategorie "Domain Services" ausgezeichnet. Das bereits am Markt etablierte White-Label Shop-System überzeugte die Fach-Jury durch ... read more ...
 
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How Demand Media sees its domain name business – Domain Name Wire - Domain business positioned as end-to-end domain provider, spin-out on track. Demand Media just concluded its first quarter earnings conference call, and much of the talk centered on new TLDs.The company is working to spin out its domain name business into a separate business and expects that to happen by the end of the year or in early 2014.CEO Richard Rosenblatt explained that the company wants to be an end-to-end provider of domain services. The group will continue to own its own portfolio of domains, ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Spring Premium Auction Ends Tomorrow; High Bid StumpRemoval.com @ $11.7K - SnapNames.com Spring Premium Auction ends tomorrow on Thursday May 9th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with SnapNames.com normal closing procedure. As of 9 Am EST the highest bid on a domain name that has met reserve is stumpremoval.com which has a bid of $11,777.  here are all the domain names in the auction with the high bid, reserve range and number of bidders. Good luck to all <![CDATA[]]>Domain Name Bidders Current Bid ReserveRange ReserveStatus greatreviews.com 6 580 No Reserve Reserve Met gzw.net 5 460 $201 ... read more ...
 
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MarketLeader Buyer Of RealEstate.com For $8.25M Gets Buyout From Trulia For $355 Million - Trulia, Inc. (NYSE: TRLA, “Trulia”),announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Market Leader, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEDR, “Market Leader”),  for approximately $355 million, or an implied price of $11.33 per share (based on Trulia’s closing share price on Tuesday, May 7, 2013). MarketLeader.com you might remember bought the domain name RealEstate.com back just in 2011 for $8.25 million dollars. At the time we noted that the company only had a market cap of $55 Million ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Roundup: Google Gets Blogger.pe Sony Files For Sony.me - A few UDRP decisions and filing of note. Google was awarded the domain name Blogger.pe by a one member panel in a lengthy decision Taser International has brought a UDRP on taser.com.au and tasers.com.au Sony has brought a UDRP on the domain name Sony.me which has been registered since August 5th 2008. Not sure where Sony has been for the last soon to be 5 years while this domain has been parked and certainly could have saved itself a lot of time and money by registering the domain under the Sunrise ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holder Beats Back UDRP On LostDogsHome.com Representing Himself - The Lost Dogs Home Ltd of Melbourne, Australia, just lost a UDRP on the domain name lostdogshome.com to a domain holder that represented himself in the proceeding. “The Complainant is one of Australia’s largest animal welfare organisations and has operated since 1910 under the trade mark THE LOST DOGS HOME. It operates six animal shelters in Australia, caring for over 31,000 dogs and cats each year, and manages a significant National Pet Register. The Respondent is an animal rights activist who ... read more ...
 
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Avoiding mistakes in the Trademark Clearinghouse - The TMCH is a central database that allows brand owners to register their marks. Once ownership of the mark is verified, the TMCH will alert the brand owner when someone is registering a matching domain name. The party applying for that domain name is also notified that its application corresponds with a verified mark in the TMCH database. The TMCH is just one layer of protection for brand owners. "The Clearinghouse is meant to support ... read more ...
 
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All.com Hits a Sales Block during $350K - According to a press release out today the domain name ALL.com which has been registered since 1995 “and never offered for sale” has just hit the market. The domain name is priced at $350,000. “ALL.com is memorable, 3 letters, brandable and great for a variety of businesses and categories. Even more unique ALL.com comes with a United States federal trademark on the principal register for the world “All” covering several top categories and a similar trademark from Mexico”.   The domain ... read more ...
 
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La Syrie entièrement coupée d’Internet depuis hier, les causes … - Depuis hier, la Syrie n’a plus accès à Internet comme le montre ce graphe de son trafic internet. Ses réseaux téléphoniques mobiles et fixes semblent eux aussi rencontrer des difficultés.Selon Umbrella Security Labs, le trafic de la Syrie a connu une chute brutale dès 18h45 GMT, 20h45 en France, 21h45 heure locale. La firme explique que les deux serveurs TLD de la Syrie (ns1.tld.sy et ns2.tld.sy) sont inaccessibles.Google confirme aussi la disparition de la Syrie. Pour ... read more ...
 
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Bewerber um .country bündeln ihre Kräfte – domain - Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (TLDH) und Uniregistry Corp., Konkurrenten um die neue globale Top Level Domain .country, bündeln ihre Kräfte: wie beide Unternehmen bestätigten, hat man Ende April 2013 eine Grundlagenvereinbarung über einen gemeinsamen Betrieb der geplanten neuen Endung geschlossen. Es ist erklärtes Ziel der Internet-Verwaltung ICANN, konkurrierende Bewerbungen um eine neue globale Top Level Domain gütlich zu regeln. Doch nur in den wenigsten Fällen wollte man bisher daran ... read more ...
 
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İnternet, 2012’DE 252 milyonun üzerinde alan adına ulaştı - Alan adı sağlayıcısı Verisign tarafından yayınlanan son Alan Adı Endüstrisi Özeti’ne göre; yılın son çeyreğinde altı milyondan fazla alan adı internete eklendi ve böylece 31 Aralık 2012 tarihi itibariyle toplam kayıtlı alan adı sayısı, dünya çapındaki tüm Üst Seviye Alan Adları (Top-Level Domains – TLDs) bazında 252 milyonu aştı. Küresel çaptaki 6,1 milyonluk alan adı artışı, 2012 yılının üçüncü çeyreğine kıyasla  yüzde 2,5’lik ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.46 Million Led By Moms.com for $252000 - Hello MHB, Is anyone wondering why so many secondary market sales are .COM Profit Centers? You hardly ever see .whatever sales which are far and few between. The mere fact that major players the gTLD applicants have chosen to try out Pure Play Generic markers = gTLDs to try to market Traffic back to their .COM Profit centers tells you that they know the power of Generic pure play Marketing Tools. The catch twenty 22 for them is they do not control the .COM Pure ... read more ...
 
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Scott Wagner takes COO and CFO positions during Go Daddy - Scott Wagner goes from interim to permanent at GoDaddy. Domain name registrar GoDaddy today announced that Scott Wagner is its new COO and CFO. Wagner took over as interim CEO of the company last summer when Warren Adelman stepped down from the CEO position. He then vacated that position earlier this year to make way for new CEO Blake Irving. Wagner worked for KKR for 13 years, recently as a member of KKR’s portfolio operations team. He became involved with GoDaddy ... read more ...