Monthly Archives: June 2013

Mon 3rd June 2013
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TLDH explains the change of heart on private domain auctions - Antony Van Couvering explains why it believes private TLD auctions make sense. Up until last week, it appeared that Top Level Domain Holdings, one of the largest new TLD applicants, would not participate in private auctions for TLDs. But that changed, and now TLDH/Minds+Machines CEO Antony Van Couvering has published an explanation for the reversal. It’s worth reading the explanation in its entirety. One of the key reasons for TLDH’s opinion: applicants will ... read more ...
 
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Marchex co-founder John Keister resigns from board - Keister has held a number of executive positions with the company. John Keister, a founder of Marchex, resigned from the company’s board today. (Photo: Marchex.com)John Keister, a founder of Marchex, resigned his board position today. Keister was executive vice chairman since May 2010 and was a member of Marchex’ board of directors since its inception in January 2003. He also served in a number of executive positions for the company, including as president from ... read more ...
 
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Samsung news site can keep the domain name notwithstanding Adsense ads - Site with Google Adsense ads still may qualify for “non-commercial”, UDRP panel rules. SamsungHub.com, started in 2006, now forwards to SammyHub.com.The owner of SamsungHub.com can keep his domain name, a WIPO panel has ruled in a UDRP brought by tech giant Samsung. Kunal Gangar began using the domain name in 2006. In 2011 Samsung released an app called SamsungHub, so Gangar registered a new domain – SammyHub.com – and redirected SamsungHub.com to it. Although ... read more ...
 
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14 finish user domain sales from Sedo - End users including Taser snap up domain names. Last week’s Sedo end user sales report is late because I was at the TRAFFIC conference last week. Afternic skipped last week and is doubling up on its report this week, so expect a long Afternic report on Wednesday. IFN.com, the same company that previously bought LiveAgent.co.uk for 1,100 GBP, bought Communicate.co.uk for 10,000 GBP. UK insurance seller Neilson Financial Services bought InsuranceLine.co.uk for 1,250 ... read more ...
 
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TLDH raises $10 million for new TLDs - New TLD applicant issues new shares to raise money, also confirms possibility of participating in private new TLD auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings Limited, parent company of Minds + Machines, has conditionally raised $10 million. The company today conditionally placed 110,375,276 new ordinary shares at 6p per share. The money will be used as additional working capital, with much of it earmarked for settling contention sets. The press release also confirms what ... read more ...
 
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Interesting: Nokta Domains’ 18 leased domains from May - Nokta’s typical lease is about $100 a month. When you think of domain leasing, you probably think of big ticket domains that companies couldn’t buy outright so they opted for a lease instead. But it’s not just expensive domains that people are leasing. Case in point: Nokta Domains has published a list of the 18 domain names it leased last month. The most expensive monthly lease fee? Just $250. The company leased one domain (Seyahat.net) for just $30 per month. ... read more ...
Sun 2nd June 2013
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.XXX Gets Over 25,000 Domain Years Registered In May Promotion - ICM registry informed us that the final numbers are in for the May discounted .XXX promotion and saw over 25,000 domain years added to the registry. 13,400 new .XXX domain names were registered and the average registration was just under 2 years making the total number of domains years added to .XXX over 25,000. As we pointed out a few days ago, the retail price of a .XXX registration dropped to as low as $8.99 a domain year and everyone was allowed to register the domain for up to 10 years, basically ... read more ...
 
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Getty Images Waits 12 Years Before Going After GettyImage.com; GM 9 Years For Corvette-Stingray.com - Its quite amazing to me when I see a bang on trademark infringing domain allowed to be owned and monetized by someone other than the trademark owner. I’m not talking about typos, misspells or terms that include the trademark but is a reach based on the business of the domain holder. I’m talking about a domain like GettyImage.com which is right up Getty’s business which sells stock photos or images. Its pretty amazing to think that Getty allowed someone to hold on to the domain name Gettyimage.com ... read more ...
 
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Verisign whois secretly returning “no match” results - Have to submit query twice to get correct result on Verisign’s whois. Verisign’s whois service for .com and .net is sometimes falsely returning a result of “no match” the initial time you search for a domain name. For example, if you search for DNW.com on Verisign’s site or via port 43 whois, you’ll get a “no match” result the first time. Click “search” a second time and the correct whois will be returned. You can see example screenshots on the ... read more ...
Sat 1st June 2013
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CollegeStudent.com Sells For $17K On NameJet.com - The domain name CollegeStudent.com which was a dropped domain, sold this week on NameJet.com for $17,700 as three bidders battled it out bidding over $10,000 for the domain. A very nice educational domain and a good buy. The domain was owned by a company by the name of  Abode Development which had owned the domain since at least 2001 and now gets nothing for it. Ouch A few other sales from this week: TvMounts.com sold for $3,500 Dezy.com sold for $2,700 Hp.tv sold for $2,600 as did Hm.tv, both new ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Orders Transfer Of Domains At 4 De-Accredited Registrars To Astutium - ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from four registrars, three are due to the de-accreditation of the registrars; C I Host, Inc., Central Registrar, Inc. DBA Domainmonger.com, Power Brand Center Corp. and one transfer was ordered  due to the termination of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement of Dotted Ventures, Inc. All of the domains from all four domain name registrars were transferred to Astutium Limited which is headquartered out of London. The affected gTLD registries ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Sells 41,786 In May Led By boxed.com during $35,000 - Godaddy.com just posted its Domain Sales information for auctions taking place on their system for the month of May 2013. In all Godaddy.com sold 41,786 domain names slightly up from April’s sales of 40,221. Of the 41,786 domain names sold through auctions here is the break down of the type of transaction: By Auction Type5/1 – 5/31   Here are the top ten sales for the month of May: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy.com: Protecting IP from Cyber Squatters - HOLLYWOOD, Fla.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)-- “Cyber squatting and trademark infringement on the Internet are issues that have longed plagued IP attorneys, and I expect that will only increase in prominence. As ICANN rolls out new gTLDs in the coming years, companies are going to continue to struggle with IP protection.” IP Law Summit Spring 2011 HOLLYWOOD, Florida, March 24-26 Interview with: Martha Kimes, Senior Intellectual ... read more ...
 
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.Joburg domain passed - The .Joburg generic top-level domain (gTLD) was passed without contention by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Friday (31 May 2013). UniForum SA (NPC), trading as ZA Central Registry, applied for the .Joburg domain, which has now passed the “Initial Evaluation” phase. The Initial Evaluation phase includes background screening, string similarity, DNS stability, geographic names, registry services and the technical capabilities of the applicant. The ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on D1.com - A UDRP has just been filed on a very rare two character domain name D1.com. The domain name is owned by Dimension One Spas of  Vista, CA since 2003 and forward to the companies site at d1spas.com The complaint was filed with the National Arbitration Forum however the name of the complainant is not listed. A quick check of the USPTO revealed 11 live trademarks for the term “D1″ some filed as late as 2013. Guess we will see who is going to make the Domain King’s list of Reverse Domain Name Hijackers.       Google+Michael ... read more ...