Monthly Archives: June 2013

Mon 24th June 2013
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Demand Media Acquires Society6 For $95 Million & Lowers Revenue Guidance For 2Q - In two announcements today Demand Media (DMD) acquired Society6, an e-commerce marketplace for artwork and related merchandise for $94 Million dollars. Society6, had 2012 revenue of $15M. The purchase price will be paid $75M in cash  and  $19M in stock. As of March 30, the company only had  $109.4M in cash. Also Demand today lowered its revenue guidance for the second quarter citing “a reduction in search engine referral traffic to its owned and operated sites in May and June.” The company ... read more ...
 
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IBM Loses UDRP On OpenPower.org Despite TM Being 5 Years Older Than The Domain - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) just lost a UDRP in an attempted grab of the domain name OpenPower.org against White Label Energy GmbH The UDRP decision was originally published in German. Although IBM had a trademark on the term OPEN POWER which predated the domain name registration by some five years, the one member panel noted that IBM abandoned its Open Power product in 2006 and therefore found its was unlikely that the domain holder had the trademark in mind when it registered ... read more ...
 
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Introduction: New gTLD Security and Stability Considerations (Part 1 of 5 ) - Verisign recently published a technical report on new generic top-level domain (gTLD) security and stability considerations. The initial objective of the report was to assess for Verisign's senior management our own operational preparedness for new gTLDs, as both a Registry Service Provider for approximately 200 strings, as well as a direct applicant for 14 new gTLDs (including 12 internationalized domain name (IDN) transliterations of .com and .net). The goal was to help ensure our teams, infrastructure ... read more ...
 
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Founder Of Oversee Launched RTB.com (Real Time Bidding) - According to Mediapost.com, the co-founder of Oversee.net,  Fred Hsu, new company officially launched RTB.com today which stands for Real Time Bidding. The domain name appears have been acquired last year from Telepathy, Inc for what I would guess was a six figure sale. Hsu, RTB.com founder told MediaPost the focus of the company “now turns toward building out hyper-targeting capabilities by pulling in billions of transactions daily. The world of mobile RTB remains static, mostly revolving around ... read more ...
 
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AtFirstSight.com Purchased For $5,400 Is New App Of Bachelor Host & Demand Co-Founder - “The Bachelor” host Chris Harrison, together with the show’s creator Mike Fleiss and Perceptual Networks, announced the launch of At First Sight, a new dating app that uses video profiles to help members make genuine connections. The domain name AtFirstSight.com which is now the URL for the App, was purchased just a month ago on Afternic.com for $5,400 and is currently under privacy at Enom. Partners and investors at Perceptual Networks , Chris Harrison and Mike Fleiss have been involved in ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top-Level-Domains: Markeninhaber sollten frühzeitig handeln - Ab Herbst 2013 soll es über 1.400 neue Top-Level Domains (TLDs) wie .shop, .hotel, .berlin, .web, .koeln, .gmbh, .site, .app, .law, .film, .love, .auto, .sex und viele mehr geben. Um zu verhindern, dass die eigene Marke von Dritten registriert wird oder um sich die Domain mit der eignen Marke während der sogenannten Sunrise-Periode zu sichern gibt es diesmal für alle diese TLDs ein einheitliches Verfahren. Dies soll es Markeninhabern und Anmeldern erleichtern ... read more ...
 
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Nominalia blinda el futuro de tu marca online con Trademark Clearinghouse - PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL. En cumplimiento de lo establecido en la Ley Orgánica 15/1999, de 13 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal (“LOPD”) y en el Real Decreto 1720/2007, de 21 de diciembre, por el que se aprueba el Reglamento de Desarrollo de la Ley Orgánica 15/1999, de 13 de diciembre, de protección de datos de carácter personal (“RDLOPD”), la Compañía informa de que el acceso y uso de la página web no implica ... read more ...
 
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WIPO row (grudgingly) denies UDRP for YahClick.com and YahLive.com - Both complainant and respondent have registered trademarks, so panelist determines UDRP not appropriate mechanism to decide case. WIPO panelist Torsten Bettinger has denied (pdf) a complaint filed against the domain names YahClick.com/.net and YahLive.com/.net. In doing so, Bettinger appreciated the limits of UDRP cases while noting that the respondent’s story was “highly improbable”. The case was field by Al Yah Satellite Communications Company and affiliated ... read more ...
 
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Sedo updates remoteness process due to Google changes - Privacy policy explains that it may release your personal information to Google. Sedo sent a notice to its parking customers today to inform them that it has updated its privacy policy. The company has added a line to its policy that states: It may be necessary to disclose your stored information, such as first and last name, company name, address, email and/or phone number, to relevant domain monetization advertising partners for the purpose of providing you such ... read more ...
 
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TLD field representation new web addresses during HostingCon - Applicants prepare web hosts and resellers for the coming namespace expansion. The annual HostingCon conference took place in Austin last week, drawing a large contingent of domain name companies to the city. There was a lot of talk about new top level domains and some exhibitors were at the show primarily to pitch the new domain extensions. .Host had a large booth where it tried to get web hosting companies to pre-register .host domain names. Top Level Domain Holdings, ... read more ...
 
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Another domain scam, and this one is sent around fax - Official looking notice warns you about UDRP and urges you to register a .us domain name. There are a number of scams that try to trick unsuspecting domain name owners into paying hefty prices to renew their domains or register new domains. Here’s one that just came across my desk from a reader this week. It’s sent directly to the fax number on whois records, so if you don’t include a fax in whois, you may not have seen this before (although it appears to have ... read more ...
Sat 22nd June 2013
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Brand.com Is Sold & Brands.com Is For Sale (Bring A Big Checkbook) - According to TechCrunch.com last night and later covered by Morgan Linton, The domain name Brand.com sold for six figures to  Reputation Changer online reputation management company. Seems like a Bargain and great domain. Today it seems the domain name Brands.com is for sale as well. But forget about paying six figures for that domain as the site prominently says: “”For The First Time Ever – Brands.com Is For Sale”” “”Only 7 figure (USD) offers will be considered, if your maximum offer ... read more ...
 
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XM.com Purchased By XEMarkets, A Brand of Trading Point - Trading Point of Financial Instruments Ltd of London, has acquired the  two-letter domain name XM.COM as the short name for XEMarkets for an undisclosed amount. This marks the two letter .com to have sold in the past month as IG.com traded hand to another UK based financial services company.  Although the terms of that deal were no announced the buyer said it was the second highest amount ever spent on a two letter .com next to Facebook acquisition of FB.com at $8.5 Million. XM.COM is the short ... read more ...
 
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Dat is vieleicht ein Dingen: NRW-Domains kommen… - Tegtmeier hätte wohl dazu gesagt:" Nee, dat ich dat noch erleben durfte..." ICANN wird bekanntlich über 1000 neue Top Level Domains einführen. Jetzt hat ICANN 628 Bewerbungen um die Neuen Top Domains ein erstes Plazet erteilt-darunter auch den NRW-Domains. ICANN hat die Bewerbung für die NRW-Domain geprüft. Die Bewerbung um die NRW-Domain hat bei der sogenannten "Initial Evaluation" positiv abgeschnitten und erhielt daher in der veröffentlichten Tabelle die Bemerkung "pass". Bei Minds+Machines ... read more ...
 
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Nominalia incluye Trademark Clearinghouse dentro de su programa OBP - Nominalia ha incluido Trademark Clearinghouse dentro de su programa OBP (Online Brand Protection), el único mecanismo oficial de protección de marcas, imprescindible para cualquier marca registrada que quiera registrar un dominio en el periodo de lanzamiento de un nuevo gTLD. Este servicio nace con el objetivo de satisfacer las necesidades empresariales de cara a la próxima aparición de los nuevos gTLDs, monitorizando tanto los registros interesantes y estratégicos como aquellos que pueden ... read more ...
 
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Pourquoi TLD n ‘ est – elle pas présente au Salon du Bourget ? -

« Nous ne sommes pas au Bourget, automobile ce n’est pas un Salon de matériel aéroportuaire », répond-on au siège du site tourangeau. L’entreprise TLD de Montlouis conçoit du matériel de ride aéroportuaire et notamment le « Taxibot » qui tracte l’avion sur le tarmac, économisant ainsi énormément de kérosène. Un site de and de 7.000 m², dédié à cette innovation, doit être créé à Sorigny, dans la section Isoparc.

Via: lanouvellerepublique.fr

 
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Pourquoi TLD n’est-elle pas présente au Salon du Bourget ? -

« Nous ne sommes pas au Bourget, automobile ce n’est pas un Salon de matériel aéroportuaire », répond-on au siège du site tourangeau. L’entreprise TLD de Montlouis conçoit du matériel de ride aéroportuaire et notamment le « Taxibot » qui tracte l’avion sur le tarmac, économisant ainsi énormément de kérosène. Un site de and de 7.000 m², dédié à cette innovation, doit être créé à Sorigny, dans la section Isoparc.

Via: lanouvellerepublique.fr

 
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TheFancy buys Fancy.com domain name, rebrands - TheFancy gets a fancier domain name. Red hot social shopping platform TheFancy has purchased the Fancy.com domain name and rebranded itself as simply Fancy. The company was using the domain name TheFancy.com. Even with the inferior domain, it has attracted a lot of attention from users and investor alike. Fancy is essentially a crowdsourced catalog curated by 7 million users. Investors in Fancy, which raised $26 million last fall and $44 million to date, include ... read more ...
Fri 21st June 2013
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100 New gTLD Pass IE: Moscow, .Wales; .Lol; .NBA; .Target; .HSBC; .Ninja - @Internet Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow, follow, follow, follow, Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick, Follow the Yellow Brick, Follow the Yellow Brick Road. We’re off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. You’ll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was. If ever oh ever a Wiz! there was The Wizard of Oz is one because, Because, because, because, because, because. Because of the wonderful ... read more ...
 
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100 New gTLD Pass IE: Moscow, .Wales; .Lol; .NBA; .Target; .HSBC; .Ninja - ICANN released another set of  results from Initial Evaluations (IE) with 100 new gTLD applications passing and 1 getting the dreaded eligible for extended evaluation. Highlighting those applications passing today are: The Geo’s .Moscow, .Wales and .Istanbul. Generic’s include Google’s application for .mom; and .lol; Amazon’s controversial closed application for .Book and my personal favorite of all of Demand Media, inc. applications .Ninja Brand applications passing today include The National ... read more ...
 
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BuyDomains.com Loses UDRP On 10 Tear Old Domain Name Frize.com - The Complainant Sumol+Compal Marcas, S.A. of Carnaxide, Portugal, just won a UDRP against BuyDomains.com on the domain name Frize.com This is actually the 2nd UDRP Buydomains.com lost this week, earlier this week they voluntarily handed over the domain name gamewinner.org but since it was a published UDRP decision is counts as a loss. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: The Complainant is Sumol+Compal Marcas, S.A, a company incorporated in Portgual. The Complainant ... read more ...
 
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Boston.com; Globe.com .Boston May Soon Be For Sale As Boston Globe Is On … - From here on the Cape I find myself visiting the site multiple times a day. If it weren’t for the content provided by the news staff, updated and breaking news, I would not have alot of reason to visit the url at all. Or at least nearly as often. I think the vast majority of repeat visitors would likely agree. Sox, Pats, Bruins, Pats, etc.. Their majority of their traffic MUST be local, repeat visitors.. those that used to read the paper. If you don’t provide ... read more ...
 
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Boston.com; Globe.com .Boston May Soon Be For Sale As Boston Globe Is On The Market - According to post on Boston.com, the domain names/sites Boston.com, BostonGlobe.com and Globe.com may soon be available for sale. The domain names are owned by the Boston Globe newspaper which is for sale and has a June 27th deadline for submitting bids.  Today Robert Kraft the owner of the Patriots dropped out of the bidding. “Even without daily traffic Boston.com gets, the URL alone would almost certainly be valued in the six or seven figures for a patient seller. ” “With their current ... read more ...
 
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Bewerbungsfrist für neue Top Level Domains startet - Ab Donnerstag, den 12. Januar, können sich Firmen und Organisationen um neue Top Level Domains (TLD) bewerben. Ab Donnerstag, den 12. Januar, können sich Firmen und Organisationen um neue Top Level Domains (TLD) bewerben. Die gemeinnützige Organisation Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN) entscheidet dann, wer den Zuschlag erhält. Inhaber von Markenrechten werden bei der Vergabe bevorzugt behandelt. Obwohl die Bewerbung ... read more ...
 
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PokerStars Settes With Kentucky Over Domain Seizure Case By Paying $6 Million - PokerStars  has agreed to pay just over $6 million to settle the claims of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the domain name seizure case. In September 2008 the Governor ordered the seizure of 141 domain names. The order went to the domain registrars instead of the Registry in which some registrars like Godaddy and Enom complied and others did not. An Appellate court overturned the Seizure order, h0wever in 2010 the Kentucky Supreme Court overturned the Appellate Court ruling declaring the domain ... read more ...