Monthly Archives: March 2014

Wed 5th March 2014
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Neustar Selected to Continue Administering the .US Domain - Today, Neustar announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded the company the contract to continue administering the .US Top Level Domain (TLD), the official country code domain of the United States. Neustar has successfully administered this critical domain since 2001, when the Department of Commerce first selected the company to build and manage the new domain. "We are honored that the Department of Commerce has selected Neustar to continue managing America's domain name ... read more ...
 
 
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Radix Looking To Hire Registrar Partner Manager-US, Canada and Latin America - Our friends at Radix are looking to hire a Registrar Partner Manager. As a Registrar Partner Manager, you will be responsible for our partners in the US, Canada and Latin America. Your job is to a) ensure a wide distribution network in the local market and b) evolve those channel relationships into strategic partnerships. The job involves frequent travel and road-trips across your region to ensure that you build a good working relationship and rapport with our partners. Your responsibilities will ... read more ...
 
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US Gives NeuStar New Contract To Run .US Domain Extention For Up To 5 Years - The Department of Commerce has re-awarded the contract to operate the .US domain extensions for three years with two additional one-year extension options to Neustar Inc. (NYSE:NSR). The .US Top Level Domain (TLD), is the official country code domain of the United States (ccTLD) “Neustar has successfully administered this critical domain since 2001, when the Department of Commerce first selected the company to build and manage the new domain.” “The .US domain represents Main Street America, ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed Against Vertical Axis On SNF.com By The SNF-Group.com - Thedomain name SNF.com has become the latest generic domain to be hit with a UDRP. The domain name is owned by Vertical Axis, which has owned the domain since 2005 according to DomainTools.com The domain name is parked with a very generic page which also indicates the domain is available for sale or for lease. The UDRP was filed by S.P.C.M. SA, which according to BusinessWeek.com, the private holding company was founded in France in 1978, “which through its subsidiary, manufactures and markets ... read more ...
 
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US Gives NeuStar New Contract To Run .US Domain Extention For Up To 5 Years - The Department of Commerce has re-awarded the contract to operate the .US domain extensions for three years with two additional one-year extension options to Neustar Inc. (NYSE:NSR). The .US Top Level Domain (TLD), is the official country code domain of the United States (ccTLD) “Neustar has successfully administered this critical domain since 2001, when the Department of Commerce first selected the company to build and manage the new domain.” “The .US domain represents Main Street America, ... read more ...
 
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KennendyUniversity.com is Saved in UDRP - The registrant of KennedyUniversity.com successfully won a UDRP in which they did not respond, the true name was never given of the registrant and the complainant seemed completely inept. The complainant basically did not even have a trademark, they did not state what their relationship was to another party that had a trademark, and it seems like they were using the words college and university interchangeably. Robert Kennedy College v. Domain Name Proxy Service, Inc Case No. D2014-0031 1. The Parties The ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sales Total Just Over $2million for a week, led by LaughOutLoud.com -

GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for a week of 2/24/14 – 3/2/14

Total domain sales for a week summed to $2,046,716.

The tip sale was laughoutloud.com during $20,800

W3.co led a non .com sales during $9,000

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Via: thedomains.com

 
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.Tips domain name sells for $8,200 - Domain name investor pays top dollar for a .tips domain name. A .tips domain names has sold for $8,200 at GoDaddy. HorseRacing.tips was purchased by London-based Domain Invest Ltd. [Apparently I looked up the whois record of HorseRacingTips.com, not HorseRacing.tips. The latter is under whois privacy. Sorry about that.] Domain Invest Ltd appears to own a lot of gambling related domain names. This is the highest price I’ve seen so far for a GoDaddy auction to resolve ... read more ...
 
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DomainFest is reduction than a month away. Here’s because I’m going. - DomainSponsor’s annual domain name conference is just a few weeks away. This year’s date-shifted DomainFest conference is less than a month away, kicking off on March 31. I just booked my travel for the event, which is one of many domain conferences I plan to go to this year. With a very busy conference circuit, I’m being selective about which events I attend. Ultimately I included DomainFest as one of them for five reasons: 1. The show has a long history of ... read more ...
 
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“Income Acceleration Mentor” files UDRP opposite JustBelieve.com - Company filed and dismissed two lawsuits against domain name before filing UDRP. Life is Now, Inc. has filed a UDRP against the domain name JustBelieve.com. The company promotes coaching by David Neagle, whose website describes him as “Master Income Acceleration Mentor for Entrepreneurs Corporate Professionals”. It has a registered trademark for “Just Believe” and claims first use in commerce of 2003. The domain name is owned by Greg Ricks, who has owned ... read more ...
 
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Google Capital invests $50 million in Auction.com - Company that invested $1.7 million in great domain name in 2009 gets $50 million infusion from Google Capital. Google Capital has invested $50 million in real estate auction company Auction.com. I don’t usually write about fundraising by companies with great domain names. It takes a lot more than a great domain name to build a good business. In fact, what is now Auction.com was already a fast growing business before it had the domain name. Still, Real Estate Disposition ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Ad: We’ve helped 1,000s of domain squatters - Ad claims Yahoo! helps “domain squatters” build websites. Nat Cohen sent me some screenshots of an ad Yahoo! is running to promote its webhosting services. I think domainers will get a rise out of the message. Slide 1: Although Nat wasn’t able to capture the first slide, it says something to the effect of “Jerry registered a domain in 2006″. Slide 2: Slide 3: Slide 4: So there you have it. Yahoo! has helped thousands of “squatters” create their ... read more ...
 
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At slightest 10 domain name companies streamer to SXSW in Austin this week - Domain companies setting up shop in Austin later this week. SXSW Interactive kicks off in Austin on Friday. Among the 30,000+ attendees will be at least 9 10 domain name companies. Here’s what I know so far about domain name companies in attendance. Drop me a line if you’re a domain name company missing from the list. Feel free to post a comment if you’re making the trek to Austin. Domain.com: Domain.com is holding a party in Brush Square Park Saturday night ... read more ...
Tue 4th March 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.3 Million - 582 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million for the week of March 2, 2014. 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: footmarseille.com at 25,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: dental.ca at 22,600 USD · Top “other” TLD: bestcasino.info at 7,050 USD Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Madeness: ABB.com Files UDRP On 123.com & 222.com - The owners of the domain names 123.com and 222.com have been hit with a UDRP. The UDRP was filed by Abb Asea Brown Boverti  LTD which seems to be part of the ABB Group which own the domain name ABB.com and ABB.us with the The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center (the ADNDRC). According to Wikipedia.org, ABB is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, operating in robotics and mainly in the power and automation technology areas. It ranked 158th in the Forbes Ranking ... read more ...
 
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Scott Day & Berryhill Beat Back UDRP on 15 Year Old Domain iCan.com - The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center (the ADNDRC) just rejected Galaxy Rainbow Limited and Whole Person Development Institute Limited. of Hong Kong bid to grab the 15 year old domain name iCAN.com from Scott Day’s Digimedia.com who was represented by John Berryhill. However the panel did not find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) although the domain was found to be generic and registered 10 years before the trademark of the complainant Here are the relevant facts and findings by the ... read more ...
 
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Flexcoin The Bitcoin Bank Shuts Down After Losing 896 Bitcoins - Another Bitcoin site has gone bust, Flexcoin which called itself the Bitcoin bank is out of business. They posted this on their website: Flexcoin is shutting down. On March 2nd 2014 Flexcoin was attacked and robbed of all coins in the hot wallet. The attacker made off with 896 BTC, dividing them into these two addresses: 1NDkevapt4SWYFEmquCDBSf7DLMTNVggdu 1QFcC5JitGwpFKqRDd9QNH3eGN56dCNgy6 As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing our ... read more ...
 
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The 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival Begins Friday – Sedo’s Jeremiah Johnston … - The huge SXSW Interactive Festival begins its five-day 2014 run Friday (March 7) at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Sedo's long time General Counsel Jeremiah Johnston will be in Austin ... read more ...
 
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Neue Top-Level-Domains – Tourismusbranche geht auf .reisen - Die Internet-Reisebranche boomt: Jede dritte Reise wird bereits online gebucht. Kein Wunder, dass dafür auch neue Web-Adressen her müssen. Der Verkauf neuer Top Level Domains startet jetzt. Praktisch, wenn man gleich an der Domain erkennen kann, welcher Branche die angesteuerte Webseite angehört. Mit den neuen Top-Level-Domains (TLD), die jetzt in den Verkauf gehen, wird das möglich. Neben geografischen Endungen wie .rio oder .wien, die das Reiseziel gleich beim Surfen klar machen, gibt es ... read more ...
 
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.Build Hires Tim Switzer, Formerly of Neustar and DotGreen As Head of Operations - George Minardos, Founder and CEO of .BUILD, announced today that Tim Switzer, formerly of Neustar and DotGreen, is joining .BUILD as head of operations and registrar relations. Switzer will team up with Minardos, Tom Brackey, ARI Services and the rest of the .BUILD team to bring the global building industry on-line via the .BUILD domain name. Minardos commented, “We are excited to have Tim join us.  He brings many years of experience and talent within the domain name industry.  With his history ... read more ...
 
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It’s Go Time for new gTLDs: Sedo Dissects Everything You Need to Know at SXSW - Related: Press Release, News SOURCE: BUSINESS WIRE More On: Press Release, News Related LinksHoneywell To Present At J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation Industrials ConferenceMarch 06, 2014Cambium Learning Group Announces 2013 EarningsMarch 06, 2014DuPont Fabros Technology Receives Open-IX Certification For Its ACC5 Data CenterMarch 06, 2014MTS Announces Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2013 Financial ResultsMarch 06, 2014ATT Wireless Network Performance Ranks #1 In ConnecticutMarch ... read more ...
 
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It’s Go Time for new gTLDs: Sedo Dissects Everything You Need to Know at SXSW – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>         WHO: Jeremiah Johnston, General Counsel, Sedo.com ... read more ...
 
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Easyspace Signs Agreement To Offer .Club Domain Name In UK - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrar to Work with .Club RegistryGlasgow, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) -Easyspace, one of the UK’s leading ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web hosting companies, will be offering the new .Club domain name extension after signing a Registry-Registrar agreement with .CLUB Domains, LLC. In pre-registrations throughout the world, the.CLUBextension has consistently ranked among the Top 10 of most popular new generic ... read more ...
 
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TLDH Formally Announces Appointment Of Elliot Noss Of Tucows As “Non-Executive Director” - According to a press release out today, the Board of Top Level Domain Holdings announced the formal appointment of Mr Elliot Noss as a non-executive director of TLDH with immediate effect. Mr Noss is President and CEO of Tucows, Inc (NASDAQ:TCX), one of the larger domain registrars, and has served in such capacity since the completion of Tucows, Inc’s merger with Tucows Delaware in August 2001. From May 1999 until completion of the merger in August 2001, Mr Noss served as President and Chief Executive ... read more ...