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About DomainNameWire

Domain Name Wire is a blog that deals with the domain name sector. The blog covers a range of domain related topics ranging from issues concerning expiring domains, monetization, domain registries and registrars, ICANN, policy, law etc. The blog began in March, 2005, after Mr. Allemann had dropped out of meetings to become involved in domain portfolio company, iREIT. The project began as a hobby to keep him involved in the domaining business, and then became his full-time business.

Wed 16th June 2010
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UDRP Panelist Opens Door for Cases to be Refiled - Two words open door for companies to refile UDRP cases. In the legal world when a case is dismissed “without prejudice” it means the door has been left open for the plaintiff to file the case again at a future date. This is typically used when a case is dismissed, not when a case is found against the plaintiff. The generally accepted rule for a UDRP filing is that a complainant can’t file a case for the same domain name twice unless something notable comes ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells TVs.co.uk for $75,000 - Big electronics UK domain name sells. Sedo has brokered the sale of TVs.co.uk for 51,000 GBP, or about $75,000 USD at today’s exchange rate, according to the recent sales section on the domain name broker’s web site. If you visit TVs.co.uk today you’ll see an online store for TVs. A note at the bottom of the page links to PCs.co.uk, as the web sites were both owned by the same UK entity. The seller purchased the domain name for 1,000 GPB in December 2007. The ... read more ...
 
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Court Denies Emergency Injunction for Zuccarini Domains Sold during NameJet - Just filed for VeriSign, let’s see what they say… A. The Illegal Transfer of John Zuccarini’s Domain Names and VeriSign’s Culpability. There are two central issues before The Court related to VeriSign Inc. (“VeriSign”) the registrar for all .com and .net domain names, and it’s working relationship with all .com and .net registrars. That is, does a domain name registry have the power to correct an illegal action by a domain name registrar, as in this case the illegal transfer ... read more ...
 
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New Economic Study: Limit New TLD Rounds To Measure Effects - New ICANN-sanctioned report suggests limiting new TLD application rounds in order to collect more data. ICANN has published its latest hired economic report on the costs and benefits of introducing new top level domain names. Unlike the last report from a different author, this one lays out clear logic rather than just playing to the hands of ICANN. It is a well reasoned report that lays out the truth about the costs and benefits of new TLDs, and comes to a conclusion ... read more ...
Tue 15th June 2010
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Beach.org for $95,000? Maybe Next Year. - Company acquires Beach.org, but it’s more like a lease with option to buy. Publicly traded Generation Zero Group, Inc. has entered into a purchase agreement for the Beach.org domain name for $95,000. But there’s a catch. The company only has to pay $50 a month until the end of 2011, at which point the balance is due. Here’s the information from the company’s 8k: On or around June 8, 2010, Generation Zero Group, Inc. (“we,” “us,” and the ... read more ...
 
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AfternicDLS Offers Free Memberships Again - Membership offer good through the end of the month. Afternic is again offering a free membership, a $19.95 value. The membership allows you to list domain names for sale on AfternicDLS, including Expanded and Premium promotion. Using these listing options enables you to get your domain name listed on a number of sites. Afternic’s partner sites include GoDaddy Auctions, Register.com, Network Solutions, and of course sister site BuyDomains. Premium promotion allows ... read more ...
 
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.Tel IDN Registrations Begin - .Tel IDN registration goes live. Just moments ago the .tel domain name began accepting registrations for internationalized domain names. .Tel is now available in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Of course, users will still need to type in the Latin “.tel” at the end of the domain names. Only the second level domain ... read more ...
 
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Kredit.com Sells for 220,000 EUR - Monster deal headlines sales week. Sedo has brokered the sale of Kredit.com (Credit in German) for 220,000 EUR, or about $265,000 USD at today’s exchange rate. The domain name was purchased by GoAdvertising Limited of Ireland, an internet media company that also owns the Excite Europe group of portals. Sedo also brokered ChinaVision.com, which was purchased by the owner of Chinavasion.com and forwarded to that URL, for $75,000. Another notable sale for the week ... read more ...
 
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Watch Out for Fake Comments Suggesting Particular Domain Names - When is advice not advice? So I’m running through the latest comments on Domain Name Wire when I see this comment from “Simon”: I just saw domain.TV for sale on Sedo for $10,000. I really want that domain, but am unsure as to the true value (price seems high by at least $5K). Any advice out there? Followed shortly by this reply from “Neely”: don’t know what the value of domain.tv is; however, i believe the .tv domains will be the second most valuable extension ... read more ...
 
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Pig.com Domain Name Sells for $125,000 - NameMedia scores six figure domain name sale. DNForum owner Adam Dicker has sold the domain name Pig.com for $125,000 with the help of NameMedia. Dicker purchased the domain name for $50,000 in 2006. In 2007 he was hit with a UDRP case brought by New Pig Corporation, but of course he prevailed in the case. The company also sold one of its own domain names, Tortillas.net, for $9,300. If that looks familiar, it’s because the domain name sold through its listing ... read more ...
Mon 14th June 2010
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DevHub Launches Latest Web Builder Release - Company targets niche enthusiasts with latest release. Last Monday I made a quick stop at DevHub’s offices in Seattle before heading to the DomainTools open house. From the moment I walked in to the office it was clear that people hadn’t been getting much sleep there. The company just launched the latest version of its easy-to-use web site creator and there have been a lot of sleepless nights getting it into production. Most notable in the new version is a ... read more ...
 
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The Curious Case of ICANN Sponsorship - Some interesting sponsors for next week’s ICANN conference. Next week the domain name world will converge on Brussels for ICANN meeting number 38. It costs a lot of money to organize these ICANN meetings and the organization often comes under fire for this. To help defray the cost it offers various sponsorships. There are a couple interesting sponsors for the upcoming meeting, most notably ICM Registry. As you might recall, ICM Registry is embroiled in a dispute ... read more ...
 
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Payment Processor is No Free Bird, Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Panelist calls out company for trying to breaking “spirit” of UDRP. Tulsa, Oklahoma payment processor Blue Financial Corporation — which runs Bluefin Payment Systems — has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a WIPO UDRP panel. This case was particularly egregious. Blue Financial has a trademark for “Freebird” for “Providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for use in electronic authorization, processing and management ... read more ...
 
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Thoughts About TRAFFIC Vancouver - A mostmortem on last week’s TRAFFIC conference. I enjoyed last week in the Pacific Northwest. Sometimes it’s hard to provide updates on the blog during a conference because you’re too busy meeting with people. That was the case last week. So here’s a recap of some of my thoughts from last week: Attendance - About 150 people showed up for the event. Many more had registered but were unable to make it at the last minute, so I figure about 175 registered. ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Settles Lawsuit and Gets Flicker.com Domain Name - Yahoo now has Flicker.com for Flickr.com web site. As Michael Berkens pointed out today, Yahoo now owns the domain name Flicker.com. But this wasn’t your typical domain name sale. It was actually the culmination of year long anti-cybersquatting lawsuit brought against the Flicker.com owner AshantiPLC, which is owned in part by domain investor Sahar Sarid. Yahoo’s lawsuit against the Ashanti was filed in July 2009. Yahoo alleged that the defendants purchased ... read more ...
 
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Mrs Jello Beats Big Company in Domain Name Dispute - Panel not convinced that West Corporation should get Entrado.com domain name. Well-known domain name investor Mrs Jello, LLC, commonly known as “Mrs Jello”, has successfully defended against a UDRP case brought by West Corporation. West Corporation (which has a good domain name West.com) has a subsidiary called Intrado (which has a bad domain name Intrado.com that is easy to misspell and doesn’t even resolve without the www in front of it). It appears that ... read more ...
Sun 13th June 2010
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The .Jobs Backlash Has Begun - .Jobs process “stunk and lacked an open, honest, and transparent process” say some in career industry. When .jobs was originally introduced as a top level domain name, the plan was to let companies register only their company name, and only for use promoting jobs at their company; e.g. ATT.jobs and GoDaddy.jobs. The domain has floundered since so few domains could be registered. Hardly anyone even recognizes it as a URL when they see it. But there’s money ... read more ...
Fri 11th June 2010
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The Coming Fall in Domain Name Values - It’s only a matter of time before sales prices of second tier TLDs fall. Is it unwise to invest in generic non .com domain names right now? With the exception of ccTLDs and perhaps .org, I think so. Sometime within the next 2-3 years we’ll see a flood of new top level domain names on the internet. We’ll see some topical TLDs such as .radio, .eco, and .radio. We’ll see geographical TLDs such as .nyc and .vegas. We’ll see some top level domains in non-Latin ... read more ...
 
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Domain Disputes: Google Books, Royals, and Rachael Ray Pick adult Domains - Three UDRP decisions involve big brands. Google has won the domain name GoogleBooks.com through the UDRP domain name arbitration process at National Arbitration Forum. The domain name was being used by someone promoting the internet marketing product “Google Nemesis”. The owner registered the domain name back in 2004. Google, of course, wanted the domain name for its Google Books product at books.google.com. In a separate decision, Major League Baseball’s ... read more ...
Thu 10th June 2010
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GoDaddy Files Patent App for Generating Domains Based on Current Events - System would make it easy to register domains based on current events such as oil spills, earthquakes, etc. The Go Daddy Group has filed two concurrent patent applications for a system of generating domain name ideas based on current events. In the applications, the company notes that a number of people register domain names related to current events, such as earthquakes. Although one of its examples (below) is someone registering a domain for good purposes, it ... read more ...
 
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e.co Auction Ends Today, .Net Reserves Lowered during Latonas Auction - Auction festivities taking place today. A widely publicized auction for e.co ends today on Sedo at 4 PM EDT. As of the time of writing ten different bidders have pushed the price up to $38,000. Given the number of early bids in this auction this one could sizzle toward the close. Don’t rule out a six figure closing price. Later this afternoon Latona’s will hold its premier domain name auction at the TRAFFIC conference in Vancouver. Rick Latona tells me that ... read more ...
 
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Domain Investor Picks Up e.co Domain Name for $81,000 - e.co auction a big success. I just finished watching a live simulcast party at TRAFFIC Vancouver of the e.co domain name auction. It ended at $81,000, and from the video it appears that the winning bidder was domain name investor Lonnie Borck. Bidding had already reached around $39,000 by the time the simulcast started, and quickly took from from there. My initial prediction of the final auction price was $50,000, but that was before a couple things occurred: 1. ... read more ...
 
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Poll: Choose Your Domain Conference Location -

Help name a domain discussion location.

This is a suppositious here. And no, I’m not operative on a domain name conference. But let’s contend we were going to attend a domain discussion over a winter. Which of these locations would we prefer?

Feel giveaway to leave comments with specifics if we want.

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Via: domainnamewire.com

Wed 9th June 2010
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TRAFFIC Kicks Off in Vancouver - A TRAFFIC conference in Vancouver, eh? Yesterday afternoon I carpooled from Seattle to Vancouver for the TRAFFIC conference. As we crossed the border, the border agent was very stern. Why are you entering Canada? For a conference. What kind of conference? A domain name conference. A what? I thought we were about to get into one of “those conversations” where you try to explain the domain name industry. But we didn’t and were shortly on our way into the city. Vancouver ... read more ...
 
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NameDrive to Auction 760 Three Letter .EU Domains Starting during 1 Euro - Three letter domains starting at just 1 Euro. NameDrive’s NDX market is running an auction for 760 three letter .eu domain names starting tomorrow. Each domain starts at 1 euro. That’s like a buck twenty starting price, although it might be cheaper by tomorrow if the Euro keeps sliding. The auction will run for seven days. In order to bid you’ll need to open a NameDrive account before the auction starts, and will also need to fill out a “Certified Trader ... read more ...