Wed 12th August 2015
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Bid.tv domain handed over in UDRP - Domain name expired after company was put in administration. The former bid.tv, before the company failed.National Arbitration Forum panelist Neil Anthony Brown has ordered the domain name Bid.tv transferred. The story of this domain name is interesting. It was used by UK company Sit-Up Ltd (trading as Bid Shopping) for many years. That company was put in administration (similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy) last year. Earlier this year, an entity called Bid Shopping Limited acquired the intellectual ... read more ...
 
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$670.44 Per Click Advertising VS $10 Domain Name? 100 Most Expensive Keywords 2015 - WebpageFX.com did a nice infograph of the 100 most expensive cost per click advertising keywords in 2015 and they range from $670.44 down to $273.33. I have parked a fair amount of domain names in my life and never had a 3 figure click payout but I also do not have that many “legal” domain names and relating keywords but 78% of the 100 most expensive keywords are in the legal vertical according to the article. The article also states that “three out of every four people looking for attorneys ... read more ...
 
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BMW Has No Plans to Sell Alphabet.com - Seems like everyone is talking about domain names this week, the New York Times ran a story on Google and their new Alphabet brand. The story highlights concerns of other small businesses using Alphabet as a brand. They wonder how this will affect them, whether there would be legal action one contributor wondered aloud, “Who is going to sue Google ?” Of course there is a big company with an interest in this whole Alphabet naming deal. BMW owns the domain name Alphabet.com, they gave a statement ... read more ...
 
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Has .XYZ Forever Changed a Name Game ? - Lexi Pandell of Wired wrote a very interesting headline for a story on Google using ABC.xyz, “Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance”  Lexi mentioned that she interviewed Daniel Negari earlier in the year and he gave his vision on .XYZ. “We end the alphabet in ‘xyz’ and we should end domain names the same way.” It turns out someone agrees with him. Yesterday, Google’s new holding company, Alphabet, revealed that it is making its online home at abc.xyz—a move ... read more ...
Tue 11th August 2015
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Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance - Daniel Negari is the founder of .XYZ, the company that acts as the registry operator for the .xyz domain. When I interviewed him for WIRED’s April issue, he told me, “We end the alphabet in ‘xyz’ and we should end domain names the same way.” It turns out someone agrees with him. Yesterday, Google’s new holding company, Alphabet, revealed that it is making its online home at abc.xyz—a move that could signal an end to .com dominance for good. Negari launched .XYZ last year to get ... read more ...
 
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Best Headline For New gTLD's: "Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance" - Wired.com just published a story which maybe the best headline ever for the new gTLD lovers and supporters: “Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .XYZ Will End .Com Dominance” That as Taylor Swift would say is the best headline “like ever, ever” for a new gTLD Yeah Ponder on that one for a while. Ok I will give you a few. The rest of the story goes on to chat about Daniel Negari who sold his last name .com address Negari.com for $1,800 on Namejet just today and operates .XYZ. However the front ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1million led by GDL.com during $34,500 - Sedo had 454 transactions on their marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.   Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: gdl.com at 34,500 USD Top ccTLD:  rabatt.ch at 19,100 EUR Top “other” TLD: jjy.net at 7,300 USD New Gtld sales this week: Solar.City 5,000 USD – RRR.one 2,500 EUR – Open.Bid 2,400 USD and Grace.Church 1,999 USD MadeBy.com was sold in 2010 for 3,500 USD and resold this week for 20,000 USD Lov.eu is an interesting ... read more ...
 
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Trump and Bible trending in .com domain name registrations - Donald Trump is making money…for domain name registrars. Domain name registrations related to Donald Trump, the bible and Cuba were trending last month. According to .com registry Verisign, the following keywords showed the biggest increase in registrations from June to July in .com: 1. owned 2. Cuba 3. savings 4. prices 5. Trump 6. SUV 7. economy 8. scope 9. bible 10. frog I understand some of these terms, but frog? There was a big spike of “frog” related domains registered on July 22 for ... read more ...
 
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BMW is Reviewing The Possibility of TM Infringement as associated Alphabet - BMW is apparently not too thrilled about Google deciding to go with the name Alphabet, and they have some concerns according to several news outlets. FleetNews.co.uk wrote: Vehicle leasing company Alphabet is investigating whether Google has infringed its trademark after the tech giant gave its new parent company the same name. Following a restructure, Google has created a new parent company called Alphabet Inc. The leasing and fleet management company, owned by BMW, told Fleet News: “The possibility ... read more ...
 
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Did Google Buy Alphabet.Xyz for $3,800 - GTLD.link is a forum that focuses solely on new gtlds. Last night at 8:28 a member posted he owned Alphabet.xyz and sold it. Sold too cheap So, I received a $2,500 Sedo offer last week for alphabet.xyz. I didn’t think much of the domain, so I countered with $3,800, and the buyer accepted.And then, this today: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/08/10…ame-is-abc-xyz Feeling very stupid right now. Could have easily sold for $15k. ... read more ...
 
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Google's Alphabet Inc. Announcement Fires Up .com / .net Registrations - As we noted earlier today over 6,000 .XYZ new gTLD domain names were registered yesterday,  after Google Inc. announced it’s holding company Alphabet Inc., using the domain name ABC.XYZ. It is interesting though, as Mike pointed out that of the 6,000 newly registered .xyz domains registered yesterday hundreds of them related to ABC, Alphabet and XYZ. I wanted to compare that to .com / .net domain registrations relating to those three terms. The “Alphabet” term ranked the highest, followed ... read more ...
 
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Verisign's lawsuit opposite .XYZ continues, pesters Donuts & ICANN as well - Lawsuit marches on, creating legal headaches for many of Verisign’s competitors. Why did Verisign sue .XYZ for disparaging .com and allegedly falsely inflating the company’s success? It’s pretty clear that Verisign thinks new top level domain names pose a threat to .Com, otherwise it wouldn’t have bothered. This goes beyond .XYZ. The lawsuit is surely costing Verisign and .XYZ a lot of money, something that the former has plenty of thanks to its monopoly on selling .com domain names. This ... read more ...
 
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Sweet Art Company LLC Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking on Domain Registered in 1998 - Sweet Art Company LLC represented by Christopher M. DeBacker of Law Office of Mark Brown, LLC, Kansas was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain sweetartinc.com which was registered in 1998. Sweet Art got a trademark in 2009. The one member panel of David E. Sorkin found: “In this case, it should have been obvious to Complainant that it could not prove that the disputed domain name was registered in bad faith. Even the allegations of bad faith in the Complaint relate ... read more ...
 
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SharkTank.com Saved in UDRP: No Reverse Hijacking Despite Domain Reg 6 Yrs Before TM - Sony Pictures Television Inc. just its attempt to grab the domain name SharkTank.com which was registered in 2002, while the trademark was not filed for until 2008 and not granted until 2009. However the Panel took a long way around and some interesting language to avoid finding Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Here are the highlights of the three member UDRP panel of Alan L. Limbury, Sandra J. Franklin, and Paul M. DeCicco “The two terms comprising SHARK TANK are generic and taken together, descriptive. ... read more ...
 
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Google, ABC.xyz, and a flourishing recognition of new domain names - Awareness is growing, one domain at a time. When new top level domain names started rolling out over a year ago, basically no one outside of the insular domain name business had heard of them. They started with zero awareness. The good thing about that is there’s only one way to go: Up. New TLD companies hoped that upward trajectory would happen much faster than it has. Sure, a couple brands have started using .brand. Some sites have switched to new TLDs; others have bought them and forwarded them ... read more ...
 
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Over 6K .XYZ Registered Yesterday Including 100's With ABC, Google, Alphabet Knockoff's - The .XYZ registry got thrown into the world stage last night when Google announced the formation of a new parent company, Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. The new gTLD .XYZ got over 6,000 domain name registrations yesterday including hundreds which played off either the “ABC” theme, or Google and/or off the word Alphabet, includin; abcgoogle.xyz alphabetgoogle.xyz alphabetgroup.xyz Alphabetco.xyz Alphabetholdings.xyz abcdefghijkimnopqrstuvw.xyz Alphabetinc.xyz Getabc.xyz Alfabeto.xyz ... read more ...
 
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Successful domain financier releases "Make Money Online" book - Eric Borgos tells his interesting story. You can learn a lot from it. I’ve long been a fan of Eric Borgos, even though I had never spoken with him until yesterday. I’ve been a fan because he’s extremely frank and revealing. He blogs about his successes and failures, but focuses more on the failures. He even publishes his annual revenue and net income numbers from his businesses. This sort of candid analysis and transparency is unheard of in the domain name industry. Eric has sold millions of ... read more ...
 
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Twitter Files 3 New Trademarks: TWTR, N Logo And Niche Creator - Twitter Inc. has filed 3 new trademarks including one for TWTR which is the NYSE stock symbol for the company. The trademark states: “Providing business and corporate information via a web site and via social media”. Twitter Inc. currently does not own the matching domain name TWTR.com according to whois records. The domain name is for sale currently on domain name marketplace Sedo.com, with a “make offer” listing that is pretty active as seen in the screen shot below: The domain name is ... read more ...
Mon 10th August 2015
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Meet Google New Parent’s Company Alphabet Whose Domain Name is ABC.XYZ - Google announced today on its company’s blog,  its forming a new parent company to see all of its businesses calling it Alphabet. The domain name of the holding company is not going to be Alphabet.com but the new gTLD abc.xyz. “What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google” “Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of ... read more ...
 
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DeBlasio.Fail is Launched - Only 875 days left until Mayor de Blasio's term comes to an end. Count down with us! http://t.co/i5lmI83wXa pic.twitter.com/0hAF6zngTi — New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) August 10, 2015 I was checking out the NY Post this afternoon, when I scrolled to the bottom of the homepage and saw a creative use of a new gTLD domain name. As you can see below, the NY Post has a banner with a link to the website DeBlasio.Fail. Bill De Blasio is the sitting Mayor of New York City. When you visit DeBlasio.Fail, ... read more ...
 
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Meet Google New Parent's Company Alphabet Whose Domain Name is ABC.XYZ - Google announced today on its company’s blog,  its forming a new parent company to see all of its businesses calling it Alphabet. The domain name of the holding company is not going to be Alphabet.com but the new gTLD abc.xyz. “What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google” “Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of ... read more ...
 
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Google is now partial of Alphabet, uses ABC.xyz - Alphabet uses .xyz domain name. Google announced a new holding company called Alphabet today, and it’s using the domain name ABC.xyz. This is a huge win for Daniel Negari’s .xyz, and new top level domains in general. Google will be part of Alphabet, but some of the company’s more long term bets will be separate companies operating under Alphabet. Reading Larry Page’s intro note on ABC.xyz, I couldn’t help but compare it to Hooli.xyz, the fictitious company from HBO’s Silicon Valley that ... read more ...
 
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.Law Expects 100K Domain Registration In 12-24 Months during $200 Per - According to a story in the abajournal.com, the .Law registry which is owned by Minds + Machines expects to sell 100,000 domain names in 12-24 months after launching . .Law will only be opened to licensed lawyers. The CEO of .Law Lou Andreozzi, of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets and the former chairman of Bloomberg Law is quoted as saying he “estimates the U.S. market is about 1.2 million attorneys, while the worldwide market approaches 2 million lawyers. Andreozzi said his goal in the ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy adding 435 TLDs to domain name aftermarket - Registrar expanding number of domains that can be sold in its aftermarket. GoDaddy is vastly expanding the number of top level domain names that can be sold on its aftermarket starting tomorrow. The company will add the capability to sell domains under 435 top level domains. 230 will be gTLDs that were previously blocked from listing and the rest are country code domain names. Customers will be able to list domains directly on GoDaddy Auctions or through Afternic. For now, Afternic syndication to ... read more ...
 
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4 Domain Selling Mistakes with Alan Dunn – DNW Podcast #45 - Learn from mistakes and be a better domain investor. All domain name investors make mistakes. Do you learn from them? On this week’s episode, NameCorp founder Alan Dunn discusses four common mistakes people make when selling domain names. Alan has sold many domains over the years, both his own domain names and acting as a broker. Learn from the mistakes he has made and has observed others making, so you can avoid leaving money on the table or missing a great opportunity to sell your domains. Subscribe ... read more ...