Tag Archives: moniker

Tue 11th August 2009
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Craig Snyder Joins Oversee.net - Marchex co-founder and former iREIT CEO will lead Moniker and SnapNames divisions. Los Angeles-based Oversee.net has name Craig Snyder General Manager of its registrar and aftermarket divisions (i.e. Moniker and SnapNames). Snyder co-founded domain name and local search company Marchex (MCHX) before joining Houston-based Internet REIT. Internet REIT was plagued by problems during his tenure, but most of these were rooted in decisions made prior to his arrival. ... read more ...
 
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Moniker to Request Sanctions Against Transamerica in Lawsuit - Moniker and Oversee to ask for sanctions against Transamerica over cybersquatting lawsuit. Domain name registrar Moniker and parent company Oversee.net intend to request sanctions against Transamerica for a lawsuit the insurance company filed against them, according to a legal filing. The filing requested an extension to the time the defendants have to respond to the lawsuit, and notes: …the Defendants will soon be serving a motion for sanctions pursuant to Fed. ... read more ...
Wed 8th July 2009
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Transamerica Sues Moniker Over Trademarked Domain Names - Insurance giant sues domain registrar, but red flags abound. Insurance company Transamerica has filed a lawsuit against Moniker, Oversee.net, and multiple John Does in United States District Court in the Southern District of Florida. The suit alleges that Moniker registered domain names including the Transamerica trademark and used these to profit for pay-per-click and pay-per-lead programs. Transamerica did not provide proof linking Moniker directly to any of ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2009
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SnapNames Introduces New Monthly Auctions - SnapNames gets monthly auctions and a makeover. SnapNames is starting a series of monthly themed auctions next week, and its interface is getting a timely update to handle these auctions and future extended live auctions. The new monthly auctions will augment SnapNames’ expired domain auctions and sister company Moniker’s live domain auctions. Monthly auctions will begin on the second Tuesday of each month and end the second Thursday. (The first auction, ... read more ...
Wed 1st July 2009
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Moniker Discusses a Future of Domain Auctions - Moniker looks forward to the next chapter in domain name auctions. Moniker put the live domain name auction on the map. So it was a surprise to many in the industry when T.R.A.F.F.I.C., host of many of Moniker’s live domain auctions over the past few years, announced that Rick Latona Auctions would be its only auction provider in 2010. That leaves one more Moniker/TRAFFIC auction this fall under the company’s existing contract. An end of an era? Not really. ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2009
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Moniker Auction Bargains: You Couldn’t Have Them - Just because someone got a bargain yesterday doesn’t mean you could have gotten the same deal. By all accounts, there were some “good deals” in yesterday’s Moniker domain name auction. You may look at some of these final prices and think the buyer got a good deal: Entrepreneurs.info $650 OrderManagementSystem.com $600 CompanyDatabase.com $665 GiftCertificates.info $777 TechnologyCareers.com $1050 But here’s the rub: if you wanted to buy these domains at ... read more ...
Fri 1st May 2009
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3 Online Domain Name Auctions Going on during Once - Take advantage of lots of inventory to get good deals. There are three online domain name auctions going on right now, and that doesn’t include the regular auctions such as Sedo. I’m talking about the silent version of three live auctions held in the past two weeks: DomainConsultant’s GeoDomain Auction, Rick Latona’s TRAFFIC auction, and the Moniker auction. This means there’s a lot of inventory out there and lots of good deals. You just need to look ... read more ...
Wed 29th April 2009
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Handicapping Today’s Moniker Live Domain Auction - Many high quality domain names in today’s auction. Today’s live domain name auction by Moniker at the TRAFFIC conference is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. local time (6 p.m. EDT). Moniker did a good job getting some high quality domain names at low reserves. Will it be enough? Attendance at this show is down considerably from past TRAFFIC shows. Word is that about 250 people registered for the show but fewer may actually be there. Thankfully, bidders can ... read more ...
Tue 14th April 2009
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Moniker’s Live Domain Auction Looks Like a Winner - Moniker meets the challenge with superb list of domain names. My general response to a list of domain names published for a live domain auction is usually subdued. Rarely do I see domain names that are priced to sell. But after taking plenty of flack for its last auction, Moniker seems to have stepped up to the plate for this month’s TRAFFIC auction. (See a full list of domains in the auction here.) In the under $5,000 category, there are a number of good domains ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2009
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Domain Name News Bytes for Apr 8 - Brief notes about what’s going on in the domain world. There are a lot of stories I haven’t gotten to lately. Here they are in brief. Don’t want your WordPress site to get hacked? Richard Douglas, who helped me yesterday when it happened to me, put together a great post of WordPress security tips. Since many of you have asked about my conference schedule for the next few months, my current plans are to attend GeoDomain Expo in San Diego and Domain Roundtable ... read more ...
Wed 25th March 2009
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Moniker: Online Archive and Last Call for Auction Submissions - Deadline for next TRAFFIC live domain auction is Friday. Domain owners wishing to submit domain names for Moniker’s upcoming live domain name auction at TRAFFIC in April have until this Friday to submit domain names. The online submission form is available on Moniker’s web site. Submitting domain names is much easier than in the past when you had to email a spreadsheet. Moniker has a simple online form for submitting domains now. Domains accepted for Moniker’s ... read more ...
Thu 19th March 2009
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Which Domain Name Registrar is Best for Domainers? - @ Ozie, contact me for some wholesale one-name IDN’s. Great prices if you buy in bulk. Plus, I can set up a nice lunch with Todd Han if you bring over 1000 domains or more to his registrar! Be sure and wear boots if you’re under 6 foot. @Tony K – Ever see what GoDaddy charges once you get to the shopping cart checkout? You’ll get the fees, trust me. *My advice to registrars is to just price out new registrations at the full price you’re charging, with no “surprise” add-on ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2009
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Survey: Escrow.com Still Top Domain Escrow Service - Escrow.com comes out top in survey once again. Escrow.com is the best domain name escrow service, according Domain Name Wire’s survey of 400 domain name owners. Escrow.com took nearly half of the vote. 1. Escrow.com 46% 2. Sedo 34% 3. Moniker 11% 4. EscrowDNS 5% 5. Afternic 4% Escrow.com is fully licensed in all 50 United States to perform escrow transactions. The company was founded in 1999 by Fidelity National Financial, but has been privately held since May 2004. ... read more ...
 
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Moniker Adds IP Tracking Security - Domain name registrar adds new security check. Domain name registrar Moniker has added a new security tool to track potentially unauthorized account activity. The new tool allows account holders to view the IP addresses of all logins to their accounts. Using the login history, account holders can check for IP addresses that do not appear to be authorized. This can be used to launch an investigation, or to signal the need to change your password if there is suspicious ... read more ...
Wed 4th March 2009
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Moniker Limits Submissions for Apr Domain Name Auction - Moniker limits domain submissions to 250 and provides additional guidelines. Responding to results and criticism of recent live domain name auctions, Moniker is setting a limit to auction submissions to April’s TRAFFIC auction. Domain owners may submit a maximum of 250 domains to the auction. Frankly, this number is still too high but is a step in the right direction. If they’re truly looking for the best domains, they should try limiting it to 10 or 20 per ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2009
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Survey: Go Daddy Top Domain Name Registrar - GoDaddy tops survey for fourth year in a row, eNom continues slide. For four years running, GoDaddy has topped the list of domain name registrars in the annual Domain Name Wire Survey. GoDaddy took home top honors in this year’s survey with 43% of the vote. Below are the top 5 vote getters, followed by analysis: 1. GoDaddy 44% 2. Moniker 18% 3. Fabulous 10% 4. eNom 9% 5. 11 5% GoDaddy is popular amongst all types of domain owners. This year it even came out ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2009
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Is It Time to Suspend a Live Domain Name Auction? - Results from DOMAINfest beg the question. The advent of the live domain name auction has given the domain name industry a huge boost in both high dollar investor purchases and media attention. Two years ago in New York, Moniker’s live domain name auction topped $10 million in sales. Last month in Los Angeles, the live domain auction brought in only $800,000 over two nights selling 110 domain names. It wasn’t a big surprise given the economy and what’s going ... read more ...
Fri 30th January 2009
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Why a Live Domain Auction Bombed (and Why I’m Not Surprised) - Domain name auction pulls in under $700,000, but mid range domains continue to sell. Yesterday’s DOMAINfest Global live domain name auction wasn’t pretty. With under $700,000 in domains sold, it may have set a low point for a general Moniker live domain auction. The mood in the room was somber as domain after domain was passed. But the news wasn’t what was going on in the room, but what was going on outside the room. I ran into a couple people that usually ... read more ...
Sun 25th January 2009
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Moniker Releases “Direct to SnapNames” Functionality - Feature makes listing domains for sale on SnapNames easy. As first reported on Domain Name Wire earlier this week, Moniker has now released a new feature that allows you to list domain names directly on SnapNames within seconds. To list domain names for sale on SnapNames, Moniker customers select the domains and then click a link “List now on SnapNames”. This adds the domain to a queue: Once you click “submit” you are taken to your linked SnapNames account ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2009
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Moniker To Make Listing Domains on SnapNames a Snap - Moniker customers will be able to list domains for sale on SnapNames from within their accounts. Domain Name Wire has learned that Moniker and SnapNames will introduce a new feature next week that makes listing domains on SnapNames easier. The feature will allow customers to list domains on SnapNames from within their Moniker accounts. This is a marked improvement over the current process, which requires filling out a lengthy spreadsheet. SnapNames is a good venue ... read more ...
Wed 7th January 2009
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Companies Have Fiduciary Responsibility to Lock Down Domain Names - A simple, cheap method to lock down domains exists. Public company CTOs need to get on the ball. CheckFree is warning 5 million customers about its domain name mishap last month where its nameservers were changed to forward its web site. All the perpetrators did was get a password to CheckFree’s account at Network Solutions, log in, and change the nameservers to point to another server. This same thing could happen to other companies, and public company executives ... read more ...
Fri 12th December 2008
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Moniker MaxLock Gets Maxed Out - New Portfolio MaxLock covers more and costs less. In September I wrote about MaxLock, a new product from Moniker that improved the security of domain names by making it harder to transfer domains out. Just recently CheckFree.com had its domain hijacked when someone logged in to CheckFree.com’s Network Solutions account and changed the nameservers. Fabulous has a free product called Executive Lock that would have prevented this hijacking. Now Moniker has put ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2008
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CheckFree.com Theft Should Lead to Added Registrar Security - CheckFree.com theft is a reminder of how easy it is to divert a domain name’s destination. Visitors to bill pay site CheckFree.com early Tuesday morning were diverted to a Ukraine site that tried to install malware on visitors’ computers. It wasn’t a high tech hack. It turns out someone got a hold of CheckFree.com’s username and password at domain registrar Network Solutions. They logged in and changed the nameservers for the domain name. It was really ... read more ...
Tue 25th November 2008
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Oversee.net Readies for Domaining 2.0 - Domain conglomerate files trademark for “Domaining 2.0″. Domain conglomerate Oversee.net, which owns DomainSponsor, Moniker, and SnapNames, appears to be readying a new marketing campaign around the term “Domaining 2.0″. The company filed for a United States trademark on November 5 for the term “Domaining 2.0″ for use with a laundry list of goods and services. The trademark serial number is 77608409. Few of the goods and services listed give any clues ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2008
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Moniker to Consolidate 12 Domain Registrars Into One - Moniker to consolidate management of its registrars to Moniker’s system. [Update: See comment from Monte Cahn regarding further consolidation of 105 SnapNames registrars.] Have you ever won a domain at Snapnames and found the winning registrar — such as 1HostUnitedKingdom.com or AceofDomains.com — to look suspiciously like Moniker other than a different logo? That’s because these registrars are all “owned” by Moniker. Starting this Tuesday afternoon, ... read more ...