Aftermarket.com to combine parking and selling Thought Convergence’s domain marketplace will integrate domain parking and the company has switched ad feed providers. Aftermarket.com, the domain name sales platform by Thought Convergence, is getting ready to launch a combined parking and selling platform. In a blog post today, the company said it will start offering a parkin...
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Demand Media commits five TLDs to private auctions, but three are dead on arrival Demand Media throws five domains into private auction ring, but three are against competitors who won’t participate. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD has committed five of its applied-for top level domains to the first private domain auctions to be handled by Peter Cramton. The five domains are .fishing, .green, .mom, .rip, a...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:23
17 end user domain name sales from Sedo last week Some expensive spring chickens and a cruise company were among last week’s end user domain name buyers at Sedo. Here’s a selection of end user domain sales from Sedo last week: A UK company called Spring Chicken Direct Limited bought SpringChicken.co.uk for a whopping 12,000 GBP. Online game company Greentube Internet Ent...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, May 24, 2013 - 11:17
Afternic’s big announcement and 22 end user sales Afternic signs a big distribution agreement. Before jumping into this week’s list of Afternic end user sales, Afternic made a big announcement today. It inked a deal with Directi to sell its premium domains through Directi’s registrars. This means Afternic has deals with 9 of the top 10 domain registrars. OK, on to the sa...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, May 24, 2013 - 9:23
Applicants file 722 responses to GAC advice Applicants flood ICANN with responses to GAC advice on new top level domains. ICANN has published applicant responses to the Governmental Advisory Committees “Advice” on new top level domains. 722 responses were filed in total. Many applicants submitted the same comment on each TLD they believed was affected by the advice...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 22:35
Breaking: Ron Paul found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking Former congressman guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, says WIPO panel. Earlier today I wrote about how Ron Paul lost both of his domain disputes brought before the World Intellectual Property Organization. The disputes were filed against RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org and were both heard by the same arbitration panel under the Uni...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 15:29
.Home and .Corp are not the only invalid TLDs that currently get queried They’re not as big, but several applied-for TLD strings get invalid queries. ICANN is investigating internal names used by corporations and how they might conflict with applied-for top level domains. .Home and .Corp are frequently among the top 10 queried invalid top level domains, but they aren’t the only ones. ICANN hos...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 12:7
Ron Paul loses disputes over RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org domain names Former politician denied relief in dispute over two Ron Paul domain names. Ron Paul has lost two separate domain name disputes filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization. The two cases covered RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org, and were part of a public spat between the domain owners, who say they are Ron Paul supporters, and ...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:19
Bargain.com domain name sells for $150,000 After many times on the auction block, Bargain.com finally sells. Bargain.com sold for $150,000 during the Hilco Streambank auction yesterday. There was only one bidder for the domain. Bargain.com had been offered for sale previously through both Sedo and Moniker, but with a much higher asking price. The last time it was offered at a
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 9:50
Who’s this new GoDaddy girl? GoDaddy.com has replaced Danica Patrick with a real small business customer. For most of last five years, GoDaddy girl Danica Patrick has graced the GoDaddy.com home page. Over the past few months GoDaddy has tried a couple different approaches, as you can see at Screenshots.com. Today there’s a new home page design with anothe...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 9:34
Bill Sweetman unveils Name Ninja Name Ninja to provide wide variety of domain name services including domain portfolio management, domain acquisition, and new TLD strategy. Former Tucows executive Bill Sweetman formally unveiled his domain name consulting shop today. Name Ninja will offer services to three core groups: startups, entrepreneurs and marketers; individu...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 9:16
Intellectual property lawyer guilty of reverse domain name hijacking Los Angeles attorney who practices trademark law found guilty of abusing UDRP proceedings. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found an intellectual property lawyer guilty of attempting to engage in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and bringing a UDRP complaint in bad faith in abuse of the administrative pr...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 15:59
Over 1,000 XBox One domains registered yesterday Microsoft’s big product launch followed by a flurry of domain registration activity. Yesterday Microsoft announced its latest video game console called XBox One. Immediately, cybersquatters went to work. Over 1,000 XBox One related domain names were registered in .com alone yesterday. To be sure, some of those registrations wer...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 15:14
Must reads: a pro who’s eager to sell domains, a charity auction, and a smart rebrand Eric Borgos on why he’s selling domains, help the tornado victims, and a “cool” rebranding. Here are a few domain stories I read today that I think are worth reading. Eric Borgos has published an interesting perspective about 10 Reasons Why I Am Eager To Sell My Domains. Last year Borgos’ company had sales of
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 14:16
Here’s what ICANN’s board decided on Saturday Board passes resolution that might delay certain new TLDs and approves a new UDRP provider. While most of us were hanging with our families or on the golf course this weekend, ICANN’s board was approving a number of resolutions that could have a big affect on some parts of the domain name industry. Here’s what
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 10:7
Half of small business owners not satisfied with their domain name …and half believe they’ve lost business as a result. .Co released some new research this morning regarding small businesses and domain names. The research was carried out by Wakefield Research and asked questions about domain names to companies with 100 or fewer employees. Here are some of the interesting take-aways: - 45...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 9:35
XBoxOne.com domain name was registered in 2002 XBoxOne.com, the matching domain for Microsoft’s new video game system, was originally registered more than 10 years ago. Microsoft today unveiled its new XBox video game system called XBox One. Microsoft does not own the domain name XBoxOne.com, which currently resolves to a GoDaddy “coming soon” page. The domain n...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 13:47
How your blog posts and blog comments affect the patent process If you comment on a post, it might affect the outcome of a patent application. Whenever I post about a recently granted patent, comments inevitably turn to “that invention is nothing new” or “that’s a junk patent”. I’m sure that at some point today there will be comments to that effect on my post a...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 12:49
GoDaddy gets two patents for domain appraisal Paul Nicks’ inventions related to name spinning and appraisals get patent protection. The United States Patent and Trademark Office today issued two patents to GoDaddy related to name spinning and appraisal. U.S. Patent number 8,447,701 is titled “Appraising domain names using comparative data” and 8,447,702 (pdf) i...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 12:28
You decide: which of these should be Domain Name Wire’s new logo? Help pick the next logo for Domain Name Wire. I ran a logo contest on 99Designs and now need to select which logos go on to the final round. I’ve learned a lot with this logo contest, and I’ll share some of my insight later. But for now, I’d like your help. Please take a
