- + You’re going to see a lot more domain name marketing like this…—New TLD backers will be headed to a lot of tradeshows. One of the larger booths at this year’s HostingCon conference is the .host booth, picture...
- + Nominet reconsiders second level .uk domains (and it may be good for domainers)—New plan gives rights to existing domain registrants and offers lower pricing. Nominet, the registry behind the .uk namespace for the United Kingdom, ...
- + Customize a Sedo parked page with your own sales channel—Sedo lets some clients send sales leads to different channels than Sedo’s marketplace. An alert reader came across a parked page using Sedo that...
- + A free tool to find targeted buyers for your domains—Video explains a little-known tool for finding relevant buyers for domain names. Over the years a number of tools have been developed to help domain o...
- + True Value exhibits bad values in domain name dispute—Hardware cooperative makes shaky claims in UDRP against webhosting company. I think the best way to start this UDRP analysis is with a couple screensh...
- + Domainers have personal lives, too…—They don’t sit behind a computer all day. (Just most of it.) I’m going to end this Friday with a post that has nothing to do with domains,...
- + Target, IBM, and other big names buy domain names on the aftermarket—Big companies turn to Sedo to buy domain names. This week’s list of Sedo end user sales includes some big names including Target, IBM, Verifone,...
- + Donuts explains auction results to date—Donuts discusses first new TLD auction results. New TLD applicant Donuts participated in six private auctions to resolve contention sets. It won one o...
- + .Co is not just for tech startups—A lawn care company uses a great .co domain name. It seems like every day TechCrunch is covering a startup using a .co domain. But it’s not just...
- + Kim Dotcom buys K.im domain name for $20,000—Mega Upload founder buys short (and expensive) domain name. Last month I wrote about how k.im had received a $20,000 bid at Sedo, and suggested that M...
- + Microsoft registers domains to thwart botnets—Microsoft registers domains previously used by Citadel malware. Microsoft has registered a number of domain names to thwart a cybercrime ring credited...
- + Company ordered to pay $5,000 after reverse domain name hijacking charge—Panel believe complainant was trying to use arbitration as a “short cut” to acquire domain. Domain name attorney Zak Muscovitch has helped...
- + Yu have one interesting UDRP…—The case for Yu.com was much more complicated than it should have been. All the facts of the UDRP for Yu.com point to an slam dunk, open-and-shut vict...
- + Marchex releases more details about Archeo spinoff—SEC filing details plans for spin-off of domain business. Later this year, Marchex hopes to spin off its pay-per-click and domain name business into a...
- + Wanna lawsuit? WannaDo battles WannaDo in court, claims cybersquatting—App creator sues event ticketing site over Wannado name and domain name. Two businesses offer relatively similar services at a about the same time and...
- + 86 civil liberties group and internet companies launch StopWatching.US in wake of NSA revelations—Group chooses .us domain name to launch campaign against government surveillance. 86 civil liberties organizations and internet companies today launch...
- + Registrar may lose accreditation for failing to provide transfer authorization code—PacNames didn’t provide AuthInfo code within 5 days, according to breach notice. ICANN is threatening to cancel accreditation of New Zealand dom...
- + How to quickly sort through crappy domains on domain name forums—New site extracts domain listings from forums. Back in the good ole days, domain sales threads on domain forums were full of great domains and big tra...
- + Domain industry heads to Austin for HostingCon—Ten domain name companies are exhibiting at HostingCon 2013, and many of them will be pitching new TLDs. Next week a number of domain name companies a...
- + Kevin Murphy discovers type-in traffic—Murphy registers domain name related to PRISM scandal. It gets traffic. Domain Incite author Kevin Murphy is a lot of things. He’s a great write...
- + 7 reasons you should withdraw your .brand application—If you’re rethinking your .brand top level domain strategy, here are some things to think about. A relatively small number of .brand new TLD app...
- + 10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats (Part 2)—5 more tips to protect your domain names. [In the first part of this article, Bill Sweetman gave five tips for protecting your domain names from bogus...
- + XYZ.com wins .college top level domain auction—Donuts withdraws application after XYZ.com wins private domain auction. Domain name investor Daniel Negari, through his company XYZ.com, has won the p...
- + Donuts wins .photography auction—Donuts won the private auction for the .photography top level domain name. Of the six new top level domain name auctions Donuts participated in this p...
- + 6 new TLD auctions bring in average of $1.5 million each—How much do new TLD applicants think their strings are worth? We now have a rough idea on a half dozen. The first six private top level domain name au...
- + ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah—ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the org...
- + ICANN Board rules on non-safeguard GAC advice—Resolution doesn’t resolve much; uncertainty remains. The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has approved a resolution ruling on a nu...
- + 27 investors chip $7 million into .Club as it wins private TLD auction—.Club applicant eliminates competition and raises $7 million to launch top level domain. .Club Domains, LLC has raised a combined $7 million from 27 i...
- + 10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats—Limit the chances of receiving bogus legal threats with these helpful tips. [Editor's note: Bill Sweetman participated in a legal panel about domain n...
- + Heads up, .GMBH applicants: this trademark application is slipping through the cracks—.GMBH applicant’s trademark application approved for publishing. I’ve written numerous times about companies trying to trademark top level...
- + 33 end user domain sales—Miami’s airport and a Boston sports network among end user domain name buyers. Afternic released a double report of domain sales this week cover...
- + Top Domain Name Wire stories of May 2013—Ron Paul, GoDaddy, and a video game domain name took top billing last month. May was a busy month at Domain Name Wire thanks in part to a former polit...
- + Microsoft buys ToDoApp.com and 16 other domain name sales—Microsoft and Magazines.com among end user buyers at Sedo last week. Is Microsoft about to release an organization app a la Evernote and Google’...
- + A subtle (yet big) change in GoDaddy’s ads—Verisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This...
- + Scammy survey site beats Tumblr in domain dispute—Lawyers don’t provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for...
- + Irony alert: Trademark company loses cybersquatting claim on TrademarkDirect.com.au—“UK’s Leading Trade Mark Service” loses cybersquatting complaint. Oh, it’s delicious. Trade Mark Direct Ltd of London has lost...
- + GoDaddy releases major update to Domain Manager—Upgrades to Domain Manager make it easier to complete common tasks. GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has released a new Domai...
- + Why do people waste money filing this sort of UDRP against Name Administration?—No one has ultimately prevailed after filing a UDRP against Name Administration. Before you filed a UDRP, you’d think you’d google the dom...
- + If you’re going to TRAFFIC in October, you should buy a ticket now—Discounted tickets available through tomorrow. The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is expensive, and everyone has their opinion about whether it’s wor...
- + Can this one simple step save you in a UDRP?—A disclaimer on a domain offer page could help you defend against a UDRP. There was a panel on domain name law and the UDRP during last week’s T...
- + Telepathy fends off Valio’s attack on LGG.com—Company tries to make claim to LGG.com 15 years after it’s registered. Telepathy, the domain name company run by domain investor Nat Cohen, has ...
- + TLDH explains its change of heart on private domain auctions—Antony Van Couvering explains why it believes private TLD auctions make sense. Up until last week, it appeared that Top Level Domain Holdings, one of ...
- + Marchex co-founder John Keister resigns from board—Keister has held a number of executive positions with the company. John Keister, a founder of Marchex, resigned from the company’s board today....
- + Samsung news site can keep its domain name despite Adsense ads—Site with Google Adsense ads still may qualify for “non-commercial”, UDRP panel rules. SamsungHub.com, started in 2006, now forwards to S...
- + 14 end user domain sales from Sedo—End users including Taser snap up domain names. Last week’s Sedo end user sales report is late because I was at the TRAFFIC conference last week...
- + TLDH raises $10 million for new TLDs—New TLD applicant issues new shares to raise money, also confirms possibility of participating in private new TLD auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings ...
- + Interesting: Nokta Domains’ 18 leased domains from May—Nokta’s typical lease is about $100 a month. When you think of domain leasing, you probably think of big ticket domains that companies couldn...
- + Verisign whois falsely returning “no match” results—Have to submit query twice to get correct result on Verisign’s whois. Verisign’s whois service for .com and .net is sometimes falsely retu...
- + Financial firm and new TLD applicant buys IG.com domain name—Company that applied for seven new TLDs buys a coveted two letter domain name. UK Financial firm IG Group has acquired the domain name IG.com, which w...
- + 3 reasons TRAFFIC Vegas matters—The domain investor community is in Las Vegas right now. Here’s why this TRAFFIC conference matters. I’m writing this post from the Bellag...
- + Fling.com discovers the challenges of branding with a generic domain name—Descriptive nature of domain means registrant not necessarily lacking rights or legitimate interests in domain. Fling.com, an adult social network tha...
- + ICANN warns AsiaRegister over late payments—Hong Kong based domain name registrar at risk of losing ICANN accreditation. ICANN has sent a breach notice to AsiaRegister, Inc. for its failure to p...
- + Luxembourg’s .lu domains can now be locked for a year in disputes—.Lu provides new lock in case of domain dispute. Country code operators are not required to offer a cybersquatting resolution service, although many a...
- + Company sues NamingRights.com, and it’s kind of interesting—I haven’t heard the name Backslap Domains in a while. Greek Island Labs, a company that sells cosmetic products, has sued NamingRights.com and B...
- + Company sues NamingRights.com for cybersquatting, and it’s kind of interesting—I haven’t heard the name Backslap Domains in a while. Greek Island Labs, a company that sells cosmetic products, has sued NamingRights.com and B...
- + .Club applicant seeks to raise up to $7 million—.Club Domains, LLC files Form D with SEC. .Club Domains, LLC, an applicant for the .club top level domain name, has filed a Form D with the U.S. Secur...
- + Girl.me gets $30,000 bid at Sedo—An eye-popping price tag, but many .me domains have sold in this price range. The domain name Girl.me has a $30,000 offer at Sedo and has been sent to...
- + Sedo pushing new TLD services—Company releases brochure and starts more heavily marketing its new TLD capabilities. Sedo is starting to more aggressively promote services to new to...
- + Demand Media wants to trademark name for domain name trademark protection service—New TLD applicant files trademark applications fro DPML. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD has filed six trademark applications with the U.S. Patent ...
- + On tap this week: Vegas Baby, Vegas!—Domain industry heads to Las Vegas this week. As the U.S. trudges back to work and school after a three day weekend, many in the domain name industry ...
- + 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 doma...
- + How to Avoid Go Daddy’s 60 Day Lock for Whois Changes—An explanation of exactly when Go Daddy puts a transfer lock on domains for making a whois change. It seems that every month someone emails me about h...
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