Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact    Latest News Tony Willoughby finds another company guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Panelist finds another company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby has found Aero Club of New Delhi, India guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP. This is Willoughby’s second RDNH finding in under a month. In both cases, it appears that the respon... Domain Name Wire - 5 hr 47 min ago .Music, .Song, and .Tunes new top level domain name objections against Amazon.com dismissed Amazon.com prevails in dispute over three music related top level domain names. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has ruled against the American Association of Independent Music’s (A2IM) community objections to Amazon.com’s bids to run the .music, .song, and .tunes domain names. A2IM is backing a rival bid for... Domain Name Wire - 7 hr 30 min ago How I busted another click fraud (and auction fraud) scheme A silly mistake tipped me off to a click fraud and pump-and-dump scheme. Every once in a while, someone running a click fraud scam slips up. And sometimes they slip up in a big way: by accidentally tipping me off about it. For example, In August this year I uncovered one such scam after digging […] Domain Name Wire - 11 hr 27 min ago You’d say .com is dead, too! It has a nice ring to it. Over the weekend Elliot Silver posted an ad with the headline “Dot Com is Dead” from Minds + Machines. I’ve seen a lot of other blog posts about how new TLD backers are beating the drum that .com is dead. Domainers commenting on the posts then typically say […] Domain Name Wire - 13 hr 14 min ago Heritage Auctions’ domain name auction tops $1.5 million as MutualFunds.com sells MutualFunds.com highlights post-auction activity as sales reach into the seven figures. Heritage Auctions’ first ever domain name auction just became a much bigger success. The auction has now sold a total of $1.5 million worth of domain names including post-auction deals. That means around $1 million worth of sales have taken ... Domain Name Wire - Friday, December 6, 2013 - 14:35 How did Verisign meet its 100% SLA on .com Whois in June? Despite Whois problems in June, Verisign reported meeting its SLA for .com. Each month Verisign and the other domain name registries submit reports to ICANN that include their uptime and performance numbers. One of the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Verisign’s .com contract is 100% uptime for Whois. While reviewing recent ... Domain Name Wire - Friday, December 6, 2013 - 14:9 26 end user domain name sales from Sedo A bitcoin marketplace is among the end users buying domain names at Sedo last week. Sedo closed $1.2 million of transactions last week, including five domain sales to one end user. You may view previous sales lists here. Bitok.com $15,000 – Purchased by Bitcoin Innovations Ltd. It looks like a bitcoin marketplace, including for... Domain Name Wire - Friday, December 6, 2013 - 12:3 “Cloud” is not a community, new TLD panelist rules Group’s definition of “cloud community” is too broad. Cloud Industry Forum Limited has lost its community objections against three applications for the .cloud top level domain name. The objections were filed against the three applicants who planned to keep their .cloud registries closed to registrations: Google, Ama... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 16:27 How much will Domainers and Defensive Registrations matter for new TLD operators? New TLD registries will need to count on domainers and defensive registrations if they hope to amass a large registration base. Every new top level domain name applicant I’ve spoken with will swear they aren’t counting on defensive registrations to build their domain base. Even those whose business model depends on compan... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 11:53 Standard & Poor’s loses domain name dispute Financial services company and rating agency can’t have “boycott” domain name, panel rules. Standard & Poor’s has lost a UDRP against the domain name BoycottStandardandPoors.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name owner argued that he’s exercising his first amendment rights by own... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 11:22 Ontario company paid $137,500 to buy Sandwich.com from Yahoo! A small Canadian company bought Sandwich.com in the Yahoo! domain name auction last month. The first three domains that Yahoo! sold in a domain name auction last month have changed hands, including the biggest sale of all: $137,500 for Sandwich.com. The buyer is officially Seyed Ali Mirabolghasemi in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Based... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 9:51 7 reasons why I’m going to NamesCon Here’s why I’m going to NamesCon next month. The first ever NamesCon domain name conference takes place January 13-15 in Las Vegas. Here’s why I’m going to the conference: 1. I was already planning on going to a conference in January. DomainSponsor usually holds its Webfest conference at the end of January or ... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 15:43 A dozen end user domain name sales Dun & Bradstreet among end user buyers last week at Sedo/Afternic. I’m posting a lot of end user sales reports this week thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday last week. You’ll note that this report for Afternic/GoDaddy from last week has only a dozen sales. I’d like to reiterate that these are just the sales that... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 10:40 Are 10,000 registrations a realistic goal for niche new top level domains? So far, most new TLD registries are pricing their domains at a big premium to .com. Will that limit registration numbers? We’re starting to get a better idea of how new top level domain name registries are going to price domain names. It appears many are taking the .TV approach, essentially pricing out any value […] Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 9:44 NameJet reveals top sales from November NameJet’s top sales include many a handful of letter .com domain names. Expired domain name site NameJet released a list today of top sales from November. Here are all of the sales of $5,000 or more: ojr.org $19,100 hase.com $17,851 clio.com $17,200 contributor.com $11,199 sellout.com $10,199 fcloud.com $10,000 iqo.com $8,099 d... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 21:12 Rutgers University and 15 other end user domain name buyers Rutgers University buys a .net and other end user domain name sales. I’m now caught up on end user sales reports due to the Thanksgiving holiday. This report is for sales made by GoDaddy/Afternic two weeks ago. You can see previous end user sales reports here. It’s interesting to see three sales of $9,999, suggesting [... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 10:24 Square Grouper Tiki Bar guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Florida bar filed UDRP despite knowing domain name wasn’t registered in bad faith. Castaways Bar, LLC , owner of Square Grouper Tiki Bar in Jupiter, Florida, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by filing a UDRP against SquareGrouper.com. When the company opened its bar in 2003, SquareGrouper.com was already r... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 9:53 18 end user domain name sales An expensive .co purchase is among Sedo’s big end user domain name sales. Sedo sent out its weekly domain name sales report last week, but due to the U.S. holiday I’m a week behind. Here’s the list, with format domain price – buyer. Yumda.com $1,000 – Yumbda.de, a site about the food and beverage industr... Domain Name Wire - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 12:37 Amazon.com registers domain names for its delivery-by-drone Prime Air service Company registers over 40 domains, but can’t get its hands on some key ones. Will your Amazon.com packages be delivered by drone in the future? That’s the vision of Jeff Bezos. And millions have already watched a video (embedded below) of how Amazon envisions it working. Amazon is pretty thorough with defensive domain nam... Domain Name Wire - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 11:9 Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories for November GoDaddy, Sedo, Frank Schilling’s new TLDs, and a .xxx domain name make the news. Tired of turkey leftovers yet? Here are some domain name leftovers from last month…the top five stories on Domain Name Wire, ranked by order of views. 1. GoDaddy begins accepting pre-registrations for new TLDs for up to $1,200 each – th... 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