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November 2011
Arbitration panel gives Noah Cyrus domain name
(November 30, 2011)Youngest Cyrus gets domain name. Noah Cyrus, the eleven year old sister of Miley Cyrus and sondaughter (oops) of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, has won rights to the domain name NoahCyrus.com. The domain name was registered in 2006 just as Cyrus became a household name thanks to the Disney channel’s Hannah Montana TV show. [...]
NameJet Releases New Website
(November 30, 2011)According to a Tweet that was posted moments ago, NameJet has released the new website that the company had been beta testing for a couple of weeks. If you’re a frequent NameJet user, you’ll immediately notice that the biggest change appears to be the new design, which lists more available domain names for sale on [...]
How to sell a Domain Name (Part 1) and 20 Ways to do it Better in (Part 2)
(November 30, 2011)Afternoon Folks!! I am always told I am wrong when it comes to sales. But I have a very deep belief in certain aspects of a sale. A sales equation of sorts. I know the difference between somebody wasting your time and an actual buyer. Not knowing is not only time consuming and costly but you are letting other opportunities pass you by. I wrote these posts before the Property.com or the Meet.me deal. The meet.me deal took about 6 months. The Property.com deal took a couple years. If you want to extract the true value of a domain the last thing you need to do is be in a hurry. If you could look in a Crystal Ball and...
Mid Six-Figure Sale of Answer.com Sets the Pace on This Week’s DNJournal.com Sales Chart
(November 30, 2011)The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Moniker/SnapNames claimed the top spot on the all extension Top 20 Chart after closing a big mid six-figure sale of Answer.com. It is the sixth biggest sale reported so far in 2011. 14 .com and 6 ccTLDs made the elite list while the non .com gTLDs were shut out.
Interesting UDRP for NdamukongSuh.com
(November 30, 2011)One of the more frequent domain name related questions I am asked is regarding the ability to own the exact match domain name of famous athletes, celebrities, and other famous people. There are a lot of people who don’t think it’s a problem to own the exact match of someone’s domain name, and a perfect [...]
Ndamukong Suh may not be on the field but he’s still winning
(November 30, 2011)Suspended football player wins rights to domain name. Detroit Lions star defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh may have to sit out a couple games because of his stomping incident last week, but he’s still winning off the field. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded him his namesake — NdamukongSuh.com. The domain name was registered [...]
.XXX Sites Blocked in UAE, BUT…
(November 30, 2011)I had a conversation with a blog reader, and he mentioned that one of the primary .XXX informational websites set up by the ICM Registry, About.XXX, is being blocked by the United Arab Emirates government. According to the landing page that is seen when a visitor in the UAE types in About.XXX: “Access to this [...]
ANA to ICANN: Your industry consensus claim is a lie
(November 30, 2011)Group cites widespread opposition as proof of lack of consensus. I’m going to rip off the title of this post from a video released yesterday by Association of National Advertisers (ANA). (embedded below) In the video, ANA says ICANN’s claims that the new TLD program was the result of many years of consensus building is [...]
Top 5 domain name wire news stories of November 2011
(November 30, 2011)Four porn posts and a saviour. 4 posts about porn and one about religion grabbed the most attention at Domain Name Wire this month. I think I need to change the focus of this blog. 1. Apple gets control over porn domain names – Owner of domains agrees to transfer them to Apple (see #3). [...]
Panelist: UDRP is not a sword
(November 30, 2011)A well reasoned opinion on registration in bad faith. A recent UDRP decision for scrubology.com includes an excellent analysis of the registration in bad faith element of UDRP. Here are the facts: - Respondent registered scrubology.com in 2005 - Complainant RXGear, LLC filed a trademark for scrubology claiming a first use in commerce date in [...]
A Brief History of DNS
