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December 2011
Apple “wins”, but plays whac-a-mole with counterfeiters
(December 29, 2011)Company wins domain name dispute, but it won’t do the company much good. Apple has won a domain name dispute against what it alleges to be an outfit selling counterfeit Apple products. But it might have to continue chasing the perpetrators. In May the company won a domain name dispute for apple-downloads.com and apple-oem.com. The [...]
USDA, NHRA and EverBank put domain names under the Christmas tree
(December 29, 2011)Which end users put domain names under the Christmas tree this week? Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly list. Before getting to this week’s end user domain sales report, I wanted to report an observation about Afternic. For those that argue that Afternic only sells its own domains, it appears 40% of the reported .com sales [...]
Google bats .740 against YouTube typosquatter
(December 29, 2011)Google wins 37 of 50 typo domain names. Google has won rights to 37 typo domain names of its YouTube brand, but it won’t be happy with the results. That’s because the National Arbitration Forum panelist who decided the case also determined that the typosquatter could keep 13 infringing domain names, including youtubr.com and youtbue.com. [...]
$10, 1 Bid Expired Domain Name Auctions (backorders)
(December 29, 2011)I haven’t done one of these lists in a long time but figured I would do one since it has been awhile! The following list contains expired, no reserve domain names that are currently on public auction. The domain names have a current price of $10 and have 1 bid on the domain names. This [...]
Exposed! Domain Privacy Protection Needs To Be Removed
(December 28, 2011)With tomorrow being the day to "boycott GoDaddy", many entities will be exposed from behind domain privacy protection if they do transfer out! A lot of companies use "Domains By Proxy" which is a service owned by GoDaddy for whois privacy protection and that needs to be removed in order to transfer a domain name [...]
Repossessed by Go Daddy
(December 28, 2011)No, this doesn’t have anything to do with SOPA! Today, I was doing some investigating and ran into something that I haven’t seen yet. "Repossessed by Go Daddy" in the whois data for a domain name? After doing a bit more digging, I ran into some domain names that contained Go Daddy Software but used [...]
DOMAINfest discount ends Saturday
(December 28, 2011)Ticket price increases $100 on January 1. The price of admission to Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest conference next month increases on Sunday. Tickets are currently $1,195 and the price increases to $1,295 Sunday. DOMAINfest kicks off January 31, 2012 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica, California. Surprisingly, it appears there are still rooms [...]
Top 10 Domain Name Wire stories of 2011
(December 28, 2011)What a year in domaining. Here’s a look back. Here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire for all of 2011. These are ranked by number of pageviews. 1. Apple gets control over porn domain names – apparently Apple + Porn equals traffic. 2. .XXX launches national TV campaign and www.Buy.xxx [...]
Bidding for Righthaven.com domain up to $1,850 with 10 days to go
(December 28, 2011)Domain already attracted attention with a long way to go. Domain auctions usually don’t attract much attention until the final hours. But bidding for the domain name RightHaven.com, which is being auctioned off to help settle a legal judgement, is attracting quite a bit of attention. The auction at SnapNames still has close to 10 [...]
Just A Domain Name Story
(December 27, 2011)Here is a little domain name story that I thought I would share and you may find interest in. Here we go: Back around this time in 2008 I had purchased the domain name BailoutBill.com on an expired GoDaddy auction for $161. This was right around the time that the bill had passed, so a [...]
A Brief History of DNS
