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The Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) in the United Kingdom announced in a Press Release that they have shut down 1,219 websites and domains in cooperation with Nominet, the .UK registry operator. The shut-down will also prevent re-registration of the domain names.
Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, head of the PCeU, said: A...
The Valuate.com service by Domaining.com's founder Francois Carrillo has now added a trademark checker functionality, which automatically scans the submitted domains for potential trademark claims. The service was built by the Estibot team.
Francois suggests trying those samples if you have trouble coming up with domains to try:
mikrosoft.com
googl...
With some of the recent sales of .CM (Cameroon) domains at various domain auctions, we? asked what those domains were actually worth. Well, it seems their resale value just took another drop, as McAfee called .CM the "Most Dangerous Country Domain" in their latest "2009 Mapping the Web" report. .CM replaces .HK (HongKong) from this...
In an announcement mailed by the company today, eNom states that they have increased their Redemption Fee for domains in the Redemption Grace Period (RGP) to $250 plus the fee for a 1 year renewal of the domain. The redemption grace period follows the deletion of the domain by the registrar and was introduced by
Google has just launched a Public DNS service according to a post on the Official Google Blog. The goal of the service is "to benefit users worldwide while also helping the tens of thousands of DNS resolvers improve their services, ultimately making the web faster for everyone". On their product page they promise that the
Until ICANN releases One Letter TLDs (no plans have been announced so far), .TO has now introduced the world's shortest URL shortener in partnership with eCorporation.com. Unfortunately the new service comes with some problems:
When you try to access the service from your webbrowser, you can however not just enter "to" in your browser's address bar...
In full European tradition, NameDrive has prepared an Advent Calendar for all its customers to enjoy during this holiday season.
Every day for the next 24 days, the NameDrive Advent Calendar will reveal a new "present" to the world including new parking templates, NameDrive products, and words of wisdom from NameDrive employees.
You can click here ...
Once more AfterNIC DLS was so kind to provide us with selected sales throughout the last week. The sales this week includes Carriage.com at $10,000 and FreeFood.org for $8,800.
See the full list of reported Afternic DLS sales after the jump.
.COM Sales
carriage.com
10000
broadwaybuzz.com
8588
ultimatecar.com
8000
adultsmokerssurvey.com
73...
ICANN has sent termination notices to three more registrars, meaning that they will be losing their ICANN accreditation and the domain names managed by the registrar will be transferred to other registrars. The registrars that have failed to comply with the Registrar Accreditation Agreement by not paying their ICANN fees are: Hosting365 Inc., OOO ?...
DOMAINFest Global 2010, which will be held by Oversee.net in Santa Monica from January 26-28th, 2009,? in? has just an Dinner Party to be held at The Getty.
From the Press Release:
The Getty sits on a 110-acre hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountain range. DOMAINfest attendees will have exclusive access to the campus, which offers
As reported earlier, WhyPark is running a charity domain auction in conjunction with Latonas.com, the new auction platform of Rick Latona. WhyPark has now published the list of domains that will be auctioned at No Reserve with a starting price of $49. The single highest bidder of all the auctions will be able to pick
In a joint press release issued today, domain name company Dark Blue Sea [ASX:DBS]? and Photon Group [ASX:PGA] announced Photon's unconditional buyout offer of DBS shares at 35 cents per share.
The company made a previous takeover offer at the end of October for 30 cents per share and explained the offer to shareholders in this
After Oversee.net's CEO and president Jeff Kupietzky toured Europe earlier this year, the company is now planning to open up a European office. DomainSponsor, the company's domain parking brand had also held an "elite retreat" for their European publishers earlier this year.
The European division will be operated by Joerg Schnermann as the General ...
According to a report on the Quintura.com blog, the domain name Russia.com was sold today for $1.5 million. The former owners New Media Holdings sold the domain through Sedo.com. The sale was also reported on Sedo's home page today.
The seller, New Media Holdings, also owns other country domains including Algeria.com, Morocco.com, PuertoRico.com, S...
The Italian company DomainsBot, who counts Sedo as one of their investors, has just announced the launch of a new website, DomainsBot answers. The site aims to answer questions related to domain names in the style of sites like Yahoo! Answers. To learn more about the new site, visit Answers.DomainsBot.com or read their FAQ.
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This morning DomainAdvertising.com, the company that has launched their new services at the Targeted TRAFFIC show in New York, announced that they have appointed Dan Warner as their CEO. Dan Warner was last COO of Dark Blue Sea (ASX:DBS), parent company of Fabulous.com and left that position in April.
"Dan Warner was the Board's first choice...
The EVO Media Group — the Seattle-based company behind DevHub.com, a popular website builder and hosting platform — has closed a round of growth capital totaling $1.5 million.
DevHub.com was launched in February 2009 and has since grown to include over 30,000 publishers whose websites are drawing in over 2 million unique visitors per mo...
NoktaDomains.com has launched a new domain marketplace with a searchable catalog of over 200,000 premium domain names for sale. The site was recently released by Nokta Internet Technologies, a company that has sold more than 1,100 domain names in the past eight years including FreeCreditReport.co.uk for $300,000 and TripleCreditReport.com for $260,...
Three hackers — Christopher Allen Lewis, 19,? James Robert Black Jr., 20, and Michael Paul Lebel, 28 — have been hit with a federal conspiracy charge this week due to their involvement in the 2008 hijacking of Comcast.net – a prank that took down the cable company's homepage and email service for more than five
DOMAINFest Global 2010, which will be held by Oversee.net in Santa Monica from January 26-28th, 2009,? in? has just announced the addition of PITCHfest and LAUNCHfest.
PITCHfest allows five pre-selected finalists to make 5 minute presentations of their new products ideas to the audience and a panel of judges. While the audience will be able to...
According to an email from Snapnames regarding the "halvarez" scandal that just reached us, the company has amended the terms for accepting their rebate offer, to now only limit future claims regarding auctions on SnapNames that "halvarez" was a bidder in. The email goes on to say that company has no way to return or
Francois of Domaining.com has informed us that he has now just launched the first preview of BargainDomains.com, his new service for listing domains, is now online. Listings are free of charge, but will have to be at 30% of the appraised value according to his new automated free appraisal service at Valuate.com. The sales and
Levinson Axelrod, a New Jersey law firm, is trying to shut down an ex-employee's gripe site, alleging cybersquatting and trademark infringement.
Edward Heyburn, who worked for Levinson Axelrod from 1998 to 2004, started a "Levinson Axelrod Sucks" website in late September, using the domain name?LevinsonAxelrod.net to post personal opinions and comp...
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced in a press release today that Union, New Jersey resident Daniel Goncalves was indicted today.? Criminal Justice Director Deborah Gramiccioni stated that the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes/Computer Analysis & Technology Unit obtained a seven-count state grand jury indictment.? Goncalv...
The following is a guest post by Venkat Balasubramani ? Venkat is a co-founder of Focal PLLC, a law firm focused on internet and technology issues. He blogs at Spam Notes and Professor Eric Goldman?s Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @VBalasubramani. This post was previously posted at Professor
The SnapNames November Domain Auction Showcase ends tomorrow at?Nov 17, 2009 12:15:00 PM PST and has not been able to attract too many bidders so far, most likely due to the bidding scandal uncovered earlier this month. Out of the 240 domains in the auction, only 12 have been able to attract bids so far.
Once again Sedo was so kind to provide us with selected information about domain sales in the previous week. The chart is lead by LaFontaine.com for $50,000, which does mean Fountain in French, but aside from being the last name of German Politician Oskar Lafontaine also is the last name of a car dealer in
Paul Stahura launched eNom in 1997 from an ISDN line in his garage in Redmond Washington. The company now is part of Demand Media and Paul was a CSO as well as a member of the board. After 12 years, he is now leaving the company. Here is what he writes on Facebook:
After much thought,
Rick Latona Auctions announced that it will donate its services as well as its brand new online auction platform (developed in house) to the WhyPark Charity Domain Auction taking place from December 7 to December 11, 2009.
The auction will be the first to utilize the new beta auction platform which will replace Proxibid.com and can
The 9th Toronto Domainer Dinner will take place at the Rosewater Supper Club. Tickets are $90 + evenbrite fee and include food and two drinks. The amount of seats is limited. Please register for the event at Eventbrite.
Frank Michlick is Chairman of DNEvents.com Inc, the company that organizes Domainer Dinner and the Domain Convergence conference.
...
Sedo's two letter .COM & .NET auction ends tomorrow at noon EST. The auction contains 32 two letter and digit .COM and .NET domains. See the full list after the jump.
13.net
14.net
1o.net
5r.net
64.com
6m.com
7o.com
8l.com
9l.com
cd.net
f3.com
fw.com
gd.net
ha.net
il.com
jr.net
kh.net
nl.com
oh.com
p4.com
px.com
qq.net
qz.com
r8.net
ro.com
tj...
Leading this weeks Afternic DLS sales report would be GolfClubs.com GolfShop.com for six figures, if the exact amount would have been reported. Other highlights include SonographySchools.com for $12,0000,? SinglesPlace.com for $7,500 and Esmeralda for $7,370.00.
See the full reported sales after the jump.
.COM
Domain
Price
SonographySch...
We didn't have to wait long for a class action to be filed. As we posted earlier it was just a matter of time before the sharks bit. The weekend gave Cueto Law Group and their lead plaintiff Carlos A. Cueto enough time to put together a filing against SnapNames.
Andrew at DNW and I were
SnapNames has issued rebate offers and has re-published all auction bidding history to the user's accounts, we would like to know what you are considering:
It didn't take long for the sharks to begin circling. It's come to our attention that class action attorneys already smelling blood in the water have begun investigating the possibility of a class-action case against SnapNames.? Blim & Edelson, Chicago based class-action attorneys, have put up a website to gather up possible plaintiff names and...
An update for the developing Snapnames story:
According to a post on NamePros from Rob, an employee of Oversee.net's support, Snapnames will restate all bidding history in their interface. The information had been truncated before and thus was only showing auctions up to November 2007.
[Ed. Emphasis added]
There's been a lot happening today and I w...
In the recently admitted "halvarez" scandal where an employee placed bids in Snapnames domain auctions against company policy, the company has started to email details on the offered rebates – you can find a de-personalized copy of the email after the jump. By accepting the rebate and signing the release you are also signing your...
On the heels of the recent 1 character .biz domain and 2 character .de domain auctions at Sedo, domain auction house Pool.com announced yesterday that they have teamed up with Neustar to auction off more than 1000 two character .biz domains.? The domains will be made available in a phased release beginning November 30, 2009
The Targeted TRAFFIC NYC 2009 Silent Domain Auction by Moniker and Snapnames ended yesterday, selling another 139 domains for a total of $278,338.00 bringing the combined auction total for live and silent to $690,488. The top three sales were:
OneOfAKind.com at $26,000
LoanOfficer.com at $16,000
FDA.net at $11,550
Find the full results after the ...
When I read the news today from Oversee and SnapNames stating that an employee had been bidding on domains, I knew. . . I knew who it was. I didn't want to hear it but I knew. Like many of my colleagues who frequented SnapNames auctions over the years, the first name that came to
According to a statement from Oversee.net's SnapNames, an employee was found to have bid in 5% of their auctions since 2005 and in some cases arranged for a partial refund of the sales price after winning an auction.
In a statement issued today, the company offers compensation to any potentially affected customer:
To avoid any question about...
A ruling by the US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit in the case of U.S. v Kilbride has determined that using whois privacy on domains can be considered "material falsification".? The case involved an appeal on criminal charges of spamming. The ruling in this case provides an the courts opinion on provisions of? the CAN
Rick Latona Auctions has just announced that some of the reserves in the extended TRAFFIC NYC auction have been lowered:
StateFlag.com and StateFlags.com 25,000 USD
Packing.com 100,000 USD
Lisbon.com 175,000 USD
GolfClubs.com 35,642.16 per month for 60 months, or 1,765,000 USD cash
The Extended Rick Latona Silent Auction ends November 5th, 1:30pm...
Join Adam Strong and Jothan Frakes (Live from South Korea) for a video chat about the #ICANN meeting. If you are prompted for a password, enter "domains123″.
Domain name broker and "lead negotiator" for Sedo's brokerage services, Christian Kalled announced on his facebook page today that he is no longer working for the company.? Kalled was instrumental in some of the biggest deals that have been recorded at Sedo including the famous $3 million Vodka.com sale to Russian billionaire Roustam Tariko.
We wi...
While we were already live blogging the auction Moniker Live auction at Targeted TRAFFIC New York yesterday, here are the official results. The auction total was $412,150 for 46 sold names. The silent auction will start at noon EDT today. The top sale was MultiVitamins.com at $45,000 and the average sales price was $8959.78.
multivitamins.co...
We will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in New York City for Moniker/SnapNames Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction, which goes from October 29th to November 4th, 2009.
During the auction
Next year's DomainFest Global in Santa Monica, which again feature a charity fundraiser party at the legendary Playboy mansion. The event will benefit Jenny McCarthy?s autism organization Generation Rescue, a foundation dedicated to funding biomedical treatment for families who can not afford it and research into the causes of autism Guests at this...
DNN.com and DNW.com are combining forces to host? a live chat and video broadcast at 3:50 EST today.? Andrew Alleman and Adam Strong will be chatting live during the "pre-game" video chat and will be in the chat room throughout the auction. ? Barring any technical issues, we're also hoping to be joined by at
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