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Did you know every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world.via TwitterAccording to Domain Name Wire, a Receiver is asking ICANN to “undo” a handful of transfers that were completed under UDRP. The transfers include typo domain names now controlled by companies such as Apple and Public Storage.
Learn more about the case here
According to the Portland Press Herald, Selectmen have agreed to pay $3,500 to the individual who owns the domain name www.BelgradeMaine.com to relinquish ownership of the website name to the town.
Town Manager Gregory Gill said the town last week signed an agreement with Matthew Hunt, owner of A2Z Computing Services Co. in Oakland, to buy the domain name rather than take the case to court.
Gill said the town paid Hunt $150 to set up the website 12 years ago, but it’s been unclear who actually owned the domain name.
“You have to look at the cheapest way to get out of this,” Gill said. “The board thought this was the way to handle it.”
Gill said the select board wanted the town to own BelgradeMaine.com so staff and department heads could place information on the site without going through Hunt. He said selectmen also wanted to rid the site of advertising.
This week will bring the long-awaited opening up of a new realm of Domains Names and Web addresses in which just about any word—such as dot-furniture (.furniture), dot-hotel (.hotel) or dot-FloridaVacations (.FloridaVacations) —can serve as a domain name. And of course to entrepreneurs and domainers, that means OPPORTUNITY is knocking!
Beginning this Thursday, the organization that oversees the Internet (ICANN) will start accepting applications to manage new top-level domains (TLDs) —the names that appear at the end of website addresses, like dot-com and dot-net. The application fee itself is $185,000 per name!
Masahable did a nice post on 9 Things You Need to Know About ICANN’s New Top Level Domains…
From what I’ve heard thus far, surprisingly (to me) only a few Fortune 500 companies are applying for its TLD (ex. .Cannon); most seem to think that any squatter who wrongfully infringes their trademarks and copywrights will quickly use a battle to gain control. However entrepreneurs and domain investors are PUMPED and raring to go, and spend SIGNIFICANT money, when it comes to applying for new generic TLDs such as .Vacation, .Hotel or .News
I will certainly keep you posted as the applications come in and news develops…stay tuned!
According to WhoIs records, Desk.com is now owned by Salesforce.com and according to WhoIs history records, the domain Desk.com was owned by Reflex Publishing Inc.
It will certainly be interesting to see what Salesforce.com does with its newly acquired domain name; seems like the transfer took place in November 2011. Will the domain simply be redirected? Will it be used for a marketing/branding campaign? Is a new service coming from Salesforces? Only time will tell so stay tuned!
With well over 100,000 EXACT searches a month, the organic industry seems to be doing quite well in terms of growth and acceptance from the general public.
According to the Organic Trade Association, the organic industry continues to grow worldwide. Here are some statistics regarding this market:
Speculating on the Organic market, I recently purchased OrganicMarket.com, which I feel is a phenomenal and highly brandable name to own for this market and OrganicGroceries.net and OrganicRecipes.net, ….but it’s not too late, I also see that OrganicApplePie.com & OrganicApplePies.com, OrganicPumpkinPie.com & OrganicPumpkinPies.com and OrganicVendingCo.com are all about to drop very soon and you can grab them yourself if you’re interested by back ordering them….you can learn more about domain name investing at my new venture Domain Wealth
To your domaining success,
@AndrewHazen
With just a week left before ICANN begins to accept new generic top-level domain applications, the organization has confirmed that it might release a new draft of the Applicant Guidebook.
Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz said in an emailed statement:
Since its opening, our customer service center has received a number of questions requesting clarifications on some Guidebook points. These clarifications have been made through the responses by the customer service.
We will summarize those clarifications in one document – that might be an Advisory or in the form of an updated Guidebook. In either case, the positions of applicants will not be affected as the information will repeat that in previously answered questions.
Stay tuned….
Michael Berkens from TheDomains has posted about the 1st Strange UDRP Decision of the New Year and this time its the Trademark Holder that can complain.
Inter-Continental Hotels has lost a UDRP on the domain name intercontinentalkabul.com and what’s even more interesting is the domain name holder didn’t even respond to the UDRP; imagine that!
You can read the entire post here
Domain Name Wire is reporting this morning that the First Two .XXX UDRP disputes have been filed.
The honors for the first case go to VIPINDIRIM for the domain name markafoni.xxx. The case was filed December 29 with the World Intellectual Property forum. Runner up is a dispute at National Arbitration Forum filed December 30 for HEB.xxx. Although National Arbitration Forum does not disclose the identity of a complainant until the case is settled, HEB is the name of a large grocery store chain based in San Antonio.
As with any new TLD launch, you can expect many more in the months to come.
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According to MediaPost, A judge presiding over a potential class-action lawsuit by search marketers against Google has ordered the company to divulge financial metrics associated with its “parked domain” and “errors” program, which place ads on sites with no editorial content.
The data that Google must disclose concerns its assessment of the quality of sites within its AdSense network, including its parked domain and errors pages. Among other information, Google must reveal the “conversion score value of the property source” — defined in the court order as “a metric Google uses to price clicks from Web sites contained in its network.”
Also, Google must reveal the “smart pricing discount,” or the discount that Google applies to clicks on some of its AdSense properties.
U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd in San Jose, Calif. ruled that Google should share this information with the marketers that are suing. The theory is that it sheds light into Google’s pricing formula for its parked domain program.
The legal battle between the marketers and Google dates back to 2008, when several companies filed lawsuits complaining that Google shouldn’t have placed them in its AdSense for Domains and AdSense for Errors programs. Those programs often serve ads on typo sites that people tend to visit by accident.
The marketers alleged that such pages are low-quality and yield fewer purchases or other conversions than ads that appear on Google’s search results pages. The marketers also said they believed that clicks on ads on parked domains “were unlikely to lead to desirable business outcomes, and that placement on such pages could damage their brands.”
Google counters that parked-domain ads “perform as well as or better than ads on Search and Display Network sites.” The company also argues in court papers that it didn’t mislead or harm any of the plaintiffs by placing their ads on parked domains or error sites. Google recently lost a bid to dismiss the lawsuit before trial, which means the marketers that are suing can continue to gather evidence in the case.
Stay tuned…..
