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A look at who took this year’s survey. Domain Name Wire’s 7th annual domain name industry survey has concluded with over 1,500 participants. I’m busy collating and analyzing the results, which will be posted on Domain Name Wire throughout the month of February. Here are data about the participants in this year’s survey: 1,593 survey [...]
Read More »Respondent wins but should have gotten more than that. National Arbitration Forum panelist Beatrice Onica Jarka got the “answer” correct in a recent UDRP case. But she really should have considered reverse domain name hijacking. The case was brought by deals site Shopzooey, Inc. Shopzooey, Inc was founded in 2011. Upon finding the domain name [...]
Read More ».Kyoto may join .Tokyo as top level domain. It appears that .kyoto may be one of the location specific top level domains that will hit the web in coming years. The announcement is in Japanese and all translations I’ve seen are rather jumbled, but it appears that GMO Registry is behind the effort. The company [...]
Read More »No dramatic changes on tap but more ccTLDs and other improvements on the way. KeyDrive’s acquisition of Moniker and SnapNames last week has shaken up the domain name investor ecosystem. I just talked to Key-Systems CEO Alexander Siffrin to better understand what this means for customers. (KeyDrive includes Key-Systems Group and NameDrive Group, as well [...]
Read More »PING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to an trademark application for .Ping. It was filed by Karsten Manufacturing, which owns the PING line of golf products. Although the USPTO has a policy of not [...]
Read More »A look back at last week’s DOMAINfest conference. Before heading to DOMAINfest I posed six questions that would be answered by the end of the week. Here are the answers. 1. How will Oversee.net’s new leadership present itself? Just before the conference began, Oversee.net announced that co-presidents Debra Domeyer and Scott Morrow had been promoted [...]
Read More »American Airlines, The Nature Conservancy, New York Life, and other end user domain buys. I tried to do last week’s end user domain sales report during DOMAINfest, but some whois servers didn’t like my mobile connection. So it’s a bit late, but hopefully just as useful. Let’s start off with sales from Afternic. American Airlines [...]
Read More »Company plans to start promoting a different kind of BYOB. It looks like GoDaddy.com will start promoting BYOB, but it has nothing to do with beer. The company filed two trademark applications at the end of last month. The company filed application 85527616 for BYOB and application 85527612 for BYOB Build Your Online Business. Here’s [...]
Read More »Company protected brand with domain purchase but doesn’t use it yet. Best Buy’s Super Bowl commercial yesterday promotes what Best Buy calls “Phone Freedom”, although it doesn’t call it that by name in the ad. But it helps explain why the company paid $2,588 to buy PhoneFreedom.com last month. I received an email promotion from [...]
Read More »Two GoDaddy.com Super Bowl commercials drive new sales record. The results are in… Regardless of what you thought of GoDaddy.com’s two Super Bowl commercials yesterday, they appear to have had the intended result for the world’s largest domain registrar. According to the company, yesterday saw its highest sales ever for a Super Bowl Sunday. This [...]
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