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Vote For Your Favorite Super Bowl Commercial Using The Shazam App

Michael H. Berkens — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:39:34 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)Vote For Your Favorite Super Bowl Commercial Using The Shazam App

Source:The Domains

The wildly popular Shazam App, which normally tells you what song you just heard on the radio or TV or at a bar or disco.

Today however with the Super Bowl it goes a lot further.

I used Shazam last night during the 1st NFL Honors Award show broadcast on NBC last night and instead of getting the name and artist of one of the songs played on the broadcast, I got somthing that looks very much like an App called: Super Bowl XLVI: From Indianapolis.

One of the many things you can do with the “app” is “rate the commercials” as they air.

It’s a way you can make your voice heard on Godaddy.com commercial and the Godaddy .Co commercial as they air.

During the game and some of the commercials there will be other opportunities to Shazam the Super Bowl.

Enjoy the game…
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Sedo Study Shows $17m Drop In 2011 Sales

DavidGoldstein — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:12:25 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)Sedo Study Shows $17m Drop In 2011 Sales

Domain name sales totalled $84,431,965 through Sedo in 2011, the company’s 2011 Annual Domain Market Study that includes a review of the fourth quarter. However this was a significant drop on the 2010 calendar year when there was $101,438,953 in sales, a drop of $17,006,988. However it should also be noted that the $13 million sale of sex.com was included in 2010 figures.

A new domain name, but concerns remain the same – The Hindu

domain names - Bing News — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:29:11 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)A new domain name, but concerns remain the same – The Hindu

It seemed like an innocuous enough change — from this week, all visitors from India to blogs hosted on Google’s Blogger saw the URLs read [blogname].blogspot.in rather than the .blogspot.com they were used to. Besides, while your mum reading your latest …

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A new domain name, but concerns remain the same – The Hindu

domain names - Bing News — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:22:01 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)A new domain name, but concerns remain the same – The Hindu

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A new domain name, but concerns remain the same – The Hindu

domain names - Bing News — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:22:01 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)A new domain name, but concerns remain the same – The Hindu

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2012 Mayan Doomsday Inspires Chevy Super Bowl Ad – LiveScience.com

domain names - Bing News — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:30:37 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)2012 Mayan Doomsday Inspires Chevy Super Bowl Ad – LiveScience.com

It’s perhaps as inevitable as seeing a partially clad Danica Patrick trying to sell us domain names; the 2012 Mayan doomsday phenomenon is coming to this weekend’s Super Bowl. All this doomsday nonsense was bound to grab the attention of one or two …

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Godaddy Premium Listings Will Be Live During Super Bowl

Adam Strong — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:44:12 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)Godaddy Premium Listings Will Be Live During Super Bowl

Source:Domain Name News (DNN)

Before the 2011 Super Bowl Godaddy had been making a big push in the aftermarket with their premium listings. Unfortunately, for various reasons Godaddy did not include their Premium Listings in search results during the 2011 Super Bowl ad drive. This meant that a user that was driven to the Godaddy site from the Super Bowl ad would not be able to see any of the Premium Listings in their search results, even for the exact-match domain. Normally with a Premium Listing, an exact-match search for that domain displays the domain name as for sale and the price (see image at bottom)

DNN talked with Paul Nicks, head of Godaddy’s aftermarket, during the recent DomainFest in Santa Monica. Nicks confirmed with us that the technical issues that prevented these aftermarket domain names from being listed last year had been addressed and that they are prepared for that traffic surge.

It’s exciting to think that the exposure Godaddy receives from their Super Bowl ads could actually lead to an individual making a sale through the aftermarket. If you like the possibilities of being able to say “I sold my domain during the Super Bowl”, you’ve got about 24 hours to put your listings in to the Premium Listings before tomorrow’s big game.

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WIPO Provides New Top-Level Domain Resources for Rights Holders

CircleID: Top-Level Domains — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)WIPO Provides New Top-Level Domain Resources for Rights Holders

Source:CircleID: Top-Level Domains

Courtesy of Brian Beckham from the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva, here are a few important links with information that may be helpful for rights holders with ICANN‘s New gTLD program now launched and accepting applications:

• First, is a helpful FAQ that explains plainly the Legal Rights objection process. It’s important that rights owners are very familiar with this process and are ready to respond if in the unlikely but potentially problematic situation that another entity applies for a gTLD that includes their intellectual property.

• Next, comes a summary explanation of the post gTLD delegation (beginning late 2012 or early 2013) rights protection mechanisms included in the program and provided for the defense of intellectual property rights.

• Lastly, WIPO has provided a set of links to analysis and other resources about the New gTLD dispute resolutions mechanisms.

With the May First “reveal date” — the day that ICANN will announce all of the applicants and the strings that have been applied for — approaching quickly, rights owners should be ready to respond. Reading the first article is a great place to start. Thanks to WIPO for sharing these links and this information.

Written by Frederick Felman, Chief Marketing Officer at MarkMonitor
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Verisign Clarifies Hacking Reports – DNS Not Compromised

DavidGoldstein — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:01:17 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)Verisign Clarifies Hacking Reports – DNS Not Compromised

Verisign has sought to clarify recent reports that came to light following a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that they were hacked back in 2010, saying that the Domain Name System was not compromised.

Ghana to run .gh domain namespace – GhanaHomePage

domain names - Bing News — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:52:14 +0000

Frakes on a Plane - Jothan Frakes' weblog (my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)Ghana to run .gh domain namespace – GhanaHomePage

NITA has also beefed up its team with domain name business expertise to help it manage the domain namespace efficiently. The current manager of the namespace, GDC, has agreed by the MOU to support NITA by ensuring a smooth transfer of zone data and will …

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