Godaddy Premium Listings Will Be Live During Super Bowl

04 Feb 2012

Adam Strong

ccTLD Domain Aftermarket Domain News

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

04 Feb 2012

CircleID: Top-Level Domains

ccTLD Domain News ICANN

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

03 Feb 2012

DavidGoldstein

Domain News

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.

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Ghana to run .gh domain namespace – GhanaHomePage

03 Feb 2012

domain names - Bing News

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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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Once more unto the breach – Economist.com

03 Feb 2012

domain names - Bing News

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And it maintains the supposedly impregnable infrastructure to convert domain names ending in .com, .net and others into numbers that servers and computers can understand. Companies trust VeriSign to ensure that no one is messing with their internet plumbing.

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The Pirate Bay: Swedish domain name change ‘a statement’ – myce.com

03 Feb 2012

domain names - Bing News

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The Pirate Bay took a drastic step this week and switched domains. Rather than its usual .org TLD, the torrent site is now flying its skull and crossbones under Sweden’s .se country code. The swap shouldn’t be seen as a sign of weakness, said the site …

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HuntingMoon.com Brokers The Sale Of Pornstar.com For $1.5 Million

03 Feb 2012

Michael H. Berkens

ccTLD Domain News

Source:The Domains

HuntingMoon.com announced that they have successfully brokered the sale of the website Pornstar.com for $1.5 Million dollars.

This sale follows HuntingMoon sale of Eric Borgos’ adult domain portfolio for $1.3 Million.

Lets point out right away that PornStar.com is an operating site not just a domain and the sale included all content, affiliates and members.

The sale transaction started in 2010 and after a year and a half of payments, the buyer is now taking possession of all of the assets and plan to  redevelop the site according to Evan Horowitz, CEO of Hunting Moon.

Some other interesting facts Evan shared with us is that he along with this partner Michael from HuntingMoon, originally bought pornstar.com from L & H Apparel/Pornstar Clothing Company in 1999.

Evan and Michael sold the domain direct to Mallcom for the second pornstar.com transaction a few years later — and, then brokered the name via HuntingMoon for a third transaction on the same domain!

HuntingMoon’s founders have handled over $2.5M related to this domain.

A second interesting tidbit about this sale is the fact that the lead was generated via HuntingMoon’s partnership with the GFY.com community.  Not long after the partnership was forged, did the sale happen.  Any question marks about whether the adult community would continue to buy top web properties, during a reported contraction of the adult site market, were erased with this sale right off the bat in August of 2010.

A third factoid that is of note, is that the domain was sourced by David at HuntingMoon within a few short weeks of his hiring.  So, a new member of the team brought in a $1.5M sale during his ramp-up period of his employment contract.

HuntingMoon.com ongoing AVN Internext Adult Domain Auction featuring hundreds of adult domain names is taking place thru February 9.

For more information on the AVN auction or to bid please visit: bid.huntingmoon.com.…

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