A report released tonight by Minds+Machines, (pdf) predicts that the proposed gTLD's will only cause 316 new cases of CyberSquatting and that the cost to trademark holders worldwide will be "less than $.10". How does the authors of the report come to that conclusion? They look at the percentage of UDRP cases coming from .com's, .net and .org against those in the "new" extensions, .info, … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2010
Marchex Reports Revenues Down 33% for 2009
Marchex reported earnings after the market closed today and although revenues for both the 4th Q of 2009 and the year ending December 31, 2009 were down, they beat the street estimate by $.01. Revenue for the 4th Q of 2009 was $23.4 million, compared to $34.8 million for the same period of 2008. Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2009 was $93.3 million, compared to $146.4 million for … [Read more...]
This Sound Familiar? AdvertisingMagic.com Loses Trademark Claim Against AdMagic.com
As most domainers know there is an ongoing dispute between AOL's Advertsing.com in its claim of right against Ad.com and Advertise.com. In a case that strikes us a being very similar, a federal jury has decided in favor of New Jersey based Ad Magic ruling that its corporate name and Web sites, admagic.com, admagic-inc.com, admagicadvertising.com, and admagic.org, do not infringe upon the … [Read more...]
Is The Sale Of Poker.Org For $1M A Game Changer? We Say Yes
As reported by TechCrunch.com last night and by DomainNameNews.com, Poker.Org sold for a cool Million yesterday by National A-1 and brokered by Jeffrey M. Gabriel of Sedo.com As you also probably know the sale shattered the previous record for the then highest .org sale of engineering.org at $198K, and our sale of Sexe.Org last year for $151K. So the question becomes is this sale a game … [Read more...]
New Report: Fortune 500 Companies Suck At SEO & Keyword Buying Too
Domainers traditionally complain about the lack of interest and knowledge of Fortune 500 companies in domain names. According to a new report released today, "The Conductor Research Q4/2009 Fortune 500 Report" Fortune 500 companies also "fail at search engine optimization, many still don't link paid-search keywords to SEO campaigns, although they collectively spend about $3.4 million a day on … [Read more...]
FaceBook Zero Is Coming; Too Bad They Failed To Register FaceBookZero.com
TechCrunch wrote a post yesterday about a new mobile version of Facebook, that's going to be entitled Facebook Zero. Apparently Facebook choose to use the URL zero.facebook.com (mobile phone uses only) and neglected to register Facebookzero.com which was quickly registered by someone in Beijing China after the TechCrunch story came out and is already resolving to a domainsponsor … [Read more...]
Tucows Reports Record Revenues For 2009; YummyNames: “Transactions Grow 10 Fold”
Tucows announced earnings today after the market closed, reporting Net revenue for the 4th quarter of 2009 increased 6.1% to $20.3 million from $19.2 million for the 4th quarter of 2008, marking Tucows 4th consecutive quarter of revenue in excess of $20 million. Net income for the 4th quarter of 2009 was $1.7 million, or $0.03 per share, compared with $1.0 million, or $0.01 per share, for the … [Read more...]