Monthly Archive for June, 2010
HostingCon comes to the Lone Star State.
The web hosting industry is descending on Austin, Texas next month for HostingCon. The event will take place at the Austin Convention Center July 19-21. Tickets are still available, starting at $489 for the entire three day conference.
I’ve identified a number of domain name related companies that will be in attendance and/or exhibiting:
dotMobi
eNom
OpenSRS (Tucows)
LogicBoxes/Reseller Club
Dark Blue Sea
VeriSign
Afilias
So why would domain companies come to a hosting show? Two main reasons:
1. Most domain name registrars make a good chunk of their revenue from web hosting add-on sales.
2. Web hosts are a good channel for selling domain registrations.
dotMobi will no doubt push for web hosts to offer .mobi domains to their customers and provide mobile web site building applications. VeriSign and Afilias will likely push their security and DNS solutions.
HostingCon is organized by iNET Interactive.
If you’re coming to town for the event, drop me a line.
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DnExpert: Today (30 June 2010) is your last chance to buy or renew .com and .net domain names at existing prices.
As of tomorrow, your favorite registrars will increase .com and .net Read more »
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Credit report companies spar over domain names.
Adaptive Marking LLC has sued ConsumerInfo.com, an Experian company, over its use of the FreeCreditScore.com domain name.
Adaptive Marketing uses the domain names FreeScore.com and FreeTripleScore.com. You’re probably familiar with TV commercials for the latter domain, in which people are asked to say “Free Triple Score dot com” three times fast.
ConsumerInfo.com bought the FreeCreditScore.com domain name around October 2009, according to the suit, and then launched a $10-$15 million advertising campaign to promote the brand. It was a replacement for the company’s FreeCreditReport.com marketing push, popularized by a poorly singing rock band. (Incidentally, this change in branding might affect the value of CreditCheck.com and FreeCreditCheck.com, which sold for $3 million in 2007.)
Adaptive Marketing alleges that FreeCreditScore.com infringes on its marks for FreeScore.com and FreeTripleScore.com. Among Adaptive’s claims is that this violates the U.S. Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
This seems like a stretch, as “Free Credit Score” is a very generic term, and probably couldn’t be trademarked in its own right. “Free Score” and “Free Triple Score” are more distinctive since they don’t describe the service.
You can read the complaint here (pdf).
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Domain Name Wire:
A look back at June in domaining.
It’s the last day of June, which means it’s time to review the top five stories on Domain Name Wire over the past month. They are ranked by total number of views.
1. Yahoo Settles Lawsuit and Gets Flicker.com Domain Name – After many years of neglect, Flicker.com can
DotWeekly: Hostgator.com the web hosting company that host over 2.5 Million domain names has announced a 5 race sponsorship deal with Nemco Motorsports and the #87 NASCAR team owned and driven by "Front Row Joe", Joe Nemechek.
Hostgator stated "We are proud to announce that we have inked a deal with Joe Nemechek for our very own
NameTalent.com: Every once in a while I like to compile a list of available domain names for my readers. Don’t forget that Verisign is ready increase the prices of .com/.net domain names effective tomorrow. This is your last chance to renew or register at your current rate! Enjoy the list. – SuitablePets.com LeatherShoulder.com Wildli...
Elliot Silver: I want to give you a friendly reminder that the Verisign price increase of 7% for .com domain names and 10% for .net domain names will go into effect tomorrow, July 1, 2010. I’ve known about it for a while but haven’t started taking any action until the last couple of days.
As a result of
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DomainGang.com: All while the word “domainer” comes up as a typo in every word processor, new words and expressions are being added quite often to the domainer dictionary. One of the most recent ones is the term “pigeon droppings” as a reference to any domain that lies at the bottom of the domain food chain. The
Coming soon, x.co URL shortener.
Domain name registrar GoDaddy is releasing a new URL shortener at x.co, according to a tweet by company founder and CEO Bob Parsons:
This is likely a .co “founder’s program” deal. .Co has already done a deal with Twitter for t.co, which will be Twitter’s own URL shortener services. .Co is Colombia’s country code top level domain name, which is currently being liberalized.
The domain registrar is one of ten accredited registrars for .co domain names, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that it is upping the ante with registry .Co Internet.
Still, it will be interesting to see how GoDaddy positions the URL shortener. There are plenty of shorteners on the market, and Twitter will soon begin wrapping all links in t.co. It seems that the registrar will need to find a way to integrate the shortener into its other products to make it really gain traction. Many of the company’s employees currently use a .me shortener, and the .me registry is a partnership involving GoDaddy.
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Name.com:
Hey everyone! By now you’re aware of the com/net price increase happening on July 1, 2010, and since we have one last day before the increase, we decided to go all out and give you a deal you may never see again!
Starting now and running until 10PM MST (GMT -7), we will be having a
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