Revenue slides but bottom line improves in first half of year. Revenue at domain name brokerage and parking company Sedo for the first half of 2010 was down compared to the same period last year, but earnings were up. Sedo Holding reported (pdf) revenue of 21.9M EUR for its Sedo division in H1 20...

Nearly a century of royalty payments bought out. Bingo.com, Ltd has bought out its remaining royalty payments on the domain name Bingo.com for $900,000 in equity. The company had a deal with the prevous owner of the domain (Bingo, Inc) to pay it 4% of gross revenue through 2098. An independent val...

Jobs domain pro merges one of his companies with Recruiter.com. Jason Davis has struck another large domain name deal by merging his RecruitingBlogs.com with Recruiter.com. Although technically a merger, Recruiter.com’s domain name was its main contribution to the puzzle. Recruiter.com own...

$15B company loses UDRP case. Juniper Networks has lost a domain name arbitration case to get the domain juniper.tv. Despite having a market cap of nearly $15 billion, the arbitrator noted that it’s entirely plausible that the registrant of the domain name hadn’t heard of the company b...

Here’s why NameMedia sells more of its own domains than clients’ domains. Every once in a while I feel like going on a rant. So here goes. There’s been a lot of talk on both my blog and others about NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains and AfternicDLS. NameMedia owns its own po...

If an auction occurs, expect to put your money where your mouth is. We might never see an auction for Sex.com. But if we do, expect to put up a significant deposit if you wish to bid. Court documents show that the bankruptcy sales procedure for Sex.com will include three phases. In the first phase...

Survey seeks opinions on new top level domain names. World Trademark Review is currently running a survey to understand attitudes and plans around the launch of new top level domain names. The survey is targeted to three groups: In-house trademark lawyers, private practice trademark lawyers, and ma...

Trademark owners go after their names on .co. A dozen companies have filed 13 .co domain name arbitration disputes since the relaunch of .co as a a generic domain name. The most recent UDRP filing was for Dreamhost.co by the owner of the large web host DreamHost.com. This is a somewhat surprising ...

Patent could potentially target Google and Microsoft. A U.S. patent directed at cost-per-action advertising on search engines as well as cash-back search is headed to the auction block. Sunnyvale, California based AnchorFree Inc. has enlisted ICAP Ocean Tomo to auction off U.S. patent number 7,647,...

Group forms to object to .jobs expansion. A group calling itself The .JOBS Charter Compliance Coalition is asking ICANN’s board to reconsider its decision to open up the .jobs top level domain name to non-company name registrations. The coalition’s members include major employment web...

DomainConsultant.com reports that domain sold during auction today. DomainConsultant.com, which organized an auction today for DomainName.com, is reporting that the name has sold. Due to non-disclosure requests on both sides, we unfortunately cannot publish buyer or final selling price. We can te...

NBC wants lawsuit over domain name dismissed. NBC Universal has filed a motion to dismiss (pdf) a lawsuit filed by DONE! Ventures over DONE!’s failed purchase of Women.com. DONE! claims it had an agreement to buy women.com and women.net from NBC, and that NBC later backed out of the deal tha...

Domain marketplace release new search system. Sedo has released new searching tools that make it much easier to sift through the site’s 7 million domain names for sale. The new search allows you to add and change search criteria and get updated results on the fly. Limit the number of words i...

Broker sells Angels.com domain name. Sedo has sold the domain name Angels.com for $200,000 according to the company’s updated sales feed. The domain name is currently pending transfer. Earlier this month I pointed out that the domain being listed for auction presented another chance for Ma...

Case over generic domain name denied. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has rejected a company’s claim to the domain name MyHealth.com. My Health, Inc registered its mark for “My Health” in 2009. But the registrant of the domain name acquired it prior to that (in 2007) for $1...

An official look at Go Daddy’s revenue numbers. I still remember a conversation just before the Super Bowl in 2005. I was eating lunch with a bunch of techies and the topic of Super Bowl commercials came up. Someone asked “who is this Go Daddy company, anyway?” Flash forward to ...

Swimmer’s foundation goes after domain name owner. The non-profit Michael Phelps Foundation, established by the Olympic swimmer, has sued to get the domain name MichaelPhelpsFoundation.com. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Maine, names Domains by Proxy, Inc., a domain whois proxy ser...

Case dropped pending settlement. A ...

Court asks for explanation, but it’s probably a moot point anyway. United States District Judge Susan Illston has asked DS Holdings and The United States to file a response to accusations that auctioning off domains previously held by John Zuccarini at a TRAFFIC auction would be a conflict ...

German domain conference and auction takes place this week. Germany’s only dedicated domain name conference, DomainvermarkterForum, will take place this Thursday and Friday in Munich. The event is at the five-star Hotel Sofitel Bayerpost. Gold sponsors for the event include PartnerGate and,...

by Zak Muscovitch [In this guest article, Zak Muscovitch argues that the .ca domain name needs to be liberalized. Muscovitch is a domain attorney who is running for a seat on CIRA's 2010 Board of Directors. -Andrew] While many countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and India, have opened ...

Cruise for domain industry sets sail in 6 weeks. The inaugural DNCruise sets sail October 11, and show organizer Chef Patrick is offering a free pass plus airfare to one lucky guest. In a post on his blog today, Patrick explains what you have to do to win the free pass. You’ll have to stat...

Generic domain name for domain industry goes on the block Tuesday. DomainConsultant.com’s auction of DomainName.com is taking place on Tuesday, August 31. This isn’t just an auction for the domain name — it includes an ICANN accredited registrar with an active customer base and ab...

Obama administration wants to address illegal online pharmacies. The White House has called for a meeting with domain name registrars, registries, and ICANN to discuss rouge online pharmacies. According to an email obtained by Krebs on Security, White House Senior Adviser for Intellectual Propert...

A week of news while I was away on vacation. I’m back from an enjoyable family vacation at Disneyland. If you ever make the trip, I highly recommend staying at this house — the kids will love it! Also, a quick shout out to my daughter, who just turned 4 last week yet braved Space Moun...