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Domain Name Wire for Domain
October 30, 2012
Top 5 domain news stories of October
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Welcome to the DomainNameWire.com newsletter.

Technically October isn't over yet. There's a lot of trick-
or-treating before we call it a month.

But for Domain Name Wire newsletter readers, why wait until
November to tally the results from October?

Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire this month.
(ranked by page views).

1. TRAFFIC domain auction was the most exciting in years - some
people disagree, but most of them didn't read the full article.

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJA1A&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=F&

2. ICM registry ups ante in online monopoly fight - files
counterclaims.

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJA16&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=R&

3. 29 end user domain sales

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJAbE&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=r&

4. .Com growth rate slowing (but only slightly)

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJAbB&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=l&

Yet it took a bigger dip this quarter:

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJAbS&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=0&

5. That offer you just got for your domain is the highest you'll ever get

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJAbh&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=O&

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domain industry stories:

* Backlash rising against second level .uk domains

* Will Lance Armstrong fallout hurt Demand Media?

* Locksmiths "pick" fight with Frank Schilling

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Domain Name Wire is read by domainers, domain registrars, attorneys,
public officials, and Fortune 500 company brand managers.

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DOMAINfest global becomes WebFest Global, opens registration for 2013

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 04:58 AM PDT

Webfest Global 2013 Conference to Be Held February 5-7, 2013 in Santa Monica, California

LOS ANGELES, California (October 18, 2012) — DomainSponsor®, the online direct navigation traffic monetization unit of Oversee.net® and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINfest® series of domestic and international conferences, announced today that online registration is now open for its Webfest Global^TM conference to be held February 5-7, 2013 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California.

The agenda at the three-day Webfest Global 2013 conference will cover a variety of topics related to domain name investing, acquiring and converting online customers, and mobile monetization. Agenda highlights are available on the event website.

"This marks our seventh annual global conference," said Oversee.net CEO Debra Domeyer. "Over the last few years, we have received very positive feedback from attendees about how our DOMAINfest agenda has evolved. So we're very excited about continuing our tradition of providing content and speakers that align with the ever-broadening interests of our conference audience. Of course, we're also excited to be providing an atmosphere and experience that facilitates networking and deal-making."

Online Registration Now Open

The early bird discounted registration rate of $1,095 includes full conference admission on February 5-7, 2013 to all sessions, exhibit hall, daily breakfasts, daily lunches and all official dinner networking parties. It also includes a farewell breakfast on February 8^th. To register, visit http://webfestglobal.com/register.

Moniker|SnapNames Live Domain Name Auction

Moniker|SnapNames will be hosting a live, premium domain name auction at Webfest Global 2013 on Wednesday, February 6th from 4:00 – 5:30pm PST. An extended online domain auction will start on Tuesday, February 5^th and end at 3:15pm EST on Thursday, March 8^th. For details on how to submit domains for possible inclusion in these auctions, visit http://webfestglobal.com/auctions. The submission deadline is December 14, 2012.

Conference Hotel

The entire Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica has been reserved exclusively for the conference in order to provide attendees with an intimate, distraction-free environment that maximizes networking opportunities. Discounted hotel room rates are available via a special online reservation portal. For details, please visithttp://webfestglobal.com/hotel.

Sponsorship Opportunities

A wide range of sponsor and exhibitor options and prices are available for companies interested in promoting their services to the domain investors, publishers and online marketing executives attending Webfest Global 2013. For details, visit http://webfestglobal.com/sponsor-options.

About Webfest Global^TM

Founded in 2006 by DomainSponsor®, the direct navigation traffic monetization division of Oversee.net, Webfest Global (formerly DOMAINfest®) is a conference series that brings domain industry and online marketing professionals together to learn, network and do business. Content and speakers offer insights, tips and the latest best practices in areas such as web and mobile user acquisition, conversion and monetization, plus updates on how regulatory and ICANN policies impact domain name owners and brand marketers worldwide. Attendees include domain publishers, internet entrepreneurs and wide range of online marketing executives and service providers. For more information, please visit http://webfestglobal.com.

About Oversee.net

Oversee.net® is a leader in online performance marketing. Using proprietary technology, it helps advertisers acquire valuable, pre-qualified leads. Its DomainSponsor® business unit pioneered the monetization of direct navigation traffic in 2002 and now operates one of the largest PPC and CPV traffic networks in the world with over 250 million unique visitors per month. Oversee's owned and operated lead generation websites in the travel, retail and consumer finance verticals produce over 14 million high-converting leads per month for advertisers by providing users with the information they need to make smart purchase decisions. Oversee also owns Webfest Global^TM, a conference series for domain investors and online marketing professionals. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Oversee has offices in New York City and Frankfurt, Germany.

Domain Name Wire for Domain - .com falling? Hardly.

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October 16, 2012
.Com falling? Hardly.
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Welcome to the DomainNameWire.com newsletter.

I've recently read a couple stories suggesting that the
.com base is falling off a cliff.

So I ran the numbers and found that it's simply not the case.

You can read a detailed analysis here:

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJ5X0&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=U&

What I found is that some of the confusion about
.com growth rates has to do with varying data sources.

If you don't compare apples to apples, you may draw the
wrong conclusions.

The total base of .com domain names is still growing at
better than an 8% clip per year. But the growth rate
is slowing slightly. Very slightly.

And the absolute number of domains added has to increase
to maintain the same growth rate as the total base gets bigger.

That's not to say things won't change going forward.

There are two factors that could change .com's long
range growth forecasts.

First, the bigger .com gets the harder it is to sustain
the growth.

Second, new top level domains could offer alternatives
that sap some of the growth.

I don't necessarily agree with the latter, but that's
part of the idea behind new TLDs.

What do you think? Feel free to comment here:

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Be sure to stop by DNW.com to read these other
domain industry stories:

* Circa domain hack could cause problems

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJ5XW&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=k&

* TRAFFIC domain auction was the most exciting in years

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJ5Xi&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=Y&

* New Afternic tries to create a sense of community

http://domainnamewire.net/click.html?x=a62b&lc=BJ5XX&mc=BR&s=V0alB&y=u&

These stories are just a sample of what you can read at DomainNameWire.com.
Domain Name Wire is read by domainers, domain registrars, attorneys,
public officials, and Fortune 500 company brand managers.

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ICANN launches first version of myicann.org

Posted: 15 Oct 2012 07:25 AM PDT

As just announced by ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé at the ICANN 45 in Toronto today, ICANN launched a first version of MyICANN.org created to aggregate, organize and personalize all of the available information from ICANN.

Explore the latest news from across the ICANN community.
Pick out what’s important to you and have it delivered directly to your Inbox.
Browse the portal to see upcoming events and subscribe to get updates on your calendar.

The organization did not set up my.icann.org (which is what I first tried when I heard about the site.

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Keep Playing the Music . . . Really, The Ship’s Not Sinking, Part 2
Irex Corp launches .CA Portfolio site
Donuts to use Architelos’ Namesentry

Keep Playing the Music . . . Really, The Ship’s Not Sinking, Part 2

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:27 PM PDT

Over 4 years ago, I wrote a post about the results of the 2008 TRAFFIC auction. That auction did over $4.3 million in sales. Can you imagine ? Back then the entire industry was looking for a barometer of the state of the business during a tough time, and the results were considered dismal with a total sale volume of ONLY $4.3 million. Times sure have changed!

If TRAFFIC auctions were a barometer of the market conditions, what are they today ? I think they may have sold under $150,000 in names. Rick just posted on his blog “The market is a snapshot of things and the picture it took was not very good. While many attendees are doing well, the average domainer is not.”

We don’t have the official results from TRAFFIC yet but a lot of domains didn’t sell and a those that sold didn’t fetch big prices. That’s the snapshot. The results DNN posted live were terrible, but I think they can be expected based on the names. Rick promised this to be a list of domains that would put a buyer in the top of the pack of all domainers. There were some good ones (I even bought one) but I’m not sure the list could completely deliver on that promise. Rick just said “I can only choose domains that folks want to sell and look at it through the eyes of a domainer.” I know that’s a hard task. I’ve done it before and everyone is a “keyboard critic”. You do have to work with what’s been submitted and sometimes you go with what you have been handed. I don’t think that price to quality ratio were at a level that domain/investors would bite right now (more on that later).

Andrew Alleman wrote in his piece that this TRAFFIC auction was the most exciting in years. I wasn’t at the auction so I can’t comment on the buzz or on how exciting the room was, but I think even though Andrew is taking a beating about his post, the buzz and excitement is a good sign. It shows what I believe to be true too, it’s a buyer’s market and there really are buyers wanting to put money in to domains still. Rick even mentions the names of buyers who did buy at this auction. They’re domainer/investors. Guys whose names you know from other blog posts : Mike Berkens, Sean Sullivan, Morgan Linton, Darren Cleveland, Gregg, McNair, Russ Goodwin, Bill Sweetman, Brain Benko (who bid/bought on my behalf).

Raymond over at Hybrid Domainer asked if the time for live auctions had passed. I commented in length about my experience and thoughts on auctions over there, but to summarize, I believe live auction events need to be aggressive and open. They need to do aggressive marketing and be aggressive about getting great names at great prices. This is nothing new really though, but the domainer/investor buyers are much more savvy and much more choosy today. They’ve got a lot of inventory that they can choose from just buying a name over at DomainNameSales.com or finding on a drop list.

A live auction should be open and never turn away a bidder and provide a technology that allows bidding online. The phone bidding at TRAFFIC required prior registration which I didn’t know about so I called a friend. I know first-hand how tough the technology side is to pull off. I helped put together an auction on a shoe-string budget from a Vegas hotel room (not a conference room) and we did $150,000 on our first attempt. It wasn’t easy. I’ve also been involved in several auctions that melted down because of technology limitations at the hotel. It can be done though and it has been done. Let’s not bother if we’re not doing it live and online though. As DomainShane said “It baffles me that in 2012 we still have this limitation”.

Every day domainer/investors spend thousands of dollars at NameJet and SnapNames auctions bidding live online from the comfort of their homes, so there are buyers still out there. They don’t even need audio/video on those systems . It’s something we’ve all come to expect at the live events but it’s not necessary. Being in a room with a bunch of domainer/investors doesn’t do anything but allow you to show-off your bidding really.

As for the “end-user”, it’s my opinion that they generally don’t care about live auctions. I’ve marketed domains from our auction to this sort of buyer. Unless the deal is out of this world and they must have the name, they’ll buy your domain when they’re ready. We’ve seen end-user buyers bidding at live auction events and they’ve bought some big dogs. We have to hand it to the remarkable marketing of these live auction companies that pull in these bidders. That’s not an easy task. I’d venture to guess they put a lot of effort in to getting those names and those buyers all lined up months ahead of the event.

The “Titanic” of live domain auctions may have sunk (again?), and as Rick said, there’ll be people dancing on the grave. I don’t think the grave is the domain aftermarket though. The good news for domain investors is that there are still buyers out there. I can attest to this, I had one of the best quarters ever this year selling, and I’m still buying as well. I made more on sales this year than ever and I’m not really a seller. Buyers are picky though, especially domainer/investor buyers. They’re looking for good domains, cheap. They know everyone is selling and the buyer pool has become smarter and savvier. If you want to continue to sell names at live auctions targeted at domainer/investors, give ‘em what they want.

Irex Corp launches .CA Portfolio site

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 09:13 AM PDT

Canadian company Irex Corp, just launched www.DomainNames.ca, a marketplace for selected domains from their own portfolio, such as ez.ca, cruise.ca and usedcars.ca.

Since 2001, Irex Corp has been offering website services to both consumers and business interests through numerous verticals including real estate, education, web design and philanthropic initiatives.

Donuts to use Architelos’ Namesentry

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:28 AM PDT

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Architelos, Inc., a domain name industry consulting and managed services provider and Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), said today Donuts will adopt NameSentry, Architelos' software-as-a-service platform for detecting and mitigating domain name abuse.

The patent-pending NameSentry application protects new gTLDs from phishing, malware, spam, botnets and other types of abuse. Already operational, it's the first independent, third-party resource of its kind for the domain name industry.

"In our gTLD applications, we detailed eight new stringent mechanisms for protecting rights holders and combating potential abuse, protections that intentionally exceed those required by ICANN," said Donuts co-founder and CEO Paul Stahura. "NameSentry gives us another set of tools to gather data and quickly mitigate any problems."

Stahura said the system is impressive thanks to its range of capability and ease of implementation. "NameSentry gives us the additional benefit of Architelos' experience in abuse prevention, ready to be put to use.

"We are thrilled to be selected by Donuts," said Architelos founder and CEO Alexa Raad. "By adding NameSentry to their extensive set of protection mechanisms, Paul and his team are very clear that they won't tolerate abuse. As the largest applicant by number of applied-for gTLDs, working with Donuts is a significant opportunity for Architelos to help ensure new namespace is safe for all users."

About Donuts Inc.

Donuts is a domain name registry that is widening competition and choice in Internet identities through hundreds of new top-level domain name choices, securely operated in multiple languages and character sets. Donuts is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with offices in Los Angeles, Calif. and Washington, D.C. For more information, please visit www.donuts.co or follow Donuts on Twitter @DonutsInc.

About Architelos, Inc.

Architelos, Inc. provides strategic consulting and managed services for clients in the Domain Name System (DNS). The Architelos team of executives is unique in having over 30 years of experience, and a track record in building, launching and managing multi-million name gTLDs. Clients include new as well as existing generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) and Country Code (ccTLD) registries. Architelos has locations in Leesburg, VA, Los Angeles (LA), Toronto and Dublin, as well as data centers in Toronto and LA. For more info follow Architelos on Twitter and Facebook.

[via Press Release]

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Targeted TRAFFIC 2012 Award Winners

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 03:55 PM PDT

And here are the winners of the 2012 Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards as they were announced at a Brunch during the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show this morning:

Best new monetizing Solution

DomainPower.com

Best overall Domain Solution

Sedo.com

Best Domain Blog

DomainSherpa.com (Cyger)

The "we get it" award

SalesForce.com

Developer of the year award

Alan Dunn (DomainHoldings)

Broker of the year

Dave Evanson (Sedo.com)

Sponsor of the year

Escrow.com

Domainer of the year

Frank Schilling

Domain Hall of Fame

Chad Folkenning
Michael ‘Mike’ Mann

Plus the Bandit Berkens "Goodwill Ambassador Award", which went to Judi and Michael Berkens.

See the videos of parts of the awards ceremony over at DomainGang’s Youtube channel and see the original nominees here.

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