DN Journal reported on a long time domainer having several domains stolen from him earlier this week, there was a huge theft earlier this year involving hundreds of domains including many premium .coms, and members on Namepros and DN Forum probably remember the large domain theft that occurred last year and involved many prominent domainers, […]
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No Tags specified :-)Complainant tries to pull a fast one on arbitration panel.
Today I was reading through the domain arbitration decision for ComPart.com, a domain owned by Vertical Axis. The complainant, a German company called Compart, said that the parked page at Compart.com was showing ads related to its software business.
The complainant specifically said the parked page showed ads of direct competitors, such as software4students.co.uk and 31touchdownloads.com. That would be pretty damning evidence against Vertical Axis.
But then I went to compart.com to see these ads, and here’s what I saw:
It sure appeared that the page was focused on the “part” portion of the domain, as it only showed ads for car parts. Confused, I looked up historical thumbnails at DomainTools and found the same thing. Where could these ads competing with the complainant, that Vertical Axis supposedly set up to divert traffic from the complainant and benefit from its goodwill, be?
Turns out Compart’s lawyers pulled an old trick. They merely typed the word “software” into the search box at the bottom of the parked page and printed out the results page.
This didn’t go unnoticed by the panel, which called the complainant out on it.
(The panel also thought the respondent tried to mislead them because it asserted that compart was both an English and German word, but it is not a German word. I checked with the respondent’s attorney. As it turns out, the assertion that compart was also a German word was due to Google Translator showing the word during a translation. If Translator can’t find the word, it just renders it in the same language. Regardless, intentionally misleading the panel like the complainant’s counsel did is very different from a trivial oversight such as which languages ‘compart’ is a word in.)
The complainant lied. Guess who won anyway? The complainant, despite the fact that the parked page of a generic term didn’t compete at all with the complainant’s business.
(Hat tip UDRPsearch)
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No Tags specified :-)Complainant tries to pull a fast one on arbitration panel.
Today I was reading through the domain arbitration decision for ComPart.com, a domain owned by Vertical Axis. The complainant, a German company called Compart, said that the parked page at Compart.com was showing ads related to its software business.
The complainant specifically said the parked page showed ads of direct competitors, such as software4students.co.uk and 31touchdownloads.com. That would be pretty damning evidence against Vertical Axis.
But then I went to compart.com to see these ads, and here’s what I saw:
It sure appeared that the page was focused on the “part” portion of the domain, as it only showed ads for car parts. Confused, I looked up historical thumbnails at DomainTools and found the same thing. Where could these ads competing with the complainant, that Vertical Axis supposedly set up to divert traffic from the complainant and benefit from its goodwill, be?
Turns out Compart’s lawyers pulled an old trick. They merely typed the word “software” into the search box at the bottom of the parked page and printed out the results page.
This didn’t go unnoticed by the panel, which called the complainant out on it.
(The panel also thought the respondent tried to mislead them because it asserted that compart was both an English and German word, but it is not a German word. I checked with the respondent’s attorney. As it turns out, the assertion that compart was also a German word was due to Google Translator showing the word during a translation. If Translator can’t find the word, it just renders it in the same language. Regardless, intentionally misleading the panel like the complainant’s counsel did is very different from a trivial oversight such as which languages ‘compart’ is a word in.)
The complainant lied. Guess who won anyway? The complainant, despite the fact that the parked page of a generic term didn’t compete at all with the complainant’s business.
(Hat tip UDRPsearch)
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No Tags specified :-)Here’s a quick poll question that may inspire you to seek new ways to earn more money from your domain name portfolio. With traditional Pay-Per-Click parking revenue on the decline, the concept of “domain parking” has been evolving.
Many domain name owners are seeking alternative revenue streams which may help pay for those yearly registration fees or much more.
While it’s unlikely you will become the next Yun Ye (who sold his portfolio for $154m), you can tap into new resources and technologies of today to expand your online empire and put those domains to work!
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Thanks for responding to the poll! Please comment below with any additional information on how you monetize your domain portfolio and check back soon to see the results!
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Use site search data to find out what your visitors are looking for.
Navigation of web sites is mostly defined by the web designer. You arrive at the home page and click on one of the links that the web designer decided should be on the home page. You go to the next page and do the same thing, and so-on.
But what are your visitors really looking for when they arrive on your web site? The richest data comes from your search box. Your visitor’s searches are their unadulterated explanation of why they came to your site.
Google Analytics lets you dig into what your visitors search for regardless of which site search technology you have. Here’s a look at search data over the past few months on Lakeway.com:
These are the actual search terms people typed into my site, most likely because the visitors couldn’t immediately find what they were looking for. Many of the terms are similar, such as hotel and hotels, so you may need to parse them together to analyze.
This data shows that many of the visitors to my site are looking for Lakeway hotels, and few can find that section. It’s probably placed too many levels deep on my site.
Search refinements is also interesting. It shows how many people ended up searching again after seeing the results. If the number is high for a particular keyword, then people aren’t finding what they’re looking for.
I’m also surprised to see people searching for employment on the site. Lakeway is more of a residential community, but this shows me there may be some potential for a jobs section on the site.
I have more extensive search data on Domain Name Wire. Since the middle of March people have used the DNW.com search box 3,388 times. The top search term is surprising: “Parava”, searched for 275 times.
This has to do with Parava’s de-accreditation and the subsequent transfer of domains to Hover.com. I wrote several articles about the transfer and what was going on. Many of the visitors to DNW probably arrived at one article and wanted to see other coverage. Perhaps I should have placed a notice at the top of the page “Looking for updated info about Parava transfers? Click here.”
The other top terms are VeriSign, GoDaddy, .tel, and global warming. Yes, global warming. You didn’t know DNW covered global warming? I’ll send a free copy of David Kesmodel’s “The Domain Game” to the first person who comments on why so many people are searching for “global warming” on DNW.
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There’s no limit to the number of times a complainant can file a UDRP.
I’ve written a few times about domain arbitration cases in which the complainant re-files a case for the same domain name. It seems kind of like an appeal process for the complainant (an opportunity not afforded to respondents).
After seeing varying panel responses to refiled cases, I was confused about what the rules are for filing a case for the same domain twice. Perhaps that’s because there aren’t any rules.
Kristine Dorrain, Internet Legal Counsel for National Arbitration Forum, explains:
The UDRP is silent as to if disputes can be “tried twice.” Because of this, the FORUM doesn’t limit the number of times a complaint may be filed against a particular domain name. Each panel then gets to decide what to do with the issue of cases being re-heard.
But there’s the rub. By the time a panel decides whether or not to hear a case, the respondent has filed his response, and thus already paid for legal defense (again) and perhaps a three person panel (again). You can see how a complainant could merely refile the same case over and over, just to wear down the domain owner.
Dorrain explained that many panels use the United States principle of “res judicata” to decide if they should hear the case. This principle basically says the case should stand unless there is a compelling reason. A compelling reason may be new evidence that could not have reasonably been discovered at the time of the original filing.
This can become interesting when the complainant doesn’t tell the panel that the case was filed before, as Dorrain explains:
One particularly interesting issue is where parties don’t tell the Panel of a previous UDRP filing. If the complainant does not disclose this information, the Panel may not be aware that the case is refiled. This is most often seen when a party files with one Provider, loses, then files with another Provider.
An example is the recent MothersMilk.com case (although both the first and second attempt were filed at National Arbitration Forum). The panelist’s decision in the case doesn’t indicate any previous filing and what may be different in the second filing. But it’s a prime example of why a company might want to file a case a second time — the complainant lost the first case but won the second. The second case was heard by an arbitrator known for favoring complainants.
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The word is out, Yahoo has acquired XoopIt. Well for those of us who have heard of XoopIt just now, it’s a third-party app that won Yahoo’s Open Hack Day in December which Yahoo has teamed up with to develop Yahoo Mail’s “MyPhotos” app. If you don’t know how “MyPhotos” work, it won’t do you any harm if you check it out from your Yahoo Mail account.As for Yahoo’s reason for acquiring XoopIt, Yahoo’s official corporate blog stated that this will facilitate an easier way of sending photos via Yahoo email as well as for sharing photo albums with friends and family members. XoopIt inside Yahoo Mail would help you better organize photos that you send and share via email.
Although, Yahoo is not disclosing the amount it paid for XoopIt, some sources say that it is close to $20 million. This raises some issues as to why Yahoo spent that much for a browser plug-in such as XoopIt. Another issue that arises was why Google let go of XoopIt. Yahoo after all is currently in a slump in terms of earnings and the least we expect that company to do is go on a spending spree.
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Yahoo Acquires XoopIt, But Why?
I am sure, as a blogger and active web surfer you read and comment online a lot - and unless the blog offers to track the comments via email, your comment and all the replies and follow-ups it is going to get will be lost.
So here’s a cool must-try way to manage all your comments across the web - CoComment.
Track any conversation
(Even without commenting yourself). Just click “Track” icon below any comment area:
Get notified of new comments:
1. Once the post you are tracking gets new comments, the tool icon in the status bar will change its color:
Click the icon and you will be delivered to your dashboard to see all the threads with new comments (or open the browser sidebar by right clicking the icon and choosing “Open sidebar”).
Enjoy social features:
More cool features:
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Making Sense of All Your Comments with CoComment
Listening to what your readers are asking is the most effective way to:
Here are a few best tools for you to find out what other people interested in the topic are wondering about:
Yahoo Answers is the most obvious tool to start with: it is both popular and heavily over-used question-answer service but still deserves the mention.
Also, to make the most of it, don’t forget to use the advanced search that (except for basic boolean operators) offers quite a number of useful features:
Aardvark is a new promising application that allows you to get questions and answers from real people via Facebook and your preferred IM:
You can choose to get answers only from your Facebook friends or from everyone but giving preference to your network.
There are a few creative ways to search for questions on Twitter:
1. Twitter search has a cool advanced operator (?) allowing to search for questions. You may want to exclude links from your search results because many URL shorteners use question marks in the URLs, so they may interfere with the results.
Sample search: [seo ? -filter:links] for questions about SEO excluding Tweets containing links
2. Search for and track Twitter Q&A services:
Wordtracker’s “Keyword Questions” tool is a great web-based tool that singles out question-type queries based on any search term (surely, you can find question yourself by going through any keyword suggestion tool results but this one is free and saves time):
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Best Tools to Explore Which Questions People Ask in Your Niche
Yahoo has just reported its Q2 Financial Standings. And despite the negative trend in almost all of its online business, Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz expressed optimism and was even pleased with the Q2’s outcome. Ms. Bartz also highlighted the recently launched redesigned Yahoo Homepage, which is to date, Yahoo’s best online stronghold.
Here are some keypoints of Yahoo’s earnings report:
Despite this negative performance, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz was still pleased with the way the company has handled the challenges faced by the company in the previous quarter. According to Ms. Bartz:
“I’m pleased with our results this past quarter. We established a clear, simple vision to be the center of people’s lives online, and we’re backing that vision with important initiatives to create ‘wow’ experiences for our users,”
And she goes on to mention the launch of the newly redesigned Yahoo Homepage which she thinks will bring positive impact on Yahoo’s performance in the coming days.
In a related note, Ms. Bartz congratulated Microsoft on the success of its Bing search engine. Ms. Bartz believes that Microsoft has finally done something right with Bing.
Is this statement any indication of a possible agreement with Microsoft anytime soon? The issue has been resurrected prior to Yahoo’s Q2 Earning Report. And the indicators are pointing to that direction.
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As Yahoo Reports Q2 Finances, Bartz Kudos Bing
