Beem.com and BlackFridaySales.com sell for big bucks.

Sedo has sold the domain name Beem.com for $136,000. The domain name is still pending transfer and the buyer’s identity is not yet known.

The company also brokered the sale of BlackFridaySales.com to Frank Schilling’s Name Administration for $90,000. The domain name was sold by RegistrarAds, an affiliate of domain name registrar Dotster. Schilling already owned BlackFriday.net, so he probably had a good idea how well the domain would perform this week. (Friday is considered “Black Friday” for shopping.) Compete.com shows that BlackFridaySales.com received more than 40,000 unique visitors in November 2009.

Here are other notable sales from the past week:

.com
littleangels.com 50000 USD
patentattorney.com 40000 USD
rodon.com 25000 USD
injurycenter.com 20000 USD
buyblue.com 18000 USD
396.com 14601 USD
boxtv.com 13000 USD
foodfood.com 10000 USD
surgerycenter.com 10000 USD
proxia.com 9000 USD
kwixoo.com 8000 EUR
latravelshow.com 7500 USD
rxprotect.com 7500 USD
hgusa.com 7140 USD
acms.com 7000 USD
yumos.com 6900 EUR
sutis.com 6400 USD
fome.com 5500 USD

ccTLDS
ag.de 30000 EUR
beauty.co 13500 EUR
ring.me 12000 USD
freelegaladvice.co.uk 10000 GBP
folder.be 6843 EUR
dreyer.de 6000 EUR
uni.cc 5600 USD
mozilla.es 5600 EUR
energia.fr 5000 EUR
internaldoors.co.uk 5000 EUR
all4car.de 4444 EUR

Other
freegamesonline.net 18000 USD
familytree.net 11000 USD
tru.org 9888 USD
mountainbike.net 9500 USD
jogging.net 8500 USD
folder.net 7500 USD
beautybar.info 5000 USD

Domain registrar gets patent for social networking dashboard.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. patent number 7840690 to The Go Daddy Group for “Internet portal for managing social websites”.

The patent appears to be related to the company’s SmartSpace web service, which aggregates multiple social networks into a single dashboard.

In the application, Go Daddy says that it has found a problem with current methods of aggregating social network information:

Applicant…has noticed that presently-existing systems and methods do not allow Internet users to manage multiple social websites in a simple, unified, and focused fashion. Internet users who join multiple social websites have no single website to which they can go to obtain access to all of their social websites. Similarly, Internet users’ friends, family, and/or other social contacts do not have a single website to which they may go to access all of the Internet user’s social website’s public webpages. For the foregoing reasons, there is a need for the systems and methods for managing multiple social websites and related functionality as described herein.

You can read the full patent here (pdf).

Court transfers lawsuit to Virginia.

In a move that may have been expected by some observers, John Zuccarini’s lawsuit against NameJet, Network Solutions, eNom, and VeriSign has been transferred to the Eastern District of Virginia.

The case stems from some of John Zuccarini’s domain names that were transferred to a receiver after a cybersquatting judgment against him. The receiver let some of the domain names expire and they were subsequently auctioned off on NameJet.

eNom and Network Solutions asked the court to dismiss the case based on improper jurisdiction. Zuccarini had agreed to contracts with “forum selection clauses” when he registered the domain names. The court determined that the case should not be dismissed outright as the defendants wished, but instead should be transferred to the Eastern District of Virginia (pdf).

This move was not entirely unexpected. When the case was filed, domain name attorney John Berryhill (who is not involved in the case) commented on Domain Name Wire: “Venue Fail. He is in the District of Southern Florida alleging breach of contract, when the contract specifies that disputes are to be brought in Virginia.”

Fox may be back on the error, but DISH can keep its Fox domain names.

Dish Network and News Corporation’s Fox Networks may have settled their contract dispute, but there was still an outstanding issue over some domain names. In this battle, DISH Network won.

After Fox pulled some of its channels from DISH Network this fall, DISH registered a number of domain names to bring attention to the issue:

foxshakedowndish.com
weofferedfoxafairdeal.com
foxrefused.com
jointhefightagainstfox.com

Fox filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum arguing that the domain names violated its trademark and should be handed over. But a three person panel issued a ruling today disagreeing with Fox. Two of the three panel members said that anyone visiting these domain names would clearly understand they weren’t affiliated with Fox. They said it was an example of free speech.

Domain name purchases come in advance of new make-for-tablet newspaper.

Earlier today news hit the web that News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch is working on a new iNewspaper called “The Daily”. The Daily will be designed for tablets such as the iPad.

This caught one Domain Name Wire reader off guard, as he recalls previously visiting TheDaily.com from ASSIST Information Services. As it turns out, ASSIST sold the domain name to Murdoch’s company a while back (it looks like this happened last year) and changed its web address to TheDailyHomepages.com.

More recently, Murdoch bought The-Daily.com from BuyDomains in August of this year.

Both TheDaily.com and The-Daily.com are listed as owned by DNStinations, a stealth domain name acquisition company, but show dowjones.com as their nameservers.