http://domainnamewire.com News and Views for the Domain Name Industry Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:50:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A quick look at domain name news. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving, which means some interesting things for web traffic. Shopping sites will see high traffic, news sites will see less as people stay home from work. Domain Name Wire will continue publishing next week, but I wanted to get ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/20/friday-afternoon-domain-news-bytes/ by Karen Bernstein Have UDRP panels gone too far by setting a new standard for determining the identical or confusingly similar element in domain disputes? In his November 13 article, Andrew Allemann reported a WIPO decision denying transfer of Project.Me (project.me GmbH v. Lin, Case No. DME2009-0008 (WIPO Nov. 11, 2009)). ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/20/project-me-domain-dispute-sets-dangerous-precedent/ Two business competitions coming to DOMAINfest conference. Oversee.net wants to know, "what would you do to develop Planners.com?" That's just one of ten domain names contestants in DOMAINfest Global's LAUNCHfest can submit a development plan for. Contestants submit a plan for developing one of the domain names, and pitch it to ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/20/pitchfest-and-launchfest-come-to-domainfest/ Three hackers indicted for hijacking domain name. An indictment against three hackers involved in hijacking the Comcast.net domain name last year shows how easy it is to pull it off: just get access to the administrative contact's email address. The U.S. government has charged three hackers with doing just that, and using ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/20/indictment-shows-ease-of-hijacking-domain-name/ Quinstreet files to go public. Lead generation company Quinstreet, which bought the Insure.com web site for $16 million in October, has filed for it initial public offering. In its S-1 Securities and Exchange Commission filing for the IPO, the company reported fiscal year 2009 revenue of $261 million with a net income ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/19/company-that-bought-insure-com-files-to-go-public/ New web site from Domaining.com is very promising. Domaining.com founder Francois Carrillo works relentlessly to introduce new products. I like some more than others. Today I think he's hit a grand slam with BargainDomains.com. The premise is simple: you can list your domains for sale on BargainDomains.com for a maximum ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/19/a-big-thumbs-up-for-bargaindomains-com/ .Cm domain name registry NETCOM loses financial files. The "relaunch" of Cameroon's .cm domain name stuttered out of the gate after many technical difficulties. Apparently those problems continue, and it highlights one of the risks of buying certain country code domain names. .Cm registry NETCOM has emailed its registrars ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/19/more-problems-for-cm-domain-as-registry-loses-files/