Domain Name News: August 24 Week in Review

Every Friday, DomainSherpa.com provides you with a hand-selected, editorially-based review of the weekly news. In this summary, you will find the latest articles and videos produced by DomainSherpa staff and contributors. You will also find links to the best news articles in the domain name industry ? so you don?t have to spend your time searching for news or reading something that was not worth your time.

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UDRP is Not Surefire Way to Take Down a Counterfeit Web Site ? 23-Aug-12
On the face of it, it might seem appealing for a trademark owner to use UDRP to take down a web site selling counterfeit goods. But trademark holders need to understand that UDRP is for cybersquatting, and not all sites selling counterfeit goods meet the three requirements of winning a UDRP. The latest example is Oakley, which failed to recover the domain name MyFakeOakleySunglasses.com.

Confirmed: .nxt Conference Canceled ? 23-Aug-12
The show was expected to run next week, August 29-31, in London, following two successful events in San Francisco last year.

Federal Courts Seize App Domains in Pirating Crackdown ? 23-Aug-12
The three seized domain names ? applanet.net, appbucket.net and snappzmarket.com ? are in the custody of the federal government. Visitors to the sites will now find a seizure banner that notifies them that the domain name has been seized by federal authorities and educates them that willful copyright infringement is a federal crime.

ICANN: Roadmap for Processing New gTLD Applications ? 22-Aug-12
In June 2012 ICANN published close to 2,000 applications for new gTLDs. The processing of these applications consists broadly of two phases: Evaluation followed by Pre-delegation steps, then Delegation. ICANN?s objective is to provide certainty to applicants and a solution for Metering should be developed as efficiently as possible.

Google Apps Makes .co an Option (and promotes it) ? 22-Aug-12
Google Apps has added .co as a registration option when you open a new account.

Denver Domainers Unite: RMDC 2012 at Chloe ? 21-Aug-12
There are now over 2 billion people in the world on the internet. Can you think of another activity besides eating that?s shared by that many people? Many savvy companies are leaving the brick and mortar behind and moving the majority of their operations to the web.

Turn Over in Your Grave. Rick on Board with gTLD?s!! ? 21-Aug-12
I am very excited about an emerging niche. For the first time I am excited about gTLD domains. Very excited. I can see it clearly now. But not in the form of .whatever. I have yet to be convinced or won over yet. But I always keep an open mind.

NY State is Offering Small Business Free Websites and Domain Hosting ? 20-Aug-12
Google has teamed up with New York State to get small businesses online. ?There?s no cost. No catch. No Hassle.? This is great news for the 53 percent of small businesses in New York that do not have a website.

US Must Hand Over Internet Control to the World ? 20-Aug-12
The Internet has become one of the most important resources in the world in just a few decades, but the governance mechanism for such an important international resource is still dominated by a private sector organization and a single country.

Online Sports Fan Site Acquires Key Domain Name for Branding ? 20-Aug-12
As I was researching the purchase of SportsRants.com for $1,415 on Afternic by SportsRantz.com, I found that the buyer had posted a blog entry about why he bought the domain.

RomneyRyan.com is Up For Auction on Flippa.com ? 19-Aug-12
For the Buy It Now price of $100,000, you can own the 2012 election year?s arguably hottest domain name.

Judge Allows Antitrust Lawsuit Against ICANN ? 17-Aug-12
In a closely watched case, a federal judge has ruled that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers can be sued for alleged antitrust violations stemming from the new ?.xxx? domain name.

DotMed Applicant Survives UDRP Attack on its .med Brand Domain Names ? 17-Aug-12
.Med applicant HEXAP SAS has staved off an attack on its promotional web sites aboutdotmed.com, supportdotmed.com and thedotmed.com in a UDRP.

Verisign?s Future Looks Stable With .com And .net Registries in The Bag ? 17-Aug-12
VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), primarily known as the authoritative registry for .com and .net generic?top-level domains, also operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the?Internet?s thirteen?root nameservers and the back-end systems for the .gov, .jobs, and?.edu top-level domains.

VeriSign Publishes New Video Promoting .TV ? 16-Aug-12
VeriSign published a new video yesterday promoting .TV domain names.

Owner of RomneyRyan.com Plans to Auction Site ? 16-Aug-12
If his job in the tech industry doesn?t work out, Peter Crowley should try psychic reading. The 26-year-old purchased RomneyRyan.com in 2010 after hearing recently-named Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan speak. Predicting that Romney was the inevitable GOP frontrunner, he matched them up and bought the site.

Source: http://www.domainsherpa.com/domain-name-news-august-24-week-in-review/

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PPC Advertising ? Effective Online Marketing Tool | Articles, Press ...

The use of proper marketing strategies can help an online business achieve the goals and targets that are set. Such methods can also help the company get ahead of the competition and make itself visible before the online audience. One of the effective and reliable techniques used is PPC Advertising. PPC or Pay Per Click can be described as a promotional tool, which requires the advertiser to pay every time the advertisement is clicked. PPC can significantly increase the online traffic visiting the website. There are several points to be considered when implementing PPC promotion.

The use of the right keywords is essential for PPC. This ensures that the target audience is routed to the website, which can boost the profits of the online company. PPC offers extensive benefits as well. It helps control the expenditure, as the cost is dependent on the number of users visiting the website. This helps filter the online users as only the target traffic interested in the business visit the website. PPC also helps build the popularity of the company. It is extremely result oriented and one can view significant improvements in the sales with the proper usage of PPC. Many online businesses hire PPC professionals for their expert solutions.

Online marketing companies are knowledgeable about the current promotional strategies and techniques. The expertise of a reliable SEO Internet Marketing company can give an online business an added advantage. These companies understand the importance of proper advertising and the impact that it can have on the sales of the business. This enables them to plan and come up with effective marketing techniques that can make the online business popular among the online audience. They also lay emphasis on the SEO aspect of the website. As a result, the website can secure higher rankings in the result listings of the search engines and thus, build its online presence.

The marketing firms use a variety of marketing techniques to deliver the desired business results to the clients. One of the commonly used methods is Social Network Marketing. It is extremely effective and can add to the sales of the online business significantly. The social media sites are extremely popular among all age groups and are essentially platforms used by online audience globally. Marketing using social network can enable the company to make itself visible to a larger audience base. This can also help the company create a reliable network of online users, as the positive comments and responses provided by some users are read by other users, which further expands the network.

The author is an experienced Content writer and publisher for Business Development. Visit at http://www.brainworkindia.net/ to know more about PPC Advertising.

Source: http://www.ezinearticles.org.uk/ppc-advertising-effective-online-marketing-tool/

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Rates Improve; ?Gift of Equity? - CA Mortgage, CA Home Loan, CA ...

30 Year Fixed Rate Loan at a Cost of One Point: 3.375%* (APR = 3.599%*)

Rates improved a bit today again upon minimal economic news.

We often have buyers purchasing properties from close family members. These buyers often have minimal cash for a down payment, and the sellers (often parents) are willing to help the buyers out.

In these situations, the best option for a down payment is a ?gift of equity?. As long as the down payment is 20% or more, or as long as the loan-to-value is 80% or less, the entire down payment can be a gift of equity. No funds at all need to come from the buyer for the down payment.

The sellers simply have to attest the gift.

Often times we simply back into a purchase price by figuring out the desired loan amount, and then figuring out the purchase price simply by dividing the loan amount by 80% (to keep the loan-to-value ratio at 80% or less).

If the ?gift of equity? is less than 20% of the purchase price, the buyers will have to come in with at least 5% of their own funds.

As an aside, there is one more benefit from kids buying from parents: the kids can usually ?assume? the parents? property tax basis by filling out a special form with their county assessor.

*The above rate quote has the following assumptions: $500,000 purchase; $400,000 loan amount; 20% down payment; credit score above 740; property is SFR; borrower has sufficient income to qualify; Estimated closing costs affecting the APR include $4,000 for Origination Fee; $995 for Lender Fees; $2,300 for Title Insurance (CLTA and ALTA), $800 for Escrow Fee; and $1,000 for Prepaid Interest.
Call Jay Voorhees or Heejin Kim at (925) 855-4491

Real Estate Broker, CA Dept of Real Estate, DRE# 01524255, NMLS# 335646

Source: http://www.jvmlending.com/rates-improve-gift-of-equity-for-a-down-payment-no-cash-required

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Football Practice Notes - Friday

The mild temperatures that had taken up residence in Lexington throughout training camp have disappeared as the Kentucky football team begins final preparations for its season opener, instead replaced by the more common suffocating August heat.

For UK coach Joker Phillips, that's a good thing.

?I know the heat is coming at the right time. It's right on time,? UK coach Joker Phillips said. ?We've had really good weather throughout training camp and the hot weather is coming right at the right time. Some of (the players) aren't feeling it but we've got to push through it. We have to understand why we have to be in this type of weather, so that when we're in the fourth quarter, down seven, 64 yards to go, 2:27 seconds left, we're flawless. We are flawless. That's what we have to be.?

Phillips also discussed team captains, an academic casualty and more after practice. Read what he had to say in the House of Blue.

Matt May is a senior writer for CatsPause.com

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Home resales rise, housing recovery inches along

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. home resales rose in July, helped by low interest rates and increased hiring although the data still pointed to a slow recovery in housing that will provide only slight support for the economy.

Sales of previously owned homes rose 2.3 percent to an annual rate of 4.47 million units, the National Association of Realtors said on Wednesday. The level of sales was just below analysts' expectations of a 4.52 million-unit rate.

The U.S. housing market, in a deep rut since the 2007-09 recession, has been a relative bright spot in the economy this year.

The NAR said home prices rose last month from a year earlier and that fewer homes were sold under distressed conditions - those following foreclosures or in short sales.

"The housing sector has turned a corner, and demand will continue to improve," said Michelle Girard, an economist at RBS in Stamford, Connecticut. "The data also underscores the fact that improvement will be gradual."

Many economists think residential construction will give a small boost to the economy this year.

But home building plays a much smaller economic role than it did before the recession, and a turn for the worse in the broader economy could easily undo housing's fledgling recovery. While interest rates are low, it is still hard for many people to get a mortgage.

"The combination of a subdued outlook for U.S. economic growth and tight mortgage credit conditions suggests that a normalization in home sales remains some way off," said Ed Stansfield, an economist at Capital Economics in London.

U.S. financial markets shrugged off the data.

The pace of sales has rebounded since bottoming out in 2010, but remains about 40 percent below its 2005 peak. Indeed, the current sales pace is roughly in line with levels seen in 1997.

HOUSEHOLD DEBT STILL HIGH

With stubbornly high unemployment and a weaker global economic picture, many economists think the Federal Reserve could launch a new round of bond buying to help prop up the economy as soon as next month.

The Fed is set to release minutes later on Wednesday from its last meeting held July 31-August 1, which could give clues about policymakers' readiness to act.

The economy continues to be hindered by problems caused by the housing bubble that began to unwind in 2006, helping to trigger the deep recession.

Households are still heavily in debt, and many owe more on their homes than they are worth, making those properties harder to sell.

The number of existing homes on the market has fallen sharply since last year, though inventory rose slightly in July to 2.4 million homes. That was 1.3 percent higher than in June but 23.8 percent below its year-ago level. At the current pace of sales, the inventory would last 6.4 months.

Distressed sales - which are homes often sold at deep discounts - made up 24 percent of sales in July, down from 25 percent in June, the NAR said.

That could be helping to lift sale prices, said Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.

The median price for a home resale was $187,300 in July - 9.4 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier.

Most economists expect U.S. economic growth will pick up a bit in the second half of the year, barring potential problems from abroad like a worsening in Europe's debt crisis.

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday and U.S. government debt yields declined as weak export data from Japan underscored the headwinds facing the global economy.

A separate report showed applications for U.S. home mortgages tumbled last week, with demand for refinancing drying up as mortgage rates jumped to their highest level since late June.

The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity, which includes both refinancing and home purchase demand, fell 7.4 percent in the week ended Aug 17.

Fixed 30-year mortgage rates jumped 10 basis points to average 3.86 percent. Even with the increase, rates are still at relatively cheap levels after falling to record lows in recent months.

(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Neil Stempleman, Tim Ahmann and Jan Paschal)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/existing-home-sales-rise-july-140528925--business.html

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One Direction's Zayn Malik ditches Twitter

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Zayn Malik of One Direction performs live on stage at the Beacon Theatre on May 26, 2012 in New York.

By E! Online

Five million followers will miss the tweets of one @zaynmalik.?One Direction member Zayn Malik has not only cut down on his Twitter posts, but decided to deactivate his account all together--but not before giving his fans an explanation.?

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Before pulling the plug on his account, Malik wrote, "The reason i don't tweet as much as i use to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that i get daily goodbye twitter :) My fans that have something nice to say can tweet me on the one direction account , :) x"

Zayn isn't the first from the One Direction family to ditch Twitter -- well, kinda.

Harry Styles' rumored girlfriend Emma Ostilly said goodbye to the Twittersphere in April after being on the receiving end of some fan backlash and hate tweets.

Update, Aug. 23, 12:30 p.m. ET: Malik rejoined Twitter on Thursday, Aug. 23. "Sorry, I was getting some abuse on twitter but I dont want to let my fans down," the One Direction member?tweeted. "So I am back!! :) x"

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