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DOMAINfest Global is just around the corner and Moniker is reviewing all the submitted domains for the industry’s largest live and extended domain auctions. Some of the early contenders to be featured in the official catalog include:

• Nachos.com
• UnderGarments.com
• ParentalControl.com
• ScienceFiction.com
• TheatreTickets.net
• Loans.net
• Erotica.com
• Wife.com
• Foreclosure.net
• Husband.com
• Breed.com
• FreeCreditReports.net
• Automobiles.info
• Construction.info
• Lenders.org
• ZQ.com
• Bachelor.com
• Admired.com
• DietarySupplements.com
• Warranty.net
• Relative.com
• Introduction.com
• SnowStorm.com
• Shock.com
• Funding.com
• KosherFood.com
• RealTimeQuotes.com
• Physicians.info
• Bureau.com
• Admire.me
• Undress.me
• FourWheeling.com
• SEO.mobi
• Evaluated.com
• Zimbabwe.com
• Kathy.com
• GourmetFoods.com
• BlogPosts.com

In addition to these premium domains, Moniker will also be offering five exclusive .ME domains. This is the first time any of these domains have been available on the open market:

• Contact.me
• Read.me
• Feed.me
• Alert.me
• Save.me

There will be over 2,000 high-quality domains for sale at these auctions with the 250 finest being showcased at the Moniker Premium Live Auction. The complete catalog will be released soon, but there’s still time to have your domains considered - so submit them now for your chance to sell them at DOMAINfest Global, the most exciting live auction event of the year!

For more information on DOMAINfest Global, click here.

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Original post by Chad Kettner

Oversee.net has just launched a new fixed priced domain market place: DNEX.com. The site looks like a relauched version of their previous DomainCargo site where the company listed domains from their own portfolio. DNEX (Domain Name EXchange) currently lists over 3,000 COM, NET & ORG domains at prices ranging from $59 to $8,000 USD, payment is accepted via Paypal, check or wire transfer. It is expected that more domains will be added to the site.

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Camera.co.uk , Saws.com , Medicinas.com , Coed.com - All For Sale at Aftermarket.com Online Domain Auction November 20th . Click here to register for the auction.

Original post by Frank Michlick

Jeff Kupietzky

Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, SnapNames and Moniker announced today what DNW had reported earlier: President Lawrence Ng became chairman of the board and Jeff Kupietzky has taken over his position as president of the company. Kupietzky will also join the board of the company’s parent corporation.

Lawrence Ng

As Chairman, Ng will remain actively involved in guiding the company he co-founded eight years ago with fellow Oversee.net board member Fred Hsu. “Oversee is a very profitable and fast growing organization, on track to deliver double-digit revenue growth this year. Now is the right time for new leadership to drive the business to the next level,” Ng said. “Jeff Kupietzky has worked closely with me for several years, he has in-depth understanding of the market and the company and he’s ready to help Oversee expand its industry leadership position.”

Kupietzky is looking forward to taking on his new role. “I’m thrilled to be working with Oversee’s customers to deliver more value,” he said. “We have a very talented employee base, one that will build successfully on the firm’s relationships with our advertising and marketing partners.”

Peter Celeste, will move into Kupietzky’s former role and will now be handling Oversee.net’s Domain Services division. Pet Celeste had been running DomainSponsor,

[via DNW &amp Press Release]

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Original post by Frank Michlick

Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX: TC) has just announced the launch of their YummyNames site, which lists domains from their portfolio of names for sale online. The company has before sold individual and groups of names directly and via various brokers and is now formalizing some of their offering under a new brand.

“YummyNames, the public face of our domain portfolio service group, provides an additional means by which to realize the value of our domain portfolio assets to drive continued growth for the Company,” said Elliot Noss, President and CEO, Tucows.

There are “ten thousands of names” listed on the site; Tucows’ portfolio is estimated to contain more than 70,000 domain names. Sample names listed for sale are countryrock.com, divorced.com, lemons.com, listener.com, mygarden.com, thepub.com, tool.com and veggies.com. While the site stats that “These premium domains are priced starting at $500 USD”, it appears that none of the names has actually listed a fixed price at this point. Names are being offered for purchase or lease. The site lists previous clients such as: Bell Mobility, CanWest Global Communications, EMI Music, General Motors, Grand & Toy, Harlequin Enterprises, Johnson & Johnson,  Microsoft, Nestle and RBC Royal Bank.

The Tucows domain portfolio mostly consists of names that were not renewed by registrants, as well as domain names that were purchased as part of the Netidentity acquisition. Some of the names now listed on the YummyNames website were part of those names that were accidentally auctioned off on AfterNIC in June of this year when the auctions were canceled after they had received pre-bids their conclusion.

Tucows joins a growing list of companies shedding the bulky portfolios and liquidating their domain name assets. Fabulous began selling off their expiring names through Namejet earlier this month, LiveCurrent announced the sale of domain assets yesterday, ppc company Oversee.net has sold portions of their portfolio recently, and domainer Rick Schwartz, who typically is not a liquidator put some of his domains up for sale sold a good chunk of his inventory at the last TRAFFIC auction as well.

[via Press Release]

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Oversee.net announced today that Steve Wozniak will headline the 3rd annual DOMAINfest Global event scheduled for January 28-30, 2009, in Hollywood, California. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer Inc. along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne and has been instrumental in shaping the personal computer industry.

“It’s a great honor to have Steve Wozniak join us as keynote speaker at DOMAINfest Global 2009,” said Lawrence Ng, the CEO and co-founder of Oversee.net. “His innovative thinking and pioneering spirit inspires all of us. Guests at DOMAINfest are sure to walk away with a renewed sense of entrepreneurial determination after listening to Steve’s insights and experiences.”

DOMAINfest Global is an annual event for domainers to educate themselves in online advertising, domain publishing, domain monetizing, search-engine optimization, website development, online marketing, affiliate programs, and more.

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Original post by Chad Kettner

According to a press release going out tomorrow, Oversee.net’s public registrar Moniker has launched the DomainMaxLock Service. The new domain locking service is now available at an introductory rate of $34.99 per Domain Name Year which will later increase to $59.95.

The security measures put in place on a “MaxLock” domain are:

• Provide a government I.D. number for verification of your identity.
• Set-up custom security questions and answers, further safeguarding your domain assets.
• Provide special verification instructions and artifacts to ensure that your unique business or ownership interests are protected.
• When you request that your domains be unlocked, our security team works directly with you to verify all of the above off-line.

This is most likely just the start of a new suite of security related services we will be seeing in the Domain Name Market. Fabulous introduced additional security questions in addition to their “Executive Lock” and GoDaddy filed a patent for a system that automatically rejects domain transfers and launched their Deadbolt Transfer Protection for an annual fee of $24.99.

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Original post by Frank Michlick

All auction providers for the Targeted TRAFFIC have now released their auction lists complete with prices.

• Aftermarket.com full auction cataloge
• Moniker/SnapNames full auction catalog (XLS)
• RickLatona full auction catalog

Sedo will also be ending their GreatDomains auction during the conference on September 25th, 2008, but is not one of the live auction providers at the conference.

The Moniker auction features our advertiser’s premium domain names at No Reserve: Cleaning.com, Sax.com, Trumpet.com, Clarinet.com and MusicStudio.com.

Disclaimer : SnapNames/Moniker parent company Oversee.net is an advertiser on DNN.  The owner of the domains Cleaning.com, Sax.com, Trumpet.com, Clarinet.com and MusicStudio.com is also an advertiser on DNN.   Writer Adam Strong consults with DomainConsultant.com, a company that assists Aftermarket.com with auction strategies.

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Original post by Frank Michlick

Sedo announced today that Sam Nunez, a former Oversee.net executive, has been hired as the new Vice President of Product Management. In this role, Nunez will be in charge of product development, marketing and strategy for the leading domain marketplace.

Nunez has a rich history of building successful online products. At Oversee.net, he was in charge of product management for Domain Sponsor; before that, he was a Group Product Manager for Search Personalization and Platforms at Ask.com; and prior to that he was responsible for all of the e-business initiatives at Silicon Graphics, including the launch of the company’s first online store in 1998.

“A well known insider within the domain industry, Mr. Nunez is an excellent addition to the Sedo team,” said Tim Schumacher, CEO of Sedo. “His extensive, global expertise will help Sedo to enhance its leadership position and expand the company’s product offerings.”

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Original post by Chad Kettner

We have made a correction to the Oversee.net layoff article. The previous article mentioned in the last paragraph “The news of Oversee executives being canned comes in the wake of . . . ”

Domain Name News was made aware of the rumored news of Oversee layoffs on Friday and had received rumors of layoffs at the executive level prior to that. Having basic information and no confirmation yet from verified sources, we wrote the article ahead of the news being released on SocalTech. We mistakenly left in that executives were also released. There has been no confirmation from Oversee that executives were or were not released. According to a report from Ron Jackson at DNJournal no company executives were released.

Our sincere apologies to Oversee for this oversight.

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Original post by Adam Strong

Oversee.net has confirmed that the company has let go of 10% of its staff as of Friday. The company blames the downturn in the economy. A spokesperson told SocalTech “the cuts were in response to the general economic weakness and pressures in the industry.” According to the report cuts were made across all divisions including SnapNames, DomainSponsor and Moniker.

Oversee.net is a privately held company that owns and operates major domain name services DomainSponsor.com, SnapNames.com and Moniker.com. Oversee bought SnapNames in May of 2007 and acquired Moniker in January of 2008. The company received an investment of $150 million from Oak Hill Partners at the beginning of 2008.

The news of Oversee executives being canned comes in the wake of other recent disappointing news this month from domain companies. Dark Blue Sea and Tucows both reported less than stellar earnings. DBS pay-per-click revenues were down nearly 50% and Tucows earnings were lower but President Elliot Noss believes that parking revenue may have bottomed out as the company is seeing increases in their domain portfolio pay-per-click earnings.

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Original post by Adam Strong

According to a press release SnapNames has renewed their partnership with register.com for listing non-renewed names for auction. After being purchased by Oversee.NET SnapNames had previously lost the exclusive inventory from Network Solutions to the newly launched NameJet.

Tucows recently announced that they are dropping their own aftermarket auction as of June 10th, but have not yet announced where their inventory will be available going forward.

[via socalTech]

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Original post by Frank Michlick

Oversee.net, an online marketing solutions provider, recently announced that David Subar is their new Chief Technology Officer. Subar will be in charge of building and implementing technology that will benefit domain investors, advertisers, and consumers.

Subar is an experienced software developer and product manager, having spent 18 years with start-ups and mature companies. He was previously the CTO at PeopleLink, the CEO and Founder of Interna Ltd., a senior consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton, and was in charge of professional services at Inference Corporation (now merged with eGain).

“Strong technology is a key differentiator for our business,” Subar said, “and with Oversee’s talented team of scientists, engineers, developers and programs, I believe that we can make a significant contribution to Oversee’s success.”

[via Oversee.net]

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Original post by Chad Kettner

Moniker announced today that all of their Domain Parking customers in the TrafficClub program are to be moved to DomainSponsor.

From the announcement email: Due to other opportunities and future enhancements to our domain monetization strategy, we have decided to fully migrate all TrafficClub services to DomainSponsor effective January 31. On that day, we will convert customer accounts automatically to DomainSponsor.

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SnapNames has now published the final catalog for the upcoming DomainFest Global live auction. Also available for download is the extended catalog which lists additional domains that will be auctioned on the standard SnapNames auction platform for a period of 7 days, starting January 24th at 5pm PST.

Some of the 400 names in the live auction are:

• neighborhood.com
• dude.com
• growthstocks.com
• rex.com
• bookmarks.com
• joysticks.com
• invitro.com
• triallawyer.com
• soapoperas.com
• fastmortgages.com
• automobiles.com
• photograph.com
• organicproduce.com

The Live Auction sessions begin promptly at 4:00pm PST on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 22 and 23, both online and from DOMAINfest Global. For remote attendees, the live auction site requires a plugin that is available for download now and works with Windows XP, IE and Firefox. The plugin is called “Online Ringman” and is also used by Christie’s, Public Auto Auctions and the State of Florida.

The auction will also encompass the Grassroots.org “Domains For Change” charity auction, which lists such names as Cared.com, LowIncomeMortgages.com, Pleasure.net as well as fun domains like KevinHamforPresident.com and FrankSchillingForPresident.com.

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Original post by Frank Michlick

Oversee.net announced today that they have “executed a definitive agreement with Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm, for an investment of $150 million in Oversee.net’s holding company.” The company also secured a $60 million revolving credit facility a year ago and purchased a number of companies and domain portfolios.

According to Oversee, the funds will be used to augment organic growth and acquire technologies that will enhance its suite of services in the online marketing and domain name industries.

Oversee made the announcement this morning on their website it and was also covered by TechCrunch.

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