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Tucows launches YummyNames Posted: 29 Oct 2008 10:10 AM CDT 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 their conclusion. [via Press Release] (c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com Visit our Calendar of Domain Industry Events.

WARNING: Enom Phishing Scam Posted: 28 Oct 2008 05:28 PM CDT We have received several reports of phishing scam emails that at first glance appear to be coming from domain name registrar Enom.com. The emails warn of a complaint for invalid whois information and ask the user to login. Of course the link that the email directs you to is not a valid Enom domain name. The site is likely harvesting user names and passwords to access legitimate Enom accounts. The link in the email actually takes you to the domain name com92.biz .  When we attempted to visit the site McAfee put up a warning page that said Reported Web Forgery!  This web site at www.enom.com.com92.biz has been reported as a web forgery and has been blocked based on your security preferences. Web forgeries are designed to trick you into revealing personal or financial information by imitating sources you may trust.Entering any information on this web page may result in identity theft or other fraud. If you do get to the site it is designed to look exactly like the enom home page. The domain is registered by a Russian at the Chinese registrar OnlineNic . A copy of the email is below. On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:25:34 +0300, “eNom Team” <info2@enom.com> said: Dear user, On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:25:34 +0300 we received a third party complaint of invalid domain contact information in the Whois database for this domain. Whenever we receive a complaint, we are required by ICANN regulations to initiate an investigation as to whether the contact data displaying in the Whois database is valid data or not. If we find that there is invalid or missing data, we contact both the registrant and the account holder and inform them to update the information. The contact information for the domain which displayed in the Whois database was indeed invalid. On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:25:34 +0300 we sent a notice to you at the admin/tech contact email address and the account email address informing you of invalid data in breach of the domain registration agreement and advising you to update the information or risk cancellation of the domain. The contact information was not updated within the specified period of time and we canceled the domain. The domain has subsequently been purchased by another party. You will need to contact them for any further inquiries regarding the domain. PLEASE VERIFY YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION - http://www.enom.com.com92.biz If you find any invalid contact information for this domain, please respond to this email with evidence of the specific contact information you have found to be invalid on the Whois record for the domain name. Examples would be a bounced email or returned postal mail. If you have a bounced email, please attach or forward with your reply or in the case of returned postal mail, scan the returned letter and attach to your email reply or please send it to: Attn: Domain Services 14455 N Hayden Rd Suite 219 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 LINK TO CHANGE INFORMATION - http://www.enom.com.com72.biz Thank you, Domain Services [IncidentID:14166] (c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com Visit our Calendar of Domain Industry Events.

Sedo weekly sales up to October 27 Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:11 PM CDT The top Sedo sales from October 20-27 included moneywatch.com for 125,000 USD, gmbh.de for 73,185 EUR, and faire-part.com for 46,501 EUR. View the full list after the jump. Domain Price Translation/Other Type .COM moneywatch.com 125,000 USD faire-part.com 46,501 EUR “participate” in French viager.com 16,000 EUR “Life” in French lismu.com 15,000 EUR website supertext.com 14,775 USD tasers.com 7,600 USD 2555.com 5,600 USD 3669.com 5,600 USD harlot.com 4,400 USD adstoday.com 4,250 USD tanky.com 3,500 USD wctw.com 3,000 USD juegosok.com 2,850 USD website comparethefare.com 2,500 USD website olge.com 2,480 USD apptime.com 2,388 USD educagames.com 2,000 USD recyclerewards.com 2,000 USD bitpop.com 2,000 EUR ccTLDs gmbh.de 73,185 EUR website livechat.de 15,000 EUR bandes-annonces.fr 6,500 EUR “Movie Trailers” in French esports.asia 3,500 EUR icasino.asia 3,500 EUR imobile.asia 3,500 EUR katharina.de 3,300 EUR serverraum.at 2,500 EUR “Server Room” in German adr.ch 2,000 EUR txm.co.uk 2,000 USD tiefkühlkost.de 1,950 EUR “Frozen Meals” in German einbrecher.de 1,600 EUR “Burglar” in German l24.nl 1,600 EUR sportoutlet.de 1,500 EUR carbontrust.com.cn 1,500 GBP milkshakes.co.uk 1,500 GBP dehon.be 1,250 EUR dial.in 1,150 USD mulberry.us 1,110 USD apo2day.de 1,020 EUR plus.ws 1,000 USD gphone.de 1,000 EUR gelbepreise.de 1,000 EUR “Yellow Prices” in German immigrationuk.co.uk 988 GBP Other telefonbuch-deutschland.info 4,200 EUR “Germany Phonebook” in German jeudepoker.net 3,200 EUR “Game of Poker” in French vf.org 3,100 EUR movietheater.org 2,550 USD website definition.net 2,150 EUR geschenk.net 2,100 EUR opendata.net 2,030 USD ppl.net 2,000 USD GreatDomains onhost.net 2,000 USD meetingroom.net 1,945 USD alex.info 1,500 USD foi.net 1,500 USD “Faith” in French glamourmodels.net 1,150 USD website nbra.org 1,100 USD esdc.org 750 EUR (c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com Visit our Calendar of Domain Industry Events.

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