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Rio Wins Right to Hold Olympics in 2016 – Olympics Domains Still Off Limits

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Rio OlympicsNow that Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has been awarded the Summer Olympic Games in 2016, it’s important that domain investors keep in mind the words “Olympic” and “Olympics” in relation to sporting events is a highly protected trademarked term. The International Olympic Committee is familiar with the UDRP process, and the USOC has also filed UDRP cases against for domain names that they believe infringe on their marks.

The Brazilian Olympic Committee already owns Rio2016.com, Rio2016.org, RioDeJaneiro2016.org, and they probably believe they have the right to any domain name related to Rio and the year 2016 – even without the Olympic trademark. Whether or not this is true may depend on usage (I am not an attorney and won’t speculate), but whether they have the rights to names or not doesn’t mean they won’t take action to get these names via UDRP or other means.

Last year, the Chicago Bid Committee made an attempt to take control of Chicago2016.com. They own Chicago2016.org, and they felt that the .com should belong to them as well. The owner of the domain name was forced to take legal action of his own to keep it, and as of the present time, the domain name is still owned by him.

If you are thinking about making money trading in Olympic-related domain names, you might want to think again and not take chances with the IOC or any other Olympic Committee.

Geo + Airfare Domain Names on Sale

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After the success of my last geo keyword sale earlier this week, with 235+ domain names sold, I am listing 9 additional travel domain names for sale. These domain names are $65/each, or you can buy the entire group of them for $435 total – a $150 discount. The domain names are registered at Moniker for an easy push, and the first person to post “sold” will get them.

  • BoliviaAirfare.com SOLD
  • CzechRepublicAirfare.com SOLD
  • FranceAirfare.com SOLD
  • HollandAirfare.com
  • KuwaitCityAirfare.com
  • NassauAirfare.com SOLD
  • NigerAirfare.com
  • SevilleAirfare.com
  • SouthKoreaAirfare.com

Escape an Expense Report with Expense Report Generator

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I remember the “good old days” when I was at AIG and had to fill out the monthly expense report. Having a corporate card was cool, but filling out the report at the end of the month was annoying – especially when there were random charges I forgot about – or for those charges where a receipt was nowhere to be found.

Maloney & Porcelli, a local steakhouse in New York City, has a tongue in cheek solution for your expense report – and they used a pretty creative domain name to go along with their “expense report generator” –   ExpenseASteak.com. This comedic website provides fictitious “photcopied” receipts that match any amount you type.

Pretty amusing if you ask me!

Monitor Domain Names with Domain Alerts

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At any given time, I am tracking the registration details for a considerable number of domain names. Most of these names are owned by my companies, and I follow them as a security precaution. Other domain names I follow are names I am interested in acquiring, and yet others are names I follow for other reasons. There are a whole host of reasons why it’s important to monitor domain names.

DomainTools has a good way to keep track of domain names you have an interest in monitoring. The Domain Monitor service is completely free, and it’s easy to sign up for alerts. All of your alerts will be emailed to you, so you can track a variety of changes as the happen.

Some of the things you can track:

  • Ownership changes
  • Registrar changes
  • Expiration date updates
  • DNS changes

If there are domain names you want to follow, sign up for free alerts on them pretty easily and quickly.

Help Our Friends in the Philippines

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PhilippinesBy now, you’ve probably heard the news about the devastating storms that are severely impacting the Philippines.   I know of several people with family, friends, and business colleagues in the Philippines. In fact, my friends at Offshoring.com, RickLatona.com, and TechFilipino have significant amounts of employees and business operations in the Philippines, and I know of several people who read my blog that live there.

During this difficult time, our Filipino friends can really use our support – especially some financial support if you have the means. The Philippine National Red Cross is actively assisting victims of Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) and Typhoon Parma (Pepeng), and they accept donations via Paypal to make it even easier to help.

Whether you know someone personally in the Philippines or not, they can really use our support. In addition to the Philippine National Red Cross, there are a few other organizations that are helping storm victims:

Google has set up a Typhoon Ondoy information page as well, so you can stay informed about what’s happening in the Philippines. Our friends in the Philippines can use our support.

Cisco Agrees to Buy Tandberg for $3 Billion

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TandbergBack in January of 2007, the domain name Tandberg.com was purchased for $1,500,000. The domain sale led the DNJournal weekly sales chart, and it was one of the five largest publicly recorded domain sales of the year. The domain name was sold by Tandberg Data to another company from Norway known as Tandberg, a maker of video conferencing hardware.

Tandberg ASA had to pay $1.5 million to secure the domain name since it was being used by another company operating on it legitimately. Before buying Tandberg.com, Tandberg ASA operated on the Norwegian ccTLD extenion, and they used Tandberg.no as their URL, which they still use today.

This morning, it was reported that Cisco agreed to purchase Tandberg for $3 Billion. While it’s hard to speculate whether the domain name had any impact on the company that employs 1,500 people, with headquarters in Oslo and New York, it certainly made it easier for people to find them online.

The purchase price marks an 11% premium over the value of the shares of Tandberg stock prior to the announcement.

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