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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Domain Name News: February 1 Week in Review
This Week?s DomainSherpa Interview
This Week?s News in Review
ICANN has found a sub-$500 URS provider ? 31-Jan-13
ICANN has picked a provider for its Uniform Rapid Suspension anti-cybersquatting service, one that?s willing to manage cases at under $500 per filing.
Kieren Mccarthy to Become Executive Director of IFFOR ? 31-Jan-13
McCarthy takes bigger role in IFFOR and group offers policy making services. Former ICANN General Manager of Public Participation Kieren McCarthy will become
Makeup.com Sold for $2 Million, Rodeo.com and Karate.com for $500k Total ? 31-Jan-13
L?Oreal paid $2 million for domain in 2010. I was digging through some SEC filings today when I came across some prices on domain name sales. The sales
American Automobile Association Sues Owner of Aaaclubs.xxx and Other Domains ? 31-Jan-13
AAA sues to stop adult entertainment site from using AAA in its name. The American Automobile Association, commonly known as AAA or Triple A, has sued the
DomainTools Launches Domain Report, a New Product to Provide ? ? 30-Jan-13
DomainTools, the leader in domain-name research and monitoring, today announced Domain Report, its newest product that is changing how individuals and businesses access domain information. A Domain Report creates a thorough, customized report that utilizes the world?s most comprehensive database on domains to generate an accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive snapshot of domain data.
Consumers are Advised Against New gTLD Domain Pre-registration ? 30-Jan-13
New gTLD education and awareness resource, Newgtldsite.com, is advising consumers to avoid new websites offering ?pre-registration? for domain names that may be available through the ICANN New gTLD Program this year. These offers are often misleading and carry risks that outweigh any benefits of pre-registration at this time.
Chocolate.com Domain Name for Sale ? 30-Jan-13
The Rodeo Drive of online domains is finally on the market. Sedo, the largest domain name marketplace, announced the sale of Chocolate.com and its accompanying business. Purchased by its current owner ? Internet Real Estate Group ? in 2004, the site has expanded to include 250 vendors and over 5,000 products, making it the largest online marketplace for fine chocolates. ?The site has done well for the few employees we have working on it,? says Andrew Miller, Chocolate.com?s managing director. ?However, it?s time for us . . .
Above & Beyond Promotion at Webfest Global 2013 ? 29-Jan-13
Above.com along with partners, Rook Media and ParkingCrew, will give away 4,000 domains to Webfest Global 2013 attendees.
Sedo Partners with REG.RU to Offer One-Stop Shop Domain Solution ? 29-Jan-13
Sedo today announced a new partnership with one of Russia?s leading registrars, REG.RU. This partnership offers REG.RU a one-stop shop domain name solution by integrating Sedo?s full suite of B2B products and services into the REG.RU website.
Herbalife Registers Three Ackman-related Domain Names With GoDaddy ? ? 29-Jan-13
Herbalife (NYSE: HLF) is firing back against Bill Ackman and doing so in remarkable fashion. According to the NY Post, Herbalife has bought the following domain names: ?therealbillackman.com,? ?billackman.net,? and ?therealackman.net.?
YourBigIdea.co Super Bowl Tie-in ? 29-Jan-13
Site shows you what your life might be like if you register your ?big idea?. This weekend is a big one for .co as it runs its Super Bowl ad in conjunction with Go Daddy for the third year in a row.
Chrysler Files UDRP for Nearly 1000 Domain Names ? 29-Jan-13
I was checking out the recent UDRP filings at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and I saw that Chrysler filed a UDRP for almost 1,000 domain?
Verisign?s Patents: Who Will The Company Go After? ? 28-Jan-13
Company?s patent portfolio isn?t limited to domain name industry.
Sedo to Broker Internet Real Estate Group?s Chocolate.com Domain & Site ? 27-Jan-13
Sedo is brokering Internet Real Estate Group?s Chocolate.com and the web business. The site is a marketplace for fine chocolates that lists 250 vendors and
CEO Fadi Chehade Prefers to Delay New gTLDs by Year ? 25-Jan-13
CEO Fadi Chehade this afternoon delivered a blisteringly frank assessment of ICANN?s new gTLD program, admitting that if it were up to him he would delay the whole thing by a year.
Heads Up, Competing Registries: Verisign Might Start Asserting Its Patents ? 25-Jan-13
Verisign evaluating how to make money from its patent portfolio.
New TLD Applicant That Misspelled String Finally Fixes It ? 24-Jan-13
Kerry Trading Co. finally fixes a typo in its top level domain application.
Google Backing New gTLD Trade Association ? 24-Jan-13
New gTLD applicants and others have been meeting in Amsterdam this morning to discuss setting up a new trade association to promote new gTLDs and domain names in general.
Tucows.com Tops $2 A Share ? 24-Jan-13
Shares of Tucows.com (TCX) topped $2 a share in intraday trading for the first time since 2001. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.05 before falling back to $2 where its is trading as of time of publication.
Kim Kardashian Named Keynote Speaker for the Upcoming Webfest Global Conference ? 24-Jan-13
Oversee.net has selected celebrity/entrepreneur Kim Kardashian to be the keynote speaker at the Webfest Global Conference coming up February 5-7, 2013 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California.
Go Daddy Revamps Executive Accounts, Splits Into 2 Tiers ? 24-Jan-13
Registrar renames Executive Accounts as Premier Services and makes program more exclusive.
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Affleck's 'Argo' wins Directors Guild top honor
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Ben Affleck has won the top film honor from the Directors Guild of America for his CIA thriller "Argo," further sealing its status as best-picture front-runner at the Academy Awards.
Saturday's prize also normally would make Affleck a near shoo-in to win best-director at the Feb. 24 Oscars, since the Directors Guild recipient nearly always goes on to claim the same prize at Hollywood's biggest night.
But Affleck surprisingly missed out on an Oscar directing nomination, along with several other key favorites, including fellow Directors Guild contenders Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty" and Tom Hooper for "Les Miserables."
Affleck's Oscar snub has not hurt "Argo" and may even have earned it some favor among awards voters as an underdog favorite. "Argo" has dominated other awards since the Oscar nominations.
"I don't think that this makes me a real director, but I think it means I'm on my way," said Affleck, who won for just his third film behind the camera.
The Directors Guild honors continued Hollywood's strange awards season, which could culminate with a big Oscar win for Affleck's "Argo." The guild's prize for best director typically is a final blessing for the film that goes on to win best-picture and director at the Oscars.
Affleck can go only one-for-two at the Oscars, though. While "Argo" is up for best picture, the director's branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences overlooked him for a directing slot.
Backstage at the Directors Guild honors, Affleck said he had nothing but respect for the academy and that "you're not entitled to anything."
"I'm thrilled and honored that the academy nominated me as a producer of the movie," Affleck said. "I know our movie, we're a little bit underdog and a little bit the little engine that could, and you take me out of it maybe helps ... it's just about that picture. I feel like it's OK, I'm really lucky, I'm in a good place."
With 12 Oscar nominations, Steven Spielberg's Civil War saga "Lincoln" initially looked like the Oscar favorite over such other potential favorites as "Argo," ''Les Miserables" and "Zero Dark Thirty," since films generally have little chance of winning best picture if they are not nominated for best director. Only three films have done it in 84 years, most recently 1989's best-picture champ "Driving Miss Daisy," which failed to earn a directing nomination for Bruce Beresford.
But Affleck's "Argo," in which he also stars as a CIA operative who hatches a bold plan to rescue six Americans during the hostage crisis in Iran, has swept up all the major awards since the Oscar nominations. "Argo" won best drama and director at the Golden Globes and top film honors from the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild of America.
Many of the same film professionals who vote in guild awards also cast ballots for the Oscars, so all the wins for "Argo" are a strong sign that the film has the inside track for best picture.
Milos Forman, a two-time Directors Guild and Oscar winner for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus," received the group's lifetime-achievement award. Guild President Taylor Hackford let the crowd in a toast to Forman, who was ill and unable to attend.
Malik Bendjelloul won the guild's documentary award for "Searching for Sugar Man," his study of the fate of critically acclaimed but obscure 1970s singer-songwriter Rodriquez. The film also is nominated for best documentary at the Oscars.
Jay Roach won the guild trophy for TV movies and miniseries for "Game Change," his drama starring Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in her 2008 vice-presidential run.
Roach said that he watched John McCain rush to choose Palin as his running-mate, potentially putting her second in line for the presidency.
"I said, 'We gotta talk about this,'" Roach joked.
"Girls" star Lena Dunham earned the guild honor for TV comedy, while Rian Johnson won for drama series for "Breaking Bad."
Dunham won for directing the pilot of "Girls," which focuses on the lives of a group of women in their 20s.
"It is such an unbelievable honor to be in the company of the people in this room, who have made me want to do this with my life," Dunham said.
Filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel," ''Amores Perros") won for best commercial for a Procter and Gamble spot he directed.
Among other TV winners:
? Reality program: Brian Smith, "Master Chef."
? Musical variety: Glenn Weiss, "The 66th Annual Tony Awards."
? Daytime serial: Jill Mitwell, "One Life to Live."
? Children's program: Paul Hoen, "Let It Shine."
Affleck's win Saturday nicks the Directors Guild record as a strong forecast for the eventual directing recipient at the Oscars. Only six times in the 64-year history of the guild awards has the winner there failed to follow up with an Oscar. This will be the seventh, since Affleck is not up for the best-director Oscar.
Peer loyalty might play in Affleck's favor at the Oscars. The acting branch in particular, the largest block of the academy's 5,900 members, might really throw its weight behind "Argo" because of Affleck's directing snub. Actors love it when one of their own moves into a successful directing career, and Affleck ? who's rarely earned raves for his dramatic chops ? also delivers one of his best performances in "Argo."
Affleck has had no traction in acting honors this season, and he's joked that no one considered it a snub when he wasn't nominated for best actor. So a best-picture vote for "Argo" might be viewed as making right his omission from the directing lineup and acknowledging what a double-threat talent he's become in front of and behind the camera.
A best-picture prize also would send Affleck home with an Oscar. The award would go to the producers of "Argo": George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Affleck.
But it's not as though Affleck has never gotten his due at Hollywood awards before. He and Matt Damon jump-started their careers with 1997's "Good Will Hunting," for which they shared a screenplay Oscar.
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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afflecks-argo-wins-directors-guild-top-honor-063830435.html
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
For one family, bus strike means 8 buses, 4 trains, and few options ...
Because of the bus strike, 11-year-old Alejandro and his mom, Maria Uruchima, take three buses to get to school.
One month into 2013, Maria Uruchima has already used up almost all of her sick and personal days getting her son to school.
On the verge of pulling him out of school, she found a partial solution to scheduling nightmare created by the bus strike ? but one that still leaves her missing work and commuting almost four hours each day.
?I?ve started writing letters to the chancellor and the mayor saying, this is my situation,? Uruchima said. ?I?m one of those parents that?s really struggling. I can?t?afford to keep my son home because you guys aren?t getting it together.?What can I do to help move this process along??
Before the strike began two weeks ago, her son Alejandro?s bus picked him up from their home in Corona, Queens, at 6:40 a.m to take him to P.S./I.S. 49 in Middle Village.?His 10- and 13-year-old siblings walked to school in the neighborhood, and his three-year-old sister spent the day with her grandmother. That gave Uruchima, who works in nonprofit management, plenty of time to get to her job in Brooklyn by 8:30 a.m.
Now, with most yellow buses off the streets because of a labor dispute between bus companies and drivers, Uruchima must accompany Alejandro to and from school. He has a learning disability and cannot take public transportation alone. All together, Uruchima?s round-trip commute takes eight buses and four trains, and she has been spending nearly half her workday in transit, using?personal and sick time to make up for the lost hours. But those days are running out.
Here?s the route they?ve taken daily since the strike began:
Together, Uruchima and Alejandro take the 7:10 a.m. bus. When the bus is late, Uruchima says, Alejandro misses part of the morning tutoring program that helps him keep up in his classes.
They transfer twice and arrive at school by 8 a.m.
Uruchima takes a bus and two subways to get to work in Brooklyn by 9:15 a.m., then does the same commute in reverse, leaving work at 1:45 p.m. to make it to P.S./I.S. 49 by 3 p.m. She and Alejandro take three buses home.
Uruchima has been searching for a solution since day one of the strike, knowing that if it continued, she would be stuck between two bad options: putting her job in jeopardy and keeping her son out of school.
Uruchima brought Alejandro to school in a cab for the first few days of the strike, but it was a strain to front the money and wait to be reimbursed by the Department of Education. More than a week into the strike, the department rolled out a plan to help parents bill the cost directly to the city, but accessing that option brings its own complications, so Uruchima stuck with the bus.
If she could pick up Alejandro just a few hours later, she thought, she might be able to make things work. That would let her spend more than four and a half hours a day in her office in between commutes. She asked the school?s parent coordinator if Alejandro could join the after-school program.
?At the end of this week, I will have used up my personal days,? Uruchima said on Tuesday. ?What then? I?have no idea. ? I haven?t heard anything form the school at all. I?ve been the one reaching out to them, saying, what are the options you guys can provide me for him to stay there??
For the first two weeks, Uruchima said, she was told that the school couldn?t put him in the after-school program because of uncertainty about how long the strike would last.
Uruchima was seriously considering having her son spend the day at home with his grandmother. In anticipation of absences due to the strike, schools across the city are posting material online, and Uruchima figured she could go through the materials with her son when she got back from work.
?Pretty much he would have to wait for me to come home to give him those instructions that they have online on the Department of Education,? she said.
Then, this morning, the school agreed to enroll Alejandro in an after-school program that lasts until 6 p.m. But that?s a band-aid solution reached by a creative parent and a single school. So while Alejandro?s attendance and his mother?s job are safe for now, but many other parents across the city whose children can?t travel on public transportation alone still face the lose-lose decision Uruchima did until today.
Alejandro?s school?s solution reflects the strategy the city is using at this point in the strike. As?Chancellor Dennis Walcott wrote in a message to principals on Tuesday, ?We have shifted from broad initial preparations to more tailored options for students disproportionately affected by the absence of bus service.?
Recognizing that many parents are still stuck, the?special education advocacy community is ramping up pressure on Mayor Bloomberg to find a way to end the strike. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has?called a press conference for Tuesday afternoon.
The strike shows no sign of ending. Mediation efforts have failed, and the National Labor Relations Board ruled today?that the strike is legal and can go on.
Uruchima counts herself lucky for her new schedule: She?ll leave at 7 a.m., get home at 8 p.m., and spend nearly four of the 13 hours in between commuting until the bus strike ends.
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New device traps particulates, kills airborne pathogens
Jan. 31, 2013 ? A new device called a soft X-ray electrostatic precipitator protected immunocompromised mice from airborne pathogenic bacteria, viruses, ultrafine particles, and allergens, according to a paper published online ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. This device, known for short as a SXC ESP, is highly versatile, with multiple potential uses, and Washington University is working on licensing the technology.
"Small particles are difficult to remove, and our device overcomes that barrier," says Pratim Biswas of Washington University, St. Louis. The device not only captures particles with a high level of efficiency that has never before been achieved; it also inactivates them. Even bioterror agents are blocked and completely inactivated, says Biswas.
The range of potential uses includes indoor protection of susceptible populations, such as people with respiratory illness or inhalation-induced allergies, and young children; protection of buildings from bio-terror attack; protection of individuals in hospital surgical theaters, for example, during open organ surgery; protection in clean rooms for semiconductor fabrication; removal of ultrafine particles in power plants; and capture of diesel exhaust particulates, says Biswas.
The device could be used in homes, with a cost similar to that of high efficiency air cleaners, says Biswas. "But it would be much easier to operate, and much more effective," he adds. It could be added into stand-alone indoor air cleaners, or incorporated into HVAC systems in homes, offices, and even in aircraft cabins. In the study, the device exceeded standards for high efficiency articulate air filters, which must be capable of removing particles larger than 0.3 micrometers with 99.97 percent efficiency.
The SXC ESP works by placing a charge on the particles -- "which it does very effectively," says Biswas -- and then using an electrical field to trap the particles. The SXC unit then also completely inactivates biological particles, by irradiating them, and photoionizing them -- as UV light does, only more energetically.
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- E. M. Kettleson, J. M. Schriewer, R. M. L. Buller, P. Biswas. Soft X-ray Enhanced Electrostatic Precipitation for Protection against Inhalable Allergens, Ultrafine Particles, and Microbial Infections. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2012; DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02897-12
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Fox's Geraldo Rivera weighing US Senate run in NJ
FILE - Geraldo Rivera on the "Fox & friends" television program in New York in this June 25, 2010 file photo. Rivera, who hosts a weekend show on Fox News Channel, said Thursday Jan. 31, 2013 he's seriously thinking about running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
FILE - Geraldo Rivera on the "Fox & friends" television program in New York in this June 25, 2010 file photo. Rivera, who hosts a weekend show on Fox News Channel, said Thursday Jan. 31, 2013 he's seriously thinking about running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? Geraldo Rivera, who hosts a weekend show on Fox News Channel, said Thursday he's seriously thinking about running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey.
"Buckle your seat belts!" said Rivera before announcing, on his radio show on WABC-AM in New York, that he is "truly contemplating" a Senate bid.
He said he has spoken to some people in the New Jersey GOP about a run, but he didn't say what they told him.
Rivera got a mixed response when he asked his 30,000 Twitter followers how they feel about him challenging either Sen. Frank Lautenberg or Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
At 89, Lautenberg is the oldest sitting U.S. senator. The Democrat hasn't said if he will seek re-election.
Booker, also a Democrat, has announced he is exploring a run but hasn't made clear if he would challenge Lautenberg in a primary, should he seek another term.
No Republican has formally announced an interest in running.
Rivera, who is 69, said he has commitments to Fox and the radio show, but "I figure at my age if I'm going to do it, I gotta do it."
"And there doesn't seem to be any Republicans ready to work against or run against" Lautenberg or Booker, he said.
The New Jersey Republican party did not return an email asking for comment.
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PFT: Birk urges fellow players to donate their brains
Getty ImagesIf you?re like most NFL fans I?ve heard from in the last few weeks, you probably think Michael Strahan deserves to be voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame tomorrow. And same with Larry Allen, Jonathan Ogden, Warren Sapp, Jerome Bettis, Cris Carter and, depending on your preferences, a few more players and maybe a coach and an owner.
But they can?t all get into the Hall of Fame.
We won?t find out until Saturday afternoon who will be included in the Hall of Fame?s Class of 2013, but we can already say with absolute certainty that the selection committee?s decision will be controversial, that some fans will be angry, some feelings will be hurt, and few people will endorse all the selections. That?s because the Hall of Fame?s rules mandate that 10 of the 15 modern-era finalists have to be excluded: A maximum of five modern-era candidates can make it.
So if you want to say who you?d include, you first have to name 10 of these 15 men whom you would exclude: Larry Allen, Jonathan Ogden, Warren Sapp, Michael Strahan, Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, Cris Carter, Andre Reed, Will Shields, Charles Haley, Kevin Greene, Aeneas Williams, Bill Parcells, Eddie DeBartolo Jr. and Art Modell.
Personally, if I could only choose five of those men to make it into the Hall of Fame, I?d probably go with Strahan, Allen, Ogden, Shields and Parcells. That means I?d exclude Sapp, Bettis, Brown, Carter, Reed, Haley, Greene, Williams, DeBartolo and Modell.
That does not mean I don?t think any of those 10 deserve to make it. It simply means that under the Hall of Fame?s rules, which mandate that at least 10 of the 15 finalists are kept out every year, those are the 10 finalists I?d keep out. (The two senior nominees, Curley Culp and Dave Robinson, are considered separately.)
I think there are problems with the Hall of Fame selection process: I?d like to see more transparency and a more diverse array of voices in the discussion than we currently get with the 46-member selection committee meeting behind closed doors every year on the day before the Super Bowl. But I don?t blame the selection committee for the controversy that?s sure to break out on Saturday evening. That controversy is a guaranteed result of a simple fact: Only five men can be chosen from a list of finalists that includes more than five worthy Hall of Famers.
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