Monthly Archives: January 2008

Mon 7th January 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
RegisterFly Restarts Marketing Machine - Disaccredited registrar restarts familiar marketing emails. RegisterFly, a once-ICANN-accredited registrar that imploded in a wave of scandal last year, has restarted its familiar email marketing campaigns. The company was famous for sending e-mails with too-good-to-be-true prices, including .com domains at far below wholesale prices. These emails were usually sent weekly. For example, here are some of the offers in these emails: 6/6/06: $2.75 .net domains 6/20/06: ... read more ...
 
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Hola: Mexico and .Mx - Mexico uses the .mx domain when targeting its home country. I spent the last 4 days in Playa del Carmen, Mexico at an entrepreneur retreat. As always, domains were on top of my mind. Especially when I got a call Thursday morning from Moniker about the Oversee acquisition. Unfortunately, internet access was sparse and I wasn’t able to write about it. Like many countries, Mexico uses familiar domain extensions as sub domains of its country code, .mx. Mexican domain ... read more ...
Sat 5th January 2008
Written by The Domains in EN
Why Iowa and New Hampshire?????? -                              The first presidential primary was held Thursday night in Iowa. The second primary will be held Tuesday in New Hampshire. This got us thinking. Why do those two states get to shape the presidential race?? The combined states population is less than 2% of the US population. Neither state is hardly representative of the composition of the United States. Quite the opposite. As indicated from the 2006 census, Iowa has less than 6 times less African ... read more ...
Thu 3rd January 2008
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.Mobi: Fortune Magazine Covers The State of a Domain - In an article published online today in Fortune Magazine, small business, entitled “websites for cell phones“, they examine the .mobi extension, and it’s a pretty positive article. The author of the Article Mina Kimes states in part: “If the first wave of online business was all about getting a dot-com, the next may be about adding a dot-mobi.” That’s a pretty strong statement. The article goes on to cite the sale of poker.mobi for $150,000 and ringtones.mobi which sold for $145,000. The ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net Acquires Moniker.com - Just three days into the new year and we have a blockbuster deal in the domain world. Oversee.net the parent company of DomainSponsor.com and SnapNames.com announced today that they have acquired Moniker.com. Moniker.com is one of the top ten domain registrars in terms of numbers of domains registered. Moniker.com also maintains trafficclub.com a domain optimization platform Moniker.com also conducts the live and silent domain auctions for the TRAFFIC show, the Internext adult show, and many other ... read more ...
 
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Marchex COO Sell Shares - According to cnn.com, John Keister, the president and chief operating officer Marchex Inc. sold 22,000 shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan, on Thursday and Friday for $10.36 to $10.56 a share. The stock sale was conducted under a prearranged trading plan which allows a company insider to set up a program in advance for such transactions and proceed with them even if he or she comes into possession of material nonpublic information. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 2nd January 2008
Written by The Domains in EN
Time Magazine Releases a list of a Top 50 Websites - Time Magazine released it top picks for the best websites of 2007. You can vote for your favorite. As far as looking at the list from a domain perspective there are some good pure domains, but there are many more web 2.0 type domains. Here is the current top 25 Mozy.com Tumblr.com Twitter.com Weebly.com Netvibes.com Wetpaint.com GrandCentral.com OhDon’tForget.com Zoho.com ThinkFree.com Ajax13.com Last.fm Stumpleupon.com Etsy.com Wotartist.com Fatsecret.com Chow.com Donorschoice.org Veoh.com Linkedin.com Lala.com Yapta.com Propser.com Cellswapper.com Blinkx.com Imtooyoungforthis.com Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Baidu.com - For all those still not aware of Baidu (part of our domain parking stock index), in an article published today by Investors Business Daily they reviewed the company: “China’s search leader has relegated Google to a distant No. 2 in the world’s most populous nation. In the U.S., Baidu translates into “hot stock” — or at least it should. The company’s U.S. stock has been No. 1 on IBD’s weekly IBD 100 list of top stocks every week since Aug. 27. From April to November, the stock quadrupled. ... read more ...
 
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Short-Use Domain Names: OSULSU.com - Cox News uses domain name for football event. Cox news understands domain names and their importance, even if the domain will only be in used for a short period of time. Its Dayton Daily News has a NCAA football national championship “mini” site at OSULSU.com. Perhaps more telling of the company’s savvy when it comes to domains, it also own the opposite: LSUOSU.com, which forwards to OSULSU.com. These domains are much easier to remember than alternatives, ... read more ...
 
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Top Domain Name News Stories of Dec 2007 - .Mobi and security attract most attention in December. I’m diligently working on my “Top News Stories of 2007″ article. The third installment of this annual article is taking more time than I expected. In the meantime, here are the top Domain Name Wire articles of 2007 by visits. Music.mobi “Winner” Vows Lawsuit Against Sedo – the man who thought he’d won the auction for Music.mobi says he’ll sue Sedo. I’m not sure how this will change now ... read more ...
Tue 1st January 2008
Written by The Domains in EN
NOTHING LIKE HANGING OUT ON NEW YEARS WITH CELEBRITIES - HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!                             Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Modern Domainer Ships Third Issue - Latest issue of domain magazine hits mailboxes in time for New Year. The latest issue of Modern Domainer magazine is arriving in domainers’ mailboxes this week. This is the third issue for the recently launched magazine covering the business and technology of domain names. Modern Domainer’s writers have been busy attending events lately, including the GeoDomains conference in San Francisco and the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles this past October/November. This ... read more ...