Monthly Archives: May 2008

Mon 19th May 2008
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NameJet.com Sales Updates - Here are notable sales from Namejet.com for the week ending today. ftn.com $15,100 floatplanes.com $13,533 azimut.com $11,969 cancersupport.com $10,600 silos.com $8,120 snq.com $7,001 kera.com $5,201 hometrainer.com $4,544 testingequipment.com $4,300 coloradoguide.com $4,100 telescopes.org $3,900 compactrefrigerator.com $3,400 jiyu.com $3,320 shopalot.com $3,201 gaycity.com $3,100 panamacitycondo.com $2,816 sittingroom.com $2,360 cheapprojectors.com $2,200 stickymedia.com $2,100 kaiyo.com $2,100 precisionmedia.com ... read more ...
 
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Last Chance to Vote on Best Buy of TRAFFIC Live Auction - Just to let everyone know I will be closing the poll that we have been running on the “best buy” for the live TRAFFIC auction that will be held on Friday. As of now discounttravel.com is in the lead, followed closely by israel.com, babyfood.com and grass.com Get your votes in and we will see how the voting compares to the auction results. Tomorrow we will be start a poll so you can predict the total gross sales at the auction. Vote early and often Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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News Corp to Launch online Latin Ad Network - News Corp. is pooling some of its Web sites, including the newly acquired Wall Street Journal properties, to better sell financial ads targeting Latin America. The new “Worthnet.Fox” network, announced Monday, will be anchored by News Corp.’s Fox International Channels. Participants include Web sites for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch, all of which News Corp. acquired through its December acquisition of Dow Jones Co. Ads sold through the network will target online consumers ... read more ...
 
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Communicate.com Has Record 1st Quarter - Communicate.com, db/a Live Current Media,  one of the stocks in our Domain Parking Stock Index reported its 1st quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, 2008. Total revenues for the 1st quarter totaled $1.9 million, an increase of approximately 10%, compared to $1.7 million for the period ended March 31, 2007. The increase was primarily from the Health Beauty commerce product sales from Perfume.com, which increased nearly 29% over the previous ... read more ...
 
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Dell Registers MikeMingLaptops.com (Better late than never) - Dell registers domain name of new laptop designs. On May 7, 2008, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) announced new laptop covers for its portable notebooks that feature art by Mike Ming. A week later — on May 13 — the company finally registered MikeMingLaptops.com. It was fortunate that the domain name wasn’t picked up by a cybersquatter. This underscores the poor job that corporate America does at managing domain names and creating a proactive domain name strategy and ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy TDNAM Starts “Buy Now” Expired Domain Auctions - Expired domain auctions now have option to buy domains immediately. GoDaddy’s domain name aftermarket TDNAM has added a new wrinkle to its expired domain auctions. Bidders can now buy expired domain names immediately instead of bidding. Once someone bids on a domain, the “buy now” option goes away. The “buy now” option is not available on all expired domain auctions, and appears to only be on auctions with starting prices of $20 or more. The “buy now” ... read more ...
Sun 18th May 2008
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Domain Industry: It’s a Horse Race - Watching Big Brown win the Preakness yesterday reminded me how many similarities there is between the horse industry and the domain industry. Like the domain industry, where we acquire our portfolio’s basically within the industry, be it at domain auctions, the daily drop auctions, major domain auctions like TRAFFIC, and private sales and purchase with others in the industry, the horse racing industry uses the same basis for acquiring and selling of its assets, horses. Keeneland for those who ... read more ...
 
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The Domain Game Books Releases Soon - David Kesmodel’s book to be released soon, more information released. Wall Street Journal reporter David Kesmodel’s book about the domain industry, “The Domain Game”, will be released soon. He just launched a web site about the book at theDomainGame.org. The start of the book reads: In the fall of 2002, a thirty-three-year-old man living in the Cayman Islands made a rather unorthodox financial decision. He took all of his family’s savings, which totaled ... read more ...
Sat 17th May 2008
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If we usually knew then, 2006 TRAFFIC Auctions revisited - Star Date: 2006, place: Hollywood Florida, Las Vegas Nevanda Event: Live Moniker auction. Though it might be interesting with TRAFFIC east 2008 getting ready to start and take a look back at some of the domain that sold at the live TRAFFIC auctions in 2006. Many of these seem like bargains now. In two years no doubt we will look back and realize that some domains sold at next weeks auction for great prices. celebs.mobi $2,250 currencybroker.com $3,000 oilrefinery.com $3,000 forexquotes.com $5,000 gossip.mobi ... read more ...
 
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State of a Law of .in domains - The inforum published an interview with Pravin Anand, a leading IP attorney in india. In the interview he laid out the state of the law in india regarding .in domains and is an interesting read for anyone holding .in domains or considering entering that market: Here is the reprint: Pravin Anand is known as the leading IP lawyer in India. So, I’m very excited and thankful to Mr. Anand for taking some time out of his busy schedule to clarify the often mysterious law regarding domains in India. You ... read more ...
 
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Domain Development is harder than Domain Parking - Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick details the trials and tribulations of domain development. by Leonard Holmes Are you getting tired of parking domains? Are you serious about developing? For the past 12 months I have been paying $800 a month to an educational organization to learn web development, Internet marketing, and SEO. This is a lot of money, and I ask myself every few months whether it is really worth it. So far I have decided that it is. Stompernet has been ... read more ...
Fri 16th May 2008
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Baylor Bears Go Hunting for Baylor.com - Texas university files UDRP to get Baylor.com domain name. Baylor University, a Christian school in Waco, Texas, has filed a UDRP arbitration to get the domain name Baylor.com. The school’s official web address is Baylor.edu. Baylor has had a good UDRP winning streak lately. The conservative university has won seven cases for dozens of domains already this year. Among the domains it has won are BaylorBears.biz, IHateBaylor.com, and BaylorSalsa.com. It has a ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2008
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TRAFFIC Auction creates headlines in JERUSALEM - The moniker.com live TRAFFIC auction now has made news half way across the world in the THE JERUSALEM POST, whcih reported on the auciton of israel.com. Its good to see that the domain market getting press overseas. Here is a reprint of the article: “””””””You would think Israel.com would be an exciting, detailed Web site on the Jewish state, designed to attract tourists from abroad. But when the Web address is punched in to your Internet browser, all you get is a simple page with an ... read more ...
 
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Gay Marriage Ban struck down in California: Good news if your happy or if we possess GayMarriage.com - The California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on gay marriage Thursday, saying sexual orientation, like race or gender, “does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights.” In a 4-3 ruling the justices wrote that “responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual’s sexual orientation”. The ruling takes effect in 30 days. This will put the issue of gay marriage on the front burner again. It was just a couple of years ... read more ...
 
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CBS Acquires Online Network CNET & and Super Premium Domain Portfolio - In the second major Internet acquisition of the day, CBS Corp. agreed to buy online technology news and entertainment company CNet Networks Inc. for about $1.75 billion or $11.50 per share. The bid is a 45 percent premium above CNet’s closing price of $7.95 on Wednesday. CNET’s sites include News.com, TV.com, Mp3.com, MySimon.com and GameSpot.cm The acquisition, would make CBS one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the U.S., with 54 million unique visitors a month and approximately ... read more ...
 
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Ask.com goes on a .com Shopping Spree - Ask.com bought several reference sites including  Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group LLC. Terms of the deal, set to be announced Thursday, aren’t being disclosed. Dictionary.com is the most popular of the newly acquired reference sites, drawing 22.1 million visitors worldwide in March, according to comScore Inc. That represented a 20 percent increase from the same time last year. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Google now Number 1 Site in U.S. - According to a report in the Associated Press, Google for the first time, has passed Yahoo as the most popular Web destination in the U.S., according to research firm comScore Inc. Google U.S. audience grew 18% in April compared with the period a year earlier, to 141.1 million. Yahoo’s U.S. audience, grew only 7% to 140.6 million. Microsoft  came in third at roughly 121 million. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Granted a Patent for Re-Directs - According to a report by the Assoicated Press,VeriSign, Inc.,  won a patent for its SiteFInder Service which directs users to landing pages when they mistype a web address on March 4, 2008. According to the report, VeriSign Inc. said it has no intentions of resurrecting the Site Finder service, but it declined further comment on its plans for the patent, including bloggers’ speculation that it could now demand licensing fees from EarthLink Inc. and other companies that have since started similar ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Here Comes a Fight - According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today,  as we discussed yesterday, Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is launching a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo’s board of directors. Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors to replace Yahoo’s board before a deadline Thursday, including former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Frank Biondi, who has worked with Icahn on other proxy fights. According to the report Icahn is focused on pushing Yahoo back to the bargaining table with Microsoft and believes ... read more ...
 
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Arbitrage is Alive and Well on Google’s Content Network - Google’s content advertising network is full of pay-per-click arbitrage ads. I recently bought a web site about 529 college savings plans (more on that later) and added Google Adsense (NASDAQ: GOOG) ads to it. For the first couple days, almost all of the ads Google showed were for pay-per-click arbitrage sites. Most of these ads had generic descriptions such as: Looking for information on 529 plans? Learn more about 529 plans. Expert Advice. www.some-long-keyword-infused-url.com Now ... read more ...
 
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Should we Set Minimum Offer Prices on Sedo? - Should I set minimum offer prices or let people make any offer? I’m always excited when I get an email from domain aftermarket Sedo informing me that I’ve received an offer on a domain name. That excitement usually turns to disappointment when I click through to see that the offer is for a measly $60. Please, it’s not even worth my time transferring the domain. But this may be my fault. After all, you can set a “minimum offer” price on your domain listings. ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2008
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Nom de domaine - Nom de domaineQu’est-ce qu’un nom de domaine ? Les_différents noms de domaine (1): ‘country code Top Level Domains’ Les différents domaines (2) : ‘generic Top Level Domains’ Les différents domaines (3): ‘sponsored’ (sponsorisé) ou ‘unsponsored’ (non-sponsorisé) gTLDs Qui sont les ‘registry operators’ et les ‘registrars ? Comment devient-on un ‘registrar’ ? Comment faire enregistrer un nom de domaine ? Que signifie “déménager” ... read more ...
 
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How GoDaddy Domain Name Backorders Work - Backorders are only effective on domains not registered at GoDaddy. Before GoDaddy launched its domain name aftermarket TDNAM, I used to backorder a number of domains from the registrar. They were fairly good at grabbing expired domains, especially non-.coms. But then the company started sending its own expired domains to auction at TNDAM, which seems to conflict with placing a backorder. I placed a backorder a couple months ago for a domain at GoDaddy that was ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Defensive Patent - Legendary domainer’s patent-pending system could fend off ISP redirects. On April 24, 2006, domain name portfolio owner Frank Schilling filed a patent application for “Generic top-level domain re-routing system” with the help of attorney John Berryhill. This patent, if granted, could end up being very important to the domain name industry. Patent application 20060265516 describes a system for redirecting typos of domain names, such as a typo of the .com portion ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2008
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Icahn May Launch a Proxy Battle for Yahoo - Late today, reports surfaced that Carl Icahn acquired up to 50 million shares in Yahoo. According to the reports, Icahn is considering mounting a proxy fight to take control of the board of directors at Yahoo. Shares of Yahoo were up more than 5% in afternoon trading, after having been down over $1 a share earlier in the day. Shareholders have until Thursday to nominate a board of directors. The election is on July 3, 2008 when all 10 of Yahoo!’s board of directors are up for election. The question ... read more ...