Monthly Archives: August 2008

Wed 20th August 2008
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The UK is Going After File Sharers - Thousands of people in the UK, suspected of sharing music, films and games over the Internet will be pursued through the courts for damages, lawyers for entertainment companies said on Wednesday. London-based law firm Davenport Lyons said it will apply to the High Court to force Internet service providers to release the names and addresses of 7,000 suspected file sharers. They could be subject to civil action in the courts under Britain’s copyright laws. David Gore, a partner at Davenport Lyons, ... read more ...
 
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China Bans Issuing Domain Names (.cn) of Olympic Winners - China’s sport authority has banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country’s Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves,  according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The General Administration of Sport (GAS) had demanded a veto over the registration of domain names featuring the names of Chinese gold medalists, said the  CNNIC The GAS provided the CNNIC with a full list of China’s Olympic team prior to the Games ... read more ...
 
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Fox News Joins A Social Networking Site, But Not The One Fox Owns - Fox News has decided to join a Social Network and its not the one Fox owns, myspace, but Facebook. Fox will roll out a redesigned Facebook page using seemingly every feature that the site offers: discussion boards, a wall for users’ comments, reviews, polls and photo submissions. Most important, the network has designed a video player built for social networking: users can watch Fox videos, create customized playlists, post individual videos on their profiles, and share the clips with friends in ... read more ...
 
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American Airlines First US Airline to Have WiFi - American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband. Passengers flying on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay $12.95 for Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami. Delta Air Lines Inc said this month it soon will start rolling out broadband Wi-Fi access for its entire domestic mainline fleet of more than 330 planes. American’s ... read more ...
 
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Bido.com Crashes Again - Bido crashes during second auction for FixedLoans.com. Sahar Sarid’s blog posts tell it all. Yesterday his post was titled “Bido is Down, But Not For Long!”. Today’s post: “Bido Auctions No More (For Now)“. For the second straight day, Bido crashed during the auction for FixedLoans.com. I had reasonable success logging in and watching the auction for the first 50 minutes, but then I just got a blank screen after that. When I was finally able to access ... read more ...
 
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September Modern Domainer Ships Next Week - Latest issue tips scales at over 125 pages. The September issue of Modern Domainer magazine will start shipping Monday, and this issue is a monster at over 125 pages. The main feature is the second in the two-part series “Domainer’s Blog Bible”, which includes selected posts from Domain Name Wire. I’m happy with the selections Modern Domainer chose as it will re-introduce some topics that haven’t been discussed much lately. Please be sure to read the ... read more ...
 
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“We Get It” Award: Zoo.org - Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle leverages Zoo.org. It’s hot down here in Texas. 100 degrees and humid. So last week my family packed up the bags and flew to Seattle for a 5 day vacation. The average high temperature in Seattle in August is 75 degrees, so it was a perfect location. Except for one thing: we chose the very week to arrive that Seattle was experiencing record heat in the 90s. Sure, 90 degrees and dry sounds better than 100 and humid, until you realize ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2008
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Marchex Connect Named a Winner of a “Best Search Engine Marketing Technology Platform for SMBs” during Search Engine Strategies - Marchex Connect owned by Marchex, a company in our Domain Parking Stock Index, was named a winner of the “Best Search Engine Marketing Technology Platform for SMBs” – small-to-medium-sized businesses at today’s Search Engine Strategies 2008 Conference and Expo being held in San Jose, California. “This honor is further recognition of Marchex’s position as the leading independent local advertising platform in the market and underscores our commitment and ... read more ...
 
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Moniker Silent Adult Auction Nets $250K - The silent adult auction from the Internext Show held in Hollywood Florida, that ended last week netted a total of $250K. With the live auction, the total adult auction did a very respectable $825K. Here is a complete list of domain that sold during the silent auction held through SnapNames.com TopModel.com                $117,650.00 flings.com                       $68,830.00 liveshows.com                 $17,650.00 freelove.com                    ... read more ...
 
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SES: Everything But Google: Media Buyers Say Google is a Most Expensive, So Why Are We Getting Paid So Little - Today at the SES show in San Jose is a panel entitled “Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options”. This is an interesting read because it is coming from the perspective of the media buyers. Interesting from the media buyers perspective,  Google is the most expensive choice, but for publishers, our share of the revenue Google pays us continues to decline. Here is a summary of the session courtesy of MediaPost Andrew Goodman is moderating the panel this afternoon. First Up Sage ... read more ...
 
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Moniker.com Post Final List For Tommorow’s Live Domain Auction - Moniker.com will be holding a live auction from the Search Engine Strategies show in San Jose, tomorrow, Wednesday  August 20th starting at 5:45pm PST, 8:45pm EST. As usual remote bidding is available through SnapNames.com If you want to bid through SnapNames.com you have to download the software in advance which you can do here: https://www.snapnames.com/liveAuctions.do Here is the complete list of domains to be auctioned in order, with the range of reserve prices for each: LIVE-10     reverselinesofcredit.com   ... read more ...
 
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Bad Economic News Continues - The bad news on the economy keeps coming. The Labor Department reported today that Wholesale inflation surged in July, leaving prices for the past year rising at the fastest pace in 27 years. Wholesale prices shot up 1.2 percent in July, pushed higher by rising costs for energy, motor vehicles and other products. The increase was more than twice the 0.5 percent gain that economists expected. Core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.7 percent. That increase was the biggest since November ... read more ...
 
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Max Levchin’s Slide Loses Domain Name Challenge - Widget company loses UDRP arbitration for 128 domain names. PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and his internet widget company Slide have lost a UDRP decision to obtain the domain SlideTV.com and 127 other associated domain names. Slide has raised over $50 million to date, and the last round was rumored to have been raised at a valuation north of $500 million. The company provides widgets for use on sites such as Facebook, and some of these widgets include video. The ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells JTR.com for $60,000 (Updated) - Three character domain name leads sales chart for Sedo this week. Domain brokerage Sedo has sold JTR.com for 60,000 EUR, or about $90,000 $60,000. [Updated 8-20-08: The information received from Sedo mistakenly listed the domain sold at 60,000 EUR rather than the correct $60,000 USD.] This is a solid three character domain name with many acronyms. Sedo also concluded a good Great Domains sale, Doctor.net for 21,760 EUR. These two sales were in Euros, which has ... read more ...
 
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Giants Play Ball for GiantsBaseball.com - Major League Baseball continues aggressive campaign for team names. Major League Baseball and the San Francisco Giants want to to get their hands on GiantsBaseball.com. The domain is owned by a Carmel, California man and was registered in 1999, and is subject to arbitration at National Arbitration Forum commenced on August 15. Although the Giants aren’t playing as well as its neighbors the Los Angeles Angels, it should have better luck obtaining this domain ... read more ...
 
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Bido: FixedLoans.com Auction and New Chat Feature - Domain sold at previous TRAFFIC auction on the block at Bido, Bido Chat in the works. Bido’s auction on Wednesday will be for FixedLoans.com. This will be an interesting auction to watch because the domain was sold at a TRAFFIC conference in 2006 for $10,000. Some may view this auction as a test of Bido’s clout in the domain auction business, but it could really go either way. If it sells for more than $10,000 it could be because fixed loans are getting a ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2008
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Mobile SEO; Death of a .Mobi - At the Search Engine Strategies show being held in San Jose, today’s topic was Death of the .Mobi. The first speaker was Dhana Pawar, Co-Founder VP Products, Yojo Mobile who asked the question; Why is .mobi less than ideal? Her Answers: Bad for SEO (Mobile and Traditional) Splits traffic, you have to duplicate effort. Splits links Splits Index size Doesn’t benefit from history Risks Duplicate content Confusing for Users There’s no preferrence for it in Mobile search engines No unique assets ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net cuts 10% of the Work force - The DomainNameNews.com has confirmed that Oversee.net has cut 10% of its work force on Friday as a money savings measure in a downturned economy. Oversee.net acquired Snapnames.com and shortly thereafter lost Network Solutions as a drop partner. Certainly the amount paid for snapnames.com included all the then previous revenue that Snap had from auctions involving Network Solution’s expired domains. Losing the NSI  contract almost immediately after acquisition, left Oversee.net, we can only suspect, ... read more ...
 
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T-Mobile 1st to Sell Google Phone - According to a report by the New York Times, T-Mobile will launch a mobile phone powered by Google Inc’s Android software, making it the first operator to do so and posing a direct threat to Apple Inc’s (AAPL) popular iPhone. The phone will hit the stores in the U.S. before Christmas, perhaps as early as October. The new device will have a touch screen like the iPhone and other smartphones that use software from firms like Palm, Microsoft and Nokia to allow users to access the Internet. But the ... read more ...
 
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CNN: US during Risk of Cyberattack - According to a report in CNN today the next large scale military or terrorist attack on the United States maybe a cyber one. Internet security experts believe such an attack could be just as devastating to the U.S.’s economy and infrastructure as a deadly bombing. Experts point to last week’s cyber attack on the former Soviet republic of Georgia, Hackers mounted coordinated assaults on Georgian government, media, banking and transportation sites in the weeks before Russian troops invaded. Known ... read more ...
 
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Mygazines.com Causing Uproar In a Publishing World - I have read many stories this week about Mygazines.com a website that allows people to copy and upload popular magazines that are currently on newsstands. Visitors can read high quality digital copies of dozens of current titles, including People, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Health and The Economist, just to name a few, in their entirety. The site, with some 16,000 registered users, is a “flagrant” violation of copyright laws, according to legal experts  but it is run by an offshore company ... read more ...
 
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Analysis: Oversee.net Cutbacks a Sign of a Times - Oversee cuts 10%; domain companies need to tighten the ship. It’s never fun when companies lay off staff. The first company I worked for out of college called a Saturday meeting to lay off 33% of the company. Worse, I was on the finance team that had to figure out how much fat to cut. The news today that Oversee.net cut 10% of its staff isn’t a big surprise to me for a number of reasons: 1. The company acquired Moniker and SnapNames. There are overlapping roles ... read more ...
 
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5 Sacrifices You Shouldn’t Make in a Name of Money - Getting rich is one thing. Being successful is another. A lot of rich people think they are successful. But there are a lot of successful people who aren’t rich and vice-versa. A friend of mine used to be in investment banking. He worked with people who made crazy money, drove fast cars, and live in nice houses. But he observed one day “None of them are happy.” He quit banking. With that in mind, here are five things you shouldn’t sacrifice just to make ... read more ...
 
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Affspy Helps Monetize Domains with Affiliate Programs - Affiliate search tool opens to public beta. Affspy, a search engine to find the highest paying affiliate offers, has moved to an open beta this week. It has been in private beta since February. Affspy is a good tool for domainers looking for alternatives to domain parking. Sometimes it makes sense to forward your domains directly to an affiliate offer that may pay $20 or $30 per action rather than a few cents per click. But finding the right offers can be hard. ... read more ...
Sun 17th August 2008
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Search Engine Strategies Show Hits San Jose This Week - The Search Engine Strategies Show in San Jose California starts Tomorrow and Runs through the 21st. In their 10th Year there will be over 70 sessions which will cover everything that is search related. According to the shows organizers the show will teach you: How search engines list Web sites for free and through paid placements; How to get free “organic” traffic by building a site that pleases search engines and your visitors; How to efficiently purchase listings guaranteed to rank your company ... read more ...