Monthly Archives: January 2009

Sun 25th January 2009
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Moniker Releases “Direct to SnapNames” Functionality - Feature makes listing domains for sale on SnapNames easy. As first reported on Domain Name Wire earlier this week, Moniker has now released a new feature that allows you to list domain names directly on SnapNames within seconds. To list domain names for sale on SnapNames, Moniker customers select the domains and then click a link “List now on SnapNames”. This adds the domain to a queue: Once you click “submit” you are taken to your linked SnapNames account ... read more ...
Sat 24th January 2009
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3 Letter .Com’s Highlight Our Top Picks At SnapNames.com 1/24 Edition: - A lot of three letter and three character domains highlight our Top Domains at Snapnames list this week. We even have a 2 character .net. All below are available at SnapNames.com for backorder. You can simply click on the link to backorder: hhx.com jxk.com fvq.com xlu.com xkg.com xqu.com uxq.com v7.net kjt.net hdz.org 21y.com 14t.com 39b.com 83f.com x7x.com fg9.com rr6.com 66v.com 8qq.com ot8.com 3oj.com o14.com 6nw.com 8ac.com 16l.com pw7.com 6mf.com 7dx.com 4141.com q3c.com 7jr.com fy9.com 5ey.com kf7.com bm7.com 9rv.com lh9.com p1v.com nv8.com oy9.com pu5.com 7kb.com a5u.com oj9.com wd8.com gw9.com runa.com naan.com discountmeds.com engravingequipment.com hobbycenter.com doctorreviews.com Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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What Is Domaining? - In preparation for my participation the a session next week at DomainFest entitled: Domaining 2.0- What Does the Next Evolutionary Phase of Our Industry Look Like” I began asking myself exactly what is domaining? I’ve see this question being asked in comments to my blog on many occasions. To me the answer is clear. Domaining is comprised of three distinct activities: The acquisition of domains The holding of domains The sale of domains. Domain acquisition can be in the form of a domain registration, ... read more ...
Fri 23rd January 2009
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Adult Extended Auction Nets $125K - The extended online adult auction from the Internext show in Las Vegas, closed yesterday at SnapNames.com with a total of $125,000 in sales. Here is a complete list of all the domains that sold. WARNING THE FOLLOWING DOMAINS CONTAIN ADULT TERMS Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo To Freeze Wages: No Exceptions - In  cost savings move, Yahoo announced this morning that effective immeditatly it would be freeze any wage hikes for the year. All employee’s are included in the freeze. WIth so many of its most talented people leaving the company already, one has to wonder if this is another Yahoo blunder. It’s fine to try to cut costs, but in a highly competitive market, freezing salaries may cause Yahoo not to lose a great number of employees but some of more of their superstars. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Google Profits Beat a Street: 30% of Revenue Comes From Adsense & Partner Traffic - Google said fourth-quarter profit, excluding one-time charges, was $5.10 a share, beating the average analyst forecast of $4.95 according to Reuters Estimates. Revenues rose 18% to $5.7 billion, in the 4th quarter up from $4.83 billion in the 4th quarter of 2007. Google owned sites generated 67 percent of revenue, or $3.81 billion, rising 22 percent from a year ago. Traffic acquisition costs, the portion of revenues shared with Google’s partners, decreased to $1.48 billion. Google’s partner sites ... read more ...
 
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NameJet.com Extends Auctions - Several auctions of NameJet.com that were suppose to end today were extended due to technical problems. In a note send by NameJet.com tonight to customers they said: “””Due to a configuration issue one of our web servers became unavailable during a portion of the auction process this afternoon.  Customers that had established a connection using one of the other web servers did not experience any issues with the auctions. The unavailability of the system to a subset of our customers impacted ... read more ...
 
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Michael Collins Leaves a ICA - Michael Collins the Director of the ICA sent out a letter tonight announcing that he is leaving, the organization. In his “farewell letter” Michael said the following: “””I have mixed feelings as I announce that I am leaving Internet Commerce Association as Executive Director to work on developing some of my own domain names. I am excited about my project, a brick and mortar to Internet transition for an auto accessory business. However, I will miss the daily contact with domainers from ... read more ...
 
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Name.com Lays Off 10% of Staff - Domain registrar feels bite of sinking economy. Domain name registrar Name.com has laid off 10% of its staff, according to a post on its company blog. After growing last year, the company started to cut back on costs in October. But the cuts were not enough. Name.com cites razor small margins on domain names and intense competition, along with the faltering economy, for its woes. Name.com says customers need not worry; these cuts will enable the company to continue ... read more ...
 
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E-Commerce Times gTLD Article Makes Little Sense - Please help me decode this article about gTLDs. I like reading opinions that are opposite mine. They help me either reinforce my opinions or consider the other side of the story. So when I came across an opinion piece by Naseem Javed this morning in E-Commerce Times that was in favor of new top level domains from ICANN, I eagerly started reading it. I quickly became lost as I tried to decode Javed’s marketing speak and sentences that make little sense to me. ... read more ...
 
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Peanut Butter Recall Gives Second Life to Domain - PeanutButterRecall.com sees surge in traffic from latest peanut butter recall. In September I excerpted part of an article by Tim Morse of Penguin Search Engine Services about ConAgra and its registration of PeanutButterRecall.com. ConAgra registered the domain name during the last peanut butter recall but never used it. When a new recall of peanut butter was announced recently, I immediately thought of this article. As it turns out, I started getting search engine ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2009
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Live DomainFest Auction for Premier Event Released - Moniker.com has released the domains that will be auctioned off at the premier live domain auction at DomainFest next week. The auction will be held at Thursday Janaury 29, 2009, at the DomainFest show in Hollywood, CA at 1:30-5:30pm PST. Live and online remote live bidding through snapnames.com will be available for this auction. There are some great domains here. There are 5 more .me domains being offered by the registry following the successful auction of 10 .me in New York at TRAFFIC as well ... read more ...
 
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Microsoft to Layoff 5,000 People - Microsoft announced today it is cutting 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. The layoffs, 1,400 of which come immediately, appear to be a first for Microsoft. The company also announced a drop of 11% in second-quarter profits, which fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. Microsoft said it was being hurt by deteriorating global economic conditions and lower revenue from software for PCs. The holiday quarter of 2008 was the worst the PC market had seen in several years. “While we are not immune ... read more ...
 
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Kentucky Domain Seziure Case Is Appealed To The Kentucky Supreme Court - Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s staff filed a notice yesterday that they will appeal the ruling of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, to the Kentucky Supreme Court. In announcing the appeal, Michael Brown, Secretary, Justice and Public Safety Cabinet said: “The Commonwealth will continue its action to protect Kentucky citizens from illegal internet gambling operations and appeal the recent Court of Appeals ruling to the state Supreme Court,” “The evidence demonstrated that illegal and unregulated ... read more ...
 
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.Mobi to Release 1 and 2 Character Domains - dotMobi, the registry for .mobi, announced that they will make available .mobi domain names with one and two alphanumeric characters, such as q.mobi, k9.mobi, 13.mobi or ny.mobi. Companies may submit expressions of interest for a one or two character .mobi domain by visiting http://dotmobi.mobi/onechar. dotMobi will respond to requests from interested brands who provide specific concepts for the mobi domain requested. All formal applicants will then be required to complete a proposal and contract ... read more ...
 
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Beware a “First Name” Domain Name Buyer - A new domain buying inquiry makes the rounds. Michael over at Coin Network has received several domain inquiries lately with an interesting twist. The buyer says his or her first name is the domain name they want to buy. Here’s an example: Hello, My name is Latroy Beneters and Im interested in buying your domain www.latroy.com Are you are interested in selling it? If you are, do you have any idea how much you want for it? If you don’t, let me know and I will ... read more ...
 
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FindaDate.com Finds a Buyer during $31,000 - Web site tops Great Domains auction. The web site FindaDate.com has sold for $31,000 in Sedo’s Great Domains domain name auction that ended earlier today. Here are other tentative sales results that I was able to collect: Starship.com – $22,500 – this seems like a lot of money for this domain. But it does have a Compete.com rank inside 500,000 as a parked domain. It currently shows ads for Star Wars items, but earlier this decade it was used by an education ... read more ...
 
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12 Domainer Expenses to Remember on Your Taxes - Here are a dozen expenses domainers should consider when filing taxes. It’s 1099 season, when domain parking companies send a flurry of 1099s to U.S. unincorporated taxpayers informing them how much they paid them in 2008. Although it’s not fun paying the associated federal income taxes (and self-employment tax), here are some expenses you can likely deduct from your revenue this year if you have proper documentation. Don’t leave any stone unturned. 1. Domain ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Great Domains Domain Auction Ends Today - With just hours remaining, several good domain names have met their reserves. Sedo’s January Great Domains auction concludes at noon EST today. With just hours to go, several high quality domains have met their reserve prices and should go much higher in the final hours. I’m surprised to see that Fired.com had such a low reserve. The domain has met the reserve and is at $10,100. The owner had been asking much more, but there’s still time for the domain to ... read more ...
 
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Third Eye Blind Wins Domain Name Dispute - Alternative rock group wins bizarre domain arbitration. This is a follow up to the story I wrote in November (Rock Group Wants ThirdEyeBlind.net). Third Eye Blind has prevailed in the dispute. In November I speculated: The owners of ThirdEyeBlind.net seem to be dodging the band by changing its whois information repeatedly. The latest whois information shows the owner is “Third Eye Blinds Curtains” of India. This seems like a ruse to claim that the domain ... read more ...
 
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IAC’s Ask Acquires Sendori - Ask Sponsored Listings, a division of IAC, acquires direct navigation company Sendori. Ask Sponsored Listings, a division of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), has acquired direct navigation monetization company Sendori for an undisclosed amount. Sendori offers an alternative to domain parking that automatically redirects type-in traffic rather than requiring a user to click on a sponsored link. For example, if you type in a car insurance domain name that would typically show ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2009
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DomainFest Low/No Reserve Live Auction List Released - Moniker.com released the list of domains for its “Live Low Reserve/No Reserve Auction”,  which will be held on Tuesday January 27th at 7pm PST at the DomainFest Show in Hollywood, CA. Both Live and online bidding will be available for this event. As always reserve prices are provided in ranges and the list is subject to change: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Child Online Protection Act Is Finally Done - The child online Protection Act, a law originally past in 1998 is finally done. The Supreme Court today declined to hear the appeal of the case. Shortly after the law was passed in 1998, a federal judge in Philadelphia issued an injunction against the statute on free speech grounds and the law has never taken effect. The Supreme Court today by declined to review the Philadelphia ruling, effectively making it permanent. The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, ruled ... read more ...
 
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Adult Silent Auction Closes Tommorow: Here’s Some Picks - The silent auction from the Internext show closes tomorrow, Thursday January 22 and 3:15pm, 12:15pm PST at snapnames.com. You can download the complete list here: (excel file) Going through the list I found some interesting domains. WARNING:  THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS ADULT TERMS For you .me lovers there are several good ones that caught my attention: blows.me swallows.me fucking.me licking.me having.me bang.me Over all there seems to be over 25 .me adult extensions but those are the ones I like ... read more ...
 
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Google Keyword Prices Dropped 5%-10% - Jeffrey Lindsay, senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein Co. who follows Google, stated today that there has been a “weakness in keyword pricing” at Google. “”””Online advertising agencies and Google AdSense affiliates suggest that the primary causes for decreasing keyword pricing were lower paid search conversion rates that prompt advertisers to bid less for keywords; and cash flow and working capital constraints forcing advertisers to lower the amount spent on advertising. Brands thought ... read more ...