Monthly Archives: February 2009

Sun 15th February 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
A Different Kind Of Auction: Own A Piece of Super Bowl History & Help Cure A Disease - We spend a lot of time writing about domain auctions. This morning I wanted to let everyone know of a different kind of auction. A charity auction ends later today, for THE pair of gloves worn by Santonio Holmes when he made the SUPER BOWL GAME WINNING CATCH, for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Superbowl XLIII, held in Tampa a couple of weeks ago. These are the actual gloves he wore when he caught the pass to win the game. The gloves are autographed by Santonio Holmes. When I first heard about the auction ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Single Letter .Biz Domains Closer to Reality - Public comment period open for 1 and 2 character .biz domain names. Last Friday Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opened up a public comment period on .biz registry NeuStar’s proposal to offer one and two character .biz domain names. NeuStar has cleared the initial hurdle at ICANN, which found no significant security, stability, or competition issues to releasing the short domain names. NeuStar’s original proposal was to offer a request ... read more ...
Sat 14th February 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
Our Valentines Day Top SnapNames.com Picks - These are our top picks for domains currently in auction or available for backorder.  Those in auction will be closing anywhere from today so get in ASAP. You can simply click on the link to backorder: jsa.com hhx.com (in Auction) proxysite.com (In Auction) backshaver.com (in Auction) dedicatedhostingservers.com (in Auction) batterystorage.com illustrating.com irritable.com beauticiancollege.com bellydancing.org boatloan.com denverairport.com (in Auction) mapped.com meshing.com momentoftruth.com motivation.net nixed.com pedicure.net repaid.com 4scores.com 51299.com 90045.com 90064.com 90230.com airportsearch.com tuu.org electronicmedicalrecord.com usedautomotiveparts.com ... read more ...
Fri 13th February 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
Steps to Register a .MX (Mexico) Domain - We thank, Juan Enrique Sánchez, President of NameAction.com for the following explanation on the roll out of the new .MX (Mexico) country code domain. Pre-Registration Period: Only those who have registered the domain under .COM.MX, .NET.MX, .ORG.MX, .EDU.MX, or .GOB.MX before MARCH 1ST 2009. Example: If you have registered store.com.mx you will be able to register store.mx Considerations: - The new owner of the domain .MX has to be the same as the .COM.MX. - If two people request the same domain ... read more ...
 
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Ask ICANN A Question Without Risking Your Life - As Andrew pointed out at domainnamewire.com the ICANN meeting is being held in a very dangerous Mexico City from March 1-7. For those that don’t know Mexico city has the highest rate of kidnappings in the world. ICANN has just made available a online form that you can use to submit a question to ICANN that they may address in their meeting. If you would like to ask ICANN a question, without risking bodily harm, you can do so by clicking here. Please note the form restricts the question to 30 words. We ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
How Do You Value A Privately Owned Company? If You’re FaceBook.com Differently Depending On Whether You’re Buying Or Selling - If you’re trying to sell or buy a private company, one of the hardest thing to figure out is valuation. In the case of FaceBook.com the valuation may depend if your buying or selling. Back in October 2007 when it sold a 1.6% stake of Facebook.com to Microsoft for 240 million, the deal implied that Facebook’s stock was worth $35.90 per share and valued the company at $15 billion. However in  June 2008, lawyers for Facebook.com, in a suit that accused the company’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, ... read more ...
 
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Hamarosan jönnek a cirill doménnevek? - Nah, én erre azt mondom, hogy az Internet Explorer követi a szabványt, a fireFox meg nem. A nem-angol betűs doménnevek MÉG nincsenek szabványosítva, de a szerencsétlen low FireFox-hűdebatárjó-überkirány júzerek máris verik a mellüket mert ezt már támogatja az atomkirály böngészőjük. Aztán mivan, ha az ICANN, mint egy nemzetközi szabványosító szervezet valamit másképp csinál? Persze, erről is tuti az Internet Explorer meg a Mikrofo$ tehet, aki történetesen ... read more ...
 
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StopSigns.com Tops Another $100K In Sales In 2 Days during NameJet.com - For the second time this week, just the domains we followed, accounted for almost $100K in domain sales at NameJet.com. Here is a list of domains sold today and yesterday: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Take Your Pick: Your Safety or ICANN Participation - Next ICANN meeting in Mexico City should be postponed and moved to a safer location. The next Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting is in Mexico City March 1-6. I’ve never been to an ICANN meeting, but would like to. Mexico City is just a short flight from Austin so it would seem ideal. Except that I don’t carry kidnapping insurance. ICANN is an international organization. It’s great that it holds meetings all across the world. ... read more ...
 
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Old Media Fail - Old media reporting on Toys ‘R’ Us acquisition of eToys: FAIL. I’ve been known to defend “old” media. Bloggers seem to think they can replace the old school media, but I disagree. How many blogger are on the ground in Iraq? Oh yeah, they’re just sitting behind their computers commenting on what the old media is reporting over there. But I have to say the old media’s initial response to Toys ‘R’ Us’ acquisition of some of The Parent Company’s ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
What a 2-year-old’s Vocabulary Says About a Future of a Internet - The latest generation will truly grow up in the internet age. So-called “Generation Y“, which consists of people born over the last 30 years, is the first generation to grow up with computers and the internet most of their lives. My daughter is two-and-a-half, and I already see the effects of this in her. If she sees a computer mouse, she knows she’s supposed to move it and click the buttons to make stuff happen on the screen (like close daddy’s important ... read more ...
Thu 12th February 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
Lesson Learned: How AMEX Failed to Protect It’s Most Exclusive Brand & Let Visa Cash In: The Tale of BlackCard.com - Most people have heard of the American Express card, popularly known as the “Black Card“. The AMEX Black Card has become a status symbol of the rich and famous.  The card has a $5,000 initiation fee, $2,500 annual fee, $250,000 annual spending requirements, and no credit limit. Over the past 10 years the black card has been written about in books, rapped and sung about in songs, and shown as a status symbol in movies and TV shows like HBO’s “Entourage”. So with the card in high demand ... read more ...
 
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Toys R Us Confirms $2.15M eToys Acquisition - Company confirms what we already thought. It was fairly clear that Eagle, LLC was connected to Toys ‘R’ Us during the eToys bankruptcy auctions. Toys ‘R’ Us confirmed the suspicion today in an Associated Press article. The article says the purchase price was not disclosed. Domain Name Wire already reported the purchase price of $2.15 M. This included a number of domain names and customer lists. The acquisition is a big boost for Toys “R” Us, which ... read more ...
 
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Interview: Donny Simonton of Parked.com - Leonard Holmes interviews Donny Simonton. In a recent post Andrew questioned the value of internet video for many purposes.  I don’t completely disagree.  My own pet peeve is pages that start playing the video as soon as you land on the page.  Give me a play button.  I know how to use it. I do believe that interviews can be a great use of video, however.  I personally get a lot more out of a video interview, because the person’s personality often ... read more ...
 
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EVOLanding Changes Names, Accepts New Domain Names - Company changes name as it releases new web publishing platform. EVOLanding has changed its name to EVO Media Group. The new name better reflects is goal of enabling people to develop web sites, as opposed to being merely a domain parking alternative. Its main product is DevHub (read review). Existing EVOLanding/DevHub customers can now add new sites to the system, up to 10 at a time, through a form within their accounts. The platform should be open to new customer ... read more ...
 
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3 Companies That Still Want to Buy Your Domain Names - These three companies are still buying domain names in the down market. Domain buyers are fewer and further between in this down economy. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Here are three companies that still want to buy your domain names. Oversee.net – parent company of Moniker, SnapNames, and DomainSponsor. Oversee.net is still buying domains and portfolios of domains. You shouldn’t expect to sell for what you would have two years ago, but the ... read more ...
 
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Why Does Everyone Love Internet Video? - Why video when words tell the story? Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released a video last week discussing the process for new top level domain names. It features ICANN CEO Paul Twomey, COO Doug Brent and Senior Vice President for Services Kurt Pritz. I got a kick out of the first comment on the video courtesy of George Kirikos. Kirikos, who has done a good job keeping the domainer community abreast of important issues at ICANN, wrote: Written ... read more ...
 
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HotKeys: The Domain Parking Service You Don’t Know Yet - Demand Media parking company is worth checking out. I’m familiar with just about every domain name parking company out there. Whether it’s someone pitching me on a story about their services, reading about it in a forum, or hearing about it through the grapevine, I have a pretty good handle on the competitive landscape. About a month ago I e-mailed back and forth with a big player in the domain industry. He’s big enough to have had his own Yahoo ad feed at ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
Hot Trend In Online Advertising: In-Text Ads - According to Fortune Magazine, the hottest trend in online advertising, is in-text advertising. Many Sites like Fox News, and MSNBC, now place links inside of stories, which look like hyperlinks to references and other sites, but these links go to advertising. Some sites double-underline the in-text ads, to differentiate them from hyperlinks while others have a preview box for users who scroll over those words with their mouse. Vibrant Media, one of the leading companies in the area, says they’re ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Let’s Take Note: Senator Snowe Is Only 1 of 3 Republicans To Vote For Stimulus Bill: Why This Maybe Bad News For Domainers - As you may know the Stimulus bill passed the Senate today with only 3 Republicans voting for the bill. What you may not know if that 1 of the 3 Republicans voting for the bill, is our old friend Senator Olympia Snowe from the great state of Maine, whom was the  named sponsored the Snowe Bill last year. As you will recall, and if you don’t read the original post, was an overwhelmingly bad piece of legislation for all domain holders. Tonight, an influential conservative political action committee, ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
FastInternet.com, Tops Off 100K In 2 Days At NameJet.com - A couple of busy days at NameJet.com result in around $100K in sales for just the domains we followed. Here are some of the top sales so far this week at NameJet.com Again sales of formerly owned IREIT domain made up most of the sales, although it appears these domains are not currently owned by IREIT but by someone who bought them from IREIT and is now selling them through NameJet.com FastInternet.com $17,100. LegalWills.com  $15,858 keywest.net  $13,900 (re-auction) gasolineprices.com  $7,987 EtchedGlass.com  ... read more ...
 
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WhyPark Gets Improved Ad Feed - Domain name parking alternative introduces new ad feed option. Domain name parking alternative WhyPark today announced it has a new advertising feed option for web sites using its service. The improved ad feed is implemented similar to a two-click domain parking page. Instead of showing contextually relevant ads on the home page of sites, it displays a search box and “related links”. Submitting a search or clicking a related link takes users to a page of sponsored ... read more ...
 
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Security Software Every Domain Owner Should Use - In light of recent security issues, here’s a software program you need to use. A security breach was discovered last week at domain name parking company NameDrive. After discovering that many domainers were using similar usernames and passwords across multiple domain parking companies, both Sedo and Fabulous sent warning messages to customers. The scary part is that the hackers likely didn’t care about getting into your domain parking account. It appears they ... read more ...
 
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Is It Time to Suspend a Live Domain Name Auction? - Results from DOMAINfest beg the question. The advent of the live domain name auction has given the domain name industry a huge boost in both high dollar investor purchases and media attention. Two years ago in New York, Moniker’s live domain name auction topped $10 million in sales. Last month in Los Angeles, the live domain auction brought in only $800,000 over two nights selling 110 domain names. It wasn’t a big surprise given the economy and what’s going ... read more ...
 
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Re-Ranking KnujOn’s Spam Domain Registrar List - Using a different, simpler, and better methodology, here are the top spam registrars. The internet media goes abuzz when KnujOn (“No Junk” backwards) releases its report of the domain name registrars with the most spam. But few people question the methodology behind the report, and blindly shame the top registrars on the report. If you know me, I don’t take things at face value. And that’s why I’m presenting a re-ranking of KnujOn’s report based on ... read more ...