Monthly Archives: March 2009

Mon 2nd March 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Off Topic: Mortgage Mess - New York Times articles seem to predict mortgage mess. I know this is the second time I’ve gone off topic in just a few weeks. But with the Dow dropping below 7,000 this morning, I have to bring this up. The origins of the housing bubble and mortgage mess are complicated but were preventable. You should blame politics in part. There’s an e-mail making its rounds about a 1999 New York Times article about the relaxing of credit standards for home buyers. The ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Survey: Parking Revenue Down, But Not Out - Many domain owners see a drop in income, but few take big plunge. With all the horror stories out there of domain parking revenue down 50%, self-reported results from the 4th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey show parking revenue isn’t that bad. To be sure, 45% of people said their domain parking revenue was down in 2008 and only 16% reported an increase. But 40% said their parking revenue on a domain-by-domain basis was stable, and only 13% saw a decline of 50% or ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Yet Another Hurdle for New Top Level Domains - Getting your TLD approved by ICANN doesn’t mean it will go online. Section 1.2.3 of ICANN’s Applicant Guidebook for new TLDs points out a stark reality for new TLDs: they may not work. Worse, they may work in some places and systems and not others: All applicants should be aware that approval acceptance of their applications by ICANN and entering into a registry agreement with ICANN does not guarantee that the new gTLD will immediately function throughout the ... read more ...
Sun 1st March 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
The “4 Hour Work Week” Blog On The Value Of Buying A Great Domain & How To Do It - James Siminoff, a self proclaimed serial entrepreneur, published a guest post on the best selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss blog, entitled How To Buy Domain Names Like A Pro. The blog is widely read with over 183,000 month visitors according to compete.com. Since many non-domainers will be reading this post (the post already has 40 comments) and since one of them maybe contacting you soon, to buy one of your domains, you need to understand what negotiating tips Mr. Siminoff is offering ... read more ...
 
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Psion Wants Intel’s Netbook.com Under Cybersquatting Statute - Netbook trademark owner claims Intel violating Cybersquatting law. Last month I warned about registering domain names with “netbook” in them. Although the term is generally thought of us an inexpensive laptop used for accessing the internet and for light computing tasks, a company named Psion has a trademark to the term for computers. It has sold a laptop called Netbook. Recently, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) filed to have Psion’s trademark stripped due to non-use. ... read more ...