Monthly Archives: June 2009

Wed 24th June 2009
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
eHelp.com Sells For $43K At NameJet.com - Just following up on our story yesterday, the domain eHelp.com sold for $42,801 and is a nice sale if its get’s paid for and sticks (Toxic.com still looks like its unpaid for the 2nd time). Yesterday, a couple of other nice domains sold at NameJet.com including santabarbarajobs.com for $1,550, InformationAge.com for $2,665, moneyplanning.com for $3,412, GameMall.com for $3,780 and NewZealand.org for $13,101. Personally I grabbed manalapanhomes.com for $69, guess I was the only one who back ordered ... read more ...
 
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Group Of Registries Want ICANN Privatized & Out Of US Control - The world’s regional Internet registries (RIRs) have annoucend they support the  European Union’s demand, proposed by European Commissioner Viviane Reding last month, for ending of the collaboration agreement between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce. The RIRs, responsible for IP address allocation within geographic regions, have put out a joint statement saying that it was time for the US government to pull out of control of the Internet: The agreement between ICANN and the US Department ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name News Worth Reading - Two articles you should take the time to read. Over the past 24 hours I’ve read two great domain name articles I want to pass along. The first is an editorial by Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Law at George Mason University. Rabkin discusses what ICANN independence from U.S. oversight would actually mean. He points out that independence may be a bad thing, even for countries that disdain U.S. control: Down the road, one can imagine demands from Brussels that ICANN ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2009
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Bing.com PPC Clicks Up 13% Since The Switch From Live.com - Efficient Frontier Inc, which calls itself the world’s largest search engine marketer says that the number of clicks on ads served by Microsoft Bing.com search engine jumped 13% in the two weeks since it was switched from Live.com. “Those gains are significant in terms of revenue,” said Justin Merickel, marketing vice president at Efficient Frontier, which places about $750 million in text ads on top search engines worldwide. With the U.S. search ad market valued at $12 billion this year, each ... read more ...
 
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The End Of PPC? Google Starts Testing “Pay For Performance” - According to a report in Media Post today, Google chas begun soliciting advertisers to participate in an “experiment” that puts information, such as size and price, about products in search results. The ads will be served to a select group of people searching the Web in the United States at first. The ads are not billed by the click, similar to the traditional pay-per-click (PPC) model, but rather when the person purchases the item or “performance based,” meaning that Google would only get ... read more ...
 
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Next Big Money Domain? eHelp.com during Over $20K Already At NameJet.com - eHelp.com is in a private auction at NameJet.com ending later today,  and is already has a high bid of over $20K. With 208 bidders in the auction the domain could go easily higher,  but for me I think its already getting pricey and the current high bidders id maybe an indication of the lofty price on the domain: “areyoukiddingme”. I like the domain NewZealand.org ,also closing later today with a high bid of just $3,300. Best of luck to all,  and we will report back later. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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National Arbitration Forum FAIL - Double jeopardy comes to UDRP. Last week I wrote about a WIPO domain arbitration case in which a complainant refiled a case after losing the first time. The arbitrator ruled that the complainant didn’t include any information in its refiled case that it couldn’t have discovered and filed in its original case. So he dismissed the case. But over at National Arbitration Forum double jeopardy is alive and well. On April 6, an arbitrator ruled that Traditional ... read more ...
 
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Aftermarket.com Auction Ends Today, Great Domains Thursday - Two large online domain name auctions conclude this week. The online-only portion of the Domain Roundtable Aftermarket.com auction concludes today at 5 PM EDT. 269 domain names are up for grabs, ranging from $0 to $300,000. A number of domains in the under $3,000 arena have received bids already, including HealthAdvisor.com ($2,245), TopMortgage.com ($1,000), and eQuestion.com ($850). There are some well priced domains in this auction; bid online at Aftermarket.com. Sedo’s ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Usernames Set Dangerous Precedent - An entire industry was created out of what many claimed was a near criminal act of extortion, calling it cybersquatting, a term even Network Solutions referred to concerning individuals and companies that register domain names on speculation that someone who wasn’t savvy enough to register the character string when it was available would be interested in buying it later. Once Congress got ahold of the issue and legislated what the term means, the meaning changed. Now it’s called ... read more ...
 
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Go Straight to Google for SEO Truths - Matt Cutt’s video series is worth watching. There are a lot of half truths in the search engine optimization industry. So it’s refreshing to get an inside take from Google’s traveling search guru, Matt Cutts. I recommend watching his video series on YouTube. As you know, I don’t usually recommend watching videos. But Cutts “cuts” to the chase (sorry, couldn’t help myself), answering the question in the first 30 seconds of each clip and then explaining ... read more ...
Mon 22nd June 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
TechCrunch: Facebook Click Fraud As High As 100% - According to Tech Crunch Facebook advertisers have been complaining about click fraud of up to 100% for weeks. TechCrunch cites complaints of massive click fraud at WickedFire, Further the claims of click fraud  here aren’t the typically claims “alleging fake clicks, which obviously never convert to any sort of purchase or other action. But at least the advertisers see the clicks” “In this case advertisers are saying that Facebook is recording and charging for clicks that don’t exist at ... read more ...
 
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Think Your Too Old To Start A Tech Company? A New Study Says You’re Not - Somewhere along the line, we all accepted the argument that if you haven’t gotten your tech startup off the ground by the time your 18 years old, your done, over and out,  just too old to get it going. A new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation says that is just not so, finding the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high, 39 years of age. Moreover, the report finds that in every single year from 1996 to 2007, Americans between the ... read more ...
 
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Three Letter Domain Thief Loses Another Domain Name - Site Service International loses case for AHI.com. A company going by the name “Site Service International” has lost a domain name arbitration case for AHI.com. But before you cry “reverse domain name hijacking”, there’s more to this case than meets the eye. According to the complainant AHI Invest GmbH of Vienna, Austria, the domain name was stolen from it. This isn’t the first time Site Service International has lost a case for a three letter domain ... read more ...
 
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MySpace Goes After Spanish Domain Name - Social networking site wants MySpace.es domain name. Social networking site MySpace has filed for arbitration to get the domain name MySpace.es. .Es is the country code domain name for Spain. The case appears to be the company’s first arbitration case of the year and was filed with World Intellectual Property Organization. This isn’t the first time MySpace has gone after a country code domain name. In a highly publicized case last year, MySpace won the domain ... read more ...
 
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Domain Roundtable Reviewed - Domain Roundtable hits the mark in Washington D.C. The past week has been a whirlwind. I arrived in Washington D.C. a week ago Friday for Domain Roundtable. I didn’t rest until getting home Wednesday night. Here’s my take on the conference. Attendance – I estimate 150-175 people attended this year’s Domain Roundtable conference. That’s in line with other conferences lately, but I think it would have been much higher if it weren’t for unfortunate timing. ... read more ...
 
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SmartName Shops Provide Parking Alternative - Easy-to-build online stores provide alternative to standard domain name parking. A couple weeks ago I mentioned SmartName Shops, a unique parking template available to SmartName customers. The system has been available for a while on SmartName, but is now available by request on NameMedia’s other parking platforms including ActiveAudience and Goldkey. SmartName Shops are pay-per-click based templates that include an e-commerce product feed from Shopping.com. They ... read more ...
Sun 21st June 2009
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NameJet.com Starts Reserve Price Domains Auctions - In what is turning out to be a very busy Fatherday (Best wishes to all of you our there), Namejet.com announced today that is will be start to hold domain auctions with reserve prices for selected domains. NameJet.com generally starts all auctions for the backorder fee of $69. However starting today certain domains will carry a reserve price. These domains are clearly owned domains, rather than dropped domains. It will be quite interesting to see how this plays out as NameJet.com now joins Snapnames.com ... read more ...
 
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Wolfgang Puck Is Going After Some Tasty Names: .Food, .Wine, .Restaurant - According to a report, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is heading to the ICANN meeting in Sydney to support his efforts to launch new gTLD’s and has several new extensions on his menu. According to the report, he is a definite go with .Food and looking at .Wine and .Restaurant. Having someone of Mr. Pucks statue and reputation behind any of these brand couldn’t hurt, but you have to wonder if the Food Network is going to let him take over the .food extension without a fight. Likewise I would expect ... read more ...
 
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151 More .ME Domains Hit The Auction Block At NameJet.com - NameJet.com who finished up with its first .Me domain auction of registry owned .me domains, is now going for its second round of auctions. The backorder deadline starts closing on July 2 through July 15th, for 151 .me registry owned domains. Don’t expect to find the quality of the domains that was in the first bunch. (If you want to see the results of the first .me auctions click here) There is certainly no teach.me or invite.me in this group, trust.me on this one. Actually IMHO, I can’t believe ... read more ...
 
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It Pays To Work For ICANN, Especially In a Recession: Hey Wait, That’s My Money - George Kirikos posted tonight about the Executive Compensation being paid to some of the higher ups in ICANN and not only does he point out that some people are making big bucks working for ICANN, but actually they got some nice raises in this horrible economy. I kind of got a kick out of  it for a few seconds; the only one’s making more money this year than last are people working for non-profits, until I remembered, I was helping pay their salaries to the turn of $15k Per year. Here are the ... read more ...
 
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Epik Enhances Geo Domain Web Sites - Epik releases new directory pages on city domain names. When I met with Epik founder Rob Monster last week, he said the pace of development on Epik would be fast and furious. He wasn’t kidding. Within just a couple days, Epik has already launched an enhancement to location domain names on its network: directory pages. Location domains originally only had the same type of content as other pages: a home page, related articles, pictures, and video. But now each ... read more ...
Sat 20th June 2009
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Microsoft Goes “All In” Playing The Cheap Card - After years of battling out Apple over issues like technology, ease of use, compatibility and quality, Microsoft seems to have acceded all  those issues to Apple and has gone “all in” on one point: We’re Cheaper. Microsoft’s new television ads, urge people to buy windows computers because they are cheaper than Apple’s. Likewise, for its Zune Mp3 player, Microsoft’s advertising strategy is to tell you how expensive it is to fill up an ipod. The new Tune commercial doesn’t talk about ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2009
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The Power of A Great Blog: A Year Without a Post, SevenMile.com Still Gets Serious Traffic - Well its been well over a year since Frank Schilling made his last post on this blog sevenmile.com. However, his blog is still getting serious traffic and referring a ton of traffic to this blog, thedomains.com I was looking over the stats for thedomains.com the other day and its hard to believe how powerful Frank’s blog continues to be. Over the last 90 days, sevenmile.com was the second highest referrer of traffic to thedomains.com. Even though Frank has not had a post since March of 2008, more ... read more ...
 
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Hotel Research Company Wins STR.com Domain Name - Company wins three letter domain name through arbitration. Smith Travel Research, Inc, which provides hotel benchmarking services, has won the three letter domain name STR.com at arbitration. In the decision by a National Arbitration Forum panelist, the respondent was found to have registered the domain in bad faith and have no legitimate interests in the domain. The respondent used the domain name for a travel web site, earning referral fees for sending traffic ... read more ...