Monthly Archives: December 2009

Mon 7th December 2009
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Google Search Announces It Now Is Indexing “Real Time Results” From Facebook, Twitter & MySpace - Google announced on its blog today that it has revamped its search engine to integrate real-time search results from users of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. “I would say that real time search is the natural evolution of universal search,” Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, said at an event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Mayer said that Google was not currently selling keyword ads alongside real-time search results, and ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Allows Users To Turn Ads Off Completely - Today, Yahoo released a beta version of a new consumer tool called Ad Interest Manager which allow users of Yahoo to opt out of seeing all internet interest ads. “”To make our ads more relevant and useful for you, we make educated guesses about your interests based on your activity on Yahoo!’s sites and services. Some of the ads we show you reflect these interests. You can opt out of interest-based advertising altogether using the tools on this page.”” “””We use information ... read more ...
 
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HomeElevators.com Sells For $8K On NameJet.com - The domain HomeElevators.com sold today on namejet for $8,000.  I have been in plenty of homes that have their own 2, 3 or 4 story elevator and they are certainly a big ticket item. Other notable sales in the last couple of days on NameJet.com TheButcher.com $5,091 (re-auction) Matriarch.com  $4,400 EquityHomeLoan.com $3,630 ModelDirectory.com $3,400  (re-auction) Microcosm.com $3,100 ClubHits.com $2,599 Dermatologue.com  $2,500 ShipToShore.com  $2,280 GoldWire $2,200 Estelles.com  $2,100 StoragePods.com  ... read more ...
 
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Two Character .Biz Domains Selling Daily - Web site auctioning off two character .biz domains; first domains close today. TwoDotBiz.biz, an online auction site for two character .biz domain names, has domain auctions closing daily for the next couple months. The site was set up by Pool in conjunction with .biz registry Neustar. The first auctions started closing earlier today. A number of domains are selling for decent prices, with the majority of bids in the low three digit range but some crossing over ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Web Site Redesign Goes Live - Sedo web site redesign launches today. At the SedoPro Partner Forum in Key West this year, the company said it was working on a redesign of its site. The site had become outdated and needed a refresh. The new design went live this morning: The first thing you’ll notice is a much smaller home page that fits it the typical browser without scrolling down. To achieve this, Sedo has removed much of the real estate for current domain listings. It has replaced these ... read more ...
 
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ClimateGate.com Domain Name Sells - Domain name for controversial “Climategate” sells. Have you heard about the so-called “ClimateGate” yet? It has been all the buzz in the worldwide media over the past few weeks. It basically involves some not-so-ethical scientists trying to massage climate data to fit their needs. When the scandal broke, I immediately checked on the domain name. The domain was registered way back in January 2008, long before the current scandal occurred. But the owner ... read more ...
Sun 6th December 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
Google Launches Free DNS Service: What It All Means - Google launched their public DNS product this week allowing each computer user to reconfigure their internet settings and begin using the free service. Every internet connection relies on a DNS server to resolve domain names into an ip address. Generally this service is provided free of charge by your internet provider. In the past there have been many cases where software installs and viruses will reconfigure a user’s internet settings and set their computers to use a malicious set of DNS servers. ... read more ...
 
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Root Orange Creates New Geo-Based Domain Leasing Option - New service leases domains based on physical location. Visit the web site DivorceLawyer.com and you might get a message like this: Are you trying to reach customers in Austin TX? Make ‘divorcelawyer.com’ yours today! Contact lease@rootorange.com to see how affordable leasing this domain can be. The DivorceLawyer.com domain name is being leased based on geographic location. If you’re a New York divorce lawyer, you could capture all of the type-ins and other ... read more ...
Sat 5th December 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
Guest Post: 2nd turn domains Registration For .DO is approved. - Our Latin America Domain Expert, Juan Enrique Sánchez S., President of Domains Latin America NameAction, has written another guest post, this time on .DO domains which is the ccTLD for the Dominican Republic. NIC DO will allow the registration of 2nd level domains starting on  December 10th 2009. (second level means domains like “xxxx.com.do” rather than just xxxx.do) General Requirements: · To protect the current registrations it will start with a pre-registration period. · NIC DO will register ... read more ...
Fri 4th December 2009
Written by DomainHack.er in TR and tagged
Dünyanın en tehlikeli siteleri - Güvenlik firması McAfee senelik hazırladığı bir raporda dünya çapındaki web sitelerinden gelen tehlikeleri derecelendiriyor. Yayımlanan "Mapping the Mal Web" raporu .com veya .cm gibi popüler alan adlarının ne kadar güvenli olduğunu açıklıyor.En tehlikeli alan adlarının arasında birinci sırada Kamerun ülkesi (.cm) var. McAfee raporuna göre .cm ile biten her üç adresten biri (% 36,7) zararlı içerik barındırıyor. Olası bir yazım hatası Afrika'daki popüler alan ... read more ...
 
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Finally Some Good News: The Unemployment Rate Unexpectedly Falls To 10% In US & 8.5% In Canada - Finally some good news coming out of the monthly jobless rate that was just released for November. The unemployment rate unexpectedly declined, a sign the job market is finally starting to recover. Nonfarm payrolls fell by just 11,000 last month, slowing down from a downwardly revised 111,000 drop seen in October. It was the best showing since December 2007, when payrolls rose by 120,000. The unemployment rate, fell to 10% in November from 10.2%. Economists had forecast the jobless rate would remain ... read more ...
 
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Freedom of Speech: a Concept Not Limited to Yankees - by Paul Keating I have been increasingly frustrated with the apparent continuous attempts by panelists to find ways to grant UDRPs involving gripe sites. While unable to make much headway in UDRPs involving US respondents, panelists have regularly eroded the concept of free speech using domain names finding in many cases that the concept is “limited” to the US. The result is that the “US” approach is no longer a clear majority view. Every once in ... read more ...
 
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Contacting a Big Company That Owns a .Net Domain Name - Can a good domain name sales technique to small businesses work with a big one? In August I wrote about a successful end user domain sales strategy I’ve employed. Basically, you look up domains you registered a couple years ago to see if anyone has registered the .net, .org, or other version of the .com domain you registered. Presumably they wanted the .com, but settled for something else because you already owned it. These people are very targeted buyers for ... read more ...
Thu 3rd December 2009
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The UK Takes Down Over 1,200 domains associated to “Scam Shopping” Sites, On Request Of The Police - According to numerous reports today, Nominet the body responsible for UK domain name registrations the equivalent to VeriSign for .com domains, ” took down 1219 .co.uk domain names at the request of the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU)”. As a result, all the sites have been taken down at the registry level to prevent re-registration. The websites associated with the domain names were allegedly run criminal gangs that  purported to sell designer items, including Ugg  boots, ... read more ...
 
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Even After Lawsuits, Advertising.com Is Still Being Called Ad.com By The Mainstream Media - After the mess caused by AOL’s claim to Ad.com a domain they do not own and the lawsuits that followed, I was surprised to see an article out today on MediaPost.com entitled: “Report: AOL To Pull Premium Advertising From Ad.com“ The article then goes on to talk about how AOL’s “will stop selling premium inventory inventory through its Advertising.com ad network in an effort to boost pricing” The article then goes on to say, they expect “the company to begin selling premium advertising ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Dev Hub Case Study, Results In A 120% Increase In Revenues In Just 3 Months - Dev Hub just shared with me the results of a three month test of 50 domains chosen by the client a domain name portfolio holder.  As you can see from the chart’s below, over the three month test the domains that were previously just parked, went from making $63 a month to over $140 a month. The 50 domains went from having no search traffic when they were parked to getting almost 3,000 visitors from search in the third month on Dev Hub platform. So while some of the improvement in revenue can be ... read more ...
 
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Google Public DNS Could Be Data Treasure Trove for Google - Google DNS is a big deal. Google announced today that it is launching Google Public DNS, a free DNS resolver that promises to speed up the web. This is a big deal for web site owners and domainers. Here’s why. 1. Google may have just killed OpenDNS. OpenDNS does effectively the same thing Google hopes to do with its DNS. OpenDNS (which I personally use) makes money by showing ads when you type in a domain that doesn’t exist. This is similar to what Verizon ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Top Domain Name Stories of Nov 2009 - A look back at the past month in domain news. It’s a little late, but blame my turkey hangover. Here are the top five Domain Name Wire stories from November, ranked in order of views. 1. After Winning Case, Man Hands Domain Name to Glenn Beck – Isaac Eiland-Hall won a UDRP brought by Glenn Beck over a controversial domain name. After he won, he decided to go ahead and give the domain to Beck anyway. But his internet meme lives on. 2. Glenn Beck Loses Domain ... read more ...
 
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Private Equity Fund Invests $10M in GCV, Owner of Cricket.com - Cricket venture that owns prized domain name gets funding. Now that Cricket.com and Global Cricket Ventures is completely separated from Live Current Media, it’s getting some new life. Private equity fund Elephant Capital has invested $10 million in Global Cricket Ventures (GCV), taking a 50% stake in the venture, reports VCCircle. GCV plans to raise another $5 million. GCV has exclusive digital and mobile rights to the Indian Premier League (IPL) and owns the ... read more ...
 
Written by The MediaWizard's Blog in EN
Domain Investment Strategies – Part 1 of 5 - There are essentially five domain investment strategies that work better than most others. This is not information most people would be willing to share, but I thought I’d let it out there – if it helps one person register better domains, all the better. Investment Strategy # 1: Geo Domains City names, state names, country names in any tld are called Geo domains. Such names might be tough to monetize without development, but resale values are usually substantial and most extensions will ... read more ...
Wed 2nd December 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
The Hottest Gift This Year? A New Report Says Its A Domain Name - According to a new report by DomainRegistrar.info, (adobe reader) the hottest gift of the holiday season may well be a domain name. “”As we enter the 2009 Holiday Season, DomainRegistrar.info wanted to track another growing trend, Domain Names being given as gifts. Highlights of the results are: A 158% increase in respondents who would now consider giving a Domain Name as a gift over those who had previously considered giving a Domain Name as a gift. More specific to the 2009 Holiday Season, ... read more ...
 
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Name Administration Challenges “Cheat Code” Trademark - Frank Schilling’s company files petition for cancellation after trademark owner threatens it. If you’ve ever filed for a trademark, you know that it can be a challenging process to get approval. Just ask hotels.com and mattress.com, which have failed in their attempts. But trademarks are inevitably improperly approved by the Unites States Patent and Trademark Office every day. Such is the case with “Cheat Code”, a generic term referring to codes in video ... read more ...
 
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Dubai Law Firm Nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Law firm found guilty of abusing UDRP. It’s bad enough when anyone tries “reverse domain name hijacking” through domain arbitration. It’s worse when the culprit is a law firm. But Bin Shabib Associates of Dubai tried just such a stunt, filing a case for BSA.com. A three person National Arbitration Forum didn’t buy it. Bin Shabib Associates argued that it had rights to the term BSA on the basis that it has filed a trademark application in the United Arab ... read more ...
 
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Pinky Brand Discusses a Past, Present, and Future of .Mobi - Pinky Brand explains what’s going on with the .mobi domain name. From the moment it launched, the .mobi top level domain name has been divisive in the domainer community. As people paid tens of thousands — even hundreds of thousands — for .mobi domain names at auctions, onlookers thought these people were crazy while the buyers thought they were getting a bargain piece of property on the mobile web. Even though the rush has slowed down and people have had ... read more ...
 
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ICA Asks ICANN to Halt Expedited Domain Arbitration Plans - Domain owner organization wants ICANN to review expedited UDRP proposals. Internet Commerce Association has sent a letter to ICANN, asking it to halt plans by two domain name arbitration providers to introduce different version of expedited UDRPs. The plans by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) represent a major overhaul of UDRP policy, yet both organizations are trying to institute the change by merely adjusting their ... read more ...