Monthly Archives: January 2010

Thu 14th January 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Swiss Federal Railways Domain Case is One Big Train Wreck - Swiss Federal Railways fails in attempt to get SBB.com domain name. Swiss Federal Railways has lost its case at World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name SBB.com. The respondent in the case had founded a company under the name Small Black Box, Ltd. When that company ceased operations under the name, the domain’s ownership was later transferred to the respondents’ personal name. The panel found that the respondent has rights and interests ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Finally Hits a Mark in Showcase Auction - Latest showcase auction off to roaring start. I haven’t been impressed with the results in SnapNames’ monthly “showcase” auctions thus far. The sell-through rates have been dismal and the inventory lacking. That is, until this month. With still five days to go, this month’s showcase auction already has 80+ domain names that have met their reserves. Granted, the deck is stacked with about 700 domain names, but this is still a great start. There are two ... read more ...
 
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Domain Investment Strategies – Part 2 of 5 -

Ok, this is partial dual of my 5 partial array on what kind of domains make good investments. we wish a 3 people who review my blog will find this interesting.

Via: mwzd.com

Wed 13th January 2010
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MotorWorld.com At Godaddy Auctions By The Numbers: 14 years Old, 3K Visitors a Month, $4K High Bid; 1 Trademark - A pretty good domain is up for auction over at Godaddy.com, MotorWorld.com. The domain currently has a high bid of $4K with a few days to go. The domain is 14 years old, get around 3,000 visitors a month according to Godaddy.com has a Compete and Alexa ranking which seems to match Godaddy’s traffic estimate. The only problem is that the term has a trademark since May 2006 by Motorworld Automotive Group, Inc. which is for a “Retail store services featuring new and used automobiles, trucks, automobile ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
SuperBowl Ads Prices Fall For Only The 2nd Time In History - The price of a 30 second SuperBowl ad has fallen for only the 2nd time in its history this year. According to  TNS Media Intelligence, 30-second commercials during next month’s Super Bowl on CBS are selling for between $2.5 million and $2.8 million. That’s a drop from last year, when ads averaged $3 million. However only 4 of the 62 commercial slots remained to be sold. Godaddy.com will be making a return to the SuperBowl and is already teasing its ad on its site, which you can view here. Its ... read more ...
 
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Explosive Fight over Meth Lab Cleanup (and other Fun UDRPs) - I’ve finally found someone to clean up that meth lab in my basement. Every once in a while I come across a pending domain name dispute under Uniform domain-name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) that makes me scratch my head in bewilderment. Here’s one such case: Meth-LabCleanup.com. The case was just filed at National Arbitration Forum, so we don’t know who filed it yet. But there is an operating web site at MethLabCleanup.com, and the site at Meth-LabCleanup.com ... read more ...
 
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Google Adsense for Domains Expands Use of Keyword Hints - Self-serve domain parking program increases use of keyword hints. Google Adsense for Domains “online”, the self-serve domain monetization offering for individual domain name owners, is expanding its use of keyword hints. Keyword hints are keyword suggestions provided by domain owners when they submit their domain names to Google Adsense. As Google explains it: These keywords are suggestions supplied to Google by domain owners about the types of content users ... read more ...
 
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Report Card: TV Advertising for Geo Web Sites - After 6 months, how have my TV commercial’s fared? Six months ago I started advertising my Lakeway web site on cable TV. A few people have asked how it’s working. The answer is tricky. If the goal were merely to drive traffic to Lakeway.com, I’d say it’s not worth the cost. I could have put the cable advertising money into Google Adwords and gotten much more traffic. But it’s not just about web traffic. It’s about credibility, and that’s where ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Conference Names Keynote, Updates Agenda - Keynote named for next week’s conference. The agenda for next week’s Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name conference has been updated and now includes a keynote: Joseph McClendon III. McClendon is founder of Pro-Sequences Research Group, a “Peak Performance coaching organization”. This appears to be a very different keynote than from past conferences. Other changes to the agenda: -Brunch of Friday will include a talk on international tax structure sponsored ... read more ...
 
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How Long Until China Confiscates Google.Cn Domain Name? - The Google.cn domain name is in jeopardy. If there’s one lesson learned about country code domain names, it’s that you have little protection as a domain registrant. With Google announcing that it will stop censoring its Google.cn search results, it is basically asking for the Chinese government to shut it down. China can take a number of measures to block access to Google in China. One of the simplest steps is to just confiscate the Google.cn domain name. ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Gets Patent for Domain Parking Optimization - Yahoo gets a whopper of a patent for domain name parking optimization. Yahoo, one of the largest providers of advertising to parked domain names, has filed a patent application been granted a patent for optimizing the keyword links on “two-click” domain parking pages. U.S. patent 7,647,316 (pdf) for “Link Optimization” was filed March 5, 2007, and issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday. It describes a system that optimizes the keyword links ... read more ...
Tue 12th January 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Breaking News: Google May Pull Out Of China - According to Google’s blog it may pull out of China. Google said it detected a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China” in mid-December and that the attack resulted in “the theft of intellectual property from Google.” “These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered, combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web, have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames Monthly Showcase Auction For Jan Just Opened & Its On Fire With 3 Letter .Com’s & .Net’s - Snapnames.com Monthly Showcase Auction for January just opened up for bidding a couple of hours ago and there are plenty of bids on lots of domain names. The January auction is showcasing “1-4 Character 1 word ccTLDs” Already 33 domains have bids meeting reserve. As you might expect 3 letter .com’s are leading the way with several hitting in the four figures already. COA.com is leading the pack with a high bid of $8,816 KAT.com already is at $5,750 GLU.com is at $2,810 FXS.com is at $2,610. There ... read more ...
 
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The Schedule for The DomainFest Structured Networking Sessions Is Released: Look At Who You Will Be Able To Chat With - There are a few new features at the DomainFest.com conference in a couple of weeks but for me the new morning structured networking sessions seem the most exciting. Last year a couple of these were tried but they were schduled at the end of a busy day. This year the structured networking sessions will be held each morning between 9:00am-10:30am. The  sessions are designed to allow free-flowing discussions around a specified topic with some of the leaders in the domain industry talking about the ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Simon’s “The X Factor” Doesn’t Own Any Of Its Domains In The US or UK - Now its official. Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol after the upcoming season, in favor of his TV show in England called The X Factor which he is bringing to the states in 2011. In honor of Simon’s decision, lets take a look at some related domains to see who owns them and where there going. Xfactor.com is owned by a company called Ace Publishing, and is redirecting to an adult domain, adultfriendlytraffic.com. However, the site the domain is being redirected to, comes up with an empty page, ... read more ...
 
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NameMedia Sells $600k Worth of Domains, Vivant.com for $30,000 - With help of $30k sale, NameMedia clocks another solid sales week. It’s another week and another $600,000 plus in domain name sales for powerhouse NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains and Afternic. The company sold 327 .com domain names at a median price of $1,000 and 78 other domain names for a median price of $794. The top sale for the week was Vivant.com for $30,000. Although the domain hasn’t transferred to the new owner yet, a search for “Vivant” on ... read more ...
 
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Thought Convergence and Jay Westerdal Settlement May Be in a Works - TCI and Westerdal getting closer to resolution. A settlement between Thought Convergence and Jay Westerdal over the former’s acquisition of DomainTools’ parent Name Intelligence is closer to reality, court records show. As a result, both parties have requested a postponement (pdf) of deadlines and the trial date. The parties held a mediation session with the Hon. George P. Schiavelli (Ret) on January 6, of which Schiavelli wrote (pdf): “…during the mediation, ... read more ...
 
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Auction Shows Top .Asia Domain Names Not Worth Much - .Asia auctions don’t give much promise for resale values. If you invested in English-language .asia domain names, you probably haven’t seen much of a return on your investment. Five .asia auctions that closed at Sedo today didn’t add up to much: RealEstate.asia $6,000 Credit.asia $4,250 Single.asia $770 Wireless.asia $1,750 MP3.asia $655 .Asia currently has about 215,000 domain names registered, according to HosterStats.com. Although it represents a region, ... read more ...
 
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Trademark Group Hijacks New TLD Comments - INTA asks members to submit comments in opposition to Expressions of Interest for new TLDs. Last month ICANN opened up a comment period on its Draft Expressions of Interest/Pre-Registrations Model (EOI), which I’ve written about before. I checked in today hoping to see some constructive comments on the EOI draft, such as costs and procedures. Instead, I was greeted with short, terse comments such as: “I do not support ICANN’s acceptance of pre-registrations ... read more ...
 
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Panel Hands VisitNorway.us to Owner of VisitNorway.com - A warning to owners of “Visit” domain names. A National Arbitration Forum has handed the domain name VisitNorway.us to Innovasjon Norge, dba Innovation Norway, which owns the domain name VisitNorway.com. The basis for transfer is that the complainant owns common law rights to the term “VisitNorway”. It has applied for a U.S. design trademark for the term, but it is still pending. This case was a bit disturbing, so I did a little digging on “visit location” ... read more ...
 
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Looking To Buy An Airplane? Try UsedAirplanes.com - Site for used airplanes uses a great domain name. Looking for a used airplane? Here’s a site that just came out of beta: UsedAirplanes.com. In a press release issued this week, UsedAirplanes Inc. explained: As buyers and sellers flock to the internet and continue their mass exodus from print publications UsedAirplanes.com is well positioned online with the #1 domain name for buyers searching for used airplanes. I don’t know much about the used airplane market, ... read more ...
Mon 11th January 2010
Written by The Domains in EN
Do You Have Monetization Skills? Twitter’s Looking For To Hire You - All domainers are quite familiar with the concept of monetizing their assets; now Twitter is looking to hire people to do just that for them. Twitter has 26 job openings listed on its website, and 4 of them include variations on the word “monetization.” “Twitter is looking for new members of our technical staff to work on cutting edge monetization projects” Monetization maybe come one of those hot topics for 2010 and yes the .com domain name is registered to our fellow domainer, Mrs Jello. Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Our Picks From The DomainingTips.com Snapnames Auction Closing Tuesday - The Domainingtips.com auction on SnapNames.com closes on Tuesday at 3:15pm EST. The auction already has over $45,000 in bids so it looks like this might be the most successful of the highlighted SnapNames auctions in quite a while. Here are the domains currently with bids (reserves have been met) necklace.net $9,645 dullard.com $7,550 armchair.net $7,240 apartamentos.mx $4,940 management.mx  $4,940 tuning.mx  $4,940 casserole.net $3,595 petferrets.com $1,680 personalorganisers.com $980 There are ... read more ...
 
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Credit.fr Domain Name Sells for $850,000 - Sedo starts new year off with big sale. Domain name broker Sedo has sold the domain name Credit.fr for 587,500 EUR, or about $850,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. .Fr is the country code domain name for France. The big sale is a great way to kick off 2010, but I’m sure it will be surpassed by an even bigger deal soon. Sedo brokered another six figure sale with assistance from Moniker, selling Migraine.com for $125,000. Migraine.com has shown Sedo as the registrant ... read more ...
 
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On.biz Leads Two Character .Biz Sales Chart - Two character .biz auction site has sold hundreds of domains. Neustar has auctioned off some of its one and two character .biz domain names through Sedo and Moniker, but last month it started online auctions in conjunction with Pool at TwoDotBiz.biz. Hundreds of domain names have sold on the auction site, and more sell each day. So far the highest sale is On.biz, which took home $8,100. Here are the top ten sales: on.biz $8,100 qc.biz $3,300 88.biz 3,200 dr.biz ... read more ...