Monthly Archives: August 2010

Thu 26th August 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Will New gTLDs Be Successful? Distribution Will Be Key. - by Ken Hansen, Neustar [A big hurdle for new top level domains is getting attention as potentially hundreds of competitors are launched concurrently in the near future. In this guest post Ken Hansen, Senior Director of Business Development at Neustar, explains that getting good distribution from domain registrars is key. Neustar Registry Services operates the global registry for .biz and .us and provides back-end registry services for .co, .tel and .travel. -Andrew] Will ... read more ...
Wed 25th August 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
UPDATED: Quotes.com Sells For $1,150,000; Total DomainFest Extended Sales: $1,262,000 - Quotes.com just sold at the DomainFest extended auction on SnapNames.com for $1,150,000 Its a great domain and can be used for insurance, stocks and other financial markets. Compete.com shows the domain having over 20K visitors a month and Alexa ranks the domain as 450,000 most visited site. In all 19 domain names sold totally $1,261,905. With the Live DomainFest auction, and the sale of the TShirts.com domain package the night before the show, the total haul for DomainFest was just over $3 Million. Not ... read more ...
 
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A Record Low For A TRAFFIC Auction? RickLatona.com TRAFFIC Auction Results: 12 Domains Sold For A Total Of €86,820 - The RickLatona.com domain name auction from the TRAFFIC Dublin show just ended with what I’m pretty sure is an all time low for a TRAFFIC show. Just 12 domains sold for a total of 86,820 Euro’s or around $110K. Two domains accounted for 85% of the total sales, ShortFilms.com sold for €58,000 and Italian.net  €15,400. Meaning that the other 10 domains sold accounted for only €13,420 in sales. Poor The poll we took on this domain foretold the results. Not because people correctly picked ... read more ...
 
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Panelists Hears WIPO Case Even Though He Worked At The Law Firm Representing The Trademark Holder: No Conflict Of Interest? - If you have ever spent one day in law school you would learn that in the court system, judges are not allowed to hear cases in which they have any type of interest and certainly not in cases involving former clients. However in the UDRP/WIPO world that doesn’t seem to be a problem for panelists to decide cases, even if they used to work for one of the parties. Take the case of cloro.com which was the subject of a WIPO decision handed down today. The complaint was brought Clorox It was decided by ... read more ...
 
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Another $60K In .Co Land Rush Auctions Reported - The .CO registry just reported another 15 sales from the land rush auctions, including one of the top hacks, Mexi.co which went for a surprisingly low amount of just $3K. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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VirtualExpo.com Virtually Reverse Hijacked - French company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for VirtualExpo.com. A French company has been found to have attempted reverse domain name hijacking of the domain VirtualExpo.com. M. Corentin Benoit Thiercelin, who claims to run a company called VirtualExpo, filed the complaint with WIPO to get the domain name. The domain was registered in 1996, well before the complainant filed trademarks on the name. The earliest of the trademarks was registered in 2005. The ... read more ...
 
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Google May Change Domain Parking Requirements - DNS parking may be required in the future. A few days ago Sedo informed its customers that its primary advertising provider (read: Google) may change the way it allows domains to be parked. URL forwarding will be out and all domains will need to be parked using DNS. This change has been rumored for a while and likely has to do with tighter control and transparency for parked domains, as well as changes to how parked ads are served technically. According to the communication ... read more ...
 
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The IDN ccTLD Landscape: .рф and .日本 - by Aaron Krawitz, Gary Males Patrick Carleton [This article explores the latest with IDN ccTLDs such as .рф and .日本. Aaron Krawitz of IDNBlog and Gary Males of IDNDemystified co-own IDNDroplist, IDNTools and IDNNewsletter. Patrick Carleton is Executive Director of Associated Cities. -Andrew] Change is afoot in the world of IDN ccTLDs. Just a few days ago, we learned that the registry, JPRS, was the only one to apply to manage the .日本 ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Colombia Promises to be Hot, Hot, Hot - by Crystal Peterson [ICANN’s 39th Public Meeting is headed to Cartagena, Colombia this December. While much of the world pushes through frigid winter, .Co Internet Senior Marketing Manager Crystal Peterson promises it will be nice and warm in Colombia. -Andrew] I had the opportunity to travel to Cartagena in advance of the 39th Public ICANN meeting being held there in December. As the Sr. Manager of .CO Internet and therefore a host of the meeting, I am excited ... read more ...
Tue 24th August 2010
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BargainDomains.com Is 1st Marketplace That Is Allows Sellers To Include DNWStats.com In Their Domain Sale Listings - BargainDomains.com just added a feature that allows Sellers to add a link to a DNWStats.com report to the BargainDomains.com sale pages. For example checkout this domain for sale on BargainDomains.com, HandymanServices.com. As you can see sellers can show the monthly traffic and revenue certified by DNWStats.com when submitting their domains for sale. Already up in BargainDomains.com and should also be implemented  this week in in all the vertical marketplaces of Domaining.com including Catchy.com, ... read more ...
 
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Boulder.co Hits Over $10K In Bidding - The first major Colorado city being auctioned off in the Land Rush .CO auctions is Boulder.co and with a day to go, bidding has topped the $10K mark. The current high bid on Boulder.co is currently $10,150. Bidding will get extended by 24 hours if there is a bid in the last day which beats the previously high bid. Auctions for Vail.co, Aspen.co and Denver.co are yet to start We are in this auction and will let you know how it turns out. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Still Growing on Inc 5000 - Domain registrar continues growth, lands on Inc 5000 again. GoDaddy continues its growth, landing on the Inc 5000 again in 2010. As the company gets bigger it makes it harder to turn in huge percentage growth numbers, but Inc reports 153% growth over the past three years. The revenue number for 2009 was reported as $610.3 million. Earlier I had reported $750 million in 2009 revenue, but this was not a GAAP number. I’m talking to GoDaddy in the next couple weeks ... read more ...
 
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10 Reasons You’re Not Selling More Domains - Here’s what’s stopping you from selling more domain names. 1. The distribution market is still fragmented – we’re still at a point where we have a fragmented market of domain listing distribution providers. There’s AfternicDLS, Domain Distribution Network, and to some extent Sedo. GoDaddy has a separate service to get in front of end users. As long as these systems aren’t fully cooperative, it’s harder to sell domains. 2. You aren’t listing them ... read more ...
 
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Incredibly Simple Domain Registrar Innovation - by Michael Goldstein [Sometimes dead simple innovation can have big results. In this post, Michael Goldstein discusses Hover’s “No-Hassle Renewals”. By implementing this simple feature the company has been able to reduce support costs while improving customer satisfaction. Goldstein is the VP of Marketing at Tucows, the company behind Hover.] Renewals should be the fun part of a domain name registration business for registrars. The phrase “make money while ... read more ...
 
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DNS.com Charges Ahead Thanks in Part to Great Domain Name - DNS company gets marketing kick with DNS.com. Last month at HostingCon I met with Cloud.com to learn how their great domain name has propelled their business. I also got to spend time with domain industry show regular Sean Stafford, who’s latest venture DNS.com is off to the races. He proudly wore his DNS.com t-shirt throughout the show. Over tacos at lunch, Sean said that the DNS.com domain name has done wonders for his business. I caught up with him after the ... read more ...
 
Written by The MediaWizard's Blog in EN
New TLDs Shaking Up Domaining? - Don’t know if you’ve noticed but the quality of domains on auction at Domainfest, TRAFFIC and other online marketplaces has improved dramatically. On offer earlier this month were Stocks.com, Quotes.com, Alcohol.com XXX.com, Cable.com, Rate.com, Artist.com, Hamburgers.com, Koran.com, Patents.com and many more! Up at TRAFFIC are such blockbusters like UI.com, DA.com, BS.com, Lover.net, HomeSchooling.com, Mouse.com, Lifts.com and Keyboard.com among others. You now routinely hear of top of the ... read more ...
Mon 23rd August 2010
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Quick Poll: Which Domains Will Sell At TRAFFIC Dublin? - RickLatona.com will hold a live domain name auction from TRAFFIC Dublin show on Wednesday, August 25th at 3:00 PM UK (GMT) which is 10:00 AM EST. (You can see the full list here) Bidding is already opened on Proxibid. As the auction is being held on Europe all reserves are stated in Euro’s, not dollars. As of today  1 US dollar = 0.7883 euros So a domain priced at 1,000 euro’s will cost roughly $1,270. The question is which domain(s) do you think will sell. I selected my favorite domains ... read more ...
 
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Domain Industry Phrases That Make Me Cringe - by Brian Null [Brian Null has built and sold a number of successful businesses on category-killer domain names. His latest venture is MO.com, where you can learn from other successful entrepreneurs. In this post, Brian talks about a couple phrases that make him cringe. -Andrew] If I wielded the kind of influence that Andrew Allemann can throw around, I would invoke a moratorium on the phrases: “When will they get it?!” or “They just don’t get it!” In ... read more ...
 
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Catching Up with The Internet Commerce Association - by Philip S. Corwin, Counsel, Internet Commerce Association [Asking a lawyer to keep a guest post to 600 words or less is impossible. So Phil Corwin’s ICA update is a bit longer. But it’s a great update, and it’s good to know that ICA is still working for you. -Andrew] Thanks to Andrew for this opportunity to blog about what ICA has been up to so far this year – while he takes a well-deserved vacation. Domain Name Wire is an indispensable resource for anyone ... read more ...
 
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I’m Taking Some Vacation, But DNW Is Not - A much needed break, but plenty of domain content to hold you over. It’s really hard as a blogger to take vacation time. The world doesn’t stop just because you want to take some time off. But this week I’m throwing down the gauntlet and taking some real vacation. I’ll still be logging on and will cover any breaking news if necessary, yet I might be a little slow in approving comments. In the meantime, I’ve lined up some great guest posts to keep you ... read more ...
Sun 22nd August 2010
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1st Land Rush Auction Sales Reported From Closed .Co Auctions - The .Co auctions from the Land Rush application started a couple of weeks ago and now we have the first reported sales. This information comes from various sources including the .Co registry. A few disclaimers: Many of the auctions are still going on, even those that started at the beginning. Under the bidding system, if a new bid is received in the final day of the auction which beats the then high proxy bid on the domain, the auction gets extended for another full day. So for example, there are ... read more ...
Sat 21st August 2010
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From A $25K Domain To A $10 Million Dollars Sale in Less Than 2 Years: HotPotato.com - According to TechCrunch.com the site HotPotato.com is being bought by Facebook for something between $10M-$15M. What makes this story interesting, is the domain HotPotato.com was for sale at the TRAFFIC auction in Orlando in May 2008 with a reserve price of $10k-$25K. The domain which at that point was a developed site, did not sell reaching a high bid of $17,500 (You should check out this YouTube Video of Kevin Wood who owned the domain HotPotato.com which was for sale at that TRAFFIC Show talking ... read more ...
Fri 20th August 2010
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RickLatona Releases Live Domain Name Auction Catalog For TRAFFIC Dublin - RickLatona.com just published the Live domain name Auction list for TRAFFIC Dublin The auction will be held on this Wednesday, August 25th at 3:00 PM UK (GMT) or 10:00 AM EST. The Dublin TRAFFIC show will be held on August 24th and 25th. Bidding is already opened on Proxibid. As the auction is being held on Europe all reserves are stated in Euro’s, not dollars. As of today  1 US dollar = 0.7883 euros So a domain priced at 1,000 euro’s will cost roughly $1,270. Here is the list: SeoulKorea.co.uk No ... read more ...
 
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This Weeks Top .CO Land Rush Domain Auctions Starting Now - Here is the second installment of the .CO Land Rush application starting the week of August 19th. You can see last weeks here (many of these auctions are still running) The number next to the domain, indicates how that particular domain ranks out of the 250 .CO domains haing the Most Land Rush Applications as reported to me by the .CO registry. So for example, topping this most “Land Rush .CO domains”, is the hack,  Tobac.co which ranks number 4 out of the 250 with the most Land Rush Applications. There ... read more ...
 
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Flippa.com Sets A New Record: $1 Million In Sales This WEEK - According to Flippa.com’s official blog, the site has set a new personal record selling $1 Million dollars of domains and websites this week. Including the $1 Million dollars of sales this week,  Flippa has sold over $40 Million dollars in web properties over its short life. The most impressive stat well maybe that they say they sold  54% of the listing for the last 3 months. That’s incredible. “””It’s been a huge seven days at Flippa: over $1 million worth of web property has changed ... read more ...