Monthly Archives: August 2010

Mon 16th August 2010
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Our Picks From The SnapNames Monthly Showcase Ending Tommorow - Snapnames.com monthly showcase auction for August ends tomorrow at 3:15pm EST. With everyone focused on the Domainfest Show this week in New York, I think this auction has pretty much gone unnoticed. However there are over 200 domains up for auction, with the highest priced domain names in the auction being Prince.com and Conservatory.com, both with a stated reserve range of $250K-$500K. Here are our picks from the auction: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Sells Lottery.Net For $220K Through Sedo.com - Sedo.com has brokered the sale of a great domain, Lottery.net for $220,000. The Seller was Frank Schilling’s, Name Administration and the buyer was Parthenon Investments/BCM Parthenon which is located in London. Jeffrey Gabriel was the broker which handled the sale for Sedo.com A great domain at a very fair price. We congratulate the seller and the buyer. As a side note the domain Lotto.info is up for sale at DomainFest this week and already has a pre-bid of $5K Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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David Clements Buys Cheesecake.com, Launches Site - Well-known face in domainer circles launches ambitious ecommerce operations. David Clements, former business partner of Rick Latona, has launched an e-commerce site at Cheesecake.com. The domain name was originally listed with Latona’s for an auction, but the domain didn’t sell. After leaving the company, Clements negotiated through Latona to purchase the domain name. The domain was reported sold for $100,000 in May. Cheesecake.com is a full-fledged e-commerce ... read more ...
 
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Epik Domain Developer Conference Taking Shape for September - Epik to hold first user conference in September. Next month Epik will host its first user conference/domain development conference. The event, dubbed “Successful Monetization Through Domain Name Development” will take place at The Edgewater Hotel in Seattle September 15-17. I’ll be there. The agenda includes a lot of topics on the minds of domain owners these days: -Acquiring and Screening domains for Development -Operate – Content, SEO, and SEM -Sell – ... read more ...
 
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Paris Hilton Upset About Cybersquatters - Hotel heiress asks WIPO for help getting domain names. Paris Hilton has filed two separate arbitration cases at World Intellectual Property Organization to get control of domain names that include her name. The first case was filed by Paris Hilton Entertainment, Inc. on August 12 to get the domain name paris-hilton-perfume.net. The domain name currently does not resolve. The owner of this domain name may have already capitulated, as the case has been dropped. However, ... read more ...
Sun 15th August 2010
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TRAFFIC Award Nominations Are Opened & Here Are Our Picks For Domain Hall Of Fame & Domainer of The Year - Well as Mr. Schwartz announced earlier today Nominations For TRAFFIC awards including the Domain Hall Of Fame Domainer of The Year are now opened. (Copy of the notice is below), and will be handed out at the TRAFFIC South Beach show in a couple of months. The Nomination period is short,  closing at Tuesday August 17, 2010 at 5PM EST. Last year I was doubly blessed when I was elected to the Domain Hall of Fame as well as named Domainer of the Year. It was an incredible honor and I thank you again ... read more ...
 
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Another Must-Read Domain Blog to Add to Your RSS Reader - If you’re not reading this blog, you’re missing out. There are only 5 domain name blogs in my RSS reader. I’m careful about not overloading my reader; and I do a cursory review of other domain logs through aggregators such as Domaining.com. Over the past month I’ve added another domain blog to my reader: Kevin Murphy’s Domain Incite. Murphy is a freelance writer with years of journalism experience. He’s also fairly prolific, making several timely posts ... read more ...
Sat 14th August 2010
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Why Is Selling Ads On Trademarks OK For Google But Not For Domainers? - Sell a trademark as a keyword for directed search or online auctions and make $billions. But use a trademark in a domain name for direct search and lose the domain, or worse. The gap between how trademark law treats the two species of search has grown wider in the wake of several landmark 2010 trademark law decisions – and provides another sound reason why ICANN should not establish any new rights protections for new gTLDs beyond those STI-RT compromise positions already included in the ... read more ...
Fri 13th August 2010
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2 One Letter .Net Domains Are Registered. How Much Will Others Sell For? - 24 one letter .net domains are currently reserved. How much will they sell for? Last night I wrote about VeriSign’s request to auction off one and two character .net domain names. I did a search on the one letter .net domains, and found that two of them are already registered. These domains are grandfathered in to the system. i.net is technically owned by Inet Corp., but it’s essentially Future Media Architect’s private domain name registrar. You may ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Community Faces Policy Overload - Community and ICANN system may be overwhelmed by quantity of policy issues. As I write this, there are currently 30 open or recently concluded comment periods at ICANN. You can comment on anything from “Interim Paper on Policy Aspects Regarding Introduction of Single Character IDN TLDs” to “Proposed Bylaws Amendment to Add Voting Director from the At-Large Community to the ICANN Board of Directors”. You just missed your opportunity to comment on “Revised ... read more ...
Thu 12th August 2010
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Latonas.com One Letter Domain Auction Starts Today - RickLatona.com, auction for one letter domain names starts tonight at 6pmEST. All domains are priced with a starting bid of $2K and although they may not be the greatest extensions in the world, its an opportunity to own a rare one letter domain for just a couple of grand. The auction starts closing on August 19th at 6Pm EST. C.cr E.af F.af F.ai G.af G.ai H.af J.af K.cr L.af L.cr L.kg M.af M.cr N.ai N.cr O.af O.ai P.af Q.af Q.ai Q.cr Q.kg R.kg T.kg U.af U.ai U.cr V.af V.ai V.cr W.af W.kg Y.af Z.af Z.ai Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Cruise.Co Sells For $25K - Mike Mann has announced sale of his  2nd .CO premium domain. This time it was Cruise.Co which sold for $25k. A couple of weeks ago Mann announced the sale of Flying.Co for $3,500. Mike is certainly helping to set the resale market for .Co domains. Mann Still has some of the best .Co domain on Earth. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: Which Domain(s) Priced From $25K-$100K Will Sell At DomainFest - I just ended the week long poll I was running on which domain you thought would sell at the live domain name auction at Domainfest, which will be held in New York on August 18th, of those domain names with a reserve price range of $1M+ Stocks.com lead the way with 32% of you picking that domain as the one that will sell at Domainfest with 23% picking “none will sell”,  with XXX.com right behind with 20% of the vote. Interestingly, although its was the highest priced list of domains, the “None ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Plans to Release 1 and 2 Character .Net Domains - .Net registry asks for permission to release short domain names. VeriSign has asked ICANN (pdf) to allow it to release one and two character .net domain names. In its proposal, VeriSign says it will auction the domain names in an English style auction with no end date. The auctions will continue until no further bids are received for a specific period of time. Once won at auction, these domains will act basically like any other .net domain names, with an important ... read more ...
 
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Two MeetDomainers Conferences and Auctions on Tap This Month - Two European domain conferences on tap for later this month. MeetDomainers is holding two domain name conferences this month in Europe, and each will include a domain auction. If you can’t make it in person, online bidding will be available. The first conference takes place August 19-21 in Poland at the Sofitel Grand Sopot Hotel. The live domain auction will include 44 domain names, mostly in the Poland country code (.pl). Domains include PR.pl, drinki.pl (drinks), ... read more ...
 
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t.Co Gets More Play with Tweet Button - .Co gets more recognition thanks to Twitter. Today Twitter launched its Tweet Button, which allows people to tweet links from web sites that have integrated the button: Twitter is great for sharing interesting things you find on the web. In fact, close to a quarter of all Tweets include a link in them. Despite the high volume of sharing, there is plenty of room to make it easier. Copying and pasting, link shortening, and bouncing between browser tabs just to share ... read more ...
 
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Moniker’s Live Auction Catalog is Its Best Ever - Auction will be huge if those with big pockets show up. Next week Moniker will hold an auction at DOMAINfest New York. The list of domain names is by far the best Moniker has ever put together for a live auction. Just look at this sample: BabySitting.com ByOwner.com Cable.com Disco.com Grant.com Hamburgers.com Koran.com Patents.com Physicians.com Quotes.com Ravioli.com Stocks.com StockQuotes.com xxx.com It’s a fantastic list. That doesn’t guarantee success, ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media CEO’s Tweet Volume Hinted during IPO Filing - CEO slowed down tweeting in months leading up to IPO filing. What’s a sign that a company is getting ready to file its S-1 to go public? Check out the CEO’s tweet volume. Such was the case with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt. On August 8, just after his company filed to go public, Rosenblatt (@DemandRichard) tweeted “Sorry that my tweeting volume has dropped so much over the past months but I hope every now understands why”. Rosenblatt tweets a lot, ... read more ...
Wed 11th August 2010
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TechFlash.com: Microsoft News Going Without The Domain Of Its New Site For Men: OnIt - According to TechFlash.com, Microsoft looks like they are go to name their new site for men, ONIT but they don’t own the domain name OnIt.com TechFlash writes: “A newly surfaced trademark filing shows Microsoft seeking to register the name “ONIT” for a new website catering to men.” “The trademark filing, dated Aug. 4, is clear in describing “ONIT” as “an Internet website portal featuring information of general interest to men,” specializing in “providing information in the ... read more ...
 
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Earnings Are Out: Tucows Swings To A Loss For 2nd Quarter - Tucows.com reported earnings after the market closed today Net revenue for the second quarter of 2010 increased 4.1% to $20.8 million from $20.0 million for the second quarter of 2009. However Tucows swung to a loss for the Quarter compared to a year ago: “Net loss for the second quarter of 2010 was $0.8 million, or $0.01 per share, compared with net income of $4.4 million, or $0.06 per share, for the second quarter of 2009.” “Net loss from operations for the second quarter of 2010 were ... read more ...
 
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Ready To Make Some Money? How About Selling Your Bidding Spot In The .Co Land Rush Auction? Or Buying Mine? - There are of course a lot of ways of making money in the domain industry,  but here’s a new one that may have never been tried before. Lets say you decided you really want to bid on a .CO domain that’s in the land rush auction that you didn’t place a land rush application on. Let’s use Slots.co as an example, since it’s the domain with the most land rush applications, plus I’m in the auction because I put a land rush application in for that domain. So lets say one of a couple of  things ... read more ...
 
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Telnic Wants to Release 1 and 2 Character .Tel Domain Names - Look for shorter .tel domain names soon. .Tel registry Telnic has formally asked ICANN to allow it to offer one and two character .tel domain names. The company would not offer two letter domains that correspond to an existing country code, nor would it release one and two digit domain names. Telnic wants to initially ask interested parties to respond to a request for proposal in order to obtain one of the domains. While other top level domain registries have used ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Earnings Warped by Currency Exchange Rates - Domain registrar’s business generating cash, but currency changes skew results. At first glance Tucow’s second quarter earnings announcement today looked bad. The company lost a penny a share for the quarter, compared to earnings of 6 cents a share in the same quarter of 2009. But then you dig into the details: the company realized a mark to market loss on foreign exchange of $1.9 million in Q2 2010; in the same quarter 2009 it realized a mark to market gain ... read more ...
 
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DNW Certified Stats Now Works with Parked.com - Parked now works with DNW Certified Stats. Today I launched Parked.com on DNW Certified Stats, which means you now have an easy way to share your Parked domain name parking stats. (If you don’t have a domain parking account with Parked.com, click here to sign up.) Here’s how it works. Say you’re buying or selling a domain name, or doing some sort of development deal with the owner of a domain name that is currently parked at Parked.com. You want to easily ... read more ...
 
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HostExploit Exploits Demand Media’s IPO Filing - HostExploit report generates more questions than answers. I just finished reading HostExploit’s report about Demand Media and its domain name registration business (eNom). Whenever I read a report like this, I try to think about the motives of the report’s authors. In this case, it’s clear that HostExploit wanted to rush something out to piggyback on the buzz of Demand Media’s S-1 filing to go public. When I see punctuation errors in a research report, ... read more ...