Monthly Archives: April 2011

Thu 14th April 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.ME Becomes 2nd Registry To Waive Renewal Fees For Domain Holders In Japan: Still No Word From Verisign - Today following a similar announcement by the .Org registry a few days ago, the .ME registry also announced its was going to help domain holders located in Japan by giving them automatic renewals of their domains. Here is the  press release by the .Me registry “The recent devastating disasters in Japan have left many registrants without the ability to renew their domain names. The .ME Registry would like to alleviate concerns amongst Japanese .ME domain name holders by waiving ... read more ...
Wed 13th April 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Washington DC Becomes First Jurisdiction In The US To Legalize Online Gambling - According to gambling911.com, Washington, D.C., has become the first jurisdiction in the United States to legalize online gambling. “The Associated Press reported late Tuesday that permitting online gambling was part of a 2011 budget and a 30-day period for Congress to object expired last week, said D.C. Council, member Michael A. Brown, who authored the provision.” “There was really no clear law that said we could not do this,” Brown said last week. “Bets would have to be placed within ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
DotAsia Announces IDN Release Details - DotAsia IDN launch plans released. DotAsia today announced more details for its upcoming launch of .asia IDNs. .Asia IDNs will be released in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified matched), Japanese and Korean. A seventy day sunrise period for rights holders will commence May 11. A landrush period open to everyone else begins August 2 and also runs for seventy days. In both sunrise and landrush an auction will be held if more than one entity submits an application ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Beware this GoDaddy Phishing Scheme - New phishing email tries to get Go Daddy customers to give away account details. I received a phishing email today that I haven’t seen before. Titled “Notice about GODADDY account activation”, it won’t fool most internet users. But it could certainly dupe some people. The message reads: Dear Godaddy User: This notification is generated automatically as a service to you because you subscribe to DomainAlert. Because of the Comprehensive upgrade of the website ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Amazon Buys AdMash.com and Other Domains Related to New Kindle - Amazon.com registers and/or acquires a slew of domain names related to new Kindle. This week Amazon.com announced a new Kindle ebook reader that costs less but shows advertisements. Users will be able to customize the ads they see on their Kindle screensaver through an app and web site called AdMash. Amazon.com purchased the AdMash.com domain name sometime in the past two years. The last publicly listed owner in whois was a Pennsylvania man, but since February 2010 ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain Madness 3 Tries Again Today - Last week’s postponed auction gives it another try today. Nothing deflates excitement about a domain name auction that postponement. But today Domain Madness will try to overcome that as it runs its third annual auction a week late. Last week the auction platform ran into technical problems just as it began. This isn’t the first time a domain name auction has run into technical difficulties. In fact, every major live domain auction service has had some sort ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
6 Reasons You’re Not Making More with Domain Names - Here are six reasons you may be missing out on more domain name earnings. 1. You refuse to price your domain names Some people don’t need to price their domain names. They just sit around waiting for high dollar offers, then ask for more money. But odds are you aren’t one of those people. Someone isn’t going to offer you $50,000 or more for one of your domains. So you should price them. The typical small to medium sized business doesn’t want to negotiate ... read more ...
Tue 12th April 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sedo.com Rings Up Another $60K with The Sale Of Approvals.com - Just crossing the wire is the lastest 5 figure sale from Sedo.com and once again its a one word .com domain name. Approvals.com just sold for $60,000. The domain which is under privacy would make a nice name for a mortgage or finance company and think its was a nice buy at $60K   Congrats to the buyer and seller Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Tenants.com Sells For $22K on Namejet.com; RetailStores.com Goes For $20K - The domain name Tenants.com sold today on Namejet.com for $22,100 This was one of the domain names Nielsen research got from a acquisition of another company last year which they apparently did not want to keep nor sell. They also owned the domain RetailStores.com which sold for $20,100 Another one of the domains they owned categorykillers.com sold for $3,900. ChainStores.com another one of those domains went for only $1,700 All were very nice names.       Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Yesterday Before Noon we Turned Down $500K In Offers; Domaining Is Like Deal Or No Deal - Yes its true. Yesterday before noon I had already turned down offers on 4 domains totaling just short of $500,000. The first domain was easy for me. VisitTurkey.com.  I told the buyer I had just sold visitberlin.com for $230K and visitstockholm.com for $70K. The official tourism site for Turkey is goturkey.com, which I told the person making the offer, in the US GoTurkey.com, seems to be more of an ad for eating turkeys rather than visiting Turkey. As the sale of domains sets up price comparisons ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How to Shoot Elephants Without Shooting Yourself in a Foot - To me, Bob Parsons’ response to elephant controversy is more damaging than the original video. Bob Parsons is no stranger to controversy. He doesn’t shy away from it. He embraces it. During his DOMAINfest keynote earlier this year he said you want to tee up your detractors. They make a lot of noise and drive publicity to your company. But has Go Daddy passed the point in which “all publicity is good publicity” is a truism? A number of people say Parsons ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Czech Arbitration Court Issues Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Decision - UDRP provider blasts complainant and issues finding of RDNH. One of the smaller and lesser known UDRP providers has issued a finding of reverse domain name hijacking against a complainant. Czech Arbitration Court, known for its attempts to create a “quick” UDRP procedure, found that complainant Streetwave Pte Ltd brought its case against StreetWave.com in bad faith. Streetwave Pte Ltd has just filed for trademarks in a number of countries, but the domain owner ... read more ...
Mon 11th April 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $770k In Domains Led By Cardoo.com For $110k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday April 10th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $768,685. The top seller of the week was Cardoo.com at $110,000 followed by Waterionizer.com at $18,000. We took third spot with our sale of bigkitchen.com for $17,500.   Here is the full list:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
NoShit.(com): OutReach.Org Sells For $90,400 On Namejet (& NoShit.com Sells Too) - A couple of very interesting auctions just ended at Namejet.com. The domain name Outreach.org sold for a whopping  $90,400. Yes you read it right. $90,400. Another domain which just sold and certainly made for the interesting headline is NoShit.com which sold for  $8,113. Both of these domains were pending delete domains as opposed to owner owned domain sales. In both cases the former owners walked away from  domains worth quite a bit of cash. Outreach.com is a popular site getting over 40,000 ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Org Registry Wavies Renewal Fees For Japanese Domain Name Holders - In light of the recent disasters that have devastated Japan, .ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced a plan to waive renewal fees for Japanese domain name holders who are unable to renew their .ORG domain names. Together with PIR, more than 15 participating Registrars have committed to automatically renew for one year at no cost the .ORG domain names that would unintentionally expire due to the inability of the owner in Japan to re-up their registration.  Affected names will include ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Wow: Defiance.com Sells For $90K On Sedo - Here is a nice sale, the domain name Defiance.com just sold on Sedo.com today for $90,000. The domain is still parked at Sedo but now has as the registrar,  CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC. which likes MarkMonitor usually appeals to large companies. There is a movie by the same name whose official site is defiancemovie.com There is a town of about 17,000 people in Ohio named Defiance as well. There is also a band by that name. There is also a small college named Defiance. There is a also a defiancemachine.com Quite ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Amazon Top Paid Search Advertiser In a US Spending $51 Million In Just The 4Q 2010 - According to a report released today by Kantar Media, on the top paid search advertisers in the U.S., for the 4th quarter 2010, Amazon.com is the top advertisers spending some $51 Million dollars in PPC ads in just that quarter. Here is the top ten list: Top 10 Advertisers Ranked By Search Advertising Spend1: Oct-Dec 2010 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
VeriSign May Be Able to Continue Hiking .Net Prices 10% Per Year - Proposed contract renewal allows for huge price increases on .net domain registrations. ICANN’s contract with VeriSign for running the .net domain name registry expires at the end of June. Thanks to a “presumptive renewal” clause, the contract won’t be put out for bidding. VeriSign also gets to pick up any goodies that rival registries have managed to get in their contracts. ICANN just posted the proposed renewal agreement for .net. It gives VeriSign the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Toby Clements Discusses a Domain Sales Newsletter Sans Rick Latona - Toby Clements discusses the future of his domain name sales newsletter. A popular sales channel for domain names is coming back under a new brand. Rick Latona and Toby Clements recently announced they’ve parted ways, and now Clements will be taking over the newsletter formerly known as the “Rick Latona Newsletter”. It was a popular sales newsletter for a long time, and it’s good to hear it is coming back. Clements new web site for the newsletter isn’t up ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sorry Beckstrom, You Should Have Voted on .XXX - ICANN CEO’s abstention from .xxx vote is weak. During ICANN’s meeting in San Francisco last month a number of board members gave their rationale for or against .xxx. Some members abstained and stated their reason. So it was a little odd when ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom didn’t vote. He whispered something away from the microphone to chair Peter Dengate Thrush about publishing his reason for not voting, but it was barely audible. His rationale has now been published, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Off to ad:tech, The Show Without Its Domain Name - Huge trade show for online advertising has a disappointing domain name. This morning I’m off to ad:tech, a large interactive advertising conference, in San Francisco. Countless times over the past month I’ve gone to ad:tech’s web site to remind myself of the agenda, book a hotel, etc. And most of the time I type in adtech.com. Unfortunately the show’s web site is ad-tech.com with a hypen. Perhaps even more unfortunate is that there’s an interactive advertising ... read more ...
Sun 10th April 2011
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Oversee.net Trademark Attempt Rejected - Oversee.net trademark for travel web site denied. Oversee.net has failed to get a trademark for its LowFares.com brand. LowFares.com is a travel comparison site and part of the company’s network of vertical web sites. A key issue for Oversee.net was that another company already has a trademark for LowestFare.com. Oversee.net tried to argue that the services it offers on LowFares.com are distinct from those on LowestFare.com. LowFares.com compares travel prices ... read more ...
Sat 9th April 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
B3.com Sells On Sedo for $25K - The domain name B3.com just sold on Sedo.com for $25,500 on one bid. Seems like a fair price for a nice LN.com. B3 is of course a vitamin, but there are organizations and companies that seem to be named B3 or have products named B3. Congrats to the buyer and seller     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
SYLT.com Sells For $50k on Sedo - A nice Geo domain name  Sylt.com just sold on Sedo for 35,000 Euro’s or about $50K. As I’m sure you all know, “Sylt is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, and well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Frisia. The northernmost island of Germany, it is known for its tourist resorts, as well as for its 40 km long sandy beach” The domain is already resolving to its new owner. Sylt.de ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
TRAFFIC Goes With Reduced Commissions & Pay For Placement In Live Auction To Shake Things Up - In an announcement just sent out by the TRAFFIC organizers they are going to shake up the Live domain auction market. As we all know TRAFFIC was the first conference to hold an live domain auction and through the years with Moniker held the most successful live domain auctions with some in excess of $10 Million dollars. Over the last couple of years we also know that Live domain auctions have failed to create a lot of sale volume and even fewer high dollar sales with most failing to even break the ... read more ...