Monthly Archives: May 2011

Mon 2nd May 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
A Day After Getting The Most Wanted Man In The World, NavySeals.com Goes Up For Sale - A day after the most wanted man in the world was killed by the Navy Seals, the domain name NavySeals.com went up for sale. “NavySeals.com just went on the market for sale with Internet Venture Holdings, Inc. (IVH) a domain name investment and online advertising management company in Arlington, Virginia, just a stone throw from the Pentagon.” “The NavySeals.com domain name has a seven figure price tag and the ROI (if purchased) for finding new Navy recruits and future soldiers for years to ... read more ...
 
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House Committee Releases Witness List For Hearing On New gTLD & No Surprise IP Interest’s Dominate - The witness list has just been posted for the House IP committee on the new gTLD’s hearing that’s going to be held on Wednesday , and its not shocking that the list isn’t exactly fair and balanced. Here is the list: Witness List Kurt Pritz Senior Vice President, Stakeholder Relations ICANN Mei-lan Stark Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property Fox Group Legal Michael Palage President and CEO Pharos Global Steven Metalitz Partner Mitchell Silberberg Knupp LLP Steve DelBianco Executive Director NetChoice Joshua ... read more ...
 
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Is “Me” Becoming To Apps Like “i” Is To Products? Blip.Me, Play.Me, Caddy.Me, Flirt.Me, Tango.Me & Those Are Just One Owned By The App Developers - .Me domain names are increasing being used for Apps and I would say are probably becoming the word of choice in naming Apps similar to how “i” has been used by Apple and other companies in the computer/Tech sector. Blip.Me, Play.Me, Caddy.Me, Flirt.Me, Tango.Me are just a few of the Apps in which the developer also owns the matching domain. We wrote about bit.ly new App News.me which just launched a couple of weeks ago. The maker of Blackberry last week recently purchased the App Tungle.Me Of ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Here Come a Osama bin Laden Domain Names - Domain registrants try to capitalize on Osama bin Laden’s death. Whenever there’s a major news event — good or tragic — domain name registrations follow. Such is the case with the killing of Osama bin Laden on Sunday. People are registering a number of domains with the late terrorists’ name. VeriSign’s “Domain Tag Cloud” shows that both “killed” and “laden” are popular keywords in domains registered in the past 24 hours. And of course once ... read more ...
Sun 1st May 2011
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Dispensaries.com Sells For $32K On NameJet.com - May started off with a bang as the domain name Dispensaries.com just sold for a whopping $32,600 on NameJet.com There were 4 bidders over $10K battling it out for this domain. The domain was a drop domain rather than an owned domain meaning that someone let go a very valuable domain. Legend.net also sold today for just shy of $7K at $6,937 Aibuy.com sold for $1,612, whatever that means.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Watch Out For The Newest Scam: Unsolicited Skype Phone Calls: HelpHs.com - Well back in the day we had emails telling us we won a fortune, then came Adware and Spyware, then came phishing with emails looking like they came from your bank or credit card company trying to trick you into giving them your login information, then we had SMS text messages trying to sell you something and making you pay for the cost of receiving the text,  and Skype chats from people we didn’t know that wanted to sell us stuff we didn’t want. This past week I experienced a new Scam. The unsolicited ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Four Domain Industry Execs including eNom Founder Paul Stahura Form New Venture - Venture in stealth mode, but deck stacked for new top level domain names. eNom founder Paul Stahura, who sold his domain name registrar to Demand Media in 2006, has teamed up several other industry vets for a new venture reports GeekWire. The stealth venture called Donuts Inc has raised $1 million according to SEC filings. Former Network Solutions VP Jonathon Nevett is one of the company’s executives. Nevett has been an active consultant for new top level domain ... read more ...