Monthly Archives: July 2011

Wed 27th July 2011
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Sedo Q2 Market Study in Review - by Heather DelCarpini [Sedo just released its Q2 market study today. In this guest post, Sedo marketing manager Heather DelCarpini explains where the domain name aftermarket is heading.] Sedo’s Market Study for Q2 2011 reveals the strongest quarter in over a year, after excluding the record-breaking sale of sex.com for $13m in Q4 2010. Median prices for all gTLDs increased across the board, with some notable .com sales in the form of datacenter.com ($352,000), consolidation.com ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 Tips for New Top-Level Domain Applicants - by Michael Twist Michael Twist is a Top-Level Domain specialist with AusRegistry International. You can read more from AusRegistry about new TLDs at www.beyondcom.info. So, you’ve heard about ICANN’s new Top-Level Domain (TLD) Program and you’re thinking about the best way to get involved so you can gain a slice of the of the $5 billion dollar domain name industry. You might be an entrepreneur out to make your next million, a brand looking to make a statement ... read more ...
Tue 26th July 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
Afternic.com Sells $628K In Domain Names Led By FatChance.com during $26K - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday July 24th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $628,195. The top seller of the week was FatChance.com at $26,000 followed by JustGames.com at $15,000. FatChance.com is a sale Mike Mann originally reported for $40,000 on Facebook. We covered it in a previous post here. Here is the complete list:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.app domain project hopes to end TLD squatting - The news officially came down in June — ICANN, the governing body of Internet domain names, would soon begin allowing anyone to buy words and turn them into top level domain extensions. No longer would we be bound to .com, .net and the like but instead we could have a site such as TheNextWeb.tech. Of course it didn’t take long for savvy web entrepreneurs to start coming up with ideas on how best to use the new open-ended TLD system. One such group, calling itself “The .app ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $1.5M In Domains Led By Aktien.de For $726K - Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday July 25th. All reportable domain sales totalled $1,535,707. The top seller of the week was Aktien.de at $725,565 followed by OnlineDegree.com at $120,000. “Aktien” is a German word translating to ‘shares’ (stock). The exact sale price was 500,000€ which is substantially higher than this years previous highest selling .de domain – Market.de at 30,000€. Aktien.com has a US based registrant but resolves to a German content ... read more ...
 
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GEOPUBLISHERS.COM Announces The 2011 EXPO for The GeoDomain Industry - GeoPublishers.com the new trade association for the geodomain industry will be holding its inaugural Expo in Chicago, from September 30- October 1, 2011. The Expo starts with the President’s reception on Friday September 30th, followed by a day-and-a-half program of keynotes and panels, and a sponsored dinner on Saturday 1 October. The line up of Speakers is impressive. These are the confirmed speakers: Don Jones, President of New Orleans.com Gordon Borrell, CEO of Borrell Associates Sandy Martin, ... read more ...
 
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Aftermarket.com Lands Exclusive To Broker The Domain Name: WorldTradeCenter.com - According to a press release out today by Aftermarket.com, they are the exclusive broker for the  domain name, WorldTradeCenter.com which is now for sale. No reserve or purchase price was mentioned in the Press Release which reads as follows: Aftermarket.com, a leading Internet domain marketplace, has been exclusively commissioned to broker the high-profile web address. While the domain is highly sought after due to its natural type-in traffic and deeply-emotional connection, Aftermarket.com plans ... read more ...
 
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Study Of 7.5M Searches : What People Type In The Address Bar - A new blog post entitled “What Do People Type In The Address Bar” was published today by Chris Finke. Its a study using the information Mr. Finke collected on 7.5 million searches. You really should check out the full post but here are some of the results I found most interesting: “(Note that this data does not include bookmarked links or links that users click on in websites. It is strictly domains that have been typed directly into the address bar).” The most commonly typed domain is Facebook.com ... read more ...
 
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End User Domain Purchases Over a Past Week - Here are some end user domain purchases through Afternic over the past week. Acumen Brands, a niche etailer, bought FatChance.com for $26,000. Renewable energy development Community Energy Inc. bought CommunitySolar.com for $10,000 EducationDynamics, which helps colleges and universities recruit students, bought ChristianEducation.com for $8,500. CPI Corp, which provides professional photography services principally in Sears and Wal-Mart stores, bought PhotoOpps.com ... read more ...
 
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ReadItLater Bought Its Domain Name Later - Company started with longer domain name before buying the “right” one. I was reading an article about ReadItLater earlier today when I noticed the article linked to ReadItLaterList.com instead of ReadItLater.com. The popular service offers apps that allow you to save web pages to read later. So “Read It Later” is a great name. Obviously ReadItLaterList.com isn’t a great domain name. But when I typed in ReadItLater.com I found that it forwarded to ReadItLaterList.com. ... read more ...
 
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Meme Site “Texts From Last Night” Gets Into Domain Name Dispute - Popular site wants typo of its web address. Meme site “Texts From Last Night“, which publishes drunken texts (and texts about drunken nights) has filed a dispute against the owner of a similar domain name. The site, hosted at TextsFromLastNight.com, is asking World Intellectual Property Forum to award it the domain name TextFromLastNight.com (where ‘text’ is singular). Texts From Last Night was founded in 2009 and receives over 400,000 unique visitors per ... read more ...
 
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Domainer Caught Off Guard After Being Named in Apparel Counterfeiting Lawsuit - Domainer with parked domain name ensnared in lawsuit. Imagine you’re a domain investor, just going along and buying domain names and parking them like everyone else. You know you may get hit with a cease desist every once in a while from an aggressive trademark lawyer. But that’s about it. But then one day you find yourself named in a massive apparel counterfeiting ring. That’s what happened to VL Raymer. Raymer owns the domain name Primp.com and has owned ... read more ...
Mon 25th July 2011
Written by The Domains in EN
HouseRentals.com Sells For $135,800 On NameJet.com - The domain name HouseRentals.com just sold on NameJet.com for $135,800 The winning bidder id was time25. Although there were 370 bidders in the auction only 6 bid $10K or more. The reserve price was $72,500. 3 bidders bid higher than the reserve. Last week NameJet.com sold Aerospace.com for $160K so they seem to be on a roll with some great domains. In a few other NameJet.com sales today; Tenantcreditreports.com sold for $5,300 DepartmentOfRevenue.com sold for  $10,000 NewAutos.com sold for $10,198 YouCam.com ... read more ...
 
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Ryan Colby Is Latest Broker To Leave Sedo.com & Becomes 3rd Top Salesman To Leave In 15 Months - Ryan Colby has become the latest broker to leave Sedo.com I was looking to add some people to my Linkedin account and noticed under Ryan’s profile that under “employment” he listed Sedo.com as May 2010-July 2011 So I reached out to Ryan for comment and confirmed he was now longer with Sedo.com I asked him why he left Sedo.com to which he answered “personal reasons” Ryan seemed at least to me, to have been the lead Sedo broker of the current crop when it comes to big dollar sales; Some of ... read more ...
 
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IBM Goes With Smart Cloud Without SmartCloud.com & SmartCloud.com is Blocked As A “Possible Web Forgery” - IBM launched its cloud service calling SmartCloud however they don’t own the domain name SmartCloud.com SmartCloud.com is owned by a company located in El Segundo, California and the domain is parked so you would think would be available for purchase But it gets worse, because in this case not only did IBM fail to secure the domain prior to it release, but it selected a name for its service for which the matching .com is blocked by Firefox as a possible “web forgery” and Chrome has it marked ... read more ...
 
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Joe Higgins Lands during Rook Media - Former Oversee.net employee finds new home at Rook Media. Longtime Domain Sponsor account manager Joe Higgins may have left his employer of the last 6 1/2 years recently, but he didn’t leave the domain name industry. Higgins has joined new domain name parking company Rook Media. Rook Media was formed by former Name Drive senior managers who left after the latter was sold. It was in a private beta with large domainers since February and opened up to the masses ... read more ...
 
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What Not To Do with a “Sucks” Domain Name - Here’s a “sucks” UDRP the complainant will easily win. Living Spaces Furniture, LLC recently filed a UDRP against the owner of LivingSpacesSucks.com. Thinking this was perhaps a site created by a disgruntled customer, I typed in the URL and found this: This will be a slam dunk for the furniture company. You can generally own a “sucks” domain name under a couple circumstances: 1. You actually use it to criticize the company 2. You don’t benefit financially ... read more ...
 
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Is a Major Tech Company About to Release a “Cloud Nine” Product? - Handful of domain names using “Cloud Nine” brand registered. We’ve seen a lot of cloud products lately adopt the “cloud” name in their brand. Is a major tech company getting ready to launch a “Cloud Nine” brand? A company has just registered a number of domain names using this brand: Cloud9application.com Cloud9browsing.com Cloud9searching.com Cloud9Browser.com CloudNineApplication.com CloudNineBrowser.com CloudNineBrowsing.com CloudNineSearching.com The ... read more ...
Sun 24th July 2011
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iBreakfast & Smart TLD To Put On New gTLD Conference In New York On Aug 3rd - The “dot com” era is expanding and will soon be joined with a myriad of possibilities. This is the web’s new lakefront property frontier. Cities, brands, industries, interest groups, even start-up concepts could be your domain. ICANN’s recent ruling to open up the process to apply for and run new domain registries forever will alter the way things are represented online. The implications for SEO and trademark protection are critical, and the opportunities presented to brands, industry associations ... read more ...
 
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HouseRentals.com Hits $65K On NameJet.com With 1 Day To Go - The domain name HouseRentals.com is on auction at NameJet.com and the high bid has already topped $65,000 with a day to go. The high bidder is NameJet.com reserve meaning the reserve price set by the owner of the domain is higher. There are 370 bidders in the auction and 4 have a bid $10K or more including, the bidder who won the auction the other day for Aerospace.com which sold for $160,200 on NameJet.com Here are a few other ongoing domain auctions which will close tomorrow NewAutos.com $9,600 ... read more ...
 
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Min.us Is $115,000 Minus.com Buyer - Company upgrades from domain hack to minus.com. Who paid $115,000 for the minus.com domain name? New York City startup min.us officially disclosed that it is the buyer of the domain name. It previously went by the domain name min.us, a “domain hack” using the United States country code domain name. Why move from a domain hack to a good .com domain name? As the company explains on its blog: But as we have grown, it’s become apparent that some of our users find ... read more ...
Sat 23rd July 2011
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Aerospace.com Sells For $160,000 On Namejet.com - The auction for the domain name Aeropace.com which we wrote about the other day closed today with a winning bid of $160,200 The reseserve on the domain was $80,000 There were two bidders over that amount which drove the price all the way you to $160,000 making it the largest sales on NameJet.com I believe this year. If you want to see what a huge industry AeroSpace really is check out this article just for starters. Congrats to the 10 people who voted that this domain would be the highest domain ... read more ...
Fri 22nd July 2011
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GraphicDesign.com Sold For $150,000 - Another blog post by Michael Jackness,  the second this week sheds light on another recent six figure domain name purchase. Today Michael Announced on this blog, that his company Terran Marketing has just purchased another killer domain GraphicDesign.com for $150,000. Michael write his thoughts behind the purchase: “”When I saw 201,000 exact match searches I thought for sure I forgot to check the “exact” box and that it was still on broad – uh no. This term actually gets 2,740,000 broad ... read more ...
 
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Next Seven Figure Sale? Dragon.com Hits a Market - I just received an email from the owner of  Dragon.com who has put it up for sale. The domain name is currently home to a  USA and UK based web hosting company, Dragon Networks and has been owned by the current holders since 1991. Dragon.com has a page rank of 4 and a Alexa ranking of 1.1M. According to Compete.com the site gets around 7,500 visitors a month. The owner has not set a price for the domain but stated to me: “Due to the interest we have had so far, we are expecting the domain to ... read more ...
 
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Craigslist Sues Sellers of Phone Verified Accounts, Fights Posting Spam - Classifieds site goes after company selling “phone verified accounts” and helping people auto-post to Craiglist.org. Craigslist has sued a Colorado man and associated businesses for helping people circumvent tools created to block spam on its site. The online classifieds site claims the defendants offer services that make it easier for people to submit automated postings to Craiglist, against the sites terms of service. It alleges that the defendants sell “phone ... read more ...