Monthly Archives: March 2012

Sun 4th March 2012
Written by The MediaWizard's Blog in EN
The fundamental advantage ccTLDs will have over newgTLDs - The newGTLDs process is underway, 144 applications have been received, a lot more will be before the window closes. 300-500 new applications will be processed by ICANN during the first phase, you can expect another round within a year per the information out there. While most people believe that the new gTLDs won’t affect .com prices, as do I, a lot of them miss the most obvious advantage ccTLDs have over newgTLDs – the fact that newgTLDs have to be 3 letters or more, whereas all second ... read more ...
Sat 3rd March 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Federal Court Awards TM Holder Of “Two Plus Two” $60K and The Domain Name Twoplustwo.com From Dutch” Boyd - According to a story today in Parttimepoker.coma federal court has awarded the Trademark Holder of the term Two Plus Two, $25,000 in statutory damages and $33,985.45 in attorney’s fees against poker player Dutch Boyd who registered the domain name Twoplustwopoker.com. The owner of the trademark, Two Plus Two Publishing filed a lawsuit over the domain Twoplustwopoker.com  on December 9, 2009 against poker legend Dutch Boyd on was got the domain name on July 14, 2004. Two Plus Two Publishing alleged ... read more ...
Fri 2nd March 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
All 17K+ Combinations Of Three Letter .Co Domains Now All Registered - We have confirmed with the .CO Registry and we can report that as of yesterday all possible combinations of three letter .Co domain names are registered. There are some 17,600 possible combinations of three letter domain name, otherwise referred to in the industry as LLL domains. These do NOT include letters and numbers just letters. All possible combinations of .Com domains were registered many years ago,  other than a handful that drop every year. LLL.com have become quite valuable as they can ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ARI Registry Selected To Run Registry Services For Directi’s New gTLD Division Radix - According a press release issued tonight, ARI Registry Services has announced it has been appointed as the exclusive registry services provider for Radix, a new entity within the Directi Group, that will be focused on obtaining and running new generic TLDs. “The Directi Group runs multiple successful businesses in the web services space including ResellerClub, LogicBoxes, BigRock and WebHosting.info.” “Under the arrangement, Radix will aim to secure Top-Level Domains, under ICANN’s program ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Co-CEO shakeup during Oversee.net: Domeyer is CEO, Morrow out - Company settles on a CEO. That didn’t last long. Oversee.net’s co-CEO arrangement with Debra Domeyer and Scott Morrow is over. Domeyer has been promoted to (sole) CEO and Morrow is leaving the company. Oversee.net’s co-president and then co-ceo set up had many people scratching their heads. The only times I’ve seen a co-CEO situation is when two companies merge, and one CEO ends up leaving soon thereafter. In other cases it shows that the company can’t make ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Domain financier featured in Crain’s New York - Publication profiles domain investor. Domain investor, entrepreneur, and Domain Name Wire reader Rick Singer was featured in Crain’s New York Business today. The article discusses how Singer bought StockProfile.com for over $10,000 about four years ago. He developed the site and sold it for $5 million in restricted equity. The author describes Singer this way: Mr. Singer is akin to a house flipper. He trawls for undervalued URLs, finds the ones that have the most ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Tumblr.com typo will sell for during slightest $24,000 tomorrow - Domain for sale on Sedo gets lots of traffic looking for blogging site. An auction for a typo of popular blogging platform Tumblr.com closes tomorrow, and it currently has a bid of 15,000 GBP (about $24,000 USD). The domain Tubmlr.com switches the b and the m. According to the sales listing page on Sedo it gets close to 8,000 visits per month, obviously due to its similarity to the blogging service. There’s only one bidder on the domain, and it’s possible that ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Here’s what a domain attention thinks will occur to .com when new TLDs launch - Most .com domains will either retain their value or increase with the launch of new TLDs. What will happen to values of .com domain names when new top level domains arrive next year? They’ll go up or stay the same. That’s according to the majority of over 1,000 people that answered the question on the 7th annual Domain Name Wire survey. 39% think .com values will increase while 45% say new TLDs will have no effect on .com prices. Only 16% think it will cause .com ... read more ...
Thu 1st March 2012
Written by The Domains in EN
Did Google Just Buy Chrome.com? - Chrome.com is owned by DealerTrack, Inc. which sent out an email to its customers notifying them that as of  September 1, 2012 they will stop using the domain name Chrome.com The domain name Chrome.com currently forwards to the site ChromeData.com. However all the email addresses listed on the contact page end in Chrome.com According to the email that went out today, the domain name Chrome.com is being “retired” on September 1, 2012. It would be highly unusually for a company to change its domain ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
If A Big Co Goes To This Extent To Get A TM They Would Do The Same To Get A Domain: The Story Of Apple & The TM For iPad - Gizmodo.com wrote a post the other day entitled: “” This Is How Apple Swindled the iPad Trademark” Beyond being an interesting read about Apple and the iPad trademark it should serve as a lesson to all domainers as to the extend a large company will go to disguise itself to acquire a prime piece of IP property, be it a trademark or a domain name for penny’s on the dollar Of course this tactic by large corporations to use dummy corps and third party corporations to acquire valuable assets ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
You Should Keep In Mind The Huge Tax Hikes Coming Next Year When Deciding Whether To Sell Domains - If you make $200K or more there is a huge tax hike coming for next year if you are in the United States. In the domain business it can only tax one domain name sale to put you over the top into the “rich people” tax bracket. Its pretty hard to keep politics out of any discussion about taxes but we are going to try to stick to the facts If your pondering a big sale there are some tax implications you should be aware of: Starting in 2013, families whose overall income is above $250,000 (individuals ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How we done a $2,333 RPM on a parked domain - Don’t just consider your click revenue. Too often as domainers we focus on how much money our parking company pays us for clicks. But that doesn’t take into consideration the whole value stream of parking. What other value do you get from your parked domains? Let me give you an example. I recently sold LinkDetective.com for $1,400 through Afternic. The domain also happened to be parked with the company. In the past 60 days I made precisely $0 from parking the ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Suddenly, people happier with ICANN - Satisfaction with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers skyrockets. ICANN is the domain industry’s favorite punching bag. But people want to punch it less this year. Every year on the Domain Name Wire survey I ask people to rate their satisfaction with ICANN. They can select “Good”, “Acceptable”, or “Poor”. And every year save for 2006, more people have rated it poor than good. But that changed this year, as more rated their satisfaction ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
February’s tip 5 stories on Domain Name Wire - A look back at February on Domain Name Wire. 1. Amazon buys Prime.xxx domain name – Amazon scoops up Prime.xxx. It also bought YoYo.xxx for its YoYo.com brand. 2. KeyDrive acquires Moniker and SnapNames – you can also read my interview with KeyDrive’s CEO here. 3. Four newcomers among Top 10 domain parking companies – one of the top 10 parking options is shutting down (see next #4), but four newbies are on the list. 4. Google kills “hosted” Adsense ... read more ...