Tag Archives: expired

Fri 11th May 2012
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VeriSign releases some-more trade information about unregistered domains - .com and .net registry provides added detail about NXD traffic. VeriSign has enhanced its DomainScore tool to provide more insight into the traffic unregistered domains receive. DomainScore provides a relative score for the amount of traffic an unregistered domain name receives. But this so-called “NXD” traffic doesn’t qualify the type of traffic very well. That’s part of the reason people complain that they register a domain with a high score based on VeriSign’s ... read more ...
Fri 20th April 2012
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My possess small chronicle of “Best of DomainTools” support - Guy mistakenly thinks I’m associated with expired domain spam. DomainTools has an occasional feature on its blog about people mistakenly thinking the company is associated with other web sites. Someone searches for a company, finds the whois record on DomainTools’ site, and thinks DomainTools is the company they were searching for. So it sends a support email to Domain Tools asking for support from that company. I had my own little case of mistaken identity a ... read more ...
Thu 19th April 2012
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Interesting: Oversee.net knew Network Solutions was withdrawal before it bought SnapNames - Company knew it would lose Network Solutions’ expired domain inventory when it bought SnapNames. Shortly after Oversee.net acquired expired domain platform SnapNames in 2007, Network Solutions pulled its inventory from the service in order to team up with Demand Media on competitor NameJet. A commonly held assumption is that Oversee.net had overlooked a change-in-control term (or underestimated the risk of it) when it did its due diligence on acquiring SnapNames. ... read more ...
Tue 17th April 2012
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25 aged (and good) domain names to backorder now on NameJet - These good domains are currently in pre-release. I was just looking through some “old” domains currently available for pre-release backordering at NameJet. Here are some worth backordering. I haven’t checked any of these domains for trademarks, though. You should carefully consider trademark issues before buying any domain. Squiggles.com – registered 14 years ago and every other major TLD is registered. A great brandable name. There are a few products with ... read more ...
Thu 9th February 2012
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Orphaned domain listings still mucking adult domain sales process - When domains change hands or expire, “for sale” listings remain. [Update: I received a message from GoDaddy saying a solution is in the works and should be complete within a couple weeks.] [Update 2 Feb 20: GoDaddy says it has fixed the problem. If anyone has the same problem in the future please let me know.] In October I wrote about how domain name marketplaces still struggle with “orphan listings”. These are domains listed for sale that have either expired ... read more ...
Tue 3rd January 2012
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Domain profession Ari Goldberger featured in NBC Miami story about lapsed MiamiPolice.com domain - Goldberger featured in TV news story about MiamiPolice.com. Domain name attorney Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com was featured in an NBC Miami story last week about MiamiPolice.com. The Miami Police let the domain name expire a couple years ago and it was picked up by someone who now parks the domain with DomainSponsor. While I’m not sure why NBC Miami just did this story now (slow news week for the holidays?), it’s good to see Goldberger was interviewed for the ... read more ...
Thu 8th December 2011
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VeriSign releases DomainCountdown for lapsed domains - .Com and .net registry released more data on expiring domain names. VeriSign has just released a beta of DomainCountdown, a source of data on expiring domain names. DomainCountdown provides a wealth of information about domain names in pending delete status, and some of them are quite fascinating. The baseline data for each domain has to do with NXD data — basically queries to non-existent/non-resolving domain names. VeriSign is in a unique position to capture this ... read more ...
Sat 26th November 2011
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Protrada adds integrated lapsed domain catching - Expired domain catching starts at $15. In October I wrote about Protrada, which is like a dashboard for domain name buyers to find and purchase domain names. It works with a lot of major expired domain services including NameJet, SnapNames, and GoDaddy, and isn’t limited to expired domains. Now the service has its own integrated backordering system for domains that go through the complete deletion process and are dropped by the registry. The service is effectively ... read more ...
Wed 9th November 2011
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Governments Shouldn’t Let Domains Expire - Bad things happen to former government owned domain names. I just finished reading a story form The Ottawa Citizen about how Canada’s 100th anniversary of flight web site expired and (at least briefly) showed ads for escorts. For the Canadian government it got the worst possible outcome. The domain name wasn’t just a parked domain; someone actively tried to take advantage of its prior use. The new owner apparently left a notice on the page: “To previous domain ... read more ...
Tue 25th October 2011
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ProTrada is a Domain Buyer’s Dashboard - Tool helps domain investors win domain auctions at lower prices. Last week at TRAFFIC I had a chance to sit down with the team behind ProTrada, a (beta) system for buying domain names across multiple platforms. The idea is simple: find the best domain names available on exchanges and expired domain sites and get them for the lowest possible price. The basic features of ProTrada are nothing new; it’s how they’re all brought together that makes this a killer application. ... read more ...
Fri 26th August 2011
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Oversee.net Pays $1,500 To Filer of SnapNames Class Action Lawsuit - Class representative gets a small check. Oversee.net has paid $1,500 to Stewart Resmer, the “class representative” for a lawsuit filed against Oversee.net in the wake of the halvarez shill bidding scandal. Resmer originally filed suit against Oversee in U.S. District Court Central District of California. But the judge tossed the case out because the amount of money concerned was under $5 million. As a result, Resmer’s lawyers refiled in The Superior Court of ... read more ...
Tue 16th August 2011
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Rick Perry’s dot.com Problem - Republican presidential candidate could have easily gotten his .com domain name. Over the weekend Texas governor Rick Perry confirmed what a lot of us already knew: he’s running for president in 2012. Perry’s official web site is RickPerry.org, which makes sense. But unfortunately for Perry, he doesn’t own RickPerry.com. Even more unfortunate is that he could have easily acquired the domain name last year. As I wrote in May of 2010, the domain name RickPerry.com ... read more ...
Wed 20th July 2011
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Alexander from Intrust Domains Sure Does Get Around - Yes, they must be North America’s largest spammers. Intrust Domains [intrustdomains] was aquired by epik.com (CEO Rob Monster) and the spam operation is continuing under the GoName.com brand.. The spam emails now usually come from alex@______.com in various formats with changing quotes in the message various sender addresses in an attempt to defeat the spam filters. This is a recent example… Notification for Availability of Similar Domain: We thought we would let you know that debt_______.com ... read more ...
Tue 14th June 2011
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Expired Domain Rule Changes Closer to Reality - Group issues final report with recommended changes to how registrars handle expired domain names. ICANN’s Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process Working Group has issued its final report (pdf) with 18 recommendations for handling expired domain names. Although the recommendations have increased from 14 in the previous report, many of them are merely “best practices” and not requirements. One of the most important changes is a ... read more ...
Wed 18th May 2011
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Letting Your Domain Name Expire Could Lead to Identity Theft - …or other shenanigans. OK, the headline is a bit sensational. But the truth is if you let a domain name expire that is tied to any sort of online accounts, you’re putting yourself at extreme risk. Why the soapbox? I just finished reading this post from Ben Reyes about how he used an expired domain to get access to someone’s entire history of Gmail, Google calendar, contacts, etc., and this gave him a key to unlock the person’s other online accounts like ... read more ...
Wed 20th April 2011
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22 Pre-Release Domains to Backorder Now - Some domain names to add to your backorder list. It’s been a while since I’ve published a list of dropping domain names I think are worth backordering. So here’s a list of 22 domain names currently in pre-release at NameJet that I think you should consider. Please note that I haven’t reviewed any of these for trademarks, so you should do your own due diligence. Worshipped.com Marketingprofessionals.com readingclubs.com studentprograms.com AtlantaAgents.com ... read more ...
Wed 2nd March 2011
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When Domains Expire, Just Blame a Registrar - Registrars take the blame for forgetful customers. When you screw up and don’t renew your domain name, just blame the registrar when you talk to the press. I see that happen all the time. Here’s another example. Liberal blog RIfuture.org let its domain name expire on February 24. As is standard practice, domain registrar eNom replaced the DNS for the domain and pointed it to a parked page. But you wouldn’t blame the owner of the domain if you read this article ... read more ...
Tue 1st March 2011
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Site Finds “Orphaned” Domains on Sedo and Afternic - Site lists domains listed for sale that are free to register. Have you ever seen a domain name for sale on or Sedo or Afternic only to find out that it’s freely available for registration? Someone lists a domain, lets it expire, but the sales listing never gets deleted. The problem used to be rampant. It’s gotten better thanks to new controls and monitoring by both sites (particularly Afternic). But a new service from domain name search engine DomainWhiz shows ... read more ...
Mon 14th February 2011
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SnapNames Increases Prices on Deleted Domain Names - Cost to get deleted domains increases from $59 to $69. On Tuesday SnapNames will increase its minimum fee for catching fully deleted domain names by $10 to $69. The fee increase only applies to domains that go completely through the deletion cycle and are deleted by the registry. It does not apply to domain names auctioned off through registrar partners and other sellers. Domains auctioned through registrar partners don’t go completely through the deletion cycle. ... read more ...
Fri 21st January 2011
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WikiLeaks.com is Expired. Who Will Register it? - Wikileaks.com expires but fate of domain name unknown Elliot Silver has written a series of articles about Wikileaks.COM, a domain name that was registered at Go Daddy. Here’s something else that’s interesting: wikileaks.com is expired. I noticed this after reading a TechDirt article today about how the domain name is owned by the group behind Wikipedia. Wikia registered the domain name defensively after Wikileaks said it would be a “Wikipedia of secrets”. ... read more ...
Thu 20th January 2011
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VeriSign Devises Way to Sell More Expiring Domain Names - System would discount price of domain names until a buyer is found. VeriSign has devised a system to sell more dropping domain names by discounting their price over time. Details of the idea are in a patent application the company filed in 2009 that was just published today. U.S. patent application number 12/504396 (pdf) for “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SALE OF DOMAIN NAMES” describes a way that a domain name registry can discount the price of domain names within ... read more ...
Wed 15th December 2010
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Woolworths Buys Hardware.com.au for $33,333 After Rival Lets it Expire - Big bucks for an expired domain — but an even more interesting story. Australia’s Woolworths Limited got into the domain name drop catching game recently by picking up the domain name Hardware.com.au for $33,000 AUS. What makes this story more interesting, according to the Herald Sun, is that one of Woolworths’ rivals let the domain name expire. Bunnings Building Supplies Pty Ltd owned the domain name but may not have received the renewal notice due to an ... read more ...
Mon 9th August 2010
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Demand Media S-1 Discloses Details of NameJet Deals with Tucows, Others - IPO filing discloses financial deals for expired domain names. Demand Media’s S-1 filing last Friday revealed a bit about the company’s expired domain deals, although it doesn’t refer to its partners directly by name. NameJet has deals with Network Solutions (with whom it co-owns NameJet) and Tucows. It probably has deals with other companies as well. Here’s one of the statements (dollars are in thousands): On February 9, 2009, the Company entered into an ... read more ...
Thu 13th May 2010
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Texas Governor Rick Perry Domain Name Expires - RickPerry.com domain expires; official site is hosted on .org. Texas Governor Rick Perry is in the middle of a gubernatorial race, which isn’t a good time for the RickPerry.com domain name to expire. The governor’s main campaign web site, operated by Texans for Rick Perry, is RickPerry.org. But that doesn’t keep people from visiting the .com address by mistake. For the past year RickPerry.com has forwarded to or mirrored the .org web site. Then the domain ... read more ...
 
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20 Great Expiring Domain Names To Backorder Now - Take a look at these 20 pre-release domain names. I don’t usually share expired domain name tips on Domain Name Wire. But the mood struck me today to do some research. Here are 20 pre-release .com domains at NameJet that you should consider. All domains are at least 8 years old and many are more than a decade old. I checked all of them today to verify they were still in pending delete status. Most of them don’t have any bids yet. RetireWealthy.com MiamiMortgage.com edoc.com ... read more ...