Tag Archives: NameJet

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 ...
Fri 18th February 2011
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Zuccarini Files Another Lawsuit, This Time Adding ICANN to a List - Zuccarini sues three companies for negligence. John Zuccarini has filed another lawsuit (pdf) stemming from the sale of 14 domain names on NameJet. In this case he counts Network Solutions, NameJet, and now ICANN as defendants. Zuccarini owes the IRS and creditors $550,000, some of which involves a cybersquatting judgment against him. A court-appointed receiver was holding some of his domain names to satisfy these debts, but he accidentally let some of them expire. ... read more ...
Mon 24th January 2011
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Judge Shuts Down Zuccarini Fight Against NameJet, NetSol, and VeriSign - Judge calls for an end to lengthy domain name battle. United States District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema has said enough is enough in a domain name lawsuit filed by John Zuccarini. Zuccarini filed the lawsuit after a court appointed receiver failed to renew domain names of his that were seized to settle a cybersquatting judgment. The domain names were at Network Solutions and subsequently auctioned off on NameJet when they expired. One of the domain names was bid up ... read more ...
Tue 23rd November 2010
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Zuccarini Case Against NameJet, NetSol, et al Moved to Virginia - Court transfers lawsuit to Virginia. In a move that may have been expected by some observers, John Zuccarini’s lawsuit against NameJet, Network Solutions, eNom, and VeriSign has been transferred to the Eastern District of Virginia. The case stems from some of John Zuccarini’s domain names that were transferred to a receiver after a cybersquatting judgment against him. The receiver let some of the domain names expire and they were subsequently auctioned off on ... 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 ...
Fri 4th June 2010
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Woops! Court Appointed Receiver Lets Zuccarini Domains Expire, Auctioned Off on NameJet - Domains that were part of legal judgment are accidentally auctioned off. Congratulations Michael Berkens, you’ve just uncovered a big mess by accident. On May 25, Berkens wrote about the auctioning off of GovermentGrants.com on NameJet for $53,022. The story also mentions other expired domains that sold on NameJet at the same time, such as USGoverment.com for $4,950, GovermentGrant.com for $3,950, GovermentAuction.com for $2,750, and GovermentAuctions.com $2,500. But ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2009
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Domain Owners Should Learn Lesson About Leaving Money on a Table - Deal or no deal? eNom leaves money on the table. Back in February I made an offer on a domain at AcquireThisName.com, an eNom affiliate. It wasn’t a great name, just a brandable that a friend was interested in. eNom wanted $6,000; my friend’s final offer was $400 since we were so far off. Flash forward to November and eNom is letting the domain drop, likely to earn little or nothing for the domain it could have had $400 or more for. Here’s an email I received ... read more ...
Fri 28th August 2009
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NameJet .Cm Domain Name Auctions to Start Today - .Cm auctions should finally start today at NameJet. After many delays, NameJet will begin auctions today for .cm domain names. NameJet General Manager Steve Brown informed Domain Name Wire this morning that the sunrise and single pre-order .cm domains have now been added to the zone. Therefore, NameJet will proceed as planned with the auctions that will begin later today and close between Monday August 31st and Monday September 14th. General registrations for .cm ... read more ...
Fri 14th August 2009
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Tucows on NameJet, MLS, Candy.com, and Its Domain Portfolio - Conference call sheds light on the domain name market. Tucows (AMEX: TCX) held its quarterly investor conference call last night, which helped shed some light on the state of the company and the domain name market as a whole. NameJet: Tucows is seeing increased auction revenue of about $100,000 (presumably per quarter) through its expired domain deal with NameJet. Tucows’ Portfolio: The registrar continues to grow its own portfolio of domains faster than it sells ... read more ...
Fri 3rd April 2009
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How To Play a Expired Domain Game in 2009 - A practical guide to profiting from expired domain names in 2009. Because of the economy and faltering parking revenue, you should expect to see more domain names expiring and dropping in 2009 and 2010. Most of these added drops will be of low or mediocre quality, but some of them will be worth backordering. To new comers, buying expired domains can be somewhat daunting. But in many ways it’s easier now than in the days of many competing services slamming the ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2009
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Survey: Which Expired Domain Name Service is Best? - Aha! That “novel” wasn’t submitted for some reason! Luckily I saved it before I clicked “submit”. But some editing was lost, so please be forgiving. Here it is, again: +++++ H*ll yes, I will choose Snapnames first over any of the others. Reasons? For Dub-A, I will come out of my normally shy and quiet demeanor, and be uncharacteristically blunt: 1) Snapnames has consistently run a well-managed expiring domain service for at least four years (although they’ve been around ... read more ...
Wed 11th March 2009
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SnapNames Server Outage Brings Down 50 Domain Registrars - Outage of (perhaps only one) server takes down 50 registrars. A reader just informed me about an interesting situation affecting about 50 ICANN accredited registrars. If you visit any of the 50 domain registrars you will see this error message: Downtime Notice We have been dealing with a major hardware failure that has necessitated replacement of hardware and restoration of data. This is a long and tedious process and is expected to finish around 08:00 AM GMT on ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2009
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Survey: Sedo Top Online Domain Sales Site - No surprise in online domain sales category. Once again, Sedo has taken top honors for “Best Online Domain Name Sales Site” in the annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 48% of respondents to the fourth annual survey selected Sedo as the top site, roughly equal to last year. In second place, with only 14% of the vote, were domain name forums. Here are the rankings: 1. Sedo 48% 2. Forums 14% 3. GoDaddy (TDNAM) 8% 4. SnapNames (Non-expired) 7% 5. Afternic 6% Domain Distribution ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2009
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What Should Domain Registrars Do with Expired Domain Names? - Perhaps letting domain registrars do as they please is OK. For the 2009 Domain Name Wire Survey I added a new option for the most important factors when selecting a domain registrar: what they do with expired domains. With all the commotion over what domain registrars do when domains expire (e.g. GoDaddy and Tucows), I wondered if this affected peoples’ decisions about which registrar to use. Apparently not; it was ranked the least important factor when choosing ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2009
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Tucows Signs Up To $1.8M Expired Domain Name Deal - Domain name registrar signs deal to sell expired domain names to third party. This is a follow-up to Domain Name Wire’s report this morning about Tucows (AMEX: TCX) selling a $1 million portfolio of domain names and entering into an agreement to sell up to $1.8 million in domains to the same entity over the next 18 months. As the previous article mentioned, the latter is some sort of expired domain deal. On the same day it announced the $1.8 million deal, Tucows ... read more ...
Mon 9th February 2009
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Tucows Inks Expired Domains Deal with NameJet - NameJet now has three of top four domain registrars on its platform. Starting today, NameJet is the exclusive sales channel for domain names expiring from domain name registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX). NameJet is now the exclusive provider of inventory from three of the top four domain name registrars: eNom, Tucows, and Network Solutions. Tucows previously had a deal with Afternic.com for expired domains. But Afternic was never set up to process expired domain names ... read more ...
Wed 14th January 2009
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SnapNames Awarded Domain Backordering Patent - Company awarded divisional patent covering business of expired domains and domain monitoring. Expired domain name service SnapNames, a subsidiary of Oversee.net, has been awarded U.S. Patent number 7,472,160, covering a broad array of expired domain services. The patent is a divisional patent filing that continues several filings made by the company earlier this decade. Among the areas of invention covered include: Domain monitoring and acquisition – monitoring ... read more ...
Tue 16th September 2008
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Deadbeat Bidder during NameJet? Just Pay Ten Bucks. - Are expired domain auction services doing enough to deal with deadbeat bidders? Expired domain auctions can get very competitive. But often times the winning bidder never makes the payment, sending the domain back to auction and wasting everyone’s time, not to mention increasing the total prices winners pay. That’s the case with one NameJet bidder that a reader tipped Domain Name Wire off to. This bidder — “jerry” — defaulted on over $13,000 of domain ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2008
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Domain Name Conspiracy Theories - Everyone’s got them. But not all of them are true. Spend much time on domain name forums or at trade shows and you’ll hear a lot of conspiracy theories: auction tampering, domain renewal notices “lost” on purpose, etc. I hear more than my fair share. Every week I get a few tips from people that turn out to be completely false. Sometimes I spend a couple hours investigating; other times I can dismiss them within a few minutes. For example, there was ... read more ...
Mon 23rd June 2008
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OVT Matcher Software Releases Upgraded Version - Tool for finding domain names with traffic releases improvements. OVT Matcher, a tool that automatically checks lists of domain names for “Overture Scores” from January, February, and March 2007 has released an upgrade. (See OVT Matcher Makes Finding Expired Domains a Snap). In the previous version, users had to manually download expiring domain lists from companies such as SnapNames. That is now automated, as well as a number of other improvements: – Import ... read more ...
 
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Sedo and Pool Explain Employee Policies for Bidding - Sedo has strict policy on domain speculation, Pool outlines rules. [If you have arrived on this article from Slashdot, NoDaddy, etc., you may wish to see how this all started with GoDaddy.] Many people (63 comments and counting) have commented on Domain Name Wire’s article about GoDaddy letting its employees bid on domain name auctions on its site. Several readers e-mailed requests for information on other companies’ policies. Here’s what I’ve found: Sedo ... read more ...
Fri 20th June 2008
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Expired Domain Services Let Employees Bid Against Customers - Two of the major services let employees compete with domainers. [Note: See update at bottom of article.] Earlier today a reader tipped me off to a discussion at NamePros about GoDaddy’s TDNAM service. Apparently GoDaddy VP (and owner of DNForum) Adam Dicker won a couple auctions for domains through the service. Dicker runs the aftermarket service. The reader was surprised that GoDaddy let its employees bid against its customers and push bid prices up: These employees ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2008
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Tucows and Afternic Deal Q&A - Bill Sweetman of Tucows answers questions about its deal with Name Media’s Afternic. After today’s announcement that Tucows (AMEX: TCX) is sending expired domain names to Afternic, there were a couple lingering questions. I asked Bill Sweetman, General Manager – Domain Portfolio at Tucows to fill in the gaps. Domain Name Wire: With SnapNames and NameJet the dominant players in expired domains, pulling in higher bid prices than other platforms, what made you ... read more ...
 
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Tucows to Auction Expiring Domain Names during Afternic - Registrar opts for Afternic platform for expiring domain names. When domain registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX) recently announced they were shutting down their in-house expiring domain platform, there was speculation where they would send their domains. (Although Tucows had an auction platform, it also sold domain names through SnapNames). We now know the answer: Tucows is sending expiring domains to Afternic. Afternic will add the domains to its auction system alongside ... read more ...
Wed 28th May 2008
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OVT Matcher Makes Finding Traffic Domains A Snap - I just checked The big NameJet pre-release list and 192 names have OVT an score. Here is the list and a bonus for all visitors to this page: The first Number is January, The second Feb, the third March bigbettysbingo.com, 0, 28, 0 isec.com, 0, 25, 0 mofairsfest.org, 0, 0, 33 thegreens.com, 105, 86, 83 usavoice.org, 1740, 0, 56 airdate.com, 98, 98, 91 eluxuryforless.com, 35, 28, 27 evom.net, 52, 39, 29 gospelnet.com, 315, 217, 280 greekwarez.com, 101, 82, ... read more ...