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This week's domain broker submitted listings are below. If you want to buy a domain name, contact the broker directly as I am not involved in any of these deals. You may submit one domain name for sale in the comment section with a BIN price. Unpriced domain names or submissions with more than one name will be deleted. Please don't comment on other...
Talk about a waste of money. The owner of the domain name UGN.com just successfully defended a UDRP against UGN, Inc which was represented by Laura Petrolino of Arment Dietrich, Inc., Illinois The owner of the domain has owned it since at least 2001. Complainant had a trademark for the term UGN SOUND SOLUTIONS FOR […]
The beauty of gTLDs is that they provide endless possibilities to creators of content. One of the first gTLDs to launch, dot .Guru, is currently #3 on the roster with more than 66,000 domain names. And now for some fun with domains. A popular hardware review site is JonnyGuru.com which has been operating since 2000. […]
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Neil Patel from Quick Sprout put this together, I read everything Neil puts out as he does exceptional work. Landing pages are supposed to help boost your conversions, but in some cases, they kill them. When does that happen? If your landing pages have the wrong copy or distract your visitors, your conversion rate will […]
Another long day here at work! Here is the list for today! Enjoy! leadhound.com filmhd.com fsuz.com propertyprincess.com qvhq.com jujusports.com hostalope.com shipgenerator.com naturalstatetravels.com ghostpaper.com personalmix.com winenaked.com lumigraphs.com worksofevil.com evolutionbuzz.com thecoolspy.com blackdumbells.com
Stephen Colbert scoops up Sarah Palin Domain Time magazine wrote about Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central registering TheSarahPalinChannel.com, the channel will parody the new SarahPalinChannel.com. The Sarah Palin channel will cost you $9.95/month or $99.95 for a one year subscription, the parody site of course will be free. Dan Kemey of Time Mag...
Earlier this week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced that she started a new online, subscription-based media venture called SarahPalinChannel.com. Not long after, Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert announced that he was starting a new network on TheSarahPalinChannel.com. I thought his segment was funny, and I embedded it below for your ...
4 new gTLDs entered the General Availability phase today:
Dot Toys
Dot University
Dot Town
Dot Reisen (Reisen = “trips” in German)
My favorite is Dot Toys but I only got one: Safest.Toys
More and more parents are concerned about the safety issues associated with toys (where they're made, whether or not the company making the toys uses/used question...
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Reverse whois is one of the most powerful domain tools and one that I often use for my DotWeekly Discoveries, so I thought I would share a little bit about it and the sources that I use. Caring is sharing so here you go!
Reverse whois works by "connecting" registrant email address to domains and then grou...
Interlink Co., Ltd. Application for The New gTLD .Osaka just won its Community Priority Evaluation .Osaka has prevailed with its Community Priority Evaluation application getting 15 of the maximum 16 points. This means that GMO's application for .Osaka will not move forward. Here is part of the decision: "Thank you for your participation in the [&#...
Bidding is now opened for a what is described as having "Coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, at Google in New York City." "Sit down to coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, for 30 minutes at Google in New York City." Bidding is underway at CharityBuzz.com, where there are currently 4 […]...
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Welcome to the latest round of company domain movers from large companies in the series that I call DotWeekly Discoveries. Huge list today with a lot of different domains, so I hope you enjoy and lets get to the action.
Research In Motion Limited
Registered the domain names BlackberryGuardian.com .net . R...
Elvis the King is back in Graceland, and by that we mean the dot .com. Just four months after reclaiming Graceland.com in a UDRP, the managers of the late Elvis Presley estate rolled out a new web site worthy of a legend. The new Graceland.com bears no resemblance to the antiquated listing of biblical quotes […]
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Being a domain name broker seems like it could be lucrative, and for the best domain brokers, it is a great job. Domain brokers represent domain name owners who are trying to sell their valuable domain names and they make a commission on successful sales. Aside from their time and marketing expenses, brokers rarely have a financial stake in the dom...
Earlier we wrote about ICANN filing several motions to quash a federal court ruling that ccTLD registries could be seized to satisfy judgements against the underling country saying ccTLD's are not considered property and therefore it can’t be attached by plaintiffs. We read through some more o...
Large companies snap up domain names at Sedo. This week's Sedo end user sales list is packed with big name end user buyers. Fortune 500 companies bought domains for under $2,000. The list follows. You can view previous lists like this here. If you'd like to learn how to sell your domain names like these […]
ICANN is fighting a US court action by victims of terrorism that could see the ccTLDs of Iran, Syria and Korea being seized by victims of terrorism. While ICANN has not been sued as such, it's been named in three "writs of attachment", which seek to force the organization to hand over control of .ir, […]
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Tomorrow is a key deadline for .London domain names. The .London domain name is launching, and it's very different from previous domain name launches. I reached out to Antony Van Couvering with Minds + Machines to learn more about the .London launch. One key thing to note: the London Priority Period, which ends tomorrow, is […]
A couple of weeks ago we told you that the attorney for the victims of a terrorist attack got a federal court to order the seizure of the .IR domain registry which is the ccTLD for Iran to help satisfy a judgement the victims held against the republic of Iran. Yesterday ICANN (The Internet Corporation […]
Victims of terrorism want to be paid (in part) with country code top level domain names. ICANN has responded to the U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, arguing that ccTLDs (country Code top level domain names, e.g. .ca and .de) are not property and can't be awarded to plaintiffs in a case involving […]
.Rocks which goes live into general availability today meaning domains will be available to be registered on a first come first serve basis has a little over 200 domains which were registered in Sunrise (Trademark holders) and in the Early Access Program (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a higher fee for early […]
Owners of .xxx domain names will get matching adult-themed web addresses. Kevin Murphy at Domain Incite reports this morning that ICM Registry, the company behind .xxx, has settled the contention set for .sex. That means ICM is the only remaining applicant for .sex, .porn and .adult. This may be good news for .xxx domain name […]
The following Godaddy auctions look interesting to me today. I've sorted them by price and left a comment for why I think each one is worth a bid.Read more ?Other posts you might like:Jog.ORG Listed On FlippaDomainingTips.com Launches Auctionpus.comICANN Typo On Auction At NameJetAmericans.info Tops Our Picks From Godaddy AuctionsValidate.org Liste...
You may recall a little while back there were all those Flipkart domain purchases in various cctlds, well the company certainly could afford it as they have just completed the largest funding ever by an Indian Internet company. flipkart.ca May 2014 5,000.00 EUR Sedo flipkart.cn April 2014 5,000.00 EUR Sedo flipkart.co.za May 2014 5,000.00 EUR [R...
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This morning I discovered some interesting domain name registrations that are pointing in the direction that the once very popular website ChatRoulette.com may have been sold?
First, this morning I discovered several new domain registrations and it's "where" these registrations took place that makes me th...
I don't kick myself very often but I did yesterday by missing Twitters earnings. I knew they would be good but had all my money tied up in Chipotle and didn't want to sell. It takes a few days to transfer in money into the account so I did nothing. Then Twitter crushes the numbers and the stock goes up by 25%. Not many chances to make 10% in a ...
The following 298 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing thisRead more ?Other posts you might like:DomainingLists Now Features .Org and .Net Domain NamesNew Lists and New Features At DomainingLists.com128 Expired Domain Names148 Expired Domain NamesToday's List of 171 Expired Domain Names Ready For…
Google and Microsoft seem to have settled their contention set for the .docs new gTLD, with Google emerging the victor. Microsoft withdrew its application for .docs this week. It's not clear how the deal was made, but Google is known to have participated in private auctions for other strings. Google Docs is of course Google's […]
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ICM Registry, the .xxx domain name registry, may have paid as much as $3 million for the .sex gTLD. Internet Marketing Solutions Limited, the only other applicant for .sex, withdrew its application this week. Word is that ICM forked out somewhere between $2 million and $3 million for exclusive rights to the string. I hear […]
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ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry has won the right to operate the .Sex new gTLD. The other applicant for .Sex, Internet Marketing Solutions Limited has withdrawn their application, leaving ICM's the lone applicant for .Sex. ICM also is the only applicant for the new gTLD's .adult and .porn The only caveat on […]
You know you are an important person, when you type your name in Google adding "birthday" and you get the correct date. Frank Schilling turned 45 yesterday, and here is the Google search screenshot below to prove just that. Tweeting on his own birthday, Frank posted a picture of himself aged 25, and a selfie […]
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New gTLDs are being launched every week and I'm seeing the same mistakes over and over again. The information in this post, could be the difference between failure and and a hugely successful launch. Here are my top tips: 1. Don't Rely On Registrars Right now, I believe this is the #1 mistake that new ...
The post 5 Ways New gTLDs Can Reduce The Ri...
A long, long time ago we published a list of cities that ICANN should not be holding a meeting at. The list, published before the ICANN meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, made light of crime in various locations; some participants were eventually mugged or otherwise scammed at the time. Four years later, we're now publishing an […]
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It's Tuesday. Since I work the weekends at the nursery I try and get some stuff done at home but I never actually do. I usually catch up on my sleep do a little pondering. Here are a few of those thoughts 1. Sahar Sarid believes his portfolio has grown in value over the last 5 years and is now worth over $100 million. I haven't seen the portfol...
After a long recession, we've been seeing reported domain sales rebound nicely in 2014 and further evidence came today when Domain Holdings reported their 2Q-2014 domain sales nearly tripled from the previous quarter.
I've been writing this blog for over seven years, and nearly 5,000 articles have been published in that time. Many of the articles would be considered "news" rather than opinion, but there is a large percentage of articles that would be considered personal opinion or advice. These articles are generally based on learnings from my own business and o...
New domain listings site wants a trademark on descriptive term. From the merely descriptive file… A Florida company has filed two trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "Domain Auction" and "Domains Auction". The applications, filed by Coracao LLC, claim a first use date of earlier this month. Coracao's trademark...
The Respondent to a recently decided UDRP at the WIPO used a novel way to attempt to extract unreasonable fees from the Complainant. In a UDRP case involving the domain name OnWikipedia.com, the Complainant – Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. – was sent back this response from the domain's registrant: "What is this email requesting I do? [R...
Recode.net, just published a post entitled "The CEO Who Sold Diapers.com to Amazon Raises $55 Million to Challenge Amazon Again" Marc Lore, the former CEO and founder of Diapers.com, which the parent company Quidsi, was sold to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million, has raised $55 million to build […]...
Escrow.com has confirmed the fix of a strange glitch that affected the use of gTLD email addresses. As we discovered late last week, when the email address of the parties was based on a new gTLD domain, for example dot .email, the escrow would not initiate. It's a good thing seeing that there is email […]
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Over the past week, 569 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 Million 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: lurk.com at 18,000 GBP · Top ccTLD: liberty.ch at 21,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: europe.org at 23,000 […]
I'm in a bit of a rush today, so here is the list without any bells and whistles. Here is the list today! Enjoy! 27236.com 69910.com 84826.com agingtastefully.com atractivetube.com bloggingempires.com
Network Solutions' pitches .republican domain names to owners of political domain names. A couple weeks ago I wrote about how Sedo did a new TLD promotion that registrars should be doing. Sedo looked at its existing customer base for people interested in buying and selling domain names with "club" in them and marketed .club to […]...
Freebies and deep discounts add up to a big figure. The .XYZ domain name now has over 400,000 registrations, according to zone file reports. Of course, the majority of these registrations were given away free to Network Solutions customers on an opt-out basis. nTLDStats.com shows that about 353,000 .xyz domain names were registered at Network [R...
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In my morning discoveries for DotWeekly Discoveries, I ran into the domain name Engineering360.com that was likely purchased by CSC Corporate Domains, on behalf of a client. I often reach out to the sellers but sadly do not hear back that often or they simply do not wish to share the story on the purchase...
Company sells close to $10 million worth of domain names. Domain name brokerage Domain Holdings had a big second quarter, turning in almost 3x the sales of its first quarter. The company reported today that it sold $9.9M worth of domain names in the second quarter of this year. That compares to just $3.4 million […]
Buzzfeed published an article about the history of TMZ, the celebrity news website and media network. If you follow TMZ, you'll probably find the article fascinating. In my opinion, the most interesting aspect of the article pertains to how the company (and its founder Harvey Levin) was able to acquire the TMZ.com domain name and for how much. Here...
.Toys which goes into general availability tomorrow Wednesday July 30th A .Toys non-premium domain registration is priced at $39.95 at Godaddy. We went through the zone file for .Toys and found the more interesting domain names taken in Sunrise (for trademark holders) and during the Early Access Program (EAP) where people can get early access [R...
Domain Holdings issued its domain sales report for the second quarter of 2014 reporting almost $10,000,000 USD in sales and a average sale throwing out the 5 highest and lowest sales, the average sales price was $29,019 However if those top 5 domain sales and the bottom 5 sales were included the average price would […]
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Welcome to another round of company domain movers with recent domain registrations, domain purchases and simply movers from large companies. If domain owners are paying attention, they could maximize some future sales with today's article, mainly because of my discoveries relating to Discovery Communicati...
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