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The new .tel extension opened for public registration today...Rick Schwartz will appear on a live web broadcast tonight...ICA Legal Counsel Phil Corwin calls attention to some new threats domain owners need to aware of...Kevin Ham's new son...and still another newspaper print edition meets the Grim Reaper.
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Our latest Top 20 Chart is led by the year?s third biggest sale to date and the country codes continued to show tremendous strength placing eight names on the all extension leader board.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Donna Mahony through her private domainer forum DomainBoardroom. The other day she asked the members of her forum for donations for one of her passions, I was more than happy to help. Donna then posted for help on Facebook. Sahar Sarid was quick to jump in and lend
According to recent reports, the Conficker C worm - a malicious program that allows a master computer to take control of "zombie" PCs - will be active again on April 1, 2009. The news has domain name registries - such as Nominet for .uk and CIRA for .ca - increasing security measures for their domain
This week's AfternicDLS report includes 383 domains selling for over $680,000 USD. While the highlights include LAInsurance.com at $100,000, BrandH.com for $20,000, and Competicion.com for $10,000 (Spanish for "competition") - there are plenty of others worth studying.
Check out the full list after the jump…
.COM Domains
Price
lain...
Garden furniture is a big deal in Germany, at least according to this week's domain sales report by Sedo which had the IDN gartenm?bel.de and its non-IDN counterpart gartenmoebel.de selling together for ?100,000.
A few other big sales included 92.com for ?54,000, Geneve.com ("Geneva" in French) for ?15,500, Tech.de for ?15,000, Loisirs.fr ("recreat...
A look inside the domain name thoughts of insurance agents.
In many ways insurance agents are in business for themselves. So it's interesting to read discussions amongst agents about what makes a good or bad domain name. Many insurance agents are savvy about domains, understanding the importance of a short and easy-to-spell name and
Two .de domains sell for combined EUR 100,000.
Domain domain aftermarket Sedo has completed the sale of gartenm?bel.de & gartenmoebel.de for EUR 100,000 (about $135,000 USD). The word means "garden furniture" in German.
Sedo turned in an impressive list of country code domain name sales over the past week including:
tech.de 15,000 EUR
loisi...
Detroit-based insurance agency shells out 6 figures for domain name.
L.A. Insurance has purchased the domain name LAInsurance.com from NameMedia for $100,000. Although the number may seem high for a geo insurance domain name, this deal makes perfect sense for the buyer. (As it turns out, "L.A." is not a geography to this company).
L.A....
Popular internet site's founder to auction off Cloud.com.
SYS-CON Events, promotor of this month's Cloud Computing Expo in New York, has announced that the domain name Cloud.com will be auctioned off during the conference.
Cloud.com is owned by Meetup.com co-founder Scott Heiferman. I attempted to contact Heiferman but the phone number in whois i...
Owner of VirtualSex.com defends domain name in arbitration.
An arbitrator with World Intellectual Property Organization has ruled that the owners of VirtualSex.com can keep their domain name.
A challenge was mounted by Digital Playground, Inc, an adult movie producer. Digital Playground has a hard-fought trademark on the term "Virtual Sex", and ...
Moniker.com was purchased by Oversee.net, also the owner of the domain name auction service SnapNames.com . Since Moniker and SnapNames are now owned by the same company, several things have changed since then.
It's now easier for Moniker.com customers to list domain names directly on SnapNames right from your Moniker account.
Some may not be aware...
Here are some recent domain name coupon codes that are floating around. These are for a wide range of domain name registrars and most, if not all should still work for domain renewal, new registrations, hosting, SSL Certificates etc.
Netfirms.com:
104DOMSPECIAL $5.95 for .com, .net, .org
Godaddy.com
gdbb776 $8.19 To 7.19 Info renewals
goaorg...
I tried to log in at my Fabulous.com account this morning and after logging in got this box:
I clicked the button to have the pin sent to my email account on file with Fabulous but never got the PIN. After you click the button, it states it can take up to 15 Minutes to get
Here is a list of domain names that are currently In Auction on SnapNames.com . These auctions start ending Today and up to 3 days from now. All auctions end at about 2:15 pm CT daily.
Each domain name is directly linked to it's specific auction page for easy Watching or Bidding. Lot's of great domains
Why am I pissed? Well, I guess I can go on about a lot of things really but I will stick on topic to domain names and the internet in general.
~ Google ~ What's up with them! As of about 2 days ago, Google took little old DotWeekly and put a spanking on the site
I was watching the show How I Met Your Mother on CBS last night, and the characters discussed a website that they visit, which is all abo0ot (pun intended) Canadian Sex Acts - CanadianSextActs.org.? The site lists the made-up names of a whole bunch of comedic "Canadian Sex Acts," and clicking on each link opens
Related posts:Domain Auction Acts ...
Morning Folks!! I’ll be a guest on DomainSuccess.com’s Gratitude series from 8PM til 9PM EDT tonight. I want to thank Owen for continuing to get on windmills no matter how many times he has been thrown from them. This time he found a winner and I am honored to join such industry thought provokers and good friends as well. I look forward to talking ...
Just to a short note to let everyone know that .tel registration is now opened, with registrars charging as low as $14.95 a year.
The system started accepting domains about 1 hour ago.
We know that cloud computing is one of the big new technology topics.
Today SYS-CON Events announced that the domain name Cloud.com will be auctioned during the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo, March 30 - April 1, 2009, in New York City.
Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 East.
No reserve price was announced.
In a rare trademark battle over an adult term, in a one man panel decision, the World Intellectual Property Organization ruled in the favor of the owner of the domain, VirtualSex.com, Network Telephone Services of Woodland Hills, California,? rejecting the claim of Digital Playground of Chatsworth, California, which owns the trademark, "Virtual Sex...
Note that there was an error in our graphic to the right. The time for tonight's event is 9PM EST. Catch Obama first. For Rick after , claim your seat here:
[Update: - Looks like SnapNames is experiencing some intermittent technical problems today.? If you have any problems with the auction link,? you might want to wait a few and try again.]
Yesterday,? I tried an experiment on Twitter to virally raise awareness of today's no-reserve domain auction.?? The one day contest invited domainers to estimate...
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