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Friday Funnies: ccTLDs in real life

 Mark As Read    

Traveling domainers carry with them the "domain virus" and often attempt to apply it to real life events. Rick Schwartz's recent trip to Greece and neighboring Turkey inspired the following Friday Funny

Acro.net 1097 days ago

AfternicDLS Upgrade

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Afternic.com will be temporarilty unavailable due to a site upgrade on May 16, 2009. Here are a few highlights: ? A new and improved user interface to make it even easier to find exactly what you need ? Improvements to increase your chances of a successful sale ? including a brand new promotion level that allows you to

Afternic DLS 1097 days ago

Available Domain Names - May 15

 Mark As Read    

I was short on time yesterday so today's list contains all of the available domains that dropped the past two days. Highest monthly Google search volume belongs to: CouchPillows.net 4,400, FlowerCrafts.net 4,400, AlcoholAwareness.net 3,600, SeersuckerDress.com 3,600, CommercialJingles.net 2,900 and CyclingSunglasses.net 2,900. The available domains...

Bill Eisenmann 1097 days ago

Domain News Episode 14

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Thank you to my newest sponsor Parked.com. Even got my daughter to help out this week Links: Jay Westerdal terminated by Thought Convergences TRAFFIC ccTLDs - Amsterdam Write a slogan for PremiumDomains.com and win $1,000 If you did not catch last week's episode you can check it out here. No podcast for this week's episode, again. Primarily b...

ChefPatrick 1097 days ago

Strata Services Buys Domain Portfolio and Monetization Company

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Strata Services, a leading domain management and optimization organization, has purchased PPX for an undisclosed sum. PPX is a domain development and monetization company that has recently developed a technology platform which allows its partners to access premium cost-per-action (CPA) advertisements in combination with other forms of monetization ...

Domain Name News 1098 days ago

Safenames Recovers Domain Names for Five English Premier League Clubs

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Safenames, a registrar that also specializes in brand protection services, has successfully recovered multiple domain names for five of the top soccer clubs in the English Premier League. By working with representatives of the EPL head office along with officials from Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham, and West Ham soccer club...

Domain Name News 1098 days ago

TRAFFIC ccTLDs offers reduced tickets for part time domainers

 Mark As Read    

Since there have been some complaints from European (apparently more specifically German) domainers that the ticket price for TRAFFIC ccTLDs at about 1500 Euro is too high (especially when compared with shorter conferences like DomainvermarkterForum or the registry-organized DomainPulse), RickLatona.com and his ccTLDs.com Forum introduced a special...

Domain Name News 1097 days ago

Weekly Updates for 2009-05-15

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DENIC (.de registry) relaunches website: http://denic.de/ # Google Soft launches Rich Snippets (enhanced search results) - http://xr.com/a4p # Google Outages today - we heard that it even affected adsense for some: http://xr.com/jyb # ICANN: http://xr.com/jsir - ICANN | Bulk Transfer of Parava Domains to Tucows/Hover # DNW: @NameMedia domains ...

Domain Name News 1097 days ago

Updates for 2009-05-15

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Win $1,000 - help name @DomainingCom with a slogan for PremiumDomains.com -> http://www.premiumdomains.com/slogans/ # (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Auction Real Estate Domain Listings Portfolio The World?s Largest Known Real Estate Listings Domain Portfolio Including More Than 2,600 Geo-Targeted Domain Names. Auction Held at The Fairmont Hotel i...

Domain Name News 1097 days ago

Domain Name Appraisal Scam Now at NameOrange.com

 Mark As Read    

Warning: do not buy domain appraisals at NameOrange.com. A new domain appraisal scam that surfaced a few months ago has migrated to a new web site, NameOrange.com. The scammers send an e-mail to domain name owners offering to buy their domain for a certain percentage of the appraisal price. The e-mail requires an appraisal from one

Domain Name Wire 1097 days ago

Sedo Close to 1 Million Member Milestone

 Mark As Read    

Domain broker and domain parking company may hit milestone this quarter. Domain name brokerage and parking company Sedo may be celebrating a milestone this quarter for reaching one million registered users. The company's first quarter financial report shows that the company now has 962,000 registered members, up from 907,000 at the end of last y...

Domain Name Wire 1097 days ago

Woman Sues GoDaddy for Alleged Discrimination

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Former employee alleges company ignored complaints about harassment. A former GoDaddy employee has sued the company in U.S. District Court, alleging it discriminated against her after she complained of sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, Rachel Pearson alleges that a co-worker engaged in "many offensive, hostile, and threatening acts" such as st...

Domain Name Wire 1097 days ago

Did Parava Bilk Customers from Renewal Fees?

 Mark As Read    

Parava alleged to have kept renewal fees instead of paying them to VeriSign. What's a warning sign that your domain name registrar is about to leave you in a lurch? You pay it to renew your domain many years in advance, but it only renews it for one year at a time. Apparently a

Domain Name Wire 1097 days ago

Live Current Weaseling out of Cricket Deals

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Company gets out of one deal, assigns other deal to joint venture. Live Current Media (OTC.bb) is slowly working to distance itself from its long term cricket agreements, potentially reducing its liabilities. In its latest 10-Q, the company reported that it has terminated its agreement with Board of Control for Cricket in India ("BCCI"), which cal...

Domain Name Wire 1097 days ago

SnapNames.com Domain Auction Service Upgrades

 Mark As Read    

As I wrote the other day, as of last night, SnapNames.com has rolled out several new upgrades to it's advanced search function and other area's of it's domain name auction service. It was very nice of SnapNames to include me in these upgrades as I worked closely for a little over a month or more

Dot Weekly 1097 days ago

It's Time To Give Back, But I Need Some Help

 Mark As Read    

I think I offer a great deal of help on DotWeekly.com about domain names, the internet, SEO, Web Development and just personal help when somebody needs it. I enjoy doing this! I really do enjoy it and I want to kick it up a notch and it was all inspired by a domain name. So how

Dot Weekly 1097 days ago

RealChocolate.com Relief Act Coupon Promotion

 Mark As Read    

Candy maker Mars Inc. is rolling out a new promotion and using a great domain name in the process. RealChocolate.com . RealChocolate.com is offering a coupon for some real chocolate every Friday. You have to sign up for the coupon and it appears they "snail mail" it to you, but chocolate is chocolate in my wifes

Dot Weekly 1097 days ago

Google Changes Its Policy To Allow Advertisers To Use Trademark Terms In Ad Text

 Mark As Read    

The other day we wrote about Google announcing a new policy that would allow advertisers to buy trademark keywords.? We also wrote about a class action suit being filed against Google for similar conduct. Today Google went a step further an announced that not only could you buy keywords for trademarked terms but you can under

The Domains 1097 days ago

ICANN Issues Advsiory To Customers Of OnlineNic.com: You Can Transfer Your Domains

 Mark As Read    

Over the past days readers to this blog have left comments regarding their inability to transfer domains they had registered at OnlineNic.com to any other registrar. I sent these comments over to Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) who contacted ICANN on behalf of these domainers. Tonight in response, ICANN issued the following a...

The Domains 1097 days ago

Another Huge Brand Goes On The Auction Block

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The Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has approved procedures for the sale of the intellectual property of home furnishings and jewelry retailer Fortunoff, including the domain,? Fortunoff.com. The auction is scheduled for June 18 in New York at the offices of law firm Sidley Austin LLP. A bid deadline of

The Domains 1097 days ago

Invest An Hour With The Smartest Domainer Alive

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Countless would-be entrepreneurs are trying to hit it big in the domain space. Problem is, most are amateurs who make “rookie mistakes,??? run afoul of the law and set themselves up for failure, or worse: loss of their portfolios. Mike Cohen always says "You can also hope and prey that somebody tells you some kind of a big secret." So imagine what ...

The Frager Factor 1098 days ago

Mary Makes $173/hr Mystery Solved- Malicous Code Found in Drudge Ads

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Remember our question to you about those make money with Google ads appearing on the Drudge report?Now Politico reports, "The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site" MOREPs. Should have guessed from...

The Frager Factor 1097 days ago

Risking It All, One Roll of the Dice

 Mark As Read    

Domaining can be approached from?many angles. You can?pursue any number of strategies covering a wide range of risk levels. The "risk" can be a?carefully calculated decision … or a wild, high-stakes roll of the dice with no guarantee of a substantial return on your investment. So check this out! There is an upcoming auction of a...

PremiumDomains.biz 1098 days ago

Huge Newspaper Investor Pulls Out, Way Out!

 Mark As Read    

The media industry continues its?major sea change. Another traditional newspaper company, Gannett (who publish USA Today?plus 84 other daily newspapers), suffered a nearly 8% drop in their stock price Tuesday, May 12. Why? Because their single biggest investor, AXA SA (a large multinational insurance co.), sold off almost 30 million shares they hel...

PremiumDomains.biz 1097 days ago

New Tool: Bulk Keyword Domain Finder

 Mark As Read    

Today we're pleased to announce the release of our new Bulk Keyword Domain Finder tool. This tool allows users to bulk-check the availability of keyword or keyword phrase domains (for instance, entering the phrase "domain superstar" would check the availability of "domainsuperstar.com". This tool is available to both free and premium members, bu...

Domain Superstar 1097 days ago

Micropost: 3 available minisite domains available for hand registration

 Mark As Read    

Wanted to post the following three exact match .com keyword domains suitable for minisite development, affiliate or SEO use. All are currently available for registration as of 11:30AM EST. I've checked demand and CPC for each domain using Google's external keyword tool. Since each domain is an exact match keyword domain whose keywords...

DomainTweeter 1097 days ago

Fka200 Stressful week almost coming to an end... vacationing soon!

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Fka200 @DomainingCom Be smart, Be envied.. - http://cli.gs/pdc <-- check the contest

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