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Many of you are already familiar with the case of the domain Nissan.com. No need to go into details, just click the link and read more. My quest here is to explore who really won so far? Uzi Nissan is out of millions of dollars out of pocket expenses on attorney fees, Nissan Motor company's brand, amongst hundreds of thousands, is one of hate, avoi...
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com, A pair of blockbusters headline our new Top 20 Chart. One ranks among the year's 6 biggest sales and the other is the biggest non .com gTLD sale reported so far in 2009. ccTLDS are well represented too with one ranking among the week's 6 best sales.
Major Breaking News: ICANN's plans to break ties with the United States has hit a roadblock as several key U.S. Congressman stepped forward today with a call for a permanent and strengthened relationship with the governing body of the domain name system. ICA Legal Counsel Phil Corwin comments on the ramifications.
It is late in the day and seriously I've been on the phone for two days straight. I tell you this for two reasons.
First, because I haven't had the chance to blog today. Everytime I sit down to start something the phone rings and an opportunity appears.
I am working on a post about PayPal and
Fort Worth, Texas-based RadioShack (radioshack.com) will call itself "The Shack" under a new branding strategy that will be unveiled on Aug. 6.
In an effort to distance itself from the redundant part of its name, Radio Shack is adopting a colloquial moniker that it hopes you?ll use when referring to the company. As part of this
Front-Running has been a significant issue within the domain industry in the past - most notably with Network Solutions - however Benjamin Edelman, an Internet security expert, has exclaimed that he found "no evidence of current front running" following a ten-month study at ICANN's request.
Edelman's study involved testing 604 domains (304 .com, 20...
Li Ka Shing, the 16th richest man in the world with $16.2 billion, has been linked to an unusual case of reverse domain name hijacking.
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and Cheung Kong Property Development Limited of Hong Kong (the "Complainant"), two companies owned by Li Ka Shing, were found guilty in a WIPO domain name dispute
Good domain names are the simplest form of advertising.
What do you do when you have limited ad space but want to get your message across? Just use a domain name.
Domain names are a one-word call-to-action. I was reminded of this last night while watching the Cardinals beat up the Mets on MLB.tv.
Analysis shows over $2M spent in first half of year on lobbying.
Domain name related companies continue to spend millions of dollars lobbying representatives in Washington, a study by Domain Name Wire shows. The analysis used public records filed with the U.S. Senate to calculate lobbying expenses by domain name companies and other companies regar...
How I'm profiting from "Cash for Clunkers".
I'm not a fan of the government spending my tax dollars. So I haven't been too keen about the "cash for clunkers" program, in which the government gives my tax dollars to other people to buy new cars.
When the program started to run out of cash I was
Revenue in free-fall, but company still generating cash.
Domain name and local search company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) today reported a 44% drop in revenues for Q2 2009 compared to the same quarter last year, but the company still managed to generate cashflow and carries no debt.
The company posted $21.1M in revenue for the quarter, compared to
Congress throws wrench in ICANN's independence and new top level domain name plans.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Henry Waxman, as well as the
Chairman of its Internet Subcommittee and eight other Committee members have called for a permanent tie between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
In a letter...
There are several ways to find a buyer for a domain name but the more focused your search is, the better. Here are some tools and tips to helping you find a buyer for your domain name.
Easy Way ~ Domain Name Auctions
Domain Name Auction ~ There are several services that all you to list your
SnapNames.com has released the list of domain name that will be in their 2nd Showcase domain name auction.
The auction will take place Aug 11 - Aug 13th ending at 12:15 PM ET on the 13th. Here is a link for the auction list.
Because I get many Google Alerts each day, I am on top of just about every news article mentioning domain names. An article theme that is especially common has a title that goes something like this: "Cybersquatter buys domain name of XXXXXX candidate." Instead of focusing on the fact that the politician forgot to renew
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Crazy story emerging out of Korea. The police are raiding a Ssangyong Motor Company factory that has been occupied by disgruntled laid off workers.
The workers have occupied the building for over 2 months now. The video makes it look like a war zone where they have set up barricades and are wearing makeshift Read more articles on this topic at Gr...
If you check out the form K-8 that Yahoo filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, last week you'll find some interesting information, previously undisclosed about the deal.
First of all, according to that document, Yahoo has right to terminate the deal it signed with Microsoft last week;
"If the trailing 12-month average of the revenue p...
The domain Web3d.com sold today on Namejet.com for $14,301.
The Web 3D Consortium, is non-profit group, which "has open standards for real time 3D communications" and operates under Web3d.org.
Here are a couple of other notable sales over the last couple of days at NameJet:
muster.com $4,900
whiteglove.com $4,637
kilometer.com $2,989
photodoctor.co...
In just over 46 days the site on the domain SnakesOnACane.com will launch.
How do I know?
Because the site has a countdown clock.
Fox Entertainment teased the site with a 5 second ad on the finals of So You Think You Can Dance tonight and a 5 second spot on Hell's Kitchen the other night.
The ad itself
'Waterslide Extreme' Builds on Popular TV Ad, YouTube CompetitionLONDON (AdAge.com) -- Not many branded iPhone games have broken through, but a new one from U.K.-based Barclaycard has quickly become the most popular free, branded game in the history of the iTunes App Store. FULL ARTICLE
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. ~~Albert EinsteinEinstein also said "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."Wikipedia, The LA Times and 90% of the friends, relatives an...
Perhaps inspired by our handy guide to when you should take your bathroom breaks during Che, an entire site devoted to this very issue has been created. Run Pee is a user-generated wiki site that catalogs the best possible moments to excuse yourself during the latest Hollywood blockbusters like Star Trek and Next Day Air to answer Mother Nature's c...
I certainly do not agree with everything that this article says in regards to choosing domain names but I did find some great domain name statistics mentioned. You can check out the full article by clicking here but here are some of my favorite pieces of domain name information that Preeti Pradhan of Smashing Magazine
This is a historic moment in Domaining history – the first domain thief has been brought to justice. For those who have been living in a cave for the past week (or on vacation – it is summer!) 24-year-old Daniel Goncalves was arrested at his home in New Jersey for the theft of P2P.com. If
Don't love your domains or in other words don't get emotionally attached with them. Once you get emotionally attached, you will not be in a position to make a financially good decision when an offer comes knocking the door. Worst case you won't even try to sell the domain and itt will be in your
In a stunning rebuke of ICANN’s assertion that it had achieved
sufficient accountability and professional stature to justify
termination of its unique relationship with the U.S. government, the
Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as the
Chairman of its Internet Subcommittee, along with eight other Committee
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I am excited to announce a new theme day for DNPimping.com, I call this day "What Is Domaining? Wednesdays". I've decided to focus attention on people outside of the domaining world. As domainers I feel it is important to understand what an "end-user" tends to think about our industry. Lets face it
brucemarler
well, terms agreed too after a couple days of work, state #2 is on the way. Work has started, biz dev team in place in state. The fun begins
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Disappointed with my former company...tries to launch local news site at AustinPost.ORG. .org? Really?
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