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Holidays are all well and good, but sometimes it's nice to escape to an Internet Cafe and just do something.
This week, whilst relaxing in the heat of the Spanish sun, I've been in regular email contact with Paul Sloan, to discuss exactly what we are going to be doing with our new venture, www.playingtheangles.com.
Paul is
Wikipedia had yielded to protests from the domain community and stopped redirecting people to a page on cybersquatting when they enter "domaining", "domainer" or "domainers" in the site's Search box. Those searches now lead to a revamped page on the legitimate business of domaining.
I've heard of a lot of horror stories from both domain owners and domain buyers having issues with PayPal. I personally have not had a negative experience using PayPal, knock on wood. With my readers in mind and my curiosity about their security measures, I spent a little time on the phone today with their
Domain Invest Ltd have launched the website GamblingInvest.com to cater for the gambling/gaming domains market.
As part of their launch campaign they are holding a live gambling/gaming auction at Budapest Affiliate Conference (Gambling) to be held September 12, 2009.
"I'm confident I'll put together at least 200 premium gambling domains for our fir...
SnapNames holds regularly monthly domain auctions it calls its "Showcase Auction" – the August domain list has just been released for the showcase auction to be held August 11 – 13, 2009.
Here are some of the names to be auctioned off:
Betas.com
BuyGoldOnline.com
CellPhoneOffers.com
ColorSchemes.com
ContractorJobs.com
Dividends.net
Earl...
Online giants Twitter, WordPress.com, Ning and Godaddy were faced with an interestingly misdirected lawsuit last Wednesday when Daniel Neiditch, President of the Board for Atelier Condos on West 42nd Street in New York City, filed a lawsuit that included the four companies as defendants.
Neiditch filed suit against two condo owners and three former...
Domain name registrar EnCirca announced huge summer savings for .pro domain names on all new domain registrations and in-coming transfers today.
Eligible professionals such as accountants and lawyers can purchase new .pro domain names for just $12.99 until August 31, 2009.
Additionally, the professionals will also receive a free directory listing i...
Microsoft has purchased the domain name Office.com for an undisclosed amount of money - perhaps preparing for the rumored Microsoft Office 2010 web applications.
"At this point it's too early to share details on our plans around www.office.com," a Microsoft represented noted. However, Microsoft has already announced that Office 2010 will include th...
Sedo posted $1.7 million worth of domain sales this past week with a range of impressive sales including Server.com for $770,000, Jesus.net for $124,337, OMG.com for $80,000, Enlargement.com for $56,000, Loterie.fr for $50,000 (?35,000), MotorcycleInsurance.org for $34,000, and Cloud.me for $22,500.
Following the massive sale of Server.com, Robin W...
Do you have quality domain names sitting around that you want to sell for top dollar? Fusu is still accepting domain submissions for the online auction starting August 13 at Domain Convergence 2009.
"You can present your domains to the very successful domainers that DomainConvergence attracts," says Frank Michlick, the founder of DomainConvergence....
AfternicDLS reported $950,000 worth of domain sales last week including iGuide.com for $100,000 and Cric.com for $45,000.
iGuide.com was purchased by Baroda Ventures LLC of California - a company founded by techonology entrepreneur David C. Bohnett (also the founder of GeoCities). The website currently forwards to OVGuide.com - an online video site...
Microsoft uses Marksmen to acquire Office.com.
Microsoft has acquired the domain name Office.com, but the software company appears to have taken a slightly different tact in acquiring it than it has in the past.
As I wrote after Microsoft acquired CashPerks.com and CashBack.com, the company typically uses a broker to acquire domain names. This is ...
Fashion magazine loses domain name dispute.
Runway Magazine has a domain name issue.
The print publication uses the domain name RunwayBeauty.com for its online presence. It also has RunwayMagazine.us, even though its publication isn't yet distributed in the U.S. It also registered RunwayMagazine.info/.biz, but neither of those are ideal for a we...
Non-profit wins three letter domain name in highly questionable ruling.
The non-profit Disabled American Veterans has won the domain name DAV.com through arbitration at National Arbitration Forum. The organization's main web site is DAV.org.
This case gives me great consternation.
The truth is, the owner of the web site appeared to use all sorts...
Lawyer allegedly tries to squeeze Texas restaurants over their assumed names.
Think cybersquatters, who register trademarked domain names in an attempt to extort the trademark owners, are bad people? Get a load of this.
Texas lawyer Mina Brees has allegedly threatened Texas restaurants that let their assumed names lapse. After their assumed name ...
DomainReport.ca - There was one .ca domain sale reported in this week's DNJournal sales report, and it was:YourMoney.ca - $8,000 USThis domain sold at Sedo, and it reminds me of a slogan used by a certain orange-themed bank in Canada. Right now the domain is still parked at Sedo, so we will have to wait to see who bought it.
You may be watching TV and see a brand name that you are familar with, but in the TV ad the domain name they use looks a little fishy with an added Number to the domain like Restasis37.com .
Marketing companies use a "different" domain name in the ad, as they want to track the ad
I visit all kinds of websites on a daily basis, but it's not often you see a PG rated site have in pretty big BOLD text the word F**K . Not only does it show the word, the site is all F**KED Up!
I'm sure it's a small issue with the site problem, but Sedo Tech's
Today, two of the most popular social networking sites are getting hit with DOS or also called DDOS attacks. The result of this takes down the sites totally or the sites only work from time to time for some people.
Now if you consider that most people have Twitter.com and Facebook.com bookmarked, the user goes to
I am not sure if there are any Twitter rules that were created to specifically eliminate the use of usernames that may infringe on registered trademarks.
With the growing popularity of Twitter, and the widespread knowledge and existence of domain squatting, it was only a matter of time before squatting wars reach Twitter.
I was in the
In a private move, Microsoft has acquired the domain name Office.com for a yet to be disclosed sum. Perhaps this figure will be disclosed in a future SEC filing.
Sometime between May 19 and May 23, 2009, a company called Marksmen, a Microsoft contractor according to ComputerWorld, took possession of the domain name. On August 4th,
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Twitter has been down for the past few hours, the result of a denial of service attack, according to an article on CNET. Although this must be frustrating to avid Twitter users and Twitter employees, this outage could end up being a very good thing for the company.
I haven't dug in to my Google Analytics
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If you have a unique business plan or web development idea that can't easily or quickly be replicated, the domain name you choose for your website hardly matters. You can be? CrazyCrazyCrazy.us or some other funky domain name, and you will still have success if there's a strong market for your product or service. The
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Firefox is a pretty good browser. So is Safari, although it's far from being as stable as Firefox, especially when running Java applications. I have no experience with Chrome yet. There are some things however that irritate me greatly about these browsers. For us domainers, browsers are our most important tools. Our workflow depends on
'Just when I thought we were going to have a no-hitter, Skybox on Sheffield eeked out a broken bat single. I don't love this URL display by any means but I can't call it bad. Maybe it's just by comparison to all the other rooftops or maybe I'm going soft at my old URL age but I don't mind the spacing issues here. In fact, methinks this context (40...
Can't remember where I snapped this one. Thinking an airport somewhere and, guessing by the 708 area code, it was probably O'Hare. Now, whether you've been reading this blog for 1 day or 1 year -- holy crap, this Nov. will be Good URL Bad URL's 2nd anniversary! -- you know I like me a good pun. And this URL certainly makes a good pick.
Alichia Keller is quickly climbing the URL-spotting ranks and may soon command her own label ala Peter Askew's SkewURLs. I'm thinking KellURLs? Once again, I'll forgive the dubs here in light of Leading Caps. Slainte!
Jeff Campbell of http://awineaweek.com/ fame spotted this nasty Yahoo sports takeover by Old Spice. Reside may indeed be evil but so are ALL CAPS URLs.
Worried about Swine Flu? Good luck remembering the website! By the way, how about the job those pig farmers did to recast the virus as H1N1?! Apparently, Joe Public actually thought that you could catch it by eating pork. Methinks my main man @saneel said it best with this tweet: "The 1 upside to swine flu is that now coughing immediately shuts-cha...
Vanity Fair put out a fantastic article ("North Korea's Dollar Store")?yesterday on North Korea's mafia enterprise, their "supernotes" US dollar counterfeiting operation, and the massive operation to stop it all that was suddenly shuttered by the Bush Administration. This is a must read for those interested in Asian foreign affairs, or just those w...
I am looking to develop the domain name Fridges.com and looking for ideas.? Would be interested to partner up with an established business.? If anyone has any ideas or know anyone that would be interested email me Shai AT Order.com
With all the talk about cash for clunkers, the ISP, Comcast just released a product that will give it "Cash For Typos."
According to PcWorld.com, Comcast will direct all non resolving page requests that formerly went to a "sorry this page cannot be found" type page, to a Yahoo landing page.
Comcast calls the Program "Domain Helper".
We...
The registry for the .cm ccTLD has updated their site to indicate that they expect the Land Rush for .cm domains to start tomorrow.
The update on the site says:
Update for Registrars
Dear Registrars,
Netcom.cm Sarl is working together with CAMTEL to get the name server issue resolved. We expect to announce the new date for the go
TechCruch.com published a post today in which it estimated the value of the Google brand to be $100 billion dollars.
That's Billion with a "B".
For me the issue isn't whether the Google brand is worth $100 Billion or $50 Billion, but what VeriSign would charge Google, to? renew its domain per year, if the price caps
545 PEOPLEBy Charlie ReesePoliticians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation a...
The death of a teenage Internet addict allegedly beaten to death at a rehab camp in south China has triggered calls from medical experts for regulation on treatments for the problem.MORE
Twitter is a buzz with chatter about a variety of (has tag) #idiotbrandingmoves. The court of public opinion convicts Radio Shack, Pizza Hut and SiFi.We've covered all those and totally agree but would have to vote Brinks becoming Broadview Security the most idiotic rebranding move of 2009.And fresh from the news tonight, it doesn't seem like Bla...
The domain name Controllers.com is up for auction at NameJet.com. With 94 bidders already, thisname will fetch a great price. According to DomainTools, the name has been registered since 1997. How on Earth the owner would let this domain name expire, is amazing.n
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The singular version gets nearly 100,000 visitors per month, but thesite is dedicate...
1. Robin Wauters of TechCrunch.com has?confirmed that?Microsoft have acquired the premium domain name, Office.com. The purchase price was not disclosed. Microsoft seem to be positioning themselves for?a strong move forward after years of?playing catch up to Google. Personally, I would like to see Microsoft recapture some of?the greatness that opene...
There is lots of good 1, 2 and 3 keyword domains available at SnapNames each and every day.. It is hard making up your mind what domains to purchase and which ones to pass. Unless you got a six figure monthly budget to spend on domain acquisitions, of course you aren't going to be able to buy em all. So what do you do??! Well.. You play the drops c...
Well our first sales meeting is behind us, we filled a room with our full time sales team and a few agents that will be working with us to bring us customers. One thing that we did a little different to make a point was we actually had 2 CUSTOMERS at our sales meeting. Thats
Well, I can officially announce our first strategic partnership between Localtek/Missouri.me and a leading technology provider to rural communities throughout southeast Missouri.
Big River Telephone, based in Cape Girardeau, MO serves 10's of thousands of customers not only in Missouri but in several other states that we will be launching in. As pa...
According to Mashable Microsoft just acquired the domain name Office.com and will most likely use this domain name for the online version of Microsoft Office. I have to say, nice job Microsoft on nabbing the perfect domain name for the MS Office web only suite. You can read the full story by clicking here.
Not a week goes by that I don't get at least one email from a reader saying, "I wish I got involved in Domaining just a few years earlier – I think I've missed the boat." When I get these emails I immediately respond by saying, "not only have you not missed the boat, this
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Microsoft has entered into the online search market like a 800 pound gorilla!? There innovative search engine, bing.com has quickly become the engine of choice for many users.? Network television is plastered with marketing campaigns pertaining to Microsoft's new creation, so it is no surprise to me that when Microsoft acquired the domain name offi...
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