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Senior Vice President Pete Lamson has left NameMedia where he ran two of the domain industry's biggest sales platforms; the AfternicDLS and BuyDomains. Over the past four years Lamson helped boost sales to small business end users through development of an expanded promotion platform.
Earlier today we reported that NameMedia Senior VP Pete Lamson, who was also General Manager of the AfternicDLS and BuyDomains, left the company last week. This afternoon I heard through the grapevine that?the company's Senior VP for Direct Search, Brian Carr, also left recently.
After reporting the departure of two NameMedia Senior VP's earlier today, we now convey the news that eNom Founder and Demand Media President Paul Stahura is leaving his post. The move comes 12 years after Stahura founded eNom and four years after he sold the registrar to Demand Media.
Here is the final part of the ?Developing A Geo Domain? series from the Domainer?s Magazine October issue. This last part discusses monetizing you Geo domain site. I hope you found the series to be informative in some capacity. I wanted to share it with you all, because if any of you
This week's video is sponsored by WhyPark.com. Great resource for taking your parked domain names to the next level, check it out for yourself. Also be sure to check out WhyPark's charity auction.
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Even with close to 300 TLDs today, we're still seeing more and more TLD's being both proposed and approved as the internet continues to expand. While all of these extensions have interesting stories and endorsements backing them up, the creation of all these new TLD's is just asking for trouble (especially in "Corporate America").
We're just...
Paul Stahura launched eNom in 1997 from an ISDN line in his garage in Redmond Washington. The company now is part of Demand Media and Paul was a CSO as well as a member of the board. After 12 years, he is now leaving the company. Here is what he writes on Facebook:
After much thought,
Prank dialing services fight it out in UDRP.
After starting prank dialing service PrankDial.com, Fahim Saleh was a little miffed that another site called PrankDialer.com came along. So he filed for domain arbitration against PrankDialer.com owner Trey Glauser, who also has a handful of similar domains.
Saleh's argument for trademark rights to Pran...
Here are a couple news notes from Domainer Mardi Gras and WhyPark.
Domainer Mardi Gras special ends today: Domainer Mardi Gras is giving away a 500 GB external hard drive to anyone who signs up to attend by midnight tonight. Registration rates are as low as $595 if you also stay at the conference hotel.
Project.me (the company) fails to capture project.me domain name.
Here's a follow up to a story back in September — iPhone App developer Project.me has lost its attempt to get the domain name Project.me through domain arbitration.
After failing to acquire the domain name from its owner, the company filed a complaint with World Intellectual P...
Big win for credit report company; CitizenHawk may reap benefits.
In what may set a record for most domains subject to a single domain name arbitration, the parent company of FreeCreditReport.com has won the transfer of 1,017 domain names registered by California-based NetCorp.
The domain names are mostly typos of the company's FreeCreditReport.c...
DomainReport.ca10 free domain names were given away today at DNForum.com by member acesfull to help promote a sale of 16,000 .com domains.The remaining domains on the list are $150 each, or $100 each if you buy 10 or more.To see the full thread at DNForum, go to:http://www.dnforum.com/f5/sale-over-16-000-domainsOr, if you would like to get a copy o...
On two of my more heavily trafficked websites (Burbank.com and TropicalBirds.com), I added forums for people to chat and have discussions. Since the domain names were fairly targeted, I assumed that people would be happy to join and begin interacting, which would help build brand awareness and recognition. I was wrong.
On TropicalBirds.com, I added...
If you're like me, at some point you've been paralyzed in making a business decision about development because you don't know any developers or designers. When I wanted to develop my first website with a friend, we posted a wanted ad on Craigslist, only to be inundated with responses from all over the world. How
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Peter Askew was on the ball with camera at the ready when this ill-fated URL appeared. Not sure what they were going for with the spacing. And putting everything after the root domain in orange only emphasizes what a clusterfreak it is. This URL has Michael Scott written all over it.
Here's another SkewURL. Nice slogan integration and Leading Caps aid in readability. My only problem with it is that some may read this quickly has StartHealthyStartHealthy.com or StayHealthyStayHealthy.com. Alternating Fonts would've gone a long way here. Otherwise, this URL is smooth as a baby's butt!
This was a good, er... bad spot by Buck Dossey who now works for one of the big 3 search providers where he's hopefully spreading the URL-aholism. Now, I'm not gonna comment on the hot yoga business model but if trying not to move in a 100 degree temperature room didn't already turn you off, I have to believe that Arizona sweat lodge nonsense would...
This goes to show that movie URLs do not need to be long adaptations of movie title dash the movie dot com. Rather, they can pose intrigue and, when paired with a clean display, be very effective. Let's hope this is not the end of good movie URLs.
So now that the media hype over internationalized domain names (IDNs) has died down, let?s focus on the messy details of what this all means.
First of all, we?re not about to see the non-Latin equivalent of .com anytime soon. Certainly not next year. There are several reason for this which I will cover in a
A short sweet post. These are the kind of stories that keep everyone going. A lot of hard work finally paying off.
Dublin-based company behind? Hostelworld.com has been bought by a US private investment firm.
Web Reservations International, founded 10 years ago, sold ?350m of accommodation online last year.
Hostelworld.com sold to US firm
...
Morning Folks! Fasten your seat belts. These next 2 posts are going to be the most riveting you have ever seen on my blog. Howard is going to give you a lawyers view of the Oversee contract, LINE BY LINE! Yesterday I touched on the Oversee/Snapnames agreement. Later I posted the following on TheDomains.com where Mike Berkens disects the 12,000 auct...
Morning Folks!! I asked Howard yesterday to write a detailed legal opinion of the Oversee Release for all domainers to see. I hope you are sitting down. Don't do anything hasty. This is going to be another BARN BURNER! Howard is going to pick this apart one point at a time and I think he could go on even further with all the flaws he reveals. From ...
A German company missing the landrush for the domain project.me goes out after the landrush and registers a trademark on the term in Germany and then files a WIPO complaint against the domainer that grabbed the .me domain during the landrush.
Welcome to trademark abuse.
So with a ton of new extensions coming on the horizon this
D&D Consulting Ltd. is offering a $10,000 finder?s fee to anyone who refers the individual who buys? the company?s Internet domain, Disaster.com.
The silent auction started Oct. 22 with a minimum asking bid of $850,000.
It?s expected to conclude on Nov. 20.
The IT consulting company registered Disaster.com in 1994.
For more information about th...
While most domainers focus on keywords and making pennies on ad searches, the big money in domains is in call-to-actions for TV spots. They can make or break the campaign and deliver the ROI that most commercials fail to do simply because their name isn't clear or memorable.FreeCreditReport.com- the power of a call-to-action domain in advertising p...
Best reporting I've seen on TV and very troubling: Nov. 13: A Morning Meeting panel discusses a report by The Nation claiming that the U.S. government is using military money to pay the Taliban from attacking convoys in Afghanistan.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Received a tidbit from a friend of mine citing a Merchant Circle survey showing some amazing numbers and something I have hit on with a few posts lately. More and more businesses are starting to understand the use of social media for use in directly connecting with their customers, here are a couple direct quotes from the survey results:
The o...
Been along week, but wanted to do a quick random news post before the weekend hits. Here are a couple stories that caught my eye this week related to search and social networking:
News Corp Wants To Block Google - Rupert Murdoch continues to threaten to use such viscous tools as robots.txt to stop Google from indexing the content of its site sayin...
The WordPress Coming Soon Plugin by CSSJockey.com is one of the niftiest little WP plugins that I have come across in quite some time and although it is very simple and elegant I think that you will love what it can do for you just as much as I do.
I actually just stumbled across
Here are some of the latest working Godaddy Coupon Codes that might help you to save some bucks, followed by the special prices offered at Moniker to register, renew or transfer domain names.
gdr1131c – 15% OFF on $70 or more – Expires November 30, 2009
goaz2001ai – $7.17 for .com – Register, Renewal & Transfer
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Welcome to the second edition of the Domain Awards of the Week right here on UtterDomain. In the fine tradition of... well, last week, we take a sophisticated and professional look at the weeks news and throw all that out and focus on the fluff. So let's dig in:The "New Kid on the Block" AwardGoes to LuxuryNames.com for their newly announced auctio...
Just as we were completing our analysis and preparing a response to
WIPO’s announcement that it intends to propose a fast track version of
the UDRP before year’s end and implement that expedited procedure in
the first quarter of 2010, comes an announcement from ICANN that the
Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) has proposed its own version of fast
track ...
I'm not sure if anyone even cares about these links but I have a good time looking for them so I'm going to continue posting them.? I received my first two emails suggesting a link so that's a sign that at least two people are reading them.? By the way, I'd like to thank my
I sold three domains this week for a total of $2600.? Not my best total but the first time I've sold three. It was pure coincidence that it fell as the same time I've gotten my domain blog up and running,? as 2 of these were in auctions and 1 was a private buyer.? No
It's getting ridiculous, and tonight's one of the worst nights yet.? I don't mind the bots following me or the autorespond direct message but this never ending direct message of "hey I saw you in this picture" or "I'm smarter than you, check your IQ"? "Is this you?" is a bit much.? Every single DM...
You've been waiting for it all week and here it is!? Part 2 of Domainer Mardi Gras!? You'll notice a few popular domaining bloggers in this week's comic.? Both Teen Domainer and Tia Wood are featured in this weeks comic!? Enjoy and as always if you have any ideas for future comics feel free to
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@Saas lol, just a high volume search keyword. Salsa so hot, it should be illegal! ... oh, =that= illegal... =D
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Why is GoDaddy's whois records on the .ORG drop showing 2 minutes ahead of official time?! #wth
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