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It changes over time however there are patterns to recognize:
1. .MX (Mexico) domains are going strong right now. Follow today's auctions you will see how strong the activity is.
2. One word .CC, .WS , .Info, .US domains. Buyers tend to like them.
3. Four letter .Com domains. If you avoid the letters X, Y, Z, J, W, Q you increase yo...
While most of the Domain world was concentrated in Santa Monica last week, Sedo continued to have strong sales lead by Comtech.com at $60,000. I liked fro the list
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My eyes may be tricking me so I thought I'd ask some other domainers if the site Ipads.com was actually a site built last year, or was it built last
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A Federal Appellate Court has ruled against AOL and given Advertise.com the right to continue doing business under their generic domain name. AOL claimed Advertise.com violates their trademark on Advertising.com. AOL's over-reaching claims also scuttled a $1.4 million auction sale of Ad.com.
DNJournal.com's new monthly newsletter is out. It reports that total reported domain sales dropped 12.5% in 2009, however ccTLD sales soared 28% over the previous year. The newsletter also has an exclusive inside look at Directi's Mumbai, India operations written by Gregg McNair.
I'm sure by now you've seen this shirt in at least a few DOMAINfest pictures circulating around the net, but I wanted to give you the story behind it.
About two months ago I sat at my desk thinking of ways to make money when suddenly the race car style shirt popped into my head. I
Sedo – the online domain marketplace – today reported a huge .co.uk sale on it's latest domain sales page.
The domain name designer.co.uk changed ownership for a whopping 76,300 GBP which roughly equates to some $122,016 US.
Other interesting names that sold today include:
vantagebank.com (15,000 USD)
1y.com (10,000 USD)
hostdns.com (6,...
The recently introduced stricter regulations for registering .CN domain names (by CNNIC – .CN registry) are causing some Chinese people to look elsewhere when registering domain names (as reported by the Financial Times), an occurrence which consequently is having a detrimental effect on the growth of the .CN ccTld.
"We are seeing people star...
Godaddy has made it almost a tradition to run ads during the Super Bowl game – they have done it every year for the past 6 years. They have also made it a tradition to throw in a bit of linkbaiting during the same time of year – and everyone has made it a tradition to bite on that.
What's linkbait?
The term ?linkbait? is used to describ...
Dynadot extends data use to customers.
Last year VeriSign quietly started offering its Internet Profile Service (IPS) to domain name registrars. The service provides traffic data on pending delete domain names. Since VeriSign runs the DNS for .net and .com, it has access to data that most other sources don't have.
Now domain name registrars...
Answers to three commonly asked questions about the ‘halvarez' scandal.
The topic commonly known as ‘halvarez' — the insider bidding scandal at Snapnames — wasn't a major topic at DOMAINfest. I didn't expect it to be, either. Within days of the scandal breaking I talked to several big SnapNames customers. They were disapp...
by Peter Askew
I've got it. And darn near every domainer I've met has some form of it.
Good ole ADHD.
Now, I ain't horribly afflicted by it. But I can easily say that without it, I woulda failed at domaining 3-6 months in.
Consider these traits:
"Be easily distracted…frequently switch from one activity to another"
Yup, that's me....
UK domain name leads sales chart.
Sedo has brokered the sale of the domain name Designer.co.uk for 76,300 GBP, or about $120,000 USD at today's exchange rates.
The second highest sale for the week was Lundi.fr for 50,000 EUR, or about $70,000 USD at current exchange rates. Lundi means Monday in French.
A
Registrar explains its expiration notification policy.
A lot of times domain name registrars get the blame when their customers forget to renew domain names. "I didn't get the notice" is a common line.
Of course, you can easily say the opposite. Really, how many emails does GoDaddy need to send me about my expiring
If you live in the New York area or know a person who does and who wants help someone who is fighting leukemia by being a donor for an urgent bone marrow transplant, drive to the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn (Park Slope) as soon as possible.
For more details, read this blog post. Jennifer needs
I had mentioned QR codes a little while back in 2009 here on DotWeekly and created a QR Code using Google's Xzing software that technically would send you to DotWeekly.com if you took a picture of the QR Code with your mobile device that had the code reading software on it.
Microsoft is joining the QR
Here is your chance to own a piece of history! lphone.com is currently on auction and you can purchase it because it's a public auction!
Sweet Mother, how could this domain name be on auction!!!!
Drop the phone and hold onto your shorts as the auction is almost over! It ends 2/4/2010 at 10:35 AM PST!
What are
A couple of weeks ago,? Aaron Krawitz and Gary Males wrote three guest posts on my blog about IDN domain names and investing in IDN domain names: Diversify Your Domain Portfolio: How IDNs are Registered in Punycode, Translating Domain Names, and Our Story: Aliasing and Times Square.
I followed these articles up with questions that
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One of the people I admired most while in corporate America was a guy I worked for named Shawn Austin, who was (and still is) one of the best strategic thinkers and who is liked by everyone. Sadly, I recently learned that Shawn's wife, Jennifer is battling leukemia, a cancer of the blood or bone
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As of February 1st 2010 registration of domain names with special characters in them, like for example a letter with an accent, called Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) .lu will be possible. Acceptable special caracters are those communly used in Luxembourgish, German and French languages.
There will be a two months sunrise period between Febru...
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