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Recently I had the opportunity to talk with some well known internet pioneers. This was totally by accident but I took the opportunity to ask them a few questions. The
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Time Magazine has published an Annual Special Issue that features an article about one of the biggest companies in the domain industry - Demand Media (the parent company of popular registrar Enom.com). Also, mainstream media is reporting on today's 25th anniversary of the 1st .com domain registration.
In the midst of many debates on how successful any extension can be other than a .com, Football.tv was launched. However, it is not referring to football as we know it in the U.S., it?s referring to soccer. It is commonly known that soccer is a crucial part of culture for some countries and Football.tv
I?m excited to say tomorrow night, March 16th, I'll be in South Florida for another great Domainers meetup. The last meetup I attended was in December and I had a great time. This is a fantastic networking opportunity as there are a lot of domainers down south. Already confirmed to attend is Rick Schwartz, Michael
This Sunday the NY Daily News wrote a feature called Get Rich With A Click , focusing on several New York geo domainers including Leon Hardy, Larry Fischer and Kevin Cahill.? The three featured own NewYork.com, Queens.com and StatenIsland.com respectively.? The article is a nice positive piece on the geo domainers.? Nice work guys.
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Press perpetuates silly domain prices and negative view of domain investing.
Perhaps it makes for easy filler. But why must the press always quote outlandish starting prices for domain names on eBay?
Whenever there's a celebrity scandal, big news story, or product launch, it seems that many writers need something to grab onto that
CAC's "supplemental rules" change goes into effect today.
Czech Arbitration Court's new UDRP procedure — in which complainants pay only 500 EUR at first unless the domain owner responds or the arbitrator needs to think about the case — goes into effect today.
As far as I can tell, ICANN has not responded or issued...
Some integration between registries and registrars likely for new TLDs.
Last week I reported about an ICANN board resolution that called for "strict separation of entities offering registry services and those acting as registrars. No co-ownership will be allowed."
In other words, domain name registrars such as Go Daddy and eNom would not be able to...
Entrepreneur who cased in on sale to BankRate.com will contribute to MO.com.
MO.com has announced that Johns Wu, the entrepreneur who founded Bankaholic.com and sold it to BankRate for $15 million, will be contributing to MO.com.
MO.com is a new site that profiles entrepreneurs as a way to learn from each other. It was founded by
Google News results in radio station picking up three-year-old story.
Radio station 1590 KLIV in Silicon Valley should do more than rely on Google News for its story ideas.
The station aired a story "One-time owner of Sex.com in San Jose court says, ‘I'm penniless'", apparently today March 15 (according to the time stamp on its web...
MusicVideos.com takes home prize, but good .co.uk and .info domain sales as well.
Sedo completed well over $1 million in domain name transactions last week, including helping Yahoo! sell MusicVideos.com for $250,000.
The company also sold Gold.co.uk for 42,050 GPB, which is about $63,000 USD. Last week the company auctioned off MobilePhones.co.u...
The World Domain Cup contest has just released a report on the top 100 most voted for potential gTLD (global top-level domains).
Japanese internet service provider, Interlink…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.World Domain Cup Releases Top 100 Proposed New gTLD Extensions By Vote
Symbolics.com was registered today, 25 years ago! Symbolics.com is now owned by domain name investor Aron Meystedt where he runs a personal blog on the Symbolics.com domain name. The blog has a main focus on domain names and investments with domain names.
Verisign, the registry for .com and .net domain names is throwing a year long
Sedo.com is reporting the domain name PaydayLoans.info has sold for $24,000 USD. This would make PaydayLoans.info the highest .info sale for 2010 at this point. The next highest .info sale reported so far for 2010 was Love.info which sold for $12,000 USD at DomainFest on 2/17/2010.
For 2009, according to DnJournal.com, Dubai.info was the highest re...
A few days ago, Mike Berkens reported on the UDRP decision for 7Days.com, a decision that went in favor of the complainant. The owner of the domain name did not file a response to the UDRP, so he couldn't present his case for ownership. I think not responding to a UDRP is bad for a
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People always ask me how I find time to write articles on my blog as well as articles on my various websites to keep them up to date and driving traffic. For my blog, it's pretty easy. When I was in an office with co-workers, if I saw or did something interesting, I would jump
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The Snapnames Monthly Showcase auction for March, closes tomorrow on Tuesday March 16th at 3:15pm EST according to Snapnames.com normally closing rules.
We went through the hundreds of domain in this auction and came up to what we think are the most interest domains in the auction:
ScreenSavers.com
$250,001 – $500,000
Huge price drop
...
Mediapost.com just published a story on one of the new companies in our space, Root Orange.
The story give you some back ground on how it got started and its location splitting technology and the roll out of attorney.com.
Basically as we discussed a couple of weeks ago the technology allows for many different, in the case
In a case decided last week by the Australian trademark office, Apple, Inc objected to the trademark application filed by another company on the term, DOPi (iPod spelled backwards with emphasis on the "i").
Apple argued that the application of the trademark should be rejected as an infringement on its trademark because the "particular coloring and...
According to a new poll released by the BBC, 80%? of 87% of internet users feel internet access should be the "fundamental right of all people", like water.
The survey was of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries.
According to the BBC, The UN is pushing for universal net access.
"The right to communicate cannot
The domain name Geraldo.com sold today on NameJet.com for $14,888.
The domain according to Alexa and Compete.com has traffic
Alexa ranks it between 1.5M & 2M and Compete says its gets around 2K visitors a month.
However a look at Alexa reveals that 48% of the people visiting the site are looking for info on Geraldo Rivera, and
According to AllThingsDigital, Yahoo's Senior Vice President of U.S. Revenue and Market Development, is planning on leaving Yahoo for a new gig at Demand Media.
Joanne Bradford will according to report, leave Yahoo just after 18 months on the job and will join Demand Media as Chief Revenue Officer.
In addition to serving as Yahoo's top...
Is the worst behind us or ahead of us? Rebroadcast TFF 6/2008:Flashback October 06'- $6 Billion Consumer Spending Wipeout:While the mainstream press was focused on ANNA NICOLE, we were sharing what we knew about what everyone is finally experiencing first hand this week We have a track record of getting it early and getting it right. Since so man...
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Want to learn the domain industry but do not want to spend months slave to the learning curve? The answer is simple: start by developing websites for lead companies.
Lead companies such as LeadPile.com and Leads.com buy targeted leads from individuals. However, the reason I suggest starting here is because they know what categories sell and wh...
It is ironic that I am likely the last to post a story today about Symbolics.com, I was with Aron Meystedt the day he bought it and had a very fun dinner with him tonight after a very fun and crazy day for him. As most have heard today is the 25th anniversary of the
My company motto is – "Stop Collecting. Start Investing!" and for a good reason! When I first started-out in the Domaining industry back in 2007 I realized quickly that I was buying domains that were great collectors items – domains that someday I might develop – but made terrible investments. I quickly learned that the...
NCAA Tournament won't be as exciting for me this year as my Illinois team screwed things up late in the year and didn't get in.? Maybe I'll get a good name today and it will make me feel better.? Here are a few names dropping at Goddady or Namejet today.
Diplomatic.net 22,000 searches and a approx.
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An interesting scenario is being discussed is being discussed over at DnForum.?? One of the members received a 5K offer on a .travel dot com.?? Without trying to get on Google for this and gathering too much publicity, it is the first word in a Saudian (on purpose) Arabian country type name.? Actually the one
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I sold a domain over the weekend and happened to take a sneak peek at all my bids and auction results from the past five years at Sedo.?? My first 5 years of domaining I concentrated on two things.? Four L dot coms, namely CVCV and gardening names.? I also added "premium" 5L every now
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Remember that phone system that I set out to build?? The one which uses open source software based on the linux platform?? Well guess what, I completed it.? I am currently running my phone system under a VMWARE virtual environment located on my business computer in the office.
Currently I have 512 megs of ram dedicated
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