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When I spoke yesterday with my contact at Oversee, I told them again how great Domainfest 2010 in LA was. The speakers, networking, hotel and parties were all first class.
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Just as L.A.'s beloved Lakers repeated as NBA champions last week, the organizers of the DOMAINfest Global conference have positioned themselves for another big win by announcing their show will return to L.A.'s popular beachfront community Santa Monica in February 2011.
The 2011 DOMAINfest conference, held by Oversee.net will return to this year's venue, the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, again taking up the entire hotel. The event will take place from February 1-3.
From the press release:
The highlights from last year?s conference included a keynote fireside chat with Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh, plus DomainSpons...
This week's reported sales by Sedo are lead by the sale of 027.com, pengyou.com & pengyou.net, each with a sales price of 100,000 USD.
See the full list of reported Sales by Sedo after the jump.
Domain name
Date
Price
Currency
Translation
.COMs
027.com
2010-06-15
100,000
USD
pengyou.com
2010-06-15
100,000
USD
rage.com
2...
Largest domain conference sets date for 2010.
Oversee.net's flagship DOMAINfest Global conference is moving back a week this year to the first week of February. The conference will take place February 1-3, 2011 and will again be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California.
Hotel reservations for the event are already available....
Sports network asks arbitration panel to give it domain name for new 3D network.
Sports network ESPN has filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name ESPN3d.com.
The company announced its new ESPN 3D network in January, saying that it would show 85 sporting events in 3D during its first year.
Kurt Pritz explains what's left to do in the long march to new top level domain names.
During Monday's New gTLD Program Update session during ICANN's meeting in Brussels, ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz spelled out the steps remaining to launch new top level domain names. Here they are in his words.
1. "So we'll...
Door opened to favor long time new TLD supporters.
A lot of companies have been involved with shaping the new top level domain name process. They've spent significant funds over the past several years working through the many drafts of the applicant guidebook and some have been involved since before the first draft was published.
Technically,...
Domain broker has good sales week.
Sedo completed three six figure domain name sales last week, capping off a great week for the company. First, it sold the three number domain name 027.com for $100,000. It also sold Pengyou.com and Pengyou.net, each for $100,000. PengYou appears to be a Mandarin word for "friend".
Two
New book gets a laugh out of unfortunate domain names.
I first became amused by domain names with double meanings when a now-defunct domain name blog put together a list several years ago. One example on that blog was TherapistFinder.com, which, when not capitalized, looks like TheRapistFinder.com.
This sort of double-meaning domain name is...
The Australian Government has released a Fact Sheet on ICANN?s new gTLD process. The purpose is to raise community awareness and allow interested people the opportunity to feed comments back to the Government. A spokesperson from the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) told Domainer Income that the Australian Gov...
WordPress 3.0 has introduced some exciting new features, not the least of which is a merger with WordPress MU!
That's right, the WordPress team has made it much easier to quickly deploy a…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.Build Your Own Website Network Easily With WordPress 3.0
After holding its successful DomainFest at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California last year for the first time, Oversee.net just announced next year's DomainFest will be held in the same location from February 1-3, 2011. I am happy to hear this because I thought the accommodations were great, not to mention the fantastic
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Pat Quinn sent me an article from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette yesterday and I thought would be a nice story to share. Brennan Breene of Bridgeville, Pennsylvania was driving on Sunday when he happened to notice a cash-filled envelope on the road. The envelope contained $3,600, which had been lost by two newlyweds who had
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We're excited to announce that we are launching a new investor pricing program that starts on July 1, 2010! This is something many of you have been asking for and we are very happy to be able to offer it to our loyal customers. The details of the program are as follows:
You only need a
NameDrive and WIXI announce the launch of the world's first domain parking program dedicated to the Japanese market.
NameDrive will combine its unparalleled technical and industry knowledge with WIXI?s local Japanese industry expertise to provide a parking platform tailored for the Japanese market. Owners of unused domain names in Japan or using t...
A few months ago we made a radical switch to move all finance, support and domain transfers to our team in Manila. To say that some of our customers have been frustrated would be an understatement.
The time difference has been a major hassle. We'd send an email to them, only to get a question back
Afternoon Folks!! Are you a Domainer, a businessman, something more? Don’t sell yourself short. You are much more than a domainer. At least you should be. Don’t box yourself in. You are a businessperson. You are an investor. You are a speculator. You are a cutting edge, forward thinking, trailblazer. You are in a sector that has treasure. But if th...
According to the inquisitr.com, an Australian governmental committee is proposing a whole set of new rules on internet users, domain owners, and registrars. """The Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime report from the House Standing Committee on Communications Inquiry into Cyber crime makes 34 different recommendation...
Anyone who has ever been to a TRAFFIC domain show or other industry convention, knows that all attendees get a goody bag full of stuff from sponsors and advertisers that pay to give there stuff away. The ICANN show is no different and DomainNameWire.com even pointed out last week the curious relationship between ICANN and
Saw this on .ME site. Let's see 400K x $20/year— all digital transactions and 90% margin. Great business to be in. They really should have a bigger budget for marketing :)PODGORICA, Montenegro – June 15, 2010 – Just two years after the world first heard of Montenegro’s top-level domain, .ME, more than 400,000 .ME domains have been registered. Seve...
And guess what..... you guessed it. Neither have the matching dotCOM domain. So go to InkFromChase.com to follow through on a multi-million media blitz. Or for Zync http://www201.americanexpress.com/getthecard/learn-about/Zync/40602?ps ccsg=CCSG_Google_C-ZyncThe thinking is that most people will simply look it up on Google where they are paying for ...
Owen Frager... Hmm..... Not too many good or bad things I can say about the fella, he is quite a character as we all know, liked by some, hated by some, but take it from me when I say; the man cannot be taken seriously. Not one bit actually. Owen's "Frager Factor" daily publication is the DomainGang.com v1.0 full of drama and various other speculat...
Just read some comments over at MorganLinton.com asking where I had been and what was going on with myself and where I had went too. I use to post once or twice a day and I think my last post was in April so I can understand why people would be asking. I have been
We wanted to highlight how easy it is to find keyword domains with our Keyword Domain Repository, so we thought we'd list some domains that we found in there. All of the below domains are availabe for hand-registration as of the publishing of this post
PREGNANTVIDEO.ORG
27100 exact match monthly searches
MONTMARTREPARIS.ORG
27100 exact match ...
So I've done a handful of live shows now and the more I do, the more I realize how challenging live TV is! Now I'm doing far less than the average news show but they have an entire crew running the show – for me it's just…well, me! One of the biggest challenges for me
Tonight I'll be doing another show, hopefully with less technical issues than I had yesterday. You can watch the show right here on my blog or on my tv channel site at morganlinton.tv. Today's Show: 1. Comment of the Day Every day I will feature a comment from a blog reader. 2. What bugs you?
I put dropping in parenthesis because we all know that many of the NameJet names are not expiry names but regardless, they are up for grabs.?? Godaddy's name quality has been terrible lately but it's the luck of the draw.? They get what's expiring. On a side note, if you're not watching Morgan's show each
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The first thing I learned when I dove deeper into the domaning world is there are a bunch of domainers that don't like each other.? The recent quarreling between Owen Frager and "Mike Cohen" is just the latest example.?? The fact of the matter is we are all trying to make money doing the same
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A web venture by the Domainer and Blogger Namecake is enjoying some serious success. The domain name OilPrice.com which NameCake developed into a website full blown website over the last year has gone from 10,000 unique visitors per month since our last report in November 2009 --to 100,000 unique visitors in May 2010, and it's continuing on a high ...
As domainers, we receive them all the time: the much-dreaded, despicable, nerve-wracking offers that don't even take into account the cost of renewing the domain. The Lowball Offers. They arrive via emails, phonecalls or via online venues such as Sedo, GoDaddy, Network Solutions or Afternic. Lowball offers are several zeros short of a full price,...
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