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It looks like ICANN will begin accepting applications for an unlimited number of new gTLDs on schedule next week. However, a late wave of vehement opposition has brought the U.S. Government into the fray and cast doubts on when or if many proposed new extensions will actually see the light of day.
The Vatican says someone else bought Vatican.xxx when it was actually reserved by the registry. Catholics + Porn = headlines. Even if the information is wrong. That's the lesson from recent misinformation from the Vatican about Vatican.xxx and the ensuing news reports about it. Rev. Federico Lombardi commented on Vatican radio, "This domain is not...
A start spends 1% of its recent funding round on a domain name and other interesting domain name purchases. It's time for the weekly roundup of end user domain name purchases. Let's start with in-app mobile payments startup Zooz. The company snagged $1.5 million in funding in November. How better to use the money than
Domain and web hosting data company gets trademarks for "DomainTools". Remember when DomainTools was called (the much less desirable) whois.sc? It was shorter, but running a domain name business on a Seychelles ccTLD is no bueno. It changed its name in 2006 to DomainTools and today was awarded two trademarks on its brand. Trademark registration...
Major props to Sedo for a cool promotion at AdTech. I've written several "Domain Dunce" posts over the past week. Perhaps a "domain accolades" in in order. In November Sedo attended AdTech in New York City and executed what I believe to be a perfect trade show promotion. At the same time it promoted the
Famous domain investor sells his book to major publishing house. Simon & Schuster has purchased the rights to Marc Ostrofsky's Get Rich Click book, sending him on new PR rounds. This means more evangelizing about the domain name industry. Yesterday Ostrofsky was interviewed by Fox Business in a segment called "How to Make Money From...
ScienceFiction.com tops 1 million monthly pageviews and reshuffles its ownership. Domain name investor Braden Pollock is now part owner of ScienceFiction.com, LLC, joining Patrick Ruddell in the online site that wants to be the "TechCrunch of science fiction". I caught up with Ruddell today to understand what this means for his business and how the...
I admit, I had no idea until I found out today and never tried this since the terms of each $1.18 coupon state that it won't work for renewals and transfers. Well, it turns out these coupons sometimes do work for transfers as well.
As you know, I blog about each $1.18 coupon I come across,
I'm pretty sure at least some of you know that Google has been receiving a lot of criticism lately because their ad agency Unruly Media basically bought links through their Google Chrome campaign, so the ad agency basically exactly what Google tells webmasters not to do. Well, it seems that the Google team did the
DomainReport.ca
Over 5,000 .ca domain names were available today in the TBR drop, and just under 200 domains were taken. Thanks again to Sibername for providing the list.
There were some nice .ca domains taken which I think deserve special mention.
diamondring.ca
diamondrings.ca
weddingrings.ca
weddingband.ca
weddingbands.ca
travail.ca (fre...
Despite Overstock's O.co rebranding being listed in Adage's annual article about "The Biggest Follies of 2011," Overstock appears to be continuing with its O.co branding, albeit at a slower pace. In a press release announcing its partnership with Priceline, Overstock reaffirmed that it will be using O.Co in the branding for its travel offering. "Ov...
Square.com now forwarding to SquareUp.com, home of Square In December of 2009, I wrote an article about how Twitter founder Jack Dorsey launched a mobile payment service called Square, although the company was resigned to using SquareUp.com for its website. In the last year, Square has grown in popularity, and I've seen a number of merchants using...
It's a new year and I've decided to create a new type of blog post segment titled "Ask a Name.com EMPLOYEE…", where EMPLOYEE will change based on who our fine customers want to ask questions of next! See the bottom of this post for the rules. Each of these kinds of posts will have a
Web-Name Expansion Should Respond to Company Concerns, U.S. Says
businessweek.com - January 04, 2012
Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — The nonprofit group that manages the Internet’s address system should take steps to ease industry concerns about a program that may add hundreds of top-level domains beyond .com and .net, the U.S. Commerce Department said...
Today Yahoo announced that PayPal President Scott Thompson is its new CEO and will start on Monday. In hiring Thompson Yahoo gets someone who has never ran an online media company or an online advertising company or really anything that Yahoo does (see below for his work history) "Scott brings to Yahoo a proven record
While many domainers have written off O.co, it appears Overstock.com has not. According to a press release issued yesterday, Overstock has just selected the Priceline Partner Network, a unit of priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), to power Overstock's new travel website, called O.co Travel. ""O.co Travel customers will have access to a robust collection o...
According to RegistrarStats.com, Moniker.com just fell to the 11th largest domain name registrar being passed by FastDomain.com During 2011 FastDomain.com picked up around 800,000 registrations while Moniker which was the 7th largest registrar at the beginning of 2011. During 2011 Moniker.com lost about 8o0,000 domains under management and sits ri...
According to a Press Release tonight, .CO Internet S.A.S. the company that operates the .Co Registry was "recognized in the World Finance 100 listing, alongside industry heavyweights 3M, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and others. Spanning multiple industries and covering a breadth of global markets, the World Finance 100 recognizes “the v...
According to his Facebook page Mike Mann has started off his new year right selling two domain names for a total of $37,000 Mike UVideos.com for $22,000.00 and Shaparak.com for $15,000.00. Looks like Mike Acquired uVideos.com around February 2009 and Shaparak.com in April of 2011. The total cost to acquire these two domains? $87 According
2012 has seen an uptick in theft reports to DomainTheft.org with six reports coming-in for the first three days of 2012 with the first theft of the year coming in on January 1st. DomainGang did a post about stolen domain names being reported on NamePros.com as well today so thieves are definitely getting an early
Yesterday I wrote a post reviewing what worked and what didn't work for me in the Domain Development space in 2011. In this post I referenced my goals for this year coming down to four sites a month in 2012. We I'm excited to say that our first brand is now live and still in
A pretty nice mix today. From a PR7 and PR6 domains to some strong 4 letter dot coms, there's something for everyone today. Enjoy GetInShape.com One of the best workout domains I've come across. BUT……it's already at $5K so I won't be the one buying it. Expandthis.net A valid PR7 is you like these type
by Chris Woodward As we all know by now, people don't like SOPA. It was big news recently when domain registrar giant GoDaddy.com voiced their support of the legislative bill, only to flip-flop days later. For some it was too little too late and many vowed to boycott GoDaddy and transfer their domains elsewhere. This
Other than the declining return in parking revenue, one of the major issues with parking domains has always been lack of traffic data. While you get to see how many uniques, clicks, and origin of the traffic, you couldn't see what links and keywords brought visitors to those names. But you can at Sedo.
It used to drive me crazy. Seeing millions of people being suckered into believing they should change their oil every 3,000 miles. They even put a sticker in your window so that it reminded you every……single……day. I knew it was wrong. It says it right there in your vehicle's manual the correct amount of miles
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