URS providers to get contracts | Mark As Read |
The companies handling Uniform Rapid Suspension domain name disputes will be bound to a contract, ICANN has said. In a follow-up Q&A document from the public forum session at the ICANN meeting in Beijing last month, posted Friday, ICANN said: As regards Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) providers, will there be a contract developed that goes Re...
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Buying Domain Names on a Revenue Multiple. | Mark As Read |
These are my thoughts pertaining to premium (top-tier) domain names only. A category-leading domain name has a great amount of value. We all agree to that. Historical sales, traffic value, SEO potential and common sense lead people to realize that … Continue reading →Related Posts:Premium Domain Trades: How I Acquired (2) Two-Letter ....
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HP (sort of) protects domains for new TwoSmiles.com site | Mark As Read |
Company buys 2Smiles.com domain, but leaves some other obvious ones unregistered. Earlier this month HP launched Two Smiles, a service that combines custom greeting cards with gift cards. In advance of the launch HP bought two key domain names for the venture: TwoSmiles.com, the actual web address for the service, and 2Smiles.com, a domain that...
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AirportParking.com: Building the Travelocity of Airport Parking – With Raj Beri | Mark As Read |
Oversee.net already had a profitable online ecommerce business with AboutAirportParking.com. So why did they buy AirportParking.com?Learn how Oversee is diversifying their parking aggregator offering, how one site helped jump-start the content of the second, and how a differentiated website offering can be custom tailored to a different demographic...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 13th | Mark As Read |
Looking forward to a new week. Had lots of domain offers with every single one being in the not even close category. Countered and never heard back from a one. Here's to actually getting a counter offer this week. And here are the names and the daily quote "Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can short...
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Kiss-of-death gTLD applicant asks ICANN to reject “untimely” GAC advice | Mark As Read |
One of the only two companies to receive formal, consensus, kiss-of-death Governmental Advisory Committee advice last month has called on ICANN to reject it as "untimely". GCCIX WLL of Bahrain applied for .gcc to be an open gTLD for residents of the Persian/Arabian Gulf region. It was a ballsy application. The intended meaning of the Related post...
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TLDH weighs in on “terrifying” GAC advice | Mark As Read |
Top Level Domain Holdings is the latest portfolio applicant to slate the Governmental Advisory Committee's advice on new gTLDs, calling it "troubling in principle" and "terrifying in practice". The company, which applied directly for 70 gTLDs and is involved in several others, filed its comments on the "safeguard advice" in the GAC's Beijing commun...
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Second .online gTLD bid and third ‘guardian’ dot-brand withdrawn | Mark As Read |
Directi appears to be the last man standing in the three-way tie-up for .online, following the latest new gTLD withdrawals. Namecheap has dropped its .online application, closely following Tucows, which dropped its bid a couple of weeks ago. The three companies announced a deal in March to see them cooperate to win the contested TLD, Related post...
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Moms celebrated around the world all while the .com fails to deliver | Mark As Read |
Millions of mothers were celebrated around the world today, as Mother's Day unfolded. As predicted, Moms.com, which was sold for a staggering $252,000 about three weeks ago, failed to present something worthy of what it stands for. In other words, in three weeks' time no web site was set up, not even an ‘under construction‘...
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Two GoDaddy Coupons – $0.99 and $2.49 | Mark As Read |
The better one ($0.99) only works for customers located in the US or Canada, while the $2.49 coupon should work for everyone. Both of them only work for one domain and if I'm not mistaken, you can only use them for dot coms (so for a dot com new registration or transfer). First of all, here's
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Went to hell and effed myself on the same weekend! | Mark As Read |
When I'm told to "go f***" myself and "dude u go to hell" on the same weekend, I know I'm doing something right. Of course, none of these high school level insults were told in my face, but there is plenty of keyboard bravado from those that believe talk is cheap. The first one came
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Sales Sunday: 3 Reasons A Sale Fall Apart | Mark As Read |
Hello and welcome to a brand-new weekly segment here on MorganLinton.com, Sales Sunday. I have been making more regular segments on my blog based on what you, my reader, has been asking for. One of the top requests I get from readers is to talk more about sales so I thought, heck, let's make this
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Tucows / YummyNames Auction on NameJet | Mark As Read |
Tucows owns a fantastic portfolio of keyword domain names. I've found that when they sell, the company seems to get top dollar for their names. YummyNames is the division of Tucows that manages the sale of the company's premium domain assets. In February, Tucows / YummyNames ran a private auction on NameJet, and although many The post Tucows / Yumm...
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UDRP Files Against Two Letter Domain Name SM.net | Mark As Read |
A UDRP was just filed yesterday the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name SM.net The domain name is owned by a M.A. Stenzel (info@topname.com) of Kahului, Hawaii and has been owned by him since at least 2003 but could go as far back as 1999. The domain name is parked and not surprisingly goes to a page full of adult li...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Sunday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 12th | Mark As Read |
Had a record breaking week at the nursery. Not sure if we're doing something special or the economy is coming back. Either way I'll take it and I hope it continues. Now on to today's name. "Not many men have both good fortune and good sense" Marilyn French XXXAuditons.com No bidders. I've heard these casting couch audition things are quite popu...
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New gTLDs applicants should brace for GAC delays | Mark As Read |
New gTLD applicants affected by Governmental Advisory Committee advice may be about to find that their launch runway is quite a bit longer than they hoped. That's the message that seems to be coming through subtly from ICANN and the GAC itself — via last week's applicant update webinar and GAC chair Heather Dryden — Related posts: ICA...
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All I’ve Ever Wanted Was an Honest Week’s Pay for an Honest Day’s Work | Mark As Read |
I make money because it's how I keep score. Like most kids that grew up with Atari and Nintendo, I used to love to play video games. Now I still play games but the score is kept in US dollars. If I win I make lots of money. If I lose I lose my time. But my time is valuable, very valuable, so if I'm going to play this domaining game then I want...
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Is Networking Important for Domainers? | Mark As Read |
I'm not saying you can't succeed as a domainer with a "lone wolf" mentality but in my opinion, it's not the optimal approach. By keeping in touch with other domain investors, it's only a matter of time until new doors will be opened. Most of us are bright individuals but that shouldn't make you think you know...
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Quick Poll: How Many Domain Names Will Exist By The End of 2016? | Mark As Read |
Yesterday we published a blog post about Pinky Brand's prediction for how many domain names will be in existence by the end of 2016 Pinky's prediction was 403.5 Million domain names in the zone files by the end of 2016 including 73 million from new gTLD's Current there are 252 million domain names in existence including all the TLD's and ccTLD's bu...
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Pope Francis Using PopeFrancis.com | Mark As Read |
You probably heard about a Chicago man who registered PopeFrancis.com back in 2010. Shortly after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina was elected Pope, the lawyer who registered PopeFrancis.com offered to donate the domain name to the Vatican and the new Pope. PopeFrancis.com is now being used, and a Whois search shows that Direzione dell...
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. EMBRACES WaterNight Vegas! | Mark As Read |
Morning Folks!! And we have a winner!!! Everyone!! T.R.A.F.F.I.C. has invited WaterNight to be the official T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Premiere party on May 30th, 2013. The WaterNight Vegas event announced a few days ago has been moved from May 29th to Thursday May 30th and is now the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. WaterNight Vegas Charity Party sponsored by NameCheap. The ve...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 11th | Mark As Read |
It was nice to see that Rick and Richard talked and worked out the Water School party yesterday. I said that the only thing that seemed to be lacking was communication and evidently that was solved. Good job to both of them. I'm off to work early today because it's Mother's Day weekend and in my industry it's our Christmas. Enjoy the day and th...
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Uncle Sam is sad: Tax.info sells for peanuts on NameJet | Mark As Read |
Afilias has been peddling off its long-held generic .info gems, and although Wine.info sold for more than $13k today, Tax.info didn't fare as well. The auction for Tax.info - a keyword with half as many results on Google as ‘death' - was held at NameJet, like the rest of the Afilias one-worders. After 138 bidders
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Panel Hands Over Stolen Domain GVP.com In UDRP To Global Village Publishing | Mark As Read |
Global Village Publishing, Inc. just won the rights to the three letter domain name gvp.com, in a one member panel UDRP decision, a domain which is owned for many years until their Godaddy account was hacked and the domain transferred. Here is what the Complainant had to say: Complainant has for many years owned the <gvp.com> domain name...
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Office of Medical & Scientific Justice Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking | Mark As Read |
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice, Inc. represented by Matthew H. Swyers of The Trademark Company, LLC, Virginia, USA. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in attempted theft of the domain names hivinnocencegrouptruth.com and hivinnocenceprojecttruth.com by a one member National Arbitration Forum UDRP decision. The...
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3 Reasons Why Your Developed Site Isn’t Making Any Money | Mark As Read |
I get emails all the time from people that go something like this. "I paid $300 to have a website developed and it's not making any money, what am I doing wrong?" The problem is there are far too many web developers out there promising people great returns if they just spend a few hundred
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An explanation of Demand Media’s deal with Donuts | Mark As Read |
SEC filing sheds (some) light on relationship for new top level domains. A lot of fuss has been made about the connection between Demand Media and Donuts and the new TLD program. What exactly is the relationship between the two companies? Demand Media's latest 10-Q, filed today, explains the terms of the agreement: As part
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Stop the Presses! Change of Plans for the Big Water Night Party at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas | Mark As Read |
A big fund raising party for the Water School was going to piggyback on this month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas conference but the Water Night event has now been absorbed INTO T.R.A.F.F.I.C. and will run Thursday night (May 30) instead of opening night as originally planned.
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Choose a *VERY* Strong Password | Mark As Read |
Study after study confirms that some people still don't understand just how important it is to choose a very strong password. The Average Joe who doesn't earn a living online at least has an excuse, those of you who are reading this blog post don't. In case you don't know what constitutes a strong password, here
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WaterNight becomes official TRAFFIC party | Mark As Read |
Party moved back one night and becomes official sponsored event. The WaterNight event to take place in Las Vegas during this month's TRAFFIC show is now the conference's official Thursday night party. The event was going to be held on Wednesday night and open to everyone. The event was pushed back one evening and is
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Fashion Friday: Fashion Metric Featured On WearToClick.com | Mark As Read |
Hello, Happy Friday, and welcome to Fashion Friday here on MorganLinton.com! While I normally cover Men's Fashion trends, today I wanted to share some exciting news for us. Fashion Metric has been featured on WearToClick.com, an online fashion destination based in Los Angeles that covers notable companies and designers in the fashion world. We firs...
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56 more new gTLDs pass evaluation | Mark As Read |
ICANN's evaluators have passed 56 more new gTLD applications through Initial Evaluation. The latest weekly batch of published results cover bids for the following strings: .aig, .airforce, .art, .axa, .baby, .basketball, .bid, .business, .bzh, .cal, .center, .ceo, .cisco, .cloud, .coach, .codes, .contractors, .cpa, .dell, .diet, .docomo, .duns, .du...
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.Sexy Is Just For The Sexy People | Mark As Read |
Unregistry in a Press Release put everyone on notice that the new gTLD .Sexy will be for only the Sexy people: ""Uniregistry, the Cayman based new gTLD applicant, has announced new registration requirements to improve quality and combat abuse in their pending .sexy TLD. " "The new eligibility requirements will restrict registration in .sexy to regi...
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Ari Goldberger grabs important legal practice geodomain | Mark As Read |
IP attorney, Ari Goldberger, is well-known in the domaining circles for his successful law practice, as well as possessing a super-duper personality. Ari's recent project, MD.com, was launched in New Orleans two months ago and Ari could not be happier with the traction it achieved within the medical community, in such a short period of time....
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Will you be too sexy for .sexy? | Mark As Read |
Uniregistry is planning to implement strict sexiness restrictions in its forthcoming .sexy gTLD, according to a fake press release we've just received. Uniregistry, the portfolio gTLD applicant run by domainer Frank Schilling, is the only applicant for .sexy. The company lied in the press release: Upon applying to register for a .sexy domain, regis...
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Pinky Brand Predicts 408.5 Million Domains By The End Of 2016, 73.6M New gTLD’s | Mark As Read |
Pinky Brand just published some bold predictions for the number of domain names that will exist in 2016 including registrations from new gTLD's. For those that don't know, Pinky is one of the founders of .mobi, which is "today ranked in the top 30 off the roughly 268 existing TLDs worldwide with nearly 1.1 million active domains in the zone." "So w...
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Why You Need a Good Domain Name Lawyer | Mark As Read |
Most people who invest in domain names probably hope that they never need to use the services of a good domain name lawyer. I think the perception may be that if you have to hire a lawyer for something, it probably means you did something bad or someone is threatening you. That's not the case, The post Why You Need a Good Domain Name Lawyer appeare...
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A look at micro TLDs | Mark As Read |
The world's smallest active top level domain has seven second level domains. ICANN recently published the latest batch of monthly registry reports, which include data on how many domains are registered in each (non-ccTLD) top level domain. The latest data was for the end of January. There's a lot of interesting data in these reports....
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Setting Goals in Business. A Simple Outline. | Mark As Read |
I'm a member of an entrepreneurs group here in Dallas, Texas. We meet once a month to talk about our business needs, frustrations and goals. It's an accountability group that helps us move our businesses forward. One major portion of our … Continue reading →Related Posts:Improving SEO. Search Engine Optimization BasicsMarketing Benef...
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3D Printing So Powerful, The U.S. State Department Intervenes… 3D Domain Values Jump | Mark As Read |
For the last year or two, many people in the domain industry have dismissed "3D" domains because they misunderstood, or were uneducated, about the scope of power that 3D applications deliver. In the most recent disturbing news regarding 3D, there have been over 100,000 downloads of the blueprint on how to make a gun using Read More…
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 10th | Mark As Read |
If you have a decent portfolio then most likely you've had a broker contact you to see if you have a domain of a certain type for one of their clients. If so then they've probably asked to see what you're looking for and your budget as well. At first I always felt that I would pay too much if I used a broker to buy a name. Now I realize that the...
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Domain Name News: May 10 Week in Review | Mark As Read |
The Week of Domaining In Review: May 10, 2013.The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.This is How Stupid The..., 887,000 .vn IDN Domains Registered, Domain Name Change Leads to..., Yahoo Wants Out of Its..., Scott Wagner Takes COO and..., The Name.com Password Reset Email..., Network Solutions Seizes Over 700..., DomainAgents.com Helps Sta...
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Moniker.com and Name.com Respond to Hack Claims | Mark As Read |
Wednesday DNN ran an article about a purported hack of several domain name registrars by HTP (Hack the Planet). While HTP claimed that the hosting company Linode.com was the intended target, the group also claimed they were able to hack in to Melbourne IT, Name.com, Moniker and Xinnet and provided "evidence" of this on their Related posts: Hacker...
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Happy Birthday Rick! | Mark As Read |
The Domain King, Rick Schwartz, celebrated his 60th birthday today. There is very little left to wish to a man who has achieved success at so many different levels in life, and for that reason we wish health and happiness. Here's to another 60 great years, Rick!
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Back By Popular Demand: After a 5-Year Absence TRAFFIC Returns to Las Vegas This Month | Mark As Read |
Las Vegas used to be an annual stop on the TRAFFIC calendar but this month's conference will be the first show co-founders Rick Schwartz & Howard Neu have staged there in 5 years. In our latest newsletter Rick & Howard explain why they're going back now and what's in store for attendees.
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Morgan’s Magento Corner – Setting Up SSL In Magento | Mark As Read |
So I've officially become a Magento Geek and now that I'm using Magento on a daily basis, I thought I'd start a regular series on my blog, so welcome to Morgan's Magento Corner. Sounds geeky? It is. If you don't know about Magento you can read about it in my eCommerce Showdown. One of the
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If Someone Achieved Better Results… | Mark As Read |
Maybe you're the world's most amazing person and feel nothing but joy whenever someone achieves better results than you but realistically speaking, it's perfectly understandable that you'll be envious. And you know what, there's nothing wrong with envy as long as you channel that energy in a positive manner. Some people do the exact opposite. They...
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My First Editor’s Pick On Medium.com | Mark As Read |
I have been writing on Medium.com, a new platform launched by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams for a few months now. Medium describes themselves as: Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that
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Want to design Domain Name Wire’s new logo? | Mark As Read |
Submit a design at 99Designs. I'm working on a redesign of Domain Name Wire, and part of that is a refreshed logo. The logo is essentially unchanged since I started this site in 2005. I designed the original logo with a $50 do-it-yourself logo creator software package. What, you can't tell? A lot has happened
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