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Domain Name News
Domain Name News
As reported by Mashable Retweet.com Sold for $250,000 on the Flippa.com market place. After receiving bids by 34 bidders up to $202,000, a new bidder joined the auction and bought the domain for its listed BIN (buy it now) price of $250,000. The identity of the buyer has yet to be revealed. (c) 2009...

Domain Name News | 9 Mar 2010 | 3:18 pm CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for March 8 is up and discussing how users overlook features if the GUI elements - such as buttons andcheckboxes - are too far away from the objects they act on. READ IT...

The Frager Factor | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:44 pm CST

Elliot's Blog
Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing
This is a guest post written by Simonetta Batteiger, Director of Sales Operations North America. The article discusses Sedo’s 2009 Market Study (that’s a link to the pdf file), which was recently released. The information in the study is valuable to domain investors and can be helpful in...

Elliot's Blog | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:22 pm CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
According to the BBC News , ICANN is going to reconsider the .XXX extension on Friday March 12 at its meeting in Nairobi. The BBC article quotes a representative of ICANN saying: There is “no indication what action the ICANN board will take”. “However, it is unlikely to overturn th...

The Domains | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:29 am CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
In yet another shoot from the hip WIPO decision this one involving the domain SkyWaterSystems.com, the sole panelist found that even though the Complaint and the Domain Holder were in the same type of business,  there is not necessarily any confusion. “”"As far as the record here reveal...

The Domains | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:20 am CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
A major new market survey of American advertisers and marketers says this will be the year when digital advertising finally passes print media in ad revenue for the first time. Also today, the .CO registry announces its upcoming launch plan including a new Founders Program for early adopters that op...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:42 am CST

Domain Name News
Domain Name News
SocialDomainers.com, a new social network for Social Domainers has just been launched by Tony Kanakaris, a Long Island, New York based domainer. The network was set up in order to help local domainers meet and connect. For today’s launch, the site is giving away an Apple iPad for the 1,000th m...

Domain Name News | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:02 am CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
Friday, March 12 at noon eastern: RESERVE NOW Are you ready to become the next major geodomainer? Colin Pape thinks you are, and he’s the next special guest on Domain Success. As the creator of ShopCity.com, and owner of the 20,000 city-specific domains it can serve, Pape has created a powerful bu...

The Frager Factor | 9 Mar 2010 | 9:45 am CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
The .Co registry announced today what it is calling the .CO Founders Program Starting today, the registry is starting to accept applications, for “the .CO Founders Program, an initiative designed to help qualified “first movers” to proactively develop and maintain domains with the .CO exte...

The Domains | 9 Mar 2010 | 9:00 am CST

Domain Name News
Domain Name News
Following the course of other TLDs, such as .DE, Nominet has posted a document for their members and registrars proposing the release of single and double character domain names in the third level of the .UK domain (under co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and .net.uk). The release would exclude some domains th...

Domain Name News | 9 Mar 2010 | 8:11 am CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
Once in a while you will see them on a drop list, the domain of a company that was once an internet high flier. So is the case of NextMonet.com a site that was founded in 1998 and was a Forbes.com “Best Of The Web”,  and reportedly raised at least $23M in capital raised, with investors ...

The Domains | 8 Mar 2010 | 8:39 pm CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
We have learned that Moniker.com has completed the biggest .com sale reported so far this year at $800,000. It is the third highest sale of 2010 overall, trailing a million .org sale and a ccTLD sale of more than $850,000....

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 8 Mar 2010 | 6:39 pm CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
NIC Mexico the company responsible of the administration of the .MX ccTLD, announced today that has reached 400,000 domain name registrations under .MX (including in this number all the current classifications .com.mx, .net.mx, .org.mx, .edu.mx, .gob.mx and .mx). “Today, NIC Mexico has reached mor...

The Domains | 8 Mar 2010 | 3:43 pm CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
New Cover Story: The 2010 conference schedule began with 3 shows in 23 days - an average of one every 8 days! Can the industry continue to support the number of shows that are now being held? We provide a detailed history of the domain conference business and look at its future prospects in an incr...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 8 Mar 2010 | 12:18 pm CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
A study released by Corporate Service Company (CSC), a brand protection company, looked at domains that start with “www” to see how much traffic those domains got in relation to the actual domain. “”"To understand how much traffic these domain variations could potentially dri...

The Domains | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:40 am CST

The Rick Schwartz Domain and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com...Home of the "Domain King"
Rick Schwartz
The Domain King
Morning Folks! I watched  a health Care system up close. They already have death panels. It comes in the form of non caring doctors and an overworked system. Fall thru the cracks? That is what a hospital is today. A lot of cracks. Shortages and uninvolved folks all controlled by a central authorit...

The Rick Schwartz Domain and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com...Home of the "Domain King" | 8 Mar 2010 | 6:04 am CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
The group of more than two dozen domain industry pros who went to Tanzania, Africa to climb Mount Kiliminjaro in a fund raising effort for The Water School have finished their mission. 26 of the 27 climbers reached the peak and in the process raised approximately $180,000 for the non-profit organi...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 7 Mar 2010 | 12:55 pm CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
This week Resuecom which sued Google for selling ads under its trademarked keywords 6 years ago simply dropped the case. Back in April 2009 we wrote about how the appeals court ruled against Google in favor of Resuecom. At the time we wrote: “”"The 2nd Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ru...

The Domains | 7 Mar 2010 | 12:20 pm CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
"There is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves"...

The Frager Factor | 6 Mar 2010 | 9:11 pm CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
Kleenex new call-to-action spot "Get Mommed" leading to "webisodes." I don't get these. (and when I heard the voice on TV without seeing the picture I heard "get moms (.com)....

The Frager Factor | 6 Mar 2010 | 7:51 pm CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
As reported by NewOrleans.com a lawsuit was filed yesterday in the United States District Court in East Baton Rouge Parish against the NFL & the Saints.  The suit alleges 16 counts of misconduct, including Breach of Contract, Deceptive Advertising, Trademark Infringement and Dilution, Negligenc...

The Domains | 6 Mar 2010 | 2:16 pm CST

Elliot's Blog
Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing
Apparently, ChatRoulette.com has become an Internet sensation, visited by millions of people in the last few weeks. There have been plenty of stories in the mainstream media covering it, and one of the funniest was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (clip embedded below). One way to know a website i...

Elliot's Blog | 6 Mar 2010 | 12:27 pm CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
A new article published today by Wired.com entitled: Domain Name Czar Seeks .OnlineUnity interview Rob Beckstrom CEO of ICANN discusses the proposed gTLD’s and various ICANN and domain issues. My favorite quote from the article by Beckstrom is in response to the issue about the new gTLD’...

The Domains | 5 Mar 2010 | 10:05 pm CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Geodomain giant Skip Hoagland has joined with a partner to purchase a .com city domain website that represents one of Florida's most popular resort towns. Also, a huge new marketplace that sells only .CA domains (Canada's country code) has opened for business....

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 5 Mar 2010 | 5:38 pm CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
TechCrunch today on Foodspotting.com, A Location-Based Game That Will Make Your Mouth Water"The idea was a way to show people the best food in Japan beyond sushi — to literally show them, in picture form. Then the thought morphed into writing to a book, where the best food in the world was shown. ...

The Frager Factor | 5 Mar 2010 | 2:18 pm CST

Elliot's Blog
Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing
I sometimes place bids on Snapnames auctions that have other bids, even if I am not interested in buying the domain name. Generally, if a domain name has a bid already and you place a bid, you are considered the losing bidder when it goes to auction, as the person who places the first bid takes the ...

Elliot's Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 2:12 pm CST

Elliot's Blog
Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing
Monte Cahn, co-founder and President of Moniker, was featured yesterday in a video on WebProNews.com. The video was taken this week at the SMX West conference held in Santa Clara, California. In the video embedded below, Monte discusses the value and importance of owning the right domain name. More...

Elliot's Blog | 5 Mar 2010 | 9:52 am CST

Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid
Sahar Sarid
Conceptualist
We know it works. Went on Twitter moments ago and came across this domain (tweeted by Andrew@DNW), one you may be interested in (good luck Andrew!). Edit: Sold USD 2,750.00 It’s been an exciting week here at Bido. New team members, higher sales, and lots of activity. Monday morning, Michelle ...

Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid | 5 Mar 2010 | 9:31 am CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
In a WIPO decision a sole panelist took away a domain registered by the domain holder in 1997, that’s 13 years ago. The domain at issue is sporto.com Over the years, the domain has been used many different ways including as a developed site but also for a period of time as a parked page. This ...

The Domains | 5 Mar 2010 | 9:29 am CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
Baby Boomers have their own iteration of Facebook called Boomster.com. The call-to-action spot that caught my attention for this was a smart targeted media buy for the Tom Brokaw CNBC special "Boomers"-- a MUST SEE special for every generation. According to the show, this is the smartest most influe...

The Frager Factor | 4 Mar 2010 | 9:41 pm CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
We're increasing seeing more citizen journalism ventures around the world and in different languages.Here's an interesting announcement about what claims to be the first Latino citizen journalism website on the World Wide Web,QuePasa News Network.If you know of any, send them to editor@cyberjournali...

The Frager Factor | 4 Mar 2010 | 9:38 pm CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
Find a ubiquitous home to plant your contacts and data. Nourish them. Harvest them. Watch your home business thrive.Terri Lonier with Working Solo recently opined on her Biggest Do-Over Wish – the “one thing I would have done differently in my business, if I could turn back the clock.”Bruce Tu...

The Frager Factor | 4 Mar 2010 | 9:07 pm CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
Yesterday DNJournal started reporting on sales by Frank Schilling's NameAdministration sales arm Proforma. the average price was $20,000. Compare that to the average price for the names most people are selling on Bido. Names they are investing thousands in buying and carrying whereas Frank's names c...

The Frager Factor | 4 Mar 2010 | 4:27 pm CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Domain conferences have been held on land in various corners of the globe over the past five years. In October, a conference will be held on the high seas for the first time! Also - we have an update on the progress of the two dozen domainers who are currently ...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 4 Mar 2010 | 4:25 pm CST

Elliot's Blog
Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing
I feel like most people who read my blog have a good idea about who I am and what I do, but my friend Steve Kaziyev asked to interview me on Domainers Digest, and I agreed to do it. I think it’s important to be open when you have a blog, and I hope you can read the interview to see what I am d...

Elliot's Blog | 4 Mar 2010 | 3:40 pm CST

Domain Name News
Domain Name News
National Public Radio now count themselves as having the tiniest shortened URL for use on Twitter and other social media sites. The organization announced their new domain N.PR yesterday on their blog. The company had been using Stumble Upon’s  Su.pr url shortener on most of their Twitter acc...

Domain Name News | 4 Mar 2010 | 1:44 pm CST

Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid
Sahar Sarid
Conceptualist
Who: Bido friends, staff, local domainers. Come and say Hi ! (if you plan to attend, please let Jarred Cohen knows in advance so we have a headcount, Jarred@Bido.com) Where: City Pizza 632 Hibiscus Street, West Palm Beach, FL - (561) 833-2323 When: Today, March 4th, 6:30PM I know, short notice. H...

Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid | 4 Mar 2010 | 7:19 am CST

Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid
Sahar Sarid
Conceptualist
Here at Bido, we’re currently working on a number of five and six figure sales behind the scenes. In the last ten years, we’ve done much of it privately, now it is almost time to introduce it to the Bido community. We’re really looking forward to pushing the envelope on what the in...

Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid | 4 Mar 2010 | 7:01 am CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
Four years after their first European conference in Barcelona, Spain, DOMAINfest will return to the Continent for a big show to be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic October 6-7, 2010. Here is what's on tap....

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 3 Mar 2010 | 7:15 pm CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A 165K sale at Sedo scored a runaway win in this week's aftermarket race. Four ccTLDs and a pair of .nets broke through the strong .com defensive line to join 14 .coms on our new Top 20 Chart. Two of those country codes crashed the top ten...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 3 Mar 2010 | 3:24 pm CST