Tia Wood asks: “”Frank, after looking at a thread at DNF titled “Why Domains cost what they do…Your Reasoning?”, I don’t feel anyone has hit the nail on the head. To me, why domains cost the what they do has largely to do with reverse branding: the ability to reverse brand a word for a company [...]
Half the planet has cell phone plans. 3.3 billion of them. How long before half of those people have full browsing on their phones? Pretty quick, i imagine. http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL29172095 ***FS*** edge, bluetooth, .mobi, gsm123.. this all bullshit. I’m an early adopter of almost all useful things tech and I predict mobile browsing (in the lean [...]
Thomas Price asks: “”…how do you know when an unregistered domain is good enough to be registered? I find domains all the time that I think are great domains, but if I registered every domain I found, I would be bankrupt by the time it came around to renewing them. I’ve got a list [...]
Colin Pape writes: “”Hey Frank! Had this link delivered to my inbox via my Media Post subscription… http://www.goodurlbadurl.com/ The owner of the site takes photos of domains he comes across in the offline world and posts them along with a good URL/bad URL rating… Great idea! You can view the newsletter here: http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=71646 (subscription required) [...]
Domaining .com (news from whos/who of the domain world) http://www.domaining.com/ ***FS*** Cool!~ I hadn’t seen this. Seriously slick and simple mashup on a terrific name.. This is going to be a big big high-traffic site if they don’t get bored. The drudge of domaining. Yahoo to put adverts in PDF files Yahoo has reached [...]
New Logo Suggested Domainer’s Gazette kindly offers so possible alternative logos for me http://www.domainersgazette.com/an-alternative-logo-font-for-frank-schillings-blog/ . ***FS*** I’m sincerely flattered .. kind of like my folksy craigs-list style font. But change is good. Typo Partnerships Whizzbang hypothetically plays with fire around TM infringing domain names. http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/content/view/329/1/ ***FS*** Many trademark holders are terrible domain managers, suing or UDRPing [...]
In the Washington Post no less: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/28/AR2007112801679.html?hpid=moreheadlines As reported a few weeks ago this is a very thorough action targeting certain practices and practitioners. Quote: “”The complaint names three registrars as defendants — BelgiumDomains, CapitolDomains, and DomainDoorman — as well as what Dell claims are nearly a dozen Caribbean shell companies that allegedly served as [...]
If I had a product or service to advertise I’d consider this opportunity.. I have no ties to the org.. just like this idea/name and think the concept has potential to stick around and become part of the broader domain show/convention circuit. There are many exemplary domain industry participants who never get the praise they [...]
Danno sends link: Solid Sale. Free is a ”BIG” thing in a few thousand odf the best ‘free’ domains.. .info isn’t so big, but dip your chocolate in my peanut butter and “Bam” 42 grand rolls in.. something like that. Purchaser took a flyer.. seller was smart to take that money.. but “free info” actually has a [...]
Iron Mountain Digital’s Escrow Program Helps Secure Internet Address System for ICANN-Accredited Domain Name Registrars http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NEW00428112007-1.htm ***FS*** This is direct fallout from the Registerfly debacle. Good they’re doing it. NASDAQ Launches the NASDAQ Internet Index http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/primenewswire/132031.htm ***FS*** I prefer owning the Internet than owning slivers of slivers .. Sold the last of my Google stock [...]