Domains Down Under Melbourne.com sells for 700k. Brisbane.com sells for 100k. http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm These are excellent geographical names.. I like cities with “i” in front of them too. Less organic traffic but cheaper and more brandable Other notable sales: TheNightBeforeChristmas.com $2,600 BabyBoomers.net $5,000 LuxuryHomes.org $1,775 Cannabis.co.uk $9,743 Dun and Bradstreet buy AllBusiness.com website for 55 million. [...]
But Danno writes: ””Four More For Wednsday: 1.New DNS Technology Flags Bad Guys Before They Act http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=140407&WT.svl=news1_2 2.Elysium Internet Agrees to Acquire Additional Domain Assets and Direct Navigation Technology Platform http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0335573.htm 3.Nevada Courts rule Bodog Founder Calvin Ayre not Subject to Examination http://www.point-spreads.com/industry/120307-nevada-courts-rule-bodog-founder-calvin-ayre-not-subject-to-examin.html 4.Is Google Now Too Big To Handle Anything? http://gawker.com/news/when-google-attacks/is-google-now-too-big-to-handle-anything-329614.php “”
Police the Minority, Ignore Bigger Problem http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=8738 ***FS*** Out-law.com means well but can’t see the forest for the trees here. An IP “expert” proposes a “Domain police force” to tackle cybersquatting. Yeah.. that will stop all that stolen traffic.. sure it will bub. Most “traffic” that gets incorrectly plumbed or stolen on the internet, does [...]
Great names going up on Wednesday starting at 3 PM PST – complete list posted and auction order along with silent list: http://marketplacepro.moniker.com/auction/detail.html?auction_id=184 Let me know by mid day on Tuesday if you want to be a telephone bidder – complete the absentee bid form – your fee will be waived if you were a [...]
The draft gTLD Registry Failover Plan has been updated (see http://www.icann.org/registries/failover/draft-plan-27nov07.htm.pdf). The public comment announcement is at http://www.icann.org/public_comment/#registry-failover-plan. This will be tested in January and reported to the community for the ICANN meeting in Delhi. Take a straw poll of the general public and many will believe that ICANN’s primary role is that of an [...]
Patrick writes: “”In beginning Christmas shopping this weekend it occurred to me that a smart registrar should offer a “virtual gift card” – could be in increments and then sent to people just like a virtual iTunes gift card, but loaded with money for use at their prefered registrar (could be used for domain registration, hosting, [...]
Which tld should bite the dust? http://www.domainersgazette.com/the-dot-what-tld-deathmatch/ ***FS*** Domainer’s Gazette runs a refreshing poll .. Should serve as excellent guidance to newbies. Parking Transparency Whizzbang sets out a roadmap for Standards and Transparency for parking companies. ***FS*** I think true transparency is a pipedream absent some kind of leverage on the upstreams. Nothing begets nothing [...]