On June 26th, 2008, I was looking at the domain name auction listings at SnapNames and saw a domain name that caught my eye. For some reason, I just “liked” the domain. So, I bid on it. Apparently I was the sole bidder, so I won the domain, fair and square, for $99. It was promptly put into my Moniker account. [Read more…]
Time Warner and Road Runner Attempting to Monetize by Hijacking DNS
Here we go again. Third Pipe predicted it and now it’s happening. Time Warner, using their Road Runner internet service, is attempting to monetize typo domain names and domain names that are not found when their users are type a domain that doesn’t resolve. [Read more…]
Sedo to Hold Around the World in Seven Days Online Domain Name Auction
Sedo, a leading online domain name marketplace, is holding an Around the World in Seven Days online domain name auction, which features travel-related domain names. Some of the featured domains to be sold include Arabia.com, Breaks.com, Glasgow.com and Tourism.co.uk. [Read more…]
Sedo Report on Growth of Secondary Internet Domain Name Market in 2007
According to SEDO, internet domain name sales in the secondary market totaled GBP37 Million. Sedo, the leading online market place for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has launched its annual report on the growth of the secondary Internet domain name market in 2007. The report, which has tracked the state of the secondary Internet domain market annually since 2004, unveils the latest figures for 2007. [Read more…]
Moniker Domain Name Auction to be Held at iDate 2008 in Miami
Moniker will host a social networking and dating domain name auction at the iDate 2008 conference. iDate is the premiere gathering of executives from the online dating and social networking business. [Read more…]
Network Solutions Registering Domains After Availability Lookup
A friend tipped me off to a Domain State thread that warns you not to look up a domain name at Network Solutions. If you go to the Networks Solutions site and look up a domain name to see if it’s registered then Network Solutions, within seconds, will buy the domain name, causing you to have to go buy it from them. [Read more…]
Study Takes Aim at Mistyped Domain Names and Typosquatters
A new study by a major internet security company is taking aim at typosquatting, the practice of buying a misspelled domain name in the hopes that someone will mistype the name and land on that site. If someone then clicks on an text ad on the site the domain owner and the parking company will make money. [Read more…]
NameMedia Files for IPO
NameMedia, a company that acquires, develops, and trades digital real estate, has filed with regulators in the United States today to raise up to $172.5 million dollars in an IPO. [Read more…]
Dallas Cowboys Return Cowboys.com Domain Name
Last week I spoke about SEO, Search, and Domain Names at the TRAFFIC domain name conference, held in Hollywood, Florida. The highlight of the conference was the live internet domain name auction on Friday, October 12th, at 2pm, hosted by Moniker. One of the domain names that was up for sale was Cowboys.com, a great domain name. The Dallas Cowboys apparently was amongst the many bidders for this name and ultimately won the auction for $275,000. Now, about a week later, they want to give it back. [Read more…]
Meet the Lawyers IP Discussion at the TRAFFIC Domain Conference 2007
Do domainers know where to draw the line? “There is no question that the TM laws and how they are applied online are NOT consistent with the decision making for offline enterprise. Someday there will be hundreds of reversals as domains taken wrongly from domainers that were not actually violating a trademark. [Read more…]