 | This Week’s Industry Top Articles
I was away during the week and did not spend much time on my laptop. Because of this I was unable to get any blog posts done or a video recorded. So instead, I’ll give everyone a quick recap of this week’s top stories.
Sex.com Auction Cancelled – Creditors of Escom, LLC filed an involuntary Chapter
| ChefPatrick.com - 11 hr 47 min ago |
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| Sedo Collaborates with VeriSign to Host Its First .tv Domain Auction
Press Release
Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that it has teamed with VeriSign, the global registry operator for the .tv internet domain, to hold an exclusive auction for the entire available catalog of 115 premium .tv domain names at the standard registry renewal fee, which is a...
| ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 16:42 |
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| South Florida Meetup Tomorrow Night
I’m excited to say tomorrow night, March 16th, I’ll be in South Florida for another great Domainer meetup. The last meetup I attended was in December and I had a great time. This is a fantastic networking opportunity as there are a lot of domainers down south. Already confirmed to attend is Rick Schwartz, Michael
| ChefPatrick.com - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 19:45 |
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| Football.tv Shows The Industry How To Create A .TV Brand
In the midst of many debates on how successful any extension can be other than a .com, Football.tv was launched. However, it is not referring to football as we know it in the U.S., it’s referring to soccer. It is commonly known that soccer is a crucial part of culture for some countries and Football.tv
| ChefPatrick.com - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 15:7 |
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| .XXX A Bit Premature (Comic Strip)
As reported in this week’s domain news episode 41, .xxx vote has been delayed.
Previous Comic Strip: Geek Perfume
Another .XXX Comic Strip: Domainer Comic Strip #2
| ChefPatrick.com - Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 15:17 |
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| GoDrops.com – Beta Testers Needed
***CLOSED – Thank you, we now have all the beta testers we need.
My partner and I are looking for 10 experienced domainers to become GoDrops.com beta testers. Beta testing will go from March 15th to March 29th, during which you will gain access to our full drop lists with statistics to make your deleting domain
| ChefPatrick.com - Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 15:55 |
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| Domain Name News Episode 41
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been almost two months since my last weekly news video. I’ve been traveling a lot with the shows, meetings and just overall busy with projects. I hope to get back into doing the weekly videos starting today.
| ChefPatrick.com - Friday, March 12, 2010 - 16:17 |
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| Want To Learn More About ccTLDs?
I do!
Honestly I don’t know enough about ccTLDs so I’m glad to see that my good friend Morgan Linton of MorganLinton.com has launched a new blog, ccTLDinvestors.com. The online magazine was created to specifically discuss ccTLDs. In addition, Morgan recently released a ccTLD only newsletter, which is a great idea. If you ...
| ChefPatrick.com - Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:38 |
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| DNCruise On Domain Masters Radio Show
Yesterday I had the opportunity of being interviewed for Moniker’s Domain Master radio show by Victor Pitts. We discussed information about my first conference and the domain industry’s first conference on a boat, DNCruise.com.
Thank you to Victor Pitts, Moniker and Webmaster Radio.
To listen in you can either hit play be...
| ChefPatrick.com - Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 19:29 |
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| The Second Name.com Contest Winner Is…
Last week I announced an exclusive Chef Patrick contest held by Name.com with $750 in prizes.
Every Wednesday, until the end of the month, we will announce a $50 Name.com account credit. Then, at the end of the month we will announce one grand prize winner who will receive a $500 Name.com account credit.
Our second weekly
| ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 17:28 |
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| MusicVideos.com Sells For $250,000
While looking at Sedo.com today I noticed the sale of MusicVideos.com for $250,000. MusicVideos.com was previously owned by DNStination, Inc which purchased the domain name from Yahoo, Inc mid to late 2009. DNStination either owns or has sold domains like iSlate.com, Me.com and Z1.com. The current whois information of MusicVideos.com...
| ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 15:6 |
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| SocialDomainers.com – Sign Up For A Chance To Win One Of Three Apple iPads
During DOMAINfest in January I had an opportunity to chat with my friend Tony Kanakaris about a new project he was working on. After further development and beta testing Tony officially released SocialDomainers.com yesterday.
In his own words Tony says…
SocialDomainers.com is the Facebook for domainers, the place to meet lo...
| ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 3:4 |
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| Seller Can Cover PayPal Fee (Not Mass Pay)
Earlier today an attendee for my upcoming conference, DNCruise.com, paid for their pass through PayPal. When I received the payment I noticed no fees were taken out of my account. I asked the payee if they used mass pay and to my surprise they said no. Instead, they were given the option to pay the
| ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 20:0 |
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| .CO Domain Extension Coming Soon And Your Chance To Get A Premium Name First
Press Release
.CO Founders Program Launches to Engage Early Adopters, Proactively Develop Domain Extension
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– .CO Internet S.A.S. (www.COinternet.co), a new company formed by Arcelandia S.A., a wholly-owned Colombian company, and U.S. company Neustar, Inc., today announced the launch plan for the .CO ...
| ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 15:50 |
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| Guns.com Sells For $800,000
Ron Jackson of DNJournal.com just reported the sale of Guns.com for $800,000 by Moniker. I knew a deal was going to get done on this domain name. It was up for sale during DOMAINfest’s last auction in January and was very close to the reserve.
Guns.com $800,000
Google Search: not listed on first three pages
Google Page Rank:
| ChefPatrick.com - Monday, March 8, 2010 - 21:40 |
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| Geek Perfume (Comic Strip)
Women, are you feeling left out? Is your domainer husband ignoring you? Fix that problem today, get this brand new perfume. Your man will be sure to pay attention to the new smelling you.
Click on the comic strip to enlarge.
Previous Comic Strip: Show Us Your Boobs
| ChefPatrick.com - Sunday, March 7, 2010 - 12:4 |
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| My Own Conference – DNCruise
As many of you have already read on multiple blogs, I have launched my own domain industry conference which will be held on a cruise ship this coming October. This will make for our industry’s first ever conference on a boat!
Thank you to the following people for their coverage of DNCruise:
DomainNameWire.com
DomainGang.com ...
| ChefPatrick.com - Saturday, March 6, 2010 - 15:43 |
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| The First Name.com Contest Winner Is…
On Monday I announced an exclusive Chef Patrick contest held by Name.com with $750 in prizes.
Every Wednesday, until the end of the month, we will announce a $50 Name.com account credit. Then, at the end of the month we will announce one grand prize winner who will receive a $500 Name.com account credit.
Our first weekly
| ChefPatrick.com - Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 19:1 |
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| DOMAINfest Europe Networking Event In October
The highly anticipated second DOMAINfest show has been announced. Actually I have not received any official word on this, I’m going off their DOMAINfest.com website. The event will be held at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. It begins October 6th, 2010 and end October 7th.
Preliminary Agenda
Wednesday Octo...
| ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 22:10 |
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| LuxuryNames.com Holding A Quick Two Day Auction
LuxuryNames.com is holding another auction! In fact, it started earlier today. It opened up today, March 2nd, and will end on Thursday, March 4th at 3:15 EST. The auction itself is being held at SnapNames.com.
These domain names stood out for me as I browsed the list:
BallerinaShoes.net
Chandeliers.net <– 673,000 EXACT SEAR...
| ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 19:48 |
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