 | CurrentAffairs.us, DomainValuation.us for sale on Bido
The two domain names DomainValuation.us and CurrentAffairs.us will be auctioned off on Bido this week.
First to hit the auction block is DomainValuation.us. The auction will go live on Monday, November 02, 2009 around 12:30 pm EST.
Link to the auction: a great keyword domain for a news website or forum, will be on auction on Copyri...
| Dominik Mueller - Sunday, November 1, 2009 - 11:27 |
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| 28% of one- & two-letter .DE domains grabbed by one company
Last Sunday I commented on DENIC releasing one- and two-letter domains as well as pure number domains, which were previously impossible to register. This Sunday I will have to comment on the actual results of the allocation process.
As it stands now, 28% of all one- or two-letter domains that were claimed and registered during the Co...
| Dominik Mueller - Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 10:0 |
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| DENIC to make million-dollar domains available for the first time
DENIC, the registry of Germany’s .DE top-level domain, has announced that it is going to make one- and two-letter .DE domains available for registration in a few days for the first time. In addition to these, it will then also be possible to register pure number domains such as 123.de, which, unlike under .com, could Copyright ...
| Dominik Mueller - Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 18:50 |
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| Stay on topic on your blog!
I am a person who is interested in many things. Although this blog is clearly about domain names, I actually enjoy studying other subjects too, such as finance and economics, but do I write about them? Rarely.
That is so because whenever I have written a post on something other than domain names, interest in that Copyright © 200...
| Dominik Mueller - Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 13:31 |
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| Economy may be recovering, says Google
Search engines have access to tons of valuable information, treasure troves full of clues to human behavior and what their millions of search engine users are up to. That is why the big search engines have great power even beyond their new role as brokers of advertising spaces on the Internet.
Every day search engines analyze Copyrig...
| Dominik Mueller - Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 17:4 |
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| Changes ahead for Yahoo domain parking partners
Yahoo Search Marketing to change its payout algorithms and stop doing business with some of its direct partners. Overall, lower revenues for Yahoo’s pay-per-click advertising partners are expected.
As has been reported by two blogs today, Domain Name Wire and Julia Mackenzie, Yahoo’s search marketing division is going thr...
| Dominik Mueller - Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 11:4 |
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| SnapNames September Showcase Auction Results
Domain auction company SnapNames sells close to $47,000 worth of domains in its September online auction. MillionaireDating.com is the highest sale at $15,000.
As reported by Oversee.net’s public relations department, the SnapNames September showcase auction concluded today with a total of $46,930 in domain sales. Out of the 90...
| Dominik Mueller - Friday, September 11, 2009 - 5:13 |
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| Length of domain registration important for SEO?
The question whether the length of domain registrations had an influence on search engine rankings or not has been around for a while. But so far none of the big search engine companies has given any firm advice on this subject.
Today, however, I stumbled upon a post on Search Engine Land saying that domain registrations Copyright &c...
| Dominik Mueller - Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 8:12 |
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| Shopping.de sold for €1.96 million
According to a company press release (German), the domain name Shopping.de was sold for €1,960,000 (~$2,800,000) in 2008. The domain was purchased by Unister GmbH, a company also operating other popular online portals such as News.de, Auto.de, Geld.de (”money”), Kredit.de (”credit”, “loan”) and Pre...
| Dominik Mueller - Monday, September 7, 2009 - 7:27 |
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| Swedish regulator wants the word “bank” to be banned from .SE domains
In a startling move, the Swedish regulator PTS apparently has declared that it wants to ban the term “bank” from all domain names registered under the Swedish .SE top-level domain. It notified the .SE registry about its decision in a letter (PDF, Swedish) on August 27, 2009 and requested the domain registration rules to b...
| Dominik Mueller - Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 18:37 |
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| Lufthansa, Burberry win Domain Names
I just received the newsletter including the latest WIPO decisions. Some prominent companies have won domain disputes again, including Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Burberry Limited.
Both companies were able to achieve the transfer of the disputed domain names: Lufthansa won Lufthansa.com.au and Burberry won BurberryGroup.com.
In the cas...
| Dominik Mueller - Monday, August 24, 2009 - 12:9 |
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| Lufthansa, Burberry win Domain Names
I just received the newsletter including the latest WIPO decisions. Some prominent companies have won domain disputes again, including Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Burberry Limited.
Both companies were able to achieve the transfer of the disputed domain names: Lufthansa won Lufthansa.com.au and Burberry won BurberryGroup.com.
In the cas...
| Dominik Mueller - Monday, August 24, 2009 - 12:9 |
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| ICANN seeking input on Post-Expiration Domain Recovery
ICANN is asking for comments from the public on its post-expiration domain name recovery practices. These policies regulate to what extent and how it should be possible for domain owners to recover their domain names after the expiration date. The public comment period was opened August 20 and ends September 10, 2009. Make sure to Co...
| Dominik Mueller - Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 14:57 |
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| ICANN publishes more financial information
Kevin Wilson, ICANN’s Chief Financial Officer, made a post on ICANN’s blog yesterday saying the organization would provide more thorough financial information from now on. This is something that has long been asked for by the domain community, considering that ICANN is a not-for-profit organization that should protect the...
| Dominik Mueller - Friday, August 14, 2009 - 15:41 |
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| There is no Domain Front Running, says ICANN
In an attempt to find out more about the practice of domain name front running, Internet security expert Benjamin Edelman conducted a domain front running study on behalf of ICANN. Front running is a term that was first coined in the world of finance, where it is used to refer to an illegal practice of Copyright © 2003-2009 Domi...
| Dominik Mueller - Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 19:3 |
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| SnapNames stole my backorder!
Well, that is what an ignorant wannabe domain buyer wrote after he lost an auction at SnapNames. Here comes the story:
Apparently, the individual came across an appealing domain name which he saw was about to delete. He then did some research (including the reading of old articles from 2005) to find out he should go Copyright © ...
| Dominik Mueller - Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 9:27 |
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| WebMediaBrands sells Internet.com for $18 million
WebMediaBrands (NASDAQ: WEBM) has sold Internet.com to QuinStreet Inc. for $18 million in an all-cash deal. The sale is not just for the domain name but also includes the website behind it and all of its assets. WebMediaBrands still owns the popular MediaBistro.com, JustTechJobs.com and Graphics.com, which it will continue to operate...
| Dominik Mueller - Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 6:26 |
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| Al Gore wants .ECO TLD
Dot Eco LLC is an organization campaigning for the .ECO top-level domain and it has the support of former presidential candidate Al Gore.
Al Gore has supported several environmental causes over the years, he has been part of an Oscar-winning documentary about climate change and he has received the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he apparently...
| Dominik Mueller - Friday, August 7, 2009 - 17:7 |
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| Clothes.com sold for $4.9 million in May 2008
TechCrunch reports today that when Amazon acquired Zappos in July for more than $900 million, it also bought intangible assets including various domain names.
One of these acquired domain names is Clothes.com. According to Amazon’s SEC filing, Zappos had bought Clothes.com for $4.9 million from Idealab in May 2008. The domain i...
| Dominik Mueller - Friday, August 7, 2009 - 16:7 |
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| Domain for Sale: SecondLienLoan.com
The domain SecondLienLoan.com will be sold at auction on Bido today!
Second Lien Loan (or last-out participation) is a form of loan with a security interest in the assets of a company that are second in ranking behind a traditional senior credit facility. A lien is a form of security interest granted over an item of Copyright (C) 20...
| Dominik Mueller - Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 9:0 |
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