Let go of your JUNK domains There has been some talk lately about the need to trim the portfolio, but few specifics about how to do that. Well, I would like to offer some specifics. Keep in mind that these are just some guidelines, and I do not suggest you listen to everything I say. I don’t even
DomainWeek - 4/30/2008 12:57:43 PM
UUOPD - Five.com Today’s UUOPD (Unusual Usage of Premium Domains) website is Five.com. Five.com unusual because when you visit the site, all you see is a black background and “five.com” in tiny white letters in the center of the screen. You can’t really go anywhere or do anything, but hey, at least you know where you
DomainWeek - 4/24/2008 9:04:03 PM
DomainerCon Atlanta - Join us on Saturday, June 14, 2008
What is DomainerCon?
It’s an open invitation domainer networking conference in Atlanta. Meet, greet, and network to your hearts content.
Where’s it gonna be held?
We’re hosting it in a social room in the Blue Ridge Grill. It holds about 50 people, so if we receive more registrat...
DomainWeek - 4/21/2008 3:30:39 PM
Why was I banned from Google AdSense? First, a little background. I do not buy trademark names, I do not click on my own ads, I do not encourage anyone else to click on my ads, I do not promote anything illegal or questionable, and I do not do any arbitrage. My sites are mostly informational in nature and generally
DomainWeek - 4/3/2008 10:00:21 AM
Canada files UDRP against California over the domain name www.ca.gov The government of Canada filed a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center today over the domain name www.ca.gov. The complainant alleges that the domain name is confusingly similar to the Canadian government website - www.gov.ca. According to the filing, the complainant claims common law trademark and first use of...
DomainWeek - 4/1/2008 10:00:56 AM
Read it again and you might find something you missed. I really enjoy reading all of the great domain blogs out there, and I like to read new blog posts as soon as I find out about them. The only problem is that I often read the posts before people have had time to comment. Because of this, I sometimes miss reading the
DomainWeek - 3/28/2008 12:31:40 PM
George Bush vs .XXX Stuart Lawley and the ICM Registry just lost another round in the .xxx top level domain saga after a federal judge granted summary judgment to the Bush administration. The lawsuit was filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FIOA), alleging improper intervention on the part of the Bush administration after ICANN first approved .xx...
DomainWeek - 3/18/2008 10:05:01 PM
Happy 23rd Birthday Symbolics.com The oldest continually registered .com domain name turns 23 today. Symbolics.com was first registered on March 15, 1985 by Symbolics, Inc., a public company that produced computer systems for running and developing object-oriented programs in Lisp. It designed and built workstations and created an object-oriented operating system an...
DomainWeek - 3/15/2008 12:00:51 PM
Wasted DomainNames.com If you have ever wondered who owns DomainNames.com, I have the answer for you - Network Solutions. They are in the business of selling domain names, so of course they have DomainNames.com pointed to a page on their site where you can register domain names right? Wrong. It is simply not being used
DomainWeek - 3/14/2008 4:32:48 PM
I don’t get .asia The .Asia landrush period ended today, and no matter how many press releases I read about it, I still do not get .asia. Don’t get me wrong, I understand what they are saying and it sounds fine on paper. Promoters of .asia say that the Asia/Pacific region is one of the fastest growing
DomainWeek - 3/12/2008 3:11:11 PM
UUOPD - Moscow.com Today’s UUOPD (Unusual Usage of Premium Domains) website is Moscow.com. Moscow is the largest city in Russia and also the capital. With a metro area population over 14 million, it is ranked as one of the 15 largest cities in the world. Moscow is also the world’s billionaire capital, home to the
DomainWeek - 3/11/2008 7:34:21 AM
Registration of .rs domains now open Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) began registering .rs domains today, March 10 at 12 noon.
List of Accredited Registrars
DomainWeek - 3/10/2008 9:38:14 AM
Fox News loses domain name fight On February 8, 2007, the Fox News Network announced that it was launching a business news channel. Later that day, a company by the name of Worldwide Directory Services registered the domain name foxbusinessnetwork.com. Fox news was unable to gain control of the domain because they did not register a trademark for the
DomainWeek - 3/10/2008 9:27:38 AM
Domain Name Industry Brief Here are some interesting statistics from the recently released Domain Name Industry Brief:
In the fourth quarter of 2007, there were more than four million domain names registered per month (more than 133,000 new registrations each day)
New registrations grew by four percent quarter over quarter and by five percent year over year.
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DomainWeek - 3/6/2008 12:09:09 PM
Unusual Usage of Premium Domains My friend Peter at Domainers Gazette has a great series entitled CTOPD, or Creative Targeting on Parked Domains. Similarly, I often stumble upon a premium domain name that is used in an unusual way. Inspired by Peter’s naming convention, I will call them UUOPD, or Unusual Usage of Premium Domains. Today’s UUOPD is
DomainWeek - 3/5/2008 5:15:08 AM
“Feels like 2000 all over again” One of the more interesting discussions at DomainState is in a thread entitled “Feels like 2000 all over again.” The subject of the post is Stephen Webb who started a company called WeAre, LLC. Stephen says, “I was looking for a domain name for my business located in Charleston. I wanted to give
DomainWeek - 3/4/2008 8:42:43 AM
New ccTLD - Serbia launches .rs domain names on March 10 After the dissolution of Yugoslavia (.yu) in the 1990s, the independent country of Serbia and Montenegro (Crna Gora i Srbija in Serbian) was assigned the ccTLD .cs (yes, the same one previously assigned to Czechoslovakia). During this time, the .cs extension was never assigned an operator and was not used. The Republic of Serbia
DomainWeek - 3/3/2008 7:13:16 AM
Creatively Financing a Domain Name Purchase - Part 2 What do you do when the perfect domain name comes along and you do not have enough cash to purchase it? Well, in part 1 of this post I mentioned that leasing might work, but what other options do you have? The first idea that comes to mind is to take out a loan,
DomainWeek - 2/29/2008 12:26:39 PM
Tucows press release promotes their domain portfolio According to the press release, the company owns over 150,000 domain names in its private domain name portfolio, including the following:
Over 1,000 “Gems” (their premium names, 100 examples below)
39,000 Surnames (used to sell email addresses like john@smith.net, etc.)
22,000 Brandable Names (names they are selling to other busines...
DomainWeek - 2/20/2008 12:10:03 PM
Creatively Financing a Domain Name Purchase - Part 1 The sale prices of premium generic domain names are often out of reach for the average domain investor. If you cannot simply write a check or send a wire transfer to pay for a name, it is important to know that there are other options available. One of these options is leasing the
DomainWeek - 2/19/2008 12:24:42 PM
Is Mr. T a goldsquatter? Although the quality of domain related press coverage is getting better, there are still many journalists who mistakenly report that anyone who owns more than one domain name or an undeveloped name is a cybersquatter. To counter this misconception, I would like to offer a brief definition of cybersquatting and then a
