 | Mocus Re-Branding To Catchy.com —> See the NEW Logo!
Francois Carrillo is rebranding his brandable domain marketplace from Mocus.com to Catchy.com. I commend Francois on this great change! I honestly never thought Mocus.com was a very good brand name for a company that sells brandable domain names.
The Logo design contest was being held at 99Designs.com. The prize was $295 and near...
| NameTalent.com - Friday, March 19, 2010 - 12:31 |
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| Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Against Domain Owners
The Kentucky Supreme Court announced their decision to rule in favor of the State of Kentucky stating the principal parties do not have standing. From PocketFives.com press release:
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled against the owners of 141 internet gambling domain names. The ruling, which was handed down on Thursday morning, ...
| NameTalent.com - Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 14:47 |
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| Nominet to Release Single Character and Two Letter .uk, .co.uk Domains
… and they are seeking consultation from the domaining industry on the best way to release these domains.. From Nominet.org.uk:
We are planning to release two letter, one character and other reserved .uk domains.
If you have an interest in the registration of these domains then we would like to hear your thoughts on how we shou...
| NameTalent.com - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 13:49 |
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| New Technology, Domaining Opportunities?
3D technology is finally becoming really popular and some 'domainers' are registering any 3d+word combo that they can think of, this is probably no news to you. So, are there any good 'new technology' domains left to register? My opinion is yes, but they are few and far
| NameTalent.com - Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 13:10 |
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| Patrick Ruddell and Morgan Linton Launch New Endeavors
It has been a quiet couple of weeks on this side, I've just returned from a nice mini vacation to Steamboat Springs. The family and I enjoyed some snowboarding and soaking in toasty outdoor mineral waters. I should let you know I've been networking with some local domainers in Colorado and will be planning to host a Rocky Mountain do...
| NameTalent.com - Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 13:0 |
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| ccTLD Extension of the Week – Spain’s .ES
Spain’s .ES extension was originally introduced in 1988 but was only recently open for unrestricted registration as of 2005. Nic.es heads Spains domain registry and there are several registrars approved to sell .es domains. I know that 101domain.com offers a good price for .es at only $35/year.
Similar to many other countries...
| NameTalent.com - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 12:12 |
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| Domains I’ve Sold, What are they Now?
Today I thought I would look back and post a small handful of my domains sales to see what they have become a week, a month, six months or years later. I always find it interesting to see how a domain I sold is being utilized. It was amusing finding a couple domains that
| NameTalent.com - Friday, March 5, 2010 - 18:13 |
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| Facebook Visitors Spend the Most Time on my Sites
The other day I was looking at some traffic data via google.com/analytics from a couple of my blog sites including NameTalent.com, I noticed that visitors from Facebook spend the the most amount of time (average) on my sites. It’s not too surprising that my social circle ends up clicking more of my pages, links and reading mor...
| NameTalent.com - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 15:57 |
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| What is SquadHelp.com?
I only realized this site existed because they SPAM my blog posts with carefully written comments that look like they are relavant from the wp dashboard. The first couple sentences do not contain the spam link yet, but once you read the entire comment you know right away you’ve been spammed.
I decided
| NameTalent.com - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 13:38 |
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| A Few Godaddy Discount Codes
Even though the Godaddy interface make me want to poke my eyes out at least once a day, I still believe in the registrar and keep about half my portfolio there. To keep their customer base happy, Godaddy always has a bunch of promo codes floating around to use at checkout for $$ savings, see list:
| NameTalent.com - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 17:14 |
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| ccTLD Extension of the Week: Germany’s .DE
Germany’s .de country code top level domain was originally created in 1986, the (de) make up the first two letters in their countrys name (Deutschland). In the mid-late 1980’s, a name server service was created by the Informatikrechner-Betriebsgruppe in Dortmund, Germany...
| NameTalent.com - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 11:20 |
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| Testing Out Wordpress Auction Plugin from SiteMile on DotComFarm.com
Andrei over at SiteMile.com gave me a copy of his Wordpress Auction Plugin 1.0 to try out on a project and review. You can see the nice auctions this plugin produces, I installed the plugin to a new WP site DotComFarm.com. The script allows WP admins and subscribers (if you choose) to add nice, functional
| NameTalent.com - Monday, February 22, 2010 - 15:44 |
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| My Thoughts on the $1,000,000 Poker.org Sale
Earlier this week it was reported that National A-1 sold the domain name Poker.org via Sedo brokerage for $1 million USD. This shatters the highest ever .org sale which was previously $198,000 for the domain engineering.org. The purchaser, PokerCompany.com said this in a press release: “Poker.org is an integral part of our growth ...
| NameTalent.com - Friday, February 19, 2010 - 13:16 |
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| ICANN’s Study on the Accuracy of Whois
ICANN recently collaborated with the University of Chicago on a small study with the purpose of checking the accuracy of whois records. “An Internationally representative sample” drew 1419 domain names from the top five tlds (com net org info and biz) for the study. The results did not come as much of a surprise to
| NameTalent.com - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 13:32 |
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| Available Domain Name List #4 – Winter Olympics Fever and a Few Others..
I’ve enjoying watching the Winter Olympics as winter sports are my favorite, I can’t wait for the medal rounds of the snowboarding events. Of course, I got curious and started checking to see what kinds Winter Olympic sports domains were available to hand reg. Not too surprisingly, I found some pretty good ones..
| NameTalent.com - Monday, February 15, 2010 - 15:48 |
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| Placed a Domain For Sale in New Facebook Marketplace
Anyone else checked out the new Facebook marketplace yet? I was surprised to login and find Facebook added an entire new online marketplace, which is powered by oodle.com. It’s organized like an online classifieds page with jobs, real estate, vehicles, and items for sale sections. When you first login to the marketplace you ...
| NameTalent.com - Friday, February 12, 2010 - 14:42 |
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| ccTLD Extension(s) of the Week – India’s .IN and .CO.IN
I am going to start writing one post each week dedicated to an exisiting ccTLD extension. This week I will be focusing on the .in and .co.in Indian ccTLD’s.
The .in and .co.in registry has been open for domain registrations since January, 2005. It wasn’t until late 2007 when I really started to see a growing popularit...
| NameTalent.com - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 12:54 |
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| Top Sales From DOMAINfest Live and Extended Auctions
Live/Extended Auction Sales Over $20k
LoanCalculator.com – $215,000
*46.com – $80,000
GolfLessons.com – $65,000
PearlEarrings.com – $50,000
Husband.com – $45,000
GolfShirts.com – $45,000
FederalAid.com – $40,000
SalaryCalculator.com – $30,000
OrganicCosmetics.com – $27,500
TabletC...
| NameTalent.com - Monday, February 8, 2010 - 15:35 |
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| VeriSign Annual Revenue Growth up 8% in 2009, Domain Registration Cost to Increase in 2010
According to GAAP Financial Results,VeriSign showed strong signs of growth through the fourth quarter of 2009. Here are some financial highlights I found on the CNNMoney report on VeriSign: Naming Services rang in $159 million in revenue a 9% jump from Q4 in 2008, The company ended 2009 with approx $1.5 billion in cash/cash equiva...
| NameTalent.com - Friday, February 5, 2010 - 13:48 |
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