SwitzerlandTrips.com; HighlightReels.com; TempeForeclosures.com; BorrowingRate.com Below is our list of names in Moniker/TRAFFIC Silent Auction. For access to the auction, contact your Moniker rep. If the past is any indication of their approach to bidding in this auction, they should provide you with the necessary details to access the silent auction bidding platform.
BorrowingRate.com: Great, to the point finan...
The Critical Post - 2/26/2008 9:20:40 AM
Location-Specific Web Developer Wanted We are currently seeking proposals / expressions of interest for development of a recently-acquired domain catering to a village on Martha’s Vineyard. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive resource for residents and visitors and an attractive advertising platform for businesses. Requirements are as follows (all are expressi...
The Critical Post - 1/30/2008 12:49:31 PM
Network Solutions’ New Tactics Reports of Network Solutions registering domain names searched for on their platform are quickly circulating throughout the domain industry.
For insight on the story, see the following (all direct links to relevant reports/threads):
DomainNameNews.com
Conceptualist
NamePros
DomainState
As confirmed by tests highlighted in the report...
The Critical Post - 1/8/2008 2:58:51 PM
New Year’s Housekeeping: Internal and External A recent inquiry into one of our domains highlights the importance of monitoring your domain sales listings on two fronts: 1) Do your listings at Sedo, Afternic, etc. reflect your updated portfolio? and 2) Are any of your domains currently listed on the aftermarkets by former registrants because they were not deleted from the seller&...
The Critical Post - 1/3/2008 11:37:35 AM
Domainers’ Choice Awards Update After narrowing the field to three or four candidates per category, Domainers Choice Awards has now entered the final stage of voting. Final votes are due by December 31 with winners announced at DOMAINfest Global ‘08 in Hollywood, January 21-23. Tracking the nominees over the course of the last few weeks has illustrated the
The Critical Post - 12/20/2007 9:10:31 AM
Afternic Joins the Expiring Auction Mix Afternic just announced it will begin auctioning expiring names:
Afternic Auctions Launches Today
Big news today on AfternicDLS!
We are proud to launch Afternic Auctions. For the first time ever, members have pre-drop access to exclusive expiring domains on Afternic.
It’s live now on Afternic!
(Full Story)
A brief scan of random d...
The Critical Post - 12/18/2007 6:09:45 PM
Legal Roundup This is the first installment of the Legal Roundup, a weekly spotlight on significant legal stories and issues facing the industry. Today’s Roundup features three articles: 1) Interesting comments from the acting director of WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center on domains as venues for business criticism, 2) A call to...
The Critical Post - 12/6/2007 9:14:04 AM
Domainers’ Choice Awards From DomainersChoiceAwards.com:
Who do YOU think has been the shining star in representing domainers ethics and standards of behavior? Which hosting company, registrar, parking company has done the best?
Is there somebody out there that has gone above and beyond for all of us? Who, in your opinion, is advancing domainers and the ind...
The Critical Post - 11/16/2007 11:06:07 AM
Google Beta Testing Domain Ads Exclusion From CircleID:
Google AdWords is running limited testing of a feature which lets its advertisers block domain parking sites which their AdWords ads will be served on; specifically ‘Domain Ads’ and ‘Error Page Ads.
If Google rolls out full force with this blocking of the serving of advertiser AdWords ads on domain parking sites, this ...
The Critical Post - 11/10/2007 8:49:08 AM
German “Intuition” From CircleID:
The majority of private Internet users in Germany favour the increased usage of local domain endings as in .city or .region in the future because the more memorable names will help them to better find the information that they are looking for. That is the core result of a representative survey that was
The Critical Post - 11/5/2007 9:54:32 AM
Brand/Domain Name Protection Service Launched From Yahoo!® Finance:
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With domain name abuse costing companies worldwide more than $1 billion in diverted customer sales and enforcement expenses annually, MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today announced Domain Management 5. The new service simplifies the proce...
The Critical Post - 10/31/2007 10:40:42 AM
Trademark Domains: Elliot’s Concern, the DNOA, and the ICA I want to use this post as an opportunity to respond to/comment on Elliot Silver’s post regarding the registration of trademark domains and its deleterious effect on the industry and legitimate domainers. Clearly, Elliot’s concern is a good one, the practice of registering and profiting from trademark domains has been th...
The Critical Post - 10/25/2007 8:19:06 AM
Welcome to The Critical Post! When I first registered this domain back in July of 2006, I had in mind a thriving community comprised of a forum and blog featuring in depth investigation, conversation and analysis on politics, philosophy, art, and society and culture. Grand ambitions…
The domain has been dormant until this week when, inspired by a post at
