 | Much.com For Sale on Afternic
Happy New Year!
We’re looking forward to working with you to make 2008 a fantastic year, so let’s kick it off with a bang:
AfternicDLS member kazkaz11 is listing Much.com on Afternic It’s actively receiving bids. This domain has HUGE potential.
It’s yet another great domain available from an AfternicDLS membe...
| Afternic DLS - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 22:55 |
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 | Network Solutions Engaged in Front Running
Domain front running is the "practice of stealing someone’s domain name search queries and registering the domain name before the original person can register it." According to ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) they were not able to find any evidence that this practice exists, even though most domainers have e...
 | Domain Bits - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 13:9 |
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 | EVISCERATING A REGISTRAR (Guts and Blood Are Revealed)
Anyone who has bid and won a domain on the expiring domain auction sites knows what it is like to deal with half-assed, no morals, unethical registrars who are submitting their customers’ domains for auction. These registrars (many or most are resellers) are more interested in preventing the renewal of your domain unless it...
| | Stephen Douglas - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 5:2 |
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 | NetworkSolutions Scandal: Hijacking User Domain Searches
There has been an uproar today about a recent devious tactic being used by one of the original ICANN accredited registrars, NetworkSolutions. Apparently they are internally registering each and every domain name that a user searches for using their website, essentially holding it hostage so that it can not be purchased at any other ...
| | Dot Sauce - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 15:37 |
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| Top 100 Domain Sales of 2007
The following is a list of the top 100 domain sales for any extension in 2007 as reported by DNJournal. This is the first year ever that all of the top 100 domain sales reached over six figures! The top 9 domains sold for over one million each.
Five co.uk domains made the list,
| | Dot Sauce - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 14:32 |
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 | Network Solutions Front Running Whois Searches
This is unthinkable. I first read a thread on DomainState.com and then saw that Adam posted the following on DomainNameNews.comâ??A story is developing regarding domain name registrar Network Solutions front running domains. According to multiple sources on DomainState.com, it appears that domains searched via NSI are being purchase...
| Direct Navigation - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 19:42 |
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 | dnJournal article - part 2
In the previous article I gave a sneak preview the dnJournal article coming out in a few days time on the two questions:
1. What were the most significant events and trends last year.
2. What do I see as being the most important issue in the coming year.
In my...
| | Michael Gilmour - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 9:45 |
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 | Network Solutions Front-Runs & Tastes Domains: Calls it Protecting Their Customers
Earlier today several people at DomainState noticed that whois searches at NetworkSolutions were being compromised due to NetSol registering the domain names for a period of time. Essentially what happens here is that the domains being searched for are held at NetSol for a few days (probably 4-5 days). This occurs because ICANN
| | Scott Fish - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 21:48 |
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 | Lala Vs Dixie - Fight #3 (Dog Fight)
Apparently I didn’t learn my lessons and let them be together again. For few days they were fine, even playing and swimming together, until an hour ago. Sara, my dog trainer, was playing with them in the back yard and I was home on the phone, then I heard her screaming, and Lala and Dixie going at each other. I ran outside, jum...
| | Conceptualist - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 18:33 |
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| The More Information Online, The More Important The Skills To Sort Through It
Found via Paul Kedrosky’s blog. A press release by “Center for Medicine in the Public Interest” found that:
For millions of Americans, Google has replaced the family physician. People trust, and make decisions, based on the information they find online,” said Goldberg, “With few exceptions, the informati...
| | Conceptualist - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 16:26 |
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 | NAF Cybersquatting Decisions Under UDRP
Recent Decisions (October 2007 - January 4, 2007) by the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) resolving domain name disputes filed under the UDRP:
Michael Smith Custom Clothiers, Inc. dba The Custom Shop dba Myshirtmaker.com v Custom Shirt Shop c/o Jim Nice. (National Arbitration Forum January 4, 2008). Decision
National Council ...
| | Anticybersquatting - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 14:10 |
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 | How to Make Money in 2008
To make money in 2008, you need to start like any other year, concentrate on products and services that appeal to people’s basic needs.
Especially when the economy starts to soften you got to start by looking at what people really need to make them happy, or what they need to live their lives
When we grew
| | The Domains - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 22:16 |
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 | AdSense Giving International Publishers The AdSense Referral Boot
You heard right. AdSense is giving the boot to publishers outside North America, Latina America, and Japan in regards to being able to refer people to the AdSense program. Supposedly the “referral product has not performed as well as we had hoped in these regions.”
These publishers still get to use other referrals, but no...
| | fka200 - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 19:45 |
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 | Network Solutions saga unravels
I knew there was something strange with these findings. Why would a reputable company like Network Solutions blatantly do something that could hurt their reputation in the long run. In short… they wouldn't.
Jonathon Nevett, Vice President of Policy at Network Solutions sent domainnews the following in response to the accus...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 19:22 |
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| An apparent warning about Network Solutions
DomainNameNews.com have published an interesting story today warning of domain frontrunning being performed by Network Solutions. Experiments with attempts at registering several domains then waiting a while showed that those same domains ( randomly created keywords that have no chance of being coincidentally searched for by another ...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 18:39 |
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| 172 Expired Domains - Real Gems
I found some free time to treat my email subscribers with another expired domains list. This time there were 172 domains in total, and you will have to agree with me that some of them are real gems. I am not sure whether I have gone mad for letting them have them, but hey it's
a give/take world isn't it?
Had you been subscribed to my...
| | DnExpert - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 17:37 |
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| Network Solutions Buys The Domains We Search
Yes. It’s all over the web, and I just found out about it 30 minutes ago. Stupid me. If you search for domains at NetworkSolutions.com, they will purchase your domain and hope you buy it from them for $34.99. Pretty sleezy, huh? I think this is the stupidest thing I’ve heard. How desperate are they
| | fka200 - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 16:9 |
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| Is The Israeli National Anthem Inspired By Smetana’s “The Moldau”?
To those who don’t know I’m a huge classical music fan. I don’t usually pay attention to titles although I have few favorites. Why classical music? Besides the fact it is timeless I find it better for thinking as there are n lyrics imposed in the music.
Two years ago I was driving around town listening to the cla...
| | Conceptualist - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 15:41 |
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 | Network Solutions Faces PR Nightmare Over Domain FrontRunning
Domain registrar locks domains searched on its site.
Every once in a while a domain company does something so stupid that you know someone will get fired for it. Sometimes it’s an honest, spur-of-the-moment mistake. But Network Solutions’ latest move required lots of internal coordination.
Here’s the deal, as repo...
| | Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 14:53 |
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 | Network Solutions’ Defensive Measure for Whois Searches
Say you want to buy the domain name HelloElliotsBlogReaders.com at Network Solutions, and you search the availability of that name. You see the name is available, but you would prefer to buy it at Godaddy. Ten seconds later, you look the name up at Godaddy to complete the registration, and POOF, the name is no
| | Elliot Silver - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 14:31 |
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 | Feral Green
Michael points out a friend of his who is doing the trip of a lifetime at FeralGreen.com. It reminds me of Allan Weisbecker’s, “In Search of Captain Zero“, one of my all-time favorite books. While these guys are doing the trip as a group of four, not something they should be faulted for, they are
| | Green Taxi - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 13:54 |
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| Investing In Real Estate Abroad, Safely
Derek has pointed out an interesting article from the New York Times, ”Searching Across The Border“, regarding a brief into on how to invest abroad safely. It’s worth the quick read if you are ever considering owning land outside the U.S.
The main point is to learn as much as possible before buying. A few of his ...
| | Green Taxi - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 13:52 |
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| Search For Domains At Network solutions, Face Extortion By Network Solutions
Via DomainState. Stratagenix writes:
BEWARE: Don’t Search For Names At NetworkSolutions.com
Network Solutions has instituted a 4 day lock on all domain names searched on their site. They are effectively using phishing techniques to hijack or steal domain names and forcing domain name registrants to register their names at Network So...
| | Conceptualist - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 13:38 |
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| Lowell Project: Beautifying the Site
Enticing visitors to want to visit Lowell, Massachusetts will be one function of Lowell.com. Since many visitors to the website may have never stepped foot in Lowell before, the website will need to give visitors a good feel for the city. Posting updated photographs is the best way to convey the feel of the city,
| | Elliot Silver - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 6:11 |
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