ICANN Opens Flood Gates To New Extensions ICANN has unimously voted to allow an unlimited amount of new TLD’s, using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.
In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part:
“”"The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp...
The Domains - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 12:51
LLL.com Prices Falling On June 7, 2008, I blogged that I thought LLL.com prices were about to fall. It has indeed started to happen. It looks to me like prices have fallen about 10% since that post.
According to the June 1, 2008 3Character.com Price Guide, the minimum wholesale price (regardless of letter combo) of three letter dot com domains is $7,600. H...
Domain Bits - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 23:10
Domain Industry Chaos, How Did We Get Here And What Will You Do? (Part 1)
Before I begin this controversial 2 part post, I would like to ask readers to keep an open mind. As many of you already know, I am not one to steer away from controversy to expose the truth and I believe in laying content on the table for others to digest when they are ready SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Domain Industry Chaos, How D...
Simply Geo - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 12:31
Vanity TLDs (vTLD) Approved Much talk has been had about the new ‘top level’ domains that were approved by ICANN today in Paris. This ruling will allow companies, groups, and individuals to petition ICANN to create new “Vanity TLDs,” which in my opinion will end up creating considerable confusion among consumers and huge costs to compani...
Elliot Silver - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 15:39
New gTLDs Will Make Geo Domain Market Huge ICANN just announced its approval of new gTLDs which will more than likely lead to a new online goldrush as suggested in the article. But this time it will be corporate America and Traditional Media making the move to become the new owners of elite extensions and not entrepreneurs. While many domainers have their opinions SHARETHIS...
Simply Geo - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 20:38
Geo Domains Becoming The Industry Center Pieces
In announcement published today on DNJournal.com’s lowdown, Snapnames.com has started to make some beneficial changes for domainers. One of the things of interest to geodomainers is that they will now offer lists focused on Geo Domains. I assume this list will include both aftermarket domains and drops. This is big news if y...
Simply Geo - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 2:4
What Does ICANN’s ‘Yes’ Vote Mean to You? Not Much. ICANN’s decision to liberalize the process for adding new TLDs won’t have much of an affect on you, unless you manage trademarks.
Today ICANN voted to liberalize the process and acceptance of new top level domains (similar to .info and .asia). What does this mean to the average domainer and internet user? Despite the
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 15:45
Affiliate Relationships on GeoWebsites I’ve been so busy developing some of my other sites, that I haven’t had time to focus on getting advertisers for Lowell.com. My plan is to launch three more sites before I get married and go on my honeymoon (early August), and focus on getting advertisers upon my return. That said, I certainly won’t
Elliot Silver - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 12:22
PANELIST.COM On Bido, US $1,866.00, 35 Minutes To Go Strong start for the domain Panelist.com today on Bido. Here are few comments from the site in regard to the domain:
Dominik Mueller writes:
Valuable one-word .com domain name that is generic in nature! It won’t be often that you find a domain as good as Panelist.com being sold without a reserve price.Professional panelists can...
Conceptualist - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 13:31
TechCrunch: Amazon Acquires Fabric.com Adding to its growing stable of business units, Amazon.com recently acquired Fabric.com and its business assets. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Fabric.com will continue to function as its own entity. Amazon’s acquisition of a somewhat unrelated company is an interesting move, in this era of corporate refocusing ...
Elliot Silver - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 9:43
Israel.com Price Reduction I received a note from Moniker.com who informed me that the owner of Israel.com will now consider offers at 4.5 Million and above, which is lowered from the $5.88 Million.
If you have interest please contact moniker.com
The Domains - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 7:42
Big changes coming for 1st tier drops I have been waiting on ICANN’s ruling with the 20 cent fee being added to deleted domain names during the RGP and hope to hear something very soon from ICANN.
This is going to be a Huge shake up when this happens and I can’t wait for the day to happen. This will stop companies from
DotWeekly - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 11:25
The Rebellious Jeff: Bido, The First Week! Jeff used to be a real productive fellow, one that would always spend his time managing teams, building new products, installing networks, eliminating software bugs, or just plain old software testing. So what has happened to Jeff? From time to time he gets into “creativity mode”. He knows (or should know!) he has no tale...
Conceptualist - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 9:23
Luxembourg and Cologne I can't believe that I'm doing this again. Yep, I'm sitting in the airline lounge while I await QF6 to Singapore and then onward to Melbourne. The lounge is packed and yet there isn't a sound as everyone stares completely wrapped at the TV while Spain and Russia battle it...
Michael Gilmour - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 18:37
ICANN Vote is Today ICANN is expected to vote to approve a proposal which will open the flood gates creating an almost unlimited amount of domain extensions.
Pricing seems to be set between $100K-$500K for each new extension.
Any extension that get more than one proposal will wind up being auctioned off the the highest paying registry.
This has already ...
The Domains - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:54
Arbitration Panel Punts on All.com All.com domain dispute denied by WIPO panel; forgery claims too much to handle.
A three member WIPO panel has denied a complaint for the domain name All.com, saying the case is outside of UDRP’s scope.
The case involves an alleged sale of the domain name, to which the “buyer” produced documents showing the sale and ...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:24
Part 4 of 4: Extra Insights From The Author Of "The Domain Game" Today we conclude Fractional Domaining Blog's 4-part interview with David Kesmodel, author of "The Domain Game", with discussions about notable trends in domaining since the book manuscript was written; additional resources Kesmodel plans to offer; feedback the author has received so far and whether another book is planned; whether w...
Fractional Domaining - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:17
Happy Birthday To Us! Frank and I both forgot Domain Name News turned 1 year old on June 12th . It’s been a busy June and time flies. It seems like 1 year of real time is like a decade on the internet. I think that we’ve both been so busy in the domain name business for so long
Domain Name News - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 22:38
The Website Is Down (.com) Don't worry I'm still here! (Just really haven't had time to post) But check this out, if you've got a few minutes and wanna laugh your ass off then click over to TheWebsiteIsDown.com. This is by far one of the funniest and most creative GEEK videos that I've ever seen published to the web. WARNING if the link above is slow or isn't ...
Domainer Developer - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 17:13
This and that and this… Just ramblings ~Jamie Parks over at DomainerDevolper.com offered up a link to one of the funniest video’s I have seen in a long time. I mean nearly make you pee your pants funny! It’s a good one for the "computer tech guys". The domain is very fitting and I’m sure getting hits like crazy and this is just
DotWeekly - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 18:33
ICANN approved recommendations designed to clamp down on domain name tasting Yahoo! and many others have reported that ICANN has approved the recommendations to help prevent domain tasting. I have yet to see the posting on ICANN’s site with details, so more to come as it becomes available.
At the very bottom on the article it states:
"In other action, ICANN approved recommendations designed to ...
DotWeekly - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 14:3
£.com To Be Auctioned Off Today Richard Haigh, a businessman who bought the domain name www.£.com for £20 nine years ago is hoping to auction it for more than £1million today.
Today, on 26th June 2008, at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, Great Britain’s “pound domain” (£.com) will, along with associated property, be auctioned for sale as p...
DnExpert - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 7:56
Place Your Vote For The Geo Domain Awards
AssociatedCities.com has announce that you can now place your online vote for the geo domain awards that will be presented at the GeoDomain Expo on 12 June in Chicago. This is a chance for geodomainers to select those who they believe deserve awards for their hard work building out their geo domains.
I would also like SHARETHIS.add...
Simply Geo - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 18:52
ICANN Policy Brief on Domain Monetization- Domain Tasting Killing Legitimate Use of Domains In a recently released policy brief, ICANN addresses domain name monetization (PDF) as if it were a problem to be addressed. The policy brief begins by discussing and explaining domain monetization and Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising in layman terms. The paper further goes on to discuss domain tasting and points out
Domain Name News - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 22:2
ICANN Approves gTld Naming System Changes According to the BBC, ICANN today approved the proposed changes to the gTld Naming System.
The new rules remove previous restrictions that kept companies, individuals and countries to a limited set of domain extensions (.com, .edu, .net, .uk etc). Under the new rules, domain extensions can up to 64 characters if you’ve got the ...
DnExpert - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 18:26
TobagoVacations.com - On Sale for Cheap I received a $3,500 offer for TobagoVacations.com, but the buyer backed out when he realized he didn’t have the cash to pay. I am willing to honor the same price to someone else. Grab this great Vacation-related domain name before it’s too late. I’ve sold similar country vacation names for anywhere from $5,000 -
Elliot Silver - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 11:26
ICANN To Expand gTld Naming System? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board is meeting today to decide on two key proposals.
The first proposal is the long awaited move to allow non Latin charactered gTlds, meaning domain names using Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic letters ( full domain names including extensions ). The other proposal, the one...
DnExpert - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 16:6
Associated Cities Geo Awards Nominations Open Associated Cities has opened up nominations for their Geo Awards. Nominations are open to the public until July 1st and final voting will be conducted on July 2nd with the final voting to close on July 8th. Awards will be presented at the 2008 GeoDomain Expo in Chicago.
To nominate someone Click here
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Domain Name News - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 22:9
GoDaddy Registers 30 Millionth Domain Name The GoDaddy Group Inc., which includes GoDaddy.com, Wild West Domains (its resale brand) and Blue Razor (its bulk domain brand) has reached a new milestone, registering its 30 millionth domain, RulesOfSaving.com.
GoDaddy is either registering, renewing or transferring about one domain every second of every day, making it the most pop...
Domain Name News - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 0:44
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SEDO - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 13:59
111 Expired Domains I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 111 expired domains today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to subscribe to my FREE newsletter. My newsletter is free and you can subscribe at any time though.
If you want to learn
DnExpert - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 15:47
Early Domain News And Stuff For 06/26/08 £20 web domain name to go for £1m
Dot TK - Free domain names with no strings attached
Stuff:
Yahoo’s board doing a heck of a job, Yahoo says
Google, @ 10 years, is looking for more
Microsoft’s war against Google
Ticketmaster looks to master ticket resale domain (***Not domain name)
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Domain Co...
Domain Name News - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 12:17
Early Domain News And Stuff For 06/26/08 £20 web domain name to go for £1m
Dot TK - Free domain names with no strings attached
Stuff:
Yahoo’s board doing a heck of a job, Yahoo says
Google, @ 10 years, is looking for more
Microsoft’s war against Google
Ticketmaster looks to master ticket resale domain (***Not domain name)
(c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com
Domain Co...
Domain Name News - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 9:52
Early Domain News And Stuff For 06/26/08 £20 web domain name to go for £1m
Dot TK - Free domain names with no strings attached
Stuff:
Yahoo’s board doing a heck of a job, Yahoo says
Google, @ 10 years, is looking for more
Microsoft’s war against Google
Ticketmaster looks to master ticket resale domain (***Not domain name)
(c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com
Domain Con...
Domain Name News - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 12:11
Part 4 of 4: Extra Insights From The Author Of "The Domain Game" Today we conclude Fractional Domaining Blog's 4-part interview with David Kesmodel, author of "The Domain Game", with discussions about notable trends in domaining since the book manuscript was written; additional resources Kesmodel plans to offer; feedback the author has received so far and whether another book is planned; whether w...
Fractional Domaining - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:17
Godaddy Reaches 30 Million Registrations GoDaddy.com domain registrar has announced that it has just reached 30 Million domain registrations.
Go Daddy claims to be registering, renewing and transferring domain names at the rate of of about one every second of every day. This flies in the face of critics who, years ago, suggested the surge to register domain names was all
DnExpert - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 8:1
Part 4 of 4: Extra Insights From The Author Of "The Domain Game" Today we conclude Fractional Domaining Blog's 4-part interview with David Kesmodel, author of "The Domain Game", with discussions about notable trends in domaining since the book manuscript was written; additional resources Kesmodel plans to offer; feedback the author has received so far and whether another book is planned; whether w...
Fractional Domaining - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:17
Launch of .PARIS Yesterday, hundreds of sweaty ICANN attendees put on their best clothes and braved the crush of the rush hour metro on a very hot day to crush together for the ICANN gala at the overwrought Hotel de Ville (city hall) in Paris.
Most of them missed an interesting announcement.
I arrived an hour late, but
Part 4 of 4: Extra Insights From The Author Of "The Domain Game" Today we conclude Fractional Domaining Blog's 4-part interview with David Kesmodel, author of "The Domain Game", with discussions about notable trends in domaining since the book manuscript was written; additional resources Kesmodel plans to offer; feedback the author has received so far and whether another book is planned; whether w...
Fractional Domaining - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:17
Part 4 of 4: Extra Insights From The Author Of "The Domain Game" Today we conclude Fractional Domaining Blog's 4-part interview with David Kesmodel, author of "The Domain Game", with discussions about notable trends in domaining since the book manuscript was written; additional resources Kesmodel plans to offer; feedback the author has received so far and whether another book is planned; whether w...
Fractional Domaining - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:17
