 | Tucows Now Selling The Expired Domains They Kept From Their Customers
Well it was bound to happen.
We have been talking about this issue for months.
Tucows.com has been building up a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of domains by taking ownership of expired domains of its customers instead of letting them drop or sending them to a public auction like, well, almost every other registrar in the
 | The Domains - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 10:49 |
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 | EstDomains Loses Accreditation, 280k Domains up for Grabs
Registrar loses ICANN accreditation.
Domain registrar EstDomains, Inc has lost its ICANN accreditation.
The registrar had been the subject of many negative stories, including allegations that it perpetuated malware and spyware sites as well as spam. EstDomains also resold Directi services including its whois privacy service. (Direct...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 16:14 |
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 | 5 With... Warren Royal, Owner - Bobbleheads.com
Warren Royal has been in the online world for a while. He started a small BBS (Bulletin Board System) in 1988, and it grew over the years to be one of the most popular online systems in the country in 1993. At that time, Warren serviced subscribers from all over the world, and registered
| | Elliot Silver - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 13:46 |
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 | WARNING: Network Solutions Phishing Scam
Fast on the heels of the recent Enom phishing scam, another phishing attack attempting to con domain name registrants into providing their customer information is under way. Network Solutions (NSI) domain customers are the target this time. The spam email messages being sent out warn the user of their domain expiring. Current repor...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 21:21 |
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 | 4N.net What approach would you take?
Well, this was the "other" domain name that I was talking about that I acquired the other day that was still in escrow. 4N.net and now I would like to hear what you think I should do with it.
What approach would you take on offering this Gem up for sale? Keep it?
Very unique 2 character
| | DotWeekly - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 17:38 |
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 | Has your Blog lost its Brand?
Some time ago you heard about blogging, thought how wonderful it would be, created a unique name for yourself, learned some wordpress and started blogging when the spouse was asleep. Ideas were grand, intentions were good and you kept typing away.
Have you ever thought about those great ideas promising to provide unique content to th...
| | Newfound Names - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 21:44 |
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 | Daughter of Domainer Rob Grant is Breaking Out in the Music Business
Lizzy Grant, the daughter of veteran domainer Rob Grant, is making a splash in the music business. Lizzy has just released her first record (available on iTunes) and also has a new video out that is creating quite a buzz in the music blogosphere.
| DNJournal - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 22:11 |
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 | Barack Obama in US Election Polls - Change is Coming
It is unwise to mix business with politics. That is not quite what am doing here with this post, but I feel compelled to take the risk.
I have never voted in my life, as I see politicians as a set of liars and corrupt people, until they prove themselves otherwise. This is in contrast to
| | eBusinessDomains - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 11:54 |
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 | Tucows Launches YummyNames.com
Tucows Inc has announced the launch of YummyNames.com, a new service “providing exclusive access to a large selection of premium domain names from the Tucows Domain Name Portfolio”.
Their press release lists a few of the YummyNames domain names available include countryrock.com, divorced.com, lemons.com, listener.com, my...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 21:49 |
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| ExpiringDomains.com launches
After DNForum launched a special forum in July where users could list expiring domains from their portfolio that they were not planning on renewing, Domaining.com has launched ExpiringDomains.com yesterday. The service allows you to list domain names from your portfolio that you are not planning to renew. The listing is free and doma...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 13:31 |
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| A Great Market To Buy Cheap Domains Is Born!
A couple of days ago popular domain news aggregation site Domaining.com launched a new and unique domaining service called ExpiringDomains.com.
ExpiringDomains.com is a marketplace that allows you to sell your - you guessed it - expiring domains and allows you to buy some excellent domain names at bargain prices.
We all have expiring...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 10:4 |
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| Tucows Sells Their Domains via YummyNames
Tucows, a publicly traded company, recently launched a new domain sales/leasing/consulting platform that allows companies to obtain domain names from within the Tucows portfolio. Some of the names that are in the YummyNames showcase include Aerodynamic.com, BikeRiders.com, Back.com, DietFood.com, FootballFan.com, PoliceOfficer.com, P...
| | Elliot Silver - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 9:36 |
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| NameJet Auction Blunders Cause 'Re-do'
NameJet.com announced in an email to customers tonight that several auctions that occured on October 26th will be re-done with an ending date of October 30th. The company issued the statement and blames technological problems relating to daylight savings time rules and server settings for auctions closing AFTER the closing times.
Ty...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 23:41 |
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 | Domain name survey
I surveyed 100 domains to see what was on those domains. I found that 4% had nothing, 71% had something other than parked pages and 25% were parked.
Parked domains
I chose domain names using terms from the content of websites like cnn.com, money.com and portals so that the terms were commercial and short i.e. premium domain
| | Predictive Domaining - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 16:8 |
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 | Part 11 - domain name nirvana?
The previous articles in this series on domains can be reviewed by clicking on the following links:
Part 1 - Domain Industry and Valuations
Part 2 - The domain bubble
Part 3 - What caused the domain bubble?
Part 4 - Domains and the sub-prime shock
Part 5 - Domain values...
| | Michael Gilmour - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 11:45 |
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| Tucows launches YummyNames
Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX: TC) has just announced the launch of their YummyNames site, which lists domains from their portfolio of names for sale online. The company has before sold individual and groups of names directly and via various brokers and is now formalizing some of their offering under a new brand.
“YummyNames, the publi...
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 11:10 |
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| Registrar EstDomains Get Shut Off Notice From ICANN
ICANN has sent a letter to the EstDomains notifying them that their registrar accreditation would be revoked effective November 12.
“This termination is based on your status as President of EstDomains and your credit card fraud, money laundering and document forgery conviction,” Stacy Burnette, ICANN’s director of ...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 23:35 |
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 | Domainer Comic Strip #12
Midweek hump, it is Wednesday, time for your weekly domainer comic strip.
Click on the comic strip to enlarge.
Submit a suggestion for my next comic strip to win a GoDaddy gift card for $7.49.
You can also get your domain names with GoDaddy for $7.49 by using this link. For future purchase you can also use my
| | ChefPatrick.com - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 8:57 |
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| Domainer Mardi Gras to Focus on Risk Management
Domainers head to New Orleans to learn about risk management (and partying).
Modern Domainer Magazine’s Domainer Mardi Gras will take place in New Orleans February 19-21, 2009. The event is produced by Modern Domainer with support from Parked.com and other sponsors.
According to an advance copy of the agenda obtained by Domain...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 10:30 |
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 | Basketball.org Progress: CONTENT!
As we continue to develop tools, design the final site, create video, and prepare interviews or content from established basketball experts, one progression for Basketball.org stands out above the rest: Content.
While George and others have been hard at work preparing articles on drills, skills, plays, and stories, we also have talen...
| | Green Taxi - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 16:31 |
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| Texas Domainer Wins Case Against California Agency
Attorney and domain investor wins case brought by California train service.
Texas attorney, lobbyist, and domain investor Ramiro Canales has successfully defended an attack on one of his company’s domain names, CapitolCorridor.com.
Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority, which manages a Northern California train service, filed...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 13:38 |
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| Trademark Holders Shouldn't Rush to Get New TLDs
.eBay probably not worth it.
One of the examples the mass media has given for the potential of new TLDs is .ebay .
“Imagine eBay (NADSAQ: EBAY) being able to create cars.ebay and electronics.ebay”, is the general line of thought.
I’m imagining, and I’m not imagining much. Why not just ebay.com/cars?
In genera...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 11:18 |
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 | Report on Indian Domain Sales
It has been fairly quiet on the Indian domain sales front recently. In today’s DNJournal, Ron confirmed that the sale of Dial.in, which we had previously reported, had gone through. No other .in sales made it to Ron’s report.
Other recent Indian domain sales include Reality.in which went for $650, ALV.in which sold for ...
| | Indian Domain Name Blog - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 20:57 |
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| iMEGA Files Another Motion With Appeals Court in Kentucky Domain Seizure Case
The Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) filed another motion with the Court of Appeals in Kentucky today, this time asking the court to stay the 2 orders entered by Judge Wingate and suspend the forfeiture hearing presently scheduled for for December 3, 2008.
In the 6 page motion, (153 pages with all exhibi...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 18:7 |
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| New Life for .XXX but Hurdles Remain
Expect new TLD applications for .xxx, but expect challenges too.
Poor .xxx. The top level domain that never was to be. On again, off again.
With the new top level domain process getting into high gear and ICANN expecting 500 applications, you can be assured that some of them will be for .xxx, .sex, or
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 16:32 |
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 | YouTube Domain Channel
Join our new Boston DomainerTV Channel... to find us on YouTube our channel is called StephenSmithTV. You can join both channel links, The YouTube channel will have a larger inventory of domain-related videos to watch and our site at StephenSmith.TV will be filtered to include the best hand-picked domain-related videos. Both chan...
| | Inside Domaining - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 14:24 |
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| TRAFFIC Down Under Now Cheaper
Falling Australian dollar makes accommodations (and beer) cheaper.
Yesterday I wrote about how the rising U.S. dollar is creating winners and losers in the domain name world. Today I received an email from TRAFFIC Down Under, the domain conference taking place in Australia next month, illustrating how the falling Australian Dollar m...
| | Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 10:1 |
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| Yahoo-AOL in Merger Talks?
According to reports merger talks are under way between Yahoo and Time Warner Inc’s, AOL unit.
While noting a deal was not imminent, sources say the two companies have engaged in “meaningful” due diligence about a possible combination for the past couple of weeks.
Talks are focused on how to integrate AOL’s c...
| | The Domains - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 17:22 |
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| GoMilfy.com - A Godaddy Sarah Palin Parody
I just saw a hillarious post at DomainNameWire about GoMilfy.com - a site that parodies Sarah Palin as a Godaddy girl.
The attention to detail on GoMilfy is awesome not to mention the site links to an ebay sales page and a link go HockeyGrandma.com, probably also owned by the owner of GoMilfy.com.
The site also “promotes”...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 7:8 |
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| Obama Kicks McCain's Ass In Domain Registrations
Several media outlets are reporting that according to DomainTools there are significantly more domain registrations for Barack Obama than for John McCain.
According to the New York Times there are 2,357 domains for Obama and 1,431 domains for McCain.
Exploring the various domains registered reveals a mixture of pro and con sites for ...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 6:41 |
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| 57 Expired Domains
I posted a list of 57 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum.
Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past and future free lists.
If you want to...
| | DnExpert - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 20:51 |
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 | eNom Phishing Email - Beware!
Today I received a phishing email masquerading as eNom. While the from address is support@enom.com, the return address is actually axri@bobjanes.com.
The domain name that the phishing email diverts to is com62.biz - I have provided the whois details below.
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| | Domainer Income - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 7:9 |
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| .B.BR Provides Banking Security in Brazil
Online banking is safer than ever in Brazil thanks to a new second-level domain being used by financial institutions within the country to provide safe transactions online. .B.BR offers vastly improved online security for over 30 million people that use online banking in Brazil - an area that accounts for 17% of the total banking
| | Domain Name News - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 12:48 |
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