Last week China announced that they would block attempted .cn registrations of Olympic winners. Today the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office, which is the government copyright body, announced that they would attempt to block the sales of .com domains of Olympic winning Jamaican Athletes. The athletes include Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Veronica Campbell-Brown. The domain UsainBolt.com was at … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2008
.ME Update: Over 1,100 domains sold for $100 or More
The .Me auctions are starting to wind down. At this point there have been 1143 domains sold for $100 or more in the auction period: The total sales from these 1143 domain is just under $2 Million. For a complete list of all the 1143 domains click here: (excel file) me-over-100 As for current auctions here are the only ones over $1,000: sync.me $40,005 verify.me … [Read more...]
We Don’t Get it that They “Don’t Get It”
Over the last few years many discussions and domain show panels have been held on why non-domainers, "don't get it" when it comes to the value of domains. Last week Search Engine Strategies (SES) show and woeful domain auction demonstrate the point. Let's look at the numbers. TRAFFIC show attendees, 400-500. SES attendees 6,000. Out of the 6,000 people at the SES show there were only … [Read more...]
Google to Update Smart Pricing On The Fly: Domainers Money to Drop Again?
Google plans to update its mechanism for ad quality scoring, known as smart pricing, on the fly or immediately upon each search. Google announced on its its AdWords blog Thursday, that ad quality will be judged at the time a user searches . Google will begin testing changes with a small set of users "within the next day or two," before deploying the changes for everyone. "We are replacing … [Read more...]
I.O.U.S.A: The US is Doomed Unless Drastic Steps Are Taken: Are They Right?
I went to the opening night of the film I.O.U.S.A. Here's my thoughts and observations. First from just a movies going experience the film is fair. Not anywhere near as entertaining as a Michael Moore Documentary or a film like "Supersize Me" and not even up to Al Gore movie. The film is pretty dry, heavy on numbers and content and not very exciting. The makers point is pretty … [Read more...]
People You Don’t Have to Wait Until Your Domain Expires to Renew Your Domain
This post is for the non-domainers who read the blog. A recent report by Nominet, which is the national registry for .uk domain names, showed that 14 per cent of companies don’t renew their domain name until the day after renewal is due. I read stories every week of companies who complain about losing their domain because they didn't get the renewal notice, their contact info wasn't … [Read more...]
The United States is Beat By the Country of Niue
The tiny south pacific island of Niue has beaten the "greatest nation on earth" the US. Don't worry, not in the Olympic games. Niue became the first nation in the world to issue laptop computers to all its children. Every primary and secondary school student was this week given a rugged " relatively waterproof and breakproof" little green laptop, which has a wireless connection to the … [Read more...]