The domain Camilla.com sold for $16,100 on NameJet.com another great name for Mrs Jello. There are over 18 million reference to this name on Google. The second highest bidder went by the bidder id of camillacorp, which could have been the clothing company from Australia whose site is at camilla.com.au. If so they stopped bidding at $16K. Other notable sales from NameJet.com over the last … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2009
TechCrunch: Facebook Vanity URL Coming Soon
According to TechCrunch, Facebook will announce later this week that they will allow users to claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile page. At a date and time, to be announced, the landrush will begin and users will be able to grab a vanity URL of their choice. The Landrush rules will prohibit trademark infringement and a lots of words will be blacklisted, such as generic … [Read more...]
If We Want To Attract The Fortune 500 To Domains, We Should Have Gone To This Show
We all talk about it. For years and years now. Getting big business to understand the value of domains. Getting the Fortune 500 to "get" domains. Problem is the Fortune 500 isn't coming to our trade shows. God knows Rick & Howard have moved heaven and earth trying to get them to come to the show, even bringing the show to them, in New York and Silicon Valley. So maybe instead … [Read more...]
CNET.com Covers Domains Names: Top 5 Domain Sales: Watch The Video
CNET.com has just released a video presentation called "Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Names". I will leave the surprise top 5 list for you to watch. Watch the video. Here's the question that the video ends with, How valuable are domains, because how many of the top 5 have you visited this week? No wonder CNET is parking radio.com, they are clueless when it comes to domains, which is just … [Read more...]
Congress To Hold A Hearing To Examine The Future of the US-ICANN Relationship In June
National Journal, Rick Boucher, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee, is holding a hearing on June 4th to examine the future of the U.S. government's relationship with ICANN. "Boucher has previously expressed interest in holding an ICANN hearing, particularly since a joint project agreement that has allowed Commerce Department oversight of ICANN is slated to … [Read more...]
Google Sued Again: This is Going to Be A Huge Issue
Google has been hit with another AdWords-related lawsuit, this time by a Connecticut law firm.The personal injury firm Stratton, Faxon filed a suit in the New Haven Superior Court alleging that its name was being used to trigger ads for the rival law firm Silver, Golub and Teitell. Stratton, Faxon causing confusion and endangers its reputation. The firm has asked for an injunction and for a … [Read more...]
CheckMyCredit.com Sells for $23K On SnapNames.com
Every few days we seem to publish some "big" dollar domain sales from NameJet.com, but usually don't find them on Snapnames.com Today is an exception, as a very good domain, in a high paying category, CheckMyCredit.com sold for $23,000. . Since were on the subject of SnapNames.com here are so other notable sales from the last week: bookmakers.net … [Read more...]