GoDaddy.com, said in a press release today, that it recently discovered a huge surge in the registration of domains named after street addresses. Comparing 2005, around the time the housing bubble “burst,” to last year, Go Daddy recorded a more than 320% increase in “home address” domain name registrations. States and cities with the most registrations include … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2009
Yet Another Reason To Support The ICA: The Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) Is Knocked Out (For Now)
According to the Internet Commerce Association (the ICA), the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proposal, will NOT be included in the third version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook for new gTLDs to be released by ICANN in the first week of October. According to the ICA the disclosure came in the testimony of ICANN's COO Doug Brent, at a hearing on “The Expansion of Top level Domains and Its Effect … [Read more...]
Our First Annual “Worst Use Of A Great Domain” Award
As we all surf around the net, in search of the next great domain to acquire, you come across those domains that you just shake your head at in disbelieve that someone would use a great domain in such a fashion. So we are starting an award for the "Worst Use Of A Great Domain" So here is our pick for this years award: Justin.com You will have to click on it to see what I mean. Why … [Read more...]
Why Do Lawyers Spend Thousands a Month Renting Billboards & Don’t Spend A Dime For A Good Domain
In a recent 4 week period, I was up and down the I-4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, several times a week. I noticed as a "industry" no one group advertises on billboards more than lawyers. More than 1/2 of the billboards I saw didn't even have a domain name on the billboard. The billboards almost all had phone numbers, 99% of which I still can't remember even having seen the boards … [Read more...]
Porsche Loses UDRP On Porscheexperience.com & Porscheguides.com Even After The Owner Offers To Sell Them
It's becoming very frustrating for domainers to know what the status of the law is regarding UDRP's, as decisions are all over the place an seem to have little consistency. In a decision released today, Porsche the car maker, filed a UDRP on the domains porscheexperience.com and porscheguides.com. The owner of the domain according to the facts, offered to sell the domains to Porsche for … [Read more...]
Another $100 Million For Twitter
According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter is about to get another $100 million from investors. The new money is coming from mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price, private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, and existing Twitter investors Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. After the funding, Twitter will be valued at about $1 billion. The $100 million investment is twice as … [Read more...]
Some .CM Prices In Free Fall, As Bidders Pass On NameJet Auctions
We told you about the earlier results of the .cm auctions at NameJet.com at the beginning of the month. However, the prices of many of the .cm domains selling at NameJet.com, have been in a free fall, as bidders are passing on their chance to grab the domains. .cm auctions have been operating differently than normal NameJet.com auctions. Normally when a bidder defaults at NameJet.com … [Read more...]