The domain name Mantels.com sold for $20,300 today on NameJet.com A nice category killer domain at a reasonable price. Also selling today was another really nice domain, Ojos.com for $8,702 Ojos is Spanish for eyes. This mystery of the day for me was the domain Horan.com which sold for $6,500. I know there are a lot of people with this last name and many companies use it as well, … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2009
Wordoid.com, A New FREE Domain Tool Helps You Find Domains That Sound Like…
We are all familiar with those Web 2.0 names, Twitter, Flickr, Joost, just to name a few and now we have found a new online tool, that lets you find these kind of domains. Wordoid.com, spits out words that kind of sound cool, or sounds like another word or contains a keyword you input. You can ask for results using 4 languages English, Spanish, French and Italian. The site describes … [Read more...]
ETSU.com Sells For $7,700 on NameJet.com
The domain ETSU.com sold for $7,700 on NameJet.com today. According to compete.com the domain did receive between 500-2,000 visitors a month over the last year. etsu.edu is the official site of East Tennessee State University. Some other notable sales included: SpeakerPhone.com $9,766 gamingindustry.com $3,100 marketingpromotions.com $2,300 GreatMortgage.com … [Read more...]
Will Search Engines Start Paying For Exclusive Rights To Link to Content?
According to The Financial Times, Microsoft is in discussions with major online publishers including News Corp, to pay them to “de-index” their news websites from Google, and allow Bing.com to index them on an exclusive basis. News Corp of course owns some premium content including the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, the New York Post and The Sun located in the UK, just to name a few. This … [Read more...]
Our Picks For The LuxuryNames.com Auction
LuxuryNames.com is holding its first auction at Snapnames.com which closes tomorrow, Tuesday November 24, at 3:15pm EST, in accordance with the normal closing rules of Snap. We have gone through the list and picked out what we believe are the best buys in the auction. Now that Snapnames.com changed its affiliate program to reduce payouts by 75%, we are no longer providing links or going to … [Read more...]
ICANN CEO Beckstrom’s Monthly Newsletter For November is Out
Rob Beckstrom has published his monthly newsletter entitled "The Beckstrom Starfish Report" for November. I actually was not aware that the CEO of ICANN had his own monthly newsletter, but I received a copy of it via e-mail this morning. Beckstrom talks about his first 100 days as president of ICANN, the international oversight of ICANN away from sole US control and the New Top Level … [Read more...]
A New Way To Sue Competitors For Advertising Under Your Keyword
Any reader of this blog, knows about the various suits that have been filed against Google for trademark infringement for selling ads under trademarked terms and also against advertisers who bought ads under either trademarked terms or under keywords of its competitors. Leave it to a lawyer suing another lawyer to change things up. Instead of suing its competitor for trademark infringement, … [Read more...]