A couple of Ad campaigns caught my eye over the weekend. The first is for something you will be hearing a lot about over the next few weeks, a new movie about the founders of Facebook entitled "The Social Network" which opens October 1. This movie is going to increase exposure for Facebook and for the net. Yes "everyone" seems to be on Facebook and the net but they are not, yet. For … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2010
GetPersonalWith.Me Lists Avaliable FirstName.Me For €4.99
Blacknight Solutions, has launched a site that features available first name .me domains that are available for registration and priced at only €4.99 for a year of registration. The site, GetPersonalwith.Me, list thousands of available first names all available at time of publication. You can search for your first name and last name and the site will check to see if they're available or and … [Read more...]
Federal Court Finds “6 Hour Power” Does Not Infringe on “5 Hour Energy” Trademark
A Federal Court turned down the complaint of "5 hour Energy" against another energy drink called "6 Hour Power" for trademark infringement. The court engages in an interesting discussion of trademark law outside of the normal realm of UDRP that we have gotten used to and as we see in Federal Court decisions they use a whole different line of reasoning that UDRP. "The Lanham Act prohibits … [Read more...]
Is A Domain Hack Worth 10x More Than The Correct Domain? Banco.co Vs. Ban.co
One of the results that caught my eye coming out of the .co Land Rush auctions was the result for Banco.co a natural domain compared to Ban.co a hack. Both domain names were the subject of Land Rush auctions but the results were quite different. Banco.co sold for just $2,300 a couple of weeks ago, at a land rush auction but the auction for Ban.co just concluded with a sales price of $24,500 … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Wins The 1st Pioneer Award At Epik: Watch The Video Tribute & Acceptance Speech Here
Rick Schwartz was just awarded with the 1st Pioneer award at the Epik Conference in Seattle today. In a tribute video, 15 domainers around the world congratulated Rick on the well deserved award. Although Rick was not at the show to accept the award in person after the tribute video was put together it was my honor to take it to Rick and show it to him just a couple of days ago. I can … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers About.Me: Is This a .Tel Killer? & How To Reserve Your UserName Before Its Gone
TechCrunch just covered a great .Me domain that is launching its site soon, About.Me. According to TechCrunch.com, About.me allows users to put up a personal page "that points people to your content around the Internet, allowing you to pull all this information together to build a single online identity." "There’s a lot more to the product on the back end to help users understand how many … [Read more...]
Our Picks From The Moniker.com Domain Name Auction From The Epik Development Conference
Moniker.com will be holding a live domain name auction from the Epik Development Conference tomorrow September 16, Thursday at 4:30pm ET / 1:30pm PT. Remote bidding will be available on SnapNames.com and actually pre-bidding on the auction is still opened. The conference starts today and tuns through the 17th. First of all, here are some of the more interesting, higher priced … [Read more...]