Last night I wrote about Amazon's announcement that it was launching a service they referred to as a Media Locker. Less than a few hours later a reader noticed the domain name MediaLocker.com, which was listed on Afternic.com for $18,500 was purchased. This illustrates the danger of pricing your domains and having them sitting out there when there is breaking news or new products announced … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
WSJ Blog Rips Buyer Of Color.com: “We Expect That Domain Names Will Be Taken. We Just Don’t Care About Them Anymore”
In a blog post today the on WSJ.com, they rip into the buyer of color.com and colour.com who spent $500K to obtain both domains: "The founding team, regardless of their previous successes are showing a general lack of creativity and a misunderstanding of the marketplace in which we currently live." "This is evident most clearly in the fact that they paid $350,000 for the domain name … [Read more...]
WSJ: Amazon To Roll Out “Media Locker” Tomorrow
According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com is rolling out what they are calling a Media Locker service as early as tomorrow. The Amazon product will allow people to store music and video online and access it from various digital devices. "The online retailer appears to be racing Apple Inc. and Google Inc., both of which are also working on similar offerings, known as "locker" or … [Read more...]
Mashable.com: “A New Era For Internet Domains: Why .XXX is Just The Beginning”
Mashable.com just published a post entitled "A New Era for Internet Domains: Why .XXX is just the Beginning." The story was written by Ben Crawford who is the CEO of Central Nic and was featured on CNBC last week Speaking about new gTLD's Crawford said in part: "In the future, locally focused websites will use their city TLD, websites on specific cultures will use their community TLD, … [Read more...]
The .Co Aftermarket Heats Up On Sedo
Over the last few days there has been quite a few sales of .Co domain names. Here are the one's I spotted: Mp3.co 3,600 Euro's ($5,500) Minijuegos.co 2,450 Euro's (4K USD) Prestamos.co 2,300 Euro ($3,900 USD) Watersports.co $3K Judo.co $1,600 Axe.co $1,600 Fiction.Co sold for $750 on Sedo as well No huge money sales but if you registered any of these domains for $30 … [Read more...]
EU Might Place Restrictions On Trademark Keyword Advertising
According to the New York Times an adviser to the highest European Union court recommended Thursday that some restrictions be placed on the rights of advertisers to use the names of rivals as keywords to generate sponsored links on Internet search engines." The New York quotes Kirsten Gilbert, a partner at Marks & Clerk Solicitors in London who said: "With this opinion, Google’s … [Read more...]
The Free Speech Coalition Launches “Just Say No To .XXX” Boycott Campaign; Why It Won’t Work
According to AVN.com, The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announced yesterday that it is launching an anti—.XXX campaign urging adult online businesses not to register into any .XXX sTLD. Diane Duke, FSC Executive Director, said in calling for all online adult business to boycott .XXX: “Collectively, adult businesses understand that ICM’s .XXX is bad for the adult entertainment industry," … [Read more...]