June marks the return to a busy schedule for domainers. DomainFest Barcelona kicks off on June 7-9th (agenda is below) The Live Domain Auction will be held on June 8th at 4pm Remote bidding for the Live auction will be available on SnapNames.com and is already opened for pre-bidding. ICANN will be holding a meeting from June 19-24th ICANN previously stated that they would be voting … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
YouPorn.com Offers $4.5 Million To Buy Charlie Sheen’s Mansion
According to TMZ.com, YouPorn.com, which was acquired earlier this month by a Canadian company, Manwin, has "put in an offer of $4.5 Million in cash to buy Charlie Sheen’s palatial estate" in Hollywood. Sheen’s mansion is on the market for $7.2 million. TMZ writes; “We're told the YouPorn people have told Sheen's people they hope to fulfill Sheen's dream of moving in several porn stars … [Read more...]
Iran To Create Its Own Internet: Is the Beginning of the End of The World Wide Web?
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, (sub req.) the country of Iran is planning on creating its own state run Internet service within the next 2 years. Iran’s telecommunications chief claims that, in two years time, all Iranians will be forced to use a internal, state-controlled (censored) Internet, which would effectively cut off its citizens from the Internet. He said about … [Read more...]
Godaddy Loses Appeal On Case Holding Them Negligent In Turning Over Ownership Of Domain Accounts
Go Daddy.com, Inc., filed an appeal from a judgment entered in favor of Jeff Eysoldt, Mark Eysoldt, and Jill Eysoldt who had an account with Godaddy only to see the account control turned over to another person. Here are the facts as laid out by the court: "In November 2002, Jeff Eysoldt opened account number 1165490 with Go Daddy and transferred his domain name, Eysoldt.com, … [Read more...]
Internet.Co Sells For $40,000 On Sedo.com: Whiskey.Co Sells For $14K & Becomes the Latest In A String of Alcohol Related .Co Sales
The domain name Internet.co has become the latest .Co domain to sell on Sedo.com The domain name Internet.Co sold for $40,000, the second highest recent sale to Mike Mann sale of Business.co for $80,000 a few weeks ago. In my opnion a pretty nice sale for an extension less than a year old, by contrast I got Internet.biz on the original allocation back in March 2002 and since have less than … [Read more...]
Disney Surrenders To The Navy & Gives Up Trademark Application For Seal Team 6
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Disney applying for a trademark on the term Seal Team 6 just days after the raid led by the Seals led to the killing of Bin Laden. Today comes the news courtesy of FoxNews.com that Disney has withdrawn its multiple trademark applications on the term Seal Team 6. The Navy spokeswoman Amanda Greenberg is quoted as saying: "The Navy is committed to fully … [Read more...]
SEOBook.Com: How Google Killed Category Killer Domains
Well its certainly an interesting read over at SEObook.com a site dedicated as you would guess to SEO topics Today's story is on how Google has killed, or at least deeply devalued Category Killer Domain Names The post is by Aaron Wall Mr. Wall's ultimate theory that domain names relevance are being killed off by Google's new products and algorithm changes. His post highlights a recent … [Read more...]