Frank Schilling sent out an update the other day to customers of InternetTraffic.com and as usual was a brilliant piece, written in a way only Frank can. The letter made an obvious reference to the comments of Rob Hall of Pool.com that I wrote a post about the other day and therefore I asked Frank permission to republish his update in part and he kindly agreed. In my opinion it is a … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
From The Dot Nxt Conference: The Top Auction For A New gTLD May Top $50 Million
I moderated a panel on from the Dot Nxt conference yesterday and asked the panel how much they predicted the highest price of a auction new gTLD extension would go for. As you may know if more than one application is received for the same string, the string maybe awarded to the high bidder in an auction. The panel was entitled "Show Me The Money" and the panelist certaily thought the … [Read more...]
.XXX Invades Times Square As iFriends.XXX Billboard Goes Up For A Day
The ICM Registry in conjunction with the owner of the new site iFriends.XXX, put … [Read more...]
Check Out The Guy Who Is Using A Six Figure Domain For His LinkedIn Page
As domainers we have seen a lot of great domains used pretty strange ways. Lets add the domain name SEC.com to that list Without a doubt SEC.com is a six figure, if not a seven figure domain name. SEC stands for among other things the Security and Exchange Commission and the Southeastern Conference. If you check out the site it goes directly to a Linked In page for Brendan … [Read more...]
DomainTools.com Makes A “Strategic Investment” & Gets A Board Seat On OpenRegistry.com
OpenRegistry SA, " announced today in a press release, is has raised capital "from strategic investors including DomainTools (www.domaintools.com) and that DomainTools.com will be getting a seat on the Board." OpenRegistry provides back end platforms for many domain extensions including .Eu. OpenRegistry is expected to be a major player as a backend provider in the for new gTLD … [Read more...]
John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation: “I Don’t Think Domain Names Are Necessary”
John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier foundation was the keynote speaker at the Dot Nxt show this morning and pretty much blasted the new gTLD program, ICANN and domain names in general. ""I can't see how expanding the domain space its going to be to the benefit of the internet." "ICANN is going to be sitting on a billion dollars from application fees, escrow fees, and I don't see how … [Read more...]
Rob Hall Of Pool.com on The Coming New gTLD’s : If I Was A Big Domain Holder I Would Start Dumping Domains
Today at opening session of the Dot Nxt conference entitled: Setting the Scene, a questions was asked what would you tell large domain holders in anticipation of hundreds or thousands of new gTLD's Rob Hall of Pool.com made stated "if I was an owner of a large amount of two, three and four word .com's I would dump them as new gTLD generic terms will be worth more than the .com equivalent in … [Read more...]