Just crossing the Sedo.com wire, might just be one of the best domain name buys of 2013; 3-D.com just sold for $5,000 There are 293,000,000 search results in Google for the term "3-d" with the hyphen. While we typically don't love hyphenated domain names, in this case, the term 3d is often used and referred to in commerce as 3-d. Without the hyphen the term "3d" returns 691,000,000 … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2013
Matt Cutts Spends Christmas Talking Domains and Wikipedia Content
Search Engine Roundtable covered a couple topics from Matt Cutts of Google. Matt apparently took the time during the Christmas holiday to go over a couple of questions that concerned webmasters on the Google Webmaster Help forums. The first question dealt with expired domains with penalties from Google Hello I purchased a new domain name last month. When I'm searching on Google, I can't … [Read more...]
Verisign Is Taking Back Expired Two Letter & Two Number .TV Domains
Verisign the registry for the .TV registry is apparently taking back any expired new Two letter (LL.TV) .TV domain names as well as any two numbered (NN>TV) domain names. Recently a domainer that had a back order on a two letter .Tv domain and a two numbered domain received this notice from Verisign: "Thank you for contacting Verisign Support. I reached out to our Operations team to … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Beats Back UDRP On 13 Year Old Vuescan.com
Edward B. Hamrick dba Hamrick Software lost its bid to grab the domain name vuescan.com in a UDRP from Frank Schilling's Name Administration Inc. who was as always represented by John Berryhill, Esq. However the panel refused to make Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) ruling despite finding the domain holder did not register or use the domain name in bad faith, made legitimate use of the … [Read more...]
Stat Porn
Domainers like stats and here are some of an adult nature but also may help with domains, ppc campaigns and running your adult website. PornHub.com took a look back at 2013 and while we are not going to get into the more risque stats, there were some that dealt with the numbers behind porn, the shift from the desktop to mobile and the most and least popular days. The numbers are pretty big … [Read more...]
The Oscars Files Another Suit Against Godaddy Under ACPA Alleging Continued Violations
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which hands out the Oscars has filed anther lawsuit against Godaddy under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ("ACPA"). This suit filed on Novmeber 15, 2013, "supplements a currently pending action between the same parties asserting the same theories of infringement under the ACPA and related state theories that was filed in … [Read more...]
Apple Makes A Nice Catch
9to5Mac.com did an article that they believed Apple acquired Evernote competitor Catch, Apple later confirmed to Allthings D that they did indeed acquire Catch and then the company was closed down. That was reported in TechCrunch in July. Catch.com was registered in 1996. With all the talk of the app and it being shutdown, it seems everyone has overlooked the value of a five letter, generic … [Read more...]