As reported by domainnamenews.com, Skenzo.com announced on its website today that they will no longer offer its monetization services to Moniker's TrafficClub.com parking platform Moniker.com was acquired by Oversee.net last week. Ovesee.net is the parent company of domainsponsor.com … [Read more...]
DOMAIN TASTING REPORT ISSUED, PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD NOW OPENED
The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) which is ICANN's main policy body released its report on domain tasting today. ICANN describes domain testing as follows: "Domain tasting is where someone uses existing legitimate processes to register a domain name and then tests to see if the address has sufficient traffic to provide more income than the annual registration fee (usually … [Read more...]
.Mobi: Fortune Magazine Covers The State of the Domain
In an article published online today in Fortune Magazine, small business, entitled "websites for cell phones", they examine the .mobi extension, and it's a pretty positive article. The author of the Article Mina Kimes states in part: "If the first wave of online business was all about getting a dot-com, the next may be about adding a dot-mobi." That's a pretty strong statement. The … [Read more...]
Oversee.net Acquires Moniker.com
Just three days into the new year and we have a blockbuster deal in the domain world. Oversee.net the parent company of DomainSponsor.com and SnapNames.com announced today that they have acquired Moniker.com. Moniker.com is one of the top ten domain registrars in terms of numbers of domains registered. Moniker.com also maintains trafficclub.com a domain optimization … [Read more...]
Assista.com: Brilliant Thinking Goes Live
My Good Friend Sahar Sarid, announced on his blog that the project he and his team have been working on for three years has gone live The Assista search engine is question based and is a very exciting to the internet and the domain community. It's proof positive that domainers are developers as well. Please check Assista.com out. They are looking for all valuable feedback to improve … [Read more...]
Backing out of a Deal–Should you call Your Lawyer??
My Buddy Elliot yesterday posted a great article on his blog about the ethical and moral implications of Seller's backing out of deals on domain sales. I thought I would follow up on the post and look at the legal side of the situation.Normal contract law talks about two parties having a meeting of the minds on all material aspects of the deal.This may be in writing, or may be oral, like a deal … [Read more...]
Microsoft Sues Domain Name Registrar
Today Microsoft filed suit against a domain registrar, Red Registrar for allegedly registering and profiting from 125 domains "confusingly similar to Microsoft's Marks", including windowslivecare.com, msnmesnger.com, and ageofmathology.com Although the domains are now registered to a Tortola company, Versata Software, they were previously registered to Red Register and Microsoft believes … [Read more...]