There was an article published on AmericanBar.org from June that dealt with one lawyer's interpretation of domain investing. Tamara Kurtzman titled her article The Continued Hijacking and Ransoming of the Domain Name System by Modern-Day Corporate Privateers. Ms. Kurtzman coined the phrase "Anticipatory Cybersquatting" From the article: Anticipatory cybersquatting is the practice of … [Read more...]
every major US payment processor has exited the Libra association
As we covered here a few times over the last few weeks, Facebook is having all kinds of problems with it's partners in Libra. Paypal dropped out and now the rest of the U.S. payment processing companies have dropped out. TheVerge wrote: The first to ditch Libra was Paypal, which withdrew on October 4th. Then, over the course of a few hours on October 11th, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and … [Read more...]
Buyer gives his experience with the domain buying process
I always like to dig up stories or experiences from the other side of the coin when it comes to domain acquisitions. Buyers not from the domain industry often give their true feelings about how smooth or rocky the process was when acquiring a domain name. Most of the time these stories are under the radar and never given any widespread notoriety so we don't ever get to see them in the … [Read more...]
“there’s still a significant opportunity for providers of websites”
Greg Sterling wrote a piece on SearchEngineLand.com that dealt with small businesses, VC and websites. Greg starts off his article discussing that over the last few years SEO's have taken the approach that Google My Business, Facebook and Yelp have made the small business website unnecessary. GMB now is so widely used and so complete, that consumers never need to visit the underlying small … [Read more...]
Fashion.com domain will be sold at auction this autumn
There is a press releases out today that Fashion.com one of the most valuable .coms on the net will be auctioned off. You see the news on Fashion.com as well as the press release below. Nice to see a lot of fanfare around one name at auction, not lost in the sea of competing names and diluted attention spans. Tip of the cap to Lox Here is the press release: On the final day of Paris … [Read more...]
Answers to queries right in the address bar?
I read an article on Search Engine Journal with regards to an upcoming update of Google Chrome. Forget about Zero search clicks and go straight to zero query answers. From the article: “Now on both desktop and Android, answers will show up inside the address bar where you type your query—whether you’re looking for results about sporting events or instant answers about the local … [Read more...]
Chocolate.com owner and website revealed
Six months ago Ron Jackson of DN Journal announced the NDA sale of Chocolate.com. The domain was brokered by Buckley Media. After there was no movement on the name for a couple weeks one Namepros member started questioning the validity of the sale. A few months later that same member posted: So am I the only one questioning this sale? NDA, Points still a couple months later to a for sale … [Read more...]