A couple of interesting developments on the issue of whether registrars should be required to verify the identity of the registrant of every domain name. First today the authority charged with running the .Ru ccTLD, the Coordination Center for TLD RU, announced that effective April 1, 2010 all registrants of .RU domain names, must file proof of their identities with their registrars in order … [Read more...]
Huffington Post Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of Domains With A Look At The “Most Inappropirate URL’s”
The Huffington Post marked the silver anniversary of the first domain name registration, by publishing what it calls, "The Most Inappropirate URL's On The Web" including pictures. Ok so take a deep breath and either hope one of your domains is, or is not included, and check it out, its pretty funny. … [Read more...]
Australian Trademark Office: Apple Does Not Own The Letter “i”
In a case decided last week by the Australian trademark office, Apple, Inc objected to the trademark application filed by another company on the term, DOPi (iPod spelled backwards with emphasis on the "i"). Apple argued that the application of the trademark should be rejected as an infringement on its trademark because the "particular coloring and orientation of the letter “i” in the mark, … [Read more...]
ABC Evening News Covers Domains: .Anythinggoes: “Is This The End Of .Com’s”: Watch Now
ABC evening news has a story on ICANN plan to release an unlimited amount of extensions called ".AnythingGoes". The first line from the story: "Is This The Beginning Of The End For .Com's?" You can watch the whole 1:28 second piece The piece seems to come back around at the end to boost up .Com's after all concluding: "How is anyone ever going to find you if they can't remember your … [Read more...]
Talk About Bad Timing; ChileEarthQuake.com Drops Just Days After The Quake
Talk about having some bad timing. The domain ChileEarthQuake.com dropped just 2 days after the 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile. Today the expired domain was auctioned off and sold on SnapNames.com While we always discourage people from registering domains that take advantage of any disasters we couldn't help but notice the irony that this domain was not renewed by its former owner and then … [Read more...]
How Much For The Domain Of a .Com Bubble High Flier That Raised $23M?
Once in a while you will see them on a drop list, the domain of a company that was once an internet high flier. So is the case of NextMonet.com a site that was founded in 1998 and was a Forbes.com "Best Of The Web", and reportedly raised at least $23M in capital raised, with investors like CMGI and Knight Ridder. NextMonet.com was described as: "A leading publisher and direct marketer of … [Read more...]
How Much Traffic Can a .Info Site Lose To A .Com? 27,000 Visitors In 1 Day
Dominers have discussed the issue for years. What is the bleed over from a an advertised extension other than .com to the .com due to the fact that users often default to a .com since its the best known extension. Now I know for sure. 27,000 visitors. On a sleepy Sunday morning, the last day of the winter Olympic games, the CBS morning show did a 5 minute piece on the Move Your Money … [Read more...]