According to the new VeriSign released its State Of The Industry Report for the 4th Quarter today, (pdf) the Internet added 11 million domain name registrations in the 4th quarter of 2009 and wound up the year at more than 192 Million domains. New registrations in the 4th quarter of 2009 came in at around 3.7 million domain name registrations per month, to total approximately 11 million new … [Read more...]
Why Sex.com May Not Sell In The Foreclosure Auction
As Elliot's Blog discovered yesterday, the domain Sex.com is heading to a foreclosure auction on March 18th. However, just because the domain name is heading to auction, it doesn't mean the domain is going to sell. For one this is not an absolute auction where the highest bidder gets the domain. Rather, the auction notice, clearly states that the secured party, reportedly Domain … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines: New gTLD’s Will Cause Only 316 New Cases Of CyberSquatting
A report released tonight by Minds+Machines, (pdf) predicts that the proposed gTLD's will only cause 316 new cases of CyberSquatting and that the cost to trademark holders worldwide will be "less than $.10". How does the authors of the report come to that conclusion? They look at the percentage of UDRP cases coming from .com's, .net and .org against those in the "new" extensions, .info, … [Read more...]
Is The Sale Of Poker.Org For $1M A Game Changer? We Say Yes
As reported by TechCrunch.com last night and by DomainNameNews.com, Poker.Org sold for a cool Million yesterday by National A-1 and brokered by Jeffrey M. Gabriel of Sedo.com As you also probably know the sale shattered the previous record for the then highest .org sale of engineering.org at $198K, and our sale of Sexe.Org last year for $151K. So the question becomes is this sale a game … [Read more...]
FaceBook Zero Is Coming; Too Bad They Failed To Register FaceBookZero.com
TechCrunch wrote a post yesterday about a new mobile version of Facebook, that's going to be entitled Facebook Zero. Apparently Facebook choose to use the URL zero.facebook.com (mobile phone uses only) and neglected to register Facebookzero.com which was quickly registered by someone in Beijing China after the TechCrunch story came out and is already resolving to a domainsponsor … [Read more...]
How Are People Going To Understand The New Extensions If They Can’t Even Figure Out How To Log In To FaceBook
The Telegraph.co.uk wrote a post today about another blog, Read/Write Web (RWW) which published a post entitled Facebook wants to be your one true login. Google picked up the story and ranked it very highly for the search term “Facebook login” (currently third). As a result, thousands of people typed “Facebook login” into Google, clicked on the RWW link and thought they’d arrived at a … [Read more...]
Debts.Co.Uk Sold For Millions?
According to a report, the domain Debts.co.UK was purchased with other assets for £2.7m in December 2009, which at the time was equivlent to approximately $4 Million dollars. The company Cleardebt bought the assets of Relax's assets, including more than 6,500 Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs) and debt management plans, as well as the debts.co.uk domain name, from the … [Read more...]