A well known lawyer in the domain industry, and fellow domainer has just launched a site on MalpracticeAttorneys.com. Howard Neu, a lawyer practicing in South Florida, purchased the domain at the TRAFFIC New York 2008 Moniker auction. The site will contain a blog with news and views about cases and developments in the Malpractice field including medical malpractice and legal … [Read more...]
Breaking News: British Court Refuses To Enforce Kentucky Domain Seizure Order
In a court ruling out of the UK, a British court has ruled against the Commonwealth of Kentucky's attempt to seize gambling domains. As you will just over a year ago, before the TRAFFIC NY 2008 show, the the Commonwealth of Kentucky sent a seizure order to the registrars of 141 gambling domain names, demanding that those domains be forfeited to Kentucky. The 141 domains ranged from parked … [Read more...]
Valuations: Get It Right You’ll Be A Multimillionaire, Get It Wrong You’ll Go Broke
The inspiration for this story came in the form of a "joke" press release today. Like most good jokes, the humor worked because it is based on part reality, part exaggeration. The joke brought up a point that I hardly ever see anyone write about, but which maybe the single greatest factor in determining your ultimate financial success; Your ability to correctly value assets. First for … [Read more...]
3 Three Letter .Com’s To Drop Sunday
Its pretty rare to see a three letter .com drop on any given day, but on Sunday, it appears there are 3, three letter .com going to drop. Even more rare, it looks like each of the three domains are going to be "freely dropped" domains, meaning no one drop service will have an automatic lock on them even though they seem to be all registered at Network Solutions. Normally Network Solutions … [Read more...]
UDRP’s Turns 10 and Holds A Conference To Celebrate
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) marked the 1oth anniversary of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) yesterday with a conference that "brought together over 200 stakeholders from around the world". I was not invited. I guess I'm not a "stakeholder". I wonder if anyone from the domainer community got an invite to this conference, although I'm pretty … [Read more...]
Here’s A Company That “Get’s It”: 1-800Contacts.com
We often, cite and generally ridicule large company's that just don't get the domain space. So we have to give props when we find companies that "Get It", as we say in the domain world. Take the case of 1800contacts.com. Of course they own the other possible typos of 1-800Contacts.com, 800Contacts.com, 1800Contact.com and 1-800Contacts.com, but what's gets them into the "Get It" … [Read more...]
What’s More Valuable, BusinessWeek The Publication or The Domain? Bloomberg Thinks Its The Domain
There are some very interesting discussions going on in the blogosphere regarding the crumbling magazine industry and the venerable Business Week publication in general. It seems along with demise of several Conde Nast Publications announced this week, BusinessWeek's future seems to be in doubt. There are a few reports out today that the one and only buyer for this publication maybe … [Read more...]