Directi.com an ICANN accredited registrar announced on its blog last week that is had suspended 175,000 domain names for "Registrar Abuse". """""Directi, has have recently taken to track down and stop abusive domain names and registrants from abusing Directi’s services.""" According to the post 9,000 were taken down for having false whois info, over 2,000 for spam 34,000 that were part of a … [Read more...]

It's always interesting to get a non-domainer perspective on domains. Certainly values of domains ultimately depend in large part to end users. The Wall Street Journal Blog had a discussion on selecting domain names for an end users site. They had several do's and don'ts: """""""- Include keywords in your business name, when possible. (Jon’s Bicycles, for instance, is better than Jon’s … [Read more...]

In a post by George Kirikos on his blog CircleID, looking at the draft of the rules for the new Generic Top-level domains (gTLD) a provision in the rules, Mr. Kirikos thinks may invite VeriSign to amend their contract to provide for eliminating price caps. Mr. Kirikos writes: """""""""According to the draft of new Generic Top-level Domains (gTLD) contracts for Section 7.3: Price controls … [Read more...]

Four domains sold at Namejet.com off our watch list for over $5K each. Nice to see in another terrible day in the stock market and in the face of continuing bad economic news. broiler.com $8,989 broilers.com $6,986 biggerboobs.com $6,200 yesterdays.com $6,101 … [Read more...]

The Interactive Media and Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA), filed a Petition in the Kentucky Court of Appeals asking the appellate court to throw out the original seizure notice dated September 18th and its order of October 16th upholding the seizure. In its 55 page petition, iMEGA names as defendants, the Judge who issued the seziure notice Thomas Wingate, and the Commonwealth of … [Read more...]

An online article just published by Business Week gave glowing reviews to the idea of the new .Tel extension. Some of the more interesting comments from the article are: .Tel will allow you to store the full range of your contact details online and then give chosen people access to it.  Phone numbers, e-mail addresses, Facebook and Twitter accounts just to name a few. "It is a bit like an … [Read more...]

Chinese Internet search leader Baidu,  one of the stocks in our Domain Parking Stock Index,  reported earnings early this morning, and posted a 91 percent rise in quarterly net profit The company said it expects continued strong revenue growth. Net income rose to $51.2 million in the third quarter from $24.2 million from a year earlier. Net profit per share was $1.47, beating the $1.27 per … [Read more...]