The newest spam hitting my Inbox is coming from a company trying to get me to use them to register trademarks on domains I have registered: Here is how the email reads: "Dear Entrepreneur: "We are contacting you with the purpose of helping you avoid infringement problems with your new trademark or domain name!" "You might be starting a business, and as a responsible entrepreneur you … [Read more...]
A Hyphenated .CO Sells For $1,200 and Sedo.com Records Another .Co Sale For $2,500
A couple of .Co domain sold at Sedo in the last 24 hours. One had a hyphen and still sold for $1,200. The domain name Car-insurance.Co bought for the keyword value was the hypenated domain that sold for $1,200. The other .CO domain sale from Sedo.com was Touchscreens.co which sold for $2,500, certainly a nice flip for the owner. … [Read more...]
WSJ: Clock Ticking For VeriSign To Choose Legal Option: Chance To Appeal CFIT Ruling Expires On October 18th
Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com) published an article tonight on Verisign and the CFIT case pending against it. The article quotes Mark McLaughli, Chief Executive of Verisign saying that the company "has 90 days following the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' July 9 decision to decide whether it will request further appellate review ... at the Supreme Court level, or have the case remanded for … [Read more...]
250K Monthly Visitors For Just over $1K On Godaddy.com?
I notice the auction for the expired domain, challengesworld.com at Godaddy.com According to Godaddy.com the domain receives around 250,000 visits a month. Wow Compete.com is only showing a high of 13K visitors and only a little over 3K for last month Alexa.com however shows the domain having a 3 month average ranking of 8,000. Most of the traffic appears to be non-US based but for … [Read more...]
Investors.com Covers The Domain Name Resale Market: “Domain Name Owners Are Multimillion-Dollar Companies” But Still Call Us Cybersquatters
An article yesterday about the domain name business appeared in Investors Business Daily which uses the domain Investors.com. Its amazing how clueless major publications are still when it comes to domains. The article focused around new businesses trying to obtain domains on the secondary market in this case a company called BlueGrass, which seemed to obtain the .com., .net and .org version … [Read more...]
A Look Inside Superstar Domainer Andrew Miller’s Portfolio For Sale At SimpleDomains.com
Andrew Miller should be well know to all domainers as Founder & President of InternetRealEstate.com Over the years he has owned some gems of gems such as CreditCards.com, InsuranceQuotes.com, Luggage.com, Diamond.com, and beer.com, and still owns some of the best web properties like chocolate.com, Jeans.com, Patents.com, and Sweepstakes.com just to name a few. I had a chat with Andrew … [Read more...]
ICA: Watch The Federal Online Privacy Legislation: It May Effect Domains
Phil Corwin the attorney who represents the ICA just posted its site, an article about Federal Online Privacy legislation that maybe proposed and its possible effect on domain names. Here is the article in full. """The Wall Street Journal’s (online.wsj.com ) July 31st issue carries a front page story, with extensive sidebars, titled “The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets”. It’s the first … [Read more...]