According to CourthouseNews.com, a class action lawsuit was filed in Phoenix and Arkansas federal courts, claiming that Go Daddy is "unlawfully generating and retaining revenue derived from these online advertisements each time an Internet user clicks an online advertisement appearing on plaintiff's domain names." The class action claims GoDaddy.com is advertising on registered domain … [Read more...]
You Want To Buy Shares In Oversee.Net? Is It A $1 Billion Company?
According to Sharespost.com, there are currently one or more shareholders of Oversee.net, which are offering up block(s) of shares for sale. Several months ago we wrote about another site, SecondMarket.com where shares of privately held company's can be traded. Sharespost.com describes itself as a site which: "Makes private equity liquid by connecting companies, buyers and sellers, either … [Read more...]
Number Madeness At NameJet.com as Five, 4 Number Domains Sell For $43K
Well it was 4 number .com madness today on NameJet.com when five, 4 number .com's sold for a combined price of over $43,000. The highest price domain, 9944.com sold for over $13K. Wow I'll be the 1st to day it, I don't get it. 0606.com for over $6K? Anyone have any idea of what I'm missing here? … [Read more...]
A Week With My iPad: Is It A Game Changer? Not Yet
I being playing around with the Apple iPad for a little over a week and although I like it everyday more I use it I would say its definitely not a game changer out of the box like the iPod or the iPhone were, but it sure will be one day. When your talking about the iPad, the discussion has to start with it as a e-book reader and the natural comparison to Amazon's Kindle. Although actually … [Read more...]
Tahoo.com! With Plenty of Traffic & Liability Sells For $12K On NameJet. WhoIsIt.com Goes For $17K
The domain name Tahoo.com sold today on Namejet.com for $11,701. The domain gets plenty of traffic according to Compete and Alexa. Compete has the domain getting over 13,000 visitors last month and Alexa ranks the domain as the 580K busiest site on the net. However Tahoo has at least a little trademark infringing feel from Yahoo, don't you think? If you do a search on Google for Tahoo … [Read more...]
Rosetta Stone Suit Against Google For Selling Trademark Keywords is Thrown Out
A federal judge dismissed a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Rosetta Stone Inc against Google back in July 2009, for selling keywords containing its trademark. Rosetta complained that consumers who search for "Rosetta Stone" on Google could click on a "sponsored ad" and visit the site of "a software pirate that purports to be Rosetta, but in reality sells a sub-standard … [Read more...]
Jeftovic On Circle ID: Domain Names Are Not Investments, They Are “Just Speculation”
In a scathing post on domain names as an investment written by Mark Jeftovic on Circle Id, said: "This is the reality that domainers have to face: Most of the activity in the space that is considered "investing" isn't." ""In the domainer space, it's all about speculation. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But let's call it for what it is."" ""I can't bear to see the word … [Read more...]