Leo Mirani and David Yanofsky wrote a very thorough piece for Quartz on the new gtlds. Their article titled, "The biggest land rush in the history of the internet starts on February 4" The article did a nice job in the set up and background of the program, then they took a look at the existing tlds and their reach on the Internet. They looked at new tld applicants and talked about "Free … [Read more...]
Confirmed: There Will Not Be A .Co/Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial This Year
Godaddy.com released one its commercials that it will be airing during the Super Bowl today. I confirmed with Godaddy that there will not be a .Co domain name registry co-branded commercial running on this year's Super Bowl. The .Co registry ran co-branded ads with Godaddy for the past three Super Bowls. My favorite of the bunch, actually my favorite television commercial of all time for … [Read more...]
TeamWork.com Sold For $675,000 To Company With $12 Million In Sales
According to Siliconrepublic.com, an Irish software company located in Cork, TeamworkPM just bought the domain name Teamwork.com for $675,000. According to domaintools.com is appears the domain name was actually sold last year by domain investor Alexander Lerman to the software company. Alexander acquired the domain name back in 1999. The software company which bought the domain has 20,000 … [Read more...]
Company Wins UDRP On Domain It Let Drop After Domain Holder Says He Bought It For $21K
We just wrote about a guy who bought a domain name for $31,000, let it drop and lost a UDRP to regain control. This time Intrac Group AB of Stockholm, just won the rights to the domain name intrac.com, from intrac.biz, who said they paid $21,500 for the domain. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the one member panel The Complainant is the registered owner of a trademark for … [Read more...]
Guy Buys iSound.com For $31K Asks $4M; Lets Its Drop & Loses UDRP, To Get It Back
In one of the more interesting UDRP cases I've not because of the law or the decision but because of the fact pattern. Jeremy Same (The Complainant) just lost his bid to get iSound.com back, a domain he bought in 2012 for $31,000 and let drop, to the company that he tried to sell the domain name to for $4 Million dollars. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel The … [Read more...]
Did Expedia Get Caught Trying to Buy Its Way To The Top of Google ?
Search Engine Land wrote a piece yesterday on the travel website Expedia losing 25 % of their search visibility in Google. The possible reason is for unnatural links. From the article: Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft noticed a drop in Expedia’s traffic today and posted about it on Twitter. If you look at their decline today, it looks like Google has penalized Expedia in … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million
Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: homify.com at 30,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: rabatkoder.dk at 36,500 USD · Top “other” TLD: boot.net at 11,500 USD Domain … [Read more...]