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Domain News Roundup
Oct 27th
a. Funniest domain blog on the planet – Domain Gang – nothing is real, everything is funny and the writer seems to be on the good stuff. Hats off, good job. Nice racy style, lots of fun reading.
b. Sedo’s $50 commission is the new minimum commission. The rules for selling at a flat 10% are that the domain must be parked there for min. 32 days plus it must be listed at a fixed price. We have most of our domains there as ‘make offer’, a lot of them are priced, but that doesn’t make them ‘fixed price’ as per Sedo.
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The LLLL.com Conundrum
Apr 4th
I’ve been watching the LLLL.com or four letter .com scenario, fairly closely, for the longest of times. I started using DomainTools (or whois.sc as it was known then) to harvest these lists for a while in 2006. In fact, thats what got me interested in domaining in the first place. Well that and the fact that our programs were churning out domains that were nice seo-wise but terrible viz brand value, but thats another story.
In the beginning, around middle of 2006, there were hundreds of LLLL.com available for hand regs, even then though, single words were gone, so were More >
The Great American Snowe Job
Mar 6th
A new bill currently seeking passage in the US senate is trying to surreptitiously change the face of the domain industry and extend American ‘ownership’ on the web. You and me stand to lose any domain we own, developed, undeveloped, tm-ed, non-tm-ed, geo and generic… I kid you not.
Be prepared to protect or lose your domain names, generics or any others, specially if they’re .com or .net as those are controlled by Verisign. The bill goes way beyond its brief… if it becomes law, a lot of small business will be hurt and badly.
As I understand it… if you own More >
Domaining is not cybersquatting!
Jan 26th
I read an article in a major newspaper a few days back – the new form of cybersquatting – domaining. Hogwash! Its as much a legal business, if done right, as any other business. While booking someone’s name or brand is generally unacceptable, there is another type of domain investment that’ll shock your socks off.
Before I go any further, here’s some recommended reading -
#1 – pls note, this is just for 2008.
here’s the one from 2007 – #2
And here are some resources to allow you to do your own research -
Ready for the punch line (what did you think… its a More >
