Archive for June, 2005


A Spanish week for domain name sales

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

Last week was a big week for domain name sales. The crazy thing is that 6 out of the top 10 sales were Spanish words! That’s thanks to a $500k spending spree by Chris Chena. Among the spanish-equivalent .com domains he bought were jobs, university, sales, phones, messages, and cards. He also shelled out $150k each for Paraguay.com and CheapGas.com. The CheapGas.com sale is incredible; this is a huge price for a 2 word domain that has synonyms.

Another notable sale was Bingo.it for €19,000. I haven’t seen a large .it domain sale in quite some time. Austria.cc sold for $5,000, the highest .cc domain ever reported to DNJournal. You’ll recall that the week prior a couple .ws domain names sold at high prices. This might be a trend. It seems like good keywords in less popular extensions have been undervalued for some time, and are now gaining recognition for their proper value.

You can see all of the week’s sales at DNJournal.

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GoDaddy aftermarket – I finally got my domain

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

On May 6, I wrote about winning an expired domain auction on GoDaddy’s new TDNAM.com. On June 6, I wrote about receiving an e-mail from GoDaddy saying the domain was mine, although it turns out it wasn’t yet. Today, about 6 weeks after winning the auction, I’m proud to say I finally own the domain!

I’m still confused as to why GoDaddy is auctioning names off so far in advance. Other services that have direct registration drops auction the domains when the domain is finally ready to drop. My guess is that they want people to bid on the domains when they still have Google PageRank and lots of links pointing to them. At the time they’re ready to actually drop, some of the domains have lost links and/or PageRank.

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Register.com gets J.D. Power certification, but who cares?

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Register.com sent out a press release this morning touting that its customer call center is now a J.D. Power and Associates Certified Call Center. According to the release, “The J.D. Power and Associates certification illustrates how Register.com’s outstanding customer service, underscored by its “Handholding Included” motto, distinguishes the company from other service providers.”

So who cares? Any domain registrar could tack $20 onto its .com registration price to offer handholding, toll-free access, etc.

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Elephant.com prevails

Monday, June 20th, 2005

Elephant.com Article

Adam Dicker recently prevailed in a WIPO decision against the British insurer with the elephant.co.uk domain name, Admiral Insurance Services. This was clearly a case of reverse-domain hijacking by a large insurer.

Dicker showed his brilliance not only with winning this case, but also buying this domain in the first place. Apparently Dicker bought the domain for only $22,500. He offered to listen to Admiral Insurance Services’ offers for the domain–if they were over $1M.

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NameSecure cuts registration price to $7.95

Monday, June 20th, 2005

NameSecure announced that it has cut its registration price almost in half to $7.95 per year. The company also offers domain transfers for $7.49. These prices include all ICANN fees. This is one of the lowest price registrars now that doesn’t throw any catches your way.

NameSecure is also offering a $6.95 domains as part of its Domains@Discount program. The program costs $99 per year, but if you register 100 or more domains each year this might be a good option.

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