Be Careful What You Believe Today…
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Reminder: It’s April Fools’ Day.
Leave it to domainers to go hog wild on April Fools’ Day. I promise not to pull any April Fools jokes at Domain Name Wire, but here are a few “stories” you may read about elsewhere…
DomainTools announced a new tool that predicts which typosquatters will register certain domains before they do, allowing lawyers to sue them in advance. Isn’t there a Tom Cruise movie about seeing crimes before they happen?
Rebel.com wants to be like GoDaddy , and announced a new “sexy spokesperson” today. The company says “As the domain industry gets more media recognition, Rebel.com has updated its image to mirror the allure of domain registration. The new Rebel.com spokesmodel is edgy, innovative, fun, and sexy — all qualities we identify with at Rebel.com.” Here’s a picture of the new “sexy spokesperson”:
Domain Name News reports several interesting developments:
California is going after Canada’s .ca extension, reports Adam Strong. (All joking aside, Canada did consider opening up the domain to registrants in California as a way to generate cash, but it took the high road instead.)
ICANN is dropping the last ‘n’. Apparently it’s going to Auction it off.
There’s a new domain conference in the works called T.R.A.G.I.C. It will showcase women in the industry. All 5 of them.
Tags: Adam Strong, domaintools
Virgle.
thanks for the chuckle this morning.
Love the last one! I guess that is one conference I’ll go to.
So many domain registrars, domain after sellers try themselves to become a world renowned registrar like godaddy. most of them are indirect competitors. and a few like rebel.com tries for a open competition. now a days domains are auctioned much more. As businesses need short, sexy, memorable, and generic domains. Domainers are very crazy to register new domains, so that it can be sold for 100s and 100s of Bucks.If registrars grow, more promotional offers will be given on bulk registration.
Thanks for new registrars,
Best Regards
Doh now I don’t feel so good anymore…
Ummm… Andrew, you forgot my April 1st blog, “Disaster”. Which, in fact, is absolutely true and in no way a joke.
Stephen Douglas
http://www.successclick.com