Identify these four pictures to win.

It’s Friday so let’s have some fun. The first person to identify all of the items below will win a free copy of David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game Book. Put your answers in the comments. You must get all four correct to win.

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Who are these two old school domainers? Both got in the game early and battled each other in the drops.

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Now we’re going to make it harder. Who are the two people pictured here, trying out the DomainAdvertising.com RC obstacle course?

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Who are these two guys on stage?

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Final question: what is this a picture of?

Oversee.net was previous owner of CareerPolitician.com.

Mitt Romney’s campaign launched CareerPolitician.com this week to blast rival Rick Perry.

The seller? Oversee.net.

The domain name was originally registered at GoDaddy in 2007 by Tucson, Arizona company eFind. It landed in the portfolio of Oversee.net subsidiary Portfolio Brains the following year, and it held it until last month. In September it transferred back to GoDaddy under whois privacy.

It doesn’t appear to be a public sale.

On the domain investor front, this is a good example of a politician who has someone on their team who understands the power of good domain names.

Two strong five figure domain name sales.

Garry Chernoff has just completed two domain name sales in his sweet spot — high five figures.

First, Chernoff just completed the sale of Ripley.com for $78,000. The buyer is someone in Santiago, Chile.

Chernoff sold the domain name through DomainNameSales.com, the domain sales system used by Frank Schilling and many of InternetAdvertising.com’s clients.

Second, he sold callisto.com for 50,000 EUR. The domain name was sold through Sedo and the domain name is still in escrow but the money has been received.

I got to meet Chernoff in person this week at the TRAFFIC show in Fort Lauderdale. You can read more about his story in David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game book.

Tool searches for available domain names.

VeriSign has released a new beta tool called DomainFinder to help people find available domain names.

On the surface the tool is just a basic domain name generator: enter a keyword and it shows you available domains you might want to register.

But it’s integrated into VeriSign’s DomainScore system, so domains that receive NXD traffic are denoted with a special icon. Hovering over it shows you the 7, 30, and 60 day DomainScore.

I know a lot of people debate the value of DomainScore compared to the actual traffic domains receive. But as DomainScore is improved I think the combination of these tools could be helpful. After all, VeriSign is the company best positioned to know which unregistered domains get traffic.

Group releases its latest list of “bad” hosts.

HostExploit, which previously put the heat on eNom, now says Oversee.net is the “#1 Bad Host”.

The group compared data from 11 sources on a number of “bad” things that can be hosted, ranging from phishing servers to infected web sites.

The group’s report for Q3 2011 ranks Oversee.net worst overall, up from 9 last quarter.

Oversee.net rated worst for badware and infected web sites. The badware issue is interesting; HostExploit noted:

In this quarter there has been further analysis on ‘false positives’ particularly regarding parked domains. These have been found to a limited degree in conjuntion (sic) with data partners and results are starting to reflect this disparity.

HostExploit gets most of its data for badware from StopBadware. I’ve reached out to HostExploit to understand what sort of problems they found with Oversee.net. It’s important to understand more about the rankings before jumping to conclusions; it’s possible certain aspects of domain parking get flagged. I’ve also asked Oversee.net for comment and will update this story accordingly.