Traffic to product related domains should swell today.

Today is CyberMonday, a name coined by the National Retail Federation to promote online buying for the holiday season.

The idea is that everyone is back at work after Thanksgiving and Black Friday, and that means they’ll do a lot of online shopping.

In 2006 comScore measured $610 million in online commerce on CyberMonday. Last year it measured over a billion dollars.

This means that your “product” domain name should see a surge in traffic and revenue. If you have product related domains, did you see a jump in traffic last year for CyberMonday? What does your traffic look like today?

Expired domain catching starts at $15.

In October I wrote about Protrada, which is like a dashboard for domain name buyers to find and purchase domain names. It works with a lot of major expired domain services including NameJet, SnapNames, and GoDaddy, and isn’t limited to expired domains.

Now the service has its own integrated backordering system for domains that go through the complete deletion process and are dropped by the registry.

The service is effectively an auction system exclusive to Protrada customers. Bids start at $15, so if Protrada manages to snag a domain you’ve backordered and you’re the only one to have it on your list you’ll pay just $15. Bidding increments are $5.

As with any true drop catching solution, its success rate will be determined by Protrada’s technology and its number of registry connections.

A rare case over .do domain names.

eBay has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization for four domain names that use the Dominican Republic top level domain .do. The four domains are:

ebay.com.do
ebay.do
paypal.com.do
paypal.do

What I find interesting about this case is what you see if you visit any of the domains:

DOMAIN FOR SALE

info@ebay.do

We have adquire this domain in a bulk domain purchase and due to the nature of the domain name it is neccesary to stress out the following statements and facts:

-This is a business transaction we do not do favors.
-We buy generic latin america domain names.
-We are not related and we do not want to be related in any political way or kind with any political party in Dominican Republic.
-This purchase is on the basics of “first come first serve”, who pays owns the domain and we will transfer it.
-Allow 2hrs to verify payment and transfer the domain. We do not transfer domain without payment verification by PayPal.
-Takes 24hrs for complete transer.

Assuming the .do policy is similar to UDRP you can bet eBay will win this case.

1, 2, 3, and now…

Moniker founder Monte Cahn has filed a third amended complaint against his former employer Oversee.net.

The third amended complaint (so that’s four in total) is in response to the judge dismissing several claims against Oversee.net and on Cahn’s depositions of current and former Oversee.net employees.

He reinserts claims for accounting, fraud, and conversion. He essentially says that Oversee.net conspired from the beginning to not have to pay him any part of his $13 million incentive plan. Oversee.net argues that it’s merely a breach of contract case and that it doesn’t owe Cahn anything from the incentive plan.

The latest complaint (pdf) includes a few details that I don’t recall from previous versions:

1. New detail about why TrafficClub would not work for Oversee since the company had a contract with Google. (In his motion to dismiss the judge said more details were necessary to include this in the complaint.)

2. Cahn alleges that former Oversee.net CEO Lawrence Ng said Oversee.net would increase Moniker’s staff to 36.

3. Discusses how in 2007 (pre-merger) Oversee canceled its contract with TrafficClub and tried to “poach all of TrafficClub’s customers”. This was a highly public spat between Oversee and Moniker at the time.

Big companies by domain names in the aftermarket.

Wow! What a busy week for end users buying domain names. Here are some highlights:

(all sales via Afternic unless otherwise noted)

Headphone company SkullCandy bought SupremeSound.com for $1,375.

Pastebin.com, which says it’s the “#1 paste tool since 2002″, bought pastebin.net for $2,500.

FutureDontics, the company behind 1800Dentist.com, picked up DentalSaver.com, DentalSavers.com and DentalSaver.net for a grant total of $6,300.

The owner of Qualityhosting.de bought the .com equivalent qualityhosting.com for $3,700 through Sedo.

STEF-TFE made a smart move buy purchasing STEF.com for $3,400 through Sedo.

The gift company at j-me.co.uk bought j-me.com for $1,177.

Antivirus software company BitDefender bought MyBitDefender.com for $850 at Sedo.

Los Angeles Clippers paid $1,888 for SterlingFoundation.com for the foundation named after its owner.

Healthcare giant McKesson bought FloridaCancer.com for a whopping $10,500.

Accountant company CPA2Biz, Inc bought DigitalCPA.com for $2,300

Law firm Middleton Reutlinger paid $1,595 for MiddletonLaw.com.

Logo company LogoAnts.com paid $1,000 for LogoLogo.com.

Finally, Entrepreneur Media picked up 19 domain names for just shy of $31,000:

entrepreneuradvice.com $1,264.80
entrepreneuradvisor.com $2,029.80
entrepreneuranswers.com $1,519.80
entrepreneurcommunity.com $1,094.80
entrepreneurdashboard.com $1,689.80
entrepreneurfund.com $1,717.85
entrepreneurhub.com $1,774.80
entrepreneurkids.com $2,199.80
entrepreneurlinks.com $1,434.80
entrepreneurmovement.com $2,709.80
entrepreneurprogram.com $1,264.80
entrepreneurreport.com $1,349.80
entrepreneursnet.com $1,349.80
entrepreneursnetwork.com $1,250.00
entrepreneurstartups.com $2,029.80
entrepreneurszone.com $1,349.80
entrepreneurtalk.com $1,774.80
entrepreneurtimes.com $1,861.50
entrepreneurtools.com $1,264.80