http://domainnamewire.com News and Views for the Domain Name Industry Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:21:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Geo web site commercial will start airing next week. As I wrote about last month, I'm running cable TV commercials for my geo web site Lakeway.com. We've completed the first commercial, which you can watch below. The commercials will run over 200 times each month across CNN, FoxNews, News ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/03/preview-the-lakewaycom-tv-commercial/ Survey asks how ICANN can improve its web site. ICANN's web site is outdated, and the organization knows it. It has hired an outside firm to perform usability analysis and improve the web site. The organization is serious about the effort; I spent 30 minutes on the phone today ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/02/icann-asks-for-feedback-about-its-web-site/ Find out what keywords people are using in domain registrations. What terms did people register domain names for yesterday? Domize let's you take a peak. Domize's domain registration statistics provide daily and monthly stats for domain registrations by TLD and term. For example, its June 30 report shows that .com picked ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/02/domize-lets-you-peak-into-current-domain-name-registrations/ Domain registrar files patents for system to sell equity in domain names. Go Daddy Group Inc. has filed a patent for a method of selling equity in domain names and protecting the domain names in which the equity is issued. The patent is for a system that will facilitate the sale of ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/02/godaddy-files-patent-for-method-of-selling-equity-in-domain-names/ A look back at the past month in domaining. Here are the top five news stories on Domain Name Wire in June, ranked by number of views. 1. VeriSign Gets Walloped in Court, .Com Domain Prices Could Fall - a court ruled that a case against VeriSign could go forward. If ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/01/top-domain-name-news-stories-of-june-2009/ Moniker looks forward to the next chapter in domain name auctions. Moniker put the live domain name auction on the map. So it was a surprise to many in the industry when T.R.A.F.F.I.C., host of many of Moniker's live domain auctions over the past few years, announced that Rick Latona ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/01/moniker-discusses-the-future-of-domain-auctions/ Is 'Tweet' fair game? In May the domain name Tweet.me sold for $11,505 at Sedo. At the time, I wrote: I’m a bit concerned about all of the services popping up that use variants of Twitter and Tweet in their names: could Twitter ever come after them for trademark infringement? Some developers ... http://domainnamewire.com/2009/07/01/using-tweet-in-your-domain-name-could-spell-trouble/