Czech Arbitration Court wants to provide arbitration services; proposes radical changes. Ask any large company or small time domainer and each will tell you that the UDRP domain name dispute process is flawed. But UDRP doesn't have much reason to ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Proposal Suggests Changes to Domain Name UDRP
· Policy & LawDomain Name News Bytes – June 11, 2007
· Domain Registrars, Domain Sales, Expired Domains, ServicesThere's so much going on with domains right now...here's a summary of news that has slipped through the cracks. Yet Another article from the mainstream press titled "Masters of their Domains". Seriously, someone should have trademarked that term. ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Flicker.com Receives $600k Offer
· Domain SalesNot-so-typo domain of popular Flickr.com service accepting offers. I've never understood why these Web 2.0 companies have such horrible domain names. It's hard enough getting people to remember your web address. So why drop vowels out of your domain? ... Continue Reading20 Comments
128M Domain Names Registered, VeriSign Release Domain Parking Report
· Domain RegistrarsTwo new reports from VeriSign shed light on the domain name industry. VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .net and .com domain names, released two new reports this month. The first is its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf). Here are ... Continue Reading2 Comments
NameBio Releases “3 Letter” Domain Name Pricing Report
· Domain SalesReport analyzes sale values, usage of three letter .com domains. Last month I wrote an article titled "How Much is a Three Letter Domain Name Worth?". I analyzed a few aspects of three letter domains and how they affect value: if the three letters ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Domain Parking Sites Convert at Twice that of Search
· UncategorizedEfficient Frontier and Google provide the first decent stats about parked domain pages...and the news is good for the domain name industry. Efficient Frontier released a case study about conversion rates from parked domain names and the results were ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Variable Pricing Hits Yahoo Search Partners
· ServicesDomain name parking programs using Yahoo feeds will see revenue linked to quality. Much like Google does with variable pricing for its Adsense publishers, Yahoo is now paying a variable price per click on content site clicks. Yahoo will judge the ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Two Domain Name Companies Receive Investments
· Services.Travel registry, Communicate.com get equity infusions. Is .travel back? A couple weeks ago Domain Name Wire reported that theGlobe.com, parent company of the .travel registry, was running out of money. On May 29 Dancing Bear Investments, Inc. took ... Continue Reading1 Comment
An Example of Pay-Per-Click Arbitrage Trickery
· ServicesGoogle cracks down on made-for-adsense sites, but will this extend to domain parking pages? If we don't police ourselves... The internet marketing community was abuzz this past month as Google sent notices to some of its Adsense publishers informing ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Google Flip-flops, Auction Ads Take off
· Services, UncategorizedLeonard Holmes of ParkQuick updates us on domain name parking. May was a very busy month for domain monetization. Google announced early in the month that that they would no longer monetize adult domains as of June 1st. Some of the major Google-based ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment