The Canadian government has slapped a domain name scammer with a $40,000 fine and a 5 years prohibation notice. Daniel Klemann tried the classic "renewal scam" in which he sent renewal notices to 73,000 businesses and non-profits in Canada. The ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Canada sentences domain name scammer
· Policy & LawTrafficClub RPM tops $50
· ServicesMy TrafficClub domain name parking results from March 2006 were the best ever. As I always do at the beginning of the month, I am dislosing my paid parking results with TrafficClub. TrafficClub is a unique domain name parking service that ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain appraisal company releases sales analysis
· Domain SalesDomain appraisal company Zetetic has released analysis of the 2005 domain sales market. According to Zetetic the median selling price in 2005 was $900, a 24% increase over 2004. Zetetic collects its sales data from a number of resale sources. In ... Continue Reading2 Comments
2006 GeoDomain Expo
· ServicesAssociated Cities is holding a geographic domain names conference June 2 & 3. The conference, called "2006 GeoDomain Expo", will focus on issues facing domain name and web site owners of geographic domain names. Associated Cities has members owning ... Continue Reading1 Comment
CMNN launches Body.com
· ServicesDomain name and e-commerce company Communicate.com has launched Body.com. The site at www.Body.com is going through some launch pains but offers products in nutrition, fashion, frangrance, fitness, and beauty categories. Communicate.com (OTCBB: ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Blue.com was just a start…
· Domain SalesThe Blue.com sale I reported yesterday was only a small part of a busy week for domain name sales. DNJournal is reporting a slew of big domain sales, including a hypenated .info domain name for €19,000! New-York.info takes the cake as the highest ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Blue.com sells for $500,000
· Domain SalesSedo is reporting that Blue.com has sold for $500,000. Apparently the color blue is better than the color brown. Just six weeks after Brown.com sold for $300,000, Blue.com has sold for $500,000 according to Sedo. In a sign of the rising domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Softsquatting the American Idols
· Policy & LawHere's an interesting term: "Softsquatting", as mentioned in a recent Wired article. Look at how many American Idol finalists have been either Softsquatted or Cybersquatted! The term refers to people that register the domain names of up-and-coming ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Interview with “Father of the Internet”
· Policy & LawI came across an interesting interview with Tim Berners-Lee, one of the founders of the Internet. What would Berners-Lee change about the internet addressing system if he could start from scratch? Looks like the biggest thing is to drop a slash ... Continue Reading1 Comment
New Wall Street Journal article
· UncategorizedThere's a new article about domain names in this weekend's The Wall Street Journal Sunday. The Sunday edition of The Wall Street Journal is syndicated in a number of city newspapers, so it probably has more reach than the regular edition. The article ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment