This story in Fairfax publications (The Age and SMH) focuses on domain name buying and selling, noting the recent sale of jobs.com.au, reportedly for a six-figure sum.
The story notes some of the big domain name sales in recent years and Australians (and Americans) involved in domain name buying and selling and the “automated tools of the trade have improved dramatically.” There is also information on auDA’s current Names Policy Panel and links this to domain name buying and selling.
There is mention of one of these companies, Dark Blue Sea, who “five years ago Dark Blue Sea created a market intelligence engine designed to find domain-name opportunities based on factors including the frequency of a search phrase in search engines, and bids by search engine advertisers for those terms.” Dark Blue Sea’s chief strategy officer won’t divulge any trade secrets but describes this as “a sophisticated software system founded on language recognition.”
The article also notes auDA’s review of domain name policy currently underway – the 2007 Names Policy Panel – that I am a panel member of. Comments are currently being sought on an issues paper, with submissions closing on 15 June. The panel’s purpose is to:
review the policy framework underlying the allocation and use of domain names in the .au domain space
provide recommendations to the auDA board about what changes (if any) should be made to the policy framework.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431843.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431843.html
Also see:
Buyers roll the dice in name grab
RoveDaily.com.au editor Kent Valentine ruminates on filthy online capitalism. When my cousin taught me to play Monopoly in 1983, he told me I should buy every property I landed on, even if I didn’t want them. While I might not want the Angel Islington, he reasoned, somebody else would, and that would benefit me in two ways: a) I could sell it to them for an inflated price, or b) I could hang onto it, just to ruin their plans. “Sometimes you can win,” he said, “just by making the other people lose.”
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431807.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431807.html
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