Written by Chief Editor , Thursday, 05 June 2008
Back on February 7, 2008 dotMobi reported that they contacted all the winners of the disastrous auction conducted by Sedo December last year, during which they experienced a server crash. According to dotMobi, of the more than 70 involved less than 10 rejected the proposal for allocation of premium domains. By having the majority support of the community affected, dotMobi went ahead with this proposal which was basically to be paid the highest price reached by domains (in the original auction or extensions thereof) or nothing (domains would stay in dotMobi).
It has been more than 5 months after the conclusion of the auction and 3 after dotMobi began the allocation process. It is time to know what happened to these premium .mobi domains…
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Written by Chief Editor , Thursday, 05 June 2008
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and this was really a wild week for the aftermarket. There were three 6-figure sales and something we have never seen before, a stunning wave of 3-letter .com sales including 15 of them at $40,000 a piece at a single venue! Those totaled a tidy $600,000. All told 18 of the 30 positions on our expanded Top 30 sales chart went to 3-letter .coms including the #1 domain at over $200,000. Our new Global Contenders chart is led by the highest .org sale reported so far in 2008 and the leader of the Country Code chart is the year’s second highest .tv sale…
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Written by Chief Editor , Thursday, 05 June 2008
Domain Registration Count as of June 1st, 2008. Interesting to note was the spike in .net registrations (+217,619) and the loss .info domains experienced (-46,793) after numerous reports indicated that .info domains are less favored on Google’s search engine:
gTLD / ccTLD
Total number of registrations
Compared to last month
.com
76,490,267
+154,158
.de
12,072,501
+46,831
.net
11,589,212
+217,619
.org
6,826,952
+61,734
.info
4,993,987
-46,793
.eu
2,733,783
+31,054
.biz
1,973,907
+5,579
.us
1,418,595
+6,431
.at
756,967
+4,811
Written by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 June 2008
From Traverse Legal:
Parking companies are handcuffed in many ways by their relationship with Google and Yahoo, who essentially control the framework by which ads are shown on parking pages. Parking companies, however, now appear to realize the necessity of working with Google and Yahoo to develop options which allow a domain owner to exclude categories of ads which are shown on parked pages. Based on several conversations with parking companies at the recent T.R.A.F.F.I.C show that keyword category and trademark exclusion will soon be available.
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Written by Michael Gilmour , Thursday, 05 June 2008
After a brief sabbatical from writing for a few days I decided to continue the series on the domain industry and explore the concept of negotiating against someone that has perfect information. You can view the earlier articles in the domain industry series by clicking here. As we have already explored Google has built its empire on the basis of data manipulation and being able to do this faster and better than the other guy. From this basis Google has extended their understanding of the online advertisers supply chain from the advertisement being placed right through to the conversion rates…
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Written by Chief Editor , Thursday, 05 June 2008
McAfees second annual report identifies domains populated with the highest concentration of risky sites, with 19.2 percent of checked .hk sites found to be dangerous or potentially dangerous. Other potentially dangerous sites are .cn (11.8 percent) and .info (11.7 percent). Lax security has led to websites ending with .hk and .cn earning notoriety as the internets most dangerous domains to navigate, according to a report by America-based antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc. Domain name registrars with strict checks see far fewer malicious websites, said Shane Keats, lead author of the report…
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Written by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 04 June 2008
As we reported earlier, Carl Icahn, who is waging a proxy fight with Yahoo sent a letter Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s chairman on Wednesday. Here’s the letter in its entirety:
"Dear Mr. Bostock:
I have long been cynical about the effectiveness of many of the boards and CEOs in this country and as a result the inability of our companies to compete…
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Written by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 04 June 2008
The Domainer Meeting in Paris, France, hosted by EuroDNS and Oversee.net, will be an important domain industry event to attend if you are interested in learning more about the European market. DomainNews.com will be present with a custom booth, which will give you all a chance to meet us in person. It will also be an unmatched chance to gather insights on all the latest global issues and opportunities while you network with industry leaders from around the world a few days before the official ICANN Meeting, which will be held in the the same hotel a few days later.
» Register now at the Domainer Meeting Paris online Registration and Agenda
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Written by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 04 June 2008
The New Zealand Domain Name Commission is reviewing its policy regarding the Authorisation of Registrars (AOR). The current policy can be seen here. This policy details the process that potential registrars must follow to gain authorisation from the Domain Name Commission ("DNC") in order to access the shared registry system ("SRS"), as per the Authori sation Agreement.
Based on the DNC experience in processing applications for authorisation, the following changes are proposed:
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Written by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 04 June 2008
One character domains are unavailable for registration. Ever wondered why? Well, apparently all gTLD registries are contractually obligated under their contracts with ICANN to reserve single character names. Change in in the air however! The .MOBI and .COOP’s Registries have put a request in front of ICANN to release single, and dual character in .COOP’s case, to them on May 29th. Companies such as American Airlines, who own http://www.americanairlines.mobi/ but are not using it, may very well be interested in getting their hands on the shorter http://www.aa.mobi/ version instead.
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Written by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 04 June 2008
With all the recent news about an economic downturn, it’s comforting to know that the domain industry is still thriving. Check out NPR’s (National Public Radio) coverage of Sedo this week: Competition Remains Hot for Web Domain Names. In the article, Sedo’s COO Jeremiah Johnston explains why conditions are prime for new buyers to join the marketplace.
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