March 2010 Archives

                                                        

With the .com turning 25 years old this months a peek at  the oldest currently registered .com domain names along with the registration dates, according to VeriSign.

 

        DOMAIN NAME               DATE

symbolics.com                March 15, 1985

bbn.com                          April 24, 1985

think.com                         May 24, 1985

mcc.com                         July 11, 1985

dec.com                          September 30, 1985

 

The website, MakeUp.com recently sold for a seven figure price to makeup company L'Oreal; the domain was transferred to L'Oreal USA Creative, Inc. in early March.

Personally I think the generic domain name sold relatively low.

L'Oreal is already one of the worldwide leaders in the makeup and beauty industry and acquiring this domain name will increase the success of an already successful company.

Morgan Linton founder of Linton Investments LLC has just announce the launch of, ccTLDInvestors.com, an online magazine dedicated entirely to investing in Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs).

See my earlier post with top sales like Credit.fr $851,875 and Free-SMS.de for $162,150 already this year.  In 2009 ccTLD sales doubled making it the quickest growing segment in the Domain Investing space.

Read more at ccTLDInvestors.com .

According to Ron Jackson at DNJournal, Moniker competed the sale of Guns.com for $800,000 March 10.

Guns.com is third followed by Poker.org and Credit.fr in biggest sale overall this year.

Poker.org              $1,000,000

Credit.fr                 $851,876

PartySupplies.com $360,000

Biking.com            $250,000

Boating.com          $250,000

Metal.com             $165,000

Free-SMS.de         $162.150.

Website.de            $141,610

 

Trellian's President David Warmuz interviews with Domainvestors.tv  Morgan Linton about Above Parking Manager.

The interview was recorded and DOMAINfest Global 2010, Santa Monica, California and can be viewed at MorganLinton.com

Morgan Linton is an active domain investor, blogger, and video content producer. 

Enjoy! 

According to The VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief, February 2010, the number of .com domains registered has grown to over 80 million over the last 25 years.  At the same time, the average daily DNS query volume is now more than 52 billion queries per day.

3D movies have become popular again with the release of Avatar and it is safe to say that 3D technology will improve over a very short period of time. Many more movies are set to be released in 3D and we have the ability to watch television in 3D; even YouTube supports 3D videos now. But as technology evolves, you have to ask: Is it worth registering 3D domain names?

When registering domain names you have to keep in mind how fast technology is evolving and how far ahead of the craze you will need to be, as an example 3dtv.com was created 14 years ago. Someone had a lot of foresight 14 years ago...

The ICM registry has won an appeal for an independent review of the .xxx extension.

The proposed TLD .xxx is suggested as an option for sexually explicit Internet websites. .xxx would be suitable for adult material, similar to .edu for education and .gov for government bodies.

The .xxx would be suitable for adult material, similar to .edu for education and .gov for government bodies. The appeal has caused controversy for both those for and against the introduction of the TLD.

The idea of .xxx would be to implement a way for those who wish to provide access to pornographic nature on the web and also make it easier for those who don't wish to view explicit material to block the websites. This would also make it easier for search engines to block .xxx websites.