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Haiti Earthquake Domain Names

October 17, 2013January 15, 2010 by brooke

Internet users have been warned to take care donating towards the latest natural disaster, in Haiti.

The FBI has warned those wishing to donate money, to those affected by the misfortunate natural disaster, to not respond to unsolicited incoming emails and to be wary of those who represent themselves as a victim through emails or social networking sites.

It is important that you are aware when opening files of images from the Haiti disaster that they could contain viruses.

Associated Press has reported that “more than 400 Internet addresses related to Haiti have been registered since Monday’s devastating quake’.

Disney Domain Dispute

October 17, 2013January 15, 2010 by brooke

Disney, a major media company, filed a domain dispute case requesting for 41 domain names to be transferred to Disney as they were all very similar to trademarks Disney has registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Drop.com.au Hides Proxy Bids and Stops Snipe Bidding

October 17, 2013January 14, 2010 by David Warmuz

Drop.com.au the Australian drop catching service for com.au and .net.au domains just announced two major changes to their bidding platform. Extended bidding time to stop snipe bidding and hidden bids on all domains that you are not participating in.

This is great news as it was always a big rates to place bids in the last few seconds only to lose the domain, one that you would have bid more on, if you had the extra time. I feel that this will really increase drop’s daily takings and is a good move.

To read the full notification from drop.com.au here.

What are two character domain names worth?

October 17, 2013January 13, 2010 by brooke

8l.com sold through online auction site, Sedo, for USD$14,000. Sedo also recently sold 9l.com for USD$10,099. Both 8l.com and 9l.com do not contain websites, as of yet.

Two letter domain names are rare and nearly all are currently registered; they are valuable because they are short and easy to remember.

Why foreign markets are interesting

October 17, 2013January 13, 2010 by maxime

Obviously a .FR name targets only the French market so you may dismiss it as not worth a lot of money. However credit.fr just sold …

Victoria’s Secret domain name dispute

October 17, 2013January 7, 2010 by brooke

Victoria’s Secret a luxury brand known for their beautiful models and a large range of women’s lingerie, women’s apparel and beauty products has won another domain name dispute.

Victoria’s Secret believed that the website www.victoriassecretpromotion.com was clearly similar to their trademark and had been registered in foul play to redirect Victoria’s Secret customers to www.victoriassecretpromotion.com.

Why would someone buy anyway ?

October 17, 2013January 4, 2010 by maxime

If, as a domainer, you want to focus on selling high priced domains, you need to remember why someone would want to buy such a name.

According to SmallBizTrends, there are only three reasons:

5 places where to sell domains

October 17, 2013December 22, 2009 by maxime

At some point you will want to sell your domains. Here are five places where you can do it:

Forums. Domain forums are probably the most common and popular way to sell domains. Please note that most of the members of forums are people like you: domainers and people looking to resell domains. This is not the right place to find end users in search of a specific domain.
Brokers. They are specialist in selling domains, like an estate agent is a specialist at selling houses. They will typically keep 20% of the selling price but know a lot more people than you do so can probably find better buyers. Also, as they are paid on commission, they want to get the best price for the domain.

Paris wants a .paris

October 17, 2013December 16, 2009 by brooke

Paris, the capital city of France, applied for .paris to become a top level domain (TLD) in June, 2008.

The TLD for France is .fr.

The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, began a campaign on behalf of Paris, on December 9th 2009, to support the .paris TLD request.

ICANN

October 17, 2013December 15, 2009 by brooke

ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers which oversees Internet related tasks on behalf of the US Government. The non-profit corporation’s headquarters is based in California, USA. Jon Postel founded ICANN on September 18th, 1998.

On September 29th, 2006, ICANN signed an agreement with United States Department of Commerce (DOC) that allows ICANN to completely manage the Internet system. ICANN is responsible for their decisions and can be punished for their actions.