New TLD‘s are continually being added and it can be easy to get caught up in these.
A generic name, such as ‘shoes.com’ can prove to be a good investment but a domain of another TLD, such as shoes.do or shoes.dm, will generally have a much lower value.
There are ways to benefit from ccTLD‘s and gTLD‘s, although this can prove to be very difficult.
.mobi is a sponsored TLD which provides the Internet to mobile phones. .mobi domains are made to be viewed on mobile phone screens. .mobi registry is sponsored by Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile, VISA, Vodafone, Afilias, Ericsson, Microsoft, Google and other international mobile identities.
.mobi was approved by ICANN on July 11, 2005 and then made available for registration from the 26th of Sept 2006.
As mobile phones replace every day computers it may be worthwhile for you to look into the .mobi extensions. Before purchasing a .mobi extension you need to deem whether marketing via the Internet will benefit your business.
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, 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.
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.
Short URL’s are helpful when a user is limited to a certain number of
characters, such as on Twitter. When using most Twitter applications,
whenever a long URL is entered in a tweet, it is automatically
shortened, using a shortening service like bit.ly.
These shortening services usually take advantage of recently released
TLD’s to get a domain name as short as possible. Recently, Google
jumped on the bandwagon with goo.gl, another URL shortening service.
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.
Similar to the Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods domain name rush a huge amount of domainers have been quick to register Brittany Murphy domain names, after she recently passed away.
Whenever something happens in the celebrity world or there is a celebrity scandal it make people buy domains names. Celebrities draw domain traffic; Paris Hilton is a celebrity known for scandals and KeywordDiscovery states that the search term ‘Paris Hilton’ is searched for approximately 19,398 times a day!
As soon as there is a scandal from a celebrity there is a sudden rush to register domain names appropriate to the scandal. For example, Tiger Woods has recently been in the spotlight for indiscretions he made and on the day the Wood’s scandal was publicized, 30th November 2009, the domain name: TigerWoodsCheater.com was created.
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