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.
As 3D technology becomes more popular, is it worth registering 3D domain names?
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…
Above.com – New Parking Service: DomainAdvertising.com
We have just added DomainAdvertising.com to our list of supported parking services. Above.com now supports more than 20 different parking services. To try out DomainAdvertising.com, …
The .xxx Extension
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.
Domain Conflicts – Warning Must Read
The untold story how domain conflicts can severely impact your parking revenues.
If you are an active domainer and you buy, sell, trade, register, drop, taste domains, then you are surely being affected by domain ownership conflicts at the various parking companies.
These are the known issues:
Anyone can add a list of domains to a parking account and state that they own these names. Parking companies then have to decide who the current and real owner is. And no, doing a whois search does not help here, that is not in most cases… as like most domainers, whois privacy is more and more common, and fake or offshore entities are even more common for domainers that wish to remain unknown, just in case they have a TM based domain that they know or do not know they own.
But I digress… so what actually happens when you have 2 parking accounts both claiming ownership of the same domain? Who get the traffic and earnings allocated to their account? Do you know? Do you even know where to find in your account any reported domain conflicts?
Domain Cruise from Miami to Key West, Cozumel, Mexico
The first ever annual domaining cruise by “Captain Chef Patrick”. We will cast off from Miami, Florida on October 11, 2010 and return October 15 with a couple stops at Key West, Florida and Cozumel, Mexico in between.
For those of you going to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. – Miami, this is the perfect lead into the week for you as their event is from October 17-20 out of South Beach in Miami.
Sex.com up for sale. Again.
When sex.com sold for a reported, but never confirmed, $14million back in 2006, everyone thought it was the end of a (very) long story.
After all this domain history is so complex that even a book has been written on it!
It looks like the story is not complete yet.
Poker.org Sold for $1 Million
Sedo recently brokered the largest .org sale to date for A-1 National Advertising. Poker.org was sold to PokerCompany.com for $1 million. Prior to this, the highest sale of a .org was $198,000 for engineering.org, followed by sexe.org for $151,400.
The buyers of the domain, PokerCompany.com, are an affiliate marketing company who help acquire customers for many major poker rooms, casinos, skill game and betting companies on the internet. They also operate a number of other websites including: EveryPoker.com, InsideBet.com, Craps.net, Blackjack.org, Rakeback.org and Loyalty.net.
AlexanderMcQueenFashions.com for sale on eBay
Alexander McQueen, a top English fashion designer known for his amazing designs passed away on February 11th, 2010, aged 40. On the same day as his death the domain name InMemoryOfAlexanderMcQueen.com was registered and then placed on eBay for US $1,000,000. This auction was listed at 10:11am; just hours after Lee McQueen’s death was reported.
Following this trend five other Alexander McQueen inspired domain names were also listed on online auction site, eBay.com. All of the below domain names were created on the 11th, 12th or 13th of February, just days after the international designer’s death.
MTV Domain Names Dispute
International music and cable television channel MTV has filled a domain name dispute case for 21 domain names.
The disputed domain names are:
alternativemtv.com
alternativemtv.tv
bluesmtv.com
bluesmtv.tv
classicalmtv.com
classicalmtv.tv
divamtv.com
