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Poker.org Sold for $1 Million

October 17, 2013February 19, 2010 by nicholas

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

October 17, 2013February 18, 2010 by brooke

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

October 17, 2013February 15, 2010 by brooke

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

Low cost domains can be high value

October 17, 2013February 9, 2010 by maxime

One recommended strategy is to focus on mid to high cost domains and sell them in the long term for a very high amount of money. After all, your only yearly cost is a few dollars.

However, it can be more interesting financially to focus on low cost domains. Their resell value can be a lot more, provided you buy only domains which have got a real value rather than simply gambling.

Stricter .CN Regulations Lead to Registration Drop

October 17, 2013February 5, 2010 by nicholas

CNINIC (.CN Registry) has recently introduced stricter regulations for registering .CN domains. As a results, some Chinese businesses and website owners are looking elsewhere when registering domain names. The new regulations require that .CN domains be registered with the Chinese government. Failure to do some will result in your domain being disabled/deleted.

Off To Domainer Mardi Gras

October 17, 2013February 4, 2010 by nancy

The domain conference schedule has been crazy with back to back events. From TRAFFIC in Las Vegas to DOMAINfest in Santa Monica and now getting ready for the Domainer Mardi …

Watch your TLD’s when buying domains

October 17, 2013February 3, 2010 by brooke

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

October 17, 2013February 1, 2010 by brooke

ringtone.mobi.jpg .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.

ActiveAudience Becomes SmartName

October 17, 2013January 28, 2010 by nicholas

The domain parking service, ActiveAudience recently moved all its services and users to SmartName. For previous ActiveAudience users, this means access to many more features …

An ugly website generates more

October 17, 2013January 25, 2010 by maxime

Sometimes it makes sense to develop a website rather than simply parking it. This allows you a lot more control about the design and the content, as well as provide a site that is very different from all the other ones.
However if you want to make money using advertising, be it adsense or any other platform, it is probably best not to have a too good looking design.