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
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?
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
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 …
DNS-Luxembourg Announces The Opening of IDNS
As of February 1st 2010 registration of domain names with special characters in them, like for example a letter with an accent, called Internationalized Domain …
URL Shortening Services & Short URL’s
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 domain name dispute
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.
Domain Conferences
Domain Conferences are often large events which are great for networking with other domainers and are also a fantastic chance to meet those who work for the companies you conduct your domain business with. Being able to meet those who you regularly speak with via the Internet or those who you rely on to help when you are in need will give you an advantage. Attending domain conferences also provide the opportunity to look and speak with other exhibiting Internet companies.
VeriSign Registers Record Numbers
VeriSign recently announced that it registered a record number of visitors for online sales during the year-end holidays this year. These numbers clearly indicate an increase in traffic on e-commerce sales.Online shoppers saw the VeriSign seal approximately 789 million times, up roughly 50% year over year. VeriSign seals are common fixtures on web pages of leading merchants. The VeriSign Secured Seal indicates that the Web site is secured by SSL encryption and the identity of the business has been authenticated. VeriSign is the authorized directory provider for roughly over 89 million .com, .net, .cc, and .tv domain names.
VeriSign earlier announced an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net,
Why would someone buy anyway ?
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:
