News Corp. is considering blocking Google’s Internet search engine from displaying its news article and is talking to Microsoft about listing only on its site, reported by Sarah Rabil at Bloomberg.
MediaNews to follow News Corp. – Weighing Google block
News Corp. rival MediaNews Group Inc., will block some of their stories from Google Inc.’s news site next year when the company starts charging for premium …
The right tool for the job
When looking to invest in domains, you have to identify keywords which are searched online. Those keywords can then be expanded into domain names.
For instance, if I want to create a portfolio of car related domains, I may look for car.com, usedcar.com, cardealer.com, buycar.com, etc…
Be a Registrar Without Becoming a Registrar
Ever wanted to own your own registrar, but either do not know how, or cannot afford the expense to become accredited with ICANN? Some existing registrars offer what is called a reseller account. This allows you to set up your own domain registration service, without all the hassles or becoming accredited. They will also usually provide you with a customizable management interface for your customers, and sometimes, API (application programming interface) access, so you can create your own interface from scratch.
Misspelt Domain Names
Mispelt Domain Names are growing in popularity, as domainers realize they can capitalize on people misspelling domain names when visiting websites. When typing a domain into the search bar a customer may skip letters, double letters, reverse letters or not know how to spell a certain domain name. When an address is miss-typed the user may be redirected to the correct site, an advertising site, a completely incorrect site, or no site at all.
Have you defined a strategy ?
Each and any domain name can be worth something. Also, over time, the domains will be worth more as the scarcity will increase: there are more and more people online everyday and less and less available domains.
There are probably two main strategies for you to profit from this increase in value:
Domain Sales Stay Strong in 2009
As the recession continues to plague most sectors of the economy, domain sales continue strong for 2009. The top 10 largest domain sales of 2009:
| Domain Name Sold | Sales Price | When Sold |
| Toys.com | $5,100,000 | March 15, 2009 |
| Candy.com | $3,000,000 | June 9, 2009 |
| Fly.com | $1,760,000 | February 3, 2009 |
| Auction.com | $1,700,000 | March 24, 2009 |
| Ticket.com | $1,525,000 | October 14, 2009 |
| Call.com | $1,100,000 | September 1, 2009 |
| Webcam.com | $1,020,000 | June 9, 2009 |
| Server.com | $770,000 | August 4, 2009 |
| Luck.com | $675,000 | October 14, 2009 |
| Exterminator.com | $600,000 | October 14, 2009 |
| Christian.com | $600,000 | Spetember 8, 2009 |
Insure.com
Insure.com has recently sold for whopping US$16 million recently! This is a huge increase from 2001 when it was sold for $1.6 million. Involved in the US$16 million transaction is the domain name and the website itself.
China to apply for .?? ‘Zhongguo’ domain name
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) today will apply for the top-level Chinese domain name “Zhongguo”(written in pinyin), to key Internet oversight agency the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), www.people.com.cn reported Global netizens may be able to log on to the Internet with the new domain at the beginning of next year at the earliest, according to reports.
Egypt launches Arabic web domain
Egypt will open the world’s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said.
Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”.
“It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,” Mr Kamel said.
