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Niue ccTld .NU will be marketed as the number domain
2008-06-07 23:13:00 The .NU top level country domain (ccTld) of the small island nation Niue which is located between New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands, has been popular for several years in Scandinavian countries where “nu” translates to “now.” Roughly 80% of the registered .nu domains are Swedish. On June 10 the landrush will begin for ... More About: Domain , Number
IDN wiki - adds Urdu and Thai
2008-06-07 23:09:00 The IDN wiki was launched in October 2007 to provide a test environment of IDNs that is open and available to all interested parties. The IDNwiki was initially based on the eleven example.test domains listed on the main page (http://idn.icann.org) with articles and discussion in each of the indicated languages. ICANN announced yesterday that two additional ... More About: Thai , Urdu , Wiki
New ccTld .SL Open For Business
2008-06-06 09:46:00 Freetown-based (Sierra Leone) wireless Internet service provider AFcom Wednesday opened registration for the .SL Sierra Leone domain name. Domain registration will cost US$50 for one year, $100 for two years or $141 for three years. Vouchers valid for one domain, one year and for public registrations only can be purchased locally at AFcom offices in Sierra Leone ... More About: Business , Open
Register.com and SnapNames.com Renew Exclusive Agreement for Domain Name Au
2008-06-06 09:44:00 SnapNames®, an Oversee.net? company and the world?s largest source of expired and deleting domain names, and Register .com, a leading provider of domain registration and web services for small business, today announced the renewal of their exclusive agreement. Under the terms of the deal, domain names registered with Register.com but surrendered by their previous registrants are ... More About: Exclusive , Domain , Domain Name , Agreement
191 Expired Domains
2008-06-05 20:59:00 I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 191 expired domains today. If you want to be amongst the first people to get your hands on these lists before they are published anywhere else, you should subscribe to my newsletter using the form in the top right corner of this page. Subscription is free. If you ... More About: Domains
McAfee Reveals List of Riskiest ccTlds for Malicious Downloads, Browser Exp
2008-06-04 10:04:00 McAfee, Inc. recently announced the results of a McAfee® SiteAdvisorTM research report that provides a global road map of the riskiest, and the safest, places to surf and search on the World Wide Web. McAfee analyzed and ranked 265 top-level domains like Japan (.jp), France (.fr) and Commercial (.com) based on McAfee’s Web safety ... More About: Downloads , List , Browser , Mcafee
158 Expired domains
2008-06-03 23:45:00 I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 158 expired domains today. If you want to be amongst the first people to get your hands at these lists before they are published anywhere else, you should subscribe to my newsletter using the form in the top right corner of this page. Subscription is free. If you ... More About: Domains
HostingRealm holding a hosting contest
2008-06-03 13:33:00 Newly launched hosting industry blog Hosting Realm.com is holding a massive hosting contest right now. You can win in excess of $2,500 in hosting industry related prizes by participating. Douglas Haber, the owner of HostingRealm is a young entrepreneur with a bright future and he has put in a lot of hard work into a great contest ... More About: Contest , Holding
Israel.com Has Not Sold
2008-06-03 10:49:00 There have been a number of erroneous reports in the last couple of days about the sale of Israel .com for $5,8 million. It appears the reports were started by Haaretz who reported the “sale” upon seeing the reserve price for the domain name at Moniker’s auction and falsely assuming that this was a winning bid ... More About: Sold
DNForum makeover
2008-06-03 10:44:00 If you are serious about domaining then you are more then likely a member of DNForum.com - the #1 domaining forum online today. I noticed DNForum is undergoing a makeover with a brand new skin that will go live today, and I have to say I really like it - Adam Dicker has done it again. You ... More About: Makeover
Contest Additional Task #3 - Blog Rolling
2008-06-02 23:51:00 This additional task is to help you earn additional points in the greatest domaining and blogging contest ever. If you haven?t entered the contest yet, you still have a great chance - you can win $9,000 worth of cash and prizes and you know that you gotta be in it to win it. Today I reveal ... More About: Contest , Blog , Rolling , Task
Coffee.org solf for $100,000
2008-06-01 19:59:00 Coffee.org was bought on Tuesday by Fort Smith-based WCM Investments for $100,000. Bill McClure, WCM chief executive officer, said he hopes to open a coffee distribution center in Fort Smith to ship imported and specialty coffees from a variety of brand clients and countries. “Our business is buying domains (web site addresses). It happens that this ... More About: Coffee
148 Expired Domains
2008-05-30 09:46:00 I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 148 expired domains today. Because you are not subscribed, you get to see only a sample of that list. All is not lost though as you can subscribe to my newsletter and get future lists using the form in the top right corner - subscription is free. If ... More About: Domains
ICANN Monthly Magazine May Edition Published
2008-05-29 11:21:00 ICANN has been published the May edition of its Monthly Magazine with the following issues covered: What happens when you don?t comply?; A full policy rundown in just one click; What?s on the Board?s slate?; L-root issues and Paris previews; domain news from around the world; what ICANN has been doing and more? To read the May edition of the magazine, or ... More About: Published , Edition , Icann
Domainer Meeting In Paris Is 3 Weeks Away
2008-05-29 11:19:00 The Domainer Meeting in Paris (www.domainermeeting.eu) is going to be the largest European Domainer Meeting event for the domain industry and community. It will be held on the 19th and 20th June 2008 in Paris, only 2 days before ICANN and in the same Hotel, with over 300 people expected to attend. The Domainer Meeting?s Keynote ... More About: Weeks
ObamaHillary.com To Be Auctioned Off On eBay
2008-05-29 11:16:00 ObamaHillary.com is going on auction on eBay on June 1 2008. The auction is touted as a 100 hour auction of “The #1 political domain name in the world”. The domain will be useless unless Obama and Hillary decide to go on a joint ticket in the US presidential election later this year, but there is ... More About: Ebay
Domain Swapping Portal Zuho.com For Sale?
2008-05-28 23:45:00 I had posted about Zuho.com - the domain swapping portal - in the past. According to this Sedo listing, Zuho.com is for sale. I have tried contacting Zuho to ascertain this listing and have not had a reply yet. The contact email listed on the Sedo listing does seem shady though. Interestingly, some links on ... More About: For Sale , Domain , Sale , Portal
More than 1000 .ca domain names to be auctioned off in major .ca auction
2008-05-27 22:25:00 MyID.ca, a CIRA certified .ca domain registrar, is holding a series of online auctions dedicated exclusively to the sale of more than 1000 attractive preregistered .ca domain names. Demand for .ca domains is very strong but with more than 1 million already registered, the availability of great names is non-existent as most were acquired many years ... More About: Domain , Auction , Domain Names , Major , Names
117 Expired Domains
2008-05-27 14:42:00 I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 117 expired domains today. Because you are not subscribed to my newsletter you only get to see a sample of that but all is not lost as you can easily subscribe using the form in the top right corner - it’s free. If you want to know how ... More About: Domains
Airtravel to Tokyo? Free Cannabis! I Vote Next Domaining Conference in Japa
2008-05-27 00:19:00 According to customs officials at Tokyo -Narita airport, the main international gateway serving Japan, an unwitting passenger arriving accidentally received 142g (approximately 5 ounces) of pure cannabis after a customs test went sour. Believe it or not, a Japanese customs officer hid the huge sack of weed in a side pocket of a randomly chosen suitcase ... More About: Free , Vote , Conference , Cannabis
Contest Additional Task #2 - Stumbling Towards The Prizes
2008-05-26 17:57:00 This additional task is to help you earn additional points in the greatest domaining and blogging contest ever. If you haven?t entered the contest yet, you still have a great chance - you can win $9,000 worth of cash and prizes and you know that you gotta be in it to win it. Today I reveal ... More About: Contest , Prizes , Stumbling , Task
Paypal bug costing merchants thousands of dollars
2008-05-26 13:38:00 Various bugs are discovered on various applications on a daily basis - it’s a normal thing. I wouldn’t usually mention something like this but for the interesting circumstances. The bug appears in Paypal ’s subscription payments page and stops people from paying if they are from a different country then the site collecting the money. The ... More About: Dollars , Merchants
Domainer Arrested For Blackmail
2008-05-26 13:28:00 Police arrested a man in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday at a construction company office on the charge of domain name blackmail. Huynh Chi Hieu, 24, was caught red-handed receiving VND30 million (US$1,860) from the Hoa Sen Group, also known as the Lotus Steel Sheet Company (LSSC), at its office on Ly Tu Trong Street, ... More About: Arrested , Blackmail
Orlando Traffic East: GasPrices.com Sells for $225,000
2008-05-25 00:26:00 Andrew of DomainNameWire.com was live on site at the Orlando Traffic East conference during the Moniker auction and he reports some interesting domain sales: GasPrices.com sells for $225,000 Susan.com $50,000 Grass.com $70,000 InsuranceRates.com $225,000 Sagittarius.com $33,500 Athlete.com $122,000 Track.com $92,500 TVschedule.com $17,000 SpecialOffer.com $35,000 Ow.com $120,000 Closings.com $25,000 Maybe.com $40,000 ComputerParts.com $80,000 BlueRay.com $30,000 Rainbow.com $170,000 SexShows.com $55,000 UsedLamborghinis.com $3500 FilmMaking.com $55,000 Anger.com $49,000 MetricConversion.com $8,250 Patti.com $12,000 ExerciseBalls.com $17,500 BoxingNews.com $25,000 LabSupplies.com $18,000 RefinanceRates.com $12,500 UnderConstruction.com $12,500 FootballScores.com $37,500 FloorTiles.com $30,000 GraphicsSoftware.com $2,500
Cars.com takes on truck market with acquisition of PickupTrucks.com
2008-05-23 16:02:00 Cars.com announced recently it is expanding its automotive offering to cater for truck buyers and advertisers with its acquisition of PickupTruck s.com, an authoritative web source for pickup truck news and information. PickupTrucks.com was launched in 1995, by Mike Levine - a renowned truck writer and site editor. PickupTrucks.com delivers unbiased content, tools and information exclusively ... More About: Cars , Market , Acquisition
ParkingSpots.com - parking of a different kind
2008-05-23 15:57:00 Before you rush to register and try and park your domain name at this little beauty, let me tell you that this site caters for parking of a different kind. Or, looking at it from the point of a view of a normal, non-domainer person, Parking Spots.com allows people to rent car parking spots across the ...
America.com goes on auction
2008-05-23 15:08:00 Recently I blogged about America .com going on auction. Well, the time for auction has come with the mother of all Geo domains being auctioned off on sedo right now. The auction started yesterday and will end on the 29 May 2008. The Botson Globe is even predicting this domain sale could top the 12 million dollars ... More About: Auction
Another quality web contest
2008-05-23 09:51:00 As you are all aware I launched a big contest a couple of days ago, but it’s not the only contest around at this moment. My friend John Cow is holding a doozy of his own - the cowpetition. There are $3,000 worth of prizes to be won including a $100 from DealDotCom, copies of ContentComposer and ... More About: Contest , Quality
137 Expired domains
2008-05-23 09:39:00 I sent my newsletter subscribers a list of 137 expired domains today. Because you are not subscribed to my newsletter you only get to see a sample of that but all is not lost as you can easily subscribe using the form in the top right corner - it’s free. Here is a sample of that ... More About: Domains
Contest Additional Task #1 - Digg Your Way To Success
More articles from this author:2008-05-22 17:26:00 This additional task is to help you earn additional points in the greatest domaining and blogging contest ever. If you haven’t entered the contest yet, you still have a great chance - you can win $9,000 worth of cash and prizes and you know that you gotta be in it to win it. Today I reveal ... More About: Contest , Success , Digg , Task 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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