Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 16 May 2008
This evening, Jude Augusta, contributing author of DomainGraduate, writes:
"Having been served well by my
account reps at GoDaddy in previous episodes, I decided to hit mine up once
again. Tess Diaz answers the phone call:
“Hi Jude. Yes, of course we can help you with that. Here’s what you do. Sure, I can email you the steps to make it
clear. No problem.”
Although I always feel I’m a
bother, Tess certainly never makes any suggestion to lend to that notion. Indeed I received very comprehensive
instructions to a vault of expiring names that is the online equivalent of the
U.S. Treasury...
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Via Search Engine Journal:
"CBS is making a major Internet and news powerplay, acquiring CNET for $11.50 per share (44% more than CNET is trading at) for a total of $1.8 Billion.
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Tech reporter Sarah Lacy points out what most in the domain business take for granted.
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs wants guarantees that the .nl domain will remain sovereign and accessible under all circumstances. State Secretary, Frank Heemskerk, believes that since the .nl domain has such large public interest, the security and sovereignty for the Netherlands must be guaranteed by domain registry SIDN.
To that end, the Ministry wants to sign an agreement with Dutch Domain Registry SIDN in mid-June, which will help secure those concerns. This move is reflected in a written reply by the State Secretary that was also addressing concerns about the collapsed landrush of numeric domains, which we reported on earlier.
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Here are the results of the Sedo's BeNeLux Auction featuring .nl, .be & .lu domains, held on May 9th. Over 7000 people viewed the auction and in our estimate about 330 bids were posted. The auction was extended by nearly 2.5 hours before kinderwagens.nl and relatiegeschenk.nl were sold.
The results are listed in Euros:
- relatiegeschenk.nl 72,000
- huren.nl 66,500
- kinderwagens.nl 10,100
- planten.nl 7,500
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Since domain names have a direct correlation with trademark law for many of us, we want to mention that The International Trademark Association’s (INTA) 130th Annual Meeting is the one must-attend event in the intellectual property industry, and the 2008 meeting in Berlin between May 17th and 21st is set to be the best yet. There will be five days of networking, educational and professional development opportunities, as well as committee meetings and exhibits...
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Here is our weekly report listing the Sedo.com sales between May 5th and May 13th:
.com Sales
taz.com 40,000 USD GreatDomains
chianti.com 28,500 USD GreatDomains
posse.com 24,500 USD
diw.com 12,500 USD
ylc.com 10,100 USD
textr.com 8,750 USD
yachtshop.com 7,600 USD
wzb.com 7,100 USD GreatDomains
gonk.com 7,000 USD
motionsports.com 6,700 USD
vko.com 6,100 EUR
zoyo.com 6,000 EUR
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Today, we received a reply from Richard Schreier, CEO of Pool.com in response to our recent article referring to accusation that the dotAsia Registry and Pool.com of foul play during the .asia auction process last year. Mr. Schreier wrote...
"Dear Chief Editor,
I would like to provide a response to the false and defamatory statements posted at www.dotasia-complot.org by Thomas Reucker and Madunia Modellbau GmbH. It should be noted that we believe the actions taken by Thomas Reucker and Madunia Modellbau GmbH are a retaliation by Reucker/Madunia as a result of their exclusion from certain DotAsia auctions (which Reucker/Madunia itself discloses on the “notes” section of the website). This exclusion was the result of the investigation by Pool.com and the DotAsia Organisation into possible bid rigging (ref. here), which in Canada is a criminal act punishable by fines and imprisonment...
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
As most of you know, last month MySpace won its case against Sanford "Spamford" Wallace -- the infamous 1990s "Spam King" who (despite losing many court battles and owing millions in fines) simply can't seem to give up his obsession with scammy marketing techniques. The win was a default judgment, mainly because Wallace simply disappeared and stopped responding to court requests.
Today, a judge ruled on the punishment, officially awarding MySpace $234 million from Wallace and his associate Walter Rines. Given Wallace's disappearing act (which he's done in the past as well) it's unlikely that MySpace will ever see a dime of the money, but that hasn't stopped the company from touting this as the largest ever award under CAN SPAM. Amusingly, the extremely short court ruling also bars Wallace from setting up any new MySpace profiles. It doesn't say anything about Facebook, though, so perhaps that's where we'll see him next...
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