Archive for April 2007
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Fools!
Investment advisory publisher The Motley Fool Inc., which owns the domain name Fool.com, has failed in its attempt to appropriate Fools.com without compensation from the domain's original registrant, Domain Works Inc. from Canada. Domain Works had registered Fools.com in 1998. The company had initially redirected the domain to its corporate website and later set up [...]
Greeting.com Leads Domain Sales Charts
DNJournal's latest Top 30 chart of domain sales prices is shown below. Greeting.com leads the list with an amazing $350,000 sale; the domain was sold at Moniker's domain auction at last month's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Las Vegas. Many other sales from that auction are included in this list because the domain transfers concluded during the [...]
From Domainer To Revolutionary: The Plan To Unseat Google
Frank Schilling describes in a post on his blog how the world's six top domain owners could leverage their power to set up an alternative search engine and advertising network that might eventually unseat Google, the world's top search engine, whose monopoly-like powers are increasingly feared by website owners, online marketers and privacy advocates alike. [...]
Domain Names As Property?
The market is already crazy for domains and good domains are increasingly scarce but at this time, what domain buyers get is actually a service contract, which means that it's currently not possible to actually "own" a domain in the traditional sense. It's more like a subscription where you pay for usage rights. What do [...]
RegisterFly Goes On The Offensive
In a stunning reversal of fortunes it appears that RegisterFly is getting back on its feet. Late last night, RegisterFly CEO Kevin Medina hurriedly called a press conference to lay out a plan that he claims will allow him to put the embattled domain registrar back on the map. The key to the comeback? An [...]