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VeriSign, the organization that manages the underpinning for ICANN is raising the wholesale prices it charges to Registrar organizations to manage the core base of .com and .net domains. The wholesale price of a .com domain that Verisign charges Registrars will go from $6.86 (does not include ICANN fee) to $7.34, effective July 1, 2010. That means you can realistically expect the yearly rate you pay your Registrar (example: GoDaddy) to go up by at least that amount of money.
Written by admin on December 18th, 2009 with no comments.
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ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has cleared the way to move beyond the standard latin characters for domain names and urls. They have approved the “internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process” which will allow people to apply for new domain names in native languages/scripts such as Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and others.
This is a process that has been working through the system since the mid-1990s. Now, rather than making the world conform to converting their native language into a string of roman letters, domain owners can provide internet address in their native language and characters.
Written by admin on November 6th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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This last week, we saw two interesting high-profile purchasers of domains. The first was Microsoft who purchased the office.com domain, ostensibly to house the hosted version of its popular Office software suite. The second was Yahoo, who purchased omg.com (omg = “oh my god” acronym = yahoo’s celebrity gossip site) for $80,000. General consensus around the net was that $80K was a bargain price.
Written by admin on August 14th, 2009 with no comments.
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Yahoo is apparently unloading some expensive domains that it owns — possibly to raise cash during the current economic doldrums. Contests.com, a Yahoo-owned domain, sold at an aftermarket.com domain name auction in Washington, D.C. for $320,000. Yahoo must own thousands of high-value domains. It will be interesting to see if more come on the market or if Yahoo finds a way to mask its seller identity during future sales. Search Engine Journal and TechCrunch are running stories about it.
Written by admin on June 18th, 2009 with no comments.
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Tom Merritt at CNET counts down the top 5 most expensive domains in an entertaining video. Most are stories you’ve probably already heard but there are some instructive monetization lessons to be learned from the history of expensive domain sales.
Written by admin on June 8th, 2009 with no comments.
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It’s always interesting to see information on domain transactions that generate 5-digit or more sales prices. Here are the top results from the recent Moniker Auction held earlier this month at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley event.
diego.com $58,830
dvdshrink.com $43,180
casco.com $23,530
oxygentanks.com $21,000
greatfalls.com $17,650
yomama.com $17,650
lineart.com $13,010
hutch.com $11,770
You can see the entire list at the Moniker Auction Results Archive.
Written by admin on May 14th, 2009 with no comments.
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Verizon Communications has been awarded $33.2 million in a lawsuit (NYT article, WSJ article)Â charging OnlineNic with trademark infringement and cybersquatting. Verizon claimed that OnlineNic registered hundreds of domains (example: myverizonwireless.com, iphoneverizonplans.com, and verizon-cellular.com) with the intent of deceiving online consumers.
Written by admin on December 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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In a somewhat surprising announcement today, Google opened its doors to the “little guy” domainers who want to monetize domains with Adsense directly. Google’s previous product, Adsense for Domains, was available exclusively to organizations/individuals with huge volumes of traffic. With this latest move, Google effectively lowers the bar to any domain owner with an Adsense account to park and monetize their domains with Google.
The domain and search industry is still trying to figure out if this is a good or a bad thing. Google provides advertising for many of the domain parking service companies and this move is seen as a bypass of those middle men on the part of Google. Andrew at Domain Name Wire thinks the shift is toward monopolization and believes the general revenue for domain parkers will go down, while others believe Google will pass on more of the profits directly to domain owners. Stay tuned.
Written by admin on December 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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Yesterday, Verisign released a Third Quarter Domain Name Industry Brief that showed third quarter 2008 registrations up 19% over last year during the same period but the growth rate overall is slowing. Andrew Allemann at domainnamewire.com thinks part of the tld registration growth slowdown is due to Google Adsense tightening its policy regarding parked domain site advertising. AdWords advertisers can choose to opt-out of showing ads on parked sites, making the investments in domains less attractive if your primary monetization strategy is parking.
Written by admin on December 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Companies with trademarked names can begin to register .tel domains during the sunrise registration period that starts tomorrow. The new .tel domains are designed to allow businesses to store and publish their contact details within the supporting DNS system. The information will the be available to any Internet-connected device. The domains become a link for businesses and individuals to provide constantly updated phone, email, and web addresses. Danielle Belopotosky, at The New York Times, has just written a great summary article about this new development.
Written by admin on December 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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