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  • Red Bull Can Now Energize Mobile Phones
    Andrew Allemann February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Energy drink seller Red Bull wins rights to RedBull.mobi. Red Bull, famous for giving you an energy boost, can now energize mobile phones with the domain name RedBull.mobi. The company won the domain name in a dispute at World Intellectual Property Association. The respondent, Roy Atar of Israel, ...
  • Cheap Domain
    Ross February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    So you want to get a Cheap Domain? Well there are many ways to register a cheap domain. You can even get a free domain if you are at the right place at the right time. This is not something that is tricky at all but may take a little bit of practice to get the right prices for your cheap domain. Its...
  • Twitter.com adds “Expand” and Contract for short URL’s
    Jamie Zoch February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Twitter.com is a pretty amazing tool. You can get answers nearly Instantly, find people locally, offer your products or services and so much more. One problem with any service that takes a few seconds to create an account to post whatever you want is Spammers and people that do bad. Twitter allows y...
  • It’s Time For Godaddy To Rethink It’s Super Bowl Strategy
    MHB February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    I had dinner with my sister last night, and we talked about the game for a while, then she mentions Godaddy.com.  She asks me do you work with them, and what exactly do they do? That’s just great. A very smart, Internet user, can’t figure out after watching 2 commercials, what a company...
  • Back by Popular Demand: Google Analytics Webinar
    Elliot Silver February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Last week, Buy Domains offered a free webinar called “Analytics for Your Small Business Website” and over 400 domain developers and businesses joined the discussion.  Due to a scheduling conflict (DomainFest), I was not able to attend, although it was something I wanted to attend. Becau...
  • .Tel Landrush Starts At 10am EST Today
    MHB February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    The landrush for the new .Tel  extensions open at 10am EST this morning on a first come, first served basis. .Tel registrations will be available though many registrars including moniker.com I met Justin Edelman, last week at DomainFest, a representative for the .tel registry, whose .tel domain is ...
  • First National Mattress Now Open for Business
    Rick Schwartz February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Morning folks!! Passive aren't we? That can't happen. They wouldn't do that. That's impossible. That could never happen here. People would not stand for that. That's impossible. That's impossible. Keep telling yourself that and maybe that will be like clicking your heels in Oz and stopping it. ...
  • AfternicDLS Weekly Sales Up To February 1
    Chad Kettner February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    This week’s AfternicDLS sales report includes 358 domains that sold for over $535,000 (an average of nearly $1500 per domain). Some of the highlights included CentralAir.com for $8000, ConvertibleCars.com for $8000, and MilitaryWatches.com for $7000. Check out the full list after the jump̷...
  • Copenhagen Is The Next Kyoto
    Scott February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Americans don’t really know about the Kyoto Protocol, as the U.S. isn’t a part of it.  Well, technically we are; we just didn’t ratify it.  So it’s not in the every day vocabulary of regular Americans.  Anyways, the treaty, ratified by 183 countries, legally binds the sign...
  • German content category added
    Dominik Mueller February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    For your information, today I added a German category to this blog where you can read the German articles that I will be writing in addition to the English content as of today. The German articles will not be visible on the home page or in the blog archive, so the posts will only be [...]pCopyright ...
  • What to do when that big offer for your domain comes in!
    admin February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
      I normally get three types of offers from people writing to me on my domains. The first is from people who ask me to make the first move, “What would you sell x for? Are you considering selling X – what is the price?” I realise that this is a standard negotiating tactic and ...
  • My Two Hand Regs from the Superbowl
    SkyDomains February 3, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    This is by no means an analogy of the Superbowl. I believe most of the bloggers have already done a superb job and blogs like DotWeekly has already gone in depth into the area I am usually  most interested in which is the ads. This is just  to tell you about a little domain I purchased [...]...
  • Twitter Can’t Take Down GoDaddy
    Andrew Allemann February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Twitter backlash at GoDaddy ads is amusing, but it won’t add up to much. The Monday after the Super Bowl is filled with analysis. Not about the football game, but the commercials. Domain Name Wire received literally thousands of search visitors Monday from people searching for GoDaddy̵...
  • Home games - an opportunity?
    Barry February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    A suggestion recently came from Kevin, one of my readers and I thought it might make for an interesting study. The general suggestion was that people are probably going to look for cheaper ways to entertain themselves during these difficult financial times. Card, dice and board games all came to my ...
  • DomainSponsor’s Legendary Business Development Director Ron Sheridan Steps Down
    After successfully completing a two-year quest to throw a party for domainers at the Playboy Mansion (accomplished last week at DOMAINfest Global), DomainSponsor's legendary Director of Business Development, Ron Sheridan, is moving on....
  • A Must Have Twitter Tool
    The Twitter application I talked about on Saturday was launched today at noon and already seems to be a tremendous success. Sorry for posting late on this, I was at Kyle Graham’s house one of the creators of Viral Tweets to find out more. After talking to Kyle the main idea behind this tool is...
  • Dollars.com Bidding at $400k
    Elliot Silver February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    With a little about a day and a half left in its auction at Sedo, Dollars.com currently has a high bid of $385,990.  This domain name changed hands in July of 2007 for $650,000. This is a strong domain name, and I predict it will close near the previous amount at which it sold. Related posts:Euro...
  • Think You Can’t Compete With the Big Guys: How 2 Regular Guys Turned $2K Into $1M & Kick Madison Ave. Ass
    MHB February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Indiana brothers Joe and Dave Herbert entered a contest to create a Super Bowl commercial for Doritos. Their commercial “crystal ball”,  was chosen from around 2,000 entries. Doritos paid five finalists, $25,000, but promised to pay a contestant $1 million if the ad chosen to run during the...
  • GoDaddy Charges Own Customers with Cybersquatting
    Andrew Allemann February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Domain name registrar files UDRP complaints for its trademarks. You won’t believe where the domain names are registered. Domain name registrar GoDaddy .com and its parent company have filed 4 UDRP cases with World Intellectual Property Organization this year. What’s interesting isn&#...
  • List of Available LLL.in for Hand Registration
    Indian Domain Name Blog February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    There are still a large number of LLL.in available for hand registration - 1,325 as of around noon Eastern today.  A member of our forums, CNN, has kindly posted a list of which ones are available here. We have an entire forum dedicated to discussing LLL.in and LLL.co.in, and you can find answers t...
  • Expired L-L.in Domain Names
    Daily Domain Blog February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Recently dropped L-L.in Indian domain names available to reg   A-F.IN A-G.IN A-X.IN B-H.IN C-H.IN D-Z.IN E-B.IN E-H.IN E-O.IN F-E.IN F-X.IN H-K.IN I-G.IN I-R.IN K-S.IN N-E.IN N-I.IN O-C.IN O-X.IN R-O.IN S-F.IN S-K.IN S-X.IN T-E.IN V-R.IN W-H.IN X-H.IN X-Z.IN Z-A.IN Z-H.IN Z-X.IN Source: NamePros.C...
  • Who won when it comes to Super Bowl Searches: HangInThereJack.com/
    Jamie Zoch February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    Okay, okay! This is my last post about the Super Bowl and it’s ads! The only reason I am posting so much about them is you can LEARN so much about them! According to Google Trends Feb 1, 2009 (rolling picture, day of the super bowl) the most popular search term for the 24 hours in [...]...
  • Super Bowl 3D Commercial
    Steve Smith February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
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  • LinksKhoj.com - Link Directory
    Daily Domain Blog February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    LinksKhoj.com is a 100% FREE, human edited, comprehensive web directory for websites. Your Search Ends Here….As The Name Says Links Khoj Which Means Search Links.. Submit Your Site And Search The Site’s You Would Like to Exchange Links with. To Improve Your Sites Statistics And In Turn Your Rev...
  • Does Vogue Want to Launch .Live Domain?
    Andrew Allemann February 2, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments
    An example of the confusion that will reign when new TLDs are launched. This morning I saw an ad in the print edition of The New Yorker for Vogue.TV, the popular magazine’s multimedia web site. Here’s the ad: Do you see the part of the ad circled in green? It’s kind of small, so...