Rapidly Changing Domain News

Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies’ search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
But now some details are starting to emerge about just what form the Justice Department’s investigation of the Yahoo-Google deal will take. The agency is expected to send civil investigative demands

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SearchDomainsForSale.com management has announced that it is expanding the business model to provide domain broker and domain consulting services to domain name portfolio owners, individuals and corporations.

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Even though there’s not a NASDAQ or S&P 500 for domain investors, industry insiders all know how steeply the domain market rose in 2007.

More people have asked me about domains — or told me that they’ve started their own portfolio of domains in 2007 — than in all the years since I registered my first domain in 2000.

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ICANN have decided to change their rules for allocating new Top level domain names (TLDs), with plans to open up applications to allow organisations to have their own domains .cliffordchance or brand domains .guiness; as well as more community based domains such as .africa or .HIV.

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Last week
’s decision to allow companies to buy their own top-level domains (TLDs) has led to press forecasts of a ‘land-grab’ similar to that of the late 1990s. Nora Nanayakkara, director of business development at domain marketplace SEDO, believes this prospect may be exaggerated.

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So how did Bido.com do with their one auction a day concept after their June 18th launch? The sales data follows after the break.
Bido Sales week 2 June 22-28
Date Domain Bids Price, $
06/28/08 marriagerights.com 7 $540.00
06/27/08 housetips.com 9 $432.00
06/26/08 panelist.com 12 $1,866.00
06/25/08 cerealbox.com 38 $2,695.00

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Evil Angel founder John Stagliano will present the keynote address at Internext, set for Aug. 8-10 at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Fla. The keynote will take place at noon, on Saturday, August 9.

Stagliano, who is facing a federal obscenity prosecution, said he is honored by the opportunity to speak to members of the adult industry

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Sometime ago I was working with a very large company and buying a domain name they “no longer needed”. This company happened to be GE and the snag that I ran into was all the legal things GE needed to do to sell me the domain. Adding in legal fee
’s onto of the buying price drove the price of the domain to an overpriced purchase and I passed.

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(ICANN) voted unanimously to ‘relax’ the rules about which top-level domains (TLD) can be created. In other words, the ICANN board decided the existing TLDs aren’t enough and that more should be created. The current TLDs include .com, .org, .net, .gov, .mil and .edu, country TLDs such as .us, .uk, .tv, etc., and newer bizarre additions

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Will the deal harm the US search ad market?

Antitrust regulators will take a closer look at the potential implications of an advertising deal made by Google and Yahoo last month.
Off and on over the past few years, it had been suggested the best thing Yahoo could do for its search advertising business would be to give it to Google.

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The loosening of restrictions on internet domain names could lead to a boom in cyber-squatting and increased costs for UK businesses, say legal experts.

Last week the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) relaxed strict controls on the use of “top-level” domains, such as .com and .co.uk.

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Microsoft
’s search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum.

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Yesterday at the Domain Roundtable show the winners of the annual Name Intelligence Industry awards were named as follows:

# Registrar with the Largest Net Gain - GoDaddy
# Best Registrar for Resellers - Enom
# Outstanding Drop Catcher - NameJet ….. continued_>>

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At its meeting in Paris, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a not-for-profit organization that oversees the naming scheme for web sites, voted to accept a proposal that will allow companies to purchase new top-level domain names ending in almost whatever suffix they choose.

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Moniker.com
(http://www.moniker.com), an Oversee.net company and provider of Domain Asset
Management(R) services, today announced an initial list of premium contenders
for a live and online domain name auction at the GeoDomain Expo, the world’s
largest geo domain conference and auction, July 10-12 in Chicago.

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Getting a domain listed in Sedo
’s domain auction can be a big win for domain owners, especially if their domains are generic. (See “When Should You Send a Sedo Offer to Auction?“) There are two ways to get a domain listed in Sedo’s auction. One is to submit it to an account manager or to the monthly Great Domains auction.

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The Internet is set to experience its biggest transformation in decades following the four day 32nd International Public Meeting in Paris last week of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The conference was opened by the French Minister for Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development

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Getting a domain listed in Sedo
’s domain auction can be a big win for domain owners, especially if their domains are generic. (See “When Should You Send a Sedo Offer to Auction?“) There are two ways to get a domain listed in Sedo’s auction. One is to submit it to an account manager or to the monthly Great Domains auction.

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It
’s getting even harder to make of a good short relevant domain name. Hence the web-based tools allowing you to find one are numerous. This time I will review mostly the ones that check the domain name availability dynamically and also provide you with some tips to advance your search.

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It
’s getting even harder to make of a good short relevant domain name. Hence the web-based tools allowing you to find one are numerous. This time I will review mostly the ones that check the domain name availability dynamically and also provide you with some tips to advance your search.

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