Dot Tel Celebrates One Year Birthday

There are so many reasons why .tel,  launched by TelNic a year ago is the tld of choice. Top of the list is the verbal interplay with telephone and tele-links. Any new brand can register at .Tel and make sure their customers know the route to accessing the service or what type of service it’s for.

Skimming the Pool for March 9, 2010

The dropping names list included deboot.com and other long or non numeric names. Deleting domains at Pool.com include a five number 23520.com. WatchResources.com and CanCost.com look intriguing. RentAuto.info also drops. Battlechat.com deletes, a strong gaming name and an outstanding name for a role playing game forum.

Metal.com Nabs $165K at Sedo

Among the tasty picks at Sedo this week was a big dollar auction bid securing the commodity name Metal.com. Metal.com rang in at $165,00 a nice return by any estimator. Another big dollar sale was Stockprices.com at the same auction source. Zaire’s Furniture.co.za changed hands for $33,000, a respectable price for a non-tld country code name. Flashy fashion name Mo.De (German) cost its lucky bidder over $21K. Domain shoppers were hungry this week, even dot-net FuneralHome.net nabbed $30K.

Typo Squat Big Biz, Says Google

Domain experts estimate almost $500 million in typo derived revenue. Highlighting the problem is the 57% estimated to include PPC ads. This does not square with posted rules & regulations governing online usage of copyrights. A claim of concern is the following:

According to the report, typosquatters reg more names targeting co.s in sectors with high PPC prices. If PPC funding is encouraging typosquatting,   PPC payments are keeping them cycling on. Do Google’s payments put the system in motion? Domainers know squatters register domains exactly in anticipation of getting paid by Google. And Google knows where it’s showing ads.

Food for thought.

Skimming the Pool for Monday March 1st

The Pool List for deleting domains and drop listing domain names for Monday March 1st has some four letter dot coms good for inquiring minds. Forumformen.com is a good forum name for a launching platform. And Usebicycle.com is a niche name with potential. And the microloan site one could make out of lowincomeloans.com explains itself. TodayonTube.com sounds like a great daily blog on Youtube fresh viral videos. Wantphone.com is a great mobile app waiting to happen.

Chile Name Market Shakes Up

The serious earthquake in Chile has seen a dramatic rise in domain name purchases in the last 24 hours since the earthquake in that country. Perhaps catching those who hesitated buying Haiti names too long, the Chile relief effort and search engine tornado is happening now. Those owning Chile names and geo related domains might auction them now for highest potential value.

Sun / Oracle to Enter Domain/Hosting Industry

Word on the wires is that the new compendium of Oracle after swallowing Sun is giving birth to a great new brainchild. This new bonanza is a crashing spear into the world of domaining; A new domain name registrar and hosting company that will blow the socks off current market leaders (rhymes with Schmoe-daddy).  Sparcstations off the forward bow!

No name has been chosen by Sun/Oracle yet, but super secret teams in Cupertino and Mountain View are already clashing over turf. The technical entity will not be in violation of any super secret hosting or redundancy agreements because the new spinoff corporate entity will be a separate company. Sweet! The domainer’s mouth waters at the possible debut deals offered….

Domainers in the know and technical cognoscienti scoff that nobody can toppled the Danica-fronted Big Daddy.  But hosting service watchers have heeded the firestorm of complaints that “Schmoe-daddy” customers have. Buying the registrar is the nice part, some domainer running an ICANN-powered fruit stand will make a tidy bundle.

(from Domainowl.com)

Video Domains Continue Brisk App development

Guinness World records has purchased a video site to upload videos and create a media channel for its fans. Bragster.com is an example of an app site developed for a big ticket buyer. And so the video hosting world sees yet another ‘tube channel take off. Tufts University now takes Youtube videos as applications, and American Express sparked a viral hit on their website with an article how to make your personal business into a Facebook site. Is there room for one more media portal that hosts video? Ning, are you listening?

Rollingstone.com Gets NetSolled

The active magazine with the avante garde approach to rock music and intrepid journalism may be missing their domain name. According to the WHOIS their name is paid up until 2011. So why has the RollingStone.com website become a Network Solutions domain parking page? Those one million viewers a month may have click elsewhere for a while. A word to the wise, a lost 404 opportunity is a lost squeeze.

DomainGang.com Hacked?

Well, unless you enjoy flat Times New Roman displays of the DomainGang site cgi-bin, the game is afoot over at the DomainGang.com website. First there was the cgi-bin file, then the blank white screen. The Twitter page for the blog site has comments allegedly by the admin regaridng the domain password getting stolen. Has our favorite snarky Domaining site been hacked? Is nothing sacred?

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