Internet fraud’s price put at $550 million

Today’s cost of American online fraud comes in at a staggering $550 million. Authorities are tracing white collar crime growth in the triple triple digits. The anonymity afforded by the internet allows fraud and other crimes to be perpetrated on a broader scale than ever before. Viruses, piracy, and fee based scams were the principal cause of the frauds. California is the American state where more internet fraud crimes than anywhere else were reported.

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.

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.

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)

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.

3 character bonanza at Pool.com

Skimming the pool list of deleting domains incldues some intriguing three character dot coms and dot info options. 3ih.com and 7h4.com are some of them. U1c.com and 9hm.com are others. A short domain can be easy to type and ideal for a corporate server and honeymoon brand.

Do you have 12 million and one dollars? This domain seller would like you to break a world record.

I come across with this bizarre domain and the domain owner is asking $12,000,001 to buy his domain for you to break a world record. It is just bizarre as the domain is not even worth reg fees for me. The domain name is www.themostexpensivedomainnameintheworld.com and on this website, the owner mentions about the domain sale of sex.com for 12 million dollars in 2006 and he or she has been asking for 12 million and one dollars for the domain to break the domain world record.

He mentioned that the buyer would be listed in the Guinness Book of Records and I don’t know how he or she could mention something like this as it would be out of his or her control.

It gave me a good laugh and just wanted to share this with you.

Dot Music Fronts TLD name Success

The .Music (Dot Music)url destination claims two million global subscribrs to the domain based music portal. This unique music interchange serves as the type of platform many TLD applications to ICANN envision but can be speculative about potential for delivery. The .music address story serves as a functional exemplar to the success many ICANN TLD formation. applications strive for.

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