New Dot .hub market soon to open

 

Disputes about marshland property taxes, oyster bed revenues, and coconut harvesting environmental concerns gave rise to this constitutional anarchy. While the United Nations is still considering their petition offer, the European domain markets have been awash in requests for dot-HUB. The country code for .HUB will be brokered by Marcaria.com of France. Expatriates of the New Hebrides region have been approved for .hub domain purchase with responsibility for proof left with the domain name registrars.

 

Can-Do Dominican Republic Market Open

The first stage land rush of Dominican Republic names is now in play. The  domain TLD sales for the country code .DO are now occuring through March 2010.  When competition for a single .do name happens, priority will be given to the person who has the registration under .com.do, .net.do, or .org. do for the longest period.

After March 10 the regular registration period for .do names begins. Interested domainers can preregister for US $240.

Expats Can Buy .Fr’s says Marcaria

French Domain Hub Marcaria.com says that AFNIC announced in late 2009 that it was extending the qualification of purchase for .FR cc TLD names to French expatriates. This can mean big opportunity for domainers with formerly French colleagues or employees, or domain name portfolio managers with French expatriate contacts.

There will be no new technical tests on entry of the data, in order to minimize the burden of checking domain name holders’ geographical location;

AFNIC will check eligibility with the registrars managing the domain name:
The administrative contact person must have a presence on French territory;
These eligibility checks will be triggered by complaints from outside, as well as in the course of random checking.

VeriSign Announces Increase in .com/.net Domain Name Fees

More information on VeriSign is available at www.verisign.com.

Swype.com sold for $25,000 Did Swype Inc acquire it?

Recently Swype.com was sold for $25,000 at the Sedo domain market place and it was quite a good domain sale for a non-dictionary word domain.

When I checked the whois info of Swype.com , the admin and tech details include an email with @swypeinc.com and most likely it was acquired by Swype Inc which is based in Seattle, US.

When I checked trademark database, Swype is still trademarked and it is live.

Any way, it was a good domain sale for a non-dictionary word .com domain.

Rick Latona: Big Man Big Domain

Have you ever had that one specific domain name that you just wished could be yours or at least one that you could help sell? One that you would be willing to give just about anything for? Well every once in a while the perfect opportunity comes along to make just that happen. Rick Latona was lucky enough to take advantage of a perfect opportunity such as this.

Mr. Latona has recently secured the brokerage agreement for domains.com. Even though the business does not come with it and the name will definitely not come cheap he plans to put together marketing materials and attempt to personally sell the name for everyone to see.

Although it is definitely not an easy keyword to obtain, domains.com holds the second highest ranking position on the Google search engine for “domains”. Mr. Latona is not in a hurry to sell the site but he hopes that in the first half of 2010, if the right buyer is found, that he can cut a deal with them to get this gem sold. Currently there is not a set price for domains.com, but with it’s high ranking number in search engines it’s safe to say that  it won’t go for cheap.

What a Loss for Big G (Google domain dispute)

Recently there was an argument over a domain name that was reported to be very close to Google.com. The battle over the disputed Groovle.com domain name was lost by Google.

A complaint was submitted by Google to the National Arbitration Forum, asking that Groovle.com be switched to the complainant by the respondent, 207 Media. Google remarked that the domain name was way to similar to its own trademarked name. The similarities between the two names are not eliminated by minor misspellings or alterations. They felt that the domain name was being used in bad faith by the respondent.

The respondent insisted that they could prove a noticeable difference between the two domains. The disputed domain contains an “R” and a “V” which is important to distinguish the appearance, sound, connotation, and meaning from the trademarked Google. With the “V” and “R” present it is clear the the meaning of the predominant word isn’t Google at all but in fact groovy or groove.

The disputed domain was decided to remain with the respondent by the Panel, considering that Google could not show all of the elements  that they needed. Even the best of the best don’t always get what the want in the end.

 Here you can see the details on the final decision.

imingle.com sold for $30,000

imingle.com sold for $30,000 recently and it was sold at the Sedo domain marketplace.

I think it is very good domain sale and it shows there is demands for domains with “i” and keywords.

May be the domain was bought by a dating agency or other end user.

Any way, imingle.com for $30,000 was very good domain sale.

Other interesting “i” + keyword .com domain sales are:

iReport.com sold for $750,000

iSearch.com sold for $300,000

iGen.com sold for $100,000

Translation Pages Hot

The big news in domain development these days is converting active native language pages to another language for a given country code or demographic. Witness a certain expert domainer branching out into translation services for exiting websites to coordinate dual language site releases.  This new service offered by WhiteBark Innovations for website translations can serve up those country code websites domainers are now looking to build.

Recent Sedo domain sales including Trybe.com

I found some interesting domain sales at Sedo.com which is a popular domain marketplace.

BedRoomFurniture.co.uk  sold over $57,000

Quarz.com Euro 7,400

SuperMoving.com sold for $7,500

Blacky.com sold for $7,500

Trybe.com sold for $7,000

AutoInsuranceComparison.net sold for $6,750

Sply.com sold for $5,700

SocialInterest.com sold for nearly $4,500

identified.com sold for $4,000

SuperPrinting.com sold for $4,000

MetricConverter.com sold for $3,200

Appstorm.com sold for $3,000

Oilimperium.com sold for nearly $3,000

Boubou.net sold for nearly $2,800

TennisRacket.net sold for $2,300

Kids-Toys.com sold for nearly $2,200

Clogs.org sold for $2,200

Work24.com sold for $2,100

Contara.com sold for nearly $2,100

NetzTeil.net sold fo r$2,100

MicroPayment.net sold for $1,700

BusinessLove.com sold for nearly $1,600

Herceg.com sold for $1,500

DoctorsMap.com sold nearly $1,400

UsedVan.com sold for $1,250

Sex.Gy sold for $1,250

MusicianSoftware.com sold for around $1,100

Juba.org sold nearly $1,100

FootballSport.com sold for Euro 1,050

Geschenk.biz sold for over Euro 1,000

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