Domain Sales

At one time the cybersquatting perpetrators were fringe geeky hackers locked in their mothers’ basements Now, entire organizations are forming with the sole goal of sitting on expensive domains and hoping to cash out on them. But like the spammers who have been reduced to sending nonsensical series of letters …

I read an interesting piece today about Sarah Palin’s use of social media and her problems with cybersquatting. She not only failed to obtain her name on Twitter, but will need to find a new handle now that she is no longer Governor of Alaska. Thinking only in the short …

News has circulated that Twitter has filed for a trademark for the word “tweet”. The company’s blog, however, makes it clear that it will not go after sincere, legitimate applications and services that use the name. For those domain owners and businesses that have domain names with the word “tweet” …

As the list of virtual bad guys grows and the front has extended to a global scale, ICANN has been granted new powers that will allow it to track down and neutralize nefarious domain registrars. From cybersquatting to providing spammers with safe havens, they might sound like a band of …

In most countries, use of ccTLDs is common practice. Despite the wide availability of the .us domain, most American companies choose to stick with the tried and tested .com. Go America, a publicly traded communications company, decided to take a different route. The company recently renamed itself Purple Communications and …

Looking to dominate the domain industry? You may want to look into Domize. It’s a free tool that lets you track domain registration trends and find available names. The statistics feature is quite useful. Today’s report, for example, says that 1,020 domains containing the word “michael” have been registered, while …

Talk Show host and celebrity Jay Leno has scored a victory over an individual from Wisconsin who registered the domain name, weeknightswithjayleno.com. Garrison Hintz claims that he registered the domain name with the intention of creating a fan site about Jay Leno; however, the site has instead served as an …

Do domains matter anymore? Chris Matyszczyk at Cnet doesn’t seem to think so. In what is actually a pretty interesting read, he argues that while having a generic keyword domain used to be important, so few people directly type web addresses into their browsers that a good domain doesn’t a …

American real estate company RE/MAX is suing Cristine Rosa Lefkowit, a realtor specializing in luxury sales, for cybersquatting and trademark infringement. It claims that she registered more than 50 domains in bad faith, including remaxbrazil.com and remaxfrance.com. Lefkowitz said she registered the domains many years ago with the hope of …

You can mutter all you want about it, but that won’t change the fact that talk.com has just sold for £303,943 ($500,000 USD). The buyer, National A-1, is the same company that bought contests.com for £231,870 ($380,000 USD) earlier this month. The £300,000 price tag was a bargain as far …