Archive for February 9th, 2010

Hayward, California domain name given to pool company. Here’s a domain name dispute that should make geo domain owners’ blood boil. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization has awarded the domain name Hayward.com to pool company Hayward Industries. The domain name is owned by Chad Wright, a domain investor known for owning popular California city .coms.... »

Talk about a scary decision. Decision D2009-1493 A domainer just lost a domain he paid $20,000 to acquire and recently valued it at $100K. A three member WIPO panel took away,  what most of us would regard to be a Geo domain, Hayward.com and wwwhayward.com and awarded it to the trademark holder Hayward Industries. Hayward is a... »

Google launches Buzz. AT&T owns Buzz.com. Google announced Google Buzz today. Immediately I thought of the domain name Buzz.com. A couple years ago I was working on a domain acquisition from AT&T and, while searching whois, noticed that the company owned Buzz.com. The Buzz.com domain name has sat largely underutilized. Recently, a... »

Sedo.com has released it’s 2009 Q4 report for domain name sales. These reports provide some extremely important data to domain name buyers and sellers. Here is some of that data and some of my thoughts about them. .com domain names held the highest amount of domain name sales for the year of 2009 out of... »

Politicians and instrumental web companies nominated for awards. As part of a year long celebration of the 25th anniversary of .com, domain registry VeriSign today announced nominees for its “.com 25″. There are 75 nominees; a panel of judges will whittle it down to the “.com 25″. The public is invited to show... »

Two weeks, two great recreational domain sales. Domain name brokerage NameMedia has sold the domain name Biking.com for $250,000. This comes just a week after selling Boating.com for the same amount. As you might have guessed, the buyer of both names is the same, Stein Holdings. That’s a half million bucks in... »

Ali Fedotowsky made a shocking move last night on ABC’s The Bachelor (yes I watch it). Some say her leaving was staged, some say it wasn’t. Ali stated during the show that she had to decide between her job (reportedly at Facebook.com) or staying on the show. Ali departed the show even though she... »

Company releases 2009 market report. Sedo didn’t turn in any blockbuster domain sales over the past week, but you can forgive the company for a slower-than-normal week. After all, the company just released its 2009 domain market study (pdf), which contains a startling stat: Sedo sold 10,070 domain names last quarter. That’s more than the... »

One of the best things about buying domain names from NameMedia’s Buy Domains is that I can use my American Express card to make the purchase instead of having to pay with a wire transfer or ACH. Even better is that they don’t charge anything extra for using my AmEx. This is great for... »

Domain content aggregator adds more features. NameBee.com has added twitter, news, and forum posts to its domain information content aggregation site. Launched a year ago this month, NameBee.com has primarily focused on aggregating domain name blogs. The new features, released today, allow domainers to review and interact with more content outside the blogosphere: - Twitter Aggregation... »