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Camilla.com Sells For $16K on NameJet.com

May 31st, 2009 Comments off

The domain Camilla.com sold for $16,100 on NameJet.com another great name for Mrs Jello.

There are over 18 million reference to this name on Google.

The second highest bidder went by the bidder id of camillacorp, which could have been the clothing company from Australia whose site is at camilla.com.au.  If so they stopped bidding at $16K.

Other notable sales from NameJet.com over the last few days include:

nutritionsupplements.com     $5,050
youcai.com                                 $5,015
markme.com                             $5,011
primestar.com                          $4,000
fanstop.com                              $3,433
bibleclub.com                           $1,550
filelink.com                               $1,401
nicebox.com                              $1,185
promosearch.com                   $1,007

Primestar has an interesting history as a company.  There is of course trademarks on the term but it appears the company was bought by Directv and shut down.

nutritionsupplements.com is a good name but nutritional supplements is the more accurate term

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TechCrunch: Facebook Vanity URL Coming Soon

May 31st, 2009 Comments off

According to TechCrunch,  Facebook will announce later this week that they will allow users to claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile page.

At a date and time, to be announced, the landrush will begin and users will be able to grab a vanity URL of their choice.

The Landrush rules will prohibit trademark infringement and a lots of words will be blacklisted, such as generic terms.

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Comic Strip #36

May 31st, 2009 Comments off
Is everyone a blogger? In April the Wall Street Journal reported there are over 20 million bloggers in the United States. Click on the image to enlarge. Here is a link to last week’s comic strip in case you missed it. It was “Hard Drive Crashed @#*&!!!”. Have an idea for my next comic strip? I’d love to [...]
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DNFix changes starting price from $50 to $10

May 30th, 2009 No comments

Prior to launching, DNFix relied on feedback from several pre-launch future users when determining our fixed starting price. Whether it had something to do with the state of the economy, or whether our research was just not good enough, it has been made very clear to us post-launch, that our fixed price of $50 was just not that attractive.

Therefore, effective today, DNFix has reduced its starting fixed price to $10, which will open the site up to a lot more potential users.  Those auctions already set up for $50 starting prices that are automatically relisted, will remain at $50.

Good luck and have fun!

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Domain News Episode 16

May 30th, 2009 Comments off
This weeks video is sponsored by Parked.com. Already serving over 4 million happy domain names If you did not catch last week’s episode you can check it out here.
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Final Auction Inventory for Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam released here. More names, a few .coms

May 30th, 2009 Comments off
It’s been a challenge to assemble this list and I’m sure everyone will have their opinions but here it is below. Please note, we’ve also added just a few great .com names just because they were too good to turn down. DiamondRings.com and FluShots.com! What great names. As well, all bidding will be done in Euros [...]
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If We Want To Attract The Fortune 500 To Domains, We Should Have Gone To This Show

May 30th, 2009 Comments off

We all talk about it.

For years and years now.

Getting big business to understand the value of domains.

Getting the Fortune 500 to “get” domains.

Problem is the Fortune 500 isn’t coming to our trade shows.

God knows Rick & Howard have moved heaven and earth trying to get them to come to the show, even bringing the show to them, in New York and Silicon Valley.

So maybe instead of banging our heads on the wall to get them to come to our shows, we need to go to there shows, and if so, we just missed the grandfather of them all.

Just concluded this week was the Wall Street Journal’s “All This Digital Show” held in San Diego at the Four Seasons Hotel.

How important is the show that was held this week?

Well it was sold out in January.

Right five months before the show every ticket was gone.

Want to stay at the Four Seasons, sorry sold out as well.

Who did they come to see?

Look at the lineup of Speakers for this show:

Irving Azoff | CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment

Mitchell Baker | Chairman of Mozilla

Steve Ballmer | CEO of Microsoft

Carol Bartz | CEO of Yahoo

Mark Cuban | Chairman of HDNet and Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures

Eve Ensler | Playwright and Founder of V-Day

Arianna Huffington | Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo | CEO of Nokia

Mike Lazaridis | Co-CEO of Research In Motion

John Lilly | CEO of Mozilla

John Malone | Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation

Roger McNamee | Partner, Elevation Partners

Jon Miller | Chief Digital Officer of News Corp.

Jon Rubinstein | Executive Chairman, Palm

Randall Stephenson | CEO of AT&T

Biz Stone | Co-Founder of Twitter

Owen Van Natta | CEO of MySpace

Katharine Weymouth | Publisher of the Washington Post

Evan Williams | Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter

Jeff Zucker | CEO of NBC Universal

Some heavy hitters to say the least, and a who-who of the online world.

Not only are the movers and shakers represented but their CEO’s came to speak.

You want to get the big boys to learn about domains?

You want the online giants to find you?

Maybe you should calendar this show for next year and get your tickets and room reservations early.

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Updates for 2009-05-29

May 29th, 2009 Comments off

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Weekly Updates for 2009-05-29

May 29th, 2009 Comments off

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Jay Westerdal Launches a New Website Devoted to His Legal Battle With Thought Convergence

May 29th, 2009 Comments off
Jay Westerdal has set up a new website to post developments in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Thought Convergence against Westerdal and other shareholders in his former company, Name Intelligence, Inc. TC bought Name Intelligence, Inc. for $16 million in May 2008 but the deal soon went sour.
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