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This week I’ll be doing a series of profiles of my staff and partners. I thought it would be appropriate to start with the team that does the bulk of the work for our web design projects. They are the unsung heroes and without them nothing would get done. The design and development of the sites [...]

A lot of readers have been asking for us to release some picks for NameJet.com, like we do on a regular basis for SnapNames.com.

I don’t know how often I will do this, or if I will ever do it again, but here are some great domains available for back order on NameJet.com.

As we told you on the other day, under the new Namejet policy all auctions are restricted to only those who entered the backorder auction, even if the winning bidder defaults. (no more public auctions).

So if you have any interest in any of these domains you need to get your backorder placed now, as the deadlines for the backorders start as soon as 11Pm EST tonight.  You can click on the links to backorder or copy and paste.

newjerseysingles.com (Singles domain are nice sellers in live auctions)

californiaforeclosures.com (California has the highest foreclosure rate in the US by far) (backorder time expired on this one last night at 11PM)

braces.info (A great one word .info, for a huge high paying topic)

filth.com ( A one word.com that can relate to the adult business or cleaning business)

freemp3downloads.com (name probably has huge traffic and  is already at $2K pre-release)

prop8.com (this is the name of the GayMarriage Amendment in California the stried so much controversy and Gay Groups are calling for a new vote on this next year)

Gocarts.com (catergory killer domain)

KL.org (how often do you see a 2 letter .org for sale on Namejet?)

JWL.com (Nice 3 letter .com)

LitigationAttorneys.com (Huge, high paying topic with applies to tens of thousands of laywers).

BVF.com (another 3 letter .com).

ColdWar.com (one of the most discussed topics in the 1960’s and we could easily have another one with N. Korea).

JapaneseRestaurants.com (one of the biggest segments of that multi-billion dollar  industry).

Oilchanges.com (talk about a category killer).

Falk.com (a simply huge last name with over 11.5 million references in Google, Like Peter Falk the actor).<

RefinanceMortgages.com (Talk about a timely subject, high paying category killer).

Ok I feel like I given away the keys to the store, enough already.

NamePros.com announced a whole bunch of  Live Auctions.

This is a dedicated effort at providing domainers with a consistent live platform to increase domain sales.

The published schedule is as follows:

NamePros Live Auction Schedule

No Reserve Live Auction
Bidding Starts at Reserve Price
Mon, Jun 29, 2009, 3pm EST

Regular Live Auction – Short domains
5 letters or less
Thu, Jul 2, 2009, 6pm EST

Europe Special Regular Live Auction
Special timing for our European members
Mon, Jul 6, 2009, 5pm GMT

Regular Live Auction
All tlds welcome, multiple sales formats
Thu, Jul 9, 2009, 6pm EST

$1 No Reserve Live Auction
Everything starts at a buck with no reserve!
Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 3pm EST

Regular Live Auction – ccTLDs
.us .tv .de .co.uk .in .me .com.au .it .es .ws, etc
Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 6pm EST

Premium Live Auction
High Value Domains and Lots
Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 6pm EST

No Reserve Live Auction
Bidding Starts at Reserve Price
Mon, Jul 27, 2009, 3pm EST

Regular Live Auction – sTLDs
.mobi .asia .tel .jobs .travel
Thu, Jul 30, 2009, 6pm EST

Asia Special Live Auction
Special timing for our Asian members
Mon, Aug 3, 2009, 6pm IST

Regular Live Auction
All tlds welcome, multiple sales formats
Thu, Aug 6, 2009, 6pm EST

$1 No Reserve Live Auction
Everything starts at a buck with no reserve!
Mon, Aug 10, 2009, 3pm EST

Regular Live Auction – Geo Domains
place.tld or keywordplace.tld
Thu, Aug 13, 2009, 6pm EST

Premium Live Auction
High Value Domains and Lots
Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 6pm EST

No Reserve Live Auction
Bidding Starts at Reserve Price
Mon, Aug 24, 2009, 3pm EST

Regular Live Auction – gTLDs
.com .net .org .pro .biz .info .name
Thu, Aug 27, 2009, 6pm EST

OZ Special Live Auction
Special timing for our Oceania members
Mon, Aug 31, 2009, 6pm SYD

Regular Live Auction
All tlds welcome, multiple sales formats
Thu, Sep 3, 2009, 6pm EST

$1 No Reserve Live Auction
Everything starts at a buck with no reserve!
Mon, Sep 7, 2009, 3pm EST

Regular Live Auction – Domain Hacks
inter.net, tele.com, catch.us, founta.in, etc
Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 6pm EST

Premium Live Auction
High Value Domains and Lots
Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 6pm EST

Complete details can be found at: http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/592240-next-live-auction-at-namepros.html

The discussion on the auctions is at: http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/592226-official-thread-namepros-live-domain-auctions.html

Any suggestions or inputs are welcome.

Thanks for your attention.

This post was submitted by Samit.

The company behind most versions of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference website that you have seen in recent years announced a major expansion for their domain development and audio/video services firm. Also today - ICANN makes it official - Rod Beckstrom is their new CEO.

Start date: Tuesday, July 7th, 2009, start price: 1.00, description: Here's a great .com domain that can be put to immediate use in the travel sector.  Imotels.com is a perfect fit for a site that lists affordable lodging throughout the US or even the world.  Partner up with a map service site to give travelers precise directions on where to go to get a night's rest.  With the right marketing, a site such as imotels.com could become a mainstay of travel related sites, right up there with the likes of the similarly named Hotels.com.

Please see the media tab for video content related to this domain name.

This is a no
reserve auction and bidding starts at $1. If your pre-bid wins the auction, you will get a 2% cashback bonus. You may place your pre-bid now to instantly get in on the action.
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ICANN made is official today  named former U.S. National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) director Rod Beckstrom as its new CEO, replace the retiring Paul Twomey.

In March Beckstrom resigned as US cybersecurity chief in what appears to be a turf war with the National Security Agency (NSA).

ICANN’s Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, said in a statement: “Rod Beckstrom has exactly the sort of strong personal and technical background that ICANN needs, as we enter a period of unprecedented growth and change for the Internet.”

“In addition to his cyber security expertise, he’s been a successful CEO of a global enterprise, done NGO work and volunteer work and a bestselling author. It’s an extreme understatement to say we are enthused.”

The announcement of Beckstrom as CEO has been praised by leading Internet figures including Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the “Internet’s father” Vint Cerf.

“Rod Beckstrom is strikingly well-prepared to undertake a new role as CEO of ICANN. His experience in industry and government equip him for this global and very challenging job,” Cerf said.

“The Internet has changed the way the world communicates and conducts commerce,” Beckstrom said in a statement.

“And in no small way, this multi-stakeholder, bottom-up organisation has been and will continue to be at the core of the Internet’s on-going evolution. Quite simply, the proof that ICANN works, is that the Internet works.”

However a reader to our post pointed out yesterday, Mr. Beckstrom’s personal domain shows what they would regard to be false whois information.

I’m not talking about having privacy on this account I’m talking about just plain false info:

Registrant:
Private
private
private, CA 11111
US

Domain Name: BECKSTROM.COM

Administrative Contact:
Private, Private private@private.com
Private
Private, CA 11111
US
111 111-1111 fax: (650) 618 0423

Mr. George Kirikos informs me that he, as a gesture of goodwill, let ICANN know of this situation before they hired Mr. Beckstrom and apparently neither Mr. Beckstrom or ICANN chose to put the correct whois info up.

Another situation where ICANN says do as I say not as I do.

ICANN made is official today  named former U.S. National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) director Rod Beckstrom as its new CEO, replace the retiring Paul Twomey.

In March Beckstrom resigned as US cybersecurity chief in what appears to be a turf war with the National Security Agency (NSA).

ICANN’s Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, said in a statement: “Rod Beckstrom has exactly the sort of strong personal and technical background that ICANN needs, as we enter a period of unprecedented growth and change for the Internet.”

“In addition to his cyber security expertise, he’s been a successful CEO of a global enterprise, done NGO work and volunteer work and a bestselling author. It’s an extreme understatement to say we are enthused.”

The announcement of Beckstrom as CEO has been praised by leading Internet figures including Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the “Internet’s father” Vint Cerf.

“Rod Beckstrom is strikingly well-prepared to undertake a new role as CEO of ICANN. His experience in industry and government equip him for this global and very challenging job,” Cerf said.

“The Internet has changed the way the world communicates and conducts commerce,” Beckstrom said in a statement.

“And in no small way, this multi-stakeholder, bottom-up organisation has been and will continue to be at the core of the Internet’s on-going evolution. Quite simply, the proof that ICANN works, is that the Internet works.”

However a reader to our post pointed out yesterday, Mr. Beckstrom’s personal domain shows what they would regard to be false whois information.

I’m not talking about having privacy on this account I’m talking about just plain false info:

Registrant:
Private
private
private, CA 11111
US

Domain Name: BECKSTROM.COM

Administrative Contact:
Private, Private private@private.com
Private
Private, CA 11111
US
111 111-1111 fax: (650) 618 0423

Mr. George Kirikos informs me that he, as a gesture of goodwill, let ICANN know of this situation before they hired Mr. Beckstrom and apparently neither Mr. Beckstrom or ICANN chose to put the correct whois info up.

Another situation where ICANN says do as I say not as I do.

Flickr.com is of course the huge photo sharing site owned by Yahoo.

However, Yahoo does not own the .com for the proper spelling of the word, which is Flicker.com

Flicker.com, in a pretty rare move, recently posted it traffic stats on its home page along with click through rates and the stats are pretty impressive.

According to Flicker.com “by the numbers”, they receive:

Unique Visits:
3.6M /per yr

Source:
Direct Navigation (95.74%)

Outbound Clicks:
400K /per yr

CPC Keyword Values:
(Photography equipment)
$2.50 -$3.00 /click

Daily Value to Advertisers:
$2700.00 - $3300.00

According to those numbers Flicker.com, could generate somewhere around $100K in revenue a month, if Yahoo bought the domain and just sold ads on it.

Or of course Yahoo could also point that traffic to its Flickr.com site.

According to Compete.com, Flickr is the 31st busiest site on the net,  getting almost 27M visitors a month.

So the question is wouldn’t it be worth it for Yahoo’s to buy the domain Flicker.com, to add and protect one of its most valuable properties?

The huge tech blog Mashable, asked this same question a couple of years ago when the owners of the domain flicker.com reportedly turned down an offer of  $350K for the domain but then the traffic seems to have only been half of what it is now.

However now there is more than traffic at stake.

For example on the social networking site, Twitter, Flicker.com has an account with the description “Official Flicker on Twitter“, has 438 followers, while Flickr has on Twitter the “Official Flickr Twitter page” only 873 followers.

One can also ask how did a public company the site of Yahoo find get itself into this position.

According to a post on 90percentofeverthing.com, the story goes that when the founders of Flickr, decided on naming their photo sharing site, “Flicker” they found the domain was taken and the then owner did not want to sell. So instead,  they  went with a typo, a Web 2.0 domain, Flickr.com.  In 2005 Yahoo purchased the company that owned Flickr.com for an undisclosed amount.

According to allthingsdigital.com blog, Yahoo is expected to announce a “Major Brand Revamp” as early as next week.

So the question needs to be asked again, why doesn’t Yahoo just buy Flicker.com?

According to reports Google unveil a beta version of AdSense for Mobile Applications yesterday which allows companies that develop mobile applications that run on devices like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android system.

AdSense for Mobile Applications allows developers to integrate AdSense network ads into their mobile applications and to allow advertisers to bid for placement in their apps. Previously, Google AdSense ads showed up only on Web pages rendered by mobile phone browsers

“We are also experimenting with ways to allow advertisers to bid for ad placement on specific applications,” says a Google spokesperson. Google works with application developers to determine the proper signals that help AdSense for Mobile determine the relevance of an ad. The system then matches the signals to relevant advertiser keywords that bid for placement on Google’s Content Network through the AdWords interface.

Now, iPhone and Android application developers can connect their applications with Google’s network. From there, ads appear within the applications and developers earn revenue, similar to regular Web sites displaying Google-brokered ads.