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I’ve been following Mike Mann’s Facebook page where yesterday he said he wound  up registering almost 11,000 domain names.

The Facebook post started off by saying that Mike registered 4,793 domain names, at the next update the number of registrations hit 6,640 and by the end of yesterday Mike had registered “almost 11,000 domains”

The 11,000 domain names were compiled from an ongoing list of domain names he has been working on for a while:

“Almost 11,000 names registered Tuesday from pending list I had built up.”

For Mike who has been in the business since the 1990′s,  it was a personal one day record for the most number of domains registered in one day.

All of Mike Mann domain names including the ones registered yesterday are on DomainMarket.com

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A few days ago George Zimmerman started a website, trying to raise funds for his legal defense.

For a guy who has been in the news everyday for well over a month, George is reason number 1001 for why you own your own domain name, this time in case you need to raise money for your legal defense.

However just a couple of weeks ago Netfirms of Burlington, Massachusetts, went out and registered the domain name GeorgeZimmerman.com (the domain does not resolve) but it left Mr. Zimmerman to come up with a different domain name.

So the official site set up by Zimmerman is therealgeorgezimmerman.com

Zimmerman also registered realgeorgezimmerman.com (without “the”) and it forwards to his main site.…

Its a new baseball season and the Miami Marlins, formerly the Florida Marlins have a new name, a new $600 Million stadium, but don’t own the domain MiamiMarlins.com

The domain name MiamiMarlins.com was first registered way back in 1997 and looks to be control of the same person/company that originally registered the domain.

The domain name isn’t parked, there are no ads on the site, just a statement that “this site is privately owned” and the Alexa ranking with an email address.

The baseball team doesn’t own the name of its new stadium, Marlins park.

The domain name marlinspark.com was first registered in 2006 and is a parked page.

The official site of the baseball team is Marlins.com and they also own the domain name FloridaMarlins.com

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Rick Schwartz may have just bought the next category killer domain name for under $4k within the last month.

This week the Internet has been buzzing about what is broadly called “Smart Glasses”

Google’s own smart glasses product has been the subject of hundreds or stories in this past week

Google’s smart glasses project has been referred to as Google Glasses or Project Glass.

Smart Glasses maybe wind up being the new broad term for a product like cell phones or tablets as there seem to be a lot of manufactures for this new product.

Although this past week has been full of news of Google’s product, there is are other manufactures including Apple, that have plans to roll out their own version of Smart Glasses products in the near future.

Yes the domain name SmartGlasses.com was sitting for the taking, on one of the registrar aftermarket products either NameMedia’s DLS or SedoMLS but either way Rick purchased the domain off of a Directnic.com feed for under $4k.

It’s great story because there is always a sense in the domaining world that the old guys wouldn’t have been successful if they didn’t start in the 1990′s.

TechCrunch published an article on the  topic the other day:

“”Apple should seek to capitalize on Google’s lack of hardware experience, and spend some of its cash reserves to lock up critical component manufacturers. Even if Project Glass ends up an ugly mess, Apple could still make eyeglass computing beautiful. This technology sure seems like the future, so Apple needs to be ready to pounce. But the problem remains that it has no social network or other key services to power its own version”"

“Despite its lack of hardware experience, Google is the best positioned company to make, or at least provide the software for eyeglass computers.

Some other another old domainer just hand registered these domain names a couple of days ago:

eyeglasscomputing.com
eyeglasscomputer.com
eyeglasscomputers.com

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Well unless your have been living under the proverbial rock you have no doubt have heard, read or seen stories on the “Pink Slime” contained in ground beef in the last month or so.

I have seen a lot of stories on the national news, and the internet is buzzing about the topic.

WSJ.com is reporting that the term pink slime was mentioned almost 100,000 times on Twitter alone last month.

We had to take notice that a long time domainer, Gregg Ostrick took note and registered this domain pinkslime.com, way back in 2007.

Yes many years before the topic was on the news every night, a domainer registered the exact match domain.

Its not unusual for domainers to be be years ahead of the news or hot new products.

Its actually amazes me how many times I look up a .com registration for something I just heard about that’s either a new product or newstory to find a domainer having registered it years ago.

The domain name PinkSlime.com not surprisingly is getting traffic and has an Alexa rank of 1.9 million.

Congrats to the domainers that continuous are ahead of the news.…

Red Ventures an Internet marketing firm, has just purchased HomeInsurance.com.

Red Ventures is headquartered in Fort Mill where it has about  800 employees at the and also has operations in Miramar, Fla. and San Antonio, Texas.

Tim Kullick, an executive vice president and head of Red Ventures insurance division, is quoted as saying in the CharlotteObserver.com, as saying “HomeInsurance.com fit the profile they were looking for – a fast-growing firm that would complement other Red Venture products, especially those marketed to people moving.”

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

HomeInsurance.com back in November 2010 bought Homeownersinsurance.com For $570K which now appears to have been included in the sale

“This will help us leverage the power of the Internet,” Kullick said.

HomeInsurance, which employs about 125 people, will stay in Wilmington, Kullick said..

Expansion of the insurance business could result in some hiring at the company’s

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There’s a lot to talk about this week. Better.com is for sale on flippa, lots of domain news, and Ed shares his “no brainer tip!”

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Star Jones has become the latest celebrity to lose the domain name of her official site, as today the domain name StarJones.com is being deleted by the central registry and dropped.

In the past year we have covered stories of celebrities and athletes, or their management company’s who have let their domain names expire, including MichaelVick.com and BustaRhymes.com.

The domain name StarJones.com was owned by Girlfriend Enterprises, Inc, of New York and first registered in 2000.

According to Screenshots.com the domain was being used by the star as her official site.

Star Jones is a former co-host of the television show The View and has been in the news recently.

The domain name was registered at melbourneit.com

As always we waited until the drop catcher services deadline passed before reporting on the story, and urge all professional domain investors not to register or try to catch these types of domain names.

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Seems like one of the hottest games in the world is Draw Something.

It seems some 20 million people have already downloaded the App.

Yes 20 Million in only 5 weeks.

BusinessInsider.com has published two stories on the game today alone.

One highlighting that over 4.5 million people played the game in the same hour the previous night, and one showing the growth of the popularity of the game Vs. Zynga’s “Words with Friends”.

The name Draw Something sounded very familiar to me domain name wise, so I went back and checked TheDomains.com and was shocked to see that the exact match domain name DrawSomething.com just sold 2 weeks ago on Afternic.com for $3K

Yes $3K

But the story doesn’t end there.

The Seller was BuyDomains.com owned by the same company that owns Afternic.com.

BuyDomains.com which of course was started by Mike Mann, has one of the largest domain portfolio’s in the world.

I have spoken about pre-pricing domains and the danger of having BIN pricing.

The Internet and the domain market is constantly changing and BIN doesn’t allow you to take a look at the domain on a real time basis and see how that term is currently being used.

This domain was probably pre-priced a year or more ago before the App was released and I would guess bought as a BIN name.

The Story still doesn’t end there and the Seller isn’t the only one to call out.

It doesn’t appear the App developer OMGPOP was smart enough to go out to acquire this domain for $3K which works out to something like $.001 per downloaded app.

Instead the domain name DrawSomething.com,  is currently under privacy at Godaddy.com, and calls itself  “an unofficial fan site for “Draw Something Free”, and “Draw Something by OMGPOP”.” “We are in no way associated with omgpop.” Promo content provided courtesy of iTunes.”

The domain name has an Alexa Ranking of  431,000 in the US.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from this domain sale.

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Over the last couple of Verisign Domain Industry Brief (March 2012 here, December 2011 here) one ccTLD has seemingly come out of nowhere to become the third largest ccTLD in terms of registration.

The extension is  is .TK and its the ccTLD of the tiny island nation of Tokelau located in the South Pacific, population 1,268.

As of publication the extension has almost 8 Million active domain names, and adding around 1 million per Month.

At the rate of growth it should overtake .Uk which just passed the 10 million domain mark on Thursday to become the worlds 2nd largest ccTLD in less than 3 months and not long after than will pass .De to become the number one ccTLD.

During the ICANN meeting I had a chance to sit down with Joost Juurbier the CEO of Freedom Registry the operator of the .TK registry.

How did this ccTLD from a small island which did not even make Verisign’s Domain Industry Report a year ago suddenly become the 3rd largest ccTLD?

.TK domains are Free.

Although the extension was approved in 2005, Verisign until recently refused to include the extension in its reports because .TK domain names are free.

So the extension didn’t go from zero registrations a year ago to 8 Million overnight but its now growing at 1 million new registrations per month with around 250,000 dropping domains per month

You can go to the .Registry and register a .TK domain for free, no credit card required.

Of course there are strings:

You can registered your domain name for between 1-12 months however you need to have the domain live, with content, not simply parked or  within 72 hours of registration or the domain will be taken away.

You can use a .TK domain to re-direct to another domain but once again there must resolve to a site. Matter of fact according to the Registry approximately 20% of all .TK domains are re-directed to sites residing on other domain names.

The registry by agreement of the country does not allow ANY adult images on any .TK domain name, nor do they allow any of the domains to be used for gambling sites.

The .TK Registry has an immediate take down policy for  abuse including any domain they find engaging in Spam, the distribution of Malware or viruses and doesn’t allow any domain to be used for  phishing.…