Pardon me while I drill down a minute. The value of a domain name is primarily driven by two factors: its resale value and the value of its traffic. Those aren't necessarily separate. For most domain names, resale value is a function of a name's traffic. So at point of sale, a buyer is very interested in current and historic…
When I was in college (http://www.usc.edu), I took a 'Philosophy of the Law' class, taught by famous libertarian John Hospers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hospers), which included as an assigned text Defending the Undefendable. (Amazon: Defending the Undefendable: The pimp, prostitute, scab, slumlord, libeler, moneylender and other scapegoats in the rogue's gallery of American society (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0930073053?ie=UTF8 tag=lextext linkCode=as2 camp=1789 creative=9325 creativeASIN=0930073053).)…
.Mobi owners often point to the future of handheld devices as examples of the growing market and need for their ‘lite’ versions of the web. The Register is reporting that Motorola (not a ’sponsor’ of mobi) has teamed up with a company called MicroVision to put laser projectors into their mobile phones.
Practical use of […]
The auction/resale value of domain names based on typographical errors of Bigco web sites isn't based on normal metrics. You may have a name with a lot of traffic, but you always live in the shadow of the law. If you typosquat a trademark, your name could be taken away at any time by a court or a UDRP provider,…
On Monday, I talked about name clouds (content/view/14/2/). A name cloud consists of all the names registered around your principal name. For example, once upon a time, if you were starting a new online business, you'd register a name in .COM as your principal name (the dark blue square) and depending on the location of your…
David Brayshaw over at DomainFocus is holding the first ever .UK live domain auction, with Sedo running the auction action. Our picks of the names to be auctioned in the hour (scheduled!) long auction are as follows:
Temp.co.uk
Food.co.uk
Fly.co.uk
Sport.co.uk
Drink.co.uk
Phones.co.uk
Last years event was under the banner of ‘DomainChannel’ and was held at the Park Plaza Hotel in London, […]
With 70,964,907 .COM domain names registered (see Name Intelligence's Daily Changes (http://www.dailychanges.com/)), the name you want is already taken. Even names you wouldn't want in a million years are taken. Names so silly that you'd be embarrassed to use them as the address for your site are taken, and this has been true for many, many years. It's why tech…
We have recently been asking UK domainers a series of quick questions:
1 - What is your domaining Golden Rule?
2 - What is your main motivation for domaining?
3 - What is your main domain related focus for the next 12-18 months?
4 - What area would you definitely avoid in domain names?
5 - What has been your […]
John McCormac (aka jmcc on fora) over at WhoisIreland has collated a fair amount of .EU data, which does not paint a pretty picture (also reported here at the amusingly named isquattedyour.eu !)
John + co surveyed over 1,400,000 .EU websites and found out of "1.436 Million .eu websites in June. Less than 22% of these […]
.Mobi, the sponsored top level extension aimed at mobile devices, has opened up a reserved list of 650 city names which are now ready for applications. According to the press releases this is being done as a ‘free’ release and cheekily mentions London.mobi as an example despite the Mayors office not really knowing alot about […]