Tucows has started offering .jobs and .aero domain names through its OpenSRS reseller channel. According to a blog posting, resellers will have to opt in to offering these gTLDs. Prices are $125/year for .jobs and $50/year for .aero. It’s potentially good news for both registries, particularly .jobs. Both are restricted, sponsored gTLDs, but .jobs has [...] Continua a leggere →

Today's Namejet list isn't as strong as others I've seen lately but it still has some legitimate contenders that I'd recommend. OutdoorSaunas.com is a solid product domain that is registered in a number of other extensions. I also like PlayShare.com and so do a lot of other bidders at [...] Continua a leggere →

I had been using the Whois Monitor tool at DomainTools to monitor the status of two similar domain names owned by the same company. The names were geographic Hotel.com and Hotels.com domain names. During the past couple of years, the status on both changed twice, and I received an update each time. On May 20th, [...] Continua a leggere →

The domain GossipGirl.com dropped in February of this year and went to a drop auction where it eventually sold for and even $6,000. Today a UDRP panel awarded the domain to the complainant Alloy Entertainment LLC the producer of the hit TV show GossipGirl.com It would have been interesting to see what would have happened [...] Continua a leggere →

Movie studio buys domain Injustice.com — for a new online game or movie? Movie studio Warner Bros. has purchased the domain name Injustice.com for $7,500 through Afternic. This is one of those domains with many uses, but that the owner must have known could end up being the title of a movie or game. [...] Continua a leggere →

Tweetfrom the that-makes-no-sense dept If you don’t recall, among the various domains that ICE and the DOJ seized last year were two domains — rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org — held by a Spanish company, Puerto 80. After extended negotiations to try to get the government to return the domain names, Puerto 80 finally sued the government to get them back. [...] Continua a leggere →

Google has just promised more transparency for advertisers on its blog.  (Still nothing for publishers) The new report promisses to: Provides Impression Share at the keyword level A new Auction Insights Report which will provide competitor data. In-depth is the Top of page rate. Here is the post: A key component of developing a search [...] Continua a leggere →