The New York Times is collaborating with technology incubator Betaworks for a new services at News.me. This comes from a reliable source: a blog at The New York Times…

Mr. Zimbalist said that The Times Company, which participated in Betaworks’ most recent round of financing, struck an arrangement where Betaworks would buy a prototype of the app that was created by members of The Times Company’s development labs, and that same team would work with Betaworks developers to finish it.

That structure appears somewhat like a technology commercialization deal.

The post hints that the site will be a social news service. But it doesn’t really matter what it is. From a domain name perspective this is a big win for the .Me domain name. Having a large media organization releasing a site at News.me will be good for the ccTLD.

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Vanguard Trademark Holding, which holds the trademarks for National Car Rental, has failed to win the domain name Natonal.com in a UDRP. This is despite:

- Natonal.com resolving to a parked page full of ads for car rental

- The domain owner not responding to the UDRP

So why did Vanguard fail? It based its premise primarily on Natonal.com being confusingly similar to the company’s “National Car Rental” mark. The panelist pointed out that Natonal might be confusingly similar to National, but it’s not similar at all to the full three word mark. Vanguard argued it had rights to “National” as well, but apparently the lawyer didn’t focus on this and didn’t submit evidence. So Vanguard didn’t even clear the first hurdle of a UDRP.

Here’s something else that’s interesting. If anything, Natonal.com is a typo of National.com, which National Car Rental doesn’t even own! National.com is owned by National Semiconductor. Yes, it’s clear that the parked page at Natonal.com is targeting people looking for the car rental company, but can you imagine if an arbitration panel handed over a typo of a third party’s URL just because of how it was targeting ads?

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“Sex.com has a proven revenue model that will enable its next owner to quickly build on past success,” said Kathy Nielsen, Director of Sales at Sedo.  “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a domain that will instantly expand the visibility of a brand, position a company as a leader in its market, and generate tremendous natural traffic.” 

All serious buyers are urged to contact Sedo by email at consult@sedo.com or by telephone at 617.499.7212 by September 21, 2010, in order to ensure sufficient time for seller due diligence to be completed and for any offer to be considered.

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ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley has lashed back at Free Speech Coalition for its latest attempt to delay or kill .xxx.

In a letter to ICANN Chairman of the Board Peter Dengate-Thrush, Lawley refutes many of Free Speech Coalition’s (FSC) claims. Lawley says FSC’s claims have long been addressed. He also points out that FSC does not represent the entire adult entertainment industry and is U.S. centric:

…while the Free Speech Coalition is respected as a tireless supporter of First Amendment rights in the United States, it is not and has never been “the” trade association for the global adult entertainment industry. The Board is well aware of this, as it was a topic of discussion between Dr. Twomey and Ms. Duke in the public forum in Lisbon in 2007.

Lawley also reminds Dengate-Thrush that the definition of the sponsored community for .xxx hasn’t change and does not necessarily include the entire online porn industry:

In that application and in all subsequent materials, the sponsored community for .XXX has been consistently defined as online adult entertainment providers and service providers who have voluntarily determined that a system of self-identification would be beneficial and who have come together to develop and to comply with industry best practices.

He also disclosed that only 6,435 out of a total of 179,630 pre-registrations for .xxx have been labeled as “defensive” by the applicants.

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The Trademark Domain Name Scam is upping the ante, now pretending to be an email sent from World Intellectual Property Organization.

In this scam, an entity that usually says it’s located in Asia says that someone has applied to register a number of domain names that include your “trademark” (really just the second level of one of your domain registrations). You can see an example of the scam emails here.

It’s an effective scam. I get more inquiries from smart business people about this particular scam than any other.

Now the scammers are upping the ante, sending the email with a return address @wipo-int.com. Wipo.int is World Intellectual Property Organization’s web site.

www.wipo-int.com does not resolve but is registered to “KS Network Solutions”. The email includes two attached graphics, one with a phone number to contact the scammer and one with the web address ks-register.com.

If you get one of these emails, just delete it or spam it. (Note to Google: create a button in Gmail to “report scam” in addition to the “report spam” button.)

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In this case, I want to give props to the NFL for the way they are advertising the new Ticket Exchange program.  During the Saints vs. Vikings game Thursday evening, the first regular season NFL game of the year, the NFL advertised the url for the Ticket Exchange program, directing visitors to NFL.com/TicketExchange.  Instead of landing on the NFL’s website, visitors are immediately directed to TicketExchangeByTicketmaster.com, a website owned by ticketing company, Ticketmaster.

Not only is the NFL url easier for people to remember than the long Ticketmaster url, the NFL can also control this traffic. They should be able to track this traffic, and they are building the NFL brand rather than Ticketmaster’s brand.

The only bad thing is that the NFL does not seem to own NFLTicketExchange.com. I am not sure if this is a result of too much traffic or if the site isn’t set up, but when I visited that website, my browser was unable to connect to it. That domain name was registered back in 2004.

Kudos to the NFL for some smart marketing.

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We’ve decided to take a stab at podcasting and we’re starting things off with an episode that gives an overview of what support is like here at Name.com. We had fun making it and it was a good learning experience. Mostly we learned that we need to keep it a little shorter, as 19 minutes even tests our own attention spans.

We hope you enjoy, and keep an eye out for more podcasts from us! They’ll be shorter, we promise. ;)

And yeah, RIM's stock price is going to suffer in the short term, not just because of these analyst reports, but because their existing software technology is long-in-the-tooth, to put it politely. With each new Blackberry hitting the market, it's becoming more and more painfully obvious. Blackberry OS is a relic, and needs to be replaced. Developers see this, and are flocking in droves to modern platforms built on OS offerings delivered by Apple and Google.

I wouldn't count them out, though.

RIM's secret weapon is the man I nearly bumped into last week at the Future Shop in North Waterloo, Dan Dodge. Dan was on his way out, deeply focused on the Blackberry in his hand, and I was in a hurry so I didn't stop to chat. In April Dan Dodge sold his company QNX Software Systems to RIM, after a stint as a division of Harman Kardon. For those of you who don't know QNX, it's the bullet proof real time OS that runs high speed trains in Europe, manufacturing systems the world over, and esoteric systems like the space arm on the shuttle. It's a mission critical OS the likes of which Apple, Google, or Microsoft have never been able to produce. And soon, my bet is that it will run on your telephone. QNX is the answer to solving RIM's OS problem.

The biggest potential problem RIM could face, if QNX is the new Blackberry OS, is re-recruiting the software developers who have been faithfully supporting them all these years—corporate IT departments, and application vendors who potentially could be forced to port all of their code to the new OS. But even that's surmountable. After all, Blackberry applications are Java applications, and one ought to be able to simply run the Blackberry JVM as a virtual machine on QNX.

Gillis, Ahmad, Ferragu and Blodget are focused on short term results, which is the reason they're downgrading RIM stock. There's no doubt that RIM is going to suffer in the near future. If they can weather this storm, however, and respond quickly to the threats posed by Apple and Google, then they have a bright future ahead.

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As I quickly scanned my email, I saw something from Network Solutions that caught my eye. The subject was “HORSESTABLE.ORG is Available – Register it Now!” Since I own HorseStable.com (I sold HorseSupply.com earlier this year), I thought it would be smart to register the .org, to give a potential buyer some added value.

Since I don’t generally register domain names at NetSol, I emailed my Godaddy representative and asked him to buy this domain name on my behalf. He replied that the domain name has been registered for a while to Protopixel Pty Ltd, one of Dark Blue Sea’s entities.

I looked back at the email I received and I noticed that it was imploring me to buy this premium domain name in the aftermarket, which I believe is part of the Domain Distribution Network. I’ve seen plenty of upsell efforts at registrars like Godaddy working with the DDN, but this is the first time I was emailed directly instead of a point of sale attempt.

Although the subject was a bit misleading with them suggesting I “register” it now, it’s still a smart direct marketing tactic. Had I been an end user client (most of their clients are), I may have opted to buy it.

This is a great example of a well-targeted direct marketing effort.

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JustBallGloves.com is an online store that sells, well, just ball gloves. The site features baseball and softball gloves from all the major manufacturers. Compete.com suggests the site gets about 10,000 uniques a month.

But let’s face it, JustBallGloves.com is probably often remembered as JustGloves.com. Compete.com shows the latter gets about 1,000 uniques a month.

The solution? JustBallGloves.com has purchased JustGloves.com for $30,000 according to Sedo‘s recent sales section. That’s a stiff price, but easily justifiable given the amount of traffic. It’s more a lesson in “covering all your bases before you launch” (sorry, couldn’t resist).

Now when you type in JustGloves.com it forwards to the main site at JustBallGloves.com.

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"Braden is a typical 14-year-old. Over the past 6 months, he's grown three inches, gained four shoe sizes, and eaten his way through nearly a ton of pizza. He's also unintentionally trashed his family's computer no less than 12 times. First, he down- loaded some cool emoticons to use with his IM messages. Those smiley faces came with embedded adware that overwhelmed him with pop-up ads and slowed down the speed of virtually everything. Then Braden installed a "free" video game that contained a Trojan program that let spammers in Russia take over his computer and use it to forward junk email. A few weeks later, Braden responded to what looked like a legitimate email asking him to confirm his Facebook login information..."

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The Texas Lottery Commission has won a big prize, taking home three domain names through arbitration — including one that gets over 65,000 visits a month.

The group filed the complaint against The Lotto Report for LottoTexas.com, LottoTexas.net, and Megaplier.org. Megaplier is the name of a lotto add-on in the state that lets people multiply their winnings. LottoTexas.com is a big traffic domain, and Compete.com shows it getting nearly 20,000 uniques and over 65,000 visits in July. The domains are forwarded to various pages on LottoReport.com.

The Lotto Report said it bought LottoTexas.com and LottoTexas.net for $50 from their previous owner in 2008. They were active web sites before that, and The Lotto Report says it has maintained them by posting lotto results, rule changes, and news.

The Lotto Report had a chance to win the case, but was probably doomed because the web sites included links to the respondent’s paid subscription service. The respondent tried to argue that the subscription service was unsuccessful and winding down, but the panelist found this irrelevant.

The Texas Lottery’s main web site is TXlottery.org.

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With this program, customers can store their inventory at one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers. You can then either sell your products directly on Amazon.com where customers can purchase them along with other Amazon products, or you can sell them directly on your own website and simply use Amazon for inventory fulfillment. Instead of paying for storage space or filling your home/business with inventory, Amazon will do it for you, likely for a smaller cost than you could do it on your own.

Living in an apartment in New York City, I can’t exactly store much inventory of any kind. Likewise, it would be a costly pain in the neck to deal with shipping and other inventory control if I used a storage facility. This seems like a great concept for small business owners.

As I’ve discussed with BumperProtectors.com (now developed using an Epik site), ultimately it would be great to be able to sell bumper protectors.  Since I have no experience with inventory and have no space for it either, Amazon fulfillment would be something interesting to explore if I ever want to earn real money.

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Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com has launched a brand new marketplace for selling domains that get traffic. In keeping with Carrillo’s love of great domain names, the marketplace is aptly named TrafficDomains.com.

Even more exciting for me is that Carrillo has chosen to use DNW Certified Stats to authenticate traffic stats on the site. One of the big challenges to buying domains with traffic is getting accurate information from the seller. By requiring users to use DNW Certified Stats when listing a domain, TrafficDomains.com brings more transparency to the process.

To list a domain on TrafficDomains.com you enter its details along with your DNW Certified Stats certificate number:

TrafficDomains.com then grabs traffic and revenue data directly from DNWStats.com and displays it with your listing, as well as a calculation of the price multiple:

You can also automatically add stats to your listings on Carrillo’s other marketplaces, including the popular BargainDomains.com, as well as PremiumDomains.com, flipping.co, and Catchy.com.

Look for other sites and services to integrate DNW Certified Stats in the future.

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.Co announced today that 100% of the world’s top 100 brands have secured their .co domain name through the registry’s Specially Protected Marks Program, or “SPM.”

SPM provided a way for companies on the Deloitte Brand List to get their .co domains without the traditional expense and time required. Among the companies securing their .co domain through SPM are Facebook, Ferrari, Blackberry, Siemens, Sanyo, Amazon, Honda, GAP and Barbie.

The program is somewhat similar to the idea of having a “globally protected marks list” when new top level domain names launch. There is still a lot of debate around the idea, with much of the debate concerning which brands would actually make the list. You can imagine that brands listed 101-200 would push for an extended list.

What .co did was a win-win. It protected the rights of mark holders and won their praise. But .co can also now say that the world’s top 100 brands have secured their .co domain. That’s good publicity.

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On NPR this afternoon I listened to an interview about the resurgence of bed bugs. Over the past few months you’ve probably seen an increase in media attention to bed bugs thanks to some high profile store infestations in New York City.

I figured some domainer owned BedBugs.com, and had my money on Schilling. So I was surprised when I typed the domain in and was forwarded to…

Hasbro.com?

The domain name was originally registered in 1996. The earliest historical whois record I can find shows that Hasbro owned it since least 2001.

Hasbro has a toddler’s game called Poundin BedBugs, which is probably why it registered the domain. But given that this game is dated and the URL just forwards to Hasbro’s home page, don’t be surprised if someone buys this domain for a more current use.

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After TRAFFIC organizers said they wouldn’t let a collection of domains previously registered to John Zuccarini be auctioned at their show, Rick Latona‘s auction house has decided to auction the domains on its own, according to a court filing.

The domains are part of a cybersquatting judgment originally won by Office Depot but later transferred to DS Holdings.

The receiver in the case planned to auction the domain names at next month’s TRAFFIC auction run by Latona. But Zuccarini pointed out that TRAFFIC co-founder Howard Neu had once represented him in the lawsuit that led to the domain names being seized and cried foul.

TRAFFIC organizers then said they wanted nothing to do with the domain names. According to the plaintiff’s attorney:

With his multiple threats, Judgment Debtor John Zuccarini has scared Howard Neu and the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference from getting involved in the auction of the domain holdings.

So the receiver amended his plans to drop the TRAFFIC show but still use Latona’s auction house to auction the domain names. The court has just approved this plan.

But this may not be the end of it. Zuccarini continues to warn Latona that he may be sued if he moves forward with the auction. Zuccarini still argues that the domain names were wrongfully seized from him as he says there was no court order to transfer the domains. He just responded to an argument from VeriSign in an ongoing lawsuit claiming the same (pdf).

What’s interesting to me is the sudden urgency of the judgment holder and receiver to auction the domain names. The domains are earning parking revenue, so they aren’t dead weight. (Although the receiver has some big headaches since he forgot to renew some of the domains). In justifying auctioning the domains in October, the receiver argued that TRAFFIC would be the best venue to sell the domains over the next two years. With TRAFFIC out, the plaintiff now is willing to do an auction without the TRAFFIC umbrella. The plaintiff is arguing to the court that Zuccarini will do whatever he can to stall an auction. But it’s still a mystery why there’s a sudden push to auction the domains.

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There have been plenty of times where pundits have said changes at Google would turn the web on its head. They (and I) have been wrong.

But this time may be different.

When you start thinking about the implications of Instant Search your head starts to spin. Just think about it from the advertising perspective. Efficient Frontier did, and my head is spinning. Think about how many untargeted impressions your ad might start showing up for!

I played around with Instant Search tonight and already found some startling things. Type “god”, and your instant search results won’t be for religion. They’ll be for GoDaddy — unless you hit the enter key after typing “god”.

Start searching for “Domain Name Wi” and results will show up for “Domain Name Wiki” with “Domain Name Wire” as the second suggestion. Hopefully people continue typing all the way. Of course, you get an entirely different set of results when you hit enter after “wi”.

Also think about singular vs. plural. Suddenly, ranking higher for the singular version of a word might be better if people stop typing before they type the ‘s’.

This change could radically affect search traffic. Pay attention to your analytics over the next few days — it could be a wild ride!

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Remember, .CO is the country-code TLD for Colombia. Until this summer, you could only register names under .com.co, .net.co, etc. You couldn't register myname.co. Now anyone in the world can register a .co name, and register it directly under the top level. Remember also that as a country-code TLD, .CO was not constrained by ICANN rules, which means that they were able to (re-) launch their TLD relatively quickly. Even so, their rules and regulations closely hewed to the latest ICANN rules, especially in regard to cybersquatting.

The response to the .CO launch was tremendous. Let's review:

• 11,000 names applied for during the Sunrise Period
• 28,000 names sold during the Landrush Period (closed July 15, 2010)
• Total paid by applicants for Sunrise and Landrush names: over $10 million
• Total .co names registered as of this writing: 440,000

What do these numbers mean for prospective new gTLDs? Obviously, they prove that there are lots of buyers out there if the value proposition is good, and that's a very good sign. There is no indication (quite the opposite, in fact) that people have anything against new TLDs. Quite the opposite, in fact: if it's a good one, they'll flock to it in droves.

But .CO is somewhat of a special case. There are a few things to keep in mind:

First, although cybersquatting of brand names was dealt with aggressively by the talented .CO team, we have to assume that many of the registrations were done in hopes of getting traffic from people who forgot to add the "m" to a .com URL. No new gTLDs will be able to benefit from similar fat-fingered mistakes, because ICANN is running a "similarity test" to make sure that there aren't such confusions. We won't know how much typo traffic there actually is until it comes time to renew the names. Then, speculative traffic names will either be renewed (if they received typo traffic) or will be dropped (if they didn't). So keep an eye on next July for interesting stats.

Second, the .CO team is really good, and did everything right. They hired smart veterans and spent a fair amount of time and money making sure that brand owners and registrars knew what was happening, what the rules were, how and when to apply, etc. This had the virtuous double effect of almost completely eliminating complaints about the process and also maximizing registrations. New TLD applicants, take note.

Third, .CO had the field to itself. When new gTLDs start launching, it will probably be on a rolling schedule, but nonetheless there is likely to be more than one launch at any given time.

These are the factors giving .CO an edge, but this doesn't mean that new gTLDs won't be able to duplicate or surpass their success. Many of these considerations are double-edged swords. The fact that .CO is a misspelling of .COM also means that fewer real sites will get built, fewer names will be renewed, and cybersquatting problems will be relatively larger than in most new gTLDs. The fact that .CO spent a lot of money means that their profit margin is lower.

Every new TLD launch will have specific considerations and circumstances that will both help and hinder its growth. Several new gTLDs, especially geographical names and communities, will have natural constituencies that will fuel registrations. Others will have worldwide appeal. Many will not measure their success in registrations, but instead on service to their communities.

Overall, the .CO launch should make prospective new gTLD applicants very happy indeed. It is a great proof of the market, and it shows (once again) that intelligent branding and marketing will go a long way to making a project a success.

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I think we must put ourselves in the shoes of our potential buyers. Ask yourself the following question about a domain name you’ve been trying to sell, and maybe you’ll see why you’ve been unable to sell it.

“If I was in the _____________ business, would I want to pay a domain owner $x thousands of dollars to buy the _________.whatever domain name, when I can hand register ____________.whatever for just $10 from that company with the hot girls in Super Bowl commercials?“

Many (if not most) business owners don’t tend to think of domain names as essential elements of their business. Not even business who predominately work online always think that a good domain name is critical to the success of their business. Most want to build a solid brand online, and that is different from using a generic domain name.

Think how a business owner would think, and tailor your sales pitch appropriately. You may find that your sales will increase.

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Epik has released the list of domains and developed web sites to be auctioned at its Developer Conference next week in Seattle.

The list is impressive, including:

Downline.com – fantastic MLM domain, which is a big business
Poster.com – like the plural better, but still good
Maid.com – great lead gen possibilities
Slideshow.com – currently a service that let’s you publish and share PowerPoint presentations online
ETF.com – a growing part of the stock market

Of course the most important thing will be the reserves attached to these names, but the foundation for a good auction is there.

The auction will take place September 16, 2010 from 1:30 PM PDT and will be available on Snapnames for remote bidding.

The auction is open to the public. You can attend the entire event and pay your admission fee with domain names, too.

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The wholesale price for registering a .org domain name will increase in April 2011.

In a short letter to ICANN dated yesterday, .org registry Public Interest Registry said it will increase the annual price to $7.21 beginning April 1. This does not include ICANN fees.

As a point of reference, GoDaddy‘s retail price for .org is $14.99 plus the 18 cent ICANN fee each year. So a registrar with a healthy margin already baked in may not pass the cost along to consumers.

VeriSign has already increased .com and .net prices this year and is likely to do so again next year. Last time VeriSign increased prices we saw several other registries issue their own price hikes, often times citing other registries’ moves as justification for increasing their own.

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We’re excited to announce that .MOBI is now one of the extensions we support with our Domain Nabber backorder service! This is just part of our continued efforts to help you get the domain names that you want.

There are a couple of different ways you can take advantage of this new feature.

If you want to pick and choose your .MOBI domains from a list of expired names that have dropped, you can check out our Domain Nabber page where you can fill out the criteria that you want.

But if you have something specific in mind, you can just do a regular search for that name and place your backorder directly from our search page.

As you can see, backorders for .MOBI run $39.95 and, as always, if you don’t get the name or you decide to cancel your order, you will receive a full refund.

I’ve been playing around with it, and my immediate thought is that this could impact domain investors, especially those who develop. If Google is predicting your search before you’re finished typing it, people will probably be less likely to finish longer tail searches, which helped produce traffic for developed, long tail keyword domain names. For instance, if yo are looking for “debt management tips,” you may stop typing at “debt management” after seeing some interesting results, and if my site ranks well for “debt management tips” but not the more general term, I will be pretty much SOL.

This does bode very well for short, exact match keyword domain names that rank well in Google for those keywords, but it can also be problematic for some. I know this is contradictory, but let’s use my example below.

DogWalker.com ranks #1 in Google for “dog walker,” #2 for “dog walkers,” and in the last week, dropped out of the top 10 for “dog walking.” If someone is searching for a dog walker, they may actually stop at “dog walk” when the results begin appearing. Despite great rankings for the exact match keyword domain names, DogWalker.com does not rank in the top 3 (see screenshot):

It’s way too early to predict how search habits will change, but if they do change, it could have a big impact on domain investors and the domain names they buy.

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The same company that filed a service mark application for .Secure is at it again, this time filing an application for .Bank.

Wisconsin-based Asif LLC filed application 85,120,345 on August 31 to cover “Domain name registration services”.

In the U.S. you cannot trademark a top level domain name, although that hasn’t stopped people from trying. At least one applicant has said it will use its non-U.S. trademarks in an effort to keep out any competitors for its TLD.

ICANN has yet to address how it will treat TLD trademarks in the upcoming round. But it may not matter what ICANN thinks; ultimately a trademark holder can slow down the process or scare off competitors with the threat of lawsuits.

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The owner of the descriptive and generic domain name IntlMovers.COM has failed to win the domain name IntlMovers.ORG from its owner in a UDRP case.

Although IntlMovers.com existed before IntlMovers.org, and they offer similar services, panelist Tony Willoughby pointed out that owning a generic .com doesn’t give you an automatic monopoly on other top level domains:

The Policy was designed to protect trade mark owners against cybersquatters. If the name in issue is merely a description common to a particular trade and is being used by the Respondent in relation to that trade, the registration and use of the Domain Name may well fall outside the scope of the Policy. Were it otherwise, domain name registrants could effectively monopolise descriptive terms. The owner of fish.com, for example, could monopolise “fish” in all domains even against sellers of fish.

Willoughby mentions that it’s possible to get trademark rights in a generic term, but the complainant failed to show it had these rights at the time the respondent registered the .org domain name.

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Separate auctions at Sedo for OnlineCollegeDegrees.com and OnlineCollegeDegrees.net will conclude overnight tonight and sell for at least $28,000 combined.

The auction for the .com is currently at $18,000 and the auction for .net is $10,000.

The .net domain name is an active web site with page rank. Compete.com shows it getting just over 1,000 uniques a month.

There are a number of uncertainties in the online education market, specifically surrounding financial aid and loans. This is putting some downward pressure on education lead gen, which some are calling a bubble. But that hasn’t dampened the selling prices of online degree related domain names.

Recent sales include AssociatesDegree.com for $32,000, DegreePrograms.com for $31,555, and BachelorsDegree.com for $62,500. (Source: NameBio).

Other active auctions at Sedo worth viewing are BailBonds.com at $8,500, SportsAds.com at $3,000, and Templates.biz at $600.

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Update: DNF is back up after a few hours of downtime, but working slowly for now and sending pms and making posts doesn’t seem to work.

Update2: DNF is down again!

Update3: DNF back up and running after 4-5 hours of downtime

See all of the reported sales after the jump.

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In my opinion, this was a smart acquisition for the baseball team, and it was a smart sale for the owner, who hasn’t been able to monetize the traffic that was presumably mostly looking for tickets, baseball gear, and other baseball related products. In 2007, Major League Baseball filed a UDRP for Angels.com, but they lost the decision. According to an article written by Andrew, the team was offered the opportunity to purchase the domain name back then for around $300,000.

As you can see from a prior post about sports team domain name, most professional sports teams (and leagues) understand the value of owning the team .com domain name. (Big exception: Dallas Cowboys who still down’t own Cowboys.com).

According to the most recent Whois update, the domain name is owned by MLB Advanced Media, LP, and the domain name is registered at Corporation Service Company.

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Every year the organizers of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name conference ask for nominations (and then a vote) to pick the best companies and people in the domain name industry. This year’s voting is due by Wednesday at 8 pm EDT. To participate, just make your selections from below and email to nominations@targetedtraffic.com.

Winners will be announced at next month’s TRAFFIC conference in South Beach.

Here are the nominees. You may vote for one per category, except for Hall of Fame where you can vote for two.

SPONSOR OF THE YEAR (Vote for 1)

.CO
DOMAINADVERTISING.COM
NAME DRIVE
PARKED
SKENZO

DOMAINER OF THE YEAR (VOTE FOR 1)

JAN BARTA
MIKE BERKENS
JUAN CALLE
STEVE CHEATHAM
LARRY FISCHER
ROB GRANT
MERLIN KAUFMAN
MORGAN LINTON
MIKE MANN
GREG MCNAIR
JERRY NOLTE
ILZE KAULINS-PLASKACS
ELLIOT SILVER
DIVYANK TURAKHIA
JOEL WILLIAMS

BEST OVERALL DOMAIN SOLUTION (VOTE FOR 1)

ABOVE
DOMAIN SPONSOR
EPIK
MONIKE R
SE DO
SKENZO
SMARTNAME

BEST NEW MONETIZING SOLUTION (VOTE FOR 1)

ABOVE
DEVHUB
ELEPHANT TRAFFIC
EPIK
LOCAL.COM
SKENZO
SMARTNAME
WHY PARK

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR (VOTE FOR 1)

FRED MERCALDO
ROB GRANT
KEITH LEVENSON
ROB MONSTER
SHAUN PILFOLD
ELLIOT SILVER
TIA WOOD

THE “WE GET IT” AWARD (VOTE FOR 1)

BODOG & SLOTS.COM
LEXIS-NEXIS
MIKE MANN
NATIONAL A-1
OVERSTOCK
QUINSTREET
SWIFT RANK

BEST DOMAIN NEWS BLOG (VOTE FOR 1)

ANDREW ALLEMANN (DomainNameWire)
MIKE BERKENS (TheDomains)
DOMAINERSMAGAZINE.COM
RON JACKSON (DNJournal)
LARRY FISCHER
MORGAN LINTON
HOWARDNEU.COM (Declined)
RICK SCHWARTZ (Rick’s Blog) (Declined)
ELLIOT SILVER (Elliot’s Blog)

DOMAIN HALL OF FAME (VOTE FOR 2)

MONTE CAHN
GARY CHERNOFF
ROB GRANT
JEREMIAH JOHNSTON
AMMAR KUBBA
RICKLATONA
MICHAEL MANN
HOWARD NEU
JERRY NOLTE
MARC OSTROFSKY
ADAM STRONG
DIVYANK TURAKHIA

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This year marks Afilias’ 4th Annual .INFO Awards, a program seeking to name the “Best .INFO Website of 2010!”

While .COM, .NET, .ORG, and a few other domains were the early players in the domain game, .INFO came onto the scene strong in 2001 when ICANN approved more top-level domains (TLDs). Afilias is the registry for .INFO and they act as the man behind the curtain, making sure all the .INFOs out there are working.

In the last 9 years, .INFO has grown to over 6 million domains and millions of live websites, which means there will be plenty of competition for this year’s awards. Competition you can take a look at in Afilias’ .INFO directory. Submitted sites will be reviewed by experts in web design and media and they will choose the 10 best sites for the public to vote on. There are cash prizes for the top 3 sites with the winner getting a whopping $7500!

If you’ve developed a .INFO site and you’d like to submit it to the .INFO Awards, you can do so here. You’ll have to act fast though, submissions end September 10!

Don’t have a .INFO site? You can still participate when voting opens on October 5, and one lucky voter will even win an iPad! Gee Afilias, twist our arms why don’t you. ;)

Recently I was building some new sites and needed to get about 20 different logos done. I checked about 30 designers, looking quickly over their portfolios to see their quality. It may sound like a lot, but in fact it only takes me a few seconds to take a quick look at the designer’s portfolio to know if this is what I need or not. And after that initial glance a couple minutes maximum and I have a pretty good idea of what this designer can do.

So I received price suggestions and solicitations with portfolios and examples from these designers and picked one that was a bit more expensive than average, but the quality of his designs was truly great. All that took about an hour and around $150 (for the 20 logos). Some might consider it expensive, others would say it’s cheap, but this is the price you can get good quality logos for at various forums and freelancer sites. And I do mean good quality, highly professional which are not worse than those you can get by running a contest at 99designs.com - because in fact on 99designs.com these are the same people making your logos.

It’s true there are many people willing to pay $50 and $100 and even more for a logo, others arrange contests and ask for forum members to vote for their best choice. And I could understand when it’s a logo for a big business, a chain of sites, a company site, or  something like Bido.com (R.I.P.), but when you’re just building some mini site on a .info domain - who cares what logo you have?

What really makes a site profitable (assuming you are not just building the sites to be able to say that you’re developing your domains..) is a strategy for acquiring traffic (SEO for example, then you need decent content and lots of links) and monetization (adsense, affiliate sales, leads).  So stop fixating on your logos and go get some backlinks instead!

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The paper's release occurs in conjunction with a workshop, Routing and Resource Certification: Self-governance and security at the core of Internet operations, at the IGF-Vilnius next week. The workshop, co-organized by the IGP and LACNIC on behalf of the NRO, will be held on Tuesday, September 14 from 9:00-11:00 EEST (6:00-8:00 UTC) in Room 5 of the LITEXPO facility. According to the Secretariat's website, remote participation options will be available. It will bring together numerous experts from the academia, government, the RIRs and elsewhere to discuss RPKI and other related policy issues that feed into broader discussion on management of critical Internet resources.

One vote per category (except Hall of Fame) more, will result in the ballot not being counted. To vote, send your ballot to nominations@targetedtraffic.com. Winners will be announced Tuesday, October 19th at 10AM at TRAFFIC South Beach.

SPONSOR OF THE YEAR (Vote for 1)
.CO
DOMAINADVERTISING.COM
NAMEDRIVE
PARKED
SKENZO

DOMAINER OF THE YEAR (VOTE FOR 1)
JAN BARTA
MIKE BERKENS
JUAN CALLE
STEVE CHEATHAM
LARRY FISCHER
ROB GRANT
MERLIN KAUFMAN
MORGAN LINTON
MIKE MANN
GREG MCNAIR
JERRY NOLTE
ILZE KAULINS-PLASKACS
ELLIOT SILVER
DIVYANK TURAKHIA
JOEL WILLIAMS

BEST OVERALL DOMAIN SOLUTION (VOTE FOR 1)
ABOVE
DOMAINSPONSOR
EPIK
MONIKER
SEDO
SKENZO
SMARTNAME

BEST NEW MONETIZING SOLUTION (VOTE FOR 1)
ABOVE
DEVHUB
ELEPHANT TRAFFIC
EPIK
LOCAL.COM
SKENZO
SMARTNAME
WHYPARK

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR (VOTE FOR 1)
FRED MERCALDO
ROB GRANT
KEITH LEVENSON
ROB MONSTER
SHAUN PILFOLD
ELLIOT SILVER
TIA WOOD

THE “WE GET IT” AWARD (VOTE FOR 1)
BODOG & SLOTS.COM
LEXIS-NEXIS
MIKE MANN
NATIONAL A-1
OVERSTOCK
QUINSTREET
SWIFT RANK

BEST DOMAIN NEWS BLOG (VOTE FOR 1)
ANDREW ALLEMAN (DomainNameWire)
MIKE BERKENS (TheDomains)
DOMAINERSMAGAZINE.COM
RON JACKSON (DNJournal)
LARRY FISCHER
MORGAN LINTON
HOWARDNEU.COM (Declined)
RICK SCHWARTZ (Rick’s Blog) (Declined)
ELLIOT SILVER (Elliot’s Blog)

DOMAIN HALL OF FAME (VOTE FOR 2)
MONTE CAHN
GARY CHERNOFF
ROB GRANT
JEREMIAH JOHNSTON
AMMAR KUBBA
RICK LATONA
MICHAEL MANN
HOWARD NEU
JERRY NOLTE
MARC OSTROFSKY
ADAM STRONG
DIVYANK TURAKHIA

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I’ve long talked about holding a domainer dinner in Austin. As I talked to others in the industry about it one common request kept coming up: hold it in conjunction with a University of Texas football game.

So that’s what we’re doing November 12-13. Details are tentative, but plan on a dinner Friday, November 12 followed by a night out on Sixth Street. The game on November 13 is against conference rival Oklahoma State and should be a great game. Game time isn’t set yet, and we might have to go on our own to the game because it’s hard to get a block of tickets. But the details on the game will take shape soon.

If you’re thinking about coming and aren’t from around these parts, the most important thing you need to do now is reserve a hotel room. Rooms sell out far in advance for home football games, which are attended by 100,000 people.

Here are some suggestions:

Downtown (football stadium is just north of downtown)

InterContinental Stephen F. Austin $324

Omni Hotel (downtown location) $319

Doubletree – $299

Hilton Austin – $284

Residence Inn by Marriott – $249

Courtyard Marriott – $239

Hampton Inn – $229

Radisson Town Lake – $216

Four Seasons – sold out
The Driskill – sold out

Close to Downtown (just South of Lady Bird Lake, walkable or short cab ride)

Hyatt Regency – $269

Embassy Suites – $239 (Offers suites for multiple people)

Homestead Studio Suites – $89 (for those on a budget)

Hotel San Jose – sold out

p.s. typical high temperature in Austin in November is around 70 degrees.

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Apparently, Facebook chooses the friends whose posts you read in your news feed rather than showing all of your friends’ comments and updates. Since this is done by algorithm, it’s not really an exact science, and many of your friends’ news won’t show up on your page.

In order to allow all of your friends’ news and updates to show up, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Edit Options.” On this page, you’re given a list of people to block (everyone has friends who either have auto-posts or who constantly post game scores that you want to ignore.

To the left of this list is something that says: “Control how many friends you want shown in Live Feed. A higher number means you will see new posts more frequently.”  If you enter a very high number or the number of friends you have, everyone’s news updates will show up, with the exception of the people you block.

Now you’ll never miss an important update.

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This past year has been a big one for domain name parking service SmartName. It has combined all of its parking brands into one as well as rolled out (or enhanced) both SmartName Shops and a content parking solution.

Apparently a lot of people are using SmartName these days, as I’ve received lots of requests to add the service to DNW Certified Stats. The day has arrived — now you can use DNW Certified Stats with SmartName. DNW Certified Stats is my solution that makes it easy to share domain name parking stats. SmartName is the sixth parking service added to the system and more are on the way.

Also, I’ve removed the requirement that you must be logged in to view someone’s domain parking stats. So now if you want to share your parking stats with someone you can just send them a link to your DNW Certified Stats certificate and they won’t be required to create an account. It’s also easier than ever to insert a link to your certified parking stats in forum postings. Here’s an example certificate.

Please give DNW Certified Stats a try and send me an email if you have any feedback.

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I’m always interested to hear about a new available domain finder tool, but my interest is usually followed by disappointment. With each query I am let down by the poor quality domains generated by these services.

Take for example a new tool called Brute Force Naming that was just featured on AOL’s popular DownloadSquad blog.

The tool looked promising, providing an advanced method of creating prefixes with vowels in the middle followed by suffixes. That should work, right? Unfortunately it doesn’t.

The results are similar to other tools for researching 5 letter or short domains. They look something like this: Coufo, Blole, Twafo, Twume, Plole, Clule. Terrible.

The domain names generated by many tools today are nonsensical strings of characters. Good quality made up words and “brandable” domains do exist, but they have all been claimed. Just as four letter domains have all been registered, so have gone quality short domains.

Truly quality brandable domains can really only be found on the aftermarket.

So, what are the alternatives?

I am a big fan of keyword domain names. Yes, even for branding. I consider good quality keywords to have huge advantages over made up brands that may just sound cool. The advantages are that these types of domains are often very memorable and easily readable.

You’re not too late. There are a lot of keyword domains available to register and many are still affordable on the aftermarket. While you may not be able to get a one-word domain, there are still descriptive two and three-word domain names that have inherent value beyond your modest registration fee.

To find the best names I recommend using data to support the popularity of your keywords. SEO and SEM tools like Google AdWords can provide further insight.

Every day hundreds of thousands of domain names are allowed to expire by their owners. A few months later these domains make their way back to general availability.

You have two options when going after an expired domain.

Backorder - Find out which registrar the domain name was claimed at. If a domain was previously managed at GoDaddy then you should place a backorder for the name at GoDaddy for the best chances of winning the expiring domain.

Catch the Drop - Approximately 2 months after a domain expires it will “drop” from the registry and become available again. This option usually works for less popular domains. DomainerIncome’s blog has a detailed look at the expiration process.

You may be able to find a quality brandable names by researching expiring domains, but I wouldn’t hold your breath! This is a good place to look for keywords though.

For further reading, I’ve previously written some pro tips for researching expired domains.

There are a lot of great marketplaces that are not getting nearly enough of the attention they desserve. The largest domain aftermarket site is Sedo, because of the sheer quantity of listings from around the world. There are less known marketplaces, privately hosted portfolios, and auction services like Flippa where gems can be found.

Earlier this year I shared a list of the top 20 places to buy domains in 2010. The list features the top marketplaces, forums, conferences, auction houses and other options.

So, that perfect name has been taken! It happens to thousands of people every day. Why give up on it? You can contact the owner of a domain by looking up their WHOIS information, but you’ll need to pray it isn’t private.

The bookmarklet below will let you quickly view WHOIS data when browsing any domain in you browser. (More useful bookmarklets here)

Bookmarklet:  DomainTools (Drag & Drop link to your toolbar)

Email the owner a brief, polite message expressing your interest in the domain and make an offer to purchase. Your offer should be close to the final amount you would be willing to pay if you expect to receive a response.

How do you find quality domain names?

Are there available domain finder tools that actually work?

Thanks for taking the time to read my suggestions for finding quality domains. Please share your thoughts in the comments area below.

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Domain lifecycle platform Epik likes to try new and innovative things. Next week’s Domain Swap event at Epik DevCon in Seattle is another example.

The Domain Swap brings in much needed liquidity and a common currency to domain trading, something that has been absent from similar ideas in the past. Here’s how it works:

1. Send a list of domains you wish to sell to Epik

2. Epik will buy some of the domains with its own currency, EpikBucks (the company has spent $50,000 in EpikBucks over the past 24 hours)

3. Use your EpikBucks during the swap event to buy other domains

It’s actually quite a clever concept. And you don’t have to limit your EpikBucks to just buying other domain names. You can pay for your admission to the conference with domain names, something I’ve never seen for a conference before. So if you were thinking about going to next week’s conference but are short on cash, you can now trade in some of your domain names instead.

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This Summer has moved at a relaxing pace, and I believe things will pick up in a couple of weeks.

One thing you might want to do to pick up the pace is to reconnect with people who have either made offers to you to purchase a domain name, or you can recontact people that you have previously emailed to buy domain names. I’ve received a couple of emails in the last two days from people I had contacted a while back, so perhaps that’s indicitive of people looking to get back to business.

I also find that a second follow-up email on a domain inquiry can help move things along. Keep in mind that there are still people out there who don’t check email every day, and your email may have been read along with a bunch of others. Every few months, I look through my sent inquiries and see if there’s anything I want to reconnect on, and I follow up with an email or phone call.

The third quarter is in full swing, and we will soon be in the holiday season and end of the year, where people may value extra cash over non-performing domain names. Plant the seed now and work to make your next deal your best deal of the year.

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A recent UDRP brought by drug giant Sanofi-aventis is interesting on a couple counts.

First, the company lost the case over the domain name ferrlecit.com. The respondent is a former licensee of Sanofi-aventis. It registered the domain name while it was a licensee. So it was registered in good faith. But when the drug company and licensee terminated their relationship through arbitration, there was no mention of what to do with the domain name. (Another example of lawyers overlooking an important part of intellectual property.) The respondent kept it, and now Sanofi is arguing it is being held in bad faith.

The UDRP states that, to be found “guilty”, you must have registered and used the domain in bad faith. Yet in this case it appears it was registered in good faith, but subsequently used in bad faith.

Two panelists agreed that the domain wasn’t registered in bad faith. Even though it may have later been used in bad faith, this doesn’t matter because of how the UDRP is written.

But one panelist disagreed, and it should come as no surprise as to who it is.

M. Scott Donahey has been on somewhat of a crusade to change how panelists view the registration and use clause to be registration or use. He has done this with the help of panelist Andrew F Christie. The pair keep referring to each others’ views on the matter which in turn reference their own decisions and views. It’s really quite entertaining.

Donahey is also the one who penned one of my candidates for “dumbest UDRP analogy ever“:

As this Panelist sees it, the majority’s interpretation elevates form over substance. The approach taken by the majority is the equivalent of applying the scienter test in the case of a shooting not only to the shooter’s state of mind at the time he fired the gun, but also to his state of mind at the time he purchased the gun. Thus a man who purchased a gun with the intent to engage in target practice would be free thereafter to shoot his neighbor with impunity.

I wonder how long it will take for Christie to refer to Donahey’s most recent decision.

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Anyone has a scoop on what’s going on? Is it a DOS attack, a server move, or did they forget to pay the hosting bill?

Update: NP is back up and running at full force! Was down for around 2 full days, which is a record by all means. Several unfortunate incidents happened among NP addicts, but the death toll is still unknown.

Most folks in the industry would tell you that credit bureaux, and financial institutions ought to be primary beneficiaries as the new business emerges. However, the convergence of Internet, mobile and telecommunication driven by iPhone and Android could attract new market players. Mobile network operators (MNOs) have a wealth of identifiable data about us. They are also uniquely positioned to bring to market multi-channel solution. In fact, an MNO-operated ID proofing service could easily support voice and web, for brick and mortar as well as online service providers.

Them comes the unfair advantage: the mobile handset. Obviously, the biggest challenge of "person not present" identity proofing lies in the processor ability to match the person on the other side of the communication channel to the identity data. A personal mobile device provides a unique link between my digital and physical me (there is a long history that links my mobile device to my identity). For the web, it supports an out of band channel that considerably adds to the security of the verification process. From a privacy and control standpoint, the mobile phone enables a user-centric approach where the user can approve the transfer of her personal information (a sort of out of band OAUTH dance). Last but not least, location (somewhere I am) may prove of strategic importance, since an embedded GPS can correlate the proofing event to a verifiable personal location (e.g. my home). Location verification for proofing could happen "just in time" or as a post-process step. In any case, it would greatly strengthen the overall process.

There is little doubt that the combination of wireless data and handset constitute a unique recipe for enabling high-assurance identity proofing systems. The OIX will soon get to the bottom of this theory since it has recently announced the formation of a working group for telecom data. Early next month, OIX members will explore the development of a trust framework that would support the secure exchange of identity data between MNOs and relying parties while ensuring the privacy and trust of consumers. This could well be a significant step towards high-scale, high-assurance identity systems. So, good luck to new working group; we will be watching closely.

This server answers around 5,000 queries per second on average. In the image below you can see the percentage of those queries that requested DNSSEC information during August 2010:

More than 50% of all queries request DNSSEC information from this server. This is very encouraging and shows that DNSSEC is being deployed.

Here are some guidelines for configuring your caching resolvers to use the root zone DNSSEC key:

BIND: [https:]
Unbound: [https:]

For more details on this topic, please refer to RIPE Labs:
[https:]

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- There was an interesting article on Econsultancy this morning.  According to the author, Ian Harris the CEO and founder of Search Laboratory, “Parked domains are generally low quality resources.” I tend to disagree with this, especially on generic domain names that people type-in to their browsers in lieu of using a search engine. If someone wants a personal loan and they end up on PersonalLoans.com, I would imagine these visitors are good prospects for the advertisers whose links they click.

- I was really surprised when Rick Schwartz announced I had 3 TRAFFIC Award nominations.  Thank you to whomever nominated me for the awards. I personally believe Juan Calle is deserving of the Domainer of the Year award for his big successes so far this year with the .CO Registry, not to mention his other Internet companies that operate on great domain names. He knows this business well, and it’s been fun learning about Juan and what he has done.

- It is an honor to be nominated in the Developer of the Year category with several friends. Keith’s primary website, Vibrator.com, has done extraordinarily well, and he’s on the road to success with Rio.com. I’ve mentioned Fred’s projects several times, and we’re obviously close with his company building out Burbank.com for my company. Rob Grant’s portfolio of real estate and Adirondacks-related domain names and websites is unmatchable. Rob Monster’s Epik platform is helping domain investors earn money with their underperforming domain names, and his Epik conference is going to help a whole lot of domain investors. Finally, Shaun’s Kelowna.com design was an inspiration for two of my geodomain names, not to mention his recently launched TorontoJobs.com website. There are a lot of successful developers working in the domain space these days, and it is cool even to be considered.

- I continue to receive emails and blog comments offering names for sale that need to be sold “urgently.” I assure you that this isn’t the right way to go about things, unless you either have great domain names or I know you well. If you are urgently trying to sell domain names, you should either hire a broker, post on forums (not spamming blogs), or seek out end users rather than domain investors.

- I heard a horrible story this weekend. A fraternity brother of mine (two years older than me) was fishing with his father on Lake Oswego in New York a couple of weeks ago. They weren’t wearing life jackets and their boat capsized a couple miles from shore. My fraternity brother was able to hang on to the boat until help arrived but his father couldn’t and drowned. They were both experienced boaters and fishermen. Makes you realize the importance of life jackets when you’re on the water.

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Open Society Institute, a think tank and foundation founded by billionaire George Soros, has lost a domain name dispute over the domain OpenSociety.org.

The majority of the three person National Arbitration Forum found that the domain name wasn’t registered and used in bad faith. Two of the panelists found that the domain was confusingly similar to the Open Society Institute mark and that the owner didn’t have rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. One panelist, Neil Anthony Brown, found against Open Society Institute on all three UDRP factors.

The saving grace for the domain owner appears to be that he registered several other “open” domain names, including openeconomy.org, openpolitics.org, and openpolicy.org. This lends credence to the idea that he viewed the domain name as generic.
The respondent in the case did an informal survey to find out if people identified “Open Society” with Soros’ institute, and found that the majority did not.

Originally, Open Society Institute contacted the domain registrant about purchasing the domain name. The domain registrant responded that he would need a six figure offer to consider selling it. That triggered the UDRP filing.

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Last week Google launched its new Gmail Priority Inbox feature to great fanfare. It’s a fantastic feature for people suffering from email overload.

I have another suggestion for Gmail. Usage of web-based email services has exploded to the point that many people and companies keep critical information in their hosted inboxes. This has led to some high profile security breaches.

I propose “secure inbox”, an added layer of security for important emails. These emails would require an additional password to be entered in order to view the email.

For example, you might have an email that includes your stock brokerage login and password. If someone got access to your Gmail account they could then get access to your brokerage account. But by clicking a button you could password protect the brokerage email, meaning that someone who compromises your inbox can’t access this sensitive email without cracking another password.

Perhaps it could also include two factor authentication such as sending a text to your email when a sensitive email is viewed. You could also set certain types of emails to automatically be password protected, such as trade confirmations from your broker, password reset emails, or bank statements.

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A couple months ago I wrote about how GoDaddy had snagged x.co with plans to use it as a URL shortener. Late last week I noticed that @Godaddy was using x.co in its tweets; and now the service is officially open to all.

x.co has a lot of the features you’ll find in most URL shorteners, such as robust analytics. You can easily create an x.co link by pasting a longer URL in at x.co.

GoDaddy has been pushing .co domains and x.co will help give it visibility. At the bottom of the x.co page is a search box to get your own .co domain.

Speaking of which, rather than use x.co for link shortening you should think about creating your own. .Co is a great domain to register for a link shortener because there are still plenty of short ones available. Right now I use dnw.com as a link shortener, but I also own dnw.co, which is even shorter.

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You can see more information about the auction on the Snapnames website once the final sales list is announced.

• WiFi.com
• Maid.com
• ETF.com
• Poster.com
• Slideshow.com
• Collision.com
• Haircare.com
• HardDrives.com
• EarMuffs.com
• Saws.com
• Spoons.com
• GolfSet.com
• BabyDecor.com

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In the meantime Baltimore Gas and Electricity (BGE) signed a contract for the provision of IPv6 based smart readers to equip their 1.2 million customers using a 'secure, end-to-end IPv6 platform for BGE to deliver on operational benefits today while also ensuring tomorrow's energy challenges can be met with a scalable and open platform'.

The same day , September 1st, we see Cisco and Itron sign a strategic agreement to 'develop a standards-based, highly secure technology for full IPv6 implementation of field area communications to support smart metering, intelligent distribution automation and interfaces to the customer premise '.

One day later, september 2nd, Cisco announces the purchase of Archrock, a pioneer of IPv6 implementation for sensor network and smart grids , cofounder of IPSO , the alliance promoting IP for small objects, and strong proponent of the IETF 6lowpan recommendation which defines the use of IPv6 for low powered objects.

There is definitely an IPv6 smell in the air these late summer days. 

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Facebook SEO got a real new magnitude jump yesterday, since web page results are now showing on Facebook search top box!

Thus and, in case you still didn’t start building your own like farm, put all your other projects on hold and go do it right now!

Facebook SEO is now like 90’s Google SEO was, it’s all there for anyone to easily conquer! You can easily have #1 for a top keyword with a couple of likes!

And the best way to exponentially grow your like farm is to FORCE people to like your pages.

The idea is similar to what you already do with cpalead: just offer something, I mean something!, like no waiting time to read something, IF they like a page your propose. (Could be any page)

In order to do so, you need not to use the classic Facebook iframe like code, but instead use XFBML and capture the FB.Event.subscribe.

Luckily, Sascha Kimmel has written a very easy to follow step-by-step guide on how to do this.

NLN.com and LNL.com type of domains are the worst prices wise.  ‘0′ is the worst digit, while ‘1′ is the best - the exception is when 0 created a number, e.g. d40, 50x, v10 etc. Names with repeating digits or letters usually fetch significantly higher amounts.Letter combos with special meanings or acronyms can fetch surprisingly high prices on Sedo, take a look at 0fx.com below (fx is the common acronym for forex).

The real minimum wholesale market prices are like this:

• NLN.com and LNL.com - below $100 for the worst combination and $130-150 on average.
• NLL.com, NNL.com, LLN.com, LNN.com - $110 min and $200-300 for decent combos

Several expired CCC.com domains sell on Godaddy auctions almost every week, while Sedo auctions are naturally more random. Some also sell at snapnames and namejet.

The list:

Date                     Name          $         MarketPlace
29/08/2010    8ae.com    271    GoDaddy
29/08/2010    y5m.com    130    GoDaddy
26/08/2010    0fx.com    2,272 Sedo
25/08/2010    55u.com    1,316    Sedo
22/08/2010    kg8.com    255    GoDaddy
22/08/2010    jg8.com    230    GoDaddy
14/08/2010    3tq.com    405    GoDaddy
09/08/2010    av0.com    200    GoDaddy
03/08/2010    8sf.com    365    GoDaddy
01/08/2010    ui0.com    165    GoDaddy
01/08/2010    tq0.com    135    GoDaddy
01/08/2010    ud0.com    120    GoDaddy
30/07/2010    7sj.com    226    GoDaddy
28/07/2010    1zg.com    165    GoDaddy
23/07/2010    h3j.com    210    GoDaddy
20/07/2010    o2j.com    4,000    Sedo
11/07/2010    2vw.com    215    GoDaddy
06/07/2010    8ig.com    102    GoDaddy
05/07/2010    z1g.com    360    Sedo
05/07/2010    1o2.com    103    GoDaddy
04/07/2010    k6f.com    76    GoDaddy
04/07/2010    f6h.com    76    GoDaddy
04/07/2010    f6n.com    76    GoDaddy
04/07/2010    f7c.com    76    GoDaddy
04/07/2010    m7x.com    76    GoDaddy
02/07/2010    x5d.com    141    GoDaddy
29/06/2010    u6o.com    162    GoDaddy
28/06/2010    u8c.com    155    GoDaddy
25/06/2010    s8t.com    185    GoDaddy
16/06/2010    8zd.com    206    Sedo
16/06/2010    h0q.com    105    Sedo
14/06/2010    v0o.com    146    GoDaddy
10/06/2010    6xy.com    576    Sedo
09/06/2010    s8e.com    140    GoDaddy
05/06/2010    17w.com    2,000    Sedo
04/06/2010    9ue.com    130    GoDaddy
03/06/2010    j6m.com    130    GoDaddy
28/05/2010    j05.com    220    Sedo
23/05/2010    05j.com    180    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    6yw.com    170    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    z1g.com    140    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    0qj.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    8g7.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    u1f.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    q0w.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    0b6.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    4m0.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    aq0.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    y9i.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    0b7.com    115    GoDaddy
23/05/2010    0o5.com    115    GoDaddy
20/05/2010    3k1.com    205    GoDaddy
20/05/2010    0f6.com    130    GoDaddy
20/05/2010    e6z.com    120    GoDaddy
20/05/2010    7z6.com    120    GoDaddy
15/05/2010    o1o.com    405    GoDaddy
15/05/2010    5nt.com    380    Pool
15/05/2010    47l.com    140    Sedo
13/05/2010    e2h.com    305    GoDaddy
11/05/2010    x7i.com    105    GoDaddy
11/05/2010    v7u.com    105    GoDaddy
02/05/2010    8sh.com    301    GoDaddy
02/05/2010    nu9.com    205    GoDaddy
28/04/2010    wx7.com    242    Pool
28/04/2010    ij9.com    126    GoDaddy
23/04/2010    ow3.com    135    GoDaddy
23/04/2010    uj3.com    130    GoDaddy
23/04/2010    uf3.com    110    GoDaddy
20/04/2010    1lh.com    230    GoDaddy
15/04/2010    v2h.com    245    GoDaddy
12/04/2010    uj7.com    135    GoDaddy
11/04/2010    8v1.com    200    GoDaddy
09/04/2010    6fy.com    213    GoDaddy
08/04/2010    hs3.com    575    Moniker
03/04/2010    11z.com    800    Sedo
02/04/2010    d0l.com    505    GoDaddy
02/04/2010    1nu.com    305    GoDaddy
25/03/2010    4v4.com    733    Sedo
19/03/2010    4g4.com    460    Sedo
06/03/2010    d7c.com    112    Sedo
03/03/2010    00f.com    170    Sedo
24/02/2010    vv4.com    360    Sedo
22/02/2010    7z7.com    1,050    Sedo
11/02/2010    gk0.com    450    GoDaddy
11/02/2010    6vv.com    310    Sedo
05/02/2010    1py.com    293    Sedo
04/02/2010    5tr.com    423    Sedo
24/01/2010    jl0.com    161    Sedo
23/01/2010    fu7.com    1,045    Afternic
20/01/2010    3yf.com    200    Sedo
20/01/2010    3ey.com    171    Sedo
19/01/2010    d99.com    1,263    Moniker
19/01/2010    77f.com    1,110    Moniker
19/01/2010    40d.com    995    Moniker
19/01/2010    z55.com    818    Moniker
19/01/2010    at7.com    650    Moniker
19/01/2010    b7b.com    635    Moniker
19/01/2010    4lu.com    525    Moniker
19/01/2010    os9.com    300    Moniker
19/01/2010    5md.com    300    Moniker
17/01/2010    nq0.com    152    Sedo
03/01/2010    5dk.com    3,100    Sedo

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The Economist is running a fascinating story on the Internet itself. The main pitch is that the Internet was a great global unifier in its early years. But now that governments and law enforcement agencies have caught on to the Internet's power and ability to transcend any boundary, be it physical, geographical or legal, they are increasingly trying to control it. The result is a strong risk of seeing the Internet splintered and as such becoming less effective as a planetary communication tool, with less innovation and less user benefit and choice.

Read the article here, or click on "continue reading" for a glimpse of the article.

The article discusses how Calle and his company went up against a registry powerhouse to get the rights to administer the .CO Registry and came out on top. Additionally, the Registry’s efforts to combat cybersquatting are also mentioned in the article. You can read a bit about those efforts in a previously written article.

One thing the article only briefly mentions is Calle’s previous Internet success. One of Calle’s companies, Straat Investments, owns and operates websites like ParisHotels.com, MiamiHotels.com, LondonHotels.com, and many other great cityHotels.com domain names through its Federated Travel brand.

Congrats to Calle and his hard working team at the CO Registry. This has been a hell of a year for him, and in my opinion, he deserves the TRAFFIC Domainer of the Year award.

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This is a company trying to use scare tactics to get you to transfer your domains to them. This organization is not a “registry,” in fact they appear to be a reseller for another domain registrar. They are just out to trick you into registering and renewing your domains at ridiculous prices. A Google search shows this has been going on for years.

If you haven’t received one of these yet, it’s probably only a matter of time. But if you do get one of these lovely notices in your mailbox, you should throw it right in the shredder.

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Guest contributor Zak Muscovitch is a domain name lawyer, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been practicing domain name law for over ten years and is now running for the election for a seat on the CIRA Board of Directors. Go to http://www.DNattorney.com and [zak-for-cira.ca] for more information.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (“CIRA”) operates Canada’s .CA domain name registry in the “public interest”. Where does this authority come from and what is the “public interest”? During the current 2010 election for CIRA’s Board of Directors, these questions should be raised and debated. CIRA has an important role to fill as the operational manager of the registry, but has an equally important role to fill in terms of governing the .CA space in the public interest.

Read the full article after the jump.

When CIRA was incorporated as a Canadian federal corporation without share capital (otherwise known as a not-for-profit corporation) on December 30, 1998, there was no mention of “the public interest” in its formal objectives as filed with Industry Canada. CIRA’s formal objectives were:

a) to act as the registry for the .CA Internet domain;

b) to provide professional registry services comparable to other major national and international Internet registries;

c) to develop and carry out any other Internet-related registration activities in Canada; and

d) to do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.

In 2006, CIRA made apparently minor revisions to their filed objectives with Industry Canada, so that c), above, now read;

“to develop, carry out and/or support any other Internet-related activities in Canada”.

The change is small, but noteworthy. One can see that “support” of “any internet-related activities” was added, ostensibly expanding CIRA’a objectives to include broader involvement and support in anything Internet related, not just registration related. This is the foundation for CIRA’s mandate to be actively involved in supporting Internet related activities in Canada. But there was still no mention of the “public interest” in CIRA’s formal objectives. So where does the “public interest” come into play for CIRA?

On March 11, 1999, Michael Binder, Assistant Deputy Minister Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications (Industry Canada), wrote a letter to Rob Hall, then Chairman of the Board of CIRA, to thank John Demco for his management of the registry for the previous ten years, to congratulate CIRA on its incorporation, and to “recognize CIRA as the administrator of the .ca domain space” (the “Binder Letter”).

The Binder Letter essentially confirmed that the Government of Canada was permitting CIRA to run the registry and that CIRA was expected to adopt certain principles in its operation. The term “public interest” however, did not appear in this letter. Rather, the term “public resource” was used in the following manner:

“The .CA domain space is a key public resource, helping to promote the development of electronic commerce in Canada and important to our country’s future social and economic development”.

The term “public resource” was used within a context that suggested that .CA domain names had two important roles to play, which were both in the public interest;

a) economic development through the development of Internet businesses for wealth creation; and

b) social development so Canada could fulfill its aspirations as a society.

Accordingly, even though the term, “public interest” was not expressly used by Industry Canada in confirming CIRA’s mandate, it was nonetheless made clear CIRA was to operate the .CA registry with this combination of public interest priorities in mind; namely economic and social development.

The first express use of the term “public interest” as it relates to CIRA, appeared shortly thereafter. On October 10, 2000, Industry Canada confirmed to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), that CIRA was formally being designated as Canada’s administrator of the .CA registry. In this letter, Industry Canada expressly confirmed that CIRA was to operate in the “public interest”:

This agreement provides that the Government of Canada will designate CIRA to be the new administrator of the .ca and that CIRA will manage the .ca in accordance with principles set by the Government of Canada in the March 11, 1999 letter referred to above and any additional principles that are in the public interest and reasonable. [emphasis added]

The “agreement” referred to by Industry Canada, above, was the “Umbrella Agreement” wherein UBC (the former .CA administrator under the leadership of John Demco), the Government of Canada, and CIRA, agreed on the transition to administration of the .CA registry by CIRA. The Umbrella Agreement expressly made reference to both CIRA being mandated to operate the .CA registry as a “public resource” and in the “public interest”.

The Umbrella Agreement expressly confirmed that the “public interest”, as originally expressed in the Binder Letter, involved both a concern for economic and social development:

“the parties are of the view that the .ca domain space should be developed as a key public resource for social and economic development for all Canadians”. [emphasis added]

The Umbrella Agreement further confirmed that in accordance with Industry Canada’s mandate to CIRA of October 10, 1999:

“CIRA was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation with the intention of managing the .ca domain space in the public interest”. [emphasis added]

The next appearance of the express use of the term, “public interest”, as it relates to CIRA, appeared in the “Principles for the Delegation and Administration of Country Code Top Level Domain Names”, Presented by ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee on February 23, 2000 (the “GAC Principles”). This document’s objective was to suggest principles that will assist in the development of best practice for the delegation and administration of ccTLDs (country code top-level domain names, such as .CA).

Section 5.1 of the GAC Principles stated:

The relevant government or public authority ultimately represents the interests of the people of the country or territory for which the ccTLD has been delegated. Accordingly, the role of the relevant government or public authority is to ensure that the ccTLD is being administered in the public interest, whilst taking into consideration issues of public policy and relevant law and regulation. [emphasis added]

The GAC Principles also laid out some broader principles that emphasized that while a ccTLD manager such as CIRA has a duty to serve the public interest of its local community, it also has a duty to the global Internet community:

The Internet has evolved from a tool reserved for computer and networking research, to a global medium for commerce, education, and communication. The new realities of the Internet, including its increased importance as a vehicle for national economic growth, and the expanding and more diverse nature of the Internet community necessitated evolution in the traditional means of managing and administering Internet technical functions.

Although this was an ICANN document and an ICANN set of principles, CIRA formally and legally adopted certain of the GAC Principles on November 30, 2000. Then Chair of the CIRA Board, Maureen Cubberley, wrote to Michael Roberts, President of ICANN, and stated that “CIRA supports the framework of the GAC principles as a sound basis for the ongoing relationships concerning the delegation and administration of ccTLDs” and confirmed CIRA’s commitment to administering the .CA registry as a “public resource” in accordance with the Binder Letter.

Accordingly, CIRA’s mandate to operate the .CA registry both as a public resource for economic and social development, and in the public interest, has a well established foundation and history. The question then turns to the myriad of possible applications of these important but very broad principles and to what degree CIRA has followed them.

On October 7, 2009, renowned Internet Law expert, Professor Michael Geist, expressed his concern for what he felt was a “Disappearing Public Interest Mandate”. He noted that “CIRA has not done enough to advance the potential social side of the mandate despite [is] and leaving it to its directors to question whether the social contributions found in leading country-code domains around the world are even part of CIRA’s mandate.” This followed Professor Geist’s previous Blog posting and Toronto Star article wherein he questioned “an unmistakable shift toward prioritizing commercial gain over the public interest”. As examples of this shift, Professor Geist noted a “decision to effectively terminate plans to create an external, public interest body to address “excess” funds”, a decision to “expand CIRA’s registry services to new generic top-level domains”, and “killed a planned submission to the CRTC’s net neutrality hearings”.

In response to Professor Geist, CIRA Chief Executive Office, Byron Holland, disputed Professor Geist’s observations while confirming that “the dot-ca domain is essential to social and economic development within Canada, and we take our mandate of effective stewardship of this key public resource very seriously”. Mr. Holland stated that CIRA “[had] not abandoned plans to actively pursue other public-interest elements of [CIRA’s] mandate”, but noted “[CIRA has] been steadily building [a] reserve but [CIRA] is not quite there yet”.

Mr. Holland also noted that, “CIRA is pursuing additional sources of revenue from other potential registry services to ensure that we have the funds necessary to live up to our stated operational obligations and increased activity in the public interest side of the Canadian domain space.”

Accordingly, what can be seen here, is the struggle to follow both tracks that the Government of Canada mandated CIRA to follow, namely social and economic development, in the public interest. Professor Geist has correctly pointed out that social development in the public interest, is a key component of Canada’s mandate to CIRA, and yet there is scarce evidence that CIRA has embarked on what could be considered an appropriately ambitious course. Professor Geist cites the fact that  “other countries have used their domain name authorities to fund research, engage in public policy, or even grant every citizen the right to a domain name at no cost”, yet Canada appears to have not pursued any of these social development opportunities in any substantial manner.

On the other hand, Mr. Holland correctly points out that in order to fulfill Canada’s mandate to CIRA to engage in social development, CIRA must raise funds from economic development opportunities, including managing CIRA with “reliance on market forces and private sector leadership”, as required in the Binder letter. CIRA cannot of course make any substantial headway into social development projects without adequate resources, and therefore the exploration of revenue generation opportunities is required and closely tied to CIRA’s mandate of social development.

Nevertheless, an election is now underway for the Board of Directors of CIRA, and it is imperative, indeed it is in the public interest, for all concerned to vigorously debate how CIRA can better follow the two tracks of social and economic development mandated by the Government of Canada by seeking and applying all appropriate sources of revenue.

CIRA is in an enviable position of being able to realize reoccurring revenues from its monopoly over .CA registrations. It gets $8.50 year after year, for each .CA registered. CIRA currently has nearly 1.5 million .CA’s registered. By promoting the .CA registry and by increasing access to .CA domain names in a manner consistent with CIRA’s mandate, CIRA could potentially reap millions more on an annual basis that it could, and should, apply to ambitious social and economic development projects. The nature of such projects should be debated and raised in the election with all ideas put on the table, from free domain names for all Canadians, to a special fund for Canadian Internet entrepreneurs.

As someone standing for election for the single public seat available this year on the CIRA Board, I intend to continue to raise these issues in public and would like for others to do the same.

Zak Muscovitch is a Canadian domain name lawyer and his CIRA election web site is zak-for-cira.ca.

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As it sometimes goes, the acting coach who made the offer had opted to buy another name in the interim, and he wasn’t able to buy ActingCoach.com when I came back to offer it to him. Se la vie. In light of this, I decided I would develop it, although I wasn’t willing to spend the same amount of time (or money) it took to build my other directories.

In lieu of a full development project, I opted to work with WhyPark and the company’s new DomainApps offerings. I used the  directory option along with videos, Twitter feed, and article feed, and I incorporated it all with a customized template in similar fashion to DogWalker.com. You can either pay $200 for them to build a custom theme, or you can probably pay a bit less at a place like eLance and select a designer to build one for you (give the designer one of their templates to use the code for the WhyPark modules).

Because I had WhyPark customize the design for this project, the site was put together by Craig Rowe and his WhyPark development team, using the interface and tools they have for everyone to use. If you (or your designer) has any trouble setting it up, I would think Craig and his support team can help… it’s one of the nice things I’ve found about working with the company.

I also worked with Acroplex, LLC (better known by many as Acro) to create the site’s logo, which gives it more character. For a relatively small investment, a logo like this can make a world of difference. I also worked with a copywriter found on eLance to add custom articles, and the plan is to continue adding articles. It’s an inexpensive way to drive traffic to the website.

To market the new site, I intend to reach out to the same acting coaches and companies that opted to not buy the domain name. I will see if they’d like to be listed on the site for a small monthly fee. I know the market is smaller than DogWalker.com, but I paid less for the domain name than DogWalker.com. I also know the market is competitive, and acting classes are expensive.

One of the best things about this and working with WhyPark is that I can use this template on future directory development projects, which was what I first said when I learned about the new Apps. Having a good website is important, but being able to scale my business is more important. Additionally, unlike my WordPress-based websites, I am not responsible for data management, security updates, or plugin updates with my WhyPark site, which relieves me of a big burden.

WhyPark takes $1.00/month for every paying directory client.  I charge $5/month so that’s an 80/20 revenue share, but I have the ability to charge whatever I want.  Depending on sign ups, cancelation rate, and the competition, I will probably play around with the listing cost as the site gets more traffic.

For those who are interested and want to track the success of this site, here are its current SEO rankings (I’ve had a coming soon page up for a little over a month):

Acting Coach: #24 Google #10 Bing
Acting Coaches: #93 Google #113 Bing

I would not endeavor on a project like this if I owned a name like GreatActingCoach.com, ActingCoaching.com, or some other non-exact match domain name that would be difficult to rank in search engines. I chose ActingCoach.com because this is a profession that advertises online (competitively) and people are searching for acting coaches every day.

Disclaimer:

WhyPark is an advertiser on the RSS feed of my blog. The company did NOT ask me or pay me to post this article. I am NOT making any additional revenue if you or anyone signs up as a result of this program or builds websites using WhyPark. I am posting this disclaimer because it seems there are always going to be people who think there is nefarious intent with positive blog posts.

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