UNIQUE DOMAIN NAMES

Monday is the last day you can lodge a protest with ICANN that may keep over-reaching trademark interests from helping themselves to your domains in the future. Also, for your holiday weekend enjoyment, hundreds of previously unseen photos from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam and Silicon Valley.

There are 2 domains still at backorder at Namejet.com that looks like they are going to sell into the five figures. TajMahal.com is currently at $8K with the backorder deadline closes at 11pm EST tonight. Filth.com is currently at $5K with the backorder deadline closing tomorrow at 11PM. You can see some of our other picks at NameJet.com [...]

Globe Media International Corporation tried to grab the generic domain ForSale.ca from Bonfire Development, Inc., through a CDRP proceeding (the Canadian equivalent of the UDRP) and failed.  Not only did it fail, but it resulted in Canada’s first ever finding of Reverse Domain Hijacking. Background In January of this year, the domain ForSale.ca dropped.  After it was [...]

Geo web site commercial will start airing next week. As I wrote about last month, I’m running cable TV commercials for my geo web site Lakeway.com. We’ve completed the first commercial, which you can watch below. The commercials will run over 200 times each month across CNN, FoxNews, News 8 Austin, and A&E in [...]

Where do you draw the line between registering a domain name to mourn or honor an individual, vs profit from their death? Since MJ died, there have been 3,459 .com domain names registered with the word “michael” in them. Don’t believe me? Well, here is the list I compiled (please give me credit if you use [...]