A look back at the past month in domaining.
It’s Halloween, which means we’re wrapping up another month of 2008. As I prepare to take my two year old daughter trick-or-treating in her flamingo costume, here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire this month by total page views.
1. 10 Things I’d Do if I Were a New Domainer - a list of domain lessons learned (mostly the hard way).
2. Schilling and Berryhill Win Another UDRP - legendary domain owner Frank Schilling and his attorney John Berryhill teamed up to stave off yet another unwarranted complaint under UDRP.
Silly press releases for eBay auctions abound. Here’s how they work.
OK, Elliot. You got me.
Earlier today Elliot Silver sent me and e-mail with the subject “BREAKING DOMAIN NEWS”. The body of the e-mail read “Big News… thought you might want to cover this…” and then there was a link to a press release on PRweb.
Elliot sends me news leads from time to time, so I anxiously clicked the link. That’s when I knew I’d been had.
Regardless of outcome, Google has won.
You may have read yesterday evening that the Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) advertising deal may not go through, thanks to the U.S. government getting involved.
Bad new for the companies? Not for Google, which played this perfectly.
You see, if Google got the deal then it would have an ad deal with Yahoo that would help fill its coffers while rendering Yahoo’s advertising platform less valuable. Yahoo advertisers would gradually defect, leaving Google as the only tier 1 search ad network.
Priority deadline is Saturday for Australia auction.
Domainers wishing to sell their domains in the upcoming Aftermarket.com auction at TRAFFIC Down Under should submit their domains by this Saturday. Domains can be submitted through the online system at Aftermarket.com.
The submission process is similar to the one used for the New York TRAFFIC auction.
“From a customer’s perspective, the submission process itself is relatively the same,” said Thought Convergence’s Susan Prosser. (Thought Convergence owns Aftermarket.com). “There are performance and backend database structure updates that will improve user experience but not necessarily functionality.”
Forbes Magazine covers new TLD launch, but has a few inaccuracies.
The maintstream media has paid cursory attention to ICANN’s opening of the top level domain name landscape. A new article in the November 17 issue of Forbes (available now online) covers the topic.
A couple observations: First, the article has many inaccuracies. Second, there’s common ground between domainers and Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse.
Inaccuracies
I find many of the statements in the article misleading or inaccurate.
