49 Cent .Info Domains – Get In Quick

Some people love .info domains, especially for their SEO factor on places like Bing.

Right now Godaddy have a deal on their checkout page that gives you .info domains for just 49 cents! No coupon required. Here is how to get the offer.

In order to get the deal, just type in a .com domain you want to register, go through the checkout process and there you will see the “On Sale!” info offer.

Feel free to post a comment if this works for you! Let us know how much you saved.

New Email Scam – Domain Recovery

The email below was sent to our whois contact for a particular .net domain that we own.

It states that the organisation has “secured” the “.com version of your domain”. In fact they have done no such thing. The .com is available for anyone to register at any registrar.

If you click on the link, it takes you to a page asking you for US$99 and to pay via Paypal. This is essentially 10 times the asking price of a .com domain name.

We are posting this here in the hope that people will find it and not fall victim to this misleading conduct.

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Hi,

Recently, we contacted you to inform you of the upcoming availability of DOMAIN.com. We are happy to inform you that right now the .com version of your domain is secured by Simple Domain Recovery and is available for purchase at our page.

What we do is take different measures to help you promote your brand on the Internet. Little things’ effectiveness can compare to securing .com to a domain with any other extension. Everyone knows .com, a lot of users will intuitively seek you at .com extension so don’t give a chance to anyone else to use that advantage of yours.

There are third parties who may be interested in your domain. Many people out there reserve .coms to existing sites and domains in order to make profit of ‘em. We may sell the domain to any of these persons and businesses but this is you who decides whether or not we do so. Please choose one of the following:

Secure DOMAIN.com right now!
Let it go (unsubscribe).

Best regards,
<name omitted>
Simple Domain Recovery,
<email omitted>

Burger King Delayed In Russia After Domain Name Dispute

Burger King has delayed the launch of its Russian expansion until 2010 after failing to register the domain name burgerking.ru.

A Scandinavian company registered the domain name and Burger King Corporation (who registered its trademark in Russia back in 1994) doesn’t want to pay for it.

It appears that this dispute is headed for the Russian courts.

Source: Kommersant (Written in Russian).

Pamela Anderson In Crazy Domain Name Video!

This company has obviously been influenced by the Bob Parsons school of highly effective commercials. Warning to our “straight” female readers, you may find this objectionable.

Since watching this commercial, I’ve decided to quit domaining and apply for a job with this organisation.

Kelsey Grammer Registers “Live” After Refusing To Pay For Domain

Kelsey Grammer has reportedly given up on trying to get back kelseygrammer.com after someone else registered the domain name.

Grammer launched KelseyLive.com after refusing to buy kelseygrammer.com. The former Frasier star reportedly said:

“Twenty years ago, everybody bought everybody’s name and I never paid for mine back. I just said, ‘Screw ya’.”

IQ Domain For Iraq?

The nation of Iraq may make a leap into the Internet community with the extension .iq. Iraqi chairman of The National Communications & Media Commission (Siyamend Othmend) said the domain name would allow Iraqis to “stake a virtual flag” in the world of the Web.

The chairman also stated in a letter to ICANN, “It is “an important tangible and symbolic milestone for this nation, as well as the freedom and hopes of the Iraqi people”.

A recent survey cited by the U.S.-led administration in Iraq found that about 6% of Iraqis say they have access to the Internet but fewer than 2% use it regularly.

Source: USA Today

Suspicion Over Air France Crash Domain Name

A mystery is unraveling concerning the fate of Air Flight 447 and the domain name that was registered two years prior —flight447.com.

The domain owner is apparently Kari Bian, an Iranian film producer and executive producer of a film who claims the connection is coincidental.  “It’s just an accident” he said. “I have nothing to do with anything. I feel really bad for that flight.” “I just put ‘flight’ in front of 1 through 1,000 and I register them,” he explained.

Source: Wired

Bricks & Mortar – Interesting Use Of .Com

I was driving in Richmond today and noticed this massive domain name plastered on the side of the building. What a great use of a domain name! Look how big this thing is compared to a car – you can see it for miles away.

Being the domainer, I had to park and take a photo. The strange thing is, their website doesn’t even have a picture of the building. You’d think you were almost dealing with an online mailorder company.

At the top of the site is this quote – “When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So let’s all get drunk and go to heaven!” – Brian O’Rourke.

Maybe they got the idea to make those HUGE letters over a few bottles of red wine?

Dubya Bush Library Domain Sells For $35k

A web development company (Illuminati Karate) paid $3,000 for GeorgeWBushLibrary.com in March 2007. The domain was later sold for $35,000 to Web developers hired for the George W. Bush Presidential Library project in Dallas.

Nice profit! Oh and yes I’ve checked for obamalibrary and its variants are registered.

Source: UPI.

Domain Economics With Dan Warner – Live From Traffic DownUnder 2008

Dan Warner presented on Domain economics covering the basics of supply and demand, inputs, risk and outputs.

One excellent point that was made is that “original thought” is the difference between using a search engine and type-in traffic. For many people it was one of the those lightbulb moments, where you thought, yeah that makes sense.

Key points:

• Should we go build that new thing that looks cool but wont make money?
• What should we build today, tomorrow or never build?
• The industry does a lot of non-commercial things. eg: ego, demands etc..

Statistics

• Single transactions have no value as data
• Need to look at total ROI
• Without evidence, assumptions have no relevance
• If you cant show that you can get consistent results, nobody will give you any value (meaning you are worth less).

Business Framework

• Finance
• Cost cutting
• Risk
• Growth

If you have high risk, like developing with a shotgun effect, that will significantly increase your risk.

Domain names only have two outputs:

• Traffic (Commodity Cash Flow)
• Future Rights (Sale Value)

Development has no value only output variants such as cash flow and sale value.

Most traffic has only a transient value:

Type-in Traffic

• Behavior (experience)
• Technology (mediation)
• Alternatives (subscription)
• Evolution (fundamentals)

Referred Traffic

• Search (algorithm)
• Social (human)
• Linking  (hosted)
• Spruiked (inbound)

Banished Domains

• here today -> gone tomorrow

Rate of Sale

• Nothing has value until it is sold
• Rate of sale is based on feedback from the market
• ROS is between 1% and 5% per year
• Opportunities that exist today might not be here tomorrow
• All domains are not created equally
• What is that dollar worth today vs in 10 years time?