| Lesbian.com For Sale |
| 27 de abril de 2006 |
Lesbian.com up for sale for $2 million
AUSTIN, Texas, April 24 (UPI) -- The domain name Lesbian.com, registered in 1995 by a Texas woman who wanted to protect it, is up for sale for $2 million.
Sue Beckwith did not just sit on the name. She and another woman, Mel Braman of St. Louis, built up a Web site that offers information of interest to Lesbians on topics like health, vacations and jobs, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Beckwith's ideal buyer would have the resources to make the site even more helpful. But she and Braman acknowledge that the site could end up owned by someone primarily interested in making money -- possibly even a pornographer.
"I'm just going to cross that bridge when I come to it. It would have to be a very lucrative offer," said Beckwith, who turned down a $250,000 offer from a pornographic site shortly after she registered the name in 1995.
The site does not use Internet cookies. Beckwith and Braman say they wanted to protect users living in countries where even visiting a gay-themed site could put them in jeopardy. |
(Source: United Press International) |
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| The Add/Drop Scheme |
| 26 de abril de 2006 |
An interesting post by Bob Parsons, GoDaddy's CEO, about how the Add Grace Period is being abused by certain registrars. Hope ICANN does something to stop the add/drop scheme. Maybe Parson's idea of requiring ICANN's 25-cent fee to be non-refundable would help. (Source: Bob Parsons' Blog) |
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| .EU transfers not possible |
| 21 de abril de 2006 |
| "The .eu registry is not set up for transfers. They honestly did not plan for people buying and selling them on an aftermarket and currently don't have transfer system in place. Our transfer team is speaking with them and hopes to get transfer protocols soon but it will be at least another couple of weeks before they are ready. We're definitely not dragging our feet here, we never do for any transaction. But we cannot execute a transfer ourselves. The registry has to be ready." |
It's nice that I didn't register any .eu. I think is a smart move by Eurid registry, both for not allowing transfers, and also for not stating it clearly at the beginning. I'm sorry for the speculators who may be screwed if transfers are not allowed. (Source: NamePros) |
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| This Week's Top 20 Reported Domain Name Sales |
| 20 de abril de 2006 |
| | Domain | Sold For | Where Sold | | 1 | MovieRentals.com | $100,249 | SnapNames | | 2 | CubanCigars.com | $55,000 | Sedo | | 3 | CreditCounselor.com | $50,250 | SnapNames | | 4 | MortgageInterest.com | $32,750 | SnapNames | | 5 | ElectricGuitar.com | $25,000 | Sedo | | 6 | ChromeWheels.com | $24,770 | Moniker/DomainSystems | | 7 | RentalIncome.com | $20,000 | SnapNames | | 8 | HealthSavingsAccount.com | $16,750 | SnapNames | | 9 | Malaysians.com | $15,650 | SnapNames | | 10 | TheLibrary.com | $15,505 | SnapNames | | 11 | AutoPurchase.com | $15,501 | SnapNames | | 12 | Copywright.com | $13,250 | SnapNames | | 13 | TenFour.com | $11,250 | SnapNames | | 14 | Sportster.com | $10,500 | SnapNames | | 15 | TVK.com | $10,250 | SnapNames | | 16 | VPN.net | $10,001 | SnapNames | | 17 | ReviewMe.com | $10,000 | Only999.com | | 18 | GreatWine.com | $9,860 | SnapNames | | 19 | BikeTrailer.com | $8,088 | SnapNames | | 20 | AffiliatePrograms.net | $7,750 | SnapNames | |
(Source: DNJournal) |
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| The .EU Landrush Fiasco |
| 11 de abril de 2006 |
Bob Parsons, CEO and founder of GoDaddy.com, has blogged about the .EU landrush fiasco. This were the requirements to be a .EU registrar:
To be a registrar for the .EU registry, companies had to:
1. Attest that they were an individual business entity and were only applying for one registrar accreditation.
2. Attest that they were offering registrations to their customers on an equal basis.
3. Make a deposit of 10,000 euros (about US $12,000).
That was about all it took to be a .EU registrar. There was no verification that .EU registrars were really registrars, or were ICANN accredited. In fact, the EURid registry made no attempt to verify that those who applied to be .EU registrars were really businesses at all. |
The problem was that some companies, instead of only registering their real active registrars, created hundreds of phantom "registrars". So when the landrush period began there was hundreds of accredited .EU registrars, many of them are not legitimate registrars. Some of those companies that gamed the system are going to auction the names that were requested by more than one customer, and are going to make a fortune on the .EU landrush. Of course, those companies who created bogus registrars have more chances at getting really good domains. Proper precautions should have been taken to prevent this scam. Hopefully the EURid registry fix the problem, or some european authority forces them to do it.
(Source: Bob Parson's Blog) |
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