The Average Cost of a 30 Second Spot on National Tv? $104,051 ……and a Domain?
When you question the prices paid for some domains then take a look at these numbers. These are the average costs of advertising as of June 8th 2010 30 Second National Television Spot on Fox………….$200,008 and on ABC and CBS $94,000 and the “cheapest” NBC was a mere $76,211 How about Cable ESPN 30 second [...]
The Government CAN and WILL Take Your Domain Name If They Think You Are Breaking the Law
It looks like there is a whole new wrinkle in the “somebody can come in and take your domain” game that is becoming a prevalent part of domaining. From companies claiming that you are infringing on their trademarks to outright domain theft there has always been a fear that you could lose a very valuable [...]
Godaddy Goes Down Taking Sites and Email with Them
Even the big boys have problems some days. If you’re looking for your daily fill of Danica Patrick’s semi pretty face then don’t go to Godaddy this morning. They’ve gone off line. In addition to the main site, all sites hosted by Godaddy and email associated with their domains are also inaccessible to ATT/SBC internet [...]
The Complete Data On All the Names From the TRAFFIC Main Event Auction
I would like to thank Sergey and everyone at DropDay for providing the information. They took my excel file and put it through their model and came up with some nice info. This doesn’t contain any of the recent add ons but otherwise has tons of data for you to peruse about each of the [...]
Want to Buy a Piece of Banks.com for 50 cents?
There are a lot of publicly traded companies that own top generic keyword domains but there aren’t very many top generic keyword domains that are publicly traded. The name banks.com is one. Their names banks.com and looks.com alone are worth millions but you can have the entire company for only $13.8 million or just a [...]
Google Does Evil: Sends C and D Letter to Groggle.com
Cameron Collie of Groggle.com recently received a C and D letter from Google asking him to cease using the name, domain, and trademark Groggle.com as it is similar to their company’s name Google. While I am all for stopping all trademark infringement, I this one is right on the fence. Here is Cameron’s post Today [...]
Amazon Going After Domain Owners With The Word “Kindle” In Them
Much like Apple, Amazon has decided that they and only they, will own any domains with the word Kindle in it. Many sites like this one have received C and D letters for their domains over the last few weeks AND have been given notice they want the Twitter accounts deleted as well. While I [...]
Another Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: How Getting 15K For Pepe.com May Have Hurt a Little
I don’t know the seller of Pepe.com and I don’t know what they paid for it…but I do know human nature. When you sell something to someone and they immediately turn it around for a huge profit, you kick yourself. You don’t really care that you didn’t have the contacts, the ability, or even the [...]
ICANN Decides Kenya is Safe Enough
I’ve been pretty hard on ICANN over the last few years only because I just don’t feel they look out for anyone but themselves. To prove they don’t look out for anyone, they’ve decided that Nairobi Kenya would make a nice venue for their latest meeting. According to Rod Beckstrom “Security is a concern for [...]
Proof There is No Regulation In Domaining: YourSiteCan.be
I’ve received a lot of deceiving emails and letters in my years of domaining but this is the first actual site that has drawn my ire. YourSiteCan.be (not going to give link) is a site that sells “information” regarding the registrations of new TLDs. The problem, you can make up your own TLD. Any TLD. [...]
