Daily Domain Sales 04-20-2015 lead by VirtualPromo.com at $10,000 on Flippa
VirtualPromo.com sold for $10,000 on Flippa.
Top Domain Sales on April 20, 2015 are :
VirtualPromo.com – $10,000
DiamondGroup.com – $9,433
GEAI.com – $8,211
Deleting.com – $6,000
OnlinePetHub.com – $4,995
OnlinePetsDirect.com – $4,995
MagicWorks.com – $3,950
Caperlan.cn – $3,776
Lipari.com – $3,465
HousesForSale.org – $2,877
DAIG.com – $2,842
OnlineStudio.com – $2,601
VistaAlegre.com – $2,532
ExecPharma.com – $2,500
HaveMore.com – $2,402
Favoring.com – $2,009
MyTexts.com – $1,801
Bookies.co – $1,750
VirtualMakeOver.com – $1,709
Weed.to – $1,550
OnlineSalesTraining.com – $1,524
SFXIt.com – $1,505
EBooking.com.br – $1,500
Thil.com – $1,345
KosherCard.com – $1,269
Bells.org – $1,200
AppenTwickler.com – $1,079
Velauno.com – $1,073
GiltClub.com – $1,051
BCIG.com – $1,050
RingBackTones.com – $1,006
Taosa.com – $1,002
227744.com – $1,000
Gaixi.com – $980
Invernaderos.com – $965
OurDebt.com – $960
ChefTraining.com – $922
FindPlus.com – $898
GameGen.com – $897
GameExperts.com – $895
Ruiran.com – $815
FreddyAndMa.com – $800
WebMasterDirectory.com – $799
AirOnline.com – $739
YATZ.com – $715
Zhigua.com – $708
Beaurepaire.com – $704
26971.com – $667
16557.com – $666
NationalMoving.com – $662
SeniorDomains.com – $610
TFGame.com – $605
UM7.com – $596
Nesika.com – $590
4TD.com – $556
TBDZ.com – $540
NaturalHazards.org – $530
SBOM.com – $524
CommunityGames.com – $509
NearChat.com – $505
31333.net – $492
EyeOned.org – $487
LHCK.com – $455
ChefMommy.com – $455
Insurer.org – $445
Baolebao.com – $440
SeniorPhotos.com – $439
HomeChoiceRealty.com – $420
NCEW.org – $411
Tecnopali.com – $404
RHGE.com – $401
Marketplace-wise Sales
Flippa
VirtualPromo.com – $10,000
Deleting.com – $6,000
OnlinePetHub.com – $4,995
OnlinePetsDirect.com – $4,995
Weed.to – $1,550
Bells.org – $1,200
NameJet
DiamondGroup.com – $9,433
GEAI.com – $8,211
HousesForSale.org – $2,877
DAIG.com – $2,842
OnlineStudio.com – $2,601
VistaAlegre.com – $2,532
MyTexts.com – $1,801
VirtualMakeOver.com – $1,709
Thil.com – $1,345
KosherCard.com – $1,269
RingBackTones.com – $1,006
OurDebt.com – $960
ChefTraining.com – $922
FindPlus.com – $898
GameGen.com – $897
WebMasterDirectory.com – $799
AirOnline.com – $739
26971.com – $667
16557.com – $666
NationalMoving.com – $662
UM7.com – $596
Nesika.com – $590
4TD.com – $556
TBDZ.com – $540
SBOM.com – $524
CommunityGames.com – $509
31333.net – $492
Insurer.org – $445
SeniorPhotos.com – $439
NCEW.org – $411
RHGE.com – $401
DropCatch
MagicWorks.com – $3,950
Lipari.com – $3,465
SFXIt.com – $1,505
BCIG.com – $1,050
227744.com – $1,000
Gaixi.com – $980
Ruiran.com – $815
Zhigua.com – $708
Beaurepaire.com – $704
TFGame.com – $605
Baolebao.com – $440
Tecnopali.com – $404
Caperlan.cn – $3,776
ExecPharma.com – $2,500
Bookies.co – $1,750
EBooking.com.br – $1,500
AppenTwickler.com – $1,079
HaveMore.com – $2,402
Favoring.com – $2,009
OnlineSalesTraining.com – $1,524
Velauno.com – $1,073
GiltClub.com – $1,051
Taosa.com – $1,002
Invernaderos.com – $965
GameExperts.com – $895
FreddyAndMa.com – $800
YATZ.com – $715
SeniorDomains.com – $610
NaturalHazards.org – $530
NearChat.com – $505
EyeOned.org – $487
LHCK.com – $455
ChefMommy.com – $455
HomeChoiceRealty.com – $420
Google Wins Rights For Two Other New gTLDs : .Map and .Search
Google has recently won rights for two other new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) : .map and .search.
The company managed to knock out its rivals, Famous Four Media, Donuts and Amazon for the new gTLD .Search and Rightside for the new gTLD .Map.All these companies have withdrawn their applications.
Google wants to use the new gTLD .Map as an open new gTLD , so that everyone can register for a .Map domain name.Even though the company wanted to use the new gTLD .Search for itself, Google now intends to restrict the new gTLD to sites that have a certain technical standard.
Congratulations to Google for winning other two important new gTLDs.
EDC Delves Into .POKER And Its Likely Success
The Europ
Domain Centre believes .poker is going to be a success, and Christopher Hofman Laursen spoke to Afilias’ Roland LaPlante and Brett Samuels, along with one potential user of .poker domains, Kristian Baekgaard who until recently worked for the largest Danish betting site Danske Spil, about its launch.
Hofman Laursen believes “.poker has the elements to be one of the successful launches: The natural term, a market with intense online competition and very tech savvy players.”
LaPlante said that “.poker is all about branding and memorability in a very competitive business. It’s time to understand that .com says nothing about your brand. It’s a random term. This is a unique opportunity to get a much more effective marketing address”. While Samuels added “that poker is ‘a very dynamic space with new games being launched and new tournaments coming up all the time. There’s a need for new spots, and now you can get the name you want, in the business you’re in. Be aware that Poker.org was one of the most expensive domains ever sold (sold at Sedo in 2010 for USD 1M – most expensive .org ever) showing that there is a huge demand to offer more options’”.
Baekgaard said “anyone in such a competitive business are looking at how to get an edge. With adverting click prices starting at EUR 1.50 then a .poker could be a good investment. Now all the activies on the Danske Spil site uses sub-domains for danskespil.dk, however I could see that the poker guys were allowed to have some fun with .poker”.
.Poker goes live on 21st April.
To read the interviews in full, go to:
blog.europeandomaincentre.com/understanding-the-value-of-poker-domain-names-interview-with-afilias-and-danske-spil/
posted by David Goldstein
DNSBelgium : How To Combat Typosquatting ?
DNSBelgium, the company behind .BE domain extension, has recently released a study by iMinds-Distrinet and Stony Brook University on how to compat typosquatting.
You can read the announcement after the jump :
“A study by iMinds-Distrinet and Stony Brook University shows that popular websites are often the victim of typosquatting. This is the intentional registration of domain names that resemble an existing website, but with a typo. Rather than reaching the desired website, the surfer arrives at the website of the typosquatter.
The top 500 most visited websites (based on the ranking by Alexa) were used as a starting point to find typosquatting in the same TLD. Each time the study took into account one of the following errors in the URL:
Dropping the dot after ‘www’
Dropping one letter
Switching 2 letters
Doubling characters
Pressing a wrong key
The results are shocking: 477 of the top 500 websites are being targeted by typosquatters. In total, more than 17.000 of these ‘fake’ websites are in the hands of just 4 parties. Typosquatters usually generate income through advertisements and affiliate programs where they get a commission by sending surfers to the correct website.
Even worse is the fact that some of these websites are being used for phishing, where you arrive at a fake website which asks for your personal details. This will make you an easy target for viruses and frauds. It is astonishing that 3 out of 4 big companies or banks aren’t taking any measures to prevent this issue.
According to Pieter Agten, author of the study, there is no general difference between the prevalence of typosquatting in ccTLDs or generic TLDs, such as .com or .net. There is a difference, however, based on the price of a certain TLD (.jp is expensive and knows very little typosquatting) and the existence of an alternative dispute resolution procedure (.pl and .ru have none and show a lot of typosquatting). The .be domain has a good ADR-procedure, where the losing party pays for all costs. This discourages typosquatters to register these types of .be domain names.
What can we do to prevent typosquatting?
According to Pieter Agten, defensive registrations are a possible defence mechanism. For big companies (e.g. banks) the costs of those registrations seem low compared to the possible damage they could experience for a phishing attack through a typosquatting domain. For smaller websites, such as personal blogs, defensive registrations are a bridge too far in regards to the limited damages they risk.
Pieter Agten feels that registrars and registries could offer an alternative. They could check every new registration to evaluate whether the domain in question turns out to be typosquatting a popular website. This type of check could discourage typosquatters to register domain names. Registrars would be able to use this service to distinguish themselves from the competition and a registry could use it to maintain or improve the reputation of their TLD.
DNS Belgium doesn’t screen new registrations specifically for typosquatting, but does offer a free tool which allows you to check whether someone else has registered variants to your domain name. More information on domain name variants. “
Computer.de Hits $100,000 in SnapNames’ WDD.2015.Delhi Premium Auction
The auction for Computer.de is live on SnapNames. At the time of writing this article, Computer.de received a bid of $100,000.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 2006.
The auction features 127 domain names with different reserve ranges.
At the time of writing this article, 27 domain names received bids,out of which only one met its reserve .Some interesting domain names include :
Enetwork.com Current Bid $75,000
LatinoTimes.com Current Bid $75,000
Bodyguards.com Current Bid $50,000
GTR.com Current Bid $50,000
HOmoeopathy.com Current Bid $10,000
R8.net domain name is the only domain name that managed to met its reserve price with the highest bid of $2,250.
Other interesting domain names included in the auction are:
Pains.com
Codec.com
MEZ.com
CCC.net
UZV.com
Slak.com
eForest.com
You can see the entire inventory and place your bids here.
