I have just received the following email from Sedo:

Quote:We are writing to inform you that Sedo has received notice through Microsoft's Typo-Patrol of potential trademark infringement regarding the registration and use of the following domain names in conjunction with Sedo services. Microsoft created the MSN/Strider URL Tracer with Typo-Patrol to search for and record typo variations of domain names. A report containing such typo-domains based in Sedo's marketplace was then submitted to Sedo.com. Your domain was included in Microsoft's Typo-Patrol report. Accordingly, Sedo has no choice but to do the following at this time:



- Blocked from our domain marketplace

- Excluded from our parking program



Sedo takes great pains to strike a balance between the legitimate rights of domain owners and third party intellectual property owners and require verification of legal complaints before taking any action against a domain listed for sale or parked with Sedo.


If you have any questions regarding this message, or if you have a legal right to occupy this letter combination, then please contact the Sedo legal department at

legal@sedo.com.


Sincerely,


Your Sedo Team

The other thread made me think of this ....at what point in a domain's development is it worth spending big bucks on a webiste designer? Many of us go into owning a domain without a lot of $$$ to put behind it, and I've used template services (paid not free) and had good enough luck.

Does spending a lot with a designer really make a difference???

What do you all think the value of this name is?

Hello everyone, this is exciting! I noticed that some of my domains are having a great fluctuation in google PR just these few days. So is the mysterous google going for another major update for Page Rank??

For 3of my site, all of the them got PR3 out of sudden. In fact one of them were PR0 and is a parked domain. What about you guys?? Any good news in gaining good PR5 and above for your domains? well....I have yet to achieve any PR5 till date, the highest is only PR4.:mad:

Just wondering, has anyone got an idea about those "Premium Domains" that enjoy traffic comes from direct type-ins, what's the market share that it grabs from the overall paid search business? Eg, when people just type in cellphone.com when they wanted to look for cellphone related information. So, if cellphone.com is a landing page with PPC link all over it, I am sure the visitor will "click" on the link and the domain owner get paid for the PPC.
(this example is just for illustration only)

My rough estimation for it is like "should be" well over billions:eek: . Anyone got further information? Well, it for sharing and to get ourselves "motivated" while we continue to "hunt" for good domain names

I stumble upon this Internet REIT which is for Acquisition and Development of Internet Real Estate. I am very new to this ideas at the moment as mostly I either parked my domains or develop them by myself.

It is common for me for other type of REIT eg Hotal REIT, Shopping Mall REIT ..etc in the offline world, but Internet REIT??:confused: Anyone has experiences in this trade? Reading in their site :-
iREIT is in the business of acquiring "virtual real estate" -- portfolios of Internet domain names.

Our primary interest in purchasing domain names that generate natural traffic and current revenue (through parking, affiliate programs, PPC, CPM, or a combination of internet advertising sources).

Looking at their whois record, this site is pretty "young" as it was registered in year 2005. Does this type of model could possibly survive?

Hello guys and gals. Anyone here using the free .tk domain? I read their site for the part of "why it is free" and it says :-

Simple: you get a free domain name, we'll put an optional advertisement on your website. Don't worry, the advertisement can be easily removed FOR FREE in most countries. You can also remove the advertisement by either paying for the domain (and obtain the actual license right of the domain) or by sending in a SMS by mobile telephone if you live in the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain or Germany.

Anyone tried it before? Has it been good? Or just like any other TLD? Could it possibly get a high ranking it major search engines too? Well, I hardly come across these TLD in SE search result. What about you?

Hello there. ICANN approved .xxx domain names around this period of time last year, with ICM Registry Inc., run by British businessperson Stuart Lawley. According to the news, ICM was planning to sell this TLD domain names for as much as whooping USD60 a year!:eek:

Well, with the estimated market value of around USD12 billions for adult related sites, I wonder how many adult website and/or company would actually move from the .com or regular TLD domain names to the .xxx TLD ?

So far has anyone notice about any .xxx domains? Or it "died" off somewhere??:p

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Update (11/08/06) :-
I just found out that the TLD ".xxx" has been rejected by ICANN few months back. Some of the opposing votes of "xxx" creation were ICANN Chairman Vint Cert and CEO Paul Twomey.
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Hi everyone,
I was following the July first week domain sales thru dnjournal. The top dollar sales went to :-
1. CD.com - $277,750 . Transacted via Moniker/Traffic Live Auction.
2. PrizeFight.com - $105,556 . Transacted viz Afternic .

Actually I was pretty surprise to see that CD.com went for "that" amount. Seems very low compare to all those big bucks sales in early days, which could have got over millions of dollar. So I wonder, has the general value for domains been sliding down? There is not much of craze in this virtual property compare to early days?

Hi everyone. Would like to get some view of yours pertaining to which particular category of domain names that you invested the most? I mean, in general, which type of domain names that you find most popular and hot :-
1. General
2. Software
3. Poker
4. Adult
5. Gambling
6. Webmaster
7. Forum
8. Business
9. Finance
10. General Investment
11. Property
12. Currency
13. Insurance
14. Stock
15. Healthcare
16. Technology Based
17. any suggestion?

Thanks for sharing.